What's In A Nam?

Thursday, January 30, 2003

So i get a good nights sleep today. Fell asleep around 11pm, woke up for 15 mins to do rice, and went back to sleep. Finally woke up at 10am, and did my daily routine. One interesting stop was reading Jack's recent update on his website. Jeez Jack why must you always try to best me. So childish. Oh yeah i forgot to mention starting next week on Wednesday I won't get home till midnight. Man what a long day Wednesdays will be.

So i finally get to work at 11:30 and do my job. Man my co-worker is so scandalist. Always thinking politics. Ok here is why, I alone do the monthly reports for the amounts of false alarms that happen. When i first started my job she just gave me this task for me to learn on my own. I didn't mind cause i was new and it was something else to do. Well recently the Lt. wants a copy of the monthly report now so he has the numbers as well. I use to just make a copy to my supervising Sgt. So now that the Lt. wants a copy of the monthly report, my co-worker wants to learn how to do the monthly report. When prior she didn't care, always it is your job you do it. Shiet such politics. And the dumb thing is i don't even know why she wants to look like she does so much in the department, when she always talks about how she wants to get a new full time job. Always oh "you are going to miss me when i am gone", or "what would you do when i go." Swear sometimes i want to say shut the fuck up bitch no one cares what you do. Just leave less work for us to do. Arrggh.

So i get home from work and chat with my "friends" and then go off to work out. Got turned down by Pung again, makes me so sad. How come he doesn't want to work out with me, do i smell. Hehe. So i get home from working out and cook myself some food to eat. Some advice, never cook by a stove shirtless, especially when oil is splatting off the pot. So now i am watching "Friends" and i noticed that Monica and Chandler's dining room table has different style chairs. And i am thinking Monica being anal and all shouldn't they all be matching. Very odd. Well it is that time again. So see you when i see you.

Wednesday, January 29, 2003

Wow, it seems like Wednesdays are going to suck. Start school at 7:30am, get out at 8:45am, go to work at 9am, get off at 2pm, go to school to make my 3pm class. Take three classes in succession, with my last class ending at 8:45pm. So long, so very very long. So as any normal day, i go to school, go to work and go back to school. Only difference today was Tham called and asked for a favor. She asked me to pick up her transcript from her at her job, and deliver it to the graduation evaluation advisor. That is the only different thing that i did today. I put the permit in your mailbox Jack, if you have yet to check. Oh yeah i am trying to add a class, 6pm to 8:45pm that was something else that was new. So normal day. So see you when i see you.

Tuesday, January 28, 2003

Well i have decided to write in this blog before i go off to bed. So where do i begin, how about the fact i woke up at 7:45am. Why you ask, beats me just when i woke up so i laid in bed till my phone rang. And who is on the other line, Jack Wong, asking for my license plate number. Man how hard is it to remember my license plate number Jack, so freaking easy. After that i turn on my computer and surf the web, check my mail, and all those other routine stuff i do on my computer. I finally decide to get ready for work around 9.

I head off to work around 9:30, cause i want to go to Wamu before i get to work, i need to deposit my check. I get to work close to 10am. I try to find parking in the closest parking lot but find none. As i am leaving the parking lot to go to the other parking lot, a guy in a white van backs up into a park red truck right in front of me. The white van pulls to the side, where i assume he will write a note for the red truck since he saw me witness the whole event. So i go about finding parking in the next lot, i find a parking space right in front of the scene. Where i notice the van just gets up and leaves. I check if he left a note for the truck, but noticed none was left. So i go to work and report it to the front lobby. The officers ask for my name and the license plate number of the person who hit the truck. Good thing i always play that game of remember other car's license plate numbers. You should too Jack. After that i get to work. And once again i am falling asleep at work, man what is wrong with me. I manage to get by the day, and leave work at 3.

So i get home and do my routine stuff, and then take a nap for about 30 mins. Was a nice nap. I get up and start chatting with my "friends" who i haven't spoken to for awhile now. That was nice. It is finally 5:55pm so i decide it is time to head off to Todai, where we are having Pung's bday dinner. I've been wanting to go to Todai for some reason, now i know why i don't want to return anytime soon. Personally the food there isn't that great, but it is a buffet after all. I wished i found out about the crepes sooner, would have filled up on that shiet. Not the tempura i ate so much of. After eating we all go to Fry's, for apparently nothing. Damn my friends make me miss American Idol. I blame it all on "Crazy Bitch" Kim, always needing crap. Get your shiet on your own time. Crazy bitch. Yeah how do you like them apples. Mwahaha. So it seems i have balanced my day today, doing my good deed of the year, with ending my blog with my evil deed of the day. So see you when i see you.

