Mike's Random Babbles and Thoughts

2004-06-24T18:58:00.000-07:00

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2004-06-24T18:57:00.000-07:00

blah blah blah

2002-09-20T10:27:00.000-07:00

go to xanga.com and look for sn: horizon438

cuz i've made the switch.

2002-09-04T00:29:00.000-07:00

did i mention mr. big is awesome?! hahah...aidan and carrie broke up..woohoo!!! i couldnt stand aidan!

2002-09-03T22:25:00.000-07:00

What a crazy but fun weekend. Took friday off from work so I can haul ass up to LA on thurs nite to get some last minute practice in. But unfortunately, good ol charley had to hang with the wifey..so we didnt get to play til 12am. Crazy u say..well, aparently half of the asians in san gabriel were crazy too..cuz i was expecting us to be the only ones crazy enough to play at midnite on a week day, but apparently, everyone else wanted to play too. So we got a couple of games in to just sorta warm ourselves up. We got home around 3am ready to wake up in 2 and a half hrs to drive from diamond bar to LAX.

We actually made it to the airport with time to take a nap on the bench, so that we did. Upon getting in to San Jo...wyman, one of my bros was nice enough to pick us up and drive us BACK to oakland to pick up a rental car. To make a long story short, we got the car, and hung out with Charley's brother, and his girlfriend, BeeBee for the rest of the nite. We played some more badminton on friday nite with the Cal badminton club..and then headed to fremont afterwards to sleep at my house. Saturday rolled around....watched BeeBee play A MIXED with her coach..fuckin nuts...they won 1st place with no problems...he was hella good and so was BeeBee.. CONGRATS BeeBee! We actually made it to dinner at Houston's in the city too...hella good prime rib and we dined like kings and queens..haha. Then I met up with Wyman at Ibiza for clubbing tat nite, it was a big ol mess trying to get in , but we finally did get in and that place was freakin packed! I think a LITTLE too many people...anyhow, didnt stay long, said hi to a couple of friends, wished a couple bdays, bought people a couple drinks..and we were outta there like a bat outta hell..cuz we had to wake up at 7 the next morning for the tournament. Saw Della there, said hi, bye..that was it. We got home around 3...chilled a lil and head to bed only to be waken up by the alarm 4 hrs later.

Crawled outta bed..went to tournament...freakin saw hella familiar faces..like people from hs and a bunch of new faces. Funny thing is...I saw my old hs coach there...and apparently he is now coaching elsewhere..and i got to play him in B doubles...what a coincidence...haha Anyhow, we did pretty decent before losing to some old farts.. =P We played well in B's..and not so hot in Cs...blah. Cant explain it, just weird. We even hung with my coach til they pulled away late in the 1st game. Argh...it woulda been nice if we can beat my coach..haha He was playing with one of his tall ass students..the dood's like 6'4"! Anyhow, we watched Chad play til 11pm and we basically called it a nite cuz we were so screwed from waking up at like 7am on avg for the last 3 days...

It was nice to finally come home to diamond bar on monday morning though. Just relaxed the rest of the day...took a phatty nap when i got home and finally mustered up enough energy to drive home to SD...whew..what a nice weekend. Had lots of fun and looking to do it again some time soon! Nov? =)

2002-08-28T17:24:00.000-07:00

Geez, only got about 5hrs worth of sleep last nite, sorta my own fault..and sorta YOUR FAULT...ALICE! =P haha, j/p...i shoulda quit it with the nerd badminton talk early and head to bed, but i'm just a lil too excited about the tournament as you might of noticed. Thanks for the g luck wish though, charley and i are gonna need it for sures.Yea, so I'm going up to norcal this weekend..should be a fun trip regardless of what happens at the tournament. Its also two people's bdays..so i forsee a very packed weekend with too many things to do and so little time.

So what else is new in the S and the C world....errr...well, i've managed to get a hold of pirated copies of season 4 on the computer, so i've been watching those on and off for the last 3 nites...I'm up to episode 11 out of 18...its still as good as the first episode, but i just wished carrie would get back with Mr. Big..cuz i think Aidan(sp?) is just a lil too overbearing..and insecure sometimes. Aiight, gotta finish my rxns so i can get outta here and take some pics for fran. ciao

2002-08-25T01:55:00.000-07:00

Alright ladies, this is the day you've guys have all been waiting for!!! I'm about to post a list of numbers that you'll never wanna forget, it'll be your best friend at the next social function that you attend and feel overwhelmed by the drunk, octopus-handed(touchy) guy sitting next to you at the bar. (On the contrary, I guess this list of numbers will help the guys with the girl dats just got the "nice" personality to her too...hehe) LADIES AND GENTLEMEN...I give you the REJECT HOTLINE!!!!!

These are the numbers that gives out the message... "YOU'VE BEEN REJECTED" after the person you give it to wait that one or two day grace period before they call you back..hehe side note, just dont try it on me buster..cuz I've got them memorized...hahaha j/k

Boston: 617-658-7083
Los Angeles: 310-217-7638
San Francisco: 415-356-9833
Atlanta: 770-908-7383
Charlotte: 704-559-4169
Chicago: 773-509-5096
Cleveland: 216-556-0051
Denver: 303-575-1696
Las Vegas: 702-387-2619
Miami: 305-460-3285
Seattle: 206-781-3928
Washington, DC: 202-452-7468

2002-08-22T14:17:00.000-07:00
Yea.....7% only...thats always a good thing, no?

2002-08-22T14:16:00.000-07:00

You are 7% geek
OK, so maybe you ain't a geek. You do, at least, show a bit of interest in the world around you. Either that, or you have enough of a sense of humor to pick some of the sillier answers on the test. Regardless, you're probably a pretty nifty, well-rounded person who gets along fine with people and can chat with just about anyone without fear of looking stupid or foolish or overly concerned with minutiae. God, I hate you.

Take the Polygeek Quiz at Thudfactor.com

2002-08-21T14:28:00.000-07:00
Its funny how when you first talk to someone in a long while that you have so much to talk about to just sorta catch up, but it also brings back a flood of memories, some good, some bad...sorta like a cloudy windy day in San Diego 'cept it hasnt rained yet...yah yah, sorta confusing, but I think thats what I feel like after talking to Nelle last nite. Its also weird how you can sense a lot of common ground by reading or staring at a random person's website....you share that same emotion, or know how that person feels at a particular event in their lives. I dunno, its just mere coincidence? or am i just weird?! haha

But yea, to answer Nelle's question of wanting to be a winner. Sure, it'd be nice to be the winner from time to time, no one really like always being the loser, do they? I guess the only thing is to never really give up on what you believe in, and to tell the truth, i dont think i've ever given up just yet. I think whatever has happened is in the past, and each passing day is a brand new day, right? Anyhow, it was nice to chat with Nelle, cuz she's the only one that ever makes AIM archive our conversations cuz its too damn long..hahah Anyways, lets go to Bucca di Beppo in SD...that place is damn good! woohoo

Alright..need to get back to reality...work is hectic, its killing me...its kicking my ass...literally

Oh..another thing...Charley and I are playing in the Bay Area Open Badminton Tournament come labor day...we've entered B and C men doubles...lets just hope we dont get our ass kicked...haha Should be fun...anyone wanna play mixed with me?! =D

2002-08-19T01:30:00.000-07:00
http://caffeine.iem.nctu.edu.tw/~far/KISS.asf

now THAT is love for ya...its an old korean music video....you dont need to know korean to understand it..wow...pretty touching...

2002-08-19T01:11:00.000-07:00
too funny frank..too funny...

Signs That You Are Too Drunk

1. You lose arguments with inanimate objects.
2. You have to hold onto the lawn to keep from falling off the earth.
3. Job interfering with your drinking.
4. Your doctor finds traces of blood in your alcohol stream.
5. Career won't progress beyond Senator from Massachusetts.
6. The back of your head keeps getting hit by the toilet seat.
7. Sincerely believe alcohol to be the elusive 5th food group.
8. 24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case - coincidence?? - I think not!
9. Two hands and just one mouth... - now THAT'S a drinking problem!
10. You can focus better with one eye closed.
11. The parking lot seems to have moved while you were in the bar.
12. You fall off the floor...
13. Your twin sons are named Barley and Hops.
14. Hey, 5 beers has just as many calories as a burger, screw dinner!
15. Mosquitoes catch a buzz after attacking you
16. At AA meetings you begin: "Hi, my name is... uh..."
17. Your idea of cutting back is less salt.
18. The whole bar says 'Hi' when you come in...
19. You think the Four Basic Food Groups are Caffeine, Nicotine, Alcohol, and Women
20. Every night you're beginning to find your roommate's cat more and more attractive.
21. Roseanne looks good.
22. Don't recognize wife unless seen through bottom of glass.
23. That stupid pink elephant followed me home again.
24. "I'm as jober as a sudge."
25. The shrubbery's drunk from too frequent watering.
26. You wake up screaming "TORO TORO TORO!" in the middle of the night.

2002-08-16T12:10:00.000-07:00
Found this on another friend's site. Damn i'm an optimist?

My Romance Meter

Optimist 65%
. .
35% Cynic

Close 68%
. .
32% Distant
Long Term 43%
. .
57% Brief
What does my romance meter read?

2002-08-14T01:13:00.000-07:00
I think one of my close friends has a problem with commitment, or has a misunderstanding of what a committed relationship should include. *Bob has always had a fear about his past, i mean I must admit that he is a good guy, he's just made some poor decisions in his love life....never wanting to really bother with a committed relationship, he just sorta played around a bit. Of course a lot of the time I sorta wondered if he was the "perfect asshole" (see prev entries) that some girls wanted so much of...but mostly, i wondered how he can be such a dick to girls? Its sorta like.....hit it, drop it, kick it away like its hot. Hell, he even went international if you catch my drift. Anyhow, he's now sorta insecure about his past towards his gf now. He's always reminding the close friends not to ever say anything...i mean honestly, all this stuff before the gf now should be no big deal..he never killed no one, he might of traumatized some..but hell...he was just being a young guy. If your reading this BOB....lighten up, talk to your girlfriend about it so you dont always have to live in the shadow of your fears...wats a committed relationship if you cant be yourself and you cant let everything out in the open. She might give you a beating, but at least you're not hiding anything. Oh ok..in a lil defense to BOB.....girlfriend, you gotta lighten up too...BOB in very much in love with you now so dont trip about his past...its not a long rap sheet, but understand he was with other girls before you...lighten up as well, you guys are a good match for each other.

2002-08-14T00:26:00.000-07:00
Its happening again...its twitching againnnnnnn!!!! O_o o_O 0_o wats wrong with meee!!?? weird neruons firing at the wrong times..haha..oh, one more thing..at least my prayers has been answered.. =)

2002-08-13T17:06:00.000-07:00
So whats this thing with twitching eyebrows? Does it mean that someone is thinking of you if your eyebrow twitches? or does it mean something bad's gonna happen to you soon? Well, regardless of what happens, I'm either in someone's daylong fantasies or I'm gonna die soon...cuz my eyelid's been twitching at least twice a day for the last 3 days!! Odd isnt it?

So I'm beginning to think that Sex and the City can only be pretty damn fictional, how many guys/girls date like a new person every other week? Every episode, Miranda ( the gal with the lazy ovary and dates oddballs), Charlotte (the submissive, innocent-minded, good at tantric massages), and Samantha (the sex addict that has done it all and knows it all, sorta like the fantasy girlfriend boys dream about these days) has a different guy that they're involved with...No wonder they've run out of guys to sleep with in NYC already!! For chrissakes...i'm only on the 2nd season too...and they're on the 5th season on HBO already!

