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![]() remain seated pleasepermanece sentados, por favorSunday, October 27, 2002 long weekend. got back from retreat last night, and that was a nice and relaxing experience. the bus got a flat on the way there, and we ended up spending five hours on it. luckily it wasn't as bad as it sounds. it was a good time of just chilling and talking with people. so that was fun. the schedule got screwed up but it ended up being ok because we got extra time to just spend with classmates. i can't believe we're juniors already. disgusting. only one more year left. good times. got back from church today and ended up wasting a grip of time instead of doing my project that's due tomorrow. boo. at least the angels one. and thanks for dinner nancy! it was good stuff. we played softball but just a scrimmage because the ohter team didn't have enough players and had to forfeit. it was kick back but i ended up spraining my right index finger while fielding a ball, which isn't good news because i got a project due tomorrow and i haven't started. sucks. it took me forever to type this because my finger does not function. just one part of the body causes me so much frustration. i don't like my major and i don't wanna do this project. dang it. Wednesday, October 23, 2002 tammy left today. we had a great weekend though. went to a bunch of places, sf, oakland, berkeley, pinole, emeryville, and did a lot of things too. i'm glad we were finally able to spend a weekend together. it was fun. but now she is gone, which is not fun. anyways, i bought a new pair of shoes yesterday. nike air max 90. old school stylin, just the way i like it. but they were dang expensive. i usually don't spend that much on anything, let alone shoes, but i decided since i had just gotten my last paycheck, i could afford to buy myself something nice. so here's the story. i bought the shoes from footaction which had just opened in the hilltop mall, and i was a pretty easy sale even though the workers there were like trying to get me to buy everything there. it was funny. so i bought the shoes, and was ready to leave when i realized my credit card was gone. the cashier had supposedly given it back to me, but it was nowhere to be found. i was so pissed cuz it disappeared like in a second. so i searched eeeeeverywhere i thought possible, and the conclusion i came up to was that the lady behind us had stolen it after it had fallen to the ground. i ended up calling the bank right there to cancel it, but on the way out we went the same way as the lady because she had parked where we had parked, but we were still a little distance behind her. but by the time we got out to the parking lot, she was gone. i knew for sure that it was her, and i started getting real pissed that someone would do something like that. ahhhhhh. i was pissed for a couple of hours..... until.... i went to go pump gas, and right before i left i gave my wallet to tammy and told her to look in it again to make sure the card wasn't there. earlier i had known that i didn't want to make a scene if my card was just in my wallet and i had failed to see it. so i looked in every pocket and made sure it wasn't there. however about thirty seconds later tammy made a discovery that made me feel really sad and jerkish. the credit card was under my id. when i had pulled my id out to make sure the card wasn't there, the card came out underneath the id and i didn't notice it. i called the bank again to unblock the card, but it was too late. now i'm gonna have to wait 7-10 business days to have money again..... here's what i learned.... 1) Don't judge other people 2) Don't spend a lot of money 3) Don't be a jerk 4) Don't be stupid 5) I miss her already g'nite Monday, October 21, 2002 i'm a sore loser. i think it's because i have no competitive outlet other than softball. i'm not too competitive academically because i end up losing all the time. so i basically have to resort to softball. and that's not good because i really suck at it. so basically the only way i can compete with people and win is with games i play against people where they don't know i'm competing. for example seeing who can eat faster, or drive faster, or stuff like that. i'm a loser, i know, and i'm a sore loser too. although i could go on and on for hours about all the things that went wrong today on the field, i've decided to invent the thirty minute rule. no feelings of anger or sadness thirty minutes after the last out, last tackle, last basket, whatever. i was having a great time today until the game, and i realized it's a waste if i let this stupid game ruin this. i played bad, our team played bad, and that's that. we lost to the eastbay team, raging bull. on another note, i feel really sorry for andy cuz he slid into first base while wearing shorts and gave himself a nasty rug burn on his shin. really gross. and on top of that he has a research paper due tomorrow morning at 9 which he hasn't started. :-( the raider game was awesome. thanks tammy! even though we lost, it was awesome to be in a stadium packed with fellow raider fans going nuts. it