5:14pm yesterday was a pretty tiring day. i went to both of my classes (linear algebra and my night class, network programming). they both went well i guess. i like my network programming professor. he's pretty high energy and the stuff he teaches, despite all the numbers, is interesting. i'm glad i went... unlike last week when i was sick. yesterday i also started the old work out routine. well i went to the gym with ricky. i woke up and i hurt.. just like the good old days. today we went again. my 8:00am class was really hard to wake up for. i didn't get coffee because we left the dorm late so i fell asleep in the first 15 mins of class. we got a break 35 mins in and i quickly made my way to the donut guy.. er.. guys in front of stern. there are 2 of them in there. after class (applied internet technologies).. which i also like.. i went to the OSA and slept in the fellowship office for an hour and half. simon was out there when i woke up. went to HSBC.. then to the gym. at the gym i ran in to dr. shanack. he was my physic teachers in HS and he also wrote my college recommendation. i bet he probably forgot he did that... actually i don't think he even remembers my name. oh well. we discussed the physics involved with the wtc collapse and then i was on my way. i played counter strike for a bit this afternoon and did my laundry. i am now preparing to go to class. yesterday me and ben took some pics of union square and the memorials. i'll put them up eventually. i think i lose this web space on friday so i'll have to find a new home. probably home.nyu.edu/~bge201 but i'm not sure yet.

9/17/01 12:41am man.. i wrote a bunch of stuff then i lost my connection. anyway.. it's getting harder to watch tv. the sad stories you hear on the news about losing loved ones. it's hard to bear. i'm finding it difficult to watch the footage of the crashes. i used to think the video was kinda cool.. like a movie. now, i can't help but think of all the people who were on the floors and trapped above the floors where the plane hit. it's unimaginable. i went to OCM today. Paster Andrew spoke on the passage in James 4 that says we can't know what will happen tomorrow but we should say if it's in God's will, it should be done. before mass at St. Patrick's cathedral.. the big one in NYC...a lady was interviewed on the street. she worked at the catherdral i think. she said people were angry at God for doing this to them. i liked her reply that the things in God's will can never be evil. i think people look at this life on earth as if it were the main course. this is all there is. God is here to make us happy here on earth and in human terms. that's not the case though...whether we accept Jesus as our savior and our actions here determine where we spend eternity.. the actual main course of life. whether it's eternal life in heaven or eternal death in.. well you know where... that's what this life is for. to decide where you end up. i don't know why this tradgedy occured...no one does. it doesn't mean God doesn't care about us anymore... or that God has a mean streak. i guess this disaster has a purpose... it certainly has made it clear there is a need for God. there are things beyond our control...we need to see that we need God for strength to get through these chaotic times. more importantly we need to realize that we need God to forgive our sins and heal our spirits. people have to realize your need for this and commit their lives to a God who can purify our hearts and who loves. after OCM we ate at fu wong. i wanted to go to bingo's with wai...but fu wong was good too. oh yeah... and we ditched candy...sorry. and yesterday..IRIS. ok

9/15/01 12:45am man.. i played too much counter strike today. i think easily over 100 games. hehe. one game i was like 21-5 but i ended up like 28-33. oh well. today i woke up at 12 noon. i think i went to bed too late. me, eric and calvin met edith at KFC on 4th st and 6th ave...across the street from the cage. i saw this asianish looking guy throw it down 2 hands. i ate the popcorn chicken which is ok but not worth the price. $4.99 for the meal. when we were leaving i overheard this guy talking about 'martial law.' he said if the president enacted martial law he's go out and shoot anyone who looked suspicious. by the looks of him i'm glad the law is not left to his judgement. would he shoot himself if i thought he looked suspicious? yeah.. what am i talking about? what is he talking about? i made some meatballs for hero sandwiches. i ate some for dinner and some i will eat soon.

12:45am today i didn't do a whole lot. played come counter strike this afternoon. there's a lot of hostility in this online gaming world. well... more than the usual amount for a video game which simulates violent conflict. many players used anti-arab or anti bin Laden nicknames. some as bad as 'bin_laden_sucks.' ok...it was worse but this is a rated PG commentary. i went down to OCM. i walked down with nancy and ellen...they were my bodyguards. everything in village seems to be getting back to normal. 3rd ave is pretty busy with the restaurant and the bars. the section between canal st and 14th is now open to traffic. it's not too bad. the weather got a lot colder. too bad i only have one long sleeve shirt here at the dorm. i need to go back home and get some clothing. at OCM we prayed and talked about the wtc disaster. seems a few people are missing from there...the chinese congregation and friends of english congregations members. i don't know who... but it's not good. billy graham talked about how we need to get back to God in his prayer service earlier today. God gives us the hope in this life for when we pass on to the next. we have nothing to fear because God is with those who love Him. president Carter, Clinton, Bush Sr. and Junior were there. anyway... after OCM we went to eat at Than Truch. something like that... the vietnamese restaurant around the corner from OCM. i liked it. then i walked back to the dorm...the streets were pretty alive. i picked up a copy of of the village voice. it's headquarters is next to the Kaplan building on cooper square. i got back and me and eric watched 'Snatch' on nyu tv. that's about it. the evening isn't over yet.

9/13/01 8:14pm today me and kev went to mt sinai hospital to post flyers for our friend who is still missing. God has her in His hands but we'd all like to see her again. mt sinai is on 101st and madison ave. the trains are all crazy now. only the N,R,Q,W come downtown past 42nd st. only the W and Q go to brooklyn i think. we met up with gloria and she gave us the flyers. i think we got back at around 7pm. we posted up and down the hospital blocks right on madison ave. the air smells like burnt plastic now. last night it was smokey. it made me feel a little weird today.. like ill. an hour of walking around harlem made me feel better though... we got off at 125th st... because the 4 train is express and skips 103rd.. the stop for mt sinai. tonite... mike's here. there's chicken in the oven now.. roasting... rice a cookin to be a turnin in to fried rice... that's what calvin wants. perhaps a movie tonite? i don't know.

1:40am john zheng just got 170,000 in ssx... shattering the previous record held by andy at 162,850.

1:37am i unplugged my speaker from my computer and i couldn't put it back in. hehe.. i tried to do it by reaching around the computer tower without looking but that didn't work. eric came in and reached under and put it back in... so let the O-town play!

9/12/01 10:57pm i was just outside at union square park. it smells pretty smokey out there. the winds shifted and is blowing the ash and stuff from downtown up here. people were covering their mouths and noses. at the park people were debating the course of action that the US should take. one guy, who wasn't making much sense only bashing bush, was saying all he knows is he fears his government but loves his people. i'm not sure what that exactly means...but he seemed to believe in himself. whatever man... i just think he liked to hear his voice. all along the ground of union square park south, by the steps, were large pieces of brown and white paper with writings on them. candles lay on the ground and on these posters burning themselves out. Among the sayings on the posters were...'love they neighbor'... 'no revenge' ... 'more revenge.' i think one of the catchier sayings was...'if you're going out to get revenge, dig two graves first. someone crossed out the #2 and penciled in 20,000. i don't think they got the crux of the quote. i don't think the author meant to dig two graves because if you go out to get revenge, you should kill two people but that there will be one grave for you and one for the person you kill. oh well.. maybe i didn't get it. also in the park were 2 memorials. one looked like a tower made of plaster and it had 'for all the victims of terrorism' on it. the smoke died down from downtown.. it's not as visible but still there. emergency vehicles are constantly whizzing up and down the closed uptown/downtown streets...broadway,1st,2nd,3rd,4th ave... all those. there are 10 cops at every intersection of 14th st.
we also had large group today.. well it was cancelled but we prayed and stuff up at union square north by the cafe. it was nice. after we went to rosie and ting's on 10th st and 4th ave. the cops checked our ID's when we tried to go down 3rd ave. no school tomorrow... nice. at least i don't have to get up at 7:30. at least. i smell like a campfire now.

2:30am crazy... my friend jin told me this morning towards the end of my 8:00am class that the twin towers were on fire...that two planes had crashed in to them...crazy. it was true.. i went out to mercer st. and stood with the crowd that was lining up on the east side of the street. i think i stood there for 5 mins. the guy behind me was saying to the girl he was talking to... 'lighten up' at first it just seemed weird.. to see the towers on fire and things falling off. you could see it pretty clear from mercer and west 3rd. it looked like a computer animation. i then went to OSA and watched CNN for 45 mins. i went back out to stern and told a few friends... just then the south tower collapsed. people ran to get a better view. i went to look then just left... on the way back to OSA this guy told me to watch my back. i just said crazy... then we parted, each saying 'take care.' at OSA i found max... i filled out the program form for our, now cancelled, first large group meeting with michelle... our advisor. max and i then prayed at the 6th floor lounge. while we were praying i heard screams outside... then felt some rumbling for like 20 secs. i guessed the 2nd tower collapsed. the first tower to collapse was the 2nd one hit. i guess that's when i just started thinking about the power of the whole situation. it made me kinda cry.. kinda. it was really emotional.. even for me. i guess at that point i just wanted to see someone pay for this. no more twin towers.. crazy. tonite, after another prayer meeting at jen ikoma's... i went with kev, b and alan to different hospitals to look for someone. we went to cabrini, beth israel, bellevue and manhattan. we didn't get any answers but hopefully in the morning. in this great tradgedy the sins of those who committed the terrorist acts... but i guess it also reminds me of the wrongs i've done. sure it's not on the same scale... but just as deserving of punishment. guess it's a good thing i know Jesus? yeah. do you?

9/10/01 11:11pm man.. i already missed a class. stupid sickness... i really missed one and a half. i took off early from linear algebra. not to worry.. i'll be good by weds i'm sure. first large group is coming up for AACF. 5:30 at Waverly Center rm 107. today we had worship team practice. i slept for awhile last night. i registered for guitar with saunders again. today was john zheng's bday. we went to lemon grass to eat.. then pizza hut to eat again then video games. andy hit 162,000 in ssx. i still stink at that game. i did rack up 10 kills in 18 deaths in counterstrike. there's a lot of stuff goin on.. with AACF. always something to do. oh.. check out my skate page. i put up some new stuff.