Oh yeah, so I need to address this one thing that bothers me after watching S and the C. So why is it that girls/boy STILL play games when they're well into their twenties, I mean can a relationship NOT go right if you dont play games. I understand that its all about the game in the beginning, but if you're relationship is just solely game-based, doesnt it get dulled after a while. So anyhow, everyone plays the occasionally phone tag. There's an unspoken rule that if you call once or twice and the girl/guy doesnt pick up, then you shouldnt call again til they do call you back after you've left a msg...how sad is that? So if its your luck that they dont somehow receive your missed calls or msg, you've basically blew yourself off already. Another case in point, so what if the girl's expect the guy to keep calling, but yet the guy is sorta hesistant to keep on calling cuz he doesnt wanna bug the shiet out of the girl? Well, anyhow...I just dont like playing games all the time. =) Games are fun, but someone's bound to lose some time. haha Looking forward to this weekend, hope our plans goes through.

o yea, I've managed to scan in all the pics for the National Cabinet, take a look ladies...if you look and you're a dood..u're gay! hahah O...and if the ladies want some 411...contact me and i'll forward the msg..hehe Damn, i can make a business out of this.

http://www.shutterfly.com/osi.jsp?i=67b0de21b30428eca42b

2002-08-09T01:10:00.000-07:00
yea...cant believe i've given in to the whole craze about watching Sex and the City....I've finished the whole first season in a battle of two nites...not exactly half bad i must say, shines a light on why girls can act the way they act around men...doesnt make it right or wrong all the time, but at least i know why they do the things they do now...I'll explain later.

goin back to taiwan this xmas...need to get back in touch with my culture..and i think i wanna do a photojournalistic project when I get back there..sorta to capture the sights and scenes of taiwan..how it looks now. Anyone think its a good idea? Leave me a nice msg then! =)

2002-08-06T00:00:00.000-07:00
What a crazy weekend...it had its good parts and it had its bad parts. The flight to norcal wasnt so bad at all, just read my newspaper and my maxim..and I was there in a quick jiffy. Since I ended up goin to oakland instead of SF, i had my lovely lil sis edna pick me up so we can chill for the nite before I checked into SF Holiday Inn. We had a blast on friday nite, we first went over to her new studio that she shares with her bf ...which is an awesome pad by the way...and I watched her get ready to go partying. During that time, I also visited Angela, another of the Taus cuz she lived 2 doors down. =) Everyone was goin to head to Glas Kat to celebrate Jame's( berk lambda) bday as well as Dennis' (davis paphi) bday. Lemme tell ya, I'm pretty darn sure they both woke up with a pounding headache. =) OH YEA, and before that, we met up with wyman to eat at Venture Frog's which was where the SF lambdas threw the party for NAtionals. We stayed a bit, but decided to goto glas kat. OH, and I also saw my other awesome lil sis Cindy! =) HAvent seen her in ages cuz she's now MARRIED! =P But yea...I finally checked into the hotel at like 3AM...I see 3 people passed the freak out in the room, so i figured i'm in the right now....but since Drizzle was spreadeagled on the bed, i decided to just crash on the ground! Lil did I know, 20 min after i crashed.....tonka comes walking in...and kicked me accidentally while getting into bed...we had no idea why there was 5 people in the room..but i was too tired to find out.

Saturday...woke up early..had meeting from 9-6 with lunch in between...got ready for bonfire...went to bonfire with Darren and Adolf....stayed there for quite a while, Matt kept talking ish for me not drinking..i was already drunk downing that BACARDI..bastard..ehe, but its all good, he's brotherhood chair, so he has to talk ish. NExt time matt..next time! MEt a few kdphis here and there..then took off to 550 for the club. Got in free with Nationals..def a big plus...Saw bunch of berk kdphis...saw my taus, and almost got shot. YES..SHOT...!!! there was a fight outside the club at around 2am...someone busted out and started shooting...and we were all outside witnessing this madness. After we dropped to the floor, we got rushed back into the club and got locked in for an hr and a half...so rumor has it the dood is alive..but shot in the leg and the groin...OUCH!!! Last i heard, it was a SLO lambda's friend that got shot...people these days... *sigh* Being drunk most of the nite didnt feel too good..we ended up leaving at around 4...stopped by old LA Lambda's Brad's pad in SF...also my pledge bro Ken's pad....saw MIke the LA lambda too and a bunch of brad's girl friends...hotttiiiiieeee wooooowiee..they were nice eye candy..haha.

Anyhow...got home finally on sunday...with another funny story to tell..but i'm tired, so i'll write about it later...yea, this is a boring entry, but i just wanted to write eveything down before i forget.. =P ttyl

2002-08-02T01:40:00.000-07:00
AIIGHT, U WANNA KNOW WHEN YOU KNOW YOU'RE GHETTO....? CHECK OUT MY PLEDGE BRO....
SJDazed 1 (1:37:29 AM): dood
SJDazed 1 (1:37:36 AM): i just got a wireless card
SJDazed 1 (1:37:54 AM): and i just wanted to see if someone has a wireless router around here..
SJDazed 1 (1:38:00 AM): and by all means...
SJDazed 1 (1:38:04 AM): someone does
SJDazed 1 (1:38:05 AM): hahaha
SJDazed 1 (1:38:11 AM): so i'm picking up their signal
H0rizon438 (1:38:36 AM): haha
H0rizon438 (1:38:39 AM): damn, shiesty
SJDazed 1 (1:38:43 AM): hahhaa
SJDazed 1 (1:38:44 AM): naw
H0rizon438 (1:38:45 AM): can u connect?
SJDazed 1 (1:38:52 AM): hell yea i can connect
H0rizon438 (1:39:00 AM): its prob someone upstairs or downstairs
H0rizon438 (1:39:08 AM): puahaha, dood...THAT IS GHETTO
SJDazed 1 (1:39:14 AM): hahhaa
SJDazed 1 (1:39:20 AM): oh well..

2002-07-30T00:04:00.000-07:00
TOO CUTE!

2002-07-29T01:01:00.000-07:00
the many faces of her...hehe

scaryyy!!! hahaah

2002-07-29T01:00:00.000-07:00
ISNT MY LIL SIS CUTE?! haha this is the composite pic i took of her...

2002-07-26T17:17:00.000-07:00
CAN I GET AN AMEN ?!

NICE GUYS FINISH LAST
By: Garrett Hols
It's amazing that assholes can get girls. Actually, now that I think of it, it's not that amazing. They are assholes at heart, but to meet girls they lavish their undying love. IT'S A CHARADE. They act nice, friendly, and they listen¡¦until they get into what they're after. Their prey thinks they are in love with them, however when they realize what assholes their predators really are, they pretend like the asshole is really nice inside. The girl tries to change the asshole into a nice guy, but assholes will always be assholes. She gets upset and goes to the nice guy to complain about the asshole. But she claims to love the asshole¡¦now this is where the theory begins. She doesn't want to look like she is easy so she wont dump the asshole right away, instead she will stay with the asshole. Girls are idiots. They don't realize that the nice guy has been there all along. He never had to pretend to be a good guy to get girls because he is naturally like that. However, girls don't see it for some reason or another. They look at the nice guy as a friend, a trusted companion to whom they can tell their sad story to about their asshole boyfriend. But the nice guy isn't THAT nice. He was trying to score with the girl he listens to all along. The problem is that since he is a nice guy he keeps listening. Since girls get attached to things that pay attention to them, they think of the nice guy as a friend. A FRIEND. They don't say, "Oh he's hot" or "I want to have his children" about the nice guy, they just want the emotional support. When they get the emotional support from the nice guy, they don't need it from the asshole. The nice guy gets the shit end of the stick while the asshole gets all the action.

I am starting to wonder if being a nice guy is really the route to take to get action? I have been down this path for all of my post-pubescent life and it has gotten me NOWHERE? at least not in the women department. Perhaps another reason why girls fall for the asshole is because assholes ignore the girl they are with. The women wonder, "Why isn't he paying attention to me?" so they explore why. They poke and prod and get closer to the asshole. They start to get easier with each attempt to get closer. The asshole finally says, "I've let this beauty dangle long enough, time to boat this bass". It is then he puts on his charade and the girl feels like she has won him? even though all she has won is an asshole. Once you have gone down the path as a nice guy or a "listener" you can't turn back. The girl will always go after the assholes because there are always nice guys there to listen. Once you realize that you are a "listener" you cant do anything about it¡¦just pack up and close shop. There is no way you will get into her pants¡¦ever. There is and never will be a situation where the nice guy will get the girl he has a crush on. It just doesn't work like that. The girl wont "come to her senses" and realize what an asshole her boyfriend is like in the movies? instead she will just go after another asshole, and unless you stop being a nice guy, she will never go after you. Women complain that there are no nice guys in the world. Right. They are obviously not looking hard enough because there are nice guys EVERYWHERE!!!! Girls aren't looking for nice guys? they say they are but they're not. They are looking for the perfect asshole, but there is NO SUCH THING as the perfect asshole. All in all, the nice guy gets the shaft. To all the girls out there with boyfriends that don't treat you with respect, that don't listen to you, and that don't care about you I say this; look next to you. The guy that has been standing next to you the whole time is the guy you have been looking for. He is what you want your asshole to be like. He knows more about you than you know about yourself¡¦because he has listened to it all.

2002-07-25T23:57:00.000-07:00
Top ten things men would do if they woke up and had a vagina for the day
10. Immediately go shopping for zucchini and cucumbers.
9. Squat over a hand mirror for an hour and a half.
8. See if they could finally do a split.
7. Cross their legs without rearranging their crotch.
6. Get picked up in a bar in less that 10 minutes
5. Have consecutive multiple orgasms and still be ready for more without sleeping first.
4. Go to the gyno and ask to have the examination recorded on video.
3. Sit on the edge of the bed and pray for breasts, too.
2. Actually catch a buzz off 1 wine cooler.
and the #1 thing a man would do is:
1. Finally find that damn G-spot.

Top ten things women would do if they woke up and had a penis for the day
10. Get ahead faster in corporate America.
9. Get a blow job.
8. Find out what is so fascinating about beating meat..
7. Pee standing up while talking to other men at the urinal.
6. Determine why you can't hit the bowl consistently.
5. Find out what it's like to be on the other end of a surging orgasm.
4. Touch/Shift yourself in public without thought as to how improper it may be to others.
3. Jump up and down naked with an erection to see if it feels as funny as it looks.
2. Understand the reason for the light refraction that occurs between man's eyes and the ruler situated next to his member.
and the #1 thing a woman would do is:
1. Repeat # 9.

TOO HILARIOUS TO PASS UP, STOLEN FROM A XANGA PERSON IN TEXAS! =) THanks mi55mango!

2002-07-25T01:14:00.000-07:00
shiet...my knee's swelling up...not good....dont remember twisting it though from vball...DAMN i'm getting old..

2002-07-25T01:13:00.000-07:00
Hot DAMN! its like freakin 80 degrees right now...and its freakin 1 in the morning! What is wrong with the weather?!?! I know its summer and all, but why does it have to be so hot damn humid too!!?? This aint Texas....this is San Diego...you know, the breezy 75 everyday sorta weather. Grrr

Played some volleyball tonight with Erik, one of the Sigma guys..pretty fun, didnt realize the whole population in Hillcrest plays volleyball (if you're a local...you know what I'm talking about) But yea...sorta weird...? Anyways, played like 4hrs worth, pretty refreshing to get back into volleyball, havent played in years. Fun nevertheless...

