Bus Stories

Today the bus driver was very moody. She was doing lots of unusual things. My guess is she was upset she didn't have enough time to take a break at the art building. Well, she was ranting about how people need to ring the request to stop earlier and people need to load and unload faster. One person rang it at the last second and see blew up but decided to stop anyways. Then the next person rang it early trying not to upset the driver. Well when she finally stopped people were entering the bus making it hard for her to get off. So the bus driver closed the door on the girl and took off. The girl was about to cry and I sat there laughing. I don't think my laughing helped anyone, but I swear it was funny. You should've seen her face.

Memoirs of a Geisha

I only watched the movie so I'm sure the book is much better. The story is entertaining but why the thick Asian accent? Seriously, it's clear that the kids can speak English perfectly but they put on a fake accent for no reason. They might as well gotten white people and had them speak English with a heavy accent.

Finders Keepers

So today after tennis I was walking back to my car. To my finding I stumbled into quite an interesting finding. Have you ever stumbled into a used condom? Usually you're just walking and you kick something or it sticks to your shoe. You look down and you got this piece of latex stuck to your shoe and you freak out like a girl hoping you didn't just get genital herpes or type 2 diabetes. Well I stumbled into a douche bag. At first I didn't know what it was. Then to my curiosity, I kicked it some more. God forbid, that I pick it up knowing now what it is, but I was like, this is an interesting device. There's no question curiosity killed the cat but as soon as I realized what this was, I was freaking out like a girl hoping I didn't catch AIDS or type 2 diabetes. I'm so glad I didn't pick up the thing. God knows where it's been. I guess they didn't get the latest memo that douching is harmful.

I <3 Jackie

So Jackie has the worst taste in movies. Knowing this, I took her recommendation to watch Wicker Park. So as I was watching it, I realized that I've seen the movie before but I couldn't remember the movie. It was like a drunken memory. So as I watched more and more all I could think is I've seen this movie before. And I clearly know that I have but I just couldn't remember any of it until the scenes happened. Well I realized why I don't remember the movie. I fell asleep the first time around and was waking up for scenes here and there. I know I did this because I did the same thing watching it again. Well I never got to see the ending because I fell asleep so I decided to look up the spoiler online. It turns out that it's the worst movie ever. I was saying how this seems like one of those movies where the ending just kills the movie. I was right, it was a bad movie that turned even worse. DO NOT EVER LISTEN TO JACKIE WHEN IT COMES TO MOVIES.

Thanksgiving

Again got to see friends and family. The pre-thanksgiving potluck was pretty fun. I also got to play on the Nintendo Wii. We need to have potlucks more often.

I was thankful that I have a family. I think I starved half of my Thanksgiving weekend but nonetheless good stuff. For those I didn't get to see, I miss you all. It was nice spending time with Shane's family. Shane gave me a lot of advice about the Army. I also got to see how great it is to see families gathering for Thanksgiving. I wish my relatives lived close enough so we could spend time as one family. I also which all the feud between my family and my relatives would end. Also, as expected, my mom wasn't too happy that I decided to join the Army. I hear my grandma won't be too happy either because she resents the army. My dad decided to give me a lecture about making money. All in all, they seem to respect my decision.

Now the break is over, I got two weeks of hell and then finals.

Army > Navy

I know some of you already know that I've considered joining the military for quite some time, three or four years I believe. But since graduation has been on my door step, it's pretty much my career decision. I'm pretty sure I'll be joining the military but the question is which one. After speaking with a Army adviser, I'm convinced I rather join the Army. So I know I have been rather evasive about the my teacher career and haven't told you guys why I wanted to put on hold. This is the reason. Basically just by joining I'll get enough in bonus money to pay off my loans. More importantly, I think there's nothing better to help me mature as a person than this. If anything, it sure beats an office job and sitting on my butt all day. So after I come back from Thanksgiving, they want me to go to San Antonio and do some tests. Hopefully I won't eat too much turkey and fail my physical test. Well my family doesn't eat turkey. In fact my parents tell me I should be just thankful I have parents. Usually I was thankful for that I wasn't getting beaten. So basically, whatever choice I make, I'll be proud to serve my friends and family even if it's for a war that I don't quite believe in. Honestly I'm quite excited about my future. For once I feel I have a goal in my life.

Alas poor Yorick!

For those that wanted the exact details here they are. It'll during dead week.

Gambling is bad

Started off good.





Ended in misery.

College Football

Why do I not care anymore? I think my expectations are too high from last year's win.

Almost Finished

I only have 2 finals, 2 papers and a project to finish until I graduate. Looks like I can just cruise again until December.

