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Wednesday, 27 February 2008

Official Yearly Update

(because thats how often I log in.)

    I didn't touch this for all of 2007, damn that IS pretty bad. 2007 was a filler year. Meaning that it's just there in the middle of other more exciting things. It was alright I guess, nothing exciting or not too much new. I can't seem to remember summer of 07'. It was that passable of a summer. So I hope summer 08 makes up for it now that most of us are going to be 21. By the way that blog before this, reading it now makes me feel too intense, but I guess it was an "in the moment" kinda thing. It's all good of course. I can say the feelings mutual. I don't think I'm really in the right mindset at the moment, still got little kinks to straighten out myself, but sometimes the want blindfolds the real, and it's been a while. What can I say, I'm a guy.

School was pretty fun when Fall semester came around, which only consisted of 2 classes.. that really taught me how much I didn't know about what I really want to do. So it just felt like jumping into school because I felt like I had to. I did enjoy all of that semester I was in school. I decided to go to Mesa instead of Miramar. Too bad I didn't start going to Mesa my first year. So many more classes, clubs, events, and girls. Yeah I know all of you who switched from Miramar to Mesa agree. I took Japanese 101 and Sculpture/Ceramics 101. Yeah I didn't know what else to take, and I didn't want to stress over school, but I'll admit it wasn't that productive of a semester. I did learn how to write Japanese Hiragana and Katakana + VERY little Kanji, and finally sculpt one of my long-running ideas, take a look;

It's my rendition of Salvador Dali's Melting Clocks. That painting only had 2 clocks melting on the tree I believe, and it was only a branch that showed up in the painting. I decided to take it a little bit further, and this is what my idea evolved into. I've made other things like a Chinese merchant boat as big as my arm, a Rubix cube inspired abstract piece, and a white milk jug. I'm really more of a visual guy. You know those people good with words? I guess I can say I'm good with visuals. I can throw them around and express them like how some people can express through words, or sometimes even sounds.

Ive met an interesting bunch of people and made some friends through that Fall semester. From Japanese 101, I hung out with all the Koreans, and no Japanese, how funny is that. I was one of the youngest in the group. They'd talk in Korean all the time and I'd sit there space out. They showed me some hidden spots for good eats in Kearny and Convoy. Also known as K-Town haha. Although I couldn't understand them half the time, they were good fun people. Might have a little reunion this Friday night.
During the summertime, I was in my cousin Julian's video project for Reel Voices, presented by the San Diego Asian Film Festival. But before you watch it know that: I'm not as anti (whatever field you want to go into) as I seem, because I didn't get to say all I wanted to in this cut, AND I have no idea why my cousin decided to shoot me fixing my clothes.. WTF KUKOY. hahah but props on everything else of course. Thanks for letting me be part of this. Nothing I've said was scripted either. Enjoy:
Christmas this year, I can't remember what happened exactly at the moment. I do remember Artie staying with us for most of the 1st semester. It's like having a roomie. It was an experience, and for those of you who know Artie, it was an experience indeed. Imagine living with "the funny guy" from the crew. 24/7. Then he moved to La Quinta, some desert 3 hours away where old rich people live. Sounds exciting.
As of January 2008, I decided to start something new. It's a plan in progress as I speak, and my longterm goals are dreams at the moment. It might be different, but it's progress, a step towards somewhere. I decided to take a break from school for a year or so, and just work full time to save up money for a new car, art school tuition (OUCH), and hopefully move out somewhere decent by the time I'm 23. I want to move downtown right now, but the destination might change. As the car goes, I plan on keeping the Sentra I own now, and buy a 95' 240sx. I already have my eye on a specific one, and I'm in good terms with the owner. Now to save that 5 Gs. I'm 1/5 there haha. I plan on tuning the car while having my Sentra as a daily driver, don't wanna put too much mileage on the 240. Art school. To be honest, it's gonna be tough. I'm not in yet, and it already feels hard. I'm talking about the $$$ part. For one, art school is expensive. Period. I want to get into graphic design and photography and maybe some culinary. So with this year off, I'm trying to find something that will either cater to that, or narrow it down, while having money at my disposal. It'll be a safe zone. I have a feeling things will work out no matter what.
To help out my funds, I've found a spot in AVInternational. AVi is a marketing firm/print broker. It's an easy job, given that you do your job. Right now I'm part of the Sales Team and I am the Business Development Printing Specialist, sounds fancy but it's not too big of a deal. We provide everything a business needs under one roof. Meaning your company won't have to go to some "guy" to design your website, another "guy to make your website, another "guy" to print your brochures, and another "guy" to do your public relations. AVi take the hard work off your hands so you can focus more on your customers. Who ever reads this let me know if you or anyone you know need any advertising, we do it all, even TV commercials. Anything you can think of under the word ADVERTISEMENT. This job is very promising, it could even lead to a career. Don't get it wrong I still plan on doing art, but now I need something more solid, so I can enjoy what I love doing in the near future.