Monday, January 27, 2003

Hmm what to write about. Fell asleep at work, fell asleep at school. Next thing you know i will be falling asleep on the road. My Copywriting teacher rules. The class is scheduled at 4:30 to 5:45 but my teacher doesn't see how he can teach this class meeting up two times a week. So he informed us that he would be letting us out early most of the time. Today for instance he let us out at 5 o'clock, freaking awesome. All we did was watch a movie. So Kim finally returns my call, and we go out and do our shit. We end the day with getting pearl tea. On the ride home, Helen calls and it seems i will be going out to eat lunch with her tomorrow. So i better go to sleep so i can get to work early, so i can get off at 1pm. So see you when i see you.

Well i am currently at work and falling asleep, so i thought this would be a perfect time to update my blog. Seeing how i forgot to last night i will just update what i did yesterday. Didn't really do much yesterday other than watch the Super Bowl. So yesterday i wake up in a very upset mood, and to makes matters worst my mom is cleaning the house. Hate it when she is in her cleaning mode, gets so moody and angry. So annoying. So to distract me i decided to finally watch "The Good Girl" starring Jennifer Aniston. Pretty good movie, only thing i have to say was there was no resolve in the movie. All that happen in the movie was for what? If you asked me she ends up in a worst situation before everything happened. But life can be that way, not everything is "peachy", as my co-worker, Mary says. Jennifer did well in doing a Texian accent, but it would come and go every now and then.

After watching the movie i cleaned my room, cause the maid service was coming over soon, so i wanted to organize my room. Don't really like it when the maid service comes over, i rather clean my own room than have someone do it. So that is what i did, all the maid service did was vacuum and "de-dust" my room, and wiped my mirrors. Everything else i did. After cleaning i basically lounged around till the Super Bowl started.

The Super Bowl was a good game. I am glad the Oakland lost, cause for some reason i don't like them. I usually watch the Super Bowl for the commercials, this year was better than last. What i noticed though was that there wasn't as many new commercials this year as last. They started repeating commercials after the half, when last year they started repeating around the 4th quarter. There were several good ones, ones that stood out was when the dog owner wears his dog to go in a pub, and the mom with the big ass. Were there any Coke commercials i don't remember see any. The pepsi ones where not that great. I only saw one, which had the Osbournes.

After the game, i went to pizza hut with Kim, cause i wanted out fo the house and was craving some buffalo wings. Kim got herself a side salad and a personal pan pizza, veggie lover style. After eating i went home and watched my OZ, and then went to sleep. And pung if you are reading this i was up till 11, i happen to be in the bathroom when you called. I called back but you didn't answer. And folks that was my Sunday. So see you when i see you.

Sunday, January 26, 2003

So I am back from watching "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind" and it was quite a good movie. Took me awhile to understand the poison scene. Jack had to explain it several times. Thinking of it, watching "Dangeous Mind" is basically watching Sam Rockwell act for almost 2 hours with some supporting cast every other scene. But Sam Rockwell turns in a good performance. After the movie, Kim, Jack, and I went to the chinese whore cafe where i had my usual, chicken steak dianna.

But prior to the movies, i really didn't do much, went here and there with Jack. Nothing special. After that went to play some tennis, pretty lame today didn't really play with anyone, except this one kid. I must say the high light of today was reading Jack's latest scribble on his site. What a true bastard, not only does he link my blog with "Bastard" but has to add the scroll over yellow box with "pure evil." That is truly evil in my eyes. I asked Jack why he did such a thing, and apparently he is accusing me of plagiarizing his site. I don't understand how i could do such a thing, when i thought of my post last night. All these lies, surround by them. When will people learn.

Well today i discovered a hilarious phrase, "Turning tricks." Man hilarious, makes me laugh saying it. Here are some ways to use it.

1) Kim will be turning tricks to makes ends meet for the next two weeks, while her parents are out in Vietnam.

