1. Stop biting my nails
2. Get in shape
3. Grow my hair out to lengths never before imagined
4. Eat healthier. No more late night McDonalds
5. Start smoking, then stop, just to say I quit smoking
6. Get a job
7. Catch up on school
8. Write at least one full song
9. Stick with it
10. Don't be stupid
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
First videos?
Yeahhhh first video blogs. Well not really haha. The first vid is just me looking for a cord to connect my camera to my computer and the second video is of me cooking my salmon quesadillas.
Friday, December 26, 2008
Christmas time is here
Just a small post for now just cause its really late night and I'm supposed to be waking up at around 9 to go shopping with Christine tomorrow. I heard that theres gonna be like, alot of really really good sales going on tomorrow so I wanna check it out. I don't really need to buy anything but just in case I see something I like I'll pick it up. I'm not really worried about doing late Christmas gift shopping though because I'm broke haha and everyone knows that. I'm just going to buy everyone a Lottery ticket for Christmas and let luck decide what people get haha.
Well for Christmas today I went out to my grandparents house and had a typical time there. Nothing really special happened there; we basically just sat around all day and watched the basketball game. (Go Lakers!)
(yeah not many people know this, but I'm actually really into sports. Alot of people talk to me as if I don't know a thing about sports but I've been watching all types of sports since I was a little baby and I know alot more than the average person knows so yeah, another random fact about me)
Well for Christmas this year I actually got alot of really cool presents. My parents got me a new camera (yay!) and a sound dock for my I-Pod which I probably wont use since thats what my laptop is for. Christine got me a really cool scarf that I use all the time cause its warm. And lastly my cousin Randy got me for secret santa for the cousins this year, and he got me this red and black checkered hoodie and its hella clean so yeah, I got alot of really cool stuff this year. Thanks all.
You know, now that I got the camera, I can start doing like, videos of myself and stuff for this blog. I'll see what happens in the times to come.
Well for Christmas today I went out to my grandparents house and had a typical time there. Nothing really special happened there; we basically just sat around all day and watched the basketball game. (Go Lakers!)
(yeah not many people know this, but I'm actually really into sports. Alot of people talk to me as if I don't know a thing about sports but I've been watching all types of sports since I was a little baby and I know alot more than the average person knows so yeah, another random fact about me)
Well for Christmas this year I actually got alot of really cool presents. My parents got me a new camera (yay!) and a sound dock for my I-Pod which I probably wont use since thats what my laptop is for. Christine got me a really cool scarf that I use all the time cause its warm. And lastly my cousin Randy got me for secret santa for the cousins this year, and he got me this red and black checkered hoodie and its hella clean so yeah, I got alot of really cool stuff this year. Thanks all.
You know, now that I got the camera, I can start doing like, videos of myself and stuff for this blog. I'll see what happens in the times to come.
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Catch 25
So the name of this game is to just name off 25 random facts about yourself that you don't think anyone else knows. Alot of my friends on facebook have been tagging me in their notes about this thing so I decided I might as well do it myself. Also it would be a good way to get a few more people to at least look at my blog haha.
1. My hair is naturally curly. Alot of people think I style it or do something fancy to it in the morning to make it stick up, but in reality all I do is just swoop my hands through my hair once in the morning and i'm good to go.
2. The scar on the right side of my face is from back when I was a toddler. I accidentally ran into a wooden desk and it gave me this cut. Whenever people ask me about it though, I usually just tell them I got into a knife fight and some guy cut me.
3. I'm missing 5 teeth. I got 4 wisdom teeth pulled (they were growing in horizontally) and I knocked out a tooth playing basketball back in elementary school. Think is, if I hadn't gotten that tooth knocked out, I would have had to get braces.
4. I now buy girls pants. I used to buy guys pants, but they're more expensive that girls pants, and also girls pants fit better on me. So yeah if you wanna buy me pants, go with size 3-5 haha.
5. One of the things I don't like about myself is that I bite my nails. My fingernails look horrible and I always hate showing my fingers to anyone. I just get really embarrassed, and I really wanna kick this habit so yeah if you see me biting my nails just yell at me or smack me.
6. My vision is actually better than average so yeah. Normal vision is 20/20, and my vision is 15/20.
7. The name I most commonly go by online is Love en Grey. I got this name from a band caled Dir en Grey, and Dir sounds like Die, and one of the opposites of death to be is Love, so I just made Love en Grey.
8. Even though I dress all in dark colors and I look like an emo person, I'm really not, and if you talk to me you'll find that I'm just a bundle of smiles.
9. My music tastes are actually changing away from J-Rock. I'm starting to listen to it less and less and I'm starting to listen to more hip hop and post rock indie type stuff.
10. I've always had this urge to get my ears gauged. I wanna get the holes big enough so that I can keep a pencil or a pen in there, so that when someone asks me for a pencil in class, I can just pull one out my ear.
11. I really realy hate driving. I only do it because its convienient for me because then I can leave at any time I want to. The only time I actually enjoy driving is when its in the middle of the night and nobodys on the road and I can just drive as fast as I want to.
12. Ive gone through a repetoire of instruments in my lifetime. I first started playing the recorder in elemtary school (didn't we all?), and then I moved to the steel drums (used to know the little mermaid song on them), and after that I went to violin but I found violin to be boring (cause its the most depressing sounding instrument) and I finally ended up at trumpet. I stopped playing trumpet as soon as I got out of elementary school because I never practiced (because practicing is boring if your playing an instrument like trumpet). After that I didn't pick up an instrument until I found guitar (only started playing to get girls. . . ) and I started that sophmore year of high school. I've since included bass and drums into my instruments so yeah. My current favorite is bass though just because its so fun to play.
13. I actually have a life list of stuff to do before I die. Alot of it is like normal stuff, like visiting Australia and Japan, but there are a few odd ones out there. Such as swimming in a pool filled with jello and getting shot with a gun.
14. I'm one of the few people that you'll actually see use semi-colons in casual conversation; I'm only saying this cause of Ronnie haha.
15. Ive performed two surgeries on myself over the years, probably because I have no qualms about being around blood and I can also handle pain. Once was when I cut into a blister and removed a rock from it that had been in my skin for a few months, and the other time was when I took a pair of scissors and cut off a wart on my hand and then used a knife to carve out the remaining stuff.
16. I might piss a few people off with this one, but I'm not religious at all; in fact I'm actually against most forms of religion and one of my major pet peeves is when people preach their religion to me or when they use God as an excuse for everything. I'm sorry, but it is not God's fault that I have such a good life right now; I like to put that blame on myself. And stop telling me I'm going to hell. If your religion won't accept a non-believer that leads a good life into your "heaven", then your religion is fucked up. I choose to believe what I want to believe.
17. When I own my house, I'm going to personally design two of the rooms myself. One room is going to be a music room, and yes, no matter where I live, I'm going to have a music room where I can do whatever I want to. Theres gonna be an assortment of instruments there and the wall paper is going to be record covers. The other room is going to be my kids room, and its gonna be a pretty simple design but I want the wall paper to be pages out of Dr. Seuss books. That'd be pretty cool to have all the old books we used to read on the walls.
18. My ankles are actually pretty weak from years of skateboarding. This is why I kinda hate it when people kick the back of my feet or stuff like that. It kinda hurts me a bit more than it hurts other people I think.
19. I can live off of cereal. Seriously. Last year there were days where I didn't eat anything except for cereal. Frosted mini wheats and honey bunches of oats = crazy delicious.
20. The true me comes out when I'm hyper and full of sugar and caffeine. Only a few people have seen me in this state but I usually just jump around alot and yell and point at random things and I can't sit still.
21. I didn't used to think this way, but I'm starting to hate things that are really childish. I don't know if its just me growing more mature or if a part of my humor just died.
22. I'm really into webcomics. Like seriously, ive been reading webcomics religiously for over 2 years now and I check them everyday before I sleep. Its part of the reason I stay up so late, because alot of em update at midnight.
23. One of the things I really like doing is looking at the stars. If you ever see me at the night, I'll usually be look up to the sky. Its just really calming I guess.
24. Beneath this facade of myself, I acually have alot of problems that I hate myself for having. Its all stuff in the past but I still can't get over myself for doing it.
25. I'm actually pretty far away from my family, contrary to normal filipino people. On my dad's side I haven't seen my cousins for at least 5 years, probably longer. On my moms side, I see my cousins like twice a year and I don't really hang out with them much.
Yay I actually thought of 25 things. I didn't think I could do that but wooo I did. I hope some of you tagged facebookers enjoyed reading this.
1. My hair is naturally curly. Alot of people think I style it or do something fancy to it in the morning to make it stick up, but in reality all I do is just swoop my hands through my hair once in the morning and i'm good to go.
2. The scar on the right side of my face is from back when I was a toddler. I accidentally ran into a wooden desk and it gave me this cut. Whenever people ask me about it though, I usually just tell them I got into a knife fight and some guy cut me.
3. I'm missing 5 teeth. I got 4 wisdom teeth pulled (they were growing in horizontally) and I knocked out a tooth playing basketball back in elementary school. Think is, if I hadn't gotten that tooth knocked out, I would have had to get braces.
4. I now buy girls pants. I used to buy guys pants, but they're more expensive that girls pants, and also girls pants fit better on me. So yeah if you wanna buy me pants, go with size 3-5 haha.
5. One of the things I don't like about myself is that I bite my nails. My fingernails look horrible and I always hate showing my fingers to anyone. I just get really embarrassed, and I really wanna kick this habit so yeah if you see me biting my nails just yell at me or smack me.
6. My vision is actually better than average so yeah. Normal vision is 20/20, and my vision is 15/20.
7. The name I most commonly go by online is Love en Grey. I got this name from a band caled Dir en Grey, and Dir sounds like Die, and one of the opposites of death to be is Love, so I just made Love en Grey.
8. Even though I dress all in dark colors and I look like an emo person, I'm really not, and if you talk to me you'll find that I'm just a bundle of smiles.
9. My music tastes are actually changing away from J-Rock. I'm starting to listen to it less and less and I'm starting to listen to more hip hop and post rock indie type stuff.
10. I've always had this urge to get my ears gauged. I wanna get the holes big enough so that I can keep a pencil or a pen in there, so that when someone asks me for a pencil in class, I can just pull one out my ear.
11. I really realy hate driving. I only do it because its convienient for me because then I can leave at any time I want to. The only time I actually enjoy driving is when its in the middle of the night and nobodys on the road and I can just drive as fast as I want to.
12. Ive gone through a repetoire of instruments in my lifetime. I first started playing the recorder in elemtary school (didn't we all?), and then I moved to the steel drums (used to know the little mermaid song on them), and after that I went to violin but I found violin to be boring (cause its the most depressing sounding instrument) and I finally ended up at trumpet. I stopped playing trumpet as soon as I got out of elementary school because I never practiced (because practicing is boring if your playing an instrument like trumpet). After that I didn't pick up an instrument until I found guitar (only started playing to get girls. . . ) and I started that sophmore year of high school. I've since included bass and drums into my instruments so yeah. My current favorite is bass though just because its so fun to play.
13. I actually have a life list of stuff to do before I die. Alot of it is like normal stuff, like visiting Australia and Japan, but there are a few odd ones out there. Such as swimming in a pool filled with jello and getting shot with a gun.
