god damn

screw this

like anthony lu would say

“school is fucking me in the ass”

and tim luc

“fuck me”

gotta pull myself together, regroup

“i want to drift away like the feather in air”

“never give up never ever stop”

good bye

john muir

hehehe. today is definitely one of those blogging days for me.

as i mentioned in the last entry, i went to john muir. although they didnt have tons of asians, it was a really diverse school. it wasnt a cliqueish school. i was pretty comfortable around all sorts of people. right now though, im not. im catching myself acting differently around different people. it really bothers me that i change around different people. it sucks

im out of my mind

nerd

Friday. yay. well today is friday and fridays are always good. i feel really stupid right now because i was gonna go to kevins house and play CASTLECRASHERS, but i didnt go because i stupidly thought i would do hw on a friday. im really sorry. instead of going to kevins house, i went to TACO BELL to get a crunch wrap supreme and a double cheesy beef burrto and ate it; and, i fell asleep right after finishing the crunchwrap supreme. i feel like a pig. well, i guess its good that i got TACO BELL today because taco bell is always good. OK back to CASTLECRASHERS. OMGEEE, CASTLECRASHERS is such a good, nerdy, violent, cute game. hahaha. its so fun. also, i downloaded disagaea on the ds today. disagaea is this rpg game on the ds that is suppose to be really good. i played for half an hour today before i took a nap. it was pretty good, but i forgot to save. it sucks because you can only save at this certain point and i forgot to save after i went through the tutorials. The tutorials are pretty boring and i have to do it again because i didnt save. :[

i took a 3 hour nap today. it was great. i heard the song "friday im in love today". when i heard it, i was like "O today is friday. how great." fridays make me happy. damn school sucks, especially glasser's, physics, and english. school makes me depressed. i really dont like this year. there are so much stuff going on. i really hate how i want to do so much, but i dont do it. im like those people that talks crap but dont take actions. it sucks more because i know that im not doing enough and my grades show it. it makes me really depressed because i know that i dont want myself to be like this, but yet, im not doing anything to change it. essentially, im a pretty pessimistic guy. i know it and i hate it, again.

i havent been at the place where i usually hang out during lunch because i have been running around for NHS and CSCB stuff. its really hard to collect all the leadership requirements because you all know that im not those outgoing people that volunteers for anything and everything. im not those people that is outgoing and talk alot, those people that run for officer positions in clubs. im really not, but ive been asking people to make me officer and at the same time i feel bad for the people that really contributes. i feel like a jerk

while im trying to apply to NHS, do CSCB, SAT stuff, and tons of other crap to improve my college transcript, i think of the future of my life. most likely, ill somehow get through these last two years of high school and go to a 4 year college, most likely graduate school after. then, ill get a job. then, what? i cant really think of what im gonna do with my life. this makes no sense because im trying really hard right now to go to the next step of the ladder. the higher level is always my motivation, but what is the motivation at the end? after getting a job and maybe settling down and having kids and all that sort of stuff?

people say that accomplishments arent really that important to a persons life, but being happy what really matters. sadly, im one of those people that become happy by accomplishing something.

i have other stuff to say, but right now i think im done and im gonna go take another nap.

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ok so i came across will's notes on facebook because im such a fb whore. he wrote about his good and bad days of elementary school, middle school, and high school. i thought it was really interesting to look at your life that way. will is smart. well here is what he said.

"I shouldn't be doing it
but I am anyways.

To get any perspective in my crazy life, I have to look back.
Look back at my awkward stage, my bad stage, my "I'm crap" stage and nothing is going to get better stage.

Is it bad that when I think about the past, I feel that it was only horrible.
When good things happened back then but that's not what I remember right away.
It takes a while sometimes." then he lists his memories of his good old days.

this is my version.

preschool cha-yi, taiwan

i went to this school called little rainbow. :] i really hated school, but the kids and teachers were really nice. i always looked forward to afternoon naps and snacks after naps. it was just really cool.

preschool/1st grade sebring, florida

well, my family went to florida for some reason. we went to a small town called Sebring in central florida. there werent that much asians, so i kinda stood out. the people there are super nice. i think thats way i still feel like going home when im going to florida. i made some friends. i remember my best friend was mickey. he was this tiny white kid that was obsessed with the army. he dressed up as a soldier for helloween, class parties, and other stuff that we get to pick a costume. also, i had a crush on his sister, which i find it hilariou now. hahaha

2nd/3rd grade cha-yi, taiwan

we move back to taiwan from florida because we had a family emergency. i remember in 2nd and 3rd, i was really chubby. ok, fat. i was one of those kids that you would like to pinch their face everytime you seem them. i was also relatively white for taiwanese people. it was good because taiwanese people like white/pale kids. well, cha-yi is a pretty rural town, kinda like those countryside towns. it is not really urban and big city-ish. there were alot of rice farms, and sugar plantation/farms. it is like the sebring of taiwan. everybody knew everyone. people there were also really nice. i remember i used to go to this toy store next to the school everyday to look at thses toys and marbles. i also drank alot of pearl tea and asian drinks. i guess pearl tea has been in my system since i was small. heh

4th grade/5th grade taichung, taiwan

i moved to taichung. taichung is this big city that is like the san francisco of taiwan. it was more advance than cha-yi. i got exposed and started to like many new stuff. i started to play gameboy, use the computer, play ps1. there were a night market/mall place right next to the place i lived. i went there alot. there were tons of pearl tea shops, restaurants, and clothing stores there. i didnt do really well in school during this period of my life. made tons of friends. i was pretty outgoing i think.