2) Turning Tricks!

See pretty easy, man that phrase is hilarious. HAHAHAHAHA. Well it is that time again, so see you when i see you. (Better not start using that as your closing line Jack!)

Friday, January 24, 2003

Sometimes I think that I've reached a point in life where I could just up and leave everything behind, everything. Just travel the world, break all ties with anything and everything and just live by the moment, forever being alone. I contemplate it over and over, then I'd realize that I have a really good set of friends and family who make me realize I would miss them far far too much if I were to just leave. So I continue to trudge along, in this dull, but yet some how worthwhile life.

Thursday, January 23, 2003

Well i almost forgot to update my blog, but here i am. Nice relaxing day, woke up at 9:45 and went to work at 11:30. Normal day at work, except i realized my co-worker has been doing nothing for the past week. She sits up front but doesn't help customers cause she doesn't have the know how to process them. Yet she has the nerve to boss me around, and tell me to do stuff, especially when the Lt. is around. Jeez such politics. But whatever, let her think she has some upper hand, but i talk to everyone and everyone sees what she does so it doesn't bother me.

Well i get home around 4 and sit till i go to school for a 6 o'clock class i am trying to add. I get to school and there is crazy traffic in the 10th street garage but i find parking and run to class. Just to leave 15 into the class cause i really didn't like the teacher. Sean, Robert and I all decide to leave and just kick it at the Student Union. We later decide to play a quick game of bowling where i lost bad. Tsk tsk Nam, you suck. After bowling, Sean leaves so Robert and I play some pool, damn Robert Mr. Pool Shark. So on the last game i start to cheat, moving balls into the holes during his turn. I do it pretty smoothly at the beginning then i get careless and make it obvious i am cheating. Hehe that was a good laugh. I get tired of pool cause i suck at it, so we then play two games of air hockey where i won the first game but lost the second by 1. After that we go home, where i pick up some toothpaste at Target. Now i am home and nothing special to do. So i will end this blog here. See you when i see you.

Wednesday, January 22, 2003

Not in the mood to write, all i will say is my Advertising Media teacher looks like Chris Elliot's character in Scary Movie 2. See you when i see you.

Tuesday, January 21, 2003

Well it is update time, and i got nothing to say. No profound thought or curious question to wonder. Like i ever have a profound thought in the first place. So i wake up this morning and get ready to do my thing, cause of damn Jack. Damn you Jack. Should have stopped me. But oh well, don't do the crime if you can't do the time. After i finished i went to work where i sat and did my work. Answered the occasional phone call, and help Tina out with her job. Swear hate talking to her, she is such a dumbass. How she managed to keep that job for 24 years i do not know. Her stupidity is outrageous.

So i get home from work, and i have several exciting mail waiting for me. First is my financial aid, such a huge check, too bad i am going to spend it all on paying bills. Why can't i managed my money better, damn my spending ways. After opening my check, i open my retirement fund quarterly report mail. Ah retirement, wish i was there already but just another 44 years away. Not too bad. So as i was going to my computer, i realized there is a package under my seat, i assumed it was my other text book from Amazon, but then i noticed it is from Korea. Which means one thing, my passenger cup holder has finally come in. Guess i will install that this weekend giving me something to do. Well it is 6 o'clock now, and i feel like watching some Simpsons. So much tv to watch today, Austrailian Open, Buffy, and the premiere of American Idol. Probably end up watching Buffy, cause this year is so awesome. Much better than last. Well see you when i see you.

Monday, January 20, 2003

So i just finished taking a shower and i feel it is time to update my blog. After i finished my blog this morning i imed Kim with "Crazy Bitch" cause we all know how much of one she can be. She replies back with "Stupid Whore" and i am thinking very good Kim, very good. So Kim and i make plans to go to Garden Fresh, a vegetarian restuarant. I ordered the eggplant dish, this time with white rice not the nasty brown rice. After eating i drop Kim off at home and go get my haircut. Tommy cut my back higher than normal, hate getting a haircut when i have hat hair. Seems to confuse the barber.

After that i went to play tennis where i played with some dude, and after he left Huey came by and i hit with him again. Funny there was this little girl there who was so cute, and she was so fashionable. If i was giving the choice i would rather be seen with her than Kim when she wears you ghetto-ass white slippers, and bleach stained jeans. Mwahaha.