was exciting. i vow to go to another game next year, and once i'm rich, i'm gonna get season tickets with my family! and dress my kids up in raider gear too. haha good stuff. so it's been thirty minutes now, no more being sad. i like writing short sentences with nice concrete sentences. i'm glad tammy is at least up here, so i can't really stay that sad, even though i suck. i don't wanna go to class tomorrow. peace! Friday, October 18, 2002 wow, what a long week. 33 out of 45 hours of my life starting tuesday night were spent in lab. no comment. however, today i went to best buy to go pick up the new j5 cd, and i saw a football game on xbox so i went to go play it. i was playing for a little bit when a kid, like 16, 17 came over and was like.... hey, is that NFL Fever 2003? I was like, yeah I think so. and he watched for a little bit. then he was like, you mind if i play, and i was like, nah sure because I was getting pummeled by the computer. i didn't know how to tackle, so i asked him how, and he was like, just press this button. i said thanks and we started playing. he ran the ball three times, all for losses. on fourth down he went for the pass, and i sacked him. so i took the ball, tried three plays that all sucked. then i ran the ball and took it for a touchdown, probably a 40-50 yard run. after he got the ball back, all of a sudden he was like..... so that's why!!!! i was like what?!? he said it's because the controllers aren't set on default (that he was sucking it up). i was like ooooohhhhh... cuz it seemed like he knew what he was talking about right when i first started chatting with him. so he goes to options, and on the screen it said, controller: default. i almost busted out laughing, it was sooooo hilarious. i think he felt really really dumb. haha it was really funny though. anyways, two lessons learned: 1) don't just talk the talk, back it up.... sucka!!!! haha 2) the J5 cd is looking pretty good so far 3) i'm 20, i need to stop beating up on little kids at toy stores on another note.... tammy is gonna be here in less than an hour! i gotta get outta here! woohoo!!!!!! burbank football note: 52-14 loss to hart high school (same h.s. as cal qb kyle boller) before the game my brother was like... i think we're gonna do ok, our coach wants to implement this new defense, and it seems like it's gonna work. score after 4 minutes: 21-0 hart. hahahhaa. like i said earlier brian... talk is cheap mother brother. i'm out to oaktown. peace. Tuesday, October 15, 2002 i am really dumb. part 2 of my battle with the scooter: i went out to the courtyard and opened up the scooter so it would stand up straight and was about to ride it when the wheel fell off. hahahahahha. i guess i showed it who was boss. now i wanna go buy a real one. i shall look online now. peace didn't do so well on the midterm. i am really dumb. i had to go to sproul to take care of some stuff and i got really excited to go because i was gonna ride this random scooter we have at our apt. so i head out, not wearing a t-shirt but just a sweater cuz andy said it was pretty chilly outside, and i was lazy and didn't wanna find a shirt. so i got out on the street, and started going, and realized that the scooter was freggin ghetto. it wasn't a real razor, and was really unstable and stuff, so while i was going across the street, it hit a little bump and sent me flying. luckily i didn't fall but the the tail whipped out and hit my heel, and it freggin hurt. on top of that i started to get really tired so i had to keep on switching legs. haha. by the time i got to sproul, i was sweating like mad because i had worked so hard, but i couldn't even take off my sweater because i didn't have a shirt under. i was really sad. however on the way back i was determined to make it a better trip. unfortunately since the scooter is so ghetto i again went over a little bump and the tail whipped back and yeah... you know the story. so now i have two messed up heels where my skin ripped and no, it doesn't feel good. now i gotta go back to class, and yes, I WILL CONQUER THE GHETTO SCOOTER! Sunday, October 13, 2002 midterm. project. paper. those three words make me so sad because that's what i have to do this week. and it doesn't help that i just came back from possibly the worst, wait scratch that, the WORST softball game that i've played in. it started off just fine, but in the second inning there was the turning point. bases loaded, two out, and we're out in the field. i get a nice routine grounder, which i glove. i look down, and because i was anticipating making the toss, the ball had come out and rolled two feet away from me. the ball dribbling out of my glove was the thing that cost us the game. you might say that no paul, it's not your fault, and blah blah blah, but in my eyes, i had the opportunity to stop the rally right there. two batters later, they ended up hitting a grand slam, that put us behind for good. two feet from making the out. one tight squeeze of the glove from making the out. one/hundredth of a second of laziness and one whole night of regrets. i pride myself on my defense, and i let my team