9/09/01 10:02pm still sore and sick. we had a fake fire drill at 9. no one left but it was cool. turns out my friend sean from HS lives on my floor. our RA, mike, is cool. i have bruises all over now and my right ankle/leg is hurting. no pain, no pain i always say...or do i? tylenol cold then sleep.. that's the plan.

8:19pm yesterday i forgot some details about the day. my car battery died... i really need a new one. i called AAA to jumpstart my car. tipped the guy 5 bucks since he was nice. picked up gen's dry cleaning. she got me 2 shirts from banana before she left. oh, she's gone. parents took her to the airport this morning. she came in and hugged me before she left but i couldn't get any words out except, 'see you in a few months.' not bad, right? i'm sick, ok!? still sick.. couldn't wake up for church today. stumbled out of bed, on to the bus then train then back to school. had a meeting with small group leaders and then a floor meeting. fire drill soon.

9/08/01 9:17pm i think i'm sick. last night i sneezed like 20 times in a row. i think that i sneezed myself in to an injury. i didn't feel so good. i couldn't make it through star trek voyager. i woke up not feelin so good either. i thought it was allergies but now i think it's a little cold. oh well, first of the season. despite not feeling well, i went skating with adam. i didn't feel that bad. we met up with yang, who i hadn't seen in many months, at 22. we used to skate 22 a lot. well.. not me but now it's not that skate-able. the ledges are fenced off so you can't get in. we skated the green paved area and by the handball courts. one of the little korean kids asked mt to climb a fence to get his handball...so i did. after an hour or so we broke out. oh.. found out that yang is married... congrats. stopped by KFC for my 3 wings and a biscuit for $1.89. extra crispy at KFC is really good! usually we'd call it a day after one skate session and food but we went back out to 32. PS 32 is the elementary school park by my house. we met up with eric, gus, danny, jason and some other kids i forgot their names. there was a set of 6 stairs that i had tried to ollie(jump) with my skateboard a few weeks ago that i was successful in. i went with eric to try it and on my first attempt.. after he showed the way by doing it... i landed it. ad went for his digital camera so record the event while i gathered up the nerve to try it again. usually you have to try to measure up the distance you are jumping before you go for it. i just stand there and look down the stairs... but the more you do that...the more intimidating is usually looks. standing at the top of the stairs isn't the best method of psyching yourself up. as you roll up to the top of the stairs(point of no return) you sorta gauge your speed and check your footing. if all systems are go, you pop an ollie, trying to maintain form so that the board travels with you, and force yourself not to bail. landing... eh, i just close my eyes and pray(sometimes literally). so i stuck the landing on a regular ollie and one where i threw in a frontside grab. it's a huge rush when you land a big or dangerous trick and roll away clean. as you take off and when you are in mid-flight, everything is in slow motion but as you touchdown and roll away... the rush... it seems like your board has the turbos on... roaring away in triumph. that wasn't the end of the magic. after we filmed some bench tricks eric went for the set of 10 stairs, which is considerably longer than the 6 stair set. he had done it before. i told him that i'd try if he did it. so after 3 tries, he does it. it was incredible. i guess it was my turn next, right? hehe. my hands, elbows and left hip were already bruised and red from the 6 stair set. anyway.. after about 10 tries and numerous highlight falls, i did it and rolled away. it was great. i think all the swelling in my bruised joints cushioned my fall. no, it didn't. i now hobble around, the old man who stared gravity directly in its 9.8 meters per second face and survived. it's all on video... it'll be on the page soon. i was 4 for 4 in throwing my dirty tissues in to the garbage basket but i missed the last 2.

9/07/01 11:14pm last night... accident in front of my dorm. some minivan got its bumper and hub cap knocked off. the other guy just drove off... andy said some cops chased them. speaking of cops chasing... i saw 2 horses running through washington square park while being chased by a cop car. it was quite a site. i was waiting in front of bobst(our library). we had a cheap eats tour for fellowship. a lot of old timers came which was cool but only one new timer. we ate at an indian restaurant. taj mahal. it was really good. $4.95 for soup, entree, soda and dessert...good stuff. it was on 6th st between 2nd and 1st ave. after that, me, B, johnny and alan went to play bball at coles with hojo and willlo(willie lo) and then me and kev went to BR to visit gen and shop and then me and kev went to dynasty supermarket to shop and then i went to ocm for zion. it was a mingling nite. and then we went to eat at the vietnamese restaurant around the corner from ocm and then jon so drove me and candy home and then...no more and then.

9/06/01 11:51pm wow.. i woke up for my 8:00 class at 7:30. not bad.. i made it there but started to doze. the coffee didn't really work so well. i guess i'll have to drink more next time. i am now contemplating working at coles(the gym) so as to gain access to its facilites after i graduate.. and make some cash. we also had club fair today which was cool. i got to stand behind the table bit. don't know if that encouraged or discouraged people to sign up.. but i was there. we also had the belgian fries social to replace an ice cream social which we had to scrap due to programming errors. don't ask. oh well.. i killed like 4 people in counterstrike today. i think that's the highlight of the day...

9/05/01 11:50pm the first day of class. how'd it go? eh.. it wasn't so bad. i got let out of my one class early. it didn't run the full hour and fifty mins. andy's watching the agassi/sampras match now. it's really good and close. played some more CS today... that's counterstrike. i also went out to celebrate Wai's bday at Kura's. a japanese restaurant on 4th st and 1st ave. i had the tonkatsu.. like always. breaded deep fried pork cutlet. the sauce is dope. there were a lot of people there. around 16 i think... maybe more. those bums didn't drive me and paul back up to 14th st...but whatever. me and paul got a chance to talk. mostly about how wack the others were... just kidding. really. we talked about fellowship stuff. it was good. today i was at HSBC and some girl left her card in the ATM. i was going to take it.. but then i was like, eh... i have to go and maybe she'll come back for it. oh.. today i had linear algebra... tomorrow.. applied internet technology. i hope they show us how to 'surf the web.'

9/04/01 11:05pm ahh...i played counter strike for the first time. it was pretty fun. i like the feeling of killing real people...fakely, of course. we went to coles today but the courts were closed due to the coles sports info fair tomorrow. we lifted instead. hehe... 'lifted' i couldn't lift much. for dinner... spare ribs and rice. i think that's my entire day. oh, we posted up flyers for our cheap eats tour this friday. we're goin to take people around to eat at cheap places. i think CS will be quite addicting.

12:39am i'm back... back on the ethernet game...the game that's always played... over and over.. day after day. like that rhyme? hehe. so i got my ethernet back. yeah! my friend justin came in and hooked it up. it's sweet and fast now. back up...then come and get it.

9/03/01 7:22pm i just got back to the dorm. i was at the ocm summer conference for this labor day weekend 2001. i had a good time. i realize that there is a larger percentage of people i don't know that in previous years. anyway.. it was good. the youth speaker was a rapper from tennesse, bobby sanders. he was really good... and a decent rapper too. i think how he was saying how you have to get your mind straight for the body to follow...that made me think.. lots. my summer, in retrospect, feels like it was a very non-productive, waste of time. yeah, i did have fun. that part i didn't regret.. skateboarding and hangin out with ad. i know now that i should have been feeding my mind and spirit with the word and prayer. Anyway... God has shown me this through the conference and hopefully it'll help me start the process of changing in to more of a person that i should be. Our adult speaker was Ed Setlzer. He was cool too and looked like ned flanders.

some of the things i did on the retreat. played bball and softball in which i sucked with great consistency. oh well. i need some more practice. yeah, that's it. we tried to trick the hebron guys in to going in to the forest at night then ditching them. the usual retreat stuff. hebron guys are guys from the junior high group. anyway... this retreat was relaxing because i didn't do a whole lot. hopefully, now i'll be able to do a lot(the stuff i should be doing a lot of...praying and reading God's word). sounds good to me.

8/30/01 10:53pm today we had our first meeting of the aacf calendar. we had our old timer's meeting at the students events center in room 407. we cooked for a pot luck dinner. we had enough food. it was pretty good. jer made some delicious dishes while each member of the 902 contributed something. there were some good wings(pluck u), hop shing, hainanese chicken, potato salad, and chocolate chip cookies. the meeting was ok too i guess. after, kenny drove me and a bunch of others home. last night mike hit 110,000 points in SSX. i don't think i'm goin to catch him. tomorrow i leave for the ocm summer conference. see you in a few days. maybe my ethernet will get fixed by then.

8/29/01 11:16pm still have no ethernet. they called today... but i was at coles playing bball... i was out of breath after the first point. some guys wanted to run a full... i was dead after that. i didn't want to play with them anymore. mike almost reached 100,000 in SSX. 99,880. not bad... i'm going to kick his butt soon... when he's not looking... and hard.

8/28/01 9:18pm tonite's tv isn't so good. i'm watching a PBS show on code breaking during WWII. the code breakers for England worked at Bletchly Park. 50 million people died in WWII. i guess we won. we as the winners. it's an ok show. i was watching the SOURCE hip hop music awards. someone should keep count of how many times the phrase, 'you know what i'm saying?' is used, you know what i'm saying? most of the times i couldn't understand what they were saying. people cheered anyway. also, why does it look like there are always 20 people on stage receiving awards when usually only one or two people are actually getting the award. family outing? i guess. it was interesting for awhile. speaking of interesting... i was watching a debate on channel 11 among the democratic mayoral candidates. Hmm.. let's see.. who was there? Fernando Ferrer, Alan Hevesi, Mark Green, Peter Vallone and George Spitz. To me, the half educated, half man...i thought Mark Green was the most intelligent sounding. haha. did i spell intelligent right? if i were him... i'd win, then make Alan Hevesi my vice mayor(there's no vice mayor, right? then what is Michael J. Fox's position in Spin City?) and i would hire Peter Vallone as my muscle. he looks like a tough guy. George Spitz was this crazy guy who talked about the patronage scams in the city beauracracy as the answer to every question he was asked. Ferrer was.. eh. he looked like a spanish David Dinkins with his mustache. check it out

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4:38pm yo.. those etherjerks better get my ethernet working or i'm not goin back to school. what is college without ethernet? it's high school with rent. forget that junk. i stayed the night at the dorm last night. it was fun. me and andy tried to find something fun to do. we went to saint's alp for bubble tea with karen. i got taro.. it's pretty good for a purple drink. yeah, but uh.. i didn't like it because bubble tea's fruity. on the way back we ran in to mike p. the rest of the night we played SSX on andy's PS2. it's pretty fun... mike busted out some insane scores. i thought i was getting good... he was much man. i think we played for a couple hours. who knows? i was on the phone with ITS services for my ethernet for like 40 mins too. they said they'd get back to me. i can sense the blow off move from miles away and this one was really close. whatever that means... so if they ever call me back, it might get fixed. this morning i woke up at 11:00am and then went back home to flushing. i drove betina's stuff in. it was pretty quick actually. no traffic in or out of the city. two cops walked by my illegally parked car while i was waiting to unload betina's stuff. i just told them to 'back off...this high performance machine is mine.' it worked.. no ticket. hehe.. something worked but i didn't use the 'it' that i just described. so i get back home... shot some hoops in my BY(back yard). got really hot then i decided to jump in the pool. this was the first time i had used my pool all summer except to quench my need for aesthetic beauty. it was refreshing... 72 degrees. now i'm at home, no ethernet but i do have internet access. i'm alive again.. barely. i'm going to lose this web space soon because they're shutting down the 'omicron' computer. just when i got used to typing 'omicron.nyu.edu'....oh well. life goes on.