So whats the agenda for the weekend...Tomorrow BRIGHT ASS in the morning, gotta wake up and pick up Andrea from the airport...grrrr, gonna make you buy me two boba for this one! Its gonna be the first time in a whole week that I'm gonna be waking up before 11!!! Hehe.. Well, after that...gotta drop by the office to get my vaccination shot for Hep B...cuz in our lab we work with live tissue and all...Rest of the day...not sure whats up..just whatever goes i guess. FRIDAY....argh, lil sis...you owe me for this one too...MEXICO to buy DRUGS?!!?!? damn....i feel used... hahha Its all good, I definitely wouldnt want you to go alone..so yes, I'll go with you on Friday to mexico to buy some dope....*thinking to thy self..* WHAT THE HELL AM I THINKING?!?! hahah Ok...then prob head back to orange county if I make it back ALIVE from mexico..

*take deep breath* Whew...ok..and Saturday, doing composite pics for Irvine SOPis....should be quick and painless, and I get to see my other lil sis anyways. Woohoo! Sunday...ehhh..usually play badminton, but dont think I'll go cuz Charley isnt around...damn him! He's straight up in hickville chillin' with some rednecks I think. Might be a good idea to come back to SD early i think. Alright, god damn, I gotta get some air in this mug...its freakin hot in my room, is it me or my halogen lights...

2002-07-24T01:28:00.000-07:00
Woohoo, ok..I finally found a commenting server thats not all maxed out with members. So for all of you that read this...leave me a nice msg to come back to! PLEASE! ehhehe

2002-07-23T00:27:00.000-07:00
I was browsing through a few different xanga pages as of late, and I happened to stumble upon one of the kdphi's pages....She seems like a very nice girl, but I think she has a problem with God and religion. I know its a VERY touchy subject for many..but I just wanted to touch upon it and have my audiences ponder about it.

Ok, so all through out my life I've never really practiced any religion except for the occasional buddhist temple that we go to with our family once in a blue moon. I'm sorta glad my parents was pretty open minded about this whole religion thing. Yea sure, I've been to a couple of Fri nite services with friends in high school, but you know and I know...those times was saved to check out the chicks and socialize for many. Anyways, what really turned me off was how time after time, there would be people in your face trying to push the religion to you and get you to come out to more events. Sure enough, after two or three times of that, I never went back to that church, and turned me off to church.

I understand that sometimes they are like the "messenger of God" and their whole mission in life after THEY'vE become fully devoted, was to bring other people in....well, i just dont get that. I think I've gotten the same living experiences as many who have believed in God all their life...and we're no different, because we still experience the whole range of emotions of life, including, hate, happiness, sadness, anger, all that stuff. Well, I dont think thats a good comparison...what I think I'm trying to get at is...Why do a lot of religious people attribute a lot of things that happen in life to God...Like God wanted this to happen, God wanted that to happen? I think its unhealthy to think that way because simply...sometimes, things just happen and people have to deal with it. Another thing is that a lot of religious people tries to make every BAD thing that happens into a positive thing....I mean, if someone gets murdered, its not cuz freakin God wanted to see this person and wanna put them in better hands...for chris sakes, thats some jacked up shiet..are we suppose to praise the murderer? Anyways, sometimes, things happen just cuz it happens, I dont think God has something to do with it, and I think it can be unhealthy when someone is so devoted that they think God has written out their path in life already. I know...maybe I am saying all this cuz I havent found God myself yet...but til I see something that is a work of God and I'm there to witness it, I just dont think God isnt the answer to everyone's problems. And no, I dont think that person is naive at all, I just think God isnt really helping her at all with coping some of the doubts she has with herself regarding relationships, and other personal problems. Time is the best medicine for all, if you can let time go so will your problems, cuz eventually you'll find a way to cope with it.

2002-07-21T00:55:00.000-07:00
its been quite a whiles since I've updated this thing...SORRY! Still not sure if anyone reads this thing, but i suppose its better that way? My 3 weeks vacation from work is quite a nice break. Havent really done too much, but been able to things that I've always wanted to do for the longest time, but havent been able to in the past. =) well..been able to do MOST of it...not all. I think one of those things is to sort through all my belongings that I've packed away in my boxes since i've moved from norcal in high school.

argh, not in the mood to blog anymore..thinking of someone out there. blah

2002-07-14T22:22:00.000-07:00

Cute pic..hahaha WASSSSSUP

2002-07-13T00:18:00.000-07:00
Got a very nice postcard from someone really sweet two days ago...THANKS A BUNCH... =)

2002-07-11T11:26:00.000-07:00
The weather is freakin weird the last couple of days. Its all muggy and nasty...supposedly its setting some record temps, but I guess its better than freakin blazin' hot days..? My days are just getting repetitive these days, and hence the less blogging that I do...work takes up a lot of time..cuz i've been stay about 10 hrs at work on avg..which I dont mind, cuz it goes by quickly when I'm busy I suppose.

Alright, here I go complaining again....Tues was the first time I went to open gym at balboa park in about 5 yrs, like I said previously, been trying to get back into it now. Anyhow, I go with my roomie and another bro to play...For some stupid reason the bro wanted to see my racquet, so I let him without thinking about it. Well, that prove to be a stupid mistake by me, cuz he likes to flex the racquets to see how much flex is in them...? First of all, I dont even fuckin get the point why some people do that...its not like you're a pro...and you can tell that.."Oh, this is not suppose to flex this much, this racquet sucks...." OR "oh, this racquet flexes one cm less than the racquet that I have..." Anyways, my point is, people do the weirdest things....I've been playing about 10 yrs now, and not once have I really done that to my own racquet..not to mention my friend's racquets. Well, as you can prob guess...he fuckin flexed it, and it fuckin cracked. For those of you that know a thing or two about Yonex Muscle Power racquets...they're made to be the stiffest racquets offered right now...so DUH, if u fuckin flex it without knowing its limitations, the only other way it can release all that power is to BREAK! Fuckin dumbass, he broke a 200 dollar racquet that wasnt even his. What pisses me off is the fact that when I asked him to pay for it, he told me..."I'm sorry Mike, I am not gonna pay for it, there's no way...these things happen????" WHAT THE FUCK is that shady ass shiet, yea, i said SHADY..motherfucker! Yea, yonex has a replacement program, but first of all, its not even a guarantee that I'll get it back, and two, even if I do get it back, its gonna take months! My friend had one crack on him and it took him 6 months to get it. I suggested that he pays for it, and I'll give him the broken one to deal with..so if he gets it replaced, he can simply sell it to someone. But no, he aint gonan do that....Well, to you I say...u fuckin shady ass motherfucker...and you're another bro that I do NOT consider to be a bro.....fuck you if you're gonna screw me over like that....but its okay, you're not the first one. The least you could've done is to offer to pay in installments to help me get a new racquet if you were really broke like you say you are....shady mofo.

2002-07-08T20:01:00.000-07:00
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puhahah...nice...140?! i underestimated myself.. =)

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2002-07-08T16:56:00.000-07:00
hot damn, badminton madness this weekend. Played about...a total of 30 hrs of badminton with charley this past long weekend. I think we're at about 70% tournament level.. =) Its getting there....but hopefully we'll get to play some time toward the end of summer. Woohoo..sorta glad I'm getting back into it..definitely fun. Ok.more work to do..update later

2002-07-05T15:29:00.000-07:00
riiiite...ONLY 40-50%? is that good or bad....er....not sure.
Anyhow, had a nice july 4th in santa monica...'cept we didnt even get to see freakin any of the fireworks!!! GRR..Apparently they cancelled the normal fireworks show by the beach cuz they wanted to take extra pre-cautions this particular july 4th due to terrorist warnings...well, that just plain sucked, cuz I even called the FIREWORKS HOTLINE on the internet to make sure it was going on! Damn them talibans! I guess its better to be safe than sorry...but either way, there was still a big ass crowd. Ended up goin to 2 bbqs during the daytime. One was just the usual LA crowd. Me, Jimmy, Dave,Charley, Ben, Darren, Derek, Angela, and Amy...Havent seen Amy in ages, so it was sorta nice to see her finally. That bbq was in the early afternoon, with EATING taking the most time..hahaha there was some good shiet. At around 7 we ended up heading to santa monica to go see Caroline and Tom..Caroline had a bbq at her pad so we just dropped by to say hi.

So later on that nite, it was caroline, tom, charley, jaime, and I that went to the santa monica pier to walk around. Ended up meeting up Ellen, her older sister Esther(i think..eeks forgot), her bf, and family. Decided to go see a movie with the same group since the nite was sorta ruined cuz there was no fireworks..DOH. Saw MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING...saw it with Ellen, her other friend, and the rest of the group. The movie was pretty damn hilarious and I'd recommend anyone to go see it.. =) Glad to have hung out with all these people in LA this weekend so far...cuz it seems like I ever hardly have time to anymore. But yea, fun hanging out with the group and also ellen, since her booger-butt was too lazy to even wake up to go out with me to lunch the other time..hahaha Alrighties, more badminton tonight with charley...I think we're both getting closer to our top shape...so maybe some tournaments are in store in the near future? wooho... ok..enjoy the rest of the weekend people..ta da!

2002-07-05T15:19:00.000-07:00

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2002-06-30T02:24:00.000-07:00
OK, after reading about 60 Xanga pages of a wide variety of people from all walks of life in the greek world, I felt compelled to add a lil something of my own to my page. =P So I'm here in orange county this weekend spending a good ol weekend with the folks. They're heading back to Taiwan on Sunday..(today) so I'm here to see them off. I must say this is prob the most I've seen them in a whiles, wat usually happens is that I see them for a weekend twice a year and they be outta here. Not that they dont love us and all, but my dad's totally drenched in his work and has to be at 4 different places all a the same time. My mom is sorta the wife/homemaker and following him around and also making sure that me and my sister are doing ok in every aspect. God, I betcha my mom's waiting for the day my dad retires so he doesnt have to be so into his work anymore. He's the epitome of a hardworker.

I ended up hitting the bird around some with charley on friday nite at san gabriel valley badminton club, it was crowded but we managed a couple matches before I had to go. That wasnt the highlight of the nite though. My highlight of the nite was hearing a commercial about Aladdin Jail Bonds when I was driving over to meet up with Charley. Yea, you read that right..Aladdin Jail Bonds. I didnt even now it was legal for them to be having public announcements about posting bail. Anyhow, it was the basic pitch about how reliable they are to gettting you out and how its a painless procedure. What gets me was this..... "...at Aladdin Bail Bonds, we are committed in making this experience as least stressful as we possbily can, in our efforts to do that, you will receive a 20% DISCOUNT FOR FIRST TIME MEMBERSHIP.....!!!"" I was like WTF?!!?!? There was me thinking...wat the hell are wrong with these people? Who da hell in their right mind would be WANTING to go back to jail after their first time...YEA, like offering a freakin 20% discount on your BAIL is really gonna make you that much happier! and also...MEMBERSHIP!?!?! What is this, a fitness club, SOO...I guess this has turned into a lifetime membership or somethign...oh, they figured if you're in jail once, you'll always come back after a whiles...how sad is that! What has America become?!?! But yea..I was cracking up for a bit after hearing that absurd commercial...HAHAHA

Gonna play more badminton at Santa Monica City College tomorrow with charley after I drop off the folks at LAX..then perhaps have dinner with whoever I can find in OC before I head down to SD...WOOHOO..short week at work this week...only 3 days!! then its the long weekend. Lots to do, but dont know what exactly I'll be doing til later in the week. =) Ellen called today...chitchatted for a bout...5 min...she called about my bike...??