14. I'm one of the few people that you'll actually see use semi-colons in casual conversation; I'm only saying this cause of Ronnie haha.
15. Ive performed two surgeries on myself over the years, probably because I have no qualms about being around blood and I can also handle pain. Once was when I cut into a blister and removed a rock from it that had been in my skin for a few months, and the other time was when I took a pair of scissors and cut off a wart on my hand and then used a knife to carve out the remaining stuff.
16. I might piss a few people off with this one, but I'm not religious at all; in fact I'm actually against most forms of religion and one of my major pet peeves is when people preach their religion to me or when they use God as an excuse for everything. I'm sorry, but it is not God's fault that I have such a good life right now; I like to put that blame on myself. And stop telling me I'm going to hell. If your religion won't accept a non-believer that leads a good life into your "heaven", then your religion is fucked up. I choose to believe what I want to believe.
17. When I own my house, I'm going to personally design two of the rooms myself. One room is going to be a music room, and yes, no matter where I live, I'm going to have a music room where I can do whatever I want to. Theres gonna be an assortment of instruments there and the wall paper is going to be record covers. The other room is going to be my kids room, and its gonna be a pretty simple design but I want the wall paper to be pages out of Dr. Seuss books. That'd be pretty cool to have all the old books we used to read on the walls.
18. My ankles are actually pretty weak from years of skateboarding. This is why I kinda hate it when people kick the back of my feet or stuff like that. It kinda hurts me a bit more than it hurts other people I think.
19. I can live off of cereal. Seriously. Last year there were days where I didn't eat anything except for cereal. Frosted mini wheats and honey bunches of oats = crazy delicious.
20. The true me comes out when I'm hyper and full of sugar and caffeine. Only a few people have seen me in this state but I usually just jump around alot and yell and point at random things and I can't sit still.
21. I didn't used to think this way, but I'm starting to hate things that are really childish. I don't know if its just me growing more mature or if a part of my humor just died.
22. I'm really into webcomics. Like seriously, ive been reading webcomics religiously for over 2 years now and I check them everyday before I sleep. Its part of the reason I stay up so late, because alot of em update at midnight.
23. One of the things I really like doing is looking at the stars. If you ever see me at the night, I'll usually be look up to the sky. Its just really calming I guess.
24. Beneath this facade of myself, I acually have alot of problems that I hate myself for having. Its all stuff in the past but I still can't get over myself for doing it.
25. I'm actually pretty far away from my family, contrary to normal filipino people. On my dad's side I haven't seen my cousins for at least 5 years, probably longer. On my moms side, I see my cousins like twice a year and I don't really hang out with them much.
Yay I actually thought of 25 things. I didn't think I could do that but wooo I did. I hope some of you tagged facebookers enjoyed reading this.
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Why is it so cold?
Yay for more than one post in a week? See now that I have more time I can actually update this more. Then again, I'm updating this while lying in bed at about 1:30 at night so yeah, most people have free time around this time.
Well yesterday I had a pretty interesting day I suppose. The plan was to meet up at 12 to eat some pho, then head over to Oakland for some ice skating, then go back to my old high school for the show choir Winter Concert. And yeah thats pretty much what happened. I drove around and picked up Andy, Jessica, and Ada and we met up at Pac East mall to eat some pho. To be honest, after living in Hayward for a few years now, the pho places out here in San Pablo are pretty crappy. If you compare the dishes here to the ones in Hayward, the ones here are lacking something. When you take that first bite into some pho at like, Red Chili's, you just get that feeling in you that the food is so good that you're gonna finish it. I didn't get that feeling when I was eating at Pac East yesterday.
Well after pho we decided to drive to Oakland for some ice skating. I didn't really want to drive there since I didn't know how to get there but yeah we eventually found it. Parking was pretty terrible though; had to park at a meter that was kinda far away and it was kinda expensive also. Tell me why it takes 25 cents to park a car for 10 minutes. Yet another reason why I don't like driving. Ice skating itself wasn't too bad though. I kinda fell down the most times ive ever fallen in recent ice skating outings. They had just gotten done resurfacing the ice, so it was all slippery when we got on. It was kinda insane how slippery the ice was. I was literally sliding sideways on the ice, which later on became pretty cool because I found out that if you pick up enough speed and go around one of the turns, you can slide sideways and its kinda like ice skating drifting haha. Fun stuff.
Well after that we decided to go to Barnes and Noble since we had alot of time to kill since it was only like 4 and the Winter Concert started at 7. Well I had no idea how to get out of Oakland, so as usual, I got lost haha. It also didn't help that me, Andy and Jessica were playing a car game so my attention wasn't 100% on getting back home. The goal of the game was to spot words that started with sequential letters of the Alphabet and whoever gets to Z first wins. And the driver of the car actually won, which says alot about how much I pay attention to the road when i'm driving. Hopefully I'm not scaring anyone away from riding in the car with me. I don't like driving lonely haha.
Well we finally got back to Pinole and we made it to Barnes and Noble (although I made a bit of a detour and picked up a Sweet Tea at mickey d's). Then we ate dinner at McD's and I had chicken nuggets for the first time in hella years. Good stuff haha but hella calories. Its all good though. Wow I really needa cut out on eating so much fast food. Ive gained like 10 pounds this year. I went from like 120ish to 130ish. Not necesarrily a bad thing because ive always been underweight, but yeah this isn't the kind of weight that I want to gain. Guess its just time to start working out. Anyone up to go running?
Well we finally got back to my ghetto ass high school for the winter concert. I guess the high point of going back to my old school is seeing my old friends back there, because I was pretty close with alot of the underclassmen back at my old school and the freshmen when I was a senior are now seniors in their own regard so wow, makes me feel a smidge old. It was really good seeing people like Ruth and Eugene again because I get to see them only like once a year.
As for the concert itself, geez it wasn't all that great. I'm going to sound like a typical alumni here, and I don't even know if my opinion should matter because its not like I was ever in acapella or show choir or anything like that, but wow the quality of the conservatory has gone down. The kids siging in the Acapella choir looked like they were dead. More than half of them looked like they either hadn't gotten enough sleep, were too cool to be singing, or had no idea what the lyrics were. They also added a guitar class thsi year so I was kinda excited about seeing them perform, but wow it sounded like a 1st grade elementary school class. What they played that night, I could have taught someone to play in a day. They had a whole quarter to learn their stuff yet they could only play like single note stuff, and when they did play something a little harder then everyone except the kids in the front row (who you could tell already know how to play guitar before the class cause they got that typical rocker look), would put their guitars down and not play. Show choir was alright though. They do have alot of talent there but I guess they just need a few more months to get it together even more.
Well after the concert, we went to Jessica's house to go play some rock band and that was hella fun, because rock band is never not fun haha. I love playing drums but yeah I needa work up my foot muscles for that bass drum. But yeah after that I just went home and slept haha. Feels good to finally be able to sleep in, even though Ive been staying in bed till like 2pm everyday haha. Thats pretty bad but yeah its all good though.
Well the reason this post is title'd why is it so cold is because its been super freezing lately. What's been going on with the weather? We live in California and its freezing like we're living on the east coast. I was wearing two sweaters yesterday and I still felt the icey winter breeze pierce through to my skin. It was almost as cold last night as it was when I was ice skating. This just isn't right. The only thing that would make all this coldness worthwhile is if I woke up the next morning and it was snowing. That'd be pretty interesting haha. But yeah till next time.
Well yesterday I had a pretty interesting day I suppose. The plan was to meet up at 12 to eat some pho, then head over to Oakland for some ice skating, then go back to my old high school for the show choir Winter Concert. And yeah thats pretty much what happened. I drove around and picked up Andy, Jessica, and Ada and we met up at Pac East mall to eat some pho. To be honest, after living in Hayward for a few years now, the pho places out here in San Pablo are pretty crappy. If you compare the dishes here to the ones in Hayward, the ones here are lacking something. When you take that first bite into some pho at like, Red Chili's, you just get that feeling in you that the food is so good that you're gonna finish it. I didn't get that feeling when I was eating at Pac East yesterday.
Well after pho we decided to drive to Oakland for some ice skating. I didn't really want to drive there since I didn't know how to get there but yeah we eventually found it. Parking was pretty terrible though; had to park at a meter that was kinda far away and it was kinda expensive also. Tell me why it takes 25 cents to park a car for 10 minutes. Yet another reason why I don't like driving. Ice skating itself wasn't too bad though. I kinda fell down the most times ive ever fallen in recent ice skating outings. They had just gotten done resurfacing the ice, so it was all slippery when we got on. It was kinda insane how slippery the ice was. I was literally sliding sideways on the ice, which later on became pretty cool because I found out that if you pick up enough speed and go around one of the turns, you can slide sideways and its kinda like ice skating drifting haha. Fun stuff.
Well after that we decided to go to Barnes and Noble since we had alot of time to kill since it was only like 4 and the Winter Concert started at 7. Well I had no idea how to get out of Oakland, so as usual, I got lost haha. It also didn't help that me, Andy and Jessica were playing a car game so my attention wasn't 100% on getting back home. The goal of the game was to spot words that started with sequential letters of the Alphabet and whoever gets to Z first wins. And the driver of the car actually won, which says alot about how much I pay attention to the road when i'm driving. Hopefully I'm not scaring anyone away from riding in the car with me. I don't like driving lonely haha.
Well we finally got back to Pinole and we made it to Barnes and Noble (although I made a bit of a detour and picked up a Sweet Tea at mickey d's). Then we ate dinner at McD's and I had chicken nuggets for the first time in hella years. Good stuff haha but hella calories. Its all good though. Wow I really needa cut out on eating so much fast food. Ive gained like 10 pounds this year. I went from like 120ish to 130ish. Not necesarrily a bad thing because ive always been underweight, but yeah this isn't the kind of weight that I want to gain. Guess its just time to start working out. Anyone up to go running?
Well we finally got back to my ghetto ass high school for the winter concert. I guess the high point of going back to my old school is seeing my old friends back there, because I was pretty close with alot of the underclassmen back at my old school and the freshmen when I was a senior are now seniors in their own regard so wow, makes me feel a smidge old. It was really good seeing people like Ruth and Eugene again because I get to see them only like once a year.
As for the concert itself, geez it wasn't all that great. I'm going to sound like a typical alumni here, and I don't even know if my opinion should matter because its not like I was ever in acapella or show choir or anything like that, but wow the quality of the conservatory has gone down. The kids siging in the Acapella choir looked like they were dead. More than half of them looked like they either hadn't gotten enough sleep, were too cool to be singing, or had no idea what the lyrics were. They also added a guitar class thsi year so I was kinda excited about seeing them perform, but wow it sounded like a 1st grade elementary school class. What they played that night, I could have taught someone to play in a day. They had a whole quarter to learn their stuff yet they could only play like single note stuff, and when they did play something a little harder then everyone except the kids in the front row (who you could tell already know how to play guitar before the class cause they got that typical rocker look), would put their guitars down and not play. Show choir was alright though. They do have alot of talent there but I guess they just need a few more months to get it together even more.
Well after the concert, we went to Jessica's house to go play some rock band and that was hella fun, because rock band is never not fun haha. I love playing drums but yeah I needa work up my foot muscles for that bass drum. But yeah after that I just went home and slept haha. Feels good to finally be able to sleep in, even though Ive been staying in bed till like 2pm everyday haha. Thats pretty bad but yeah its all good though.
