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Sunday, April 27, 2003

Memorable Moment #1: Played tennis (of course) with Jude, lost 6-3, was a close match though, one break of serve. I had my chances just couldn't convert on the major points. Near the end of the my tennis session, two guys started playing and damn were they hella good. The asian guy reminded me of an Asian Clark Kent. (No not Superman, Clark Kent). Wish i could play like those two guys, too bad i suck.

Memorable Moment #2: Went to Fry's with Jack so he could get his scanner. Afterwords he treated me to some Krung Thai, i ordered something different this time, but it turn out to be just like Pad Sew just with two tomatoes. Then had the fried banana with coconut ice cream as dessert. (Damn asshole for getting me into desserts.)

Memorable Moment #3: Coming home from Kim's house, was copying some papers, i heard Pat Cash's rendition of NIN's Hurt. Pretty wierd but cool. You got to hear it. For some reason i am into break up songs as of late. I don't what it is, but they just seem to have cool lyrics. Bonnie Raitt - Can't Make You Love Me. And I can't get enough of these new Mandy Moore clips, man everything she touches turns to gold. The originals suck, but her versions are awesome, i guess it is because she is singing them is why.

Detroit What!!!

Memorable Moment #1: Yeah was a tennis whore today. Went at 8 played till 11, went home for an hour to eat, went back at 12 left at 2, went to Wendy's with Niles, went back for some more tennis and finally left at 3:30pm. Crazy. Saw Du Thai and Bao at the courts today. Made fun of Du and his Economics degree. Haha so mean ain't I. He drives a new Hyundai Sonata. Told Jack and he was like "Why?" Hilarious.

Memorable Moment #2: Today was finally the day of The Producers. Freaking hilarious. The 90 bucks spent was well, well, well, worth it. I would do it again next weekend if i could, but i won't. "Springtime for Hilter" freaking hilarious ass play. Jason Alexander what an awesome actor/performer same goes to Martin Short.

Detroit What!!!

Friday, April 25, 2003

Memorable Moment #1: Man Robert is such a good friend. After school he drove me to my Ortho appointment, then we got a bite to eat, then drove me to the Hyundai dealership. So reliable.

Detroit What!!!

Thursday, April 24, 2003

Memorable Moment #1: Dropped off my car at the Hyundai Dealership, but had a hard time finding someone to pick me up. My initial person i just couldn't get contact with, but he pulled through in the end. Like a true friend does. Even though i couldn't contact him to pick me up, he just went to the dealership and picked me up. Thanks Robert.

Memorable Moment #2: I am so tired of tennis. Why can't i win? Do i suck that bad? Why? Have i reached my peak and if i have my gosh do i suck. I need to do something with my tennis game but what? I need answers.

Memorable Moment #3: I just read Jack's lastest post. And much like him all this school work is overwhelming me, but unlike him i am at the point where i am willing to say "too much to do, i won't do it." For years i have been searching for my drive to do well in school and each semester it disappears after two weeks of school. I am such a failure, I can't do anything right. I am a lost cause.

Memorable Moment #4: I hate San Jose State University. Dumb ass school changed my major from AIS to Advertising. Two weeks ago i turned in a minor declaration form. Apparently the person who processed it wasn't playing attention and thought it was a change of major form. So i called to clarify the mistake, so i was sent to Admissions, when i told the operator Admission & Records. The lady at Admissions told me she couldn't fix it, unless THEY had made a mistake. So i told her, you guys did make a mistake, i turned in a minor declaration form and you guys changed my major. So she then sent me to Ono who works in Records. So i called Ono, and informed him of my perdicament, in return he asked me if i had a copy of the minor declaration form. I told him no cause the lady at Records, took my paper when i turned it in and said she would process it. He informed me he cannot do anything unless i had some proof. So i asked him shouldn't you have my form on file or something, and his response was "oh no we don't file those." So i asked him do you know how contradictory this sounds. You work in a place called "Records" yet you don't file certain paper work. So now i have to get a change of major form have that signed by the business college then go to the JMC college to sign off the minor. Dumb ass school, how do they make the mistake and yet i am the one who has to fix it. Freaking retarded.

San Jose State Tuition: $1100
Books: $300+
Parking Permit: $115
Learning "Records" doesn't file certain paper work: Priceless

Detroit What!!!