Thoughts floating around; I turned 21 on February 10. Didn't do much though, I'm bad at planning events. So somebody just surprise me for my 22nd. Everyone is getting blogspot, what happened to all your Xangas? haha By the way, I was the anonymous guy who posted on http://www.coolkidsroom.blogspot.com/ about Yogurt World opening up in Mira Mesa. I'm kind of excited about that, no more driving 15 minutes to Convoy. Now how about getting all those Korean/Japnese retaurants in Mira Mesa too.. I'm getting sick at the moment, and so is everyone else. But it's lasting too long, and it's not a full blown sick, just the "you're able to go through the day, but still manage to feel shity."
Anyways, I have high hopes for me this year, don't let me down.

         END.
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Tuesday, 19 December 2006

So it's 5:01 right now as I start writing this, it's also been really cold lately so my fingers right now are real cold, I can't even feel the keyboard caps. Right now I'm listening to Brandtson - Escapist basically on repeat. I don't know why but the song is pretty catchy. I'm not sure who exactly reads this but I guess it's just an outlet for whatever is on my mind and also to update those who I haven't seen in a while, but then agian I'm not sure who knows about this either. So the past few months not much change, little events here and there connected together by the same group of friends ever since summer 06'.

OCTOBER
I quit Sony and was jobless for about two months. Sony was a good job, but I mean after beating a game 4 times or so it gets tedious, you go home and try to play video games and you tell yourself "what the hell am I doing I just did this for 12 hours." It wasn't a stable job either, but fun while it lasted, free coffee and tea in the break room, sometimes donuts on Fridays. This month was nothing but hanging out, doing whatever, some school whenever I had it, by the way I only have one class so It's hard to sympathize those who talk about cramming for finals whishing for it to die. I'm taking Painting 1-2, and planning to take Painting 3-4 next semester. Nothing big happened this month. Partying it up in a few times and a lot more towards the end of the month, until it was a week of all parties for Halloween. I wish I had pictures to show you but for one of them I was The Invisible Man. If you're wondering how I pulled that off I didn't NOT attend the party to be invisible.. haha some people asked me that... anyways I wore what the invisible man wore when he walked out of the house, I wore goggles, wrapped my face in cloth and wore gloves, everything else was also covered in 1920's style clothing/trenchcoat. Neither my skin or hair was visible. The other parties I went to I was Superman/Clark Kent. I didn't have a Superman shirt, so I just drew the S on paper and pasted it on a blue shirt, over that I wore a business suit, with shirt butons unbuttoned, so you can see the S. Here is a picture at one of the parties.

So yeah it looked pretty legit for a homemade costume if you ask me.

and then just like that , October was over and moving on to the next month.

NOVEMBER
Aannnd another month of no job. This month had a few highlights, first off, IT WAS MY 11 YEARS OF BEING IN AMERICA. Ironic how I spent that day with some friends at Disneyland, because before I even got here, my mom told me, "when we go to America, we will go to Disneyland when we get off the plane". Me being 8 years old and innocent and all excited believed her. But the truth was I never got to go to the happiest place one Earth until I was 18.. haha. I went summer of 05' with another group of friends. Lost touch with some of them though. So yeah, all day at Disneyland, there were jokes about my 11 years here and whatnot, but all in the name of fun. There were 18 of us who went to Disneyland, very big group. We took one van, an SUV, and a car. Disneyland was fun, but by the end of the day my feet were killing me, I wanted to get them amputated... haha. Before going home, we went to Denny's in Irvine and ate some food, had some good laughs and just talked about the whole day. There were a lot of asian college kids there at 3 in the morning, but then again it was Irvine. Towards the end of the month... uhm I started to learn how to play chords a lot better than before, and sing a little with the playing, but still having a hard time with getting the voice and strumming rythm in harmony. Maybe later, anyways, here is a pic of us when we got to Disneyland..

D-land 06' crew.. Nelson, Ant, Drew, Ren, Keng, David, Tuan, Dennis, Justin, Floyd, Jordan, Martino, Mark, Stacy, Heather, Ray, Nick, and Adonis.

DECEMBER
Christmas! is soon, so soon but I don't even feel it coming. Given that it's already cold, Christmas manages to get even colder every year. Yannow? With the family and friends. Putting that aside, I got a job earlier this month, got hooked up by Oliver. Thats a good thing. since my cousin moved out of the house, I can help my mom pay the rent again. I now work at the Del Mar Albertson's off of Vila De La Valle, bagging your goods and putting back your carts for $9.00 and hour, not bad if you ask me, it's only $7.40 in here Mira Mesa. I like working there, it gives me a workout, meeting new people, new environment, and a lot of nice old people. I plan on working here for a while, enough to buy myself a new car, well not new, something better than what I've got right now. The song How To Save A Life is also stuck in my head, I've been playing it over and over on the guitar, and now got Keng hooked on the song. School will be over after this week so that means more hangout time with people. I have to finish my final painting, it's a painting of Superman, I think this is my best work yet. I'll post up a picture when it's done.