Well the reason this post is title'd why is it so cold is because its been super freezing lately. What's been going on with the weather? We live in California and its freezing like we're living on the east coast. I was wearing two sweaters yesterday and I still felt the icey winter breeze pierce through to my skin. It was almost as cold last night as it was when I was ice skating. This just isn't right. The only thing that would make all this coldness worthwhile is if I woke up the next morning and it was snowing. That'd be pretty interesting haha. But yeah till next time.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
yeah its been awhile hasn't it?
Yeah its been awhile hasn't it? Well I've finally got some free time to myself now that my finals are all over and my pledging process is over. I should be cleaning out my car right now because it kinda smells (strangely it smells like butter), and also the trunk of my car is filled with various things that shouldn't be there, like pancakes, a dress, a victorias secret bag, a parking meter cover, and other random stuff. Just an update on this, its like a few days after I started writing this blog and I kinda did clean out the trunk of my car already. It no longer smells like butter, and I found out that it smelled like butter because of those previously mentioned pancakes. The only thing left in the trunk of my car is the victorias secret bag because yeahhh I don't know what to do with it.
I also mentioned that my pledging process is over and yeah I'm pretty happy about that because I crossed over. Everything has been almost perfect these past few months and deciding to pledge for AphiO has been one of the best decisions that ive made my entire life. Ive made many friends and many new memories through this whole process and crossing over has been one of the best moments of my life. Usually I'm not really an emotional guy but when we were crossing over as a pledge class, tears came to my eyes and I just started crying because I was happy for everyone. Also the banquet we had after our activation was pretty fun. The skit we did went along alot better than I thought it would and also I think everyone was happy with their gifts. I really was happy with the stuff my big sib got me and I can't thank her enough for it. The sweater was exactly what I wanted lol and the paddle is really cool cause its kinda unique cause of the colors. So yeah my whole AphiO experience has been one of the best things ive done in my life and theres way too many people to thank for all sorts of reasons. I want to mention names but theres just way to many people haha. You guys know who you are and what you did so thanks for everything.
So other than AphiO stuff, Ive been busy with other things. A few nights ago i went to the Not So Silent Night concert and it was alright. It really did not live up to my expectations because I didn't get to go down into the floor area. The floor tickets and the seat tickets were the same price so I thought you'd be able to go back and forth but you wern't able to so yeah, not being able to stand up and hop around as I pleased was kinda disappointing. Also the bands didn't put on too good of shows. I really did not like Jacks Mannequin because it wasn't an energetic performance at all, and to be honest the guys voice is even more annoying in real life. Franz Ferdinand did pretty good; they played a few really cool songs but some of their other songs were kinda boring, and their final song was really bad cause of its tempo. Usually as a band, you'd want to go out with a fast paced song because at the end you want people to feel energetic and crazy, because if the whole concert is shitty but your last song is really fun and hyper, then people will think the concert is good, but if your last song is slow and uninspirational, then people will think your concert sucked, andbecause of that I think Franz Ferdinand didn't do so well. Bloc Party was pretty good but not many of their songs were fun. Death Cab for Cutie really killed the whole concert to be honest. They're one of my favorite bands but geez they played a horrible set at the concert. They're a slower paced band so I expected more slower songs like I Will Follow You Into The Dark (which was one of their only good songs that night) but instead they opened up with a bunch of songs that sounded like shitty punk rock with emo vocals. The Killers were the headlining act and they actually did live up to their name. They played a really good set and all of their songs were pretty energetic and entertaining. One of the things about the concert as a whole that really bothered me was the crowd. They really didn't seem into it until the Killers performed and even then the crowd was barely awake. At rock concerts I want to see people jumping and having a good time. I want to see people crashing into each other and the crowd swaying on top of each other all while having a look of pure joy on their faces, and at Not So Silent Night, I didn't see that and it wasn't too fun.
Also this weekend was pretty fun also. I drove down to Satna Cruz to go hang out with Andy and Monica and the rest of them. I got there really really late night at like midnight and we just played Wii till hella late night. Then the next day we went to the mall and hung out there. I got a new pair of shoes so mission accomplished for my feet lol. After that we went and drove around the Santa Cruz campus for a bit. We changed cars from Andy's car to my car because I wanted to drive fast around the campus. The ride was pretty fun and we dove through the campus for hella long. After that we went downtown and we walked around the area. Got some Jamba Juice (White Gummy is hella good) and went to Borders where we learned some new foreign words. After that, we drove down to the Boardwalk and went to the Arcade there. I played soem Air Hockey and some Soul Caliber 2 and then after that we went bowling and Andy beat me lol. We went and got some food after that, and since we were kinda out of money we went to Taco Bell and McDonalds and had some food there. After that we went back to Andy's place and ate there and played a few card games like 13 and Spoons till like 12 midnight. Spoons is hella fun because it just proves how much you don't notice things lol. Then we played Monopoly till like 3am and I actually won which was surprising since I usually get my ass handed to me in that game. Poor Johnny in that game didn't have any property at all lol. Well after that we watched the Dark Knight and we kinda ended up sleeping but then I woke up as Andy was leaving the room so I went upstairs with him and ended up convincing Andy and Monica to sleep downstairs with us. But yeah I wasn't that sleepy and neither was Monica so me and her ended up staying up till 7am playing Tetris. I still only got like 5 hours of sleep cause I woke up around 1 and then we just screwed around at Andy's place till I left and got home around 7.
Well yeah I'm back at home right now and I'm kinda excited for the upcoming few days because I'll finally get to see some high school people I haven't seen in forever. So yeah hopefully now that I have some more time I'll be able to update this blog more often. I really want to keep this blog up because I want to look back on it in a few years and hopefully use it as a window into my previous life but yeah I haven't been able to update as much as I've wanted to. Well this is a pretty long post so I guess it makes up for the past few days lol. So yeah till next time.
I also mentioned that my pledging process is over and yeah I'm pretty happy about that because I crossed over. Everything has been almost perfect these past few months and deciding to pledge for AphiO has been one of the best decisions that ive made my entire life. Ive made many friends and many new memories through this whole process and crossing over has been one of the best moments of my life. Usually I'm not really an emotional guy but when we were crossing over as a pledge class, tears came to my eyes and I just started crying because I was happy for everyone. Also the banquet we had after our activation was pretty fun. The skit we did went along alot better than I thought it would and also I think everyone was happy with their gifts. I really was happy with the stuff my big sib got me and I can't thank her enough for it. The sweater was exactly what I wanted lol and the paddle is really cool cause its kinda unique cause of the colors. So yeah my whole AphiO experience has been one of the best things ive done in my life and theres way too many people to thank for all sorts of reasons. I want to mention names but theres just way to many people haha. You guys know who you are and what you did so thanks for everything.
So other than AphiO stuff, Ive been busy with other things. A few nights ago i went to the Not So Silent Night concert and it was alright. It really did not live up to my expectations because I didn't get to go down into the floor area. The floor tickets and the seat tickets were the same price so I thought you'd be able to go back and forth but you wern't able to so yeah, not being able to stand up and hop around as I pleased was kinda disappointing. Also the bands didn't put on too good of shows. I really did not like Jacks Mannequin because it wasn't an energetic performance at all, and to be honest the guys voice is even more annoying in real life. Franz Ferdinand did pretty good; they played a few really cool songs but some of their other songs were kinda boring, and their final song was really bad cause of its tempo. Usually as a band, you'd want to go out with a fast paced song because at the end you want people to feel energetic and crazy, because if the whole concert is shitty but your last song is really fun and hyper, then people will think the concert is good, but if your last song is slow and uninspirational, then people will think your concert sucked, andbecause of that I think Franz Ferdinand didn't do so well. Bloc Party was pretty good but not many of their songs were fun. Death Cab for Cutie really killed the whole concert to be honest. They're one of my favorite bands but geez they played a horrible set at the concert. They're a slower paced band so I expected more slower songs like I Will Follow You Into The Dark (which was one of their only good songs that night) but instead they opened up with a bunch of songs that sounded like shitty punk rock with emo vocals. The Killers were the headlining act and they actually did live up to their name. They played a really good set and all of their songs were pretty energetic and entertaining. One of the things about the concert as a whole that really bothered me was the crowd. They really didn't seem into it until the Killers performed and even then the crowd was barely awake. At rock concerts I want to see people jumping and having a good time. I want to see people crashing into each other and the crowd swaying on top of each other all while having a look of pure joy on their faces, and at Not So Silent Night, I didn't see that and it wasn't too fun.
Also this weekend was pretty fun also. I drove down to Satna Cruz to go hang out with Andy and Monica and the rest of them. I got there really really late night at like midnight and we just played Wii till hella late night. Then the next day we went to the mall and hung out there. I got a new pair of shoes so mission accomplished for my feet lol. After that we went and drove around the Santa Cruz campus for a bit. We changed cars from Andy's car to my car because I wanted to drive fast around the campus. The ride was pretty fun and we dove through the campus for hella long. After that we went downtown and we walked around the area. Got some Jamba Juice (White Gummy is hella good) and went to Borders where we learned some new foreign words. After that, we drove down to the Boardwalk and went to the Arcade there. I played soem Air Hockey and some Soul Caliber 2 and then after that we went bowling and Andy beat me lol. We went and got some food after that, and since we were kinda out of money we went to Taco Bell and McDonalds and had some food there. After that we went back to Andy's place and ate there and played a few card games like 13 and Spoons till like 12 midnight. Spoons is hella fun because it just proves how much you don't notice things lol. Then we played Monopoly till like 3am and I actually won which was surprising since I usually get my ass handed to me in that game. Poor Johnny in that game didn't have any property at all lol. Well after that we watched the Dark Knight and we kinda ended up sleeping but then I woke up as Andy was leaving the room so I went upstairs with him and ended up convincing Andy and Monica to sleep downstairs with us. But yeah I wasn't that sleepy and neither was Monica so me and her ended up staying up till 7am playing Tetris. I still only got like 5 hours of sleep cause I woke up around 1 and then we just screwed around at Andy's place till I left and got home around 7.
Well yeah I'm back at home right now and I'm kinda excited for the upcoming few days because I'll finally get to see some high school people I haven't seen in forever. So yeah hopefully now that I have some more time I'll be able to update this blog more often. I really want to keep this blog up because I want to look back on it in a few years and hopefully use it as a window into my previous life but yeah I haven't been able to update as much as I've wanted to. Well this is a pretty long post so I guess it makes up for the past few days lol. So yeah till next time.
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Life goes on
Sorry for the lack of a nifty title tonight but I'm just feeling a little restless tonight. I need to sleep because i'm supposed to be waking up in about 7 or 8 hours to drive back to Berkeley to go shopping for my big sib tomorrow, but for some reason I'm not tired so I guess updating this would be a good idea.
Well first off I'll start with how I feel about a few of my friends back at home. I think its pretty funny how my group of friends back there ditched me just because of a few things someone said about me. Good job guys; totally alienating someone whose been your friend for what, 4 years now? Its just crazy seeing how people change and others don't, and it all falls to pieces.