2002-06-26T11:39:00.000-07:00
Yea, monday was just a complete waste of a time...in a good way I guess. I got in to work around 9...checked work email for an hr and on I went to our group meeting. That took about an hr and then we went to dim sum for my bday lunch for about 2 hrs...and then..had boba, and then came back to work for 40 min....then my supervisor baked me a bday cake, then I had cake, then worked for another 1 hr, then had to hitch a ride with dave cuz I didnt have my car back after returning the rental. So yea...as you can see, all I did was ate and lounged around for the most of Monday..how sad is that?! hahaha

WOOOHOOO! Got an email yesterday from our National prez...and the title said.. "Welcome to NAtionals" YAYYYYY!!! I got my Lambda National Board Historian position that I applied for!!!! DOpe shiet! Yeah yea...I know it might sound like a small position, but I assure you not, cuz I have big plans for this position. I figured this is the best suited position for me cuz I dig photo and media related stuff. I think I'm gonna start off by making something for Rush for our own chapter and go from there. National retreat's the first week of Aug so I gotta make plans to go up to SF. Another miniconvention, but hell, 15 guys on cabinet gets dibs on all the girls, instead of 400 guys at convention. Needless to say, the ratio's a tad bit better this time. =) Most of the other guys on cabinet are mostly east coast guys...AS EXPECTED of course..but oh wells, it'll be good for me to meet some of those guys, cuz I never really have in the past.

I find it weird that blogs and xanga pages have caught on with this generation....everyone and their mamas and grandmamas have xanga and/or blog pages. They all also belong to some sort of blog ring...like kdphis and lambdas. There's a gangload of NY kdphis in the asian greek ring..so I'm guessing they're the ones that started this whole craze. You be amazed at all the funny stories you get to read into people's personal lives. Blogs are almost like another dimension in space that people live in. Cuz I think a lot of people write in their blogs as if they were writing in a real hardcopy journal...the only difference you ask...? WEll...your blog is accessible to the billions of people on the web. =) I guess you dont physically see the people reading it, so its a lot different. After a lot of browsing, you tend to start following a few that you find interesting. As for me? I've been reading these 3 blog entries that comes from 3 irvine people...they're all friends..and i just have a hell of a time reading some of their entries. Its as if by reading their journal, you get to see what their personalities are like and you sorta know them. =) i dunno, i'm weird perhaps, but I guess its interesting reading about other people's lives and see wat kinda spice they got. =P

2002-06-24T00:39:00.000-07:00
Well watta ya know, my birthday came and went w/o an incident. THANK YOU so much for all the people that have wished me happy birthday and also to all the people that went to vegas with me.. =) Thank you Ellen, Edna, Chi, and Carrie especialy cuz you guys were the ones that remembered first! heheh But yeah, vegas was pretty nice and chill...hung out on fri nite, took the limo to clubbing sat, but didnt get to club cuz freakin it was helllllla long lines. Ended up gambling most of the weekend and just hung out with the boys and some of the girls. God damn i'm old now...24...i'm almost quarter of a century ANCIENT..hehe

Alrighties, need to unpack and get ready for bed, work starts again tomorrow! =( I'll write more later.

2002-06-19T23:36:00.000-07:00
Ok..so here I am watching Serendipity..a movie playing off as if there's Destiny and Fate in love. I'm about a quarter of a way through the movie, and i'm beginning to think it'd be nice if there was such a thing. You have a hell of a time with someone you feel as if they were your soulmate, but just to find out the world takes him/her away from you for a long period of time without you knowing if you'll ever see them ever again. I think a lot of people out there do have someone like that in their mind, they might not think of that person as often as before, I think this is because it just seems too hard to believe that even if you think of this person every day...it'll bring them back, so most just push them to the back of your head and forget about it. =) i dont know, its just sorta weird how this world works sometimes.

Gosh, my bday's coming up this weekend..and I'm turning the ol mighty 24..god damn i feel old. Funny how age can really have an effect on what you consider fun these days. Back when I just turned 18, I considered fun as getting fucked up in TJ and partying til the sunrise. Now, I consider a good time chilling at home watching tv, or drinking coffee and chit-chatting with old friends. Times ARE changing and I feel like I'm beginning to take a bigger responsibilities in life. There's still a lot to be learned and explore...I guess this is primetime now. =) The hard part's finding someone else to share all this happiness with. =D Fate and Destiny....

2002-06-14T00:15:00.000-07:00

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2002-06-14T00:13:00.000-07:00

21
I act like I'm 21.
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at least it wasnt like..YOU'RE 35 or something..hhaha

2002-06-13T15:01:00.000-07:00
well, school for peeps at UCSD is over. San Diego is gonna be a quiet place for 3 whole months. Also means friends will be gone and less people to play with. Blah...I dont know what I'm feeling right now, maybe its some sort of emptiness? Dont know how to explain it, but yea...for those of you leaving w/o saying bye, u guys suck! Work's picking up again so I've got that to concentrate on I guess. Goals for the summer..get healthy. and I mean it this time, no more sitting on my ass doing nothing. With all the free time I have on my hands now, there's no excuse to abuse my body anymore. back to work, more to talk about later.

2002-06-11T12:06:00.000-07:00
Random thought of the moment....Can't stand reading some people's profiles sometimes.

2002-06-11T02:46:00.000-07:00
Alright, tomorrow better be a better freakin day. Two things ticked me off today. 1) my roommate left a note telling me to clean up the stove...fine, whatever, i only used it once all quarter..left it a teeeeeny bit dirty..and this person wants me to clean it all..even though this roommate's the one that cooks all the time. fuck! that pisses me off. and also, this roommate wants to clean the house cuz the parents are coming..well..whoopeedoda...why do I have to clean to impress YOUR parents...fuck that. True, i have stuff in the living room, but i'm just gonna grab my shiet and dats it, i aint cleaning shiet. 1) I think i have a fractured calcaneum....the heel of my foot..FUCK! It felt ok this week, but then i played again today in softball...and it is REALLY hurting now. NOT AGAIN...no more casts damn it...need to get it checked out by the doctor...and not wait for 2 months like my wrist last time. ARGH

2002-06-09T01:04:00.000-07:00
Dang, its been a good while since i last posted. Well, needless to say, lots of stuff going on and thats why I dont have time to write anything. But yea, just spend the last 30 minutes browsing through random people's Xanga pages. I guess more people use that thing than i thought...I mean I swear, if you really wanted to, you can really find out some deep stuff abou random ass people that you dont even know. Of course, most of the pages I saw were of KDPhis or Lambdas. Even managed to find some old acquaintances that I've met in the past. I never thought about it, but I swear, my journal must seem like that too..very personal at times, and I know most people dont care, but god, I can imagine the faces of the people that read this..what the hell, is this guy a freak or something?!! Hahah, its okies I guess I chose this to express myself, so I shouldnt hold back. I see this as a way for my friends that I dont see too often to keep in touch with me...knowing what I do once in a while, and how I am. I'm sure little do some of my friends know..that I do get to read their journals too and see what they're up to...ahhh..the information age..the computers, the technology...isnt it great? =) In LA tonight, must head back to SD early tomorrow, got lots of stuff to take care of. Ok, need to get some rest...thats it for now, but hope everyone's having a great weekend.

2002-06-03T23:28:00.000-07:00
argh! Should of known to not freakin play without my cleats! Now i banged up the heel of my foot real bad cuz of running after a foul ball, caught it, ate the fence and messed up my foot all in the split second. It fuckin hurts! grrr...if i only didnt forget my house keys..this is gonna hurt for a whiles

2002-06-03T01:34:00.000-07:00
Had quite a long weekend although it flew by in a jiffy. Got to see my mom and sister in Rancho Santa Margarita...somewhere near mission viejo. Pretty chill, had a good dinner and a movie to top off the nite. Oops, lemme backtrack...friday nite was an exchange with the LA Chi's. This is the UCLA sorority that we've been trying to exchange with for the longest time. Its probably been like 3 yrs since we've had an exchange....they've always brushed us off..but I guess having Jake as their president's boyfriend helps a bit. They have a house of 70+, they brought down around 15...sorta sad, but oh wells...at least they were nice girls that came down. They couldnt really hang with the drinking though...after an hr, it was sdlambdas 1 and lachis's 0. There was 3 girls sprawled out on the floor...either passed out or yacking in to barf bags....very interesting sight to see. All the guys were still sober as hell and were trying to take care of the wounded..hehe. The social Linda was pretty responsible...just talks too much smack but cant back it up..hahaha She'd call us out, and when we complied...she would say.."oh, i cant drink anymore, i have to make sure everyone else is ok.." Hahaha..geez...at least dont talk smack unless u're willing to back it up...its all good though, she was trying to be responsible afterall, right? Met Anh who believed that I was 18 when i told her..hehe, funny girl. That was pretty much it, 4 of them stayed over at my pad cuz they wanted working and clean showers to wake up to instead of the Lambda house. We all just chit chatted til 5 and fell asleep.

Paphi game was crazy...very good game, just like the lakers and kings game...but yea, we lost. Its pretty disheartening to watch..cuz i can see some dirty plays that other people dont see. Of course it goes both ways, but there was this new guy from paphis that were playing dirty the whole time, at the end of the game, i almost just wanted to take a free shot at him..grr. Oh wells, we played good, but there's definitely gonna be a loser, and today...we were it.

Erick and Ellen both didnt get the job..freakin' eh...instead they hired a puny lil asian dood thats sorta girly...so i've heard. We'll see how that goes, cuz i might need to train him.

2002-05-30T17:47:00.000-07:00
HELP....i'm drowning in work at the lab...i'm trying to multi-task, handling 2 or 3 different projects right now and i'm fucking up royally. ARgh...not that I dont get the things I'm doing, but there's just too much things going on and I'm making human errors. I think i'm a week behind...and it doesnt help either that I dont have time to update my lab notebook...cuz I tried to refer back to it today ...and there was just blank pages. FREAK! argh....ok...goal for tomorrow..need to update and catch up on all paperwork. This is bad...i'm just surprised my supervisor still tolerating me...she's so understanding, which makes me want to not fudge up even more. Need to concentrate.

2002-05-30T00:55:00.000-07:00
I think the only thing I dont like about working full time these days is the fact that you're always so much more distant from the friends that you used to hang out a lot. Lambda guys...well, they'll always be around, so I'm sure I'll get to see them pretty often, but other people...I dont know. Its like once you're out of school, your social status is all jacked up. I dont even see alfalfa anymore, its like we're online virtual buddies. It almost suggests that if you're not in school or not in school all that much, you lose touch of the group or clique that you've been in during school. I think people in school just take some friendships for granted. I know I've been guilty of that, cuz there's certain people that you know you'll see everyday no matter wat, so you dont really make an effort to want to see them. Anyways, i just wish i get to see alfalfa more often...sorta scared to get outta touch i guess. Hell, there's actually a big list of people I wanna get back in touch with, but I dont know if its too late. Like my best friend in high school, Andrew...whom I havent talked to in ages, yet he's only a phone call away.

Random thought of the moment: DOOD, i went to 8 semi formals in 4 yrs of high schoool, why da hell did I not buy a tux instead of spending 800 bucks on rentals!?!? And no, i wasnt popular like the ASB prez of the class or nothing, I just had a lot of friendsand not enough girlfriends..so every dance was with a diff person. =P I didnt even get to go to senior prom with my girlfriend even though I had one....cuz I had asked my best friend at the time to go before I got together with my gf. How sad is that?! I've dated a Hellen, and Helen...how trippy is that. Elaine...was my first girlfriend..it wasnt til senior year when i got a gf....lasted 2 months...dont know what happened, but after we broke up, she ended up goin out with a freakin MIT freak..yes, he went to MIT...nerdy as hell and indian. Geez...that makes me feel better doesnt it? hhah Hellen was my next gf, also in senior year, dope ass badminton player just like me =) Lasted another 2 months...then she seriously disappeared from the face of the earth. Next was Helen, freshman year...lasted not too long...she went to study abroad in italy....that was that. =P Then there's della..lasted the longest, but it just didnt work out in the end. Maybe i was too chinese for her, and she was too korean for me. So when the curtains has fallen...this is what I've endured in my relationships......Elaine=chinese, Hellen=korean, Helen=korean, Della=hella korean. See the trend..well, its about time I figured out that I need to find myself a true taiwanese/chinese girl =) I dont just think it, I've met one that I thought was almost the perfect girl, and boy did she catch my attention. =P I think she still has my attention...hahhaahh okies..enough posting, my left wrist is getting tired. The wrist i broke last year..damn it, hope its not carpel tunnel syndrome...cuz i think i have bad posture when i type.