8/26/01 11:54pm i just moved in to my dorm room. well.. i moved all the important things... my computer... that's it. andy was there so we tried to get our ethernet on together but to no avail. oh well.. maybe tommorrow. we met our across the hall neighbors except i forgot their names. today we partied with my relatives.. to celebrate my dad and my little cousin lauren's bday. the whole family was over.. 12 people i think.. maybe more. anyway.. that's about it. i didn't sing so well today at church while i was leading but i guess it's ok. the words got out and i was humbled.

8/25/01 10:19pm all i wanted was a glass of apple juice... you know, the sweet AJ? but there it was...as big as a house. not a town house but a small moth sized house with deadly tentacles of death. well anyway, there was this pretty big moth sitting on my counter. i had 2 options... kill it or capture it and trade it for POW's. oh, 3 options... i could have left it alone to drink my apple juice in peace...but how long was this peace going to last? anyway... it was too big to kill without leaving a mess so i decided to outwit it then capture it. using the ingenuity of MacGuyver(who is the man) i devised a plan, using only a cup and a plate, both made of paper, to bring down the foul beast. i don't really like moths. they have this powder on them which is bad for your eyes and just their whole body structure weirds me out. anyway...i was scared to approach the moth on my counter but i just went for it. i caught him underneath the cup and slid the plate underneath the cup to seal it in. i proceeded to cheer for myself with great pride then showed my sister my prized catch. she opened the side door for me to eject the winged medusa, who's grotesqueness nearly turned me in to stone, in to the darkness from whenst it came. hey, didn't the medusa have wings? maybe... so as soon as i threw it out the door... it flew back inside, attracted to the light bulb inside my doorway. to protect my sister, i dove to the floor screaming for help. my dad came down but the agility of the creature was too much for my dad. frozen in panic, i continue to lie on the ground while my dad and gen fanned in vain in order to expel the insectoid intruder. gen finally took charged and ordered the light to be turned off. once extinguished, the pest knew not where to fly. it had no goal, no focus. it eventually flew out the door no doubt to find meaning for its continued existance. it was a pretty funny site... all of us trying to get this moth outside the door. if moth's understood english, it be easier on all of us. perhaps they do understand and they are just a race of jerks?

9:44pm i'm feeling pretty irritable now. not sure why... tiredness, allergies, thinking about school starting. i should start identifying my sources of stress and start praying for them. God's been a pretty good probablem solver for me lately. i know that's not exactly what God's for but he does have some pull with free parking around the village. hehe.. i should stop there but God's been answering prayers. Today i played some pitch and putt with john zheng. we played at flushing meadow's course. it was pretty good there... a lot of short holes. it's located behind the home depot in flushing.. off of college point blvd. parking was tough today because the U.S. Open starts monday. There were qualifying matches and stuff going on today i think. i shot a 61.. that's 7 over par. pitch and putt is like golf but with shorter distances. 40-80 yards a hole at flushing meadow. there are various pitch and putt(par 3) places around ny. robert moses, cedar beach, jones beach and i hear there's one at breezy point. i might actually move in tommorrow.. to the dorm. i'll be at university hall...room 902A with Andy. i saw this special on road rage, drunk and sleepy driving. it was kinda funny.. they let drunk and sleepy people drive around a course while they threw obstacles, like a fake dog, in their paths. i guess the moral of that story was to not drive drunk if you like animals... or something like that. people are animals too...if you don't like them.. i guess the road rage story was for you. i'm guilty of it and i think the people in the sphere of my rage are lucky i don't have a gun. if i did.. they'd be lucky i probably couldn't hit them with my horrible aim(remember paintball? i do.). yeah.. just kidding about all that shooting people junk.

8/24/01 11:16pm today was pretty busy... starting at 11:30am when i woke up. went to the city... watched rat race with stace before she left for prague. it was allright... some parts were pretty funny but save your $10 bucks. after that.. airport... then back to the city for fellowship. it was a joint fellowship with hosanna(the early career fellowship at ocm). i played guitar while Wai led worship there. while i was playing and singing 'i will praise you oh Lord my God' i was sucking on a mint that i got from the movies. an ice breaker. when we repeated the first verse, i took in a deep breath and then inhaled the mint whole. i thought i was going to choke and die but it went down. it made me cry though...not the song, the mint. they fed us afterwards which was cool. then i took the long, familiar ride home. this morning i went to HSBC to fetch some cash from the ATM. there was this old guy in the parking lot. he wanted me to fix the light that illuminates your rear license plate. i tried but the thing was busted. i tried for like 10 mins. i thought it was odd. after he looked at the thing i helped him back up and his armpits were sweaty. gross.

12:27am so i've been working on this all night. actually, i was looking around for something i could set up. anyway... vote away.

8/23/01 10:29pm just a short tid bit. so i went out to move my car from in front of my house on the street in to the driveway. i noticed that my boxers and shirt matched....a nice sky blue. that wasn't all to the story. i noticed my car was oil light was on. i decided to check the oil. it was dark in my driveway so when i pulled the dipstick out, i couldn't find the place to put it back in. i ran in to the house to find flashlight batteries only to find the flashlight blub was out. i used a piece of aluminum foil to reflect the front door light down on to the engine of the car so i could find the hole for the dipstick. my car was low on oil.

10:08pm today we had a 4 hours servant team meeting. it went by pretty fast despite the heat of the 6th floor lounge. that cooled off pretty quickly when the massive downpour began around 4:30pm. after the meeting the guys, minus mike, went to eat dinner with stacey and jer. stacey's leaving for prague tommorrow for a long time. we ate at chad n chew's...something like that. they had some good smashies(mashed potatoes) and the fried chicken was pretty chickeny too. drove home in the rain and traffic. not bad. my dad went back out there to pick up gen from banana. it was her first day back at work since last thursday. hope he gets back. so the day was good...tommorrow another busy day.

8/22/01 12:43pm went to ad's today. woke up kinda late... 11:30am. i was planning to wake up at 10:30 but there had to be good episode of Star Trek on. i went to sleep at 4:00am but there was still another episode after that. It was a 2 parter. ..i'll read on the cool Star Trek web page that i have in my links page. i went in to ocm for music practice this afternoon. again, i had close to the worst parking spot ever. at least it was free parking. my fav spot to find parking is around the park below houston st on either chrystie st or forsyth st. it's far away from ocm... but i can skate there. there aren't as many crazy chinese double parkers around there so it's better. you can also go down, stanton or rivington. that's my before 6:00pm parking game plan. we had worship team practice today at church. there'll be older songs this week. i like them... i picked them. is "there'll" a real contraction? i don't know... i like that too. in sunday school last week... i had to write on the board. i wrote "the vil" instead of "the" and "evil." does that happen to you? i know it happens to at least one other member of the genius club. that's the club for genius perples. person/peoples. if you didn't figure that out, you shouldn't be in the club. after worship team, i drove norman back to manhattan...also dropped mike and gary off at their homes. i had this wedgie on the way back. there should invent a car wedgie remover...it's a difficult manuever to execute in the car. the 'wedgie release.' it's all good now though.

8/21/01 10:23pm and1 yo. today me and stace journeyed up to 155th st and i think 8th ave(something like frederick douglas blvd) to Holcombe Rucker Park. it's where the entertainers bball league has their tournaments. some of the guys who play there are featured in the and1 mixtape videos. some of the names.."the future"..."half man, half amazing." my fav is "a whole lot of game." you should check out the mixtapes... they have some nice bball moves, some legal. Harlem is quickly becoming my second home or favorite place to take people. It's like chinatown but with less chinese people and not as smelly. People are always out on the street. We took the 1/9 train but the B or D stop closer to rucker, right near Yankee Stadium. we ate at the mcD's on 145th st. and Broadway. that's actually about all that happened today. we went back to familiar turf, union square, and hung out for awhile. There are some scary squirrels and birds there.

8/20/01 11:44pm went skating in the extreme humidity. it wasn't that humid but it was kinda gross. we skated at 32 with henry and eric. eric is crazy good now. he did the stairs that i couldn't. perhaps i'll hit that later on this week. larry came in from NJ today but not early enough to witness the demolition of 2 sacks of 10 burgers from white castle. no, i didn't eat both. i ate 10 and he ate 10. it was kinda a gross feeling. it was done and i won the admiration of few. i really wanted the glow in the dark cup that they give out because i left mine at church. oh well. dinner was the old pork chop from 66.

8/19/01 9:48pm today i was pretty tired. i stayed up too late partying...ok, you got me. i stayed up late watching star trek:the next generation. i also rubbed my eye last night so then it started to turn red and stayed that way the whole morning. too bad that partying excuse didn't fly.
Person 1: so BRi, crazy night of partying?
Me: eh, nah.. crazy night of deep space travel on the television
Person 1: yeah man, that's cool too.
after sunday school i had a #1 from the vietnamese restaurant. no.. not the #1 from the vietnamese restaurant like some vietnamese guy pee'd in a bowl...that's disgusting, so childish. #1, the big bowl of beef soup. it made me sweat. after that pat and gebond layed the ill beat down on my in pong pong. i was beating G in the last match but then as i bent over to pick up the ball i stepped on it. what a dumb move. so that was the end of it. went to ad's. came home and now i'm here watching 'the practice.' that is one of my fav shows. bobby just got arrested for the murder of william hinks. it's a really good show. no joke. the X-games are going on this weekend and conjoined twins can get fake belly buttons. my friends told me that stuff.