So i get home and my mom sees me and starts yelling about what did i do with my hair. I am like jeez what the fuck is this coming from. Swear i hate asian parents and how they think there is some correlation between hair-do and being a bad seed. Apparently me staying out of trouble my whole life means nothing, cause according to her, my hair represents all. Well tennis is starting very soon, so see you when i see you.

Well it is Monday, and I was too lazy to post my Sunday entry. So i will play catch up here. Went snowboarding on Sunday, and i had a great time. Only bad part was hurting my thumb, going to put me out of commission for some of the activities i like to do. I would like to go again but just wished i already knew how to snowboard but i guess that will come in time. Well snowboarding started off bad cause everyone got to start around 10am but i had to wait till 10:45am to start cause i had to fix Ky's snowboard's bindings. And damn you Ky i felt a chick at the prom who just saw another chick wearing the same prom dress. This one kid was looking at your board and was pointing out how he had the same board. I was so embarrassed. Hehe. But it was cool waiting for the board to be adjusted i got to talk to the worker who was fixing it for me, Jase. He was from Austrailia, and moved to the State a month and a half ago. His reason for moving was wierd to me, he wanted to snowboard cause apparently the snow at Austrailia sucks. He was cool about payment too cause i gave my wallet to Pung and had no money so he did the job for me free of charge. That was helpful since food at the resort cost me an arm and a leg. So the first thing i did when i got the bindings fixed was caught up with Yen and Le and followed them to their class. We were learing J-turns, pointless since i just want to go straight and fast. Well did that for 30 mins and we went to eat with everyone. After lunch we went to the slopes and just went solo. That was the funniest part of the trip. Only if i had someone to snowboard with but it was fun none the less. Went down a total of 5 times, each run falling 10 times, damn i do suck. Probably would have fallen less if people didn't get in my way. Damn people don't they know Nam is coming down and he has no control. After the 5th time, i finally saw the girls on the side where they ambushed me with snowballs they had made. So i laid on my front taking their balls, at the same time befriending two kids, Billy and Drew, who i formed an alliance with. I would call them my militia, so while i was gettting hit i would gather snow and make balls and give them to Billy and Drew. That was fun too. The funniest part was when Billy hit Hoang right on the head, and he would go to me and say the funniest part was when i hit the girl in the head. Kids, you got to love them. After the girls stop hitting me and started saving their ammo, i decided to make one huge snowball. And i am talking huge, if you want exact size ask Pung since he was the vicitm of the snowball. Apparently this snowball was hard as a rock and was able to knock Pung down after getting hit with it. (From what Pung said). So after the snowball fight we gathered our stuff and went home.

Nothing spectacular about the ride home other than we ate at some sandwich place where i got this eggplant sandwich. I must admit it wasn't the best tasting sandwich but the tart i ordered was hella good. So i got home and took a shower since i was sweating the whole day. And just laid on my bed and watched TV through out the night. The Hewitt and Al Goiueruakdjfy (sp) was hella interesting. First three sets went to tie breaks, but i couldn't stay awake for the 4th set. But apparently Hewitt lost in the fourth set (6-4). But man Al Gouakljdfdh was playing the match of his life, crazy ass forehand. While watching the tennis match, i would occassionally go back to the Golden Globes, and I got to see who won Best Actress in a Drama in a Motion Picture. And guess who won, you guessed it Nicole Kidman, so deserving. Man would watch the movie again just to see Nicole Kidman act in that. Just an awesome performance.

So now i am up, and i don't feel this soreness everyone warned me about. Makes me think, hmm did i do something wrong. So now I am watching some more tennis, Clistjers vs. Coetzer. Pretty one sided, which i predicted. I hope Clistjers takes the whole thing, screw the William sisters. Well that is all for now, see you when i see you.

Saturday, January 18, 2003

Well coming back from eating sushi and watching "25th Hour." Pretty good movie, i liked the cinematography of the movie, pung did not. I must say nothing really spectacular about the movie but a very good movie none the less. Ana Paquin did nothing for me as some seductive high schooler. And Rosario Dawson and that mole damn that was not a pleasant sight at all. Phillip Seymour Hoffman pulled out another good performance but he seems to always play some loser, he should watch out from being typed cast, much like Hercules or who Jack calls Kevin Sorbo.