2002-05-30T00:34:00.000-07:00
Yea, so the minute I finish with the previous post, i down a cup of HOT passion fruit tea from Tea Station, I am now wide awake. Dont know if thats such a good thing since I'm freakin sick and got a running nose as bad as a 8 month old baby. I'm surprised that i even tasted the tea since having a cold sorta hinders your ability smell and taste.

Anyhow, this past weekend was the annual Lambda Convention, and it so happened to be in Texas this year. I flew in friday nite just in time for the brotherhood showcase, it always surprises me how much our fraternity grows every year. This year, even though it was a far distant trip for most of the bros from the west all the way to the east..there was still a good number of heads...about 400 this year. So the rest of the weekend, it was basically drink drink and more drinking. My diet for the weekend consisted of BBQ and beer..damn i felt like a true Texan. hehe. We exchanged with Cornell kdphis this year...contrary to popular belief, we managed to get someone else other than Stanford kdphis. I dont know why, but i think we've had dinner exchange with stanford girls for the past 3 yrs prior. Nothing against them, but you know the younger guys always crave a variety. Not I though, I always just seek out the older girls and just chill and chat with them. It isnt about hooking up, cuz I think ever since last convention, I've started becoming antisocial when it comes to convention. Geez, come to think of it, i dont think i met ANY new girls or that many guys this past weekend. Maybe one..just the one my big bro was hitting on...hehe, damn craddle robber. Anyhow, I got REALLY faded on sunday nite and was yakking up a storm on monday morning. No more of that...i dont like that feeling anymore... =( Oh...and elections came and went for National officers..pretty dirty/political election this year..and the east coast won. Its dirty politics at its best, and its too long to explain, but yea, we got assed out and I dont think I'll get my National Historian position. Next year's convention's at New York...how crazy is that? I told myself that this would be the last one...but hell, its NEW YORK CITY! National officers gets free registration...so lets at least hope for that. Got home on monday in the afternoon, no delays like the other old guys. =) Yipeee.

Pretty scary momemnt when I found out that my dad left within a day of that China Airlines crash. I hear from my mom late monday that dad was suppose to be on that plane. That really made mom upset..and i'm just glad that dad didnt step on that plane. 225 passengers, one plane...that exploded in midair...must of been a horrible accident. I think its times like this that makes me reflect upon all the hardships that mom endured while dad was overseas making money for the family. There was a time when I was in 8th grade when mom caught a very nasty virus, i seriously thought that something bad was gonna happen, cuz she was in bad shape. She had to go to the emergency room when her face swelled up completely. A lot of it I know was cuz of stress, even though it wasnt a direct cause, we all knew stress contributed to it. Sometimes I think back why dad had to do what he did. I mean, he had a company here, and there was other people in the company that probably could of flew to China as often as he did to take care of the business. But I know I can't blame dad, he has always been an ambitious person and sometimes almost took business as first priority...even though he was just trying to make it better for the rest of the family....making more money, and just building the company more and more. I know that we're not as close as other people's families, but I truly admire my parents...little do they know though, cuz I'm just one of those guys that cant talk to them about mushy stuff. I'm just glad that at least I made them a lil happy this past weekend cuz I told them I've been offered and accepted the offer the company has given me. Thats prob a big load off their shoulders.

2002-05-29T23:39:00.000-07:00
Convention was soooooo dead tiring, i'm still recovering. The worst part..i'm hella sick. =( Someone come take care of meeeee!! I'll find the energy to write again soon. In a day or two. Forgive me..for those faithful readers out there.

2002-05-20T01:01:00.000-07:00
fate and destiny...title to an online blog that I've been reading for a whiles...I think there is some sort of fate and destiny in the relationship aspect, but I dont believe it 100% completely. Cuz the way I see it, if thats the way you look at relationship...where if something was or wasnt meant to be..it'll happen or it wont happen automatically..then you're just psycho. If two people were meant to be, or good for each other, it doesnt mean that they'll end up together somehow without both of them ever trying. Yea, maybe they're in different relationships and all at the time...but I just highly doubt that anything would become of it if neither is willing to say something..or neither of them sacrificing something...i wonder if a majority of people meet their soulmate some time in their lifetime...sadly, i dont think a lot of people know it at all...i wonder if i've already met mine? fate and destiny..i dunno...?

2002-05-20T00:54:00.000-07:00
So I find out several interesting things in this past week. First of all, I hear that my boss at work met his girlfriend through the internet...how trippy is that!? Yes, I'm sure we've all had those experiences in our internet-chatting careers. I'm sure I wasnt the only one that have made friends through the internet, cuz I know everyone gets the urge to meet a particular stranger online because a lot of the times, people dont hold back when they talk to these strangers, especially ones you've chatted with on more than one occasion. It almost seems like a confessional almost onlines sometimes, here you are, talking to a complete stranger (besides the fact that he/she was a good listener) but yet you still reveal a lot of things about yourself that you dont normally tell even acquaintences. Hell, maybe I am weird that I've met a couple of friends that I know are gonna last for a whole time through the internet. In fact, one of the closest friend I have has gotten married, and no, she's not some 40 yr old woman, its actually my lil mei mei (sister) that I met here at UCSD. =) And yes, in my young college days, I've also had those moments when you meet people online that you wish you could take back. Not that their bad people, but people definitely can be REALLY diff in person, not looks wise, but personality wise.

Ok, here's another fact I found out this weekend. My 12 yr old cousin has more game than I do. So this past saturday morning, I take him to go see Star Wars Episode II at 10am...TEN IN THE MORNING! For crying out loud...I've never seen any previous star wars, but I guess I had to cuz my aunt wanted me to take him. I totally didnt mind at all, but it was just a bit early. So we go and actually get pretty good seats. Minutes before showing, i decide to get myself a drink so I leave for the concessions, 10 minutes later, I come back, and there's two strangers sitting next to my cousin. I guess somewhere between the 1st 10 minutes and 40 minutes, I see out of the corner of my eye, that my cousin is trying to hold hands with the girl next to him!!!! I was like...WTF? So I finally realize that he had secretly invited his friend to the movie at the same time, and I guess they're "good friends." I think its totally funny cuz he doesnt really hold her hands, but the back of their hands are touching, get what I mean? I swear my cousin was prob sweating it trying to comprehend if that meant they were going out or something... hahaha But yea, and he leaned towards her side the whole time, it was quite funny...you just had to be there to see it. Which brings me to my conclusion that my cousin has more game than I do these days. Seems like sometimes I'm just interested in the wrong girls at the wrong time. Argh, dont get me talking about it, just frustrates me. I think I just have too high of expectations too quicl, and thats where I get myself in trouble cuz I'm disappointed in the end. Only if situations were different. *sigh*

Did I mention that I think the Laker's suck!? Yea, they're kicking everyone's ass, but I just dont like the people on that team. Hell, maybe its cuz Kobe Bryant is like the same age as me, but his wallet is about 100million of so thicker than mine. Jealousy...yea, dats it. =P I can only imagine what they do on their free time...Spend money like no other...that would be tiiiite, but can get old real quick. Money can bring happiness, but it can bring a lot of worries too. I just want to make a modest and comfortable living...with the ability to afford one or two guy toy's once in a blue moon, like those electronics that has no other use 'cept look cool and are the latest gadget...know what I mean?

I GOT MY PROMOTION at the job..woohoo...full benefits too...niceee...

Helped my sister move down to Rancho Santa Marguerita this weekend...close to Mission Viejo...she's living there in the company bought house so she can start working at my dads new office. Saw mommy this weekend too. =) I think its gonna be nice in the next year or so, cuz my parents are planning on buying a house somewhere down in So Cal, which they're hoping my sister and I can both live in it and commute to work. I'm really looking forward to it, cuz after 6 yrs of living in rentals, it'll be nice to be able to call someplace HOME again.

random thought of the moment...alfalfa sprouts are good for your health.

Ok, I think I'm doing overkill now, cuz I'm writing way too much. Lambda convention is this weekend..in TEXAS!! woohoo, should be a lot of fun. Living friday morning, if all goes well, I'll be partying it up by friday nite. It'll be nice to see all those east coast buddies again. =) Lets hope we dont bring out the Texas Riot Police...cuz you know what, I dont think they'll be as tolerant to asian people as cops in Cali. Texas....should be interesting. One last convention...

2002-05-14T15:00:00.000-07:00
Oh, before I forget...I've got to get a copy of that chinese fortune telling book....made me wonder how true those things are. It says that I'm most compatible with someone with the Dog as their chinese zodiac sign....which happens to be someone 4 yrs younger than me...and guess who's 4 yrs younger than me...yup. But yea, it was pretty funny when my boss brought that into work and showed it to us. =) The book evcen says that I'll get a promotion in july..which is true, cuz I've been promised a promotion after the midyear review...how crazy is that eh? now if the other things are true and becomes reality..wouldnt that be a trip...

2002-05-14T14:54:00.000-07:00
This past week has been nothing but a blur. Everything happened so fast that I'm still left a lil dizzy. Hell, I dont remember what I did most of the week, so I'm not even gonna try and remember. I do remember that I went back up to LA and had quite a chilled weekend. Went out on sat nite to Monte Cristo, for some reason, i didnt think i've ever been there before..but when I get there, I realize that I was just there a month ago for a tri kappa party...the same place that I saw alfalfa with her bf..blah, what a bad taste that brings to my mouth. But yea, had quite a lot to drink, but for some reason I was pretty chill the whole nite. It was for Tina's going away party, and boy did we have hella heads there. Most of the people just did their own thing, and I just chilled with henry for most of the nite. Then toward the end I saw a bunch of SLO Lambda Alumni..so chilled with them, and bought them a drink. Even managed to talk to Darren, our current National VP (running for prez this year) about my plans if i was appointed NAtional Historian this year..I hope I hope I hope!!! but yea, other than that, I just hung out with my cousins and played lots of badminton with charley.

2002-05-07T17:21:00.000-07:00
That was quite a productive weekend, didnt do jack but have fun. Hhahah, time for more serious business from now til convention. =) I had a load of fun with my lil sis this weekend, sorta went on a food binge, but it was quite yummy.=P~ Anyhow, I got the great news from our director in our company today. I'm getting the promotion I've always wanted by june. She had asked me to see if I was interested in taking that position, and i said, HELL YEA..well, not in those words but something in that context. I got my own lil lab bench space and my own desk too. yipeeee Things are starting to look a lil brighter now..so i'm happy and content in that aspect.

