New Years Eve.

Somehow, it really doesn't feel any different. Just another day in my book. I don't feel the 'buzz' or excitement like years past. Sure, it's gonna be 2003, and who would have ever thought the world would have lasted this long, especially to the critics during 1999, saying that 2001 or later would never come. Funny how all those claims of the "end is near" have pretty much disappeared. Well, in any case, i personally don't have any plans for tonight. Nothing really interesting going on except for hanging out with some friends. I was supposed to go boarding tomorrow, but I decided that i should try to spend at least one of the major holidays at home.

This past year has definitely been an interesting one. A lot has happened this year, from graduation to job-hunting to travelling. But in all of this craziness, it's definitely been fun and have no regrets through any of it. I know that this is most likely attributed with the people in my life. I know for sure that i wouldn't be where i am right now if it wasn't for certain people, and you know who you are =) What a crazy year it's been, but by far, the most interesting and most memorable. I've done some things i thought i'd never do and been places i've never expected. It's been fun nevertheless. I just hope next year will be just as interesting... we'll just have to wait and see

I had a really awesome christmas this year. I didn't get any "fancy" gifts. Not to say i didn't get great presents (which i did... really nice brown shoes to be exact. thanks!!), but i think the theme of this Christmas was simplicity. No extravagant parties or get-togethers. Just a nice and simple christmas, spending time with the people who matter most to me. There really is truth in the saying "less is more". I had an awesome time in LA this year. Yes, you heard right. I spent christmas away from home this year. To be honest though, this year i didn't feel christmas come and go. The only thing that pointed to the season were the tv commercials with the sales and the shopping mall madness. But in any case, this really was a holiday season to remember. This one will go down in the "books" as one of my most memorable christmas's.

What a lucky guy i am =) Thanks janet!

Thugz Mansion - 2Pac & Nas (acoustic)

Absolutely amazing... THIS is music

2 more days until Janet gets back...

What a dreary day today. I'm sitting here at work looking out the window. The weather today has been a rollercoaster ride. Sunny one minute, dark and cloudy the next, then rain a few minutes later. All of this topped out by rain with sunshine. I think the weather is having an identity crisis today. Can't pick what it wants to be.

I can't help but laugh at the irony of my situation. I'm working right now (finally), which i am super thankful that i have right now. But the ironic part of this is, that i'm doing software/webpage stuff. The exact kind of work that i have been trying to avoid at all costs. Funny... God really works in mysterious ways.

DANG NAB IT!!!!!!

i had this post up about my weekend and how i was without power, but Microsoft decides it's a good time to crash the server, so i lost the message and all i ended up with this long jibberish post about how the database was "full" and couldn't process my request... dumb piece of junk!!!!

So continuing this reign of nonsense... The power went out here for a long time yesterday. A tree branch fell off last night taking the power line with it a few houses down. And as if that wasn't bad enough, the guys across the street are on a totally different grid, so we were without power, and they had it. All the houses were light up with xmas lights and whatnot, while we poor, cold, wet souls were huddling around candles and fireplaces praying for lights. Of course, PG&E decided that around 9pm was a good time to show up and try to fix the problem. Lights didn't come back on until about 3am in the morning. I know this cuz all the lights in my room came on then and woke me up, but i was so stinkin' tired i went back to sleep.I tried to get up and turn off the room light, but couldn't even move my head... What awful timing. Anyways, my parents took off to a friends house to party it up and live with the invention of the light bulb, which left me home alone. They decided to tell me this as i was buying dinner for myself. I spent the evening at home by myself eating takeout chinese via candlelight fending off my dog with the scary green glowing eyes who was begging for food.

Romantic? Hardly....

screw this weather... give me snow

This rain sucks...
It's gonna rain nonstop for the next 3-4 days. At least until tuesday. Now my options for doing stuff is severely limited. blah... Oh well. At least i'm not studying =D

horrid... absolutely horrid

What an interesting day today...
I'm working again (amazingly). I'm doing some "freelance" programming. I'm helping this guy from my old church out. It's just a project right now that he needed to do, but he didn't have the time nor did he want to go through the headache of doing it. In any case, both me and him thought it would take a while to figure out how to do, since it sounded pretty complicated. But thanks to the small technological advancement known as the interent and free software, i'm done. Crazy stuff... but it's fun being in the office with old faces. All we do is goof around and just talk and talk. It's really cramped, but it's cozy at the same time. Who woulda thought i would be programming, the thing i loathe the most. Oh well, work is work...

one more week...

I hurt...

Went boarding at Squaw Valley today... got rocked so hard. I literally did a face plant and cracked ghetto's googles. The crazy part is, i cracked the inside lens, not the outside. Weird... cuz it's it always the outside one that cracks. All i have to show for this amazing feat of ... whatever, is a nice red bump below my left eye and a cut on my neck. Was it worth it? Heck ya...
What's the moral of this story? Buy better goggles

U Can Do It!!!

I feel so old...

