goodnight, goodbye

tomorrow is the dawn of 2005, and tonight 2004 will end. so how has 2004 been? for me, it's not exactly my favorite year. lots of shit had happened; good shit and bad shit. here's a few noteworthy things that happened in 2004:

1. getting a gpa below 3.5: which isn't exactly bad. the only bad thing about it is that you don't get a certificate in the mail with your name on it that says "provost's honor."
2. some diseases are innate and incurable: sam was a reverse-pedophile, and still is, and will always be. a year's worth of attempt to cure him failed. miserably.
3. the old saying looks can be deceiving is true: david finally showed his true workaholic nature, but i bet he still has a better chance of getting laid than sam.
4. cute is the ultimate feat: ayumi hamasaki's cuteness has gotten me through some really rough times (check out her fly high video if you don't believe me). if you're cute, be happy that you're cute. some girls (you know who you are) think being cute implies that they're immature, but who gives a crap about maturity anyway? cute can get you through rough times, but mature? no.
5. getting a girlfriend.
6. getting dumped by the girlfriend. remember: every action has its consequences.
7. being lazy is my true nature.
8. coming to realize that i hate living in the city. or any place crowded. i shall one day own a ranch and live there with my family and two horses. no cows. maybe some monkeys.
9. owning a cellphone for the first time.
10. working 11 hours a week and taking five classes is worse than burning in hell.
11. working 20 hours a week with only three classes isn't any better either.
12. the other old saying history repeats itself is also correct.
13. physics people are the coolest people alive.
14. the probability of a miracle is NOT EXACTLY zero.
15. god exists. and there is such a thing as divine intervention.
16. i started to notice that cute-looking asian girls with nice hair all look like each other.
17. this blog started, thanks to jimbo who registered me an account with blogger.
18. finding out that 2 years ago i had a gay roommate.
19. bose is still my dream speaker.
20. iPOD fulfills half of my life. i love you, natalie.
21. the only way to beat the heat of summer is to either go to the beach and check out chicks in bikinis or to be nocturnal and sleep through the day. i did the latter.
22. arlongpark's one piece forum is the place to be.
23. one piece is the best manga. ever. it has been at the top of my "manga of the month" list since 2003. CONSECUTIVELY.
24. realizing that when i say a few, i mean more than that.
25. on my way to the ultimate gaming system: $3 12-button game controller and $25 racing wheel with pedals and stickshift made that huge contribution. all i need now is a joystick.
26. overclocking is a good thing to do.
27. driving alone at night when no one is around with music from the iPOD cranked up is the best feeling since ole gunnar solskjaer scored the winning goal in champions' league final against bayern munich in 1999.
28. driving alone at night when everything is so foggy that you can't see five feet ahead of you is much more fun and thrilling than rollercoasters.
29. weed isn't addicting. especially when you smoke it. never do brownies.
30. alcohol is still better when you take the hard stuff. life vodka. or rum. people say rum and coke tastes good, but i say it's too sweet. maybe dan mixed me too much rum and not enough coke.
31. drunk driving is fine, as long as you're fully aware that you are drunk driving.
32. becker is a good comedy show. everyone and their cousin should watch it. where else would you find a doctor yelling to his patient: i'm a doctor, for every 99 lives i save, i get to kill one. i've saved ninety nine.
33. saving money is never an option for me. getting $400 a month or $800 makes no difference to my checking account. it keeps going down.
34. t-shirts, shorts, and flip-flops are my newfound favorite clothing style.
35. nature hates me. i'd like to point that one out.
36. keep in touch with your old friends. if you don't the next news you're gonna hear about them is probably them giving birth and divorcing their new husband.
37. paying $10 a month to streamload for 10GB traffic per month is the best investment ever.
38. hermit crabs are the best pet. no feeding or caring needed. they're strong enough to live by themselves.
39. people passed away. loved ones passed away. and when that happens, there is nothing you can do but to move on and learn to appreciate your life even more.
40. there's probably a lot more i want to list here, but i'll stop blabbing for now.

oh, and PLEASE. if you're driving on the freeway, don't do these things:
1. throw away your cigarette butt out of the window. they usually roll down someone else's car so if the car blew up, your careless act just successfully made you commit the worst crime: murder.
2. turn on your brights. and for those of you who drives luxury cars with fucking bright headlights, learn not to tailgate or drive on someone else's blind spot. if you're tailgating me, the next thing you'll see is a fucking bright red light because i'll be damned if i don't slam on the brakes to scare the crap out of you. if you're on my blind spot, let me tell you this: the fact that your light is so damn bright does let me know that you ARE in my blind spot, but the fact that your fucking bright light is blinding me does not solve the problem.

