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[Jun. 18th, 2004|07:02 pm] |
The End.
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[Jun. 14th, 2004|08:58 pm] |
| How to make a nzadyslexic |
Ingredients:
1 part anger
3 parts humour
1 part beauty |
Method:
Blend at a low speed for 30 seconds. Add curiosity to taste! Do not overindulge! |
Personality cocktailFrom Go-Quiz.com You have an angry soul! Angry Souls arent always angry, but they cannot easily forgive and hold grudges. You probably often get in fights with your friends and family, and its difficult for you to understand. When someone makes a mistake, you dont let go easily and hold on to those memories. Your very stubborn and your rage is known to everyone. Though you never actually mean it, you can say mean things in a fight and go over board. Many people are sometimes intimidated by your anger. But you have many redeeming qualities and those are that you are quite intelligent and smart. You would make a good businesswoman or lawyer because you know how to prove your point. You cherish the ones around you, and appreciate life, even though you can complain or throw a tantrum now and then. The good things is, you keep your emotions very outspoken, and are normally a very happy person because all your rage is let on the outside. Anger is simply a state, but you, yourself as a person, are great. What Kind of SOUL do you posses? (For Girls only) Incredible Anime Pictures! brought to you by Quizillahmmm...how odd. i'm not really angry (or a girl but...ehhhh whatever) yet it says i am. oh well i guess it's internal strife or whatever...ha...right.... |
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[Jun. 6th, 2004|08:23 pm] |
i've been curious about something. If i lied to people for a whole day would they notice? not huge lies that would stir the emotions but small lies that can easily be blown off. and if i did the exact opposite in that i told nothing but the truth would the same people notice? now that may not seem like anything (telling the truth) but think about all the lies that we say to protect ourselves or others. if those were nonexistant and nothing but the truth was told then what would happen?
i think the reason i bring this up is because lately i've been able to just think without distractions. i work as an assistant mechanic at Hi-Tech Auto, so in between customers there's lots of sitting and just relaxing. it's actually an interesting job because there's periods where it's straight work because customers come in but then there's periods of nothing because there is no one there. so it's a mix of busy and boring. first day was nothing but oil changes and tire rotations. then the 2nd and 3rd day i dissambled a honda civic engine. too bad it wasn't the newer civic EX because i wanted to see what the VTEC system looks like (if you understood that than i am impressed). so there's big differences in the challenge of the job. oh well it's nice to have hands-on-experience. it's nice to work actually. it's crzy how i say that when i consider myself to be lazy but it gives me something to do, i get paid, and i work with cars which i really like.
oh and for all the girls reading this, don't wear a gallon of perfume! i was sitting next to some random girl watching harry potter and it was hard to breathe because she put on so much perfume. i'm sure if she was attractive i wouldn't mind but i had no idea what she looked like since it was dark. oh yeah Hermione is hot when she's angry. i think there are millions of guys (and girls) who will agree that she is most attractive when she punches Malfoy in the face. |
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[May. 22nd, 2004|12:04 am] |
i think it's funny how in the beginning i thought i could do this livejournal thing at least semi regularly. and it's been several weeks since my last update. oh well, i'm sure the reasons are a combination of laziness, apathy, secrecy, scared...ness.... i dunno. oh, it also doesn't help that i haven't been able to use my computer for about a week since my computer room was being remodeled to have hardwood floor. it's nice for sure. gives the room a much different feel to it. also i moved around the furniture so now i have to look at my monitor from an angle and not straight on. i'm hoping it will help my accuracy and speed when typing since i can't look down easily anymore while typing. or then again it could just mess up my neck since i don't look straight ahead anymore...oh well, we'll see.
so what's been happening then? it seems a lot of people's LJ or Xanga revolves around graduation or summer plans or college plans and the like. whatever is related to the future i suppose. should i break the mold and talk about something else? nah....too hard. i'm gonna get a job...then off to SoCal (Southern California babyyyyyyyy!! woot!) for college. hahah yes...those are my plans. i feel so lucky that i don't have to spend my whole summer in college like the people who have to do the UT summer school. 2 weeks of summer and then they're off... how annoying. whereas my college starts sept 13 or something like that. oh! no financial aid for me...80K in debt from student loans when i graduate from college if i don't get california residency. if i do prolly around 50K or so. so...yeah i stick to my earlier entry about going to an expensive place and getting lotsa debt over a cheap place. hopefully fun times ahead...