6th grade san jose, ca

first year in the united states. i was put in the English as Second Language class. i went to john muir and the esl class was full of mexicans. i didnt know there were mexicans in the US until i went to john muir. its pretty funny how the diversity of san jose taught me so much stuff. i taught school was easy than preschool. i laughed at how bad my peers were at math. hahaha. 6th grade was fun. everyday was fun. i probably heard the same amount of spanish and english each day because we had a translator for the mexican kids in the esl class. i got picked on by the mexicans because there werent that much asians at john muir and i was really really fat and had nerdy classes. i tucked my polo shirts in like harold hall. im not making fun of him, but thats really how i tucked my shirts in. it was great

7th grade

school was still same old. made some friends from basketball. we had a basketball crew. i was and still am glad that michelle and my cousins got me into basketball. i wasnt that good but i made some pretty nice shots occasionally. people dont bully me anymore because i got skinny from basketball and had some friends. i was so skinny that i looked like i was on crack in the id picture. i cant remember who my first real friend is, but i think it was among clint, the kirkendall twins, cory, or schimidty. i also remember patrick mcbrian, who transferred. :[ i got out of esl class. i was so proud of myself. i still remember that i wrote about martin luther king jr. and napoleon on the “exit exam”. haha

8th grade

one of the best years ever. same group of friends. we played basketball everyday at lunch in the gym. hung out tons at corys house. haha ms. o’brien’s us history class. sabercats games. i didnt go to a ton, but they were the bomb. helloween trick or treating. damn, it was great. taco bell/carl’s jr./ jack in the box every friday after school. famous stars, beef burritoes, curly fries. i dont know, but i started to curse alot. it was dumb.

9th grade

school started to get hard. new faces, new people. met tons of asians relative to my middle school days. spanish 1-2. somehow, JORGE, EMILIO, and MARIO met. i thought they look really familiar and we just started talking. i remember how we looked at each other when we were about to do a skit. everyone in furth’s class, pancho, pedro, miguel RIP, guillermo. PAULA! mcmahon’s class, esteve’s class<3.  garcia’s class- rey, weston, davis. BADMINTON LEAGUE CHAMPS. class of 07. MULING-random taiwanese kid that i met through brian. i couldnt get his name right at first, what a shame. started talking about everything from girls to taiwanese politics. met KEVIN through michelle. it was also great

10th grade

shit happened. only hung out with asians. losing touch with cory, kirkendalls, and the basketball people. :[ :[ :[. i was dumb and stupid.

loved my classes. burrell’s AP EURO, shull, bernhardt, savinar, martin, zaccheo. man, i miss it so much. hung out with JEFFREY, ERIC, ANTHONY and TIMLUC tons at the end of last year. it was great and awesome. BADMINTON again.

11th grade…

glasser ruins my whole day.

running around at lunch with rey

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whooooo

it feels so good. it felt good reminiscing.

good bye

i give up

blogging is hard
it takes so much time. i rather do something more fun. im gonna put it off for a bit.
sorry
go read kevins entries! they are way better

good bye

conglomeration

hey guys
well today i was gonna write one of those typical blog posts where it starts off like “today i did this and that”, but i decided not to. i dont want to do that because it would simply take too long. Too much has been happening in my life. This blog entry will be one composed of many vignettes. Yes, vignettes are those really gay and annoying short stories in House on Mango Street. I hope this post is not gay and annoying. Today’s post will be abound with pictures. A picture is a million words!

Rewind, this is my last day in the states. My family went to Milpitas to get dim sum. Milpitas was pretty cool.

We went to get dim sum at this place called ABC. It was delicious.
haha. This reminds me of the dim sum girl song.
Dim sum girllll you really rock my world my dim sum girl




We also got Quickly’s. In my opinion, it’s better than Q Cup and Tapioca Express. It’s cheaper too. I asked if they were hiring, and sadly, they said no.

Before I left, I also went to Eastridge. Eastridge was pretty cool, too. I went with my cousins. My cousins are pretty cool. We were just walking around waiting for Kung Fu Panda to start. We had nothing else to do and my girl cousin and Michelle decided to lead us into Victoria’s Secret. They had a sale that day. What can you say. Overall, Eastridge is cool, I definitely recommend all the mall rats to go there.

other stuff i did
Valley Fair

enough about the U.S.
TAIWAN


getting off the airplane

my ride in Taiwan
2008 Honda Accord. It’s pretty smooth, kinda weak though.