I went back to my old church today to help this kid out with this drumming, kind of as a favor to my friend who's helping the youth group there. Man, i remember this one kid, ben, when he was in 7th grade. Talk about hell-raiser... this kid was seriously the worst. The ring-leader of the 3 stooges from hell. But my oh my.... he's junior now in high school, and oh man, he's changed so much. It's kinda funny how much someone could change like that. Granted, he's still really goofy and not quite right, but it's seriously a 180 turn-around. And just watching the kids play and goof around, it's hard to imagine that I used to be like that. But i know i was probably worse and more obnoxious. Funny how a few years away at college totally changes your perspective. Man, i feel so old....

"Fuzzball - I do have a response to your response to my earlier blog. I'll post one soon." - Da Hoon

Uh oh... A retort to my retort about Asian Man's Plight? I know this isn't going to be pretty... Time to whip out the ol' fireproof blanket for the flames that are gonna be raging... Flame on Jie-hoon! Bring it on!!!

Lord have mercy on me!!!!!!

Things right now are pretty crazy, yet so nice as well.
For one, i'm finally finished with all the hard work for my grad school apps. All i have to do now is wait for one more rec, go to the office tomorrow and finalize another, and boom!!! i'm done. I just need to send them out now. So that's one thing i'm really thankful about. Talk about a mad dash for the finish line. I decided to go for grad school for this coming fall term starting Oct 1st. So since then, it's been a mad rush to study for GRE, get my rec writers, do my personal statement, and write a rec for one of my co-workers (since he's kinda busy). All in all, i'm pretty happy in the way things have turned out. I'm still sane, not too stressed out. Prasie be to the Lord for all this strength to get through this, otherwise i'd still be in bed right now getting over a nervous breakdown. Now i just need to see if i get accepted anywhere... please o' please let me in... I guess i'll need to pray until me knees become one with the floor and I sweat blood like Jesus. Hardcore prayin' i tell you... hardcore....

And if that wasn't enough, it's gonna start snowing this weekend in tahoe!! WHOOOHOOO!!!! Finally the snow season will be underway after a long hiatus from the sky (except for summer weather during the day... blah). And from what I hear from my sister and Janet, it's snowing like nuts in the East coast. My sister is so surprised it came so early this year. Janet's just happy there's snow at all. I'm still waiting for snow, but God will provide. He always does =) "oh my snowboard, how neglected you are...."

I just saw my cell phone bill... yikes!!! This is an all time record. My parents are getting maybe a little comfortable with the phone, cuz they're using it a lot now. I have them under the same bill with the family share. I guess i'm gonna have to up my minutes again...

Want to impress yourself?
http://(your).(name).youaremyfriend.com
replace the "(your)/(name)" with.... your name! (duh) and watch magic happen =)
You Are My Friend!!

Christmas is in the air... or at least hanging off the rain gutters

I spent the better part of today and yesterday on top of the roof putting up our xmas lights. We have those "fancy" icicle things, so it's not really easy to put up, and there's always that one bulb that drives you nuts cuz it's making the whole string not light up. But they're finally up. So after 3 trips to Orchard Supply Hardware, who knows how many trips up and down the ladder, many cracked roof shingles, 5 broken bulbs, and one dead cell phone battery, they're up. Too bad it took so stinkin' long and some close calls on the edge of the roof. Man, those prickly bushes down below don't look that inviting...

In other news, it's getting cold here. I can see my breath at night now. I guess it means that winter is finally here and time to put the snowboard rack back on the car... now for some more snow....

My dog needs magic straight.

Thanksgiving weekend. What a blur...

I can't believe i ate so much this weekend. I gorged myself thxgiving dinner. I felt so gross afterwards since i couldn't move cuz my stomach felt like it was going to pop if i got up from the table. But it was nice just having dinner with my family again. My sister came back from philly, so the house was in an uproar this whole weekend. I think dog got tired of being held. I guess the easiest way to think of it is think of Elmira from loony-toons babies, and that's my sister with my dog. Ugh...

I went downt to LA on friday to visit Janet. Yes, that's right. For all of you out there who have no clue or are too scared to ask, I'm dating Janet. I hope you're happy jomo. You finally have written proof. Anyways, it was really nice just hanging around with her again. We ended up meeting all these people. I guess what started off as a small get-together friday night turned into a class event. We went to a cafe in K-town, and instead of a few people being there, half of our class was there. Everyone's eyes popped open and jaws dropped. It was one of those classic moments you see in movies. This was probably the first time most people have ever seen us together, let alone interact =). So that was quite a surprise for everyone, including me.

I was at the airport yesterday, and it was really odd cuz LAX was pretty emtpy. After I dropped Janet off, i headed back home. For those of you who live in la, i guess you already knew, but i had no idea. Traffic going back home was horrendous. I have never seen anything like that before. To give you an idea how long it took me to get home, both Janet and I left LAX at the same time. The sad part is, she made it home before i did, and this is factoring in a shuttle ride that took a little over an hr. She beat me by almost an hr and half. How sad is that? Oh well... it was well worth the effort though =)