2002-05-04T02:22:00.000-07:00
YEA! my lil sis came down today from berkeley. We hung out most of the day..(i dont know if taking a nap counts as hanging out..but..yea.. =) hhaha) and went out to dinner with Jimmy, Dave, Annji, and Anh. Went to some place called The Fishery...god damn I was stuffed. I think I ate myself a heart attack. We all had calamari, steamed clams, oysters!! and also clam chowder. It was really good but boy there was a lot of food. my main dish was fish and chips, it was pretty yummy, but I had all that crap in me before..so i ended up bringing it home. Ended up just chilling, and watched 13 ghosts over again with the peeps. Tomorrow's gonna be crazyyyyy...!!! Have to go pick up my shirt for my tux...cuz it was too big when I picked it up today, need to go shopping with Erin, and take composite pics of the house...and THEN..the big celebration..CROWN CHUGGIN ACTION! 750ml of pure HELL!!!! I did, my big bro did it, everyone in the house did it...Lets see....8 sigmas, and 4 taus...that means FREAKING 12 bottles tomorrow at the afterparty. joy....my mouth is watering already as we speak. =P

2002-04-30T17:18:00.000-07:00
Yea, so the last week has been a complete blurr. With so many different things to do and so little time, I managed a weekend all to myself and my lil sis from berk. I was up in the bay area for the first time since late last year, quite a different mood too while I was up there. The last time I was up there, I had this great hatred for my ex and the sense I was losing control and not having fun at all. Well, this time, while I was up there, I was in the greatest of moods. Not only did I get to visit some great people, but I just plain had fun. Maybe a lil too much fun if you asked Stacey, Erin and Edna..heehee.. Sorry girls! Anyhow, flew in on friday night and managed to have dinner with a bunch of Tau class girls from Berk kdphis! Those girls are the greatest, I've known them through my ex and they've always been great and super hospitable to me every time i'm up there. I got to see my lils Edna and Erin...Yeaaaa! Just sorta hung out and chilled at Erin's on friday nite, since both of us were sorta tired from the daytime, she had school while i had work all day. Saturday was a blast as soon as we got our lazy butts up and away. We took the BART (first time in AGES) to the city and went to do a lil shopping. BART smells like crap, lemme tell ya...i dont think they've ever washed the cushions on the BART, it is the grossest thing. Every car we went into, smelled differently. I guess its cuz BART carries all walks of life on a daily basis. During rush hour, you can see a homeless bum standing next to this well-suited businessman heading to work in the city. But I guess its mainly the unfortunate homeless guys and bums that makes BART smells the way it does. Its just plain gross!

Anyhow, we got to the city and decided to pay Derek a visit at his Thai restaurant. Derek's one of our alums from SD and he owns the dopest tasting Thai rest in the city! Had a good talk and catching up session at his rest and we ended up in Union Square for 2 hrs before rushing back to berk. We didnt really buy anything, Erin bought jeans when she was suppose to be shopping for her dress! =P Anyways, I find out as I was getting dressed that I had forgotten my freakin shirt in SD!! So I had to call up my ex to take me to the local store so I would have something to wear! Felt really bad but THANKS A LOT! =) Got to the formals...started drinking way before that, and drank more once we got there...it was a looong ceremony..met some more great people, and basically chilled the whole nite. When we all finally got back to the house, we started the afterparty...Of course, I made the Lambdas there chug the crown bottle with me, which was quite nice...felt sorry for the NW guy that I made drink plenty and then some. Even managed to get him in trouble with his girlfriend who was one of the new girls that crossed. Hehe, Akiko and I were just outside listening to everything and laughing... (damn youngin's). But yea...the last 2 hrs was quite a blur, managed to get my hands on the SKYY bottle..and errr...everything was downhill from there...almost had a run in with the cops... THANKS AGAIN lil ones and STACEY! and managed to stumble back to Erin's dorm. After 2 more hrs of the porcelain god, i managed to sleep...and boy, did i sleep...i slept til 6 the next nite..changed my flight til 9pm and got home in SD at 10ish. Whew..what a weekend..and to think of it...freakin it, we've got installs here in SD this weekend!! But i'm glad erin's coming down!! yeaaaa! more hanging out with my lil sis! =)

Alfalfa told me the week before installs that she's not obligated to go to the surprise party anymore for her sister..gosh, wished you had told me earlier. Its all your fault! hahaha..ok, back to work..

2002-04-24T01:34:00.000-07:00
once again, too tired to post but got lots of random thoughts floating in my head. hope i'll remember it when i wake up tomorrow.

2002-04-23T17:46:00.000-07:00
So apparently everything's starting to shake a little within the fraternity. Some people are discontent and so are the lambda lil sis. With the Lambda Lil Sis situation, I just think that both sides gotta grow up a bit. Lil sis wants more attention and more events for us to get to know them, yes, i totally agree with that...except for one problem. I dont think Lil Sis' realize that being fraternity guys, they have A LOT of events planned throughout the quarter, whereas most Lil Sis's are usually free and not obligated to do anything 'cept going home. All I can say is, if the lil sis got to know more of the lambdas on a more personal basis then just hi and bye, then mission accomplished. The whole point is to make new friends and big bros. For the Lambdas, yes, we've fucked up, I'm not afraid to admit it..even though I havent really been active this year, so I wouldnt know. But from what I hear, we're just not living up to our name at this point. Lambdas have always had a bad name I think..and Iota chapter have tried to change that, but apparently, the lil sis dont think so. all i can say is, the chapter will figure it out...its outta the old guy's hands now.

2002-04-22T13:43:00.000-07:00

I'M 91 PROOF. HOW DRUNK ARE YOU?

bored during lunch time of work....interesting. =)

2002-04-22T00:36:00.000-07:00
Pretty fun weekend. Hung out mostly with the bros and lil sis's. Had fun at the kdphi formals, drank a lil too much, but hell, its okies if its once in a while. =) Thanks MINNIE for inviting me to formals, it was fun, and I hope you enjoyed your night as well. Also had family dinner at Chili's tonight...havent really seen my kdphi lil sis too much, but I finally dragged her out to go eat with the rest of the fam. There were 14 of us I think... Had boba afterwards, and just chilled. I think I'm just tired, dont really wanna type. BLAH! Oh..new song for the moment. Youth Asylum - Color Everywhere. Very cheesy and lubby dubby, but hell, i like it. =P

2002-04-20T12:23:00.000-07:00
Last night was a blast. Saw my lil sis, hung out a lot, did my usual shiet-talking to all the SOPis and basically did my job. =) My grand lil sis Clara's such a cutie. Here's a pic of her and I last night sucking down some boba after a long night of drinking. I guess BOBA's even good at curing hangovers..hahah Oh, and no, she's not a cheerleader anymore. The theme last night was jocks, nerds, and cheerleaders...hence her Jr. High cheerleading uniform. =) Shoulda seen us when we walked into Tea Station with her, everyone was staring. Prob thought she just came from a homecoming game or something. Hahahah

Long day ahead of me, gotta go run some errands, then there's KDPhi formals tonight with Minnie. Should be a lotta fun, again!!

2002-04-19T19:18:00.000-07:00
Busy week, time to relax. Going to an exchange tonight for the first time since late last year. Havent really been in the mood to drink that much, but i wanted to go tonight to see my Irvine SOPi lil sis Susan and her two new lil sis's. Pretty stressful week I'd say, need to take a load off. I was gonna go get fitted for a tux for Minnie's formals today, but I think I should save the money. Money's been tight lately, so I gotta conserve. =) Sorries Minnie, you know I luv ya, but Mike's not bling bling no more. Hahah. Regardless, Minnie and I will always find a way to have fun. Right?! =P Okies, gonna go take a shower and get ready. Grrr...my face is still peeling from the sunburn during brotherhood tournament. I look like a leopard. yieks.

2002-04-16T00:43:00.000-07:00
i've just been called immature for the first time since I stole micromachines when i was 9....doesnt make me feel very good. but am i really? *sigh* time to sleep it off

2002-04-16T00:33:00.000-07:00
So this has become like my safe haven recently. Its at those times in the middle of the nite when everyone else is already sleeping where I can hop on the computer and just write whatever the hell I want. I've noticed that its recently becoming a place where I vent as well. Its almost like venting to the world, cuz afterall, a lot of people might end up reading it. *sigh* Anyways, long night, and nothing happy ever comes out of talking about the past. Just gets me more frustrated.

2002-04-14T22:41:00.000-07:00
My back's kicking my ass now. Thought I wouldnt aggrevate it too much today, but I dont think it was such a bright idea to play right away when I got there after I had just woken up not too long before. Damn it, now I know what they mean when we're suppose to stretch before and after. Anyhow, O class beat Rho class in the 1st round of our brotherhood tournament this morning, and you know what, it felt too damn good. The smack-talking rhos even had the nerve to make their own Lambda t-shirt that said... "Unbreakable Rho Class" in the front and "Rho Knows" in the back. Well..lemme tell ya, Rho knows that they lost...so BLAH! =) I made the winning basket too!! whooopieee!! Its all good though, the older guys just had to put them back in place...and of course they took their shirts off right after we beat them. =D I can't say much for the 2nd game though, we got our asses kicked by Pi class..my lil bro took me from downtown on one too many occasions, they were just hitting everything from afar cuz they knew O class had the size advantage inside. Its all good though, we were even just gonna forfeit since we were so damn tired playing Rho class. Ever see 30 something out-of-shape, chain smoking, beer drinking fraternity guys playing basketball? Its hilarious. The old man team had more guys with bigger beer bellies than the freakin basketball. It was fun, now i'm just nursing my back, cuz I think I hurt it during the day. I can barely squat...not fun! Where's the SALONPAS...?

Last nite was also Kappa formals, and I ended up goin to it after we ate the Old Spaghetti Factory for Wellington and Annji's bday dinner. Seeing the Kappas cross was sorta weird, it went by really quick, I got there kinda late, and by the time I got in there, they were half done with presenting. I did see someone in particular being presented, and she looked damn good last nite. Of course she was escorted by her boyfriend and all. Blah. They did the Cha Cha right after that, and it was good, but most of the time, she was in the back and I couldnt really see her anyways. It was almost surreal seeing her last night though, her being with her bf and all..happy, smiling...I left right afterwards, didnt really wanna stay any longer than I needed to, cuz I felt almost out of place, cuz Kappas and I dont really have the best of relations now, so one of the only reasons why I went was to see Theta Class cross. Anyhow, went home, had some boba, and ended up having guy chat-time with my roomie Dave and Ben <--- who came down to visit from LA...Talked about random things...girls to gossip about random peeps. YES, guys do gossip too. =)

So here's that big question in my head. I've always wondered if say someone was in a situation where they were just talking with someone. But somewhere down the line, things dont work out for the best, and we decided to part on good/speaking terms. Does the party that have no interest anymore realize that sometimes the other party still does? Maybe what I'm asking is, if its possible to be good friends still? Sometimes I think if one party pretends to have no interest anymore, then the other party is gonna assume that the other party has gotten over them and isnt interested anymore, I think that sucks. Cuz in the end, the party thats still interested is pretty much assed out either way. One, if he/she decides that he/she should stay away just so he/she can try to get over the person, then they cant even really talked to the person. 2ndly, if you start talking as friends to the other person, then that other party will just assume you're over them and be all happy about it that they still can be friends with you even if you didnt intend for them to think that. Blah...I dont know what I'm talking about, but watevers. I guess sometimes maybe you do just have to rely on faith, but I wouldnt count on it, cuz relationships are just out of the ordinary and sometimes I feel it has its own course depending on how you confront it. Relationships dont happen overnight just by sleeping on it. If you really want it to work, then be yourself and work at it.