Wednesday, April 23, 2003

Memorable Moment #1: I have deemed today National Bad Driver Day. My gosh what the hell is up today, terrible drivers. Getting in my lane and slowing me down. Drivers doing the dumbest moves. Man. So for now on, April 23 will be known as National Bad Driver Day.

Memorable Moment #2: I hate my Bus 188 class so much. I hate it, totally brings my mood down.

Detroit What!!!

Memorable Moment #1: I popped my More Game racquet's strings. Damn i hate my other racquets. The More Game racquet is awesome. Boo Hoo!!!

Detroit What!!!

Monday, April 21, 2003

Memorable Moment #1: Played hooky today with Niles. Was pretty fun, basically did nothing but the stuff i did do was fun. Went to Sportsmart, Don Sherwood, hit some balls and just drove around San Jose. Jack if you are reading this i hope you got the grip i got you today. Finally tried out Quizno's and MMMM good food. Kind of expensive though.

Detroit What!!

Sunday, April 20, 2003

Memorable Moment #1 (Saturday): Played 3 hours of tennis this morning. Played with Jack, man was he rusty, like shiet man i wasn't rusty at all. Haha. No it was fun.

Memorable Moment #2: I tried posting theses last night but blogger was running slow. So here i am. Watched Better Luck Tomorrow, and it was pretty good. But i don't get it the Feds were in it all this time.

Memorable Moment #3: After the movie and dinner, we kicked it at Kim's house and watched some Trading Spaces. Before we watched Trading Spaces, we were trying to get Kim's new computer monitor to broadcast TV. While Pung was trying to find the way to turn on the TV, i thought i pull a little prank. So i told him that the TV "button" was on the side of the monitor. So he put his hand on the side looking for this "button." While searching would tell him "A little bit up, a little bit more down, no up." Finally when i broke out laughing they understood there was no button. Oh man that was good stuff.

Memorable Moment #4: Since Jack complains about my ending i have decided to change it once again.

Detroit What!!

Friday, April 18, 2003

Memorable Moment #1: Presented out PowerPoint presentation VPN today in Bus 120C. Thought all my cool animation would not show up cause we tested it in the computer lab and the animation was different. But the animation was the back to normal on the computer inside the AIS lab. Phew. Presentation was good, i hope we got an A. Finally did pretty well on one of her test, got a 44/55. (Sure that is a 80% but hey that is the best i have done so far. Pretty Sad Nam)

Memorable Moment #2: Well demoing two more racquets, since it is so cheap to do it online. The Wilson Traid 5.0 sucks, so that does not get my approval. But the Prince More Game racquet is freaking awesome. Just the name is awesome, More Game. Damn. *Hint Hint I wouldn't mind getting a Prince More Game OS racquet (4 1/2) for my Bday. Cheapest i have seen is at www.eztennis.com, $100. Shop around. If you can't think of the item i really want. Wink Wink.*

Memorable Moment #3: This moment is for Jack, so he doesn't accuse me of telling him info, that he claims i read on his posts first. You should check out the new Liz Phair songs on her website, they suck. www.lizphair.com.

Memorable Moment #4: Dled the new Madonna album, American Life. It is pretty damn good, very different. Cannot describe it, just different. I think i will buy it when it comes out.

Life comes and goes, but it's the memories that last forever.

Thursday, April 17, 2003

Memorable Moment #1: Why are all my tennis memories always bad and mimic lost of some of my favorite players. First one was when i found out how Kim Clijster must have felt in her Austrailian Open '03 semi-final match with Serena Williams. Clijster was up 5-1 in the third and lost it 5-7. Much like her i was up 5-2 in the third and lost 5-7. My second tennis memory happen today, i was up one set and leading the second 5-3, when my legs gave out. I lost the next 10 games bringing the match set score to 6-4 5-7 0-6. This is much like Martina Hingis' Austrailian Open '02 final match against Jennifer Capriati. She took the first set 6-4 and was up 4-0 in the second. She would serve for the match at 5-4 but lost her serve. Hingis would end up losing the match 6-4 5-7 2-6, cause she couldn't handle the heat. Damn my tennis memories.

Life comes and goes, but it's the memories that last forever.