down today. but the season ain't over yet. we'll bounce back, and i'm sure of that. there are a line of events that happen so that a specific incident will occur. when i'm driving and see an accident, i know that if i had left a second earlier or later, that car could have been mine. all these events in this line may not seem important, but they lead up to an incident that you will never be able to foresee. i was talking about this stuff to andy, and it was pretty interesting. just solidified the idea that things actually do happen for a reason. like tonight, if i hadn't have made that error, we would have been up by 2 runs and our team wouldn't have been as demoralized as it was. ok no more softball talk now, enough of that for one day. now i can feel sad about the fact that i have to go to a cs project meeting tonight to finish up the project, and when i get back i get to study for a cs midterm. sounds exciting huh? not really. at all. i wonder what would have happened if i had gone to another school... Thursday, October 03, 2002 wow. such a event-filled day yesterday. first of all..... i went to one of my classes, and then i went over to eugene's to chill before my class at 4, but instead i ended up going with him to the batting cages with john song. john didn't really wanna go cuz he was napping but i was like dude... it's my birthday.... and coerced him into going. haha. it was pretty far away, and when we got there we started taking some pitches in the baseball cages. they were going at like 75-80mph. so we tried taking some hacks in there, but ended up whiffing like 90% of them and barely tapping the others. i got two nasty ones off the end of the barrel, that shook my hands up real good, leaving them sore. how weak i am. anyways, after that i went to the men's shelter with my sg to cook dinner and serve it to some homeless people. it was a good experience even though i couldn't eat with any of them, cuz i was serving the whole time. one dude said i looked like a baseball player, which meant a lot just cuz yeah... why wouldn't it?!? haha. i was a little unhappy at first when i learned that i was gonna spend dinner on my birthday there, but you know... it was sooo worth it. i just realized how lucky i truly am. after that kwan me dan charles and elise went to mel's to grab some food and then go bowling.... but stinking mel's had a broken water main so it was closed. we ended up going to denny's and then had some good ol' cooking and were gonna go bowl but it was closed like always. in the meanwhile julie dropped off this cake that was real good. it had yellow kiwi and tangerines on it. yum. not to be beaten... josei and peggy busted out this chocolate cake that looked "exactly" like my truck! it was awesome. it came complete with windows, headlights and brakelights, the tacoma emblem on the back, oreo tires, and four little pigs in the bed... although i think they were mistaken on one of them. i think i'm more of a cow. anyways, that was real cool and made me extreeeeeemely happy along with everything else i got! hannah kim brought over a card as well. and guess what?!? i'm going to the giants-braves game on sunday with tina-face! she hooked it up with tickets! woohoo! and o yeah.... the raiders-chargers with tammy! life don't get much better eh? you know how we do.... Wednesday, October 02, 2002 wow. I sure am a lucky guy. well i'm finally 20 now, and I just got back from watching a movie at weinie's place. it's like 3:30 right now too, and john, weinie and roy all have class early tomorrow. but since it's my bday, they took the time to watch a movie and just chill. pretty cool stuff. around midnight dan, taryn, janet, charles, and elise came by with a bunch of goodies, including a nice fat card and some seaweed soup. yum. and on top of that tammy got me raider tickets. and on top of that many people im'ed me and called. thanks everyone. even though you'll never read any of this, i'm really thankful that I've met each and every single one of you, and I hope that you can say the same. but it ain't like i'm going nowhere, so let the good times roll!!! adios.... and g'nite... Tuesday, October 01, 2002 I think I had too much fun this weekend. It helped me realize how much I actually do hate school. o well. i guess I can't do anything about that. But last night was an excellent time. It was our first softball game of the season, because last weeks battle got cancelled because they couldn't get the lights to turn on. Anyways, we were up against the perennial champions, the KCPC oldies. Somehow, someway, we pulled out the win. It was awesome. Everyone on our team played well, and even though that last inning made me sweat like mad, it made victory taste even sweeter. After three semesters of losing and disappointment, I think our class team has finally brought everything together and we actually looked real solid out there today. and on top of that i made a double play. yay. i think i was more nervous after I did it than before. how weird huh? well, no more to write for now, gotta do some work. pace. ![]() |
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