on a completely different note, i am super happy i drive a responsive sports car. i've had to swerve twice in the last 3 days to avoid accidents, and i know if i was in a huge SUV or truck that i prolly woulda flipped over and died. first time i was driving down Shiloh at 11PM or so, and i was driving next to a silver SUV who i guess didn't see me and tried to go into my lane. i had to swerve into the other lane to avoid getting side swiped. the second time was tonight when i was driving down Star Trek Ln to drop off darwin. well a big white ford SUV comes barreling outa the alley and looks like he didn't even look both ways before exiting. i had to swerve to avoid getting T-boned. so both times it was stupid careless SUV drivers not paying attention. and both times i was thinking "hey what's that guy doing? HOLY! (swerve)" man and they say teenage drivers are bad drivers...there's a few of us who are more aware of the surroundings than the other ppl on the road for sure. though now that i think about it, if i hadn't been able to swerve, then the bigger SUVs hitting my car would have done a lot of damage, especially the possible t-bone accident. that woulda easily trapped me inside my car and broken an arm and few ribs. so i guess if i was in a big SUV or truck, it wouldn't have been a big deal since it coulda handled the impact a lot easier than my small car. oh well...the point is, responsive sports car, swerving, and paying attention is a good combination.
alright, that's enough for now... |
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[Apr. 18th, 2004|01:38 am] |
"so why are you at the mall alex? ur usually never here"
"uh....running from the cops"
"nice, about damn time"
alright, well that's the important part of my update. but i have to explain from the beginning so people understand fully.
the day started out with something as simple as physics, an IB test review for physics actually. that was from 10AM to 4PM. longest physics class ever it seemed. at least it was split up with an hour long lunch.
then after that it was off to hang with jason and angelo to go drifting. i pick up matt and we're off to the meeting point. the guy who owns the drifting spot never shows up so after a lot of waiting we decide to go to another spot that we know. well this place is an underground parking garage but it's only one story below ground level, and right above it is some commercial shops and restaurants. the floor is slick and smooth so it's very easy to break traction and drift around. well it's split into 2 rooms. the place where the cars park and then where the people can actaully drift. well, there was a total of maybe...15-17 or so ppl there. me and jason and about 4 other ppl are in the first parking room because the screeches of the tires from the cars is so loud, it's painful almost. and since the parking lot is so small only 1 car can drift at a time, the other people were in the other room watching the driver drift. well all of sudden, the screeching stops, then 2 or 3 seconds after we see about 12 ppl just running full speed toward their cars. now at this moment i think "what the hell? why are ppl running...oh shit..the only thing that would make a huge group of teenage guys run..cops"
so when we see the group of ppl running, everyone starts to run. we jump into our cars and speed off. all i heard was "go! go! go! oh shit!" (doors slam) SCREEEEEEEEEEECHHHH!!!! by the way, it's very difficult to get keys out of your pocket when ur running as fast as possible to your car. if you have ever seen "fast and furious" then you know what it looks like when many cars just disperse and spread like crzy to get away from cops. well that was us outa the parking garage.
well since we all dispersed, it took awhile to check for everyone. to make sure no one was left behind we had to call each other. well we all managed to meet up at an Arby's parking lot. after some talking we figured out the situation. as one of the ppl were drifting, one of the viewers saw a cop car coming. well he says that and everyone starts to run. that's where my story comes in and i see ppl running away, and it just starts that chain reaction.
but unfortunately, the driver who was drifting at the time couldn't get away, so he was arrested. and angelo was in the passengers seat, so he was questionned but luckily not arrested. what was also lucky is that he had just given his keys to one of his friends before riding with the drifter so the guy who had his keys drove angelo's car away so it wouldn't get left behind. we all felt bad for the guy who was arrested because that was his first time in garland. and spending ur first night in jail is not the best way to get to know a town.
well we received a text message from angelo saying that the cops were still looking for us, so we decide to go farther away. back to the meeting point, RSM. which is where my first quote in this entry came from. from there everything dies down, angelo comes and he explains everything. luckily he wasn't fined or arrested or in trouble. but he had to drive the arrested drifter's car so it wouldn't get towed. now he is waiting for that guy to call him to see how angelo will return his car.