So now it's currently 5:49 AM.
I have class in 12 hours and that also means I have to finish my painting before then, and also to get some sleep, I haven't slept in almost a day now. I wonder if wishing on shooting stars do anyhting, probably not. There have been 2 the past 3 months. I can feel my fingers again, good sign? But yeah I'll end it here. Goodmornin'

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Monday, 16 October 2006

It would be the alternate ending in the theater that people would boo and throw popcorn at. So the producers decide not to show it and instead it would be put in the dvd release months later, and yet the viewers would still boo at their tvs upon viewing this alternate ending. That alternate ending did not make it into all the releases, and for the lucky ones, they get to enjoy the film all the way with a feel-good ending. You can imagine what happenes to the not so lucky others.

Some are still booing.

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Thursday, 10 August 2006

Word.
Summer is whizzing by as fast as ever. Work has made it go by faster actually. Speaking of work, Fcuk Blockbuster, we have the worst Assistant Store Manager right now. I'm seriously about to quit, but other than that, summer has been fun, lots of things to do, many new friends, many good times with all my friends. All the parties, get togethers, bonfires, (not enough I'd have to say.) Schoolwise, I'm heading back to Miramar this semester, but I visited Art Institute yesterday, the school is dope. A lot of things to do, all the things I need. It's a bit pricy but from what I have learned in life, money should not be an issue. I don't plan on taking much classes this Fall, I feel like working somewhere new, with a better wage and slowly pursue art through classes, and then transfer either to Brooks Institute, or A.I. Enough of school. I haven't been home lately, been sleeping over friends' houses, hangin out, smashing, getting into DOTA finally. It was bound to happen.

The condo has been my 2nd home for the past month or so.
DAILY PLAN WHENEVER I AM THERE:
Come over, play games, drink, play games, eat, drink, watch movies and next thing you know it's the next day already. Repeat for the next 24 hours.
Been gettng in the shirt game lately. Now I'm broke as hell. I got nice shirts though haha. Next up: Nike Blazers. No one really rocks em. And I think they look better than most dunks.

I MEAN, CMON LOOK AT THAT!

Anyways, heres a quick recap of the unupdated times this summer:

This was taken during my Grandma's surprise birthday celebration. These are most of my cousins.
The rest of my cousins are on the East Coast.

5 out of the 3,000,000 pics that Jasmin took over at Drew's BBQ on July 4th.

One of the random kickits around Mira Mesa.

LATE.
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Friday, 23 June 2006

And I Finally Found That Life Goes On Without You
And My World Still Turns When You're Not Around. ----- Anberlin - Naive Orleans
take it as you would like, speak about it as you would like. It's whats real.
SUPER EMO! Right? No, not really.
Whats today?!?!?! Nothing that important.... it's just that I haven't updated in almost a year. Everytime I do update I seem to say a lot has changed, and I BS you not, it's always the truth. A lot has changed yes from the last time I've been here. SINGLE MODE folks thats whats changed... moving on...Nothing else to say about that.
SO NOW SOME PICTURES OF RANDOM STUFF IN AN ATEMPT TO UPDATE YOU WITHOUR USING TOO MUCH WORDAGE. haha

Anyways, College has passed my by one year, I am now a 2nd year in college YES!! no more froshie. College so far has been.. bleh. fun. meaningful at the same time, my grades weren't the best in the world. I'm still learning. Entering College taught me many lessons and threw my many other unexpected lessons on it's arrival. But thats over with, and next semester I plan on hauling more ass to getting those better grades. It is a struggle for some of us, because while your trying to adjust to change, you are trying to keep up with the grades and changing times. It's very comparable to trying to tie your shoe while trying to get first place in a race. You're bound to fall over sometime, UNLESS you have velcro shoes, thats another story. GET IT? GET IT? Anywho. yeah, the diffculty level of College will gradually settle once we learn and get used to it over time, and once we do, all will be for the better. But until then, learn from your mistakes and keep that head up.
I've been to the beach a fair amount of times this summer. I've already helped host a bonfire, kind of. But I was there from 9 A.M, so I'm guessing that counts. I've been to a few beach days, boarding, swimming, a jaccuzzi night here, a movie night there, some other business that lasts till 2 A.M. every now and then. All in good fun. Summer has kicked off to a good start. Lately it's all been about the family, friends, and the beach. That should be the perfect summer formula right there. It feels weird continue on another summer while being self-aware of some things, for this... It's true that innocence is bliss. I'm not saying that it's true all the time, but it is true to some degree at times. It feels good and not so good at the same time, to be aware. It's all part of the infinite lessons you will learn all your life.
Work is pretty chill. I get payed more than that other place. Hahaha. I love working here, no cliques among co-workers, no obvious social levels or segregation.. because yes it does happen, and I know. Yesterday was my GM's last day. We will miss you Jennifer Faussett. I didn't get to work with you a lot, but you were pretty cool. Talks of promotion are right around the corner, but I don't think I want that much stress for that little amount of money. We'll see...
So for now I'm just chillin, life is a breeze and I couldn't ask more from God. Thank you.
I just plan on running errands today and then hangout with the friends. For tonight, who knows, another kickback, just chill with the friends.
Single Sensations.

P.S. By the way people, I now have a cellphone, so to those of you who have no other means of contact besides this Xanga, the # is (858) 382-2725. I don't expect a call, but that would be great .
PeaceOut for now!
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