12:26am yesterday i went to ocm. zion. i'm going to summer conference as well. today.. me and ad used his brother's digital camera to record some stuff. after that.. fellowship at church. gen has a friend staying over here so i'm not in the den as much. that's where i do my computing. hehe.. i now own 550 shares of nxtl. please don't go down.

8/17/01 12:05am war... what is it good for? that's right... absolutely nothing. anyway...we played...check that.. waged paintball war today. it was pretty fun. me and some of the guys.. and kathy.. went out to LI paintball. it's in coram(a little past stony brook). you had your usual assortment of paintball patrons. hardcore rednecks, little rich kids all geared up, gangster who had something to prove in the mean streets of the paintball course and held the guns sideways, and the hoard of inexperienced amateur ballers(that was us...we were not really players but more like targets). gebond was pretty good and kent had some kills. i was pretty bad. i only got shot, for real, once. well twice but they were at the same time after i stood up to give up. i got shot in the tricep and the back of the neck. the whole campaign cost the nation of us about 50 each. the guns that they give you aren't cool. the ones that the 'pros' and the little kids had shot much straighter and consistantly. i think even one person had a laser sight...this was according to greg lum. i guess in this game, once you reach a certain skill level, the better you get, the sadder it is. you can disagree.. maybe it's the bitterness speaking from being shot by the hicks with the semi automatics but it's not my kind of cool. ok it is.. i'm bitter. i don't think i really shot anyone. i had 3 possible kills but i know that i will be in the nightmares of many who crossed my path. well, it could be me because we all wore similar masks so in their nightmares we'd all look the same anyway. speaking of bitter.. we lost the championship game in the alliance tournament. yeah.. and my mom made me sit the game out because of my eye. i think i'm fine.. i'm a big boy, right? i can make my own decisions.. apparently not. oh well... i think our team is really establishing ourselves as the #2 team in the tournament. being #1 is overrated and also beyond our grasp. alliance romped us.. kinda.. but we only had 5 players. kay came in as a 6th and james as a 7th but james was still injured and only came in after 2 people fouled out. BC was in LV. that's brian chiang was in las vegas. oh.. i picked up stacey yesterday. she's only here for another week before she becomes a prague. er.. goes to prague.. which is in...eh.. Europe. is it?

8/14/01 9:14pm guess there's nothing wrong with my tooth. that's what the dentist said. 3 years of no dentist and still no cavaties. one of my teeth has been hurting when i chew. it's been getting worse since the summer started. oh well...nothing showed up on the x-rays. just got a cleaning, toothbrush, toothpaste and dental floss. not bad for $140 bucks. it's allright...the hygienist was a pretty cute asian girl. that was definitely a plus and made me braver for that vigorous cleaning. perhaps i'll make regular visits to the dentist now. eh, probably not but it'd be nice to have some one to hold my hand when i'm crying next time so i hope she's still there. holding my own hand isn't as effective. so far i've noticed that the medical profession has some nice lookin girls. i guess they're also smart and will probably make good money but...since when was that important when they're good lookin? makes sense. right. so i think i'm going to play tommorrow in the finals of the bball tournament. i wanted a bigger scar over my eye anyway so i hope i get hit really hard in the eye. i think the weather is getting cooler. after the last 2 weeks of the worst, hot, humid weather this year, i'm hoping for the worst cold, dry weather that we can get. it'll balance things out. yo. i want a new computer! i saw a sea lion giving birth on tv today. the baby looked like it was shrink wrapped in celophane. i also leared that penguins like anchovies...not as friends but as food. it's upsetting to see that two groups can't be friends but in life there are friends and there is food. you gotta have both and they shouldn't be the same thing. so i learned that you shouldn't not eat your non-friends.

12:39am long day.. iris is gone.. back to SF. today we ate a bunch of food. joe's shanghai and 66. not bad. we won the semi-final game against GFC. rocked them i heard but i didn't make it there. stuck at the airport. there was crazy rain today. flash flooding like no one has ever seen. here anyway. tommorrow...get the old tooth checked out. i think it's busted.

8/12/01 10:08pm the praise night on friday went well. there were about 80 people there? i'm not really sure but a lot. after we ate at penang. some guys thought they found a tooth in their food so they didn't give a tip. as we were leaving the waitress came out and yelled at them.. anyway...not goin back there and we're probably not welcomed there anymore. so after the dinner i drove 5 people home. we were lookin for someone's house in astoria but ended up on the 59th st bridge. so that was the second time in manhattan that night. so i eventually got back home.. super tired. today... tired again. pat beat me down in ping pong, like usual. i beat him in a game to 11 once. then we had dim sum in flushing. it was iris' idea and it turned out well. we didn't eat a whole lot but it was definitely affordable. the place across the street from the municipal lot... the small lot. it was cheap there. after that we went to alan's to hang out. oh.. armed with bubble tea, that is. we should have went to larry's bubble cafe.. that place has the best deals in flushing on bubble tea. we...i spent the afternoon playing video games at alan's while everyone else played cranium. geeks... hehe. ok... we all are. ok i'm the biggest one... but i'm not alone. ok.. i am alone.. er was.. and now too.. but that doesn't make me a loser. right? right? yeah, i thought so. what was i thinking? i'm not sure... but definitely no loser thoughts. my dad made me ham and eggs. yum. son.

8/09/01 11:03pm wow.. it's very hot today. just like the last 3 extremely hot, 90+ degree days. i can't take it anymore.. it's so hot everywhere. i don't know how the people in the olden days before AC was around stayed cool. yeah, and also the ghetto children with no AC. it's really unbearable. actually i do kinda know how ghetto kids keep cool. yesterday, me and iris walked down 125th street, in harlem.... from the west side to the east side...then back down the east edge of central park to columbus circle(59th st). quite a walk, right? yo.. on 125th there really is a fried chicken place on every block. there are many details i'm leaving out.. both out of trying not to sounds racist and because the heat wiped out my memory chips. hehe... cheap system with no heatsink. ok... tommorrow i'm playing bass at this praise night at OCM. 6:30. see you there. last day of vbs tommorrow too. see you there.

8/07/01 11:22pm i'm goin to try to sleep early tonite. it's blazing hip hop and R&B flavor all up in here. it's pretty hot too. anyway.. today i saw rush hour 2. it was pretty funny. more funny than action actually but the action was good. i recommend it. the crouching tiger hidden dragon girl was in it. she wasn't lookin as good but she's got skills. maybe i'll give her a call... right, so.. i was in the theater a little early so i had prime seating. i was all stretched out with my feet up over the seats in front of me when these two old people decide to sit directly in front of me. they made me put my feet down and i was rather uncomfortable after that. i said, 'yo grandma, why don't you and grandpa get your old butts some new seats.' she told me to 'hush up' and that's when i knocked her out. needless to say most of that is untrue but i did see the movie and there were old people sitting in front of me.

8/06/01 10:50pm i was cruising through some star trek - TNG(that's 'the next generation') pages. some pretty cool stuff. i found one with a pretty good complete episode list. http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/st-tng/ my guess is that the ugcs before caltech.edu stands for undergrad computer science. it's probably is fitting that a ugcs major would be in to this stuff. anyway...that's one of my all time favorite shows. i'm no loser trekkie.. for real. i only go to nyu... how smart and nerdy-lookin can i be?

9:46pm cutting and tearing... that's all i do nowadays. i have 20 something students that i teach and each of them has a handout. the first day went well. me and ad put the window in his computer today. it took a long time to cut through his case. anyway.. it's cool. 49,000.. the lowest total i've seen on weakest link... besides the celebrity episode. ok.. time to metconnect. nyu dialup is wack.

8/05/01 10:06pm so i didn't have much to say the last few days. nothing much happened but really... what usually happens... nothing, right? having nothing to say doesn't usually stop me from saying something. ok, so i guess i just didn't want to say anything. don't worry.. i'm not in a bad mood just it's hard to remember what i did at the end of the day. vbs starts tommorrow at church. that's vacation bible school... vbs. i'm teaching the 2nd and 3rd grade so if you know anyone in those grades who are coming to vbs at my church, there's still time to pull them out or else they maybe subject to immaturity far below their level. it's a planned immaturity though. that's what i say and what i say is what it is. what it is! i used this afternoon to polish/start my lesson plans for this weeks. i also watched some golf and track and field. tonite i drove gen in to banana. she's workin late... oh, perhaps i shouldn't have said that in case there are stalkers that frequent my page looking for my sister. oh well. just don't do it if you're thinkin about it. i saw the same fear factor that i saw 2 weeks ago tonite at 9pm. the one where the last stunt was to hold your breath fo as long as you could under water. whatever.. that was a dumb stunt. i tried again to hold my breath as long as they did on tv but again i couldn't. still.. it was dumb. last night i was watching 'live at the apollo.' there were 3 acts that weren't boo'd off. i was happy because i feel so bad for the people on stage that get boo'd. like those jerks in the audience can do better or even know what better is or can even spell better. allright.. that was mean and not true but it makes me angry how harsh they are. guess it's tradition at the apollo. can't the producers tell that these people are going to suck and spare them the humiliation? i'd go up there with an 'AK' and open up on those punks if they boo'd me. i really wouldn't but if there were a video game made of my life... i certainly would do this. hehe...in the video game, of course. speaking of video games.. i want to play. dying in the heat....oooh.. ow... hot.