An old past time of my is playing arcade games. However, I haven't done this in quite some time, probably has been 2-3 years since I wiggled a stick (no pun intended). As some of you guys know, I'm quite a Streetfighter champ. In fact, I won my current computer case at a tournament. Kelvin always mentions that it's so weird that I have a nice computer case, but I don't really accessorize anything else. It looks out-dated now. Anyways I've probably won about $300-500 in prizes from playing arcade games. Yes I am a nerd. And before I leave, I want to play again. So I decided to see if there's any arcade groups in facebook, and I found some dude. I think I'm going to ask him to play me sometime. That's right. Some people use facebook to meet new friends. Some swing. Some stalk. I use it to find people that want to play nerdy arcade games.

I'm also playing in a tennis tournament this Friday. Not really in the mood for it since my shoulder is killing me, but I need to play to make an A in the class. I hope they make it into a doubles tournament.

Last but not least, FAFSA is stupid. Hopefully they stop being retarded and process my stuff. Some how my dad's SSN didn't match up to his name and my SSN was registered to someone that isn't a US Citizen. I got naturalized at 18 and I'm pretty damn proud to be American so it pisses me off when I have to prove that I am. Sigh if it doesn't go through before the last class date, I get $0. =*(

How I spend my spare time

Thanks to Scott, I also play
http://www.zanorg.com/prodperso/jeuxchiants/doublejeu.swf

This guy is awesome

Playing too much

My shoulder pulses in pain just from sitting or trying to go to sleep. I think it's from too much tennis which is playing 2 hours a week. I also have Tennis Elbow which I got from basketball. I'm also putting on some weight from being lazy. Thanksgiving is coming so I guess I'll be just eating more.

I <3 Boobies

I ran for boobs today. Once I get the pictures from Carols I'll post them up. Basically Victor, Carolyn and I went running together. Carols and I finished at an amazing pace of 32 minutes. It was crazy, we had to weave through all the walkers and the people cheering on the street. We stopped to take pictures with a mariachi band, random high school cheerleaders and mascot, and random pictures of the capitol. Victor seemed to needed to take a bunch of "picture breaks" which killed our time. Once we got to the capitol, Victor insisted he meet us when we got around the capitol. When we finally got around, being the idiot he is, Victor said, "What took you guys so long?" Then after running couple blocks more Victor asked to take another break. We ran a couple more blocks and we took a picture break with some roller derby girls and then Carolyn and I just left Victor behind and finished the race. Afterwards, I went to all the booths to collect the goodies. My bag was filled to the top with free stuff. I really got my money's worth. Felt good running again. My lungs were able to run the entire race but my left hamstring and butt cheek was burning in pain. Fun stuff. It's a good feeling to know that I saved boobies.

Nostalgia

Saw an old friend from freshman year. I haven't seen her in so long that I couldn't recognize her. I must admit I talk to about one person at most from freshman year now. I miss being so naive.

Wii!!!

I want a Nintendo Wii. I know I'm not much of a gadget collector or a buyer of the latest tech items but swinging a controller to play virtual sports looks so fun. Hopefully a friend will buy it so I can play on theirs. =D

Managing Anger

I must admit managing my anger has been one of goals this semester. Although in the beginning I was struggling, I have a good grip of my anger. My attitude has changed completely. I have lived my college life being angry and bitter. Yet, looking back, the good times were when I wasn't angry and the bad times were when I was angry. I feel I have wasted four years of my life just being bitter. However, even with my new attitude I have limits. Limits that are rather low, but better than before.

For instance, the other day I was playing basketball and this guy would reach in on me and kneed my thigh. Then again, he reached in and rammed his knee into my knee. Although I was annoyed, I shrugged it off and told him it's okay, it's just part of the game. Then he did it a third time and cut my right cheek. So I finally decided to retaliate and shove him into a pick but the pick was moving so I missed. I then decided to reach in while running through his body, basically same as what he was doing. So shoving him to the ground was instant gratification. However, I actually felt a little remorseful. This probably was my first act of rage in two months. And really because now that I was upset, I wasn't having fun. It's weird to me to regret getting mad. At least I have a better rage threshold. Before I probably would have kicked him on the first knee to my thigh but now I wait until the third.

I must admit I am much happier. I was bitter about things I could not really control and in the end causing me to lose control of myself. I think what has allowed me to change is that I actually care about myself. Before I disregarded my physical and mental health just for instant gratitifications. I spent 17 years growing up. Then in college took a hiatus. But now after wasting however many years and on the verge of graduating, I'm finally growing up again. Although, I can't say I learned nothing at all during those years. I am more open minded than I was before. I regret how much time I have wasted, but I also see that this is how it all supposed to have turned out.

As a side note, I'm making a list of things I have yet to do in Austin before I leave. I have dumb things like riding a dillo bus and swimming in Hamilton pool. If you guys like, I'll post the finished list and you guys can join me if you like. Although, I won't be done with the list any time soon. I know somebody wants to take a tour of the UT tower with me.