The incoherent bloggings of a die-hard Star Wars fan.
Monday, December 29, 2003
Cake - Short Skirt/Long Jacket
Well minna-san, I'm leaving for Japan in a matter of minutes. Yes, minutes. Well any amount of time that's at least 2 minutes long can be a matter of minutes, really. But my flight leaves in about 6 hours and I'm leaving for LAX in like an hour, so not long now. Tim and Sam came back home from Utah a couple days earlier than I expected, so I got to see them again. Yeah, Sam and I just came back from Jack in the Box a couple hours ago, heh heh. Anyhoo, I'm packed for the most part. I've got 55,000 yen (roughly $500) tucked away in a little pouch beyond the reach of Japanese pickpockets. I'm also bringing a lot of stuff for my sister that she can't seem to get there in Japan, including four bags of beef jerky, a hell of a lot of Twizzlers, and a Where's Waldo book. No kidding. Sometimes I really just don't understand that crazy-ass sister of mine. Like that crazy-ass picture of her on her blog that I've just imitated tonight. :)
I really have to go finish up some last-minute packing, so I gotta go. By the time I return one month from now, my room's walls will have been torn open for repiping. w00t. See you all on the 27th! Toodles!
Today I was rummaging through really really old crap, when in a box in the closet of my old room I ran into a pair of old plastic cups crudely scotch-taped together. This was a time capsule I made at the beginning of 6th grade, specifically September 27th, 1996. It was already open, as I ever so vaguely remember opening this many, many years go. Inside I found 5 objects that I'd chosen to represent who I am: a Jermaine O'Neal rookie basketball card because I liked basketball, a Garfield bookmark because I liked reading, a red-orange Crayola crayon because I liked drawing, the California piece from a puzzle of the United States because I liked geography, and lastly, a goofy-looking heavily-outdated picture of me. Stunning. And to top it all off, inside is a folded piece of paper with ugly cursive talking all about me. Like how I'd just turned 11 years old, that I liked reading, that I had an older sister, that I played the violin, that I value friendship, that I like archaeology and want to become a scientist, and that I'm smart. *sigh* Memories. I remember how Colin Clark and I vowed to be paleontologists and work on the badlands in Montana. Look at me now! Heh. Don't get me wrong, I don't really regret where I am now; I just find it amusing how much I've changed and how much I'm not where I thought I would be. I guess it was all that living in the present that made me stray so far. I still live in the present to this day. Is that a good thing? Maybe, maybe not.
Anyways, merry Christmas minna-san! :)
Oh, and Nick has been wanting me to post his photoshopped version of the picture of me living up to my Korean stereotypes by eating Lizzie, Caroline's dog. So here it is. You may commence screaming.
Leaving for Japan on Monday; can't wait! I'll try to keep the blog updated while I'm there, so keep checking back if you're bored and want to know how I'm doing. I'll miss you all!
Well well well. Where oh where to begin.
Let me start out by saying I feel like a total ASS. I mean the mother of all asses.
I went snowboarding at Mountain High today with the Liz, and the day began dark and early but otherwise ok, and the weather was just fine and dandy on the long drive there. Everything proceeded relatively as planned, and it was fun. That is, until somewhere a couple hours into the timeframe of our designated 8-hour lift tickets... it began to snow. Problem was, I didn't have any chains. However, the snow wasn't too bad, so we continued to hit the slopes in hope that the snow would let up. It only got worse, very very worse. Which sucked, as we'd only spent a couple hours there, but either way, we had to leave before the roads down the mountain got too icy. Heh heh. You know those days where things just won't stop getting worse? Today was definitely one of those days, and I especially realized this as I slammed the trunk of my car shut. With my car keys in it. *sigh*
Yeah well, waiting several hours for my parents to arrive with chains and spare keys to my car was both interesting and very boring. Leaving my jacket in my trunk as we waited only made it even more difficult. And in the end, we couldn't get a rain check for our 8-hour tickets cuz we had already waited too long. ARGH. Oh well, I hope Liz isn't too mad at my complete and utter stupidity. Apparently she finds this all terribly amusing. Grreat. :)
I learned my lesson. There's a spare key in my wallet and chains in my trunk. Next time will go off without a hitch. And if it doesn't... ah hell, I'm not even gonna think it.
:: Mood: rushed
:: Music: Linkin Park - Hit the Floor
Sayonara Woohu! I'm not usually up so early in the mornings (in fact, I'm pretty much not up in the mornings, period) but Tim and I are off on a one-day roadtrip to Alameda to meet his new gf Caroline, hence the necessity to leave so early. Apparently it's supposed to be a surprise, although I didn't know this at first, and last night I nearly ruined that very surprise. Anyhoo, Tim and Sam are back in town, and last night we went to Camarillo with Nick and his friends to see the midnight showing of ROTK... which, in a nutshell, totally rocked. Go see it; it's a stunning finale to the trilogy. One of my fav movies of all time now. We were cheering all the way through, it was so kick-ass.
And to continue where I left off, yes, I'm going to Nagoya, Japan from the 29th of this month to the 27th of January. The flight stops over in Seoul, Korea for a few hours, where I haven't been since I was 8 months old. Regardless, I'm excited and I'll be leaving soon, and I'll miss you all while I'm gone. Lol, Sam was almost pissed at me when I told him I'd be gone for a month.
Anyways, that's about it for now. And before I forget to mention, everyone wish Liz a happy 18th b-day today. ;)
Well, this is my last entry here at Woohu, so please direct all comments over to the new and improved version of my older and decrepit Blogspot page, here. Toodles.
As for those of you reading this entry at my Blogspot, you can find the old Woohu blog and all the entry comments here.