8/02/01 10:28pm i don't think i'm ever going to stop eating or start working out. it just doesn't seem like it's going to happen anytime soon. oh well, maybe school will jolt this laggard routine. tommorrow the stitches come out and i'm going to have to see the grossness above my eye. i don't especially like lookin at wounds or blood. speaking of wounds and blood, i went to my regular doctor today to get a DPT shot... for tetanus.. i think that's how you spell it but whatever. turns out i didn't need that shot so i got the hepatitis A shot.. part 1 of 2. he also gave me loads of free allergy medicine. allegra anyone? i don't think he really checked me out. he faked like he was lookin in my ears and eyes but i don't mind. i feel allright... i just went for the shot anyway. the shot was super quick and not too painful. he's a pro at it. i think he shoots the needle as he puts it in my arm. nice.. right? yo.. he always has some cute girl workin the desk for him. guy-comments always start with 'yo' in case you were wondering. like.. 'yo.. that car is hot.' or 'yo... let's go play some ball.' ok.. back to reality. i've been playing 'tropico' for the last few days at adam's house. it's like sim-puerto rico. ok ok.. maybe more like a sim-poor island. you are 'el presidente' y you have to make the island in to a thriving economically stable environment. so far i was voted out numerous times or kicked out in a military coup. ungrateful tropicanos. today was like anyother. i need a new game plan. ok.. back to reality.. real reality. actually in reality, nothing cool happened today except i went with adam to get a dremel, fishballs and udon. we're goin to make out computers dope. you guess which of those we're going to use to do that. check out 'modders' and you'll know what we want to be.

12:19am man.. i'm hungry. it's kinda late but whatever. today we reffed some bball games for the alliance tournament. gebond's team won, CUMC. today i sold my JNPR for a tidy profit. going to be a modder.. soon. nothing much really happened today. not much i can remember anyway.

8/01/01 12:03am i went down to the YMCA to watch the all star game for the alliance tournament. kev's team didn't win. a guy on the other team actually dunked the ball on a fast break. that was the first time i had seen that in this tournament. sure he wasn't asian... but that's not a real surprise. anyway.. i'm still holding JNPR.. juniper networks. i'm thinkin of selling soon. 7/30/01 11:55pm it's pretty hard to shower when you can't get your left eye wet. it definitely needs cleaning too. i had all this crust i couldn't get out in my left eye this morning. i guess it eventually just falls out. how to shower without getting your left eye wet? there are several methods which i have considered. yesterday i just took a bath. it was easy keep the eye dreye. yeah.. i mean.. dry. today i was going to shower with a bag on my head... then wash my hair in the sink so as to also easier keep the eye dry. instead, i found this old snorkel mask that i had from hawaii. i wore it in to the shower then washed my face in the sink afterwards. nice, right? when i got out of the shower and took the mask off, i had goggle marks all over my face. it was quite a sight. bandaged eye with a red mask ring around it. it worked well. tonite we also had our bball game in chinatown. we won in overtime. kev and al had some big shots and free throws while mike swei had some key boards. b also put in some real quality minutes and got a lot of hustle points. he also had some good flying maneuvers...some of them were legal too. it was a close game and a good win. afterwards we watched the game at kev's... like usual. we laughed so hard at the video tape(also we watched the weakest link with some guy named woogie on it) that my stitched eye hurt. fun day.

7/29/01 11:27pm can't type much. i busted my eye playing bball today at the park near springfield on 64th ave. i think i ran in to brian chiang's elbow. it was something i ran in to. anyway.. the doctor said he gave me 20 stitches but i don't think there were that many. the needle hurt a lot. the gash was right on my left eyelid. 2cm long. right now it's puffy and sore and i think it's black and blue. pretty gross but i'm glad i didn't have to see it. i think i'd freak out. i was in the hospital for just under 3 hours. my mom knew someone there because she worked there and that person called in the plastic surgeon. hooked up... so now i'll be pretty again in a few weeks. the downside is i can't play anymore bball for awhile. oh.. we beat those guys in the park. frankie filled in for me and we took down those monsters.

cornell was really cool. the campus is dope. the dining hall is dope. hanging out was dope. me and karen went and stayed with andrew. he took us to all these places around campus. we went to fellowship, a hoedown(i hope that's how you spell it. you know.. the thing that country music lovers do...hoe it on down.) we also did some canoeing. got back at 1:30am. oh and we saw crouching tiger hidden dragon. that girl is ok looking.

7/26/01 10:44pm made some lemonade and found out who's in the G-8. USA, France, England, Germany, Japan, Italy, Canada and Russia. Russia was the 8th. The first 7 were the OG's. goin to finish ER.

9:11pm i think great adventure shook me up more than i knew. maybe i just have a sickness but whatever. been feelin weird lately. could be the heat too. enough theories. yesterday i didn't do jack. today i went to ad's but i didn't have my car. he picked me up. we got jacked at both places we ate today. the taiwanese restaurant as well as kfc short changed us. in addition to my car being in the shop, my skateboard was in the shop too. it was actually in my car that was in the shop. stinks... dumb gen forgot to take it out last night when i told her to. i was mad.. my skate shoes were in the car too. i hope my brakes are fixed at least. i tried to run home from adam's house tonite. i ran for most of it but quit at 35th ave and 164th st. tommorrow i go to cornell to visit andrew. karen's coming too. i made a CD with my dope burner(which is still at adam's house). want to know what's on this CD? let me hit you off wit the 411 that's bangin...hehe. that was for Do Hing. while my CD is a bit incubus heavy, the get up kids, and new found glory round out the rock side while i actually don't want to admit what makes up the rest. let me tell you that one of the bands start with o-town and the other one ends with nsync. just a few songs really. honest.

7/25/01 1:27am today was the trip to great adventure. it was a.. i won't say fun, although it was, but a day of accomplishments. among my accomplishments which were the least of all in the group, were, rolling thunder, medusa, nitro, scream machine, batman and the runaway train. the first ride i went on was nitro. it was sick. the drop was over 90 degrees! not exactly although that would be a sick drop but it was like an 80 degree first drop. my eyes were closed almost the entire ride as i arched my back against the back of the seat. i just wanted it to end. when we were lookin at the pictures(the ones taken during the ride) it appeared i was smiling. i was really wincing in pain. after nitro everything felt tame. i had my eyes open on every roller coaster after that. i hope you figured out that i was talking about roller coasters. anyway...i was braver than i had been in the past. i was brought to this new state of courage by the constant shaming of a certain person but since she provided me a free ticket in to the park, i didn't knock her out. i guess that shouldn't be the only reason. i think i learned my lesson about hitting girls in kindergarten. if you don't knock them out with one punch they'll squeal on you to the teacher. anyway.. i'm beat now. roy's for lunch, the colonel's for dinner. a fried chicken day.

7/23/01 9:55pm i just saw the dumbest girl win 'weakest link.' if i were that indian dude who lost to her i would now hold the title, 'dumbest girl.' man.. that was bad

9:45pm wow... i'm still pretty tired today. i guess the summer makes you lazy. ok... the summer makes me lazy. i did go for a little jog today. oh yeah.. gen and i went with grandma to flushing to eat. i had some beef with tofu. me gusta mucho. i forgot the name of the restaurant but it's across the street from Ten Ren... the tea house. it's also near the sheraton. we walked through it from the parking lot. in the basement there's a photo studio and in the sample picture rack there's a picture of a girl who looks like gen. yes, she too was half monkey. i was joking. i'm the half monkey looking one in the family, not gen. tommorrow's great adventure. i bought some extra diapers because i hear we'll be there all day. i think i'll watch the babies tommorrow. they're my ticket in to bugs bunny land. weakest link is a dumb show but i like watching it. fear factor is a decent show. it goes by pretty fast. today the contestants had to eat sheep's eyes. not cool, eh? oh.. i cut my hair today. i think i better use extra gel to hide the uneveness.

12:09am just got back from the blink 182 concert. it was pretty good...new found glory was there and some other band, body jar. i'm not completely deaf so that's good. the show was pretty long and full of words... some good, many bad, some were put to music. i went with b, karen and michelle. after we got white castle which i'm eating now. my allergies were really bad today. i was crying for the entire vbs meeting. partly because of the allegies, partly because i have to teach. eh.. it won't be so bad. i think it'll be good. i'm teaching 2nd and 3rd grade. i now be watchin a few good men. i think the movie is also on channel 7 right now. that's the ABC network. yo... what countries are in the G-8? didn't it used to be G-7? is there a new G? or all the all old G's?

7/22/01 12:05am we won the JLC cup today. it's an annual, one-day, bball tournament in chinatown. don't ask me what JLC stands for but it's been speculated that it is short for Jesus Loves Chinatown. i guess that's fitting. me, kev, b, mike and mike joined with frankie, wilson and dan to make the all-powerful waterfish. that's our winter team's name also, waterfish. we each game by at least 18 i think. it was a good day. it was a long day. so we didn't really win anything for coming in first since hosanna.. the team that won last year... didn't bring the original trophy in. whatever.. they're keeping it. like the stanley cup, there is only one JLC cup. i really can't remember what else i did today. had 3 taco supremes. they were good. my parents came back today. yesterday was regular... went to zion, ocm college fellowship. picked up gen.. oh yeah.. like usual. i should sleep now. i feel physically exhausted and somewhat mentally. i just don't feel like getting in to bed. maybe if there were fried chicken in it? nah.. that's gross.

7/20/01 12:11pm 10 hours of sleep. that's like the minimum i get now. it's kinda scary but also cool. i like sleeping, don't get me wrong but i just have this uneasiness in knowing i'll eventually have to wake up early. how long can this last? so last night i woke up to pee...well it was 9am but that's still considered middle of the night for me... i was peeing...everything was good then this huge black moth flew out from under the toilet across my stream of fire. i did what any young aspiring anti-aircraft gunner would do... i abandoned my station and ran back to my bed. ok.. so i don't have much of a future in the armed forces nor as a writer. my imagery is not so good. anyway.. it was pretty funny. i was ending up my pee time and this thing flew out from under the toilet. i didn't even consider trying to shoot it down. i don't think i would have had enough ammo anyway...i was almost done peeing. so i just cut short and ran back to my bed. i don't like moths touching me. they have some powder on them that's gross. i saw it this morning too.. well.. 15 mins ago. my computer is operational. sound, video, cd-burning. i hooked it up to ad's cable modem yesterday and got some and1 mixtape. that's about it... oh and i installed gangsters 2. pretty good, right? ad's formatting today i think... so you may not see him online for awhile... hehe took me too long.. but next time it'll be cool. so my car sits in my driveway at 120,000 miles. last night on the way back from ad's on 163rd st and 33rd ave the numbers started to roll. it was beautiful. i had been anticipating this metamorphosis for the last 2 days as the odometer in my car was nearing 120k miles. i knew i'd cross the threshhold on the way back from adam's because his house is a little over 2 miles from my house so i kept 2 eyes on the odometer and 1 eye on the road....so as to not miss anything. at 165th st and 33rd ave the changeover was complete. 9's were 0's. i won't need the 1 in the 10^4 position for another 100k miles. see you there.