My life support.

Taiwan Candy Shop

Hi Chew is hella cheap

all the stuff i bought

pictures of the streets

Oh yea

Taiwan Merchandise
sports drink

Lincoln Fried Chicken

Bento

Stinky Tofu

7-11
It has everything. You can pay your bills here. It has clothes, food, drinks, pencils, everything.

this is getting too long. im gonna do a part deux.
one of my favorite drinks.

this is for the romantic princess fans.

goodbye

some pretty cool stuff

some couple of cool things happened recently to me

Event #1

today, i saw a fight on the street because a car kept on honking at this one motorcycle; the motorcyclist got really pissed. he stopped in the middle of the street and walked towards the car with a really irate face, then started yelling at the driver. unfortunately, i was not able to see what happened later, but it looked intense.

Event #2

i played badminton with a judge. A judge as in a public officer authorized to hear and decide cases in a court of law. we played in this gym with air conditioning, but my blue shirt went from a royal blue to a navy blue color.
Event # 3

i met this white guy named seth. he speaks chinese, korean, spanish, and english. he is a pretty cool guy. i was talking to him in english; and i found out that i can’t speak english anymore! (if i ever did) i havent been talking with people in english that much because there aren’t that many english speakers here. :[

no puedo hablar ingles amigos!

Event # 4

i resolved to get an asian hair cut. im gonna grow my hair out and cut it at the end of august.

hey, im in asia. why not? :]

i also got some new shirts which are pretty cool.

o ya i accidentally deleted all my previous posts because i was playing with the “dashboard”. i got a new badminton racket. Does anyone want to buy my old one?

Kawasaki KBD 964 – its the black one

Length – 673 mm

Weight – 86 g

Stiffness – Stiff

already strung with yonex bg 65

starting price around $70
picture
http://www.chainwinsports.com.tw/kawasaki/badminton/rackets/rackets_img/kbd_964.jpg

im still working on the internet connection. ill put up pictures when im done fixing it. it rained really hard today. i think a typhoon is coming soon. also today, i found out that the speakers in my house is a really powerful bass speaker. i was playing daft punk, nujabes, some techno song, and all these songs with really rapid and strong beats. it was awesome dudeee.

goodbye

blog relaunch?

hello guys!

im in taiwan right now and everything here is OH so hot and humid. first of all, i would like to say that people in san jose or where ever you live shouldn’t take the weather for granted. taiwan is like a living evidence of global warming. it sucks that people here are not as environmentally aware as people in the us. oh. also, the gas prices here are crazy, they use the metric system here and im too lazy to convert it; but im pretty sure it is way more expensive. it is really funny how people here dont whine and bitch about the gas prices when people in the us whine about it everyday. im not saying bitching about gas prices is bad or anything because i will probably do it too when i get a car in the near future.

while we are on the subject of cars, i found out today that the highway patrols here in taiwan get a bmw 5 series as the police duty car. isn’t that hekka sick. well, i think it’s really cool. i should consider becoming a taiwanese highway patrol. i think they use bmws because the street racing in taiwan can sometimes get pretty intense. recently, a girl got caught speeding on the highway, and she was driving at 200 something km/h. no joke. she is my hero. all the people here are all really pro at driving. the taxi drivers here are so crazy. it is amazing. they are all probably really good at driving because there are so many small sub 150 cc motorcycles (or scooters traveling at a very high speed) here. the motorcycles to cars ratio is probably like 3:1.

surprisingly, i am using a desktop right now because there is no wireless connection; and it is really really slooow. i can’t upload any pictures. ill get the wireless network up when i have spare time. i realized how much i rely on my laptop. i really cant live without it. not good. i’ve been taking a lot of pictures. it is really awesome. i took more than 100 pictures on the first day here with my phone. im not sure about the quality, but dont get your hopes up. i have to share a digital camera with my sister, so i rather not use it. heh

today something special happened to me. well, at least i think its special. i ate lunch with a multi billionaire! i dont think a lot of people can say that, so i think its pretty special. im not bragging about it, im just saying. you know.

most people haven’t been to taiwan, but it is a place really worth traveling to. living? idk

to sum this entry up, i will list some facts about taiwan that i know and you probably dont.

-people here have really nice shoes. you see dunks, sbs, pumas, adidas, and some other really cool customized shoes everywhere.

-taiwan beer is the best. hands down.

-taiwan food is the best. hands down. orz

-they have this kind of noodle in taiwan that is like pho, but personally i think its better. no offense. i still love pho y #1. i miss it. A LOT

-taiwan is the birthplace of pearl tea if you care.

-taiwan has the best pearl tea.

uh, i cant think of stuff anymore. i need sleep. i have jet lag. i dont even know why im writing this. bye.

goodbye