but this was an interesting night for sure. something i won't forget. never a dull weekend anymore thankfully. |
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[Apr. 14th, 2004|09:54 pm] |
apathy?
maybe, i have no idea. whatever it is i feel right now borders on disgust, anger, or apathy. i'm tired of it all. i have this responsibility issue where i feel i am responsible for stuff i have no control over. i am not a big brother or father so why do i feel like one? so why do i protect/take care of/care about other people? they aren't my problem. i'm sick of it all. let them take care of themselves. we're almost in college, if you haven't found independence yet then you're fucked. not my problem anymore. in a matter of months i won't have to deal with the responsibility anymore, i'll be in control of my and only my life.
whatever, on a much lighter note...i found out that teachers can be really cool. igo has repeated the "el nino" and "lightning" story http://douglas.min.net/essay/ to every class he's had. so it's cool he likes my little gift. and evidently, a lot of people have read it as a complete stranger sitting in our class has read it before also. ms. wilson defended me and claire when patac got mad at us for going out into the halls when we were supposed to be in comp sci for study skills. so it's the first time a teacher has stood up for me against another teacher. good stuff. and from now on...soul calibur will be playing in the comp sci room as we have figured out that a ps2 can hook up to the projector. so the battles show up on the wall at like...5x5 feet across, big screen dimensions almost. |
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[Apr. 6th, 2004|10:43 pm] |
i hate loud people. specifically, i hate people who brag about things that other people don't have. someone in my physics was bragging about how he got so much money from his college that whatever he wins now is just free spending money. and of course, he being naturally loud has to go and tell everyone and interrupt class. now this is just rude in my opinion. many people do not have enough money to go to college and many people, financial situations keep them from going to their college of choice. so whenever someone brags that they have so much money, it just pisses me off. i don't see how pooneh can tolerate sitting right next to him. he's super loud across the room so he must be super loud a few inches away. well actually, i think she's getting annoyed too considering she moved away from him today, so it goes to show i'm not the only person who doesn't like him. but whatever...
money is so important is today's society it's disheartening. i learned from my sister that public college used to be FREE in california if you just passed all your classes. with the cost of college being such a huge factor in decisions, its a shame really. to be kept from going to where you WANT to go and instead being forced to go where you CAN go is something that i thankfully have not had to deal with. right from the start my parents were lucky enough to say "cost isn't an issue...blah blah, apply to whatever college you want, apply to good schools...blah blah...MIT, Caltech, Stanford, Rice..." but then again, for some odd reason they didn't want me to go to 22K Rose-Hulman, but were fine with me going to 23K Boston if i wanted.
now to all you people who have restricted yourself based on financial situations...rethink it. for me personally, i would much rather spend however many years paying student loans and not regretting my college choice, then paying off student loans in 1 or 2 years, or not at all cuz of some awesome deal, and absolutely hating college. and the reason i say this is because i have siblings on both sides. one of my brothers went to A&M, hated it, payed off his student loans in 1 year, regrets goin to the cheaper college. another one of my brothers went to Reed College in oregon, loved it, payed student loans for 6 yrs, happy with his decision.
but whatever, the point is money is too big a factor in college choices and i think it should be based on what the student wants, the desired environment, or what the level of education will be. whatever, i know this post won't change anyone's choice but i want people to see that there are not as many restrictions on choices as they would believe is there.
oh yeah, and don't brag. vain, pompous jackasses need to have their asses kicked. |
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[Mar. 27th, 2004|11:42 pm] |
today was a nice day. it started out boring enough where all i was doing was just playing video games and working on the CAS essay when Angelo calls me to go to a drift meet with him. he tells me to meet him at Richardson Square Mall cuz that's where the meeting point is and we'll drive from there. Well when i got there, i couldn't find him so i was just walking around. I walked into the arcade to see if there was anyone i remember (for those that don't know me that well, junior year i spent a lot of time at the mall playing ddr and hangin out. i was one of THOSE asians back then hahaha). well anyway, there was this small boy playing ddr and as i watch him, i think "man, he looks really familiar..." well, my ex-girlfriend walks up beside me and suddenly i remember "oh yeah, he's the kid brother to my xgf". She and I begin talking, and it's like old times. i remember why i liked her, she was fun and cool to talk to, and still is. she was pretty and has only gotten prettier. whatever, i messed up once, and i'll never repeat that mistake again...