Well this morning I had to drive Jack to Ford so he could drop off his car, afterward we went to IHOP. I didn't like what i ordered but Jack's plate smelled good, but when does banana nut smell bad, other than when you don't take a shower. After that we dropped by Fry's where i could not find that Buffy Season Three dvd, damn that box set. Where can i get it other than Amazon. Finally dropped Jack off at home and went home just to find out that Jack's car was ready for pick up cause Ford ordered the wrong year part or something. So dropped him off, came home, set up this new server blog, and went off to play tennis.

During tennis i played with Khanh and then Huey again, that bastard. After Huey got tired Khanh challenged me to a set, which i lost (6-4) but i still managed my one ace per match. My game mentality sucks. Actually i suck at tennis, just a fun recreation sport for me to play. Came home from that and got ready to go to the movies. That was my Saturday, pretty normal nothing really special. Well now i wait for Pung's call for details on the ski trip tomorrow morning. So see you when i see you.

Well Jack informed me of this blog site, and using his website as my server so i am giving it a try. So far this seems pretty cool but it lacks the simplicity of diarryland. But i will probably get use to this and find it much more interesting. Since i am changing my blog site i will now repost all my prior entries. Bye for now.

First Entry (1-12-2003)

Well it seems like the hip new thing to write down what you did during the day. All my friends seem to be doing it. Jack does it on his website, and Pung does it on this website, so i thought i give it a whirl.

Where do i begin, how about from the time i woke up. I woke up at 9am today (normal Sunday hour) and went to turn on my computer in hopes that i would receive something i have been waiting for awhile for. But at last it did not come in. Sometimes i wonder if i am fooling myself waiting for this response i may never get but i wait. Since my computer was on i browsed my daily sites at the same time listen to my JPop music avec Michelle Branch's (before label) songs.

Once i was done with that i decided to work on my Bus 187 group powerpoint presentation since the girl in my group wanted it done by Sunday night, and today being Sunday. This girl is nice and all but goes over the top on what she wants. Just a business GE class no need to go above and beyond. Well took me an hour or two to finish that and i sent it off. Pretty good if you ask me i planned on doing it at 5pm today but i just did it since i had nothing else to do in the morning.

After i was done i called Pung to go to BestBuy but he was too lazy to go, don't blame him just got back from another ski weekend. Wish i could go skiing have the urge but this winter break is ending and school is starting so opportunity missed i guess.

Around 2pm i got extremely bored and tired of staring at the computer screen, so i decided to pick up a book to read. I started reading "Rules of Attraction," got the book after i saw the movie. Read that book for 3 hours amazingly and i am barely on page 90. Damn what a slow reader i am huh. Interesting book, I like Paul's story. Book a lot better than the movie, but when is the movie ever better than the book.

Since i stopped reading the book i've just been laying in bed watching tv and eating. Hehe eating man i seriously think i am coming down with some kind of image problem. Look myself in the mirror and think i am fat or that i am gaining the weight i lost. But i scale myself and i weigh the same. NEED HELP. Hehe. Now here i sit realizing it is 8pm and i am missing simpsons and have yet cooked rice.

Second Entry (1-13-2003)

So this is my second entry, and I basically got nothing special to say. Was a pretty normal day, as normal as you can get. Wake up at 6:50am, get ready for school, after school go to work. Only thing different today was i dropped off a listing of all of Jack's books he will need next semester. After that i picked up my dry cleaning. While driving i was wondering is it right for me to assume my dry cleaning to be done even though i was going to be at the store 10 mins prior to the pick up time. It is just 10 mins, i think dry cleaning takes longer than that.

When i got home i just checked my email, browsed my sites, and cooked myself some food. Now it is 7:20am and this serena william's tennis game is so one sided. Well the american music awards is on at 8, going to watch Christina Aguilera perform Can't believe the AMA's, how could they not nominate Avril Lavigne for any awards with the year she has had. Oh well. Well Van is coming over and i need to burn her the new christina CD. bye bye.

Third Entry (1-14-2003)

So home from the gym and i feel it is time to update my dairy. Class was torture today. And what made it worst was class ending with this girl who's voice annoys the shit out of me. This has been the longest two weeks of school. But school is school and i want to graduate next year.