7/18/01 12:17am man.. i got disconnected while making this entry. if i find out who disconnected me and caused me to lose all this quality wording i was trying to record, i'll beat theme severely. i suggest you don't volunteer a confession. long day short... i formatted my computer after a 4 year streak of not formatting it. worship team practice. fishballs and instant noodles.

7/18/01 12:17am we lost. i fouled out and hurt my foot and ankle. not too bad.. but bad enough. oh well. we ate at kev's like usual but we didn't watch the tape of the game. there were some flare ups on the court today. ref problems and stuff. it rained today. i skidded way through a stop sign at 163rd st and 33rd ave. it was a bit scary. i guess that's where anti-lock brakes help. they have that stop and go motion to prevent the tires from locking and skidding. i got my CD writer today too. my across the street neighbor had it. i had some scheme to draw out whichever neighbor had my CD writer out in to the open to return what was mine(the CD writer). i knew this: my writer was delivered yesterday and one of my neighbors had it. i realized this: that i had to find a way to let my neighbors know i was home to accept this package that they had in their possession. the plan: pretend to do lawn work in the front yard in hopes that they would see me and give me my stuff. good thinking, right? so at about 2:30pm i go out to rake the lawn. there was a storm that came through this morning and knocked a bunch of branches and bark off the tres on to the lawns. i had a long talk with my neighbor who lives 2 doors down. hehe.. not 3. ok.. whatever. so then i rake my lawn...before this i took claritin to curb my allergies. it worked! so i was out there for about 30 mins. i came back thinking my plan had failed because there were no CD writers in my hands. my plan was flawlessly executed. i was visible and audible in my work. the raking made a lot of noise and i wore no pants. that was a joke.. haha. little did i know that my plan was working just the timing was not factored correctly. my across the street neighbor passed off my CD writer to my 2 doors down neighbor since my 2 doors down neighbor knows me better. then my 2 doors down neighbor gave me my CD writer. after this i went out with Ad to get some CD's from target. 50 for $17. they were memorex CD's. so tommorrow starts the burn. i'm going to back up my computer so i can format it and restore it to it's rightful name as well as a fair description of its owner.. the beast. oh.. happy birthday Iris. 21.. not bad. now your age has almost caught up to your height in inches.

7/17/01 12:28am gettin pretty tired but i was just remembering i saw 'the whole nine yards' today. it was pretty good and it was a totally happy ending... did i say too much? we're playing waterfish tommorrow in the bball tournament. really it's later on today... but 8:45pm at the chinatown Y. be there.. or be not there. either way... be. not bad, eh?

7/16/01 11:59pm crazy sneezing. i was feelin the allergies today. i got some claritin then kicked back and watched fear factor. some reality tv show. one of the challenges was to swim underneath some boat and grab a glow stick. whatever man...that's easy. eating the crickets on the other hand was gross. i downed a 3 wings and a biscuit today at KFC. much better than stupid crickets. i think i woke up at noon today because i didn't go to sleep til 4ish. i found that star trek: the next generation starts at 3:00am. that was a pleasant surprise and noticably changed my perception of sunday nights. i now have a sense of hope and an affinity towards the forward looking thoughts of late late night television programming. tonite.. picked up gen at 11. sleep... who knows?

2:30am sunday night tv has really deteriorated. late night tv anyway.. ever since they took all the star trek episodes off it's been hard to sleep well. i want to know what is happening with my peepz up in the star ship enterprise. maybe that's not really a concern of mine but i really do like watching an episode or two before i sleep. i do like earl grey tea like jean luc. i'm pretty exhausted now. bball killed me today. the drills were rough but good. it's hard to run around on my busted ankles and with the cut on my foot. my shot was more decent... i hit a few out of many instead of none out of many. not bad, right? after that i headed over to B's for a free dinner and birthday cake celebration for Iris. (note: i did not shower between the time bball practice ended up til 20 mins ago.) the celebration was good although i wasn't feelin well.. aunt lois hooked us up with food. we watched 'snatch' the movie. the rest is a blur. actually the movie was a blur. brad pitt was lookin diesel but if i had my gangsters with me i think i could have taken him down and the rest of the 'parkees.' too bad my gangsters are just 1's and 0's on adam's computer as are most of my good friends and just about my whole life. that's an exaggeration. my life isn't that sad. really it isn't.

7/15/01 12:40am wow.. 7 hours at the beach. something like that.. i only got a little burn in the places where it was hard for me to reach with sun tan lotion. yeah.. on my back. i don't know what you were thinking. you may ask also, "why didn't your friends help you put on sun tan lotion?" and i will respond, "show me a friend and i'll show you an unburned back." i was joking around before... i just didn't ask anyone because i thought i covered most of it. the water was cold but that didn't stop us from going in. we also made castles, holes, holes that turned in to traps and played football with some kids we kinda knew. all in all a fun day. i lasted the whole day only eating 2 donuts and a handful of chips that kev gave me. after the beach we at at friendly's. great food and ice cream. most satisfying. then i rushed to pick up gen at banana at 11. now my day is complete and tommorrow has started. well today.. nevermind. yo soy muy dark now. not super dark but dark enough.

7/13/01 11:49pm today me and ad built a bench to skate. it's not so stable but it was cool while it lasted. again i blasted some gangsters and then i went to ocm. we had a bbq with cana kids. after that i went to pick up my sister. i waited for awhile because it was 9:30pm and i had no where to go. it was an interesting feeling. leaving ocm alone with no place to go. i just wandered around broadway eventually making it to wendy's. chicken nuggets and a dr. pepper. it wasn't a spectacular day but i enjoyed it. beach tommorrow... yeah!

12:21am oooh.... friday the 13th. scary, eh? nah.. not really. today i don't even remember what i did. i was at ad's then in the city. we had a meeting tonite for AACF. there was mother of traffic on the belt parkway tonite. man.. horrible. worst traffic ever. on utopia some i dusted some guy and then way later on i changed in to his lane. so he caught up to me at the light. then when the light changed i gunned it again except he was tailing me. like he was trying to prove that he could dust me if he wanted to. trying to make me look like a punk saying.. yo, i could go that fast if i wanted to. i wasn't goin out like that... letting him think he was cool for punking me so i let up on the gas and slowed down causing him to brake. that was a story of cunning overcoming superior acceleration. yeah, what!? so i bought a CD writer on ubid.com by accident. man.. oh well. i don't mind.

7/12/01 2:49am can't sleep...i'm not sure why. maybe it was the super big gulp of cherry coke i had... maybe it was britney spears on the side of my super big gulp cup. eh.. i'm not sure but i'd go more towards the content of the cup rather than it's out appearance. a life lesson? perhaps... late night rambling? a certainty(if that's how you spell it). it's kinda embarrassing if you make a spelling mistake in a supposedly intellectual exposition. even more embarrassing.. to use a word incorrectly. did i? whatever.. i can handle it. just don't let me know. so today.. we won our first bball game in the tournament. we beat calvary. they only had 6 guys though. anyway.. kev was dominating with his drives today and al hit a bunch of mid-range jumpers which was key to this win. i missed all 4 fg attempts and 1 ft attempt. i'll hit the next one. 50% from the line...bank on that. after the game we went to kev's to watch the game on video tape as usual. i had roast pork over rice. one of the few dishes i can say in chinese. ok.. sorta say. anyway...next up is the waterfish. that's the team we joined up with to form the beastly winter team. we won the tournament, remember? next up for dinner... beef with tofu over rice?

i think i played a little too much gangsters yesterday. when i close my eyes i can still see the game. ever do something so long that it happens to you? it's a fun game. something about organized crime and jacking people makes for a delightful afternoon. today me and ad ventured an attempt at creating a cofee/mocha drink. it turned out pretty good. you really can't screw up a drink that contains so much sugar. it always tastes decent. online now.. is... taiwan jon and gebond. hey.. conan is on again at 3am. ah..that's right. forget this... time to be entertained.

7/10/01 11:43pm whoa.. it's tuesday already? i spent the whole day 'playing' gangster 2 on adam's computer. i'm big time now. it's a pretty fun game but reminds me nothing of my real life gang banging days. never did i heard the words "sucka", "gat", "cap" or "recognize" in this game. plus 1 to the som bo. 7/07/01 11:11pm ooh.. 11:11.. nice number. today we lost in our inaugural game in the alliance tournament. we lost by 8 to grace faith church + 2 ringers. oh well.it was fun anyway except i injured my ankle. stepped on someone's foot... thanks for asking. after the game i finished off a double gulp(64 oz of soda... i mixed a few together) and some BK. did they get rid of the rodeo burger? the one with the onion rings. those were dope.i like those jalepeno poppers too but they're too spicy for me. we hung out at kev's the whole afternoon. it was fun.. we played NBA stree on PS2. college fellowship was led by jon chan. it was good too, on accountability. after that... we played some ping pong. fast and furious and wild and bad. i didn't see the movie but i heard it was dope. fun day.. like old times.

7/04/01 11:00pm happy independence day. today, as usual, i went to ad's. we skated. we also had a bbq. not too bad. i'm thinking of driving in to the city tommorrow but...you know. blammo!

7/03/01 9:51pm booted... man. that's what happened to my car today. it was a rough day. the resulting fine is $130. anyway.. today was a break from the usual skateboarding and stuff. wish i had a smoothie. me and ad made some good ones. i was surprised. the carribbean was cool if you wanted to know. the islands were muy hermosa y las playas tambien. i ran today for a record 7 mins. it really was not a record but whenever you mention a time you gotta say it's a record. i don't want to talk about today. it stirs the fire within me. the fire that wants to kill... ok.. not kill (puting stuff like that on a website will get you arrested)..but perhaps vent some anger on living beings. hehe.. good save, right? 6/12/01 9:10pm good to go. i'm all packed for tommorrow. my flight leaves at 9:10am. 12 hours from now. i'll be bumming around the carribbean for awhile. til the 26th of june. i skated this morning. it's starting to get too hot. i think it was 80 something today... tommorrow will be close to 90. this evening i went for a run... i made it down utopia pkwy.. close to peck park. i had to walk it on back. i think ate too much dinner. that's been commonplace in the last few weeks though. i'm weighin in at about 160. don't mess with this. on the way back i decided to take a depper look in to my neighborhood. since coming back from cali i've been more interested more in the way people live. i'm not sure why but it interests me. i looked in to peoples windows and checked out the front yards of houses along utopia. i saw a lot of asians. you can tell kinda where asians live by a few things. one of the biggest tip offs that an asian person lives in a house is the huge chinese calendar with the cute asian girls. not the asian girls in the car mags... well... i had a good time walkin around and it made me think. how nice would it be if i could hang out with people in my neighborhood? you could probably go all your life without talking to more than 2 people on your block here in nyc. maybe it's just me?