Another thing thats been kinda bugging me is my roommates. Last night, my roommate used the dorm as a house party thing, which really doesn't bother me. What did bother me though, is that all his fucking friends drank my orange juice without asking me because they needed chasers for their shots. Thats hella inconsiderate because it was a brand new bottle of orange juice and they also drank half my bottle of apple juice. I mean, what the hell you know? I might as well just buy my own personal refridgerator because I can't leave anything in the fridge without someone eating it. I had a case of 30 corndogs in the freezer and now theyre all gone. I only had about 5 of them, and I saw the people last night eating them. If my roommate doesn't come back with corndogs and orange juice this weekend, then shits going down.
It got so crazy last night that I didn't have a place to sleep. My roommate was sexing his gf in our room, and I didn't wanna sleep with a bunch of drunk white people so luckily my friend called me up and we ended up sleeping at her place. Thing is though, she left like, halfway through the night, which made it really awkward because its not like it was our dorm. It really didn't make me all too mad because without her, I'd probably have been using a few drunk people for body warmth, but it made my other friend pretty mad so yeah that night didn't go all too well. I ended up waking up at a super late time also haha.
Today was pretty fun though. Ended up going to the city, ate some really good country fried steak at a place called Tad's Steaks in San Fran. Very very good although they didn't have onion rings which was disappointing. Me and my friend were craving onion rings that whole night so the lack of onion rings kinda took away from the night as a whole haha. We also got to see the christmas tree in Union Square. Really really nice and pretty cause of all the lights. We also went and shopped for a bit at Old Navy. Not really my choice of store to shop at but they had some really good sales going on, like t-shirts for 5 dollars. I got like 3 new shirts lol. I've been really glad with the purchases ive made recently. I bought girls pants for the very first time yesterday because they were both cheaper than the guys pants and they were more comfortable. I mean, nobodys going to notice that I'm wearing girls pants right? And I'm one of those guys that just wears skinny jeans anyways so it doesn't matter.
Aphio has been going pretty well so far. I've really like the pledging process so far and to be honest, I would have liked it to be even tougher. Its not fair for the people that have all their shit straight. Theres a few pledges that don't have enough hours and stuff like that, so we're having to struggle to make all these new and random ass service projects for people to do. I just think its unfair that we have to help them with stuff like this because if they had done it in the first place, they wouldn't have had a problem with it.
Crossover is happening pretty soon though. I think I'll find out if I'm crossing over next friday. We're turning in our binders on Tuesday also so yeah we don't have much time left. Making the decision to pledge for aphio has probably been one of the best decisions ive made in my entire life because its made me find my new family. Before I started pledging, I hung out with hardly anyone on campus but now that I pledged, its as if my social capacity has done a complete 180 and ive made friends with more people these past few weeks than I have these past few years. It just feels good to finally be part of a family again. Whether or not I cross into aphio, this has been an experience I will never forget and these friends will be with me forever.
Well first off I'll start with how I feel about a few of my friends back at home. I think its pretty funny how my group of friends back there ditched me just because of a few things someone said about me. Good job guys; totally alienating someone whose been your friend for what, 4 years now? Its just crazy seeing how people change and others don't, and it all falls to pieces.
Another thing thats been kinda bugging me is my roommates. Last night, my roommate used the dorm as a house party thing, which really doesn't bother me. What did bother me though, is that all his fucking friends drank my orange juice without asking me because they needed chasers for their shots. Thats hella inconsiderate because it was a brand new bottle of orange juice and they also drank half my bottle of apple juice. I mean, what the hell you know? I might as well just buy my own personal refridgerator because I can't leave anything in the fridge without someone eating it. I had a case of 30 corndogs in the freezer and now theyre all gone. I only had about 5 of them, and I saw the people last night eating them. If my roommate doesn't come back with corndogs and orange juice this weekend, then shits going down.
It got so crazy last night that I didn't have a place to sleep. My roommate was sexing his gf in our room, and I didn't wanna sleep with a bunch of drunk white people so luckily my friend called me up and we ended up sleeping at her place. Thing is though, she left like, halfway through the night, which made it really awkward because its not like it was our dorm. It really didn't make me all too mad because without her, I'd probably have been using a few drunk people for body warmth, but it made my other friend pretty mad so yeah that night didn't go all too well. I ended up waking up at a super late time also haha.
Today was pretty fun though. Ended up going to the city, ate some really good country fried steak at a place called Tad's Steaks in San Fran. Very very good although they didn't have onion rings which was disappointing. Me and my friend were craving onion rings that whole night so the lack of onion rings kinda took away from the night as a whole haha. We also got to see the christmas tree in Union Square. Really really nice and pretty cause of all the lights. We also went and shopped for a bit at Old Navy. Not really my choice of store to shop at but they had some really good sales going on, like t-shirts for 5 dollars. I got like 3 new shirts lol. I've been really glad with the purchases ive made recently. I bought girls pants for the very first time yesterday because they were both cheaper than the guys pants and they were more comfortable. I mean, nobodys going to notice that I'm wearing girls pants right? And I'm one of those guys that just wears skinny jeans anyways so it doesn't matter.
Aphio has been going pretty well so far. I've really like the pledging process so far and to be honest, I would have liked it to be even tougher. Its not fair for the people that have all their shit straight. Theres a few pledges that don't have enough hours and stuff like that, so we're having to struggle to make all these new and random ass service projects for people to do. I just think its unfair that we have to help them with stuff like this because if they had done it in the first place, they wouldn't have had a problem with it.
Crossover is happening pretty soon though. I think I'll find out if I'm crossing over next friday. We're turning in our binders on Tuesday also so yeah we don't have much time left. Making the decision to pledge for aphio has probably been one of the best decisions ive made in my entire life because its made me find my new family. Before I started pledging, I hung out with hardly anyone on campus but now that I pledged, its as if my social capacity has done a complete 180 and ive made friends with more people these past few weeks than I have these past few years. It just feels good to finally be part of a family again. Whether or not I cross into aphio, this has been an experience I will never forget and these friends will be with me forever.
Saturday, November 1, 2008
The times they are a-changin
Title not-so-subtlely yoinked from Bob Dylan.
So my life has been changing pretty crazily these past few weeks. Since I've been super busy these past few weeks, I haven't had much time to update my blog, so I don't even know where to start anymore. I guess I'll just start with some stuff from my college life.
I'm really having a great time rushing for APO. I finally got my big sib this week and I'm super happy that I got her cause we get along really well. It was pretty funny when I asked my pledgemaster how we got put together cause she just responded with "Oh you two were really easy. You're like the same, you both are crazy!". Just overall I've been really happy with how things have been going with rushing. I know that I'm getting a little behind on interviews but I'm sure that once I start getting some of them, I'll be able to finish without a problem.
As far as fundraising for the pledge class is going, its a totally different story. I don't think I mentioned this before, but I got elected treasurer of the pledge class. I don't really think I'm that well qualified for it; I'd personally rather have the VP spot but being treasurer is just fine. I do have some fundraisers planned out though. I just needa get them all set up on monday. To just put this as a reminder to myself, call up McDonalds on Monday and visit the San Leandro Chili's also on Monday to set up a night with them. Hopefully by the time we get these done, we'll have around 500-600 dollars in our bank account, then we can do alot of minor things, like recycling cans for money, or bake sales and stuff like that for just random money. If anyone has any really good fundraising ideas then you should get at me haha.
I think ima avoid posting about a certain subject because I know i'll probably piss a few people off by writing it, but lets just say that I got rid of the one thing in my life that was an annoyance to me this past month. I'll also just say that I'll probably be making alot more visits to UC Davis in the future haha.
Last night was really fun because it was Halloween. Halloween is my favorite holiday in the year because I get to dress up as whatever I want without any consequences. If you know me well, you'll know that I like dressing up as different stuffs as much as I can because I like to break down the walls of my own normality. Theres some really good pictures of me on my facebook if you care to check. But yeah I'll leave the Halloween post to its own seperate blog because it was a really fun night.
So my life has been changing pretty crazily these past few weeks. Since I've been super busy these past few weeks, I haven't had much time to update my blog, so I don't even know where to start anymore. I guess I'll just start with some stuff from my college life.
I'm really having a great time rushing for APO. I finally got my big sib this week and I'm super happy that I got her cause we get along really well. It was pretty funny when I asked my pledgemaster how we got put together cause she just responded with "Oh you two were really easy. You're like the same, you both are crazy!". Just overall I've been really happy with how things have been going with rushing. I know that I'm getting a little behind on interviews but I'm sure that once I start getting some of them, I'll be able to finish without a problem.
As far as fundraising for the pledge class is going, its a totally different story. I don't think I mentioned this before, but I got elected treasurer of the pledge class. I don't really think I'm that well qualified for it; I'd personally rather have the VP spot but being treasurer is just fine. I do have some fundraisers planned out though. I just needa get them all set up on monday. To just put this as a reminder to myself, call up McDonalds on Monday and visit the San Leandro Chili's also on Monday to set up a night with them. Hopefully by the time we get these done, we'll have around 500-600 dollars in our bank account, then we can do alot of minor things, like recycling cans for money, or bake sales and stuff like that for just random money. If anyone has any really good fundraising ideas then you should get at me haha.
I think ima avoid posting about a certain subject because I know i'll probably piss a few people off by writing it, but lets just say that I got rid of the one thing in my life that was an annoyance to me this past month. I'll also just say that I'll probably be making alot more visits to UC Davis in the future haha.
Last night was really fun because it was Halloween. Halloween is my favorite holiday in the year because I get to dress up as whatever I want without any consequences. If you know me well, you'll know that I like dressing up as different stuffs as much as I can because I like to break down the walls of my own normality. Theres some really good pictures of me on my facebook if you care to check. But yeah I'll leave the Halloween post to its own seperate blog because it was a really fun night.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Chemistry
Me and my Organic Chem teacher have problems. Its only been like, 3 or 4 weeks into the quarter and we've had numerous arguments about the most pointless stuff.
Our first argument had to do with the lab notebooks. In our chem lab, we need special carbon paper lab notebooks. And I didn't buy the book in a packet because I wanted to save money, so I ordered it offline. And you know how it is when you order stuff offline; it comes like 2 or 3 weeks later. So obviously by the time our first lab report in lab was due, I didn't have my lab notebook there. When I asked my teacher if it was alright that I didn't have the lab notebook yet, he went into this little stuck up tone of voice and started lecturing me about how I need a lab notebook and how I could have went to another school and gotten one. First off, I find it fucked up that I'd have to go out of my way and drive to a totally different school just to pick up a lab notebook. Secondly, while he was lecturing me about the "necessities of having a lab notebook", he said the line "its not science if its not written in a lab notebook". What the fuck does that mean? Apparently nothings science unless its written in a notebook. This first encounter just got me hella pissed at him and it left me with a bad impression of him.
A week after this me and him had another altercation. This one had to do with the due dates of assignments. I know with our last argument, it was a little bit my fault for not having the notebook, but with this one, its all on him. We had an assignment that everyone was working on, but on the syllabus the due date was a few days later. So when our teacher asked us to turn in the assignments, I told him "thats not what it says on the syllabus". Of course he responds with his typical stuck up tone "well ive always told you assignments are due a week after the due date". Thats hella bullshit because if the date is on your syllabus, then thats what the damn due date should be. I always go by whats in writing rather than words, because people can fuck up while talking, whereas while writing something up, they can go back and review and change it before they make final copies. And what really pisses me off is when I asked him if I could just turn in the assignment on the date on the syllabus just this one time since I apparently didn't know his words come before his own syllabus. He told me I had to have it in by that day, before class ended. Fuck that shit man. Thats not even fair at all. Its his fault for having his own syllabus all fucked up, and hes going to make me either rush to finish the assignment or take points off for having it in late. So here I am rushing my experiment just so I can run to the computer lab and finish the fucking thing. I got it done but its still bullshit how I had to do it. And the funny thing is, the next lab session we met at, he goes and says "I have an announcement, you guys can turn in stuff on the date it says on the syllabus without getting points off." Fucking dumbass teacher. I was just starting him down when he said that but the bitch wouldnt make eye contact. Totally going against his own words. Real good teacher man.
