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Monday, June 09, 2008

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:05:25 GMT

there have been many things i've learned during my time off... the following is just one of those things

"Money can't buy you happiness... but it can buy you things that'll make you happy"

Remember that the next time the idea to follow your less than economically beneficial "dreams" pop into your head

Friday, June 06, 2008

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:48:11 GMT

Well kiddies.... i'm back for at least one more post... some of you might know already that i'll be out of the US for about the next 5 months, but for those of you who didn't here's a lil breakdown of what i'll be doing

My Trip

June 17-19... Last trip to SD? (Graduations and Katrina's 21st)
June 24... Flight to Hong Kong (just a transfer)
June 26... Arrive in Taipei (damn time change... i just lost two days)
July 1-31... Loveboat (learning is fun =P)
August 1-5... Hong Kong (doing nothing is fun too)
August 5-Sept 1... Beijing (Olympics silly!)
September 1-8... Tokyo (damn this place is expensive)
Sept 8-November 19... Taipei (during this time I may travel to one or two of the following places; Thailand, Korea, the Philippines)

anyways that is all pretty self explanatory... what isn't is why i haven't been writing anything here despite having the time nowadays. Will I address that topic?? no... instead i'll just get right back into it =P

Kisses on the cheek!?!

For the nearly the past 22 years (i'm still 21 technically) this gesture/action has confounded my senses. Does it have romantic intent or is it simply some sort of greeting like a handshake?? People on Tv and Celebs seem to always greet everyone with kisses on the cheek yet i so rarely see it in person... is it an issue of social class?? or maybe something concerning age?? or maybe only people that know each other to a certain degree can do it?? Why have i speculated so much about what makes it ok to greet people in that fashion?? obviously i've been waiting to do it! I mean i think it'd be a great way to say hi to a friend of the opposite sex... but without understanding the meaning behind the gesture of course it'd be a very big risk to do so. I also unfortunately have a hunch that there is a double standard when it comes to kisses on the cheek where when a gurl does it its probably ok but when a guy does it the gurl might think there is something more to it... hmmz what do you guys think? if a friend kissed you on the cheek as a greeting what would you think?? what factors go through your mind when trying to determine whether its something or nothing... sex? age? relation? eligibility? type of personaliy? man.... I think so much about all these sorts of things huh?

Monday, May 12, 2008

Mon, 12 May 2008 23:06:09 GMT

can you differentiate between me and the character I play?

... i didn't think so

Monday, April 28, 2008

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:19:49 GMT

lol the following is amazing...

first off it captures exactly how I feel... but what's even more amazing is that I didn't create it!... there is actually another person out there that not only loves being without pants as much as me, but also loves making stupid charts to present even stupider claims.

Monday, April 21, 2008

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:15:40 GMT

Wow I gotta say Forgetting Sarah Marshall was way better than I expected even with the... *Spoiler Alert*... 4 shots of full frontal male penis =/ a review might be pending but that depends on whether I ever feel like breaking this once a week update habit

also the new BBQ Bacon Sirloin Burger at Jack in the Box has 1005.3 calories!?! I was ok with the 970 calories of the Double Western at Carl's but 4 digits and over 50% of your daily requirement for a regualr sized fast food burger?? Even I gotta admit thats a lil excessive... but that doesn't mean I wont try it tho because it looks delicious!

The following is what an application on Facebook told me...

You are more desirable
than less than 20% of people

Another 436,721 people are at your level

Your global desirability ranking is 16,396 out of 28,483,605 people

Last week: You were viewed 1 time and no people expressed interested in you

I should feel really sad about that right?

Monday, April 14, 2008

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:56:10 GMT

the past few weeks i have been on what can only be described as the steak and pastrami diet and the results are starting to show... but not in a good way =/

I mean who would have guessed right? it seemed like brilliant idea at the time

Monday, April 07, 2008

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:56:20 GMT

if you missed my xanga for whatever reason... I can only ask "why?!!?" but if you really must know its probably because i've been too tired/busy to write any of my thoughts down even when i felt like they were pure genius!... especially with my new hobby consuming a good portion of my time and money at this point. but hey i'll eventually get back to this horrible thing so you can either wait... or just give up

but just a warning tho, if you give up you'll probably miss out on great quotes like "When you're hungry, eating borders on orgasmic." ... now that's stuff they don't teach you in any textbook or sensical publication!