12:44am gee.. that fish is huge! that's what people would be saying if i caught a huge fish today. i caught one sea robin. one of those big finned fishes that bark. that's right. bark..ruff ruff. just the way your mother likes it. hehe.. u catch SNL game show parodies? today i went fishing in staten island. it was a good place. went with uncle dave. i think we stayed there for like 4 hours. i got a decent tan out there. after than i went to NJ to mike's house for a servant team meeting. i picked up fay and jen in the city. wow.. nyu's so different in the summer. felt weird. so i dropped the soap on my toe in the shower. that hurt.

6/10/01 9:53pm coffee...that's what kept me going today. woke up the earliest in 3 weeks. 8:30am. man...that was rough. gen went back to school for another 5 days. watchin the game now. game 3. today we played bball at upland park in lake success. it was just the team guys and frankie and wai. there were all these little, asian kids throwing sticks and sand at this one white kid. hehe.. i taught them well. i think we played more than 5 games. fell asleep when i got home. i feel like sleeping again after eating all these leftovers. my dad made curry too. ahh... so you catch the puerto rican day parade? neither did i.

6/09/01 11:58pm da da da da. that's supposed to be a wedding march. today my aunt got married. not bad. the ceremony was crazy short and the food was crazy good. that's the way all weddings should be. we also had college fellowship for the first time in awhile. we hung out at B's house. there were quite a lot of people there. at the wedding i had to watch my little cousin. she's 2 i think. we were playing with the water fountain and i shot her in the eye. pretty funny, right? 1:45am gen's back. just got her from the airport. guess where she is now? yeah.. driving my car around. yesterday i had an egg with 2 yolks. made beef with egg. skated again today but i hurt my right pinky toe. it's ok though... i landed a bunch of stuff but i definitely need a break. tommorrow's the wedding. man my arms are dark. people at zion noticed. lots of aacf'ers at zion today. if only the rest of me were dark. yesterday i watched wrestling for the first time in a while. i saw stone cold steve austin's pale, white butt when chris benoit pinned him. my arm tan reminded me of this. saturday night.. at 10pm...SNL game shows. celebrity jeopardy and stuff. dinner--BK. lunch--KFC...not bad

6/07/01 10:18pm i never realized how cool hockey is. it's pretty fun to watch. my body is tense while the puck is in play. half because it's exciting half because it's straining to try to follow the puck. NJ is losing 3-0 in the final period. man...NJ has to be good at something. well they won last year so... yeah...NJ still is wack. oh.. in general it's wack, not just the hockey team. they're pretty good. today was the first day i didn't skate this week. i didn't wake up. i was supposed to go with adam but i woke up at 1. i played bball with pat, B, mike chin and wai today over at peck park. it was allright. i think i should give my legs a rest. they'll rest saturday at my aunt's wedding. hmm.. do i have a suit?

12:12am no way!!!! kobe's wack. 76ers...they got more business ahead of them. yea yeah. i'll enjoy this roasted chicken rotini soup. hehe... hey someone translate what mutombo said in his interview for me. thanks 6/06/01 11:38pm skatefest... that's what it's been. skated for a few hours at IS25 today. ollied 2 garbage cans together on their sides. it was pretty good. hung out at adam's and watched most of the 76ers/lakers game. i played crazy crazy taxi 2 at adam's. i got all these bug bites. man... someone scratch me. i'm on fire! oh.. and about 60 under my minimum balance at the old HSBC. scratch me and then give me money.

1:00pm last night before i went to sleep there was a huge moth in my bathroom. i heard it banging in to walls. it must have run in to the light bulb because after i had finished running out of the bathroom screaming and came back, it was on this ledge all knocked out. i put it in to a empty toilet tissue roll and then threw it out the window. today i let another moth out too. woke up at 12. man.. i thought i was was getting better. at least i'm feeling better now.

6/05/01 9:38pm gettin back...today was a pretty chill day. chill. skated the morning with adam. my legs are super sore from yesterday's bball marathon. hehe.. super sore. guess i'm repeating what say because you get that way when you spend a lot of time by yourself. you start talking to yourself and it's cool. i don't mind. yeah, i've been relaxing at home since the afternoon. after i skated i helped my mom with cleaning the deck around our pool and planting her tomato plants. i am quite happy with the garden design i came up with. i crazy killed all the weeds in the area too. you should come check it out. i think i will. eh? anyway.. i was watchin 'i know what you did last summer.' jennifer love hewitt and buffy in one movie? you ask, 'why aren't you watching it now?' i was up to the part where buffy gets killed so i didn't want to watch it. it's also tough to see jennifer love go through all that emotional stress and fear while i am powerless to protect her. yeah.. anyway.. i just got scared, ok? i am watchin this thing about baking bread of something in italy. there are a bunch of old dudes sittin in bath now. i think i've figured it out. they weren't baking bread. they were heating up the hot tub so they could enjoy old guy naked bonding. i think i'll turn the channel...eh...in a little bit. i think i'm almost back to normal. still a little sick and stuff. tournament starts next week. i'll gather my thoughts on cali soon. they're out there... just gotta shoot them down.

6/04/01 9:26pm uuugh. played many games of bball today. i think we we won our last 5. me, al, pat and brian chiang ran the show. before that me and ad skated around. i should have wore pants. oh, i wore shorts just in case there was some confusions surround my last sentence. the skateboard scraped my legs but i wanted to show off my half tanned piernas(legs) so i wore shorts. tommorrow i won't make that mistake. we had the regular sized bowl of Pho from the vietnamese restaurant in flushing. #3 on the menu if you like to paint by number... er..order. oh yeah...galaxy quest. i like that movie.

1:26am huh? who said that? where are you? yeah... my right ear has been clogged all day from the airplane ride back from cali. anyway, the score is cali=dope, NYC=ok.

5/25/01 9:05am PST in cali now. long story on how we got here. tickets cancelled..stuff like that. here in garden grove now. i took a long walk this morning. it was nice. beverly hills today.

5/23/01 11:08pm wow...i forgot what happened in the last 2 weeks. i guess you can always ask me. maybe that'll jog the old memory. tonite i ate at east buffet. yeah... that was dope. tommorrow i'm goin to cali. see you in 10 days.

5/12/01 10:22pm long week yo... i'll be away. see you in a week.

5/10/01 1:02am man.. what have i been doing? i've made 4 round trips to the city in the last 3 days and i think i'll be there another 4 times before sunday. not bad, right? we all lead such elaborate lives? let's start from tonite and work backwards. i tried to set a record time coming back from the city tonite. i was flying til i got to the van wyck exit on the LIE. i was coming back from watchin AIDA with Christine, Sam, Betina, Teena and Stacey. It was really good! That is no joke. Before that i was at Ricky's working out. Home away from home at the home of Ricky. We had a few protein shakes today. Oh yeah.. i checked out today...out of the dorm.
yesterday i took my last final. money and banking. it was crazy hard. oh well... cooked the last of my food at the dorm with Tim and Andy. I actually tried to study a bit during the day. I also worked out. It took so long for me to find parking, i ended up on 12th st and ave A, that we had to move our workout from the original, 11am, to 3pm. yeah.. no big deal. oh.. and i moved stacey's stuff out that night too. man... too much to remember...everything's blurring. tommorrow, oil change.

5/07/01 11:33pm all moved out. that's what i am. it didn't take that long to move out actually. mike helped me. i drove in today to work out with ricky and eugene. i parked on forsyth near houston. that's where i always find free parking. put up 225 again today. perhaps one day i'll put it down.. eh? feels weird to be moved out yet not done with finals. tommorrow at 8:00pm. money and banking will be last to fall to my reign of B/B+ terror!

5/06/01 11:58pm today claratin kept me sneeze free. totally dope. i took it so i wouldn't be sneezing on the golf course..so i could get a better score. man...i'd hate to see what i would have got if i hadn't taken the claratin. the only count higher than my golf score was the number of times i said 'crap' or perhaps 'dang'...definitely those 2 put together. it was my worst day ever on the course. 103. found 10 balls and 10 tees. triple double... nice. i actually did better the first time i played golf...2 years ago. anyway.. it was kinda fun.. when i wasn't banging my club on the ground in frustration. i went with uncle larry, uncle keon and this guy bob. bob is nice... hit a 9 iron like 150 something. on the 17th green the sprinklers turned on. we all scattered but uncle larry didn't make it. he was hit... didn't make it. yeah.. he didn't finish the hole even though he had a nice birdie putt. oh well.
this morning i was supposed to lead praise at church. so also this morning i had this dream that they didn't have the transparencies for the songs. i then switched one of the songs to 'arise.' this was in the dream but at church they really didn't have one of the songs. i changed it then in real life to 'arise.' weird, eh?
last night i watched armageddon and no i didn't cry when bruce willis took been affleck's place in detonating the bomb... alot. by the way.. it's pretty cold today.

5/05/01 9:52pm allergies are killing me. well not really but they are starting to make me less cordial. studying went ok today..did it for about an hour. i picked up my parents after their walkathon for the Borough Pregnancy Counceling Center. they walked 6 miles today. not bad for old folk. there were a bunch of people from church there too. it was kinda funny when i tried to go around this other parking lot to get to the one they were in. instead of backing up down the one way street, i tried to drive around. instead of taking me 30 secs, it took me 25 mins. took the grand central to the LIE to the van wyck. people were wondering where i was but eh.. it didn't really matter. ate good food today at home. my dad gets me these chinese orders from the sea king restaurant. not only is sea king a rare pokemon but a chinese food supermarket that also sells hot orders. right now i'm just watchin tv. pretty much what i did for the whole evening. armageddon, happy gilmore and look who's talking. too much to watch but it'll be over soon. i benedryled myself already.