And just a week ago, I brought a drink into lab. Unopened, and I set it on the backshelf next to my backpack so it wouldnt be anywhere near the lab benches. Of course the teacher notices it and tells me to take it and leave it outside. Leave it outside? Its a brand new drink. Hell no am I leaveing it outside. Waste of money. He doesn't even suggest for me to put it in my backpack. He tells me to leave it outside in the hallway. What the fuck kinda shit is that? Its unopened also so theres an airtight seal there, but apparently it didnt matter. I ended up just taking my backpack outside with me and putting the drink in my backpack.
Hes a really horrible teacher also. He'll just start talking and the class will kinda understand it, but all of a sudden he'll just start talking as if its a different language. Today in class, we were just talking about stereoisomers which is confusuin in its own regard, but the class in general was doing alright with it. All of a sudden he switches gear and gets into extracting enantiomers, and he starts naming all these techniques and these different crazy named substances and the whole class got lost within seconds. This kind of thing has happened nearly every class section. Also, whenever someone asks him a question in class, he'll answer the question but it'll be with that sorta stuck up tone like "geez you're so stupid you're supposed to know this already". The guy really knows his shit about ochem, but he cant teach it at all.
Fuck chemistry. I'm going to be matching bullets for my job. I'll never use this shit ever. I'm not going to need to know how 2-dimethylethyl cyclohexane is going to look like so this is all pointless anyways. Just pointless shit theyre feeding us in that class. Waste of time, and if you know me, my biggest pet peeve is when people waste my time.
In other news, aphio is awesomeeeeeeeee.
Our first argument had to do with the lab notebooks. In our chem lab, we need special carbon paper lab notebooks. And I didn't buy the book in a packet because I wanted to save money, so I ordered it offline. And you know how it is when you order stuff offline; it comes like 2 or 3 weeks later. So obviously by the time our first lab report in lab was due, I didn't have my lab notebook there. When I asked my teacher if it was alright that I didn't have the lab notebook yet, he went into this little stuck up tone of voice and started lecturing me about how I need a lab notebook and how I could have went to another school and gotten one. First off, I find it fucked up that I'd have to go out of my way and drive to a totally different school just to pick up a lab notebook. Secondly, while he was lecturing me about the "necessities of having a lab notebook", he said the line "its not science if its not written in a lab notebook". What the fuck does that mean? Apparently nothings science unless its written in a notebook. This first encounter just got me hella pissed at him and it left me with a bad impression of him.
A week after this me and him had another altercation. This one had to do with the due dates of assignments. I know with our last argument, it was a little bit my fault for not having the notebook, but with this one, its all on him. We had an assignment that everyone was working on, but on the syllabus the due date was a few days later. So when our teacher asked us to turn in the assignments, I told him "thats not what it says on the syllabus". Of course he responds with his typical stuck up tone "well ive always told you assignments are due a week after the due date". Thats hella bullshit because if the date is on your syllabus, then thats what the damn due date should be. I always go by whats in writing rather than words, because people can fuck up while talking, whereas while writing something up, they can go back and review and change it before they make final copies. And what really pisses me off is when I asked him if I could just turn in the assignment on the date on the syllabus just this one time since I apparently didn't know his words come before his own syllabus. He told me I had to have it in by that day, before class ended. Fuck that shit man. Thats not even fair at all. Its his fault for having his own syllabus all fucked up, and hes going to make me either rush to finish the assignment or take points off for having it in late. So here I am rushing my experiment just so I can run to the computer lab and finish the fucking thing. I got it done but its still bullshit how I had to do it. And the funny thing is, the next lab session we met at, he goes and says "I have an announcement, you guys can turn in stuff on the date it says on the syllabus without getting points off." Fucking dumbass teacher. I was just starting him down when he said that but the bitch wouldnt make eye contact. Totally going against his own words. Real good teacher man.
And just a week ago, I brought a drink into lab. Unopened, and I set it on the backshelf next to my backpack so it wouldnt be anywhere near the lab benches. Of course the teacher notices it and tells me to take it and leave it outside. Leave it outside? Its a brand new drink. Hell no am I leaveing it outside. Waste of money. He doesn't even suggest for me to put it in my backpack. He tells me to leave it outside in the hallway. What the fuck kinda shit is that? Its unopened also so theres an airtight seal there, but apparently it didnt matter. I ended up just taking my backpack outside with me and putting the drink in my backpack.
Hes a really horrible teacher also. He'll just start talking and the class will kinda understand it, but all of a sudden he'll just start talking as if its a different language. Today in class, we were just talking about stereoisomers which is confusuin in its own regard, but the class in general was doing alright with it. All of a sudden he switches gear and gets into extracting enantiomers, and he starts naming all these techniques and these different crazy named substances and the whole class got lost within seconds. This kind of thing has happened nearly every class section. Also, whenever someone asks him a question in class, he'll answer the question but it'll be with that sorta stuck up tone like "geez you're so stupid you're supposed to know this already". The guy really knows his shit about ochem, but he cant teach it at all.
Fuck chemistry. I'm going to be matching bullets for my job. I'll never use this shit ever. I'm not going to need to know how 2-dimethylethyl cyclohexane is going to look like so this is all pointless anyways. Just pointless shit theyre feeding us in that class. Waste of time, and if you know me, my biggest pet peeve is when people waste my time.
In other news, aphio is awesomeeeeeeeee.
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Add this one to the list
Driving really irks me. I enjoy the subtle aspects of it, such as the feel of the road and feeling the wind rushing into that open window, but there's just too many horrid things about it for me to keep on enjoying it.
First off, I really hate red lights. Unless they are at a very busy intersection, then I find them to be a complete waste of time. I wonder how much of my life I've wasted waiting for that random red light to change to green. So many red lights are unnecessary. There's this one red light close to my house that is red nearly all the time I pass it up. The intersection it is at is basically frequented by about 5 or so cars a minute. Its the perfect example of a red light that should not be there. A stop sign would easily suffice as a replacement, but instead, I find myself waiting for the light to change every single time. Its not a quick transition from red to green either. It takes a few seconds for the light to change to green. You may think that a few seconds is almost nothing and that I'm just exaggerating my anguish, but everything all adds up. I think thats one of the things in society today that people always forget. Seconds spent adds up to minutes and eventually days. Just picture yourself spending a whole day at a stoplight. Stuck forever at the mercy of a single red light.
The price of gas is also one of the reasons why I don't like driving. I drive a 2000 Honda Civic, which is supposed to be a pretty good car when it comes to gas mileage. Yet whenever I go to the gas station, I pop in 20 dollars and it only fills my gas tank up halfway. We can probably thank our current president for this situation, due to his war. But another problem is that it seems like people aren't really making an effort to stop using gasoline. Our government has so much money rooted into the car and gasoline industry, that they're probably never going to make the logical decision to pour money into developing new possibilities for fuel.
Another thing that I dislike about driving is that, if you have a car, you find yourself being the person that has to drive around everyone that doesn't have a car. I usually don't have a problem with this because it doesn't really matter to me, but sometimes it gets out of hand. I don't like being depended on for giving people a ride, and I don't like having people just assume that I'm going to pick them up and drive them. I don't want to be known as just a chauffeur. It makes me think that the only reason I get invited to events is because I have a car and I can bring people to the event.
I can live with all these reasons though, if not for this last one. Other drivers on the road are perfect evidence for how retarded some people in this world are. Nearly all drivers have had an experience with a bad driver, and some of us thinking "Hell yeah man!" are probably guilty of being bad drivers in their own regard. I'm not saying that I'm a perfect driver because I do make mistakes, but I'm not one of those drivers that makes those kind of ass backwards mistakes that some people seem to make. A few days ago when I was on the road, I had a person cut me off twice in a row because he was trying to pass up the car in front of him. Excuse me, but last I checked, you're not the only person driving on the road; don't act like it. There's also those drivers that don't make mistakes but just do things that are generally annoying. For example, those drivers that drive the speed limit while in the fast lane. Sorry, but the fast lane has its unofficial speed limit set at about 20 mph above the official one. Its just simple little annoyances like these that happen whenever I go driving that makes me hate it.
I think the world would probably be a better place if everyone only used cars for necessary trips, like ones that are above 5 miles or require you to carry a load. All other trips can be done by walking or biking. Just think of the benefits of it; it would help our nations obesity problem and eventually people wouldn't complain because the walking would help shave off pounds and the extra effort wouldn't effect them cause they'd grow muscles and begin to become accustomed to walking. Sure, people would have to leave earlier in order to be on time, but that's not really a problem for most people. Making the workday start later on would also help ease the problem. Also, just think of the effects on the environment. As much as our government tries to deny it, the consumption of fossil fules is adding to the hole in the o-zone layer which is causing global warming. Any lowering of fossil fuels being consumed would help the environment. Our dependence on cars in this world is sickening, and I for one will begin cutting down on my car usage and start to ride my skateboard around more.
First off, I really hate red lights. Unless they are at a very busy intersection, then I find them to be a complete waste of time. I wonder how much of my life I've wasted waiting for that random red light to change to green. So many red lights are unnecessary. There's this one red light close to my house that is red nearly all the time I pass it up. The intersection it is at is basically frequented by about 5 or so cars a minute. Its the perfect example of a red light that should not be there. A stop sign would easily suffice as a replacement, but instead, I find myself waiting for the light to change every single time. Its not a quick transition from red to green either. It takes a few seconds for the light to change to green. You may think that a few seconds is almost nothing and that I'm just exaggerating my anguish, but everything all adds up. I think thats one of the things in society today that people always forget. Seconds spent adds up to minutes and eventually days. Just picture yourself spending a whole day at a stoplight. Stuck forever at the mercy of a single red light.
The price of gas is also one of the reasons why I don't like driving. I drive a 2000 Honda Civic, which is supposed to be a pretty good car when it comes to gas mileage. Yet whenever I go to the gas station, I pop in 20 dollars and it only fills my gas tank up halfway. We can probably thank our current president for this situation, due to his war. But another problem is that it seems like people aren't really making an effort to stop using gasoline. Our government has so much money rooted into the car and gasoline industry, that they're probably never going to make the logical decision to pour money into developing new possibilities for fuel.
Another thing that I dislike about driving is that, if you have a car, you find yourself being the person that has to drive around everyone that doesn't have a car. I usually don't have a problem with this because it doesn't really matter to me, but sometimes it gets out of hand. I don't like being depended on for giving people a ride, and I don't like having people just assume that I'm going to pick them up and drive them. I don't want to be known as just a chauffeur. It makes me think that the only reason I get invited to events is because I have a car and I can bring people to the event.