At work there was a lot of noise coming from the Crime Analysis department, so my co-worker went to find out what was the noise about. It turns out that the department has two mice and that the noise was a vacuum cleaning the mice droppings. Pretty nasty.

Oh i must make a correction from last night's entry, so the Serena match was not one sided. Hehe. But it was a interesting match, i wished it went the other way though.

Boy my weekdays are so normal, nothing to write about but oh well what are you going to do. Well now i will watch Agassi dismantle this Korean player. Watch things turn around and Agassi loses that would be funny.

Fourth Entry (1-15-2003)

Well i was going to write about how i have came to realized how pathetic i am during class. (Still do) But on my way home from the gym, i was listening to Atomic Kitten's The Tide is High, and that boosted my spirits. Here are the lyrics for those of you who don't know the song.

The tide is high but I'm holding on
I'm gonna be your number one

I'm not the kind of guy
Who gives up just like that
Oh, no

It's not the things you do
That tease and hurt me bad
But it's the way you do
The things you do to me
I'm not the kind of guy
Who gives up just like that
Oh, no

The tide is high but I'm holding on
I'm gonna be your number one
The tide is high but I'm holding on
I'm gonna be your number one
Number one, number one

I'm not the kind of guy
Who gives up just like that
Oh, no

The tide is high but I'm holding on
I'm gonna be your number one
The tide is high but I'm holding on
I'm gonna be your number one
Number one, number one

Every time that I get the feeling,
You give me something to believe in
Every time that I got you near me
I know the way that I want it to be,
But u know I’m gonna take my chance now,
I’m gonna make it happen some how,
And you know I can take the pressure
A moments pay for a lot of pleasure

I'm not the kind of guy
Who gives up just like that
Oh, no

The tide is high but I'm holding on
I'm gonna be your number one
The tide is high but I'm holding on
I'm gonna be your number one

Every time that I get the feeling,
You give me something to believe in
Every time that I got you near me
I know the way that I want it to be,
But u know I’m gonna take my chance now,
I’m gonna make it happen some how,
And you know I can take the pressure
A moments pay for a lot of pleasure

Fifth Entry (1-16-2003)

So i am looking at my inventory in my room and realized i am missing quite a few stuff. I am missing dvds and games. Also i realized that some people still owe me money. I feel wierd asking for them cause i feel it is not my responsibility to ask for items back. If i lend people personal belongings i shouldn't be the one to asked for them back. I am doing them a favor by lending them out and i shouldn't be responsible in asking for them back. The person who is borrowing the item should naturally realize to return the possession. That is how i feel.

In class today i had to sit through 4 lousy presentations. My gosh, must people read straight from their slides, rehearse a bit.

Work was somewhat torturous as well. Finished my work within 15 mins leaving me 4 hours and 45 mins left to do what? So i rearranged the filing cabinets and ate plenty of chocolates and sugar sticks.

Well i got a final tomorrow and a presentation. Bye for now.

Sixth Entry (1-18-2003)

Well just got back from watching the movie "The Hours" and i must say if Nicole Kidman doesn't win an oscar for that role, she got royally screwed. Quite amazing for an actress to show such anguish with just a gaze. I love her eyes in the movie they told her character's story so well. Julianne Moore did a nice job as well, didn't really care for Meryl Streep's story though. Each time it was her part i would wish it went back to Nicole Kidman's story.

With that in mind i must say today was quite an awesome day. Finally finished winter session after 12 grueling days. I think i did bad on the final, and that girl, who i mentioned in my prior entry, got our group a B+ on the presention cause she picked the wrong country as the weakest country in ECOWAS. Damn her.

After school i got my braces tightened and went to play tennis afterwards. Tennis was awesome a good hour and a half exercise. Got to play with Huey which was cool, that guy can be so evil, make me run left to right what a bastard. But man am i rusty, rusty as the most rustiest thing you can think of.

"But Nam the rustiest thing i can think of is pretty damn rusty"

"That is the whole point Nam, I am making fun of my rustiness".

(Nams laugh)

After tennis i went to eat at Kim's store again, just doing my part to help a failing business. Going to need all the help it can get with all these panda express opening up these days. But i prefer Mr. Chou's a lot better. Mwahaha. Well like i said pretty awesome day, should get to bed, got to wake up early to pick up jack at Ford.