12:11am the sun is hot. i wore my wife beater out for the first time today..eh.. second. i got a little burned and definitely have some tan lines. the price to pay to share a little dieselness with the world. you're welcome. today started off with some working out before 10am. meeting at 12 then a picnic for the rest of the afternoon. it was pretty fun actually. we went to stuy park which is right next to my old HS..stuy! it's changed a lot since i graduated. lots of new buildings..apts, a school, a shopping center. same old people though. i think i've seen the new versions of the stereotypical asian kids that i knew back when i was there. i also realize that i don't know where my HS diploma is. so at this picnic we had food and vball and frisbee action(tossing the disc for you 'cooler' people). picnic then ocm. ocm then pho bang. pho bang then home. got my protein shakes in the mail. they were actually here last thursday. oh well. tommorrow i'll try one. EAS myoplex. allright.. i'm sorry this wasn't a very interesting week! so how do you get a giraffe in to a refrigerator?

5/04/01 12:20am two down..one to go. i finished my presentation for multimedia today as well as my unix final. just money and banking left next tuesday. my presentation went well... i think. people were laughing a lot. not sure why but i think it had to do with my retarded project. unix final was.. eh. the last 4 questions were the same as the midterm. i think i got them right.
did you watch survivor tonite? tina won! i don't believe that. crazy. andy was screaming rather loud while i paced around in disbelief after hearing the decision. anyway...tonite cut my hair again...like tradition. thursday night hair cut. andy did too. got some bubble tea with mike. saw spencer there... got coffee milk bubble tea. i like that now! took some benedryl to bring me down tonite...so i can wake up and diesel myself. i need a job...er money...er don't need... er want.

5/03/01 12:41am it's almost over. the calm before the storm. tommorrow's my presentation for multimedia and my unix final. didn't study hardly at all. was working on my presentation. here's the website. i did the washington square park stuff. today i ran around union and washington square park. worked out in the morning again. topless running on the roof of coles...hehe.. i lived it. also today i made beef with egg. mmm.. was good. i took allergy medicine during the day. it was good...allegra? ricky gave it to me. i just had a benedryl tonite. so i'm about to pass out now..............................

5/01/01 10:51pm ahh...cornell you say? yeah.. it was a good trip. my friend tim came up with me so i didn't have to make the massive drive up their by myself. we made good time since it was such a nice day and there were no cars out on the road. i saw two cop cars on the way up which scared me. hmm. i guess i should say why i went up to cornell. i went to fight my speeding ticket which i got a month ago on the way up to gospel jam. i wanted to get my ticket reduced from 58mph in a 35mph zone to 55mph...save a few points on my license, you know? so i also went up to visit andrew. hehe.. i mean i went to visit andrew and then also take care of my speeding ticket. i met up with andrew at around 4:00pm. we took a walk around campus as he showed me where the 'cool' people hang out. that's right.. we checked out the library. there are a few of them. the campus is really nice.. everything looks like it should be in some sort of advertisement for what college should be. nyu... eh, less trees but more hot dog vendors. guess it's the trade off. during our tour around campus we saw the president of cornell and two naked people swimming in the gorge. let me clarify...the president wasn't one of the naked people nor was he anywhere near the naked people. we saw him first and he said hi to us. i gave him a little 'how's it goin?' not knowing he was the president and time gave him either a 'hi' or a 'what's up dude?' i'm not sure. andrew then told us that was the president of cornell. he thought it was cool.. i guess so did i. who's nyu's president? LJ? i don't think his back will be ready for this playoff series. after saying hi to the president of cornell we were walking across this bridge over the gorge when we saw two naked people 'swimming' in the water below. it was too far to see anything really but i don't think they have any swim events like that in the olympics. so the day was already pretty exciting. it got better. we went to eat at robert purcell dining hall. crazy dope! i had roasted chicken and roasted pork. that was good stuff. so tender and delicious. andrew treated me and tim which was nice. they even have their own cows up there so they can make homemade ice cream. much better than mcD's. eventually we made our way over to the courthouse for our speeding ticket stuff. andrew came with us to increase our thuggish presence... he also lent me a tie which i will attribute most my legal success to. anyway.. we met up with the bing peoples and this other group from cornell before the 7pm trial time. i was lookin all good dressed up.. and preparing my speech. hehe. the actual trial took about 50 secs. the judge was really nice and dropped me down to 45 mph.. that's more than i was lookin for. cool, right? afterwards i talked to the judge.. don't know his name...he said in 28 years he only had 2 cases. guess it was a busy night that night. i got home around 12am....12:35. in time for conan. my allergies have been acting up lately. in my review session today.. i had to leave because i was about to sneeze. the rest of the afternoon was spent napping and working on my multimedia project. my presentation for that is on thursday. i made good progress on it tonite.. did i say that already? anyway...yeah. christine brought me some coffee/milk/bubble/tea. it was pretty good. more better than working on my project. although i must say i like my new musical add-ons. one last story for today...i did my last load of laundry that i'll probably need to do this semester...unless i have any accidents to deplete my supply of fresh underwear. gotta keep that in balance. my laundry basket/hamper, as many people know and make fun of, is a cardboard box. not just a regular box though... an altec lansing speaker box. so i usually leave it down there while my laundry is going. good thing this was my last load because someone jacked my box. perhaps one of the cleaning guys mistook it for garbage. oh well...now i have no box to put my clothes in...a dilemma many homeless guys have to deal with.

4/29/01/ 9:47pm think i'm startin to get sick. this always happens during finals week. maybe it's a cyclical thing? maybe finals just make me sick? went skating againg today after church with adam. got some new scrapes and bruises to go with yesterday's catch. i also went to play some intramural bball with the runners today. i drove in then came back to queens so i could watch 'the practice' tonite. i'm going to work on my lawyer phrases and poses for tommorrow's court date. i'm a bit scared. despite being diesel i'm not above the law. well see what happens. tim's goin with me to cornell where i'll meet up with andrew. i still have 2 or 3 empty seats in my car but at least i have some company. sacramento won today...and the knicks. nice. so i was eating pocky today... i finished the whole thing so easily. i just kept eating it. yesterday i faked like i was going to only eat a few so i took occasional pauses in my pocky consumption. today...i just let the carnage continue til there was no pocky left. it was more enjoyable. i knew i wasn't going to stop eating it so i just ate it.

4/28/01/ 11:06pm ahh.. i thought i woke up at 10 today but i was mistaken for the clocks in my room don't believe in daylight savings time. they do now. i converted them. most of today was spent lounging around mi casa. i shot some hoops, took some swings in the backyard with my golf clubs. at around 5ish i went to ad's to skate. we went to this park near kissena. let me tell you.. i was the man. this spanish guy and girl laughed at me when i fell on a kickflip over the center circle in the middle of the bball court. they enjoyed the show though and asked if i was ok. i wowed the little kids by sending my board spinning through the air with no intention to land a trick. that's how i leared my first trick actually. today was a good day though...ad landed some dope noseslides. after skating we went to get some pork chops from laifood and some roti from penang. i was super hungry but good thing someone in penang ordered something that smelled like sour butt..it made me less hungry when waiting for food. dinner was good... watched some bball, a little bit of pretty woman and goldeneye. my dad bought this dope green tea ice cream. mmm. oh... my streak of 10 days in a row without coffee is over.

12:42am man i'm tired today. worked out for 3 hours with ricky. didn't get to play much ball but... whatever. i'll play sunday probably or even tommorrow. i handed in my final essay for societies with eric. that class is officially done now. i also went to zion tonite. penang for dinner like usual. on the ride home i answered some of candy's very tough riddles.. like how do you get a giraffe in to a refrigerator?

4/19/01/

1:58am man my desk is getting cluttered. there's not a lot of room for me to work with this big fat trophy sitting right in the middle of my desk. no, it's not for making deans list if that's what you were thinking. tonite we won the alliance bball winter tourney. waterfish squad reigns supreme. i was pretty excited because this is my first real win since the Queens College tourney senior year of HS. so the details...kev had a monster game. he got everyone in foul trouble. wilson had a good game too. hit some big threes and free throws. paul also had a good game despite foul trouble. anyway.. enough about the regular folk.. hehe. so no fouls for the beast tonite. no fouls that were called. i did put a leg lock on a guy after a play was over. he thought it was funny. so i scored 11 points with 3 blocks. too bad i missed 2 free throws at the end. now my season % is around 50%. oh well...can't escape that. i'm just a shaq-like animal. i think this was one of my best games. we won by 8 i think. something like that. it was a good feeling. so we went to celebrate. the usual dining option was full. fu wong was hosting some sort of wedding banquet. that was pretty odd. who knew? we went to XO where i got the salt baked porkchop with egg. that was wilson's recommendation and it was a winner.
hmm... i should have studied more but i didn't. today i met with my TA for societies. i'm going to re-write my junk paper. my one class let out early which was cool. after that was guitar. andy was sick so i had the lesson by myself. it was cool. i learned some chords in a key and the melodic minor scale. still have to figure out what that is but it sounds cool. then after that i learned some guitar stuff from mike at the office. then servant team meeting at 5:00. oh.. so dave bao asks me to register for this bone marrow donor thing. i went to give blood which freaks me out. i hate thinking about the needle in my vein... ooh.. ouch.. man. so the lady ties that thing around my arm and starts feeling around for a vein. i was a little cold so the veins weren't stickin out so much. she goes "i can't find the veins, there's too much muscle. are you a weight lifter?" yeah.. so i'm the man now. it wasn't so bad but i didn't get the cookie dave said i'd get. i still have the mark from the needle and i still don't like to look at it or touch it.
you may or may not be wondering why i'm up this late. it's now 2:10am. i'll give you an explanation regardless if you want one or not. i was working on this stupid UNIX shell script. it's wack. i pretty much got most of the answer from the TA who posted it on the mailing list. so now that i'm pretty much done... whatever. i'm going to do nothing! tommorrow or sometime this week starts the hardcore lifting. it's diesel time and i'm setting my watch for go. that doesn't make any sense but if you say it with enough passion you can feel the meaning. try it.