I can live with all these reasons though, if not for this last one. Other drivers on the road are perfect evidence for how retarded some people in this world are. Nearly all drivers have had an experience with a bad driver, and some of us thinking "Hell yeah man!" are probably guilty of being bad drivers in their own regard. I'm not saying that I'm a perfect driver because I do make mistakes, but I'm not one of those drivers that makes those kind of ass backwards mistakes that some people seem to make. A few days ago when I was on the road, I had a person cut me off twice in a row because he was trying to pass up the car in front of him. Excuse me, but last I checked, you're not the only person driving on the road; don't act like it. There's also those drivers that don't make mistakes but just do things that are generally annoying. For example, those drivers that drive the speed limit while in the fast lane. Sorry, but the fast lane has its unofficial speed limit set at about 20 mph above the official one. Its just simple little annoyances like these that happen whenever I go driving that makes me hate it.
I think the world would probably be a better place if everyone only used cars for necessary trips, like ones that are above 5 miles or require you to carry a load. All other trips can be done by walking or biking. Just think of the benefits of it; it would help our nations obesity problem and eventually people wouldn't complain because the walking would help shave off pounds and the extra effort wouldn't effect them cause they'd grow muscles and begin to become accustomed to walking. Sure, people would have to leave earlier in order to be on time, but that's not really a problem for most people. Making the workday start later on would also help ease the problem. Also, just think of the effects on the environment. As much as our government tries to deny it, the consumption of fossil fules is adding to the hole in the o-zone layer which is causing global warming. Any lowering of fossil fuels being consumed would help the environment. Our dependence on cars in this world is sickening, and I for one will begin cutting down on my car usage and start to ride my skateboard around more.
Thursday, October 2, 2008
The week in review.
Yesterday was probably one of the most eventful days I've had this school year. My school had its annual Al Fresco celebration, which is basically a little festival where each club, greek society, and scholarly department at the school sets up a table and tries to spread information about their group. It's a really cool thing because its more like a party than a school event. This year we actually had some decent artists perform at our school, that being Talib Kweli and David Banner.
This year though, I actually got to help out at one of the tables. Nerdy as it may sound, I helped out at the Anime club's table this year and I had a real fun time with it. I brought along my guitar and played a little and I got to meet alot of new people that seemed like they would come and join our club. Also got to see all of my old friends from the club which was a plus.
My main mission for the day though, was to get information about the frat that I'm going to rush for this quarter. I went over to their table and talked to the girl handing out the flyers, and she said they were having an information night that very night at 7:30. So I got a flyer and I was like "yes mission accomplished".
Info night was pretty cool though. Met alot of new people there. Its kind of hard for me to meet new people since I'm not really that great of a talker, but I found it really easy to get along with the people at the info night. I also got to meet a few of the other guys and gals that could be pledging along with me. In all, I had a really good time and I thought the night as going to stop there. . .
. . .but it didn't. I was about to leave the info night, when one of the guys there asked us if we wanted to go to Chevy's and eat dinner there with the PASA club from our school. I was like "sure why not" since I hadn't had dinner yet and it would have also been a good way to get to know the guys better. We got there and ordered our food and it was pretty good, and we just hung out there for awhile. Then one of the guys had a pretty random urge to go running, so we decided we'd go running. We went to his house, and I swear, he has one of the best views in all of Hayward. From his backyard, you can see alot of SF and other parts of the Bay Area. Really quite beautiful. So we drove back to the school and went out to the track to go running at 11:30pm. It was pretty fun though, because the temperature was really cool late that night, and also we saw some deer while running. In all, the night was pretty cool.
Well this Saturday, I went to SF to go hangout with my girlfriend. We stayed at her house for awhile, then we went to go meet up with our friend Noreen and some of her friends. Noreens one of those people I met from online, so seeing her is always a fun experience. Technically I met my girlfriend online also, but we hardly even spoke online before we started dating lol. Well we went to dinner at Westfield mall in SF and had some interesting moments with my hamburger. I put too many condiments on it, so it got really soggy and ended up falling apart on me. Well after dinner, I took my gf back to her house. Sucks cause its gonna be the last time I see her for two weeks. Oh well, waiting has always been one of my strong points so hopefully I can last.
From SF, I drove to my friend Jaime's house since his birthday was on wednesday. All of us had school on wednesday, so we decided to celebrate on Saturday. We ended up playing a board game for a little bit at his house, then we drove all the way to Sacramento to go pick up our other friend. Then we drove back to Woodland to go get some food from Sonics, and then we drove back to Sacramento. Crazy night though. Laughed so hard it hurt. Keywords to remember : "Nigga are you gay?"//"Flip him over flip him over!"//. Ahh good times but yeah, we ended up staying the night in Sacramento. Drove back at around 1 the next day, ate a hella good breakfast at Red Robins. We kept on getting refills for our drinks and refills on our fries, and our burgers were insane delicious. It filled us up all the way till dinner time. Well I got home at around 2, and I took a nap until around 7.
I actually got alot accomplished this weekend. I got batteries for my wireless mouse, I got business attire clothes for my pinning on tuesday, I got my N64 games and controllers for the dorm. Those 3 things were the missions I set out prior to the weekend. Also this weekend, I got my halloween costume from Christine as well as talked to her for awhile, and I also sent in my application for an absentee ballot so I can vote in this years election. Today was pretty nice also, since my friend let me have a few pages from her lab notebook so I can turn in the assignments, and I also received my chem book in the mail today. I cashed in the check from selling my old chem book also, so I made a quick 100 bucks from that. About the only thing I didn't accomplish this weekend was that I didn't get a stuffed scooby doo as the final part to my halloween costume. Oh well, I'm geting that this weekend so its all going to begin to fall into place.
This year though, I actually got to help out at one of the tables. Nerdy as it may sound, I helped out at the Anime club's table this year and I had a real fun time with it. I brought along my guitar and played a little and I got to meet alot of new people that seemed like they would come and join our club. Also got to see all of my old friends from the club which was a plus.
My main mission for the day though, was to get information about the frat that I'm going to rush for this quarter. I went over to their table and talked to the girl handing out the flyers, and she said they were having an information night that very night at 7:30. So I got a flyer and I was like "yes mission accomplished".
Info night was pretty cool though. Met alot of new people there. Its kind of hard for me to meet new people since I'm not really that great of a talker, but I found it really easy to get along with the people at the info night. I also got to meet a few of the other guys and gals that could be pledging along with me. In all, I had a really good time and I thought the night as going to stop there. . .
. . .but it didn't. I was about to leave the info night, when one of the guys there asked us if we wanted to go to Chevy's and eat dinner there with the PASA club from our school. I was like "sure why not" since I hadn't had dinner yet and it would have also been a good way to get to know the guys better. We got there and ordered our food and it was pretty good, and we just hung out there for awhile. Then one of the guys had a pretty random urge to go running, so we decided we'd go running. We went to his house, and I swear, he has one of the best views in all of Hayward. From his backyard, you can see alot of SF and other parts of the Bay Area. Really quite beautiful. So we drove back to the school and went out to the track to go running at 11:30pm. It was pretty fun though, because the temperature was really cool late that night, and also we saw some deer while running. In all, the night was pretty cool.
Well this Saturday, I went to SF to go hangout with my girlfriend. We stayed at her house for awhile, then we went to go meet up with our friend Noreen and some of her friends. Noreens one of those people I met from online, so seeing her is always a fun experience. Technically I met my girlfriend online also, but we hardly even spoke online before we started dating lol. Well we went to dinner at Westfield mall in SF and had some interesting moments with my hamburger. I put too many condiments on it, so it got really soggy and ended up falling apart on me. Well after dinner, I took my gf back to her house. Sucks cause its gonna be the last time I see her for two weeks. Oh well, waiting has always been one of my strong points so hopefully I can last.
From SF, I drove to my friend Jaime's house since his birthday was on wednesday. All of us had school on wednesday, so we decided to celebrate on Saturday. We ended up playing a board game for a little bit at his house, then we drove all the way to Sacramento to go pick up our other friend. Then we drove back to Woodland to go get some food from Sonics, and then we drove back to Sacramento. Crazy night though. Laughed so hard it hurt. Keywords to remember : "Nigga are you gay?"//"Flip him over flip him over!"//. Ahh good times but yeah, we ended up staying the night in Sacramento. Drove back at around 1 the next day, ate a hella good breakfast at Red Robins. We kept on getting refills for our drinks and refills on our fries, and our burgers were insane delicious. It filled us up all the way till dinner time. Well I got home at around 2, and I took a nap until around 7.
I actually got alot accomplished this weekend. I got batteries for my wireless mouse, I got business attire clothes for my pinning on tuesday, I got my N64 games and controllers for the dorm. Those 3 things were the missions I set out prior to the weekend. Also this weekend, I got my halloween costume from Christine as well as talked to her for awhile, and I also sent in my application for an absentee ballot so I can vote in this years election. Today was pretty nice also, since my friend let me have a few pages from her lab notebook so I can turn in the assignments, and I also received my chem book in the mail today. I cashed in the check from selling my old chem book also, so I made a quick 100 bucks from that. About the only thing I didn't accomplish this weekend was that I didn't get a stuffed scooby doo as the final part to my halloween costume. Oh well, I'm geting that this weekend so its all going to begin to fall into place.
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Stop staring at me in the bathroom
Last night at around 1am, I got up to go use the bathroom. I opened up the door and closed it, but before I got down to my business I noticed some crunching noises outside the bathroom window. I live on the first floor, so my first thought was "someones walking around in the back of our dorms, probably a thief or peeping tom" . But as I stood there for a little while analyzing the sound in my head, I noticed that the sound never drifted closer or farther. I thought that this was peculiar because people don't walk in place. So I proceeded to do my business and flushed the toilet, hoping the noise would scare off whatever it was outside. But as the swooshing from the toilet subsided, the crunching noises stayed the same. I knew that if I raised the curtain and looked out the window, whatever it was outside would see me and probably react in a negative manner. So I turned off the lights and opened up the door, but instead of walking out, I remained in the now pitch dark bathroom. I figured the darkness would give me a bit of camouflage from whoever was outside. I stepped to the window and raised the curtain a little so I could peek outside. I surveyed the area and I couldn't see a thing; looked both left and right. I thought that this was weird because the crunching noise seemed to come from right outside my window. I took one last look, when all of a sudden a good sized deer walked out from the bushes about 5 feet in front of my window. Imagine my wonder at being this close to an animal that I usually only see when I'm swerving around it in my car. This animal did not notice (or maybe it just didn't care about me) my presence and continued to go about its business biting away at the berries on the bush. I stood there observing the deer for a little while, until I realized that if one of my roommates walked into the bathroom, it would have been one of those awkward turtle moments, so I took a final look and walked away. When I climbed into bed that night, I felt relived that it wasn't a thief outside my window, yet I also felt guilty because I'm imposing on the deer's living spaces. I'm thinking about hanging a salty treat out on that bush for the deer to munch on, yet that might backfire, because I don't want to wake up to an entire herd of deer waiting outside my bathroom window.
As for my life outside the bathroom, everythings going alright. My classes aren't as hard as I thought and I've made a few new friends. Theres been a few crazy stuff that's happened here at the dorms, but that's a story for some other time. Till next time,
As for my life outside the bathroom, everythings going alright. My classes aren't as hard as I thought and I've made a few new friends. Theres been a few crazy stuff that's happened here at the dorms, but that's a story for some other time. Till next time,
Monday, September 29, 2008
Whatever happened to the bass?