anyway, while we talk angelo calls and says he's there, so i had to leave her. when i meet him, i see this group of cars all pretty stock looking. there was a mr2 and several 240 sx's. and i see that these ppl are indeed there for drifting and not dragracing. i can see that their modifications to their cars are not the "ricer" kind. Well we leave to go to the parking lot that will serve as the drift spot for the night. on the way there i am driving along side the mr2. we are by each other by the light and when we go, when he shifts i suddenly hear "BSSSHHHHH". I'm thinking "holy shit! thats a helluva blowoff valve. nice...." man turbo cars are nice. we get there, it's smaller than i expect. but it's cool because i saw some very nice drifting and i got to know some ppl so that's cool.
as darkness begins to envelop the lampless parking lot we decide to go and just hang. on the highway we were racing around (and before you jump to conclusions, i am NOT a racer, but when the ppl you are following are goin 80+ then u have to follow anyway you can). and there's 2 significant things that happened. 1) a cadillac kept up with me when i accelerated from 55-85 mph trying to catch up with the rest, that surprises me only cuz that means the driver wanted to keep up with me, i'm fully aware that some cadillacs are indeed powerful with their V6s or V8s) and 2) i nearly killed myself when trying to catch up with angelo and not realizing that the lane that me and him were on merges with the next lane which had a truck in between him and my position. so i have to floor it to get enough speed to pass the truck before my lane ends. i think the rear of my bumper just cleared his front bumber by 6 inches or so. and this was while the truck was goin around 75-80 mph and my car goin around 85-90.
but yeah, i hate following ppl on the highway. you have to take risks that you normally would never take to be able to keep up with the other person. and just to reiterate, i am NOT a racer. so don't go thinking alex is a dangerous driver who drives like an idiot, cuz i don't.
whatever, this was certainly a fun day. out of the ordinary for sure and that's always a nice change of pace from the monotonomy that is my life. |
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[Mar. 23rd, 2004|08:32 pm] |
As I sit here and look at the monitor I wonder what I should write? I look at some other Xanga/LJ users for ideas and I notice their different writing styles. It's interesting to look at some people's entries and see how they have a very educated writing style, tossing in several multisyllable words that are straight from the SAT that I never use but for some unexplained reason understand. And then there is the majority of the people who write in a very simple style, understandable by the masses and not the just the "higher level educated" people. It's also funny to see the reading levels required for some of these people using the http://mavra.perilith.com/~rfreebern/gradelevel/ . To see how some people write so simply that someone from the 2nd or 3rd grade is interesting, and of course there comes the surprise when the reader is needed to be at something phenomenally high like 7th or 8th grade to understand the entries. Now whether that is considered an insult or a compliment to the author's writing style is subjective considering that simple, easy to understand texts are much more fun to read than esoteric, complex texts that are "college level". Whatever...
On a completely different note, Henry and Darwin did an exceptional job representing Garland at the Texas Scholars Luncheon. With the answer "humerus" for "why is the funny bone named that way?", Henry walked away with $100. With the answer "red" for "what primary color has the shortest name?", Darwin walked away with $50. |
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[Mar. 18th, 2004|08:52 pm] |
i noticed something about this livejournal thing. it makes the assumption that you're willing to actually reveal how you feel, what you did, what's goin on, current events, etc. unfortunately, i notice with most of the above, i'm not willing to divulge that information. i (along with most of the ppl i know) am not an open person at all. there are exceptions to that generalization of course because i know some ppl who a.) can't shut up b.) tell every detail of their life and and/or c.)tell every detail of OTHER'S lives. I don't even tell my best friends what i feel. well...i take that back, unless i am in the extremes of emotions (super happy or pissed) then i don't talk about how i feel or what is goin on. unfortunately, because of my body language or facial expressions ppl seem to ask what's wrong or how i feel expecting me to start on a life's story of how things aren't goin right or why i look like i wanna kill someone. usually i just feel fine, it's just i have no reason to be happy or sad so i'm neutral. so why do people interpret that as depressed or angry? i'm fine, the only reason i'm annoyed is because people ask me why i look annoyed.