if the government legalized alcohol and bright headlights, they might as well legalize marijuana and prostitution and gay marriage and teach fellatio in grade schools.

the inbetween places

this is umbrae.



isn't she pretty? that little red apple with pins on it look good on her on my desk. by far the best decoration i've ever had. but if she moves... i swear, the first thing you'll notice is that thing in a dumpster in mexico.

rain craps. it's nice that we finally have something NOT sunny, but i don't like being wet, unless i'm taking a shower, and i don't intend taking a shower everytime i walk out the door.

i'm back in san diego, and i'm blogging again. will be here until thursday, because i don't like LA, and because san diego is a lot better than LA. the five people who i took around SD a couple days ago confirmed so.

so here's the story of my life so far: banyan banyan banyan banyan ban ban ban ban. watch guu and you'll understand what i was saying.

lake arrowhead could use a little more snow and a little less sun. besides, the whole point of going there is to see some snow. but all we got was an 80-mile drive and some boring lake.

going with a bunch of people means that you WILL and SHALL and ARE GOING TO be off schedule. and the error propagates, just like how physics teaches you. a 15 minutes delay at the beginning of the trip means a three hours off schedule halfway through the trip.

but san diego was a charm. when you take 4 people around with you and they were freezing cold and complaining all throughout the trip, you knew they love san diego right away when you took them to a place colder than places before and they stopped complaining and refused to leave the place. la jolla cove and mount soledad concluded the night. now one of them is contemplating a move to san diego.

i love SD, need i say more? and because of that, the SF trip was cancelled and replaced with a trip to SD.

i'll blog again later. got lots of pictures, just haven't uploaded them yet.

sha la la la

merry christmas to all, even to those who don't celebrate.

merry kwanzah to all, and merry hannukah to all.

been busy the past couple of days. yes, busy, not lazy. i couldn't help but feel guilty about not blogging everyday, but then again, who reads the blog anyway? most people come only to download videos and mp3s.

either way, i love y'all.

someone (i think it's monsieur_orange) in the APforum mentioned something about the crew having platonic love for each other (and by the way, yes, 350 raw is out), and that got me thinking. i've always thought of their whole relationship as just simply very close friendship, but i think monsieur orange might be on to something here. i read once in a book by plato that platonic love (love that is completely devoid of sexual desire) is the highest form of love.

it's true, don't you think? think about it. i'm a believer of the concept that if something can be done really easily, it is of lesser value than something that needs a lot of effort to be done. example: eating a hamburger and exercising to burn the calories from the damn burger. the exercising part has a greater value because it takes effort and motivation to do, whereas eating a burger is just as easy as licking your finger, which of course, requires effort, but not as much.

now, love because of lust, is really easy to experience. you see a girl, she's hot, w00. there you go. but in order to love someone of the opposite sex completely and entirely WITHOUT having the hots for her, damn. you've got to swore to celibacy or something for that.

think about it.

i'm off to lake arrowhead and sandiego. won't be blogging for a while, so don't miss me too much.

L A X

so i decided that LA traffic is the worst. at 11pm there's still a traffic jam. at 11pm there's still people honking and yelling at each other. i need somewhere peaceful to live in. somewhere where it's dead after 7pm.

(heard nedi's voice from the back: columbus, ohio)

uh, no. nowhere in the midwest. hawaii sounds kinda nice.

went to downtown disney today and got a hat. a cool hat. i'll wear it around campus next quarter; you'll definitely notice me. ^_^

many thanks to carly from arlongpark forum for the colorspread. i owe you one for that. just one.

so, plan for the week:
__ universal studios
__ lake arrowhead
__ san diego
__ road trip up north
__ pick up chicks

wishlist

still contemplating of what to get me for christmas? how bout books? i like to read.

__ the feynman lectures, a set of three volumes by richard p. feynman
__ the quantum world, by kenneth w. ford
__ einstein's 1912 manuscript of the special theory of relativity, by albert einstein and hanoch gutfreund
__ surely you're joking, mr. feynman, by richard p. feynman
__ the golden ratio: the story of PHI, by robert livio
__ quantum theory, by david bohm