The bass guitar is turning into one of the least known instruments of this era of music. It seems like its just fading off this planet. I've had friends come over my house, take a look at my bass guitar, and go "wow awesome guitar!". It makes me cringe a little on the inside because I don't know if they really know its a bass guitar or if they just see a stringed instrument and assume its an electric guitar. I admit that they do look similar, but to me its pretty easy to determine that a bass guitar is both longer and usually has less strings than a normal electric guitar. But seeing some of my friends unable to tell what a bass guitar is just tells me that the role the bass guitar has in music is fading away.
Can you name a band in popular music today, where you can truly say that the bass guitar is a defining aspect of their sound? Sadly I can only name a few, for example RHCP's Flea is probably one of the most influential bassists of this day. Usually in music today, the sound of a bass guitar is almost nonexistant. The bass guitar is always there, but it just gets covered up by everything else. If you can get past the layers of loud, distorted guitar, and whiny vocals, then you can find the soft sound of the bass guitar. And heres the kicker; usually the bass guitar is really a plain and simple bassline that consists of a repetition of one or two notes. Whats wrong with the bassists in these bands? The bass guitar is one of the most diverse instruments I can think of because of all the different sounds and beats that come out of it. It just disturbs me to see the bassists in these bands today being really uncreative about the music that they play. Playing bass guitar in that way is really boring to me; I prefer slapping and popping because its fun to play and it sounds funky, unlike the droning sound that bassists usually play in rock songs.
Bleh two rants in a row. I'll continue with the posts about my life in the next few posts
Can you name a band in popular music today, where you can truly say that the bass guitar is a defining aspect of their sound? Sadly I can only name a few, for example RHCP's Flea is probably one of the most influential bassists of this day. Usually in music today, the sound of a bass guitar is almost nonexistant. The bass guitar is always there, but it just gets covered up by everything else. If you can get past the layers of loud, distorted guitar, and whiny vocals, then you can find the soft sound of the bass guitar. And heres the kicker; usually the bass guitar is really a plain and simple bassline that consists of a repetition of one or two notes. Whats wrong with the bassists in these bands? The bass guitar is one of the most diverse instruments I can think of because of all the different sounds and beats that come out of it. It just disturbs me to see the bassists in these bands today being really uncreative about the music that they play. Playing bass guitar in that way is really boring to me; I prefer slapping and popping because its fun to play and it sounds funky, unlike the droning sound that bassists usually play in rock songs.
Bleh two rants in a row. I'll continue with the posts about my life in the next few posts
Sunday, September 28, 2008
A Helpful Innovation?
On this lazy Sunday afternoon, I found myself, like many other people, watching football on TV. But this post isn't about a certain football game or team or play. Its about a certain commercial that I saw while watching one of the games today. I forget which car company it was for, but the general idea of the commercial was a car sitting in the center of a large and dark room. On the walls of this room, were countless numbers of clocks all ticking away towards 12. And once these clocks hit 12, they all rang out at the same time. Except, right before you hear the noise of the clocks, the camera zooms inside of the car and all you hear is silence. And thats basically the whole commercial. Guess its supposed to market the innovation of how its supposed to be super quiet inside of the car. Tell me this, how is that supposed to be beneficial? I mean, seriously, the only reason you would want the inside of your car to be completely silent is if you're super narcissistic and you just want to drive in your own little world. I mean, you need to be able to hear other cars when you're out on the road. You need to be able to hear those honks and especially you need to hear sirens. I almost never see an ambulance or fire truck before I hear it, so I like being able to hear everything. I just think its one of the stupidest ideas ever to try and make the inside of a car to be soundproof, because one of the things they always tell you in driving school is to always be aware of your senses, and always listen up for things. Its as if the car company wants you to crash lol. . .
Sorry for the random rant. I just felt like I needed to post something haha. . .
Sorry for the random rant. I just felt like I needed to post something haha. . .
Monday, September 22, 2008
New Living Spaces
Ahh sorry for the lack of updates recently guys. You see, I've been pretty busy these past few days because schools starting up really soon and I had to move into the dorms. This is my second year living in the dorms, so the transition this time went a lot smoother than last year. Last year I ended up forgetting a lot of my things, but this year the only thing I forgot to bring was my wireless mouse. My roommates this year are pretty cool also.
For the past few days, I've just been hanging out and meeting new people, typical dorm stuff. I'll probably update this again when I have even more interesting stuff to talk about.
For the past few days, I've just been hanging out and meeting new people, typical dorm stuff. I'll probably update this again when I have even more interesting stuff to talk about.
Thursday, September 18, 2008
A Period of Change, or Why I am Voting for Obama
Its that time again and 4 years have come and gone like clockwork. Its once again time to elect a new leader to our country and for the first time ever, I'll be old enough to have my say in who I want to lead this country. This presidential election marks a period of change in America, because no matter which side wins, history will be made. Barack Obama will be the first African-American president or Sarah Palin will be the first female vice president. As much as I can see that if either side wins, its a victory against ethnic and gender based oppression, I cannot find myself being at peace of mind if either side wins.
As you could probably tell from the previous paragraph, I'm young, and hence, I'm supposed to be stupid about politics and not really care. And to be honest, thats pretty correct. Truth is, as much as you hear stories about young people being involved in politics these days, most of us don't really care at all about the core themes that float around a presidential election. We just vote either by parental influence or by how the presidential nominee is portrayed by the media. This presidential election is going to be decided by the votes of people that don't care at all about how our country is run. Scared much America?
This presidential election is also going to be decided by the youth of our country, because of who is running on the Democratic ticket. Whenever I see Barack Obama portrayed in the media, I see him smiling, waving to his supporters, and when I hear him talk, he sounds a bit shaky at first but you get the point hes trying to put across. He gives off that warm, fatherly figure type of glow. Whereas, John McCain is always shown by the media to be serious and hard, while giving off the image of that tough father that doesn't take any shit from anyone. While the latter probably symbolizes traditional American ideals more than the former, don't you think with current feelings about the U.S. in international affairs, we could use someone a bit more, so to speak, friendlier? Obama symbolizes change, while McCain symbolizes just 4 more years of someone slightly better than Bush.
This presidential election isn't just a battle between the two presidential nominees, its also between the two vice presidential nominees. When Obama choose Joe Biden to be his running mate, I think it was something that everyone expected. I think everyone was sort of relieved that Obama picked someone like Biden, because people just literally went "Ok good he has a typical old white male as his running mate. He'll stop Obama if he gets too crazy." Its exactly the kind of vice president that Obama needs so that he doesn't completely alienate middle-class America.
While I see Obama's pick as helping him to win the presidency and benefit the country, I see McCains choice as being one of the most random things ever. When I heard that McCain had choosen a female running mate, my first thought was, "Oh hes just trying to snatch up all of the women voters that otherwise would be voting for Obama. Then, when I saw how Sarah Palin looked like, my next though was (albeit childish), "Wow looks like McCain wants a little vice pres booty". Yes, immature and inappropriate, but ive talked with friends and I'm not the only one that had that thought. Now for more serious discussion, when I heard Palin's credentials, I laughed at them. I've not been much for "political experience", but when you're from Alaska, a state most people stereotype as being a blizzard with friendly eskimos, one can only question how much she really knows about politics. Though all this new evidence has came out about how she really isn't that bad, she still is just that lady from Alaska when it all comes down to it, because like ive said earlier, youth doesn't care about core ideas, we just care about image. And boy has Palin's image been taking a beating. The events I can think of that have shaped Palin's image is the whole "Troopergate" scandal, her daughter being pregnant out of wedlock, and her not knowing about the Bush Doctrine. I do admit though, that two of those three aren't really her fault. I heard people saying about her daughters pregnancy that, "If she can't even manage her family then how can she run the country?" Well her 17 year old daughter got pregnant out of wedlock. Big deal right? In todays society thats not uncommon at all, and I think the only ones that would be truly mad at this are the guys living about 50 years in the past. I mean, come on, times change, get with the program. Everyone isn't as pure as they were in the past. Also, I don't think that people should be getting on her for not knowing what the Bush Doctrine is. I wonder what the results of a poll would be with the question asking "Do you know what the Bush Doctrine is?" Its not something they teach you about in history class like the Monroe or the Roosevelt Doctines, so it's no surprise that nobody knows what it is. Still though, regardless of Palins credentials or her personal life, I don't see her helping out the country. I don't think she really represents a positive change in our country, but if she is elected she will shake things up a bit in the capitol so that can't be all too bad.
Well I hope you guys understand my point of view of this election. I know that most bloggers are all very knowledgeable about politics and they have solid opinions and theories about politics, but this is just a piece of mind from the average person voting in this upcoming election.
P.S. - Points to anyone that got the Rocky and Bullwinkle reference in the title. One of the best cartoons ever.
As you could probably tell from the previous paragraph, I'm young, and hence, I'm supposed to be stupid about politics and not really care. And to be honest, thats pretty correct. Truth is, as much as you hear stories about young people being involved in politics these days, most of us don't really care at all about the core themes that float around a presidential election. We just vote either by parental influence or by how the presidential nominee is portrayed by the media. This presidential election is going to be decided by the votes of people that don't care at all about how our country is run. Scared much America?
This presidential election is also going to be decided by the youth of our country, because of who is running on the Democratic ticket. Whenever I see Barack Obama portrayed in the media, I see him smiling, waving to his supporters, and when I hear him talk, he sounds a bit shaky at first but you get the point hes trying to put across. He gives off that warm, fatherly figure type of glow. Whereas, John McCain is always shown by the media to be serious and hard, while giving off the image of that tough father that doesn't take any shit from anyone. While the latter probably symbolizes traditional American ideals more than the former, don't you think with current feelings about the U.S. in international affairs, we could use someone a bit more, so to speak, friendlier? Obama symbolizes change, while McCain symbolizes just 4 more years of someone slightly better than Bush.
This presidential election isn't just a battle between the two presidential nominees, its also between the two vice presidential nominees. When Obama choose Joe Biden to be his running mate, I think it was something that everyone expected. I think everyone was sort of relieved that Obama picked someone like Biden, because people just literally went "Ok good he has a typical old white male as his running mate. He'll stop Obama if he gets too crazy." Its exactly the kind of vice president that Obama needs so that he doesn't completely alienate middle-class America.