Monday, March 10, 2008

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:37:35 GMT

The Idiocy Returns... hell its even WORSE now!

i was thinking about apologizing for not updating... and probably leaving you all paranoid as to why me of all people am not living up to my claim at providing retardation daily but hell the few of you still sticking around likely don't want an apology... you've probably lost too many brain cells reading this blog to even notice when i'm gone but no worries... yes its quite unfortunate that thats the case but if its any consolation. My ramblings have taken far greater a toll on myself compared to any of you...

case in point a few days ago after coming home late friday night (i wonder what i was up to?)... everything seemed normal... pulled up in my driveway... walked into my house... did whatever i did... passed out... after waking from what i assume to have been a coma and realizing i was already an hour late getting up spent an additional 30 minutes tearing my room, my brother's room, and various other rooms apart looking for my keys... all the while reassuring myself that i didn't leave/lock them in my car because i would not have been able to get into the house... over and over again i covered every room finally deciding that despite all the logic i had been using... i might as well check the car... and on the way for just a moment i jokingly thought about whether i had left the keys in the door... and lo and behold there they were dangling from the keyhole... after thirty minutes of pacing through the house entertaining far more unlikely possibilities (thief came in and stole my keys for later use? accidently thrown away? stolen by my cousin as a preemptive strike?) ... and of course it really was the last place i'd ever look... come on... leaving the keys in the door... as cliched as it sounds i had never heard of anyone actually doing it outside of sitcoms or cartoons... I just assumed it was one of those things that sounded like they could happen but didn't ever really happen (no matter how drunk one is)

is that my only proof?? i mean that was just one night/morning right?? and there were possibly circumstances to justify my idiocy... well how about something a lil broader... like how in the past few weeks, being the brilliant economist (and quite possibly the worst dietician) that i am... i figured the secret to maximizing my financial wealth was to take my usual eating plan of eating like a hobo (cheaply eating fast food and whatever was on sale) and taking that to the extreme... how?? well focusing my eating to even cheaper fast food... what constitutes cheaper fast food then what i was eating you might ask?? well for a small while i attempted eating mcdonalds or jack in the box but they were still too expensive... which led me to Wienersnitzel! granted that place isn't as cheap as you'd expect if you order straight from their menu BUT... their specials are quite exceptional from their 79cent corndogs which segued to the 5 for 4 deal and then again segueing to the 5 for 5 deal. But as great a deal as these were tho, they required you to spend upwards of 4/5 dollars per meal and i'm sorry that was too high a price to be paying!... then in the mail I find what i am searching for ... 8 COUPONS that would provide me sustenance for 8 days!... 59cent kids cone, 79 cent corndog, 99 cent chili burger, 99 cent all beef chili dog, 3.33 chili cheese fries/chili cheese burger/chili cheese dog, 99 cent polish sandwich, 99 cent chili cheese fries, and last but not least 1.29 chili dog and fries. (yeah remember what i said about worst dietician? yup) but wait how could each of those deals fill me up for a day?? well one can order up to 3 of each coupon!... and after 1.5 weeks of possessing these coupons i've used a whopping 4 of them... yeah which averages out to being eating wienersnitzel almost every other day =P (and yes i did eat 3 rather large kids cones for lunch one day... today in fact)

does one need anymore proof?? I think not!

oh you do?? well how do you think i passed the days when i didn't get wienersnitzel?? with some canned soup of course! well you'd think with all the varieities of soup out there that'd be fine but nope... I pretty much only ate new england clam chowder, from many different companies, not really because i like it all that much mind you but just because its really the only soup that comes in a can that has minimal veggies and thus allows me to eat all of it without leaving waste...and if i got sick of that i could always eat a loaf of bread for lunch... yes just a loaf of bread =P yes i know it must be blowing your mind thinking about how i'm alive huh?

P.S. I was updating my facebook when i noticed.. I have exactly 365 pics tagged on facebook which means people could look at a new pic of me everyday for a year... damn you people are lucky!

Monday, March 03, 2008

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:50:09 GMT

the following slogan has been going through my mind...

"Animals... can't eat just one!"

yup that gives you an idea of what i've been using my brainpower on

also an important distinction between norcalers and socalers which may or may not take too long to write (considering i wrote a 4-5 page paper on how norcalers and socalers disagree on the name of boba)

P.S. i'm ridiculously sore... what was i thinking running the la marathon... ok by running i should probably say walking since thats what i did most of the time

Friday, February 29, 2008

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:51:56 GMT

"if you don't think your good enough to date... then how can you expect anyone else to think you are good enough to date?"

a very simple phrase that's been used for who knows how long yet people might not realize that it can be perceived very differently... I mean just take the two extremes first, the pessimist and the optimist. If they heard that line they'd probably respond along these lines

Pessimist- You're right. If me of all people don't think i'm good enough then nobody will either. Thanks for bringing that up =/

Optimist- You're right. I should start thinking better of myself and then others will too!. Thanks for bringing that up =)

Oddly the responses are pretty similar but completely opposite ... i mean its to be expected for those two types of people to be opposite but that just goes to show how even something you might tell a person to "help" them... might just hurt them or push them into an even worse situation. So now that you know that... be careful with your words because the person you are talking to might not see things the same as you

haha i'll let you guess which one i'm more like ;)