2002-04-12T23:31:00.000-07:00
=) Happy happy...I'm so out of the fraternity scene, but yet, I'm going to 3 formals in the next three weeks. Next weekend, I get to escort my very good and dear friend Minnie to her KDPhi formal, and then, the next weekend, I get to go up to berkeley and escort one of my many and beautiful lil sis Erin to her berk kdphi formals. AND then, lastly, Erin is nice enough to come down to San Diego, chill with her big bro and escort me to Lambda Installs. Whew..anyhow, I'm really tired from playing bball and badminton tonight, so I'm gonna see if I can attach a lil image to the blog and show you both my berk lil sis. If the image works, the one on my right is EDNA...isnt she cute?! Yea guys..get in line man...she's hotly contested but gots a man. Smartie too..she's at Stanford for her Masters right now. As for ERIN, she's a smartie pants too..dang, makes me jealous...is aiming for Harvard Med School...and I know you can do it!! She's taking her MCATS next weekend. GOOD LUCK ERIN =) OK..and if the link doesnt work..maybe next time. hehe

2002-04-12T00:49:00.000-07:00
Saw a movie tonight with a coworker and a buddy from Texas. We chose the film High Crimes...I personally thought it was a very interesting and twisty movie. The storyline was pretty good and I enjoyed. WELL....lemme tell ya though. I dont think the navy guy we saw it with enjoyed it very much. Afterall, the whole movie was basically bagging on the military system, how corrupt they are and how ugly things can get. Guess I shoulda known that it was gonna turn out that way before I went in there. Oh well...i liked it, thats what counts right? Stressful day may i add...running all over the place today, in and out, in and out, non stop. Geez, I gotta stop putting miles on my car. Its been less than 5 months, and I have already 7000 miles on it! AHHHH Must start bumming rides from friends and not the other way around. =) Sorta glad the weekend's here, the week's gone by pretty quick and it should be a fun weekend. Celebrating 2 friend's bdays this weekend, and we're hitting up Star Bar...its a small bar in the gaslamp, and supposedly it was voted one of the top 10 men's bar in the country by STUFF magazine cuz they have all-asian female bartenders...supposedly. So yea, the boys are gonna go check it out this weekend. Should be interesting nontheless. Gonna bounce. Past this old man's bedtime.

2002-04-11T00:07:00.000-07:00
Pretty productive day @ work I'd say. Learn a bunch of new things, and believe it or not, I actually understood what one of the scientis was telling me for once! =)
I'm still thinking of that issue I have in my head, but I cant quite put in words, so I just wont comment on it til I know wat I want to say. I'm not sure if I'm looking forward to this weekend, in a way yes, in a way no. Yes, cuz I will see a lot of friends of mine, but no because I'm putting myself in a situation I dont like. E's formal's this weekend...i'm sure she's been counting down the days all along. Well..you did it, and you did it with quite a style. I dont know what to say but congratulations. I said 3 months ago that you could do it, and I said it again a week before your i-week. You certainly made a lot of people happy doing what you did. you make me happy...most of the time.

2002-04-10T01:42:00.000-07:00
Man..i have this bigggg question trying to get off my chest..but i'm too tired to type
guess i'll ask tomorrow.. =( Tired...nite

2002-04-09T17:35:00.000-07:00
Ok, here's something to think about, for those fellas, like ME, are single. I guess I've always noticed this, but didnt see it jump out in front of me til I dropped in to this psych class that I was sitting in for my enjoyment. Psychology classes are the mecca for women. Freakin, I was bored enough today during the lecture and decided to count the ratio of men to women in this one particular class. Believe it or not, the ratio was about 1:8..Count them and WEEP...8 women to 1 man!!! Short, Tall, Skinny, Flacas..they've got them all. I looked around my seat, I realized that I was surrounded by estrogen raging mad women! Dood, if the myth about women having the same time frame for PMS if they've been together long enough like living in the same dorm(in this case, being in psych class for 10 weeks) I would NOT want to be sitting in the same room as 200 ovulating women during that one time of the month. On the other hand, if you like eye candy, then u're in for a definite treat. See, what most of you bio people like I am as well, dont understand is, that psych classes isnt your typical bio class. No, these arent girls writing down every word that floats out of the prof's mouths and can careless if they strolled into class in PJs just to get the front center seat in the lecture room. No, girls that take psych, for the majority, are those girls that care about how good they look in class rather than jot down the next reading assignment. See, thats what I mean by eye candy...they definitely good to look at in class, but man..these girls ...u cant take them home to mommy. Sorry..just had to make that observation I made. Of course, its not 100% true, but I might just be exaggerating a teeny bit since I've been bored all day and had nothing to do at work. What I mean is, of course there still will be a sprinkle here and there of people that needs this psych class to fulfill a GE requirement but really is a bio major. Anyhow...time to go splurge and treat myself to boba. More on this later. If people disagree... email me. =) mshih@ucsd.edu

2002-04-08T20:32:00.000-07:00
F@$%#%#%^&#@$%!~! DAMN IT!!!! So mad at myself right now....choked on a clutch play in softball...grrrr... I was the winning run batting, and I choked!! 2 outs bottom of the sixth...(thats the last inning in softball...) man on 2nd and I CHOKED!! $#%#$%@#$ I cant fuckin believe...so mad...BLAH...need to get better, dats for sure. =(

2002-04-08T00:55:00.000-07:00
I think my song for the week is "I'm All About You," by Aaron Carter. Really soothing song, in fact, I'm listening to it right now. The voice sounds a lil kid-ish and young, but I like the song. The weekend's winding down and its been a good one to me i'd say. Life sorta back on track for those that know what I'm talking about...and I'm content with everything happening around me.

Finished taking pictures for Fusion tonight..pretty tiring and snapped about a total of 300 pictures for the event. There were a lot of dance crews there, so I got a lot of shots off. I almost had a disaster when I thought I ran out of batteries half way through the show. I was shitting in my pants cuz the film wouldn't rewind anymore, and I was pretty scared shietless. But for some odd reason, i turned it off, then on again, and it kicked back into life and actually didnt die on me the rest of the nite with about 3 rolls left to shoot. Note: To all photographers...BRING BACKUP CAMERAS or BATTERIES..or you;d be shiet outta luck one of these days..esp if its a paying gig. KDPhi composites were a flop, 3 people showed up the whole time when i was expecting about 10-12...?? but oh wells, its not gonna be my fault when all of them have to cram in the 2 hr slot that we have set up next weekend, not to mention I have to take Lambda composites too as well next weekend.

Anyhow, all this daylight savings thingy is screwing up my schedule, need to get some sleep, got lots of rxns to run at work tomorrow.

2002-04-07T00:29:00.000-08:00
Pretty uneventful weekend thus far...just sorta hung out with my big bro since he was down in SD and also got a chance to clean my room a lil more. Tomorrow should be a lil more exciting..if I can call it that. Well...I decided to volunteer to take pictures for the Fusion Hip Hop competition and that should take up a majority of my nite. It goes from 6-9 and before that, I have to take pics for the SD KDPhis for their composites. I figured its not a bad tradeoff for the Fusion thing since I'll be in the front row and I get a free admission. Sounds good to me. Anything free these days sounds good to me. =)

Still a lil sore from badminton last nite. Always knew I was in bad shape, but damn, I got wooped by a reallly really sucky guy that was really fit. Sorta pissed me off. Here I was, the former CIF champ 6 yrs ago, and now..no better than an amature!! ARGH! Yea yea yea, I know all of you that think badminton as a backyard or beach rec activity, but you guys gotta get out there and actually see competitive badminton. It is THE fastest racquet sport in the world and is one of the most vigrous as well. Those shuttles come at you at 200+mph at the olympic table, and it is quite exciting to watch. Anyways, cant convince anyone just by talking about it, but just go out and see, you'll know what I mean. I've always been the sporty kinda guy I think. I feel like if I stop being lazy and keep going with my sports addiction, I would get a lil more healthy. I love sports, and I think I'm OK at a lot of diff sports. The thing is, not too many people in college play sports at all. Most asian guys play basketball, which I wouldnt mind playing..'cept a majority of asian guys are short (not saying I'm short, cuz I'm not) and I feel bad playing all those gigantic overgrown caucasian guys, and just simply get wooped. Thats no fun at all... But yea, currently, I'm still playing softball for the company, badminton(getting back into it), and I would also like to play volleyball more. Blah, no one does sports!!

2002-04-05T00:54:00.000-08:00
i just need to forget about it!!!! f**K

2002-04-05T00:10:00.000-08:00
The feeling of finding out that you've been lied to sucks. I experienced it a couple days ago, and it really pissed me off. I dont see the point of lying sometimes, cuz you know it'll just come back to you and bite you in the ass sometimes. I admit, I've lied on several occasions in the past, but I dont think I would lie to my friends, maybe acquaintances, but not friends. Argh, it just leaves this bad taste in my mouth. forget it, I need to sleep, tomorrow's a big day.

2002-04-04T23:57:00.000-08:00
yea...officially dateless to installs. blah. not my own installs anyways.

2002-04-04T23:56:00.000-08:00
Yeah..so the question of the day is...AM I REALLY GETTING THAT OLD. It seems to me lately that I have no desire to party watsoever. Whatever happened to the frat boy in me!?!@ Argh, guess Thursday nowadays the prelude to the weekend, minnie and them all went out to E-street, but i didnt even feel like going at all... Blahh. I think its just that I'm at the age where I've done my fair share of partying, and it just seems like such a hassle to bother to meet new people and mingle. My ideal fun time is sitting around and chatting/gossiping, while sipping on a tom collins or something. hahah am i ancient or what?! I think a lot of people would agree with me though. Partying gets old after a whiles, so does drinking. <--but thats still fun once in a whiles.. hahah

whew, i guess i didnt screw up as much as I thought i did at work. I was a little confused on what I was suppose to do today, but I found out that I was just following another protocol, and the stuff i did last time was ok. BIG RELIEF i tell ya. Funny thing at work too...my boss keeps on telling me that I should take more pics and start having shows and sell my pictures..I was like..puhahaha, yeah, right!! But the more and more I think about it, I think I do a decent job at taking shots that the general public likes. Heck, she even offered to buy one of the pics in my portfolio from me. That made me smile for the day =) It was the pic of my own hands in car grease...lots of detail and a close-up. Pretty nice I'd say..so I offered to reprint her a copy later on this month when I get around to it.

2002-04-04T00:43:00.000-08:00
Ok, so I totally think I fuct up today at work. I wasnt kidding when I said they were starting to throw curves at me. They've trained me on a lot of different techniques and I think I totally blew it today on one of my projects!!! *gulp* Geez, I've got a long day tomorrow too, and I need to find out from someone else what I did wrong. Grrr..streesss...

Been trying to call my mom and sister in taiwan for the last several days, for some reason, i still cant get a hold of them. There was a phatty earthquake there last week, and I just wanted to make sure that everything's ok over there. I'm thinking they are definitely ok since the phone still works..? A better guess is probably cuz they're in China with my dad. Anyways, I'll just keep on trying.

Decided not to go up north this weekend. I simply have too much crap to do on my hands and I feel very uneasy putting everything last minute again. I promised myself that I'd at least cut down on the procrastinating a bit this year. I'm taking composites for my own fraternity and the sd kdphis. The kdphi one should be a cinch, in and out, no problemo, wham bam thank you mam. I'll get paid right away too, so its an easy job to work on. As for the one for our own chapter...grrrr..totally not looking forward to it, cuz i know already that people are gonna lag and not show up to take the pics, and it just makes it harder for me to do cuz I need to pics to layout the composite board. *praying to god* hope that they'll actually cooperate for once. If someone gives me shiet about it, I'm outta there, cuz I hate it when the guys make things difficult.

2002-04-02T00:09:00.000-08:00
more on fraternity life...like i said before, this is the last year of being a lambda before i head off into the real world. This last installs will be special, just like the last convention I'll be going to in texas this year. I guess this is a good way to bring closure. I wish to share this last installs with a special person, someone fun, someone with a touch of humor, and just someone plain ol happy to share the occasion with me. It'll be a blast i hope.

Work is getting a lil more tough. They're throwing curves at me everyday now, and I'm actually enjoying the challenge. I guess it does prepare me a lot better for a future job in the biotech world. Its all about "techniques" in the lab, the good thing is, there's a lot of them, but each are unique and done mostly the same basic way, so if you know how to do one thing, the chances are, you can perform that technique in several diff ways when some variables has to change. i just wish it was a lil higher paying right now..haha. Ok...I really did ramble on too long, and now I need to do some real work. be back later

2002-04-01T23:59:00.000-08:00
sorry, not taking the chance of it being erased, so i cut off early. Anyhow, like I was saying....I think we all wish for the best, and hope desperately for difficult things to go our way if we just prayed hard enough. But its at these times, that everything goes against you. You just gotta keep your head up, and hope you catch the next big wave to bring you to that higher level of happiness in your life. You cant stand or sit around for it to come to you, it doesnt work that way.