with darwin's stupid "roller coaster of emotions" comment...that is in reference to an inside joke we have with shawn. it simply states that the opposite gender can have complete control over emotions of others simply by treatment. this leads to highs and lows, hence "roller coaster". we make fun of it because it goes against the norm for guys to talk about emotions at all. when emotions vary wildly for girls it's PMS, but for guys (who speak openly about it) it simply gets ridiculed. jokingly of course, but ridiculed nonetheless.
whatever, a livejournal/xangas assumes openness of the author. most guys are not, so maybe that is why most livejournals/xangas users are female... |
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[Mar. 11th, 2004|10:07 pm] |
"i don't fully understand what love is"
"me neither, maybe it's cuz we've never experienced it tho"
i've noticed the word "love" is thrown around in everyday conversation too easily nowadays. maybe i'm old fashion in that i believe love usually means something really deep. I'm also rather pessimistic however about this subject because i feel that most of the people in high school, with the exception of a few, are too emotionally immature to make this decision. it probably doesn't help that i never heard the word "love" around my house either. i didn't even know what "an yeu em (i love you)" meant until last year and i learned it from other students not my parents. now it doesn't bother me when people say "i love you" to others because they have a different definition of it then i do i suppose, however when i'm expected to say it then i can't do it. this, of course, has caused some funny situations with past gf's. if you notice, i rarely use the word "love" for anything. but whatever...i have no idea what the point of this was. livejournals are supposed to be a place for your thoughts right? well there's my random thought on love i suppose. |
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[Mar. 6th, 2004|11:26 pm] |
Alright, so i'm back from the BPA trip. it was fun, darwin and matt are awesome ppl to hang out with. and we met some cool ppl. we met a cowboy named christian who just oozed "country-livin", josh a nice white guy who let us watch his tv when darwin broke ours..., solina (sp?) a hot cambodian (cambodians look a lot like really tan vietnamese, prolly cuz it's so close geographically), and nang, a crzy asian who was funny as hell and some other ppl who i didn't know that well before. tho i must admit, i really didn't care to try to get to know one of our roomates better. he's so odd and perky in the mornings. it was friggin 6 AM in the morning and he was singing random songs. i could barely open my eyes it was so early and he was nearly bouncing off the walls. but whatever, i won't have to deal with him anymore. BPA gave us $100 for food, and i still have about $20 of it, so i had everything paid for and then some. man BPA is awesome.
oh yeah, over in san antonio was a ddr machine so i decided to play. my skillz have decreased so badly it's horrible. songs i could easily get A's on, i was getting B's and C's. and i actually failed a song i could almost full combo any other day. man....ddr skillz fading away...
I received my admission to Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo so i am very happy now. San Luis was actually my first choice and Pomona was my second choice. this is the college that Mr. Lines said he was rejected to, so it's nice to know i am better than my physics teacher.
alright, that's enough of my randomness...the point of this entire thing is my life is getting better. i'm happy, i think that vacation (and hopefully this spring break) is all i needed to relax and be less stressed. |
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[Mar. 3rd, 2004|09:35 am] |
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alright...first entry.
let's see...bpa trip is tommorow to Saturday so hopefully that will be fun. last year hubert, rony, and dzuy made it awesome because we had a lot of fun doing crzy crap like throwing stuff out 20 story hotel windows and getting caught, goin past curfew and all that crap. fun times...
oh best quote of the day by my friend darwin..."well that character is really a really hot girl or dangerously sexy guy". man darwin is funny.
oh ok and now on to something more serious. one of the colleges i really wanted to go to Cal Poly - Pomona, in California had previously accepted me in December or so. However just recently they rejected my admission because they "have not received my SAT scores". now that is bullshit because i have e-mail verification that i sent in my scores in November, so it must have gotten lost in the mail. so i have been denied by Cal Poly AFTER BEING ACCEPTED!!!! also Rose-Hulman, which i've been accepted already into, sent me what it would cost to attend. and with the aid package they gave me it's still 22K per year. so my mom says "no way in hell you're goin to that college, i forbid it" only in vietnamese. so that's 2 colleges knocked down right there on the same day.
but whatever....this sucks so much. man this is bad actually, i hope my posts aren't just me ranting and raving cuz that would be horrible to read.
ok...i should end on a good note then...something good happening in my life....shit.... |
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