:: Mood: excited
:: Music: Oasis - Don't Look Back in Anger
Look! It's the incredibly inebriated Captain Jack Sparrow! MAXIMUS! COME BACK!!! It's been a while since I updated, so I forsee that this'll be a rather long entry... where to begin...
Well, most importantly, FINALS ARE OVER! I spent two allnighters in a row for Wednesday and Thursday to prepare for my Public Speaking and World Geography finals, respectively. We gave special occasion speeches for our PS final. Any special occasion really, be it fictional or real, like an award acceptance speech, a toast, etc. I decided to write something unique, so I decided to write a eulogy to some guy named "Bob." I came to class about 3 minutes late, so when I wrote my name up on the board I ended up being last. All through class I listened to the most boring speeches; all of them were positive and happy-happy and some of them were sucking up by writing toasts to our professor, so I was looking forward to my depressing eulogy. However, the speech right before mine was different. Heather talked about her best friend who she's been with throughout childhood, so it started out pretty positive, until she mentioned how they related to each other and she mentioned how both of them had lost their mothers. That's when she broke down crying. You can imagine how terrible I felt to give a fake eulogy to Bob right after that.
Anyhoo, moving along to Thursday. I was out of sleep but I studied my assass off for that godforsaken Geo final. That night, I had the location of every major country, city, and river MEMORIZED. Talk about cramming. That night, I knew where Vlodivostok, Yekatirinburg, Sakhalin, Surabaya, Mogadishu, and Antofagasta were, as well as their local climate, economic situation, and a cursory knowledge of their general history. Now I don't know if they're cities or countries, let alone where the fuck they are. Hell, I probably even forgot where Mexico is. But either way, I studied my ass off, and it worked. I think I aced it. I hope I aced it. Moving along...
Friday was a kickass day. Although I only had like, 3 hours of sleep after two all nighters, I went to Ihop at 8AM with my Public Speaking classmates. We'd all finished eating and had been sitting there just talking for an hour when 4 of us guys got bored, so we had a competition of pancake-with-Tabasco-sauce eating. We all got a little rowdy, but Justin, our prof, was totally chill about it; in fact, he cheered us on. When we ran out of leftover pancakes, we just emptied out half-and-half cups and took shots of Tabasco, finishing the bottle. Justin gave the toast, saying something like, "may this Tabasco warm you up like this class did" or something lame like that, lol. Good lord that BURNED. Lol and I have pictures of all this. Anyways, immediately thereafter, Joe, a couple other classmates, and I went to Starbucks and washed down the Tabasco with Fraps. We hung out half the day, then I dropped Joe off at his friend's house a couple blocks from CSUN, went home, then took Nick and Tim to Nick's place in Ventura to drop Nick off. Hehe, nyck. NYCK! Haha yeah...
Lastly, when I came home last night, my mom and my sister were on the phone, and when she got off, she told me the big news. I'M GOING TO JAPAN!!! w00t! I'm gonna spend most of January in the land of the rising sun, just chilling with my sister, looking around, all that good stuff. We haven't figured out everything with plane tickets or exactly how long I'll be gone, but I'm so excited! Anyways, that night I slept 13 hours. I feel rested. :)
P.S. - Some of you may remember my blogspot account from back in April. Actually I think only Tim and Mike knew of that and probably already forgot. Anyways, seeing as woohu doesn't allow any html scripting outside of entries or other options, I'm gonna slowly migrate all my entries over there. So my blogspot page will be my new blog once I'm done doing that. Which'll be someday. Bear with me here.
Ok that's it for now. Peace.
:: Mood: tired
:: Music: Black Eyed Peas featuring Macy Gray – Request Line
Well I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition! hehe Well, two finals down, two to go and one I don't have to take. One of my acting classmates, Sam, just had knee surgery so he was gone the past couple weeks and couldn't prepare for a final presentation. So my professor told me to improv a scene with him so he could have something she could grade for a final. We improvised a scene as military commandos, using his crutches as sniper rifles. That was... interesting. So was my Aikido final. You take nonacademic classes, you get weird finals.
My Aikido instructor (his name's Tim Komori) got a tad emotional cuz apparently we were his 500th class (holy shit that's a lot), so we took pictures, exchanged email addresses, and some of us might go on a field trip to some of the professional dojos sometime next year where they train intensely with real handcrafted thousand-dollar katanas. Now that'll be sweet.
The seemingly endless debate: sleep or study? ARGH! (cry of angst at the onset of finals week)
*whimpers*... Oh well, at least I'm exempt from taking my math final. Yep, that's right. I don't have to take the stats final! w00tness!!1
I got 101 out of a possible 102 points (it was supposed to be out of 100, but our math prof screwed up) on the last exam we took on Tuesday. Class on Thursday was essentially just to come in and see how you did and if you have to take the final or not. I couldn't find parking that day, so I showed up 15 minutes late and nearly everyone had already left. Oh well, I don't have to take the final! Happy happy joy joy...
And yesterday in my acting class, Cassidy and I did a stunning rendition of a scene from the works of famous playwright Anton Chekhov. That was our final for that class. We kicked ass, and they all knew it. Hell yeah. :)
ROTFLMAOWTF?!! I did it again. If I keep this up, I'll miss the beginning of every Malcolm in the Middle from now on. :(
hitokirivader (9:02:14 PM): holy shitmonkey lover of god..... malcolm
damntheman128 (9:02:29 PM): you miss it?
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Auto response from hitokirivader (9:02:29 PM): malcolm
damntheman128 (9:02:35 PM): guess not lol
Anyways, in the interest of having something remotely interesting to post today other than my having missed part of Malcolm again...