Thoughts about fraternity life has rushed into my head more and more lately. From the few events that I go to every quarter nowadays, I get the feeling more and more that I'm ready to close the book in that chapter of my life. Joining Lambdas has been one of the most memorable events in my life thus far...both good and bad has come from it, and as of now, I would have to say that the bad has outweighed the good. I find myself disagreeing with the younger guys more and more...but the sad part is, I think I'm right, and they think they're right..so the argument goes nowhere cept heated tempers. I tend to agree with my roommate, that says "just let it go, its not worth thinking about.." oh wait, i think my big bro said that..haha. Its true though, once you get older and seen all things alike, you get to think over things in a broader sense and realize how wrong you were when you were younger...just the same way in fraternity life. Dont get me wrong, all those young guys are mostly good to the house and would do anything for the house..but they lack the understanding that being the super lambda in collge doesnt necessarily get you anywhere after college. The real world isnt all about how much alcohol you can drink, or how many different sorority girls you've slept with. Its ok though...people will realize when they get towards their college career. I never did regret joining lambdas, but I know its time to move on. My time has come.

2002-04-01T23:42:00.000-08:00
anyhow, dats try again. Anyhow, as I was saying before, I've been reading some people's random posts, and it sorta amuses me how similiar some people's life experiences are similar. I was reading this one UCI girl's log..and she has been writing about a past relationship and a third person that has intervened in her life and to me, that just totally reminded me of alfalfa* and what went on recently. The UCI girl did the same thing as alfalfa* and it just trips me out that they think alike. Of course much of it I was torn on what I thought was right and what was wrong. But hey, you know what, I'm not living their lives, so I cant really comprehend why they came to those decisions like they did. In the same sense though, I do feel the same about how we dont talk as much as before, and how we act lil different than we did before this all happened.

2002-04-01T23:33:00.000-08:00
damn it! its the 3rd time that blog has given me an error when i tried to post, and i lost all of my writings...grrr...

2002-04-01T01:35:00.000-08:00
Very fun and exciting weekend in Catalina. Nothing beats drinking and fishing on an island til the sunrise with the old fellas. There was 17 of us total, most of the guys are the alumni from our chapter and a few gf's here and there. It was only for a day, but pretty satisfying. A chance to get away from it all, ya know? Took an hr and a half to get to the island, and it IS in the boonies.

Sorta sad that I have got to come back to reality and face everything ahead of me. There's gonna be some tough times I know it, but hopefully I can work through them. Too tired to write anymore, pretty exhausted. I'll jot some more stuff down tomorrow, time to sleep. ZzZzZzz

2002-03-29T18:44:00.000-08:00
Last post before I leave for Catalina. Anyways, I'm going to visit my lil sis Susan in Irvine today. Out of all 11 of my lil sis's, I consider Susan one of my closest, simply cuz I hang out with her a lot. Don't get me wrong, I luv all of my lil ones, but sometimes they're just so far away that its almost impossible to keep in touch. But somehow, I manage to do that with Susan, maybe cuz she calls me ONCE IN A WHILE...hahah Oh...you know what, maybe its a subliminal thing...cuz I have her frame that she gave me right on top of my computer desk...maybe dats why I THINK I see her a lot..cuz i always see that picture when I'm at my computer...and come on now, when am I NOT on the comp? =D Anyhow, sorta excited about this camping thing, its only a day thing and all, but I really need to get away from SD for a weekend. I can sense it already that its gonna be a long year and I wont have the luxury of being a college student and having spring breaks, summer and all...its gonan be work work and more work. Blah... Suppose to go see Ice Age tonight, but plans fell through. So I wanna spend time with my lil ones....and actually, all the Irvine SOPis are very nice girls to hang out with, very laid back and fun to be around. Shiet, I'm suppose to be in Irvine already..ok ok..must leave. Hopefully we'll go see 40 days and 40 nights tonight if they're up for it. Sounds like a hilarious film. Dats it for now, gotta hit the road..ta-ta!!!

2002-03-28T02:14:00.000-08:00
A little more people than I thought had this blog thingy. I just found a whole mess of people from UCSD that uses this darn thing. Its actually quite nice to finally keep an ongoing journal. Somtimes when you look back, there are definitely things that you'd miss if it wasnt written down on paper...err...computer. Needless to say, wasted the nite away watching TV. Grr...not productive at all. Its thursday...I might go up to Irvine to visit my lil one =) Time to sleep...insomnia sucks.

2002-03-27T22:57:00.000-08:00
Nothing too exciting today. Had total insomnia last nite and didnt end up sleeping til 4am. Woke up at 8 to take Dave to car dealer, then went off to work. Pretty productive day I'd say, got complimented on how well the symposium pics turned out, worked til 6, went to tofu house with jess, and had some boba. Now i'm home just bumming it by myself. How sad is that?!?! This next couple of week's gonna be pretty darn crazy...too many places to be and too little time. I'm supposed to go see all my lil nieces that i adopted from berk kdphis from tau class and also escort my lil sis from Virginia...errr, I'm not sure how I'm suppose to pull that off, but it seems that southwest dont really fly to that particular city. Well, we'll see, I have a free roundtrip ticket anyways. Going camping on Catalina Island this weekend, should be fun, hope I catch some fish. =P There's 17 of us going, so it should be fun. Oh, and the following week, LA Kappa Formals...prob wont go, cuz the last time i was there, i had a hangover that lasted an eternity. Not escorting anyways, so no point in going, 'cept to see my lil ones get drunk and i know how that goes. I'll leave that to her escort. Following week, go up north or not..that is the question. Oh...almost forgot, suppose to go to the bike races in fontana with some riders on the 7th. Damn....so many darn things to do! I really need to get out more, been hibernating at home so often the last couple of weeks. *sigh* Feel like cleaning my room again. blahhhh

2002-03-27T01:58:00.000-08:00
I was bored and started cleaning my room today and sorted through some old pictures. I saw some pictures that dated back 10 yrs ago. Crazy how time flies. Some of the funniest pictures were the ones from high school. It just seemed like yesterday when I was goin to all these proms and school dances. Now I think about it, I actually went to 8 semi-formals in my life during hs. EIGHT!!! Dats damn crazy i say. 4 winter formals and 2 jr proms as well as 2 senior ball. There was one picture with a friend of mine at a jr prom that I dont even remember goin to, how funny is that!? As I browsed through those pictures, some friends have stuck around and there are ones that I havent spoken to ever since....I dont think I do a very good job at keeping in touch, I think I should jsut start triyng to get back in touch with those close friends that have drifted away. I remember Eli, who was my bestest friend in high school (after she caused the biggest drama in my life...to make a long story short, I had a girlfriend, met Eli on the badminton team, started liking her, broke up with my gf(who is now and STILL happily together with a guy I hated a LOT in hs), and then...nothing evolved from Eli and I, we just became the closest friends.) she was a newbie at my high school, having to move from Chicago...we really lost touch after high school, whihc I regret. But I'm happy to know that she's happily MARRIED (yea, can u believe it) to her bf of several years and still resides in Fremont. The reason I bring this up, its cuz I read the funniest note that she wrote to me in between a class that I still have. =) Anyways, I miss my old friends, and now, I wanna try to get back in touch if its not too late. Its never too late to reminisce and think of happier times =)

2002-03-26T01:42:00.000-08:00
Bought my ticket to convention this year in Austin, Texas...cost me an arm and a leg. It was 300 dollars for a roundtrip ticket there. I figured this will definitely be my last convention unless they happen to have it where I'm situated in the future. Definitely the last year of binge-drinking at wee hrs of the morning all memorial weekend long...dats for sure. Convention is comedy though, I remember 2 yrs ago at the SF convention...freakin everyone was so drunk that they terrorized the whole hotel and switched all the room numbers around. Imagine this...people drunk off their asses, stumbling in the hallway....trying to find their freakin rooms!!! That was definitely the best convention that I've been to. And then...there was last year in Palm Springs, complete with RIOT POLICE armed with police dogs and rubber bullets. Hey, but it was good/bad publicity....depending how you looked at it. We made the morning local news as the "asian fraternity convention gets out of hand at local resort." In the morning, there was still news reporters around the hotel....and yes, of course, we had to be all chinese/asian-like and wave in the damn camera behind the reporter. =) HI MOM! puhahah Man...cant even begin to imagine what this year will be like...TEXAS...GIRLS...GUYS...HOTEL ROOMS...oh no... If they count the number of one nite stands at a typical Lambda Convention, we'd be in the Guinness Book of Records. Sorta gross, but sadly, its true. Now I remember that is why the old guys like me and others get our own room, with 4 to a room, and not 30 in a room like the younger guys.... i like sleep. =P

2002-03-26T01:27:00.000-08:00
Ok, wanna know my new pet peeve that I found that bugs me? The fact that when someone go sees a movie that he/she said they'll see with you. Argh, I guess there's some situations where it might be ok...say...your mom and dad wants to go see it on a family nite or something. But ARGH...! I think i'm just bugged cuz i rejected people to see a certain movie cuz I said I was gonna see it with someone else, but the person that i was suppose to see it with, SAW IT! freakin' eh.

2002-03-24T02:29:00.000-08:00
Yea, so its the first official day of Spring Break, and I ended up spending it with the craziest brainiacs in modern cancer research. 4 Nobel Prize Laureates and countless scientists from places such as Cal Tech, Harvard, Scripps, so on and so forth. It was for a symposium on Viruses, Oncogenes, and Cancer. It was in fact in honor of my boss' old boss, Peter K. Vogt. Pretty famous guy i'd say, cuz there was people as far away as Japan and England that flew in this weekend to see him!! Anyhow, did that most of the day, and gonna do the same tomorrow...so prob should get some sleep. =P Going to call up Ms. E tomorrow probably...just cuz i wanna say wassssupppp..since we dont really talk on the phone anymore...

2002-03-20T04:45:00.000-08:00
Two down one more to go...FINALS that is. Thursday's finals gonna bend me over and slap me silly. Anyhow, alfalfa imed me today and told me pics were in from the informals. She was complaining about her hair that went crazy that nite. Funny thing is, i saw that "sticky" strand of hair the whole nite and didnt bother to mention it to her. Wanna know why? Cuz....you know these days, i thought that was just the new style...going contemporary ya know?! Its okies, she looked gorgeous regardless, maybe thats why i didnt notice so much. I wasnt looking at her hair or her nails, or her dress, she looked good to me in any way, shape, size, or form. She was a true-life princes..maybe a lil too much like it. =P I am lacking some major sleep..I should chasing some ZzZzZ's right about now!

Oh, one more thought. Besides all the drama I've been dealing with, I think I've been made happy by some of the other events thats happened to me. I've noticed in the last 3 or 4 days that a lot of good things has come to me at times least expected. A lady offering me a free drink at a restaurant just cuz I was taking finals this week. My great grand lil sis treated me to a coffee for no charge since she worked there, and just tonight, Anne, a kdphi, treated me by buying me a bunch of snacks to last me the nite. I feel pretty darn good. OH, and not to mention that i got free boba at tea station tonight. Sheesh...guess i get the VIP discount..since i go there every other day!!! =) ok..me happy for today besides all the drama. Nite all..better day tomorrow..hopefully.

2002-03-19T03:50:00.000-08:00
ok, so I find this from one of my bros, Calvin. Always wanted to start a journal, and I was on livejournal.com for a whiles, and I thought my posts were getting a lil too repetitive, seemed like life revolved around *her*. So...I guess I'm shutting that one down, and starting over.