While I see Obama's pick as helping him to win the presidency and benefit the country, I see McCains choice as being one of the most random things ever. When I heard that McCain had choosen a female running mate, my first thought was, "Oh hes just trying to snatch up all of the women voters that otherwise would be voting for Obama. Then, when I saw how Sarah Palin looked like, my next though was (albeit childish), "Wow looks like McCain wants a little vice pres booty". Yes, immature and inappropriate, but ive talked with friends and I'm not the only one that had that thought. Now for more serious discussion, when I heard Palin's credentials, I laughed at them. I've not been much for "political experience", but when you're from Alaska, a state most people stereotype as being a blizzard with friendly eskimos, one can only question how much she really knows about politics. Though all this new evidence has came out about how she really isn't that bad, she still is just that lady from Alaska when it all comes down to it, because like ive said earlier, youth doesn't care about core ideas, we just care about image. And boy has Palin's image been taking a beating. The events I can think of that have shaped Palin's image is the whole "Troopergate" scandal, her daughter being pregnant out of wedlock, and her not knowing about the Bush Doctrine. I do admit though, that two of those three aren't really her fault. I heard people saying about her daughters pregnancy that, "If she can't even manage her family then how can she run the country?" Well her 17 year old daughter got pregnant out of wedlock. Big deal right? In todays society thats not uncommon at all, and I think the only ones that would be truly mad at this are the guys living about 50 years in the past. I mean, come on, times change, get with the program. Everyone isn't as pure as they were in the past. Also, I don't think that people should be getting on her for not knowing what the Bush Doctrine is. I wonder what the results of a poll would be with the question asking "Do you know what the Bush Doctrine is?" Its not something they teach you about in history class like the Monroe or the Roosevelt Doctines, so it's no surprise that nobody knows what it is. Still though, regardless of Palins credentials or her personal life, I don't see her helping out the country. I don't think she really represents a positive change in our country, but if she is elected she will shake things up a bit in the capitol so that can't be all too bad.
Well I hope you guys understand my point of view of this election. I know that most bloggers are all very knowledgeable about politics and they have solid opinions and theories about politics, but this is just a piece of mind from the average person voting in this upcoming election.
P.S. - Points to anyone that got the Rocky and Bullwinkle reference in the title. One of the best cartoons ever.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Shop till I drop
Didn't do much today other than do some college shopping with my mom. I've always found it to be quite the hassle to shop with her because shes really picky, whereas i'm one of those guys that just goes in the store, grabs whatevers needed, and gets out of there. Tell me why my mom has to spend 10 minutes deciding on which lotion to buy for me? My mom told me all the specifics of each brand and she made me smell each one to give it a test. Its lotion, all I want from it is for it to moisturize my skin. As long as it can do that, I don't really care what kind of lotion I get. I believe I ended up getting some kind of aloe vera skin healing lotion, which I find to be useless because its not like my skin needs healing in the first place.
It got even worse when I wanted to buy a set of dishes. Last year at the dorms, my mom only gave me one plate, one cup, and one bowl. She expected me to do my dishes after every single meal. Yeah, riiiight. I ended up using plastic cups as cereal bowls cause having to wash one bowl just for one meal is a pain in the ass. Well at the store, there were many sets of dishes to choose from, but being the king of shopper I am, I saw a set of dishes for 9 dollars. I immediately grabbed them cause its a pretty cheap price for a set of 8 plates. 4 cups, and 4 bowls right? But my mom kept on looking at the other sets of dishes that were about 20-30 dollars more in price because the cups and bowls were bigger than the set I got. I told her I didn't want to pay that much more for something bigger, if I could just refill my cup. We spent about 20 minutes arguing in Target about it before she finally gave in and I ended up getting the 9 dollar set of dishes. I mean, they were smaller and kinda ugly, but theyre for my dorm right? I don't need anything special.
Btw rest in peace Richard Wright. You were one of the greatest keyboardists and listening to all the Pink Floyd albums while growing up really shaped my musical talents today. SO thank you for that and condolences to your family.
It got even worse when I wanted to buy a set of dishes. Last year at the dorms, my mom only gave me one plate, one cup, and one bowl. She expected me to do my dishes after every single meal. Yeah, riiiight. I ended up using plastic cups as cereal bowls cause having to wash one bowl just for one meal is a pain in the ass. Well at the store, there were many sets of dishes to choose from, but being the king of shopper I am, I saw a set of dishes for 9 dollars. I immediately grabbed them cause its a pretty cheap price for a set of 8 plates. 4 cups, and 4 bowls right? But my mom kept on looking at the other sets of dishes that were about 20-30 dollars more in price because the cups and bowls were bigger than the set I got. I told her I didn't want to pay that much more for something bigger, if I could just refill my cup. We spent about 20 minutes arguing in Target about it before she finally gave in and I ended up getting the 9 dollar set of dishes. I mean, they were smaller and kinda ugly, but theyre for my dorm right? I don't need anything special.
Btw rest in peace Richard Wright. You were one of the greatest keyboardists and listening to all the Pink Floyd albums while growing up really shaped my musical talents today. SO thank you for that and condolences to your family.
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
One Step Forward (or should I say pedal?)
Today was the first time that me and my group of friends from high school hung out this whole summer. We went bike riding through Hercules and it was enjoyable because it was the first time I had ridden a bike in a year or two. It really is true how they say you can never forget how to ride a bike; the first few moments are awkward but next thing you know you're riding like a little kid again. Well we rode down the hill to a small shopping center and parked our bikes between a coffee shop and a sandwich shop. Half of us got some fraps, while the other half got sandwiches to eat. And yet more of us went to get some fast food to eat. Eventually we all settled down to eat at some tables near where we put our bikes.
While we were sitting down eating and hanging out for a bit outside of the coffee place, two middle aged men were sitting reading the newspaper at a table near ours. There was alot of insects flying around where we were eating because there was some standing water where we were. These two men started attacking these insects with rolled up newspapers, their fists (one guy punched a wasp that had landed on the wall. hardcore stuff), and even a metal bar. Me and my friend just watched in awe at the spectacle, and we tried to hide our smiles as we continued to watch our free show.
Eventually we finished and we rode our bikes to a nearby park. We found a somewhat shady spot on an island on the side of the lake that was adjacent to the park. One of the things we immediately noticed was the abundance of small fish that were in the lake. I found a hook tied to a fishing line that was probably previously used by some kid hoping to catch a fish and was casually discarded. I tossed this out into the lake to test my own luck, but of course to no avail (probably since the hook was as big as the fishes themself). I did notice that the fish would nibble on the hook when it was in the water and they would even follow the hook when I gently reeled in my line. Me and my friends thought this was neat, so my friend tossed a bit of her leftover sandwich into the water. We all watched with bright eyes as the fish quickly gathered and mobbed the piece of bread. Looking at them was like watching a group of tadpole sized pirana's in a feeding frenzy. Imagine falling in water and having thousands of tadpoles nibbling at you as you struggle to keep afloat. We took a few pictures here and then we took a short detour to a hardware store and to a supermarket, but finally we rode our bikes back to my friends house where we began our ride.
My friend has two house because her family originally planned to give one to relatives but they never did so now they have two houses. Me and my friends sometimes use her other house to hang out in. When we got back there, we were pretty tired from biking all over the place so we decided to play a game of cranium to wind down a bit. I ended up being on my friend Christine's team and we actually did pretty good because we ended up winning the whole thing. I'm really happy me and her are doing good again. We dated for about 5 months, so after we broke up there was the usual awkwardness, but now its like it was before we dated; just friends able to enjoy ones company. Then after that we played a bit of a jeopardy type game about our groups history. Some crazy stuff ensued afterwards but thats stuff I won't need to write down to remember lol. . .
Well we packed up our stuff and we headed over to our other friends house. We watched this really good scary movie there, called The Orphanage, directed by Guillermo del Toro. It was a very well done film because of the storyline and how everything tied in together at the end. Some of the events leaves you confused till the very end of the film and when it all ties together, it makes the film not seem scary at all.
One of the things about today that was interesting was my diet. I literally ate a very small piece of steak, a mocha frap, 2 tacos, a red bull, and countless marshmallows. Its amazing how you can just put the shittiest food items into your body and still have enough energy to stay out till late night. Ever notice how when you're having fun, you never feel pain or hunger? A smile really is the answer to everything.
While we were sitting down eating and hanging out for a bit outside of the coffee place, two middle aged men were sitting reading the newspaper at a table near ours. There was alot of insects flying around where we were eating because there was some standing water where we were. These two men started attacking these insects with rolled up newspapers, their fists (one guy punched a wasp that had landed on the wall. hardcore stuff), and even a metal bar. Me and my friend just watched in awe at the spectacle, and we tried to hide our smiles as we continued to watch our free show.
Eventually we finished and we rode our bikes to a nearby park. We found a somewhat shady spot on an island on the side of the lake that was adjacent to the park. One of the things we immediately noticed was the abundance of small fish that were in the lake. I found a hook tied to a fishing line that was probably previously used by some kid hoping to catch a fish and was casually discarded. I tossed this out into the lake to test my own luck, but of course to no avail (probably since the hook was as big as the fishes themself). I did notice that the fish would nibble on the hook when it was in the water and they would even follow the hook when I gently reeled in my line. Me and my friends thought this was neat, so my friend tossed a bit of her leftover sandwich into the water. We all watched with bright eyes as the fish quickly gathered and mobbed the piece of bread. Looking at them was like watching a group of tadpole sized pirana's in a feeding frenzy. Imagine falling in water and having thousands of tadpoles nibbling at you as you struggle to keep afloat. We took a few pictures here and then we took a short detour to a hardware store and to a supermarket, but finally we rode our bikes back to my friends house where we began our ride.
My friend has two house because her family originally planned to give one to relatives but they never did so now they have two houses. Me and my friends sometimes use her other house to hang out in. When we got back there, we were pretty tired from biking all over the place so we decided to play a game of cranium to wind down a bit. I ended up being on my friend Christine's team and we actually did pretty good because we ended up winning the whole thing. I'm really happy me and her are doing good again. We dated for about 5 months, so after we broke up there was the usual awkwardness, but now its like it was before we dated; just friends able to enjoy ones company. Then after that we played a bit of a jeopardy type game about our groups history. Some crazy stuff ensued afterwards but thats stuff I won't need to write down to remember lol. . .
Well we packed up our stuff and we headed over to our other friends house. We watched this really good scary movie there, called The Orphanage, directed by Guillermo del Toro. It was a very well done film because of the storyline and how everything tied in together at the end. Some of the events leaves you confused till the very end of the film and when it all ties together, it makes the film not seem scary at all.
One of the things about today that was interesting was my diet. I literally ate a very small piece of steak, a mocha frap, 2 tacos, a red bull, and countless marshmallows. Its amazing how you can just put the shittiest food items into your body and still have enough energy to stay out till late night. Ever notice how when you're having fun, you never feel pain or hunger? A smile really is the answer to everything.
Sunday, September 14, 2008
First Day
Well this is going to be the first time I'm actually going to be using one of these blogging sites. I did have a xanga site before, but those were during my angsty teenage years and about 80% of the posts there consisted of "yeah this sucks" and "why wont anyone talk to me". A special thanks to all my high school friends that never told me how emo I was back in the day. A month or two ago, my friend told me I should re-read all of my old xanga posts, and I found it to be quite interesting, yet depressing at the same time. I wish I had documented my high school days with more detail, because looking back on all those old posts barely evoked any memories of howI used to be. So today I'm starting this blog just as a way to keep track of time, to act as a sort of time capsule for my life. My main goal for this blog is to look back on it in 10 years and know exactly how I felt that day.
Well my other goals for this blog are to just provide my thoughts on several aspects of todays society and also to just randomly say stuff, but hopefully not as incoherently as I did in the past.
Usually in these first posts, people give little intros about themselves, but i've decided not to do this, because I think it'll be funner for you to piece me together as you read my posts. Have fun putting this puzzle together.
Well my other goals for this blog are to just provide my thoughts on several aspects of todays society and also to just randomly say stuff, but hopefully not as incoherently as I did in the past.
Usually in these first posts, people give little intros about themselves, but i've decided not to do this, because I think it'll be funner for you to piece me together as you read my posts. Have fun putting this puzzle together.
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