Memorable Moment #1: Found out about DeadAim today. Pretty cool, has tabs for your multiple im message screens. Too lazy to get the link, just go to yahoo.com and put in DeadAim.

Life comes and goes, but it's the memories that last forever.

Sunday, April 13, 2003

Memorable Moment #1: Watched the finals for the Family Circle Cup tennis tournament. Justin Henin is awesome, kicked Serena's ass, putting an end to Serena's undefeated season. Man does Justin have a awesome backhand, what a site.

Memorable Moment #2: Stayed home all day to work on two school projects. Finished one, and finished 85% of the second one. Going to finish the second one at work. Man turning into a PowerPoint animation whore, for some reason kept going back to my PowerPoint to fix my animation. Man i had nothing to do today.

Memorable Moment #3: Strung Jack's racquet. Took me an hour and a half, pretty good. Cut my stringing time in half. Just need to find a way to quicken the weaving the crosses.

Life comes and goes, but it's the memories that last forever.

Saturday, April 12, 2003

Memorable Moment #1: Failed another midterm. Hooray!!

Memorable Moment #2: Lost my bet with Niles, so after losing a three set match with him i treated him to his deserved Jamba Juice. And no the bet was not who would win the tennis match. But i got my thrill when i made him do 15 push ups (5 everytime he bang his racquet on the ground).

Memorable Moment #3: After tennis i dropped by Kim's store, where Phoung put on Paris by Night #1,000,000. He put on this hot tall asian chick, where Kim informed me that she won second place in some Asian beauty pageant. So my first thought was who the hell is this girl who won, to be hotter than this girl singing. Hot damn. And man did she have some pipes on her, could sing to a whole auditorium without a mic or headset. Freaking amazing. (She was lipsyncing for you dumass out there.)

Memorable Moment #4: Had a late night dinner with Jack where we discuss many subjects. We plan on watching Better Luck Tomorrow, tomorrow at 2:45pm.

Life comes and goes, but it's the memories that last forever.

Wednesday, April 09, 2003

Memorable Moment #1: Left work early for two reasons today. One, i was in a angry mood set off by my co-worker's email, and the fact that i can no longer wear jeans to work. Just going to be a hassle going to work right after school, and changing pants. Second i had two midterms to study for, so i thought since i was in a bad mood i might as well go home and study.

Memorable Moment #2: Funny how on the midterm i thought i would do well, i think i did bad, and the midterm i thought i do bad on, i think i did good.

Memorable Moment #3: Presented our radio spot in my copywriting class. It went nice, the class like our ending. The teacher told us his initial impressions after a majority the agecies presented. My agency got a 19.16548 out of 20 but he mention that is just initial impression that that could change depending on the other agecies who have yet to present. Once again i was blown away by the mascara agency, they are truly advertising geniuses. Well after the last group presented today, my professor informed us that we were switching products. I was hoping we would not get convertibles, and day spa. And a part of me didn't want mascara cause that would be a hard act to follow. Well it turns out my professor gives my group mascara, which i really don't mind, but he informed us that during our next presentation we as an agency have to describe how we think that prior group went wrong with their product. And i am thinking shiet we got mascara, they were the best. Making me wish we got convertibles instead now cause that would have been an easy explaination.

Life comes and goes, but it's the memories that last forever.

Tuesday, April 08, 2003

Memorable Moment #1: I was going to write a long ass blog about how Ky screwed me over but instead i will just say this. Thanks to Ky, thinking that he could make my Econ class at 1:30 by picking me up at 1:25, i was unable to add the class. So thank you Ky Nguyen.

Life comes and goes, but it's the memories that last forever.

Monday, April 07, 2003

Memorable Moment #1: Woke up to no sun, so that meant i felt like crap for the majority of the day. When i got to school, i saw this guy i normally see. And i noticed every time i see him, he is always, I means always, wearing this blue warmup suit. I don't get it, is that all he has. Reminds me of the Seinfeld episode where Jerry dates that chick who keeps wearing the same dress.

Memorable Moment #2: I get to work and decide to look at the BestBuy Sunday ad. I notice that the Missy Elliot album is $9.99 for today only. so i thought this is probably the cheapest i can get it for. So during my lunch i go to BestBuy and get it. Since i was going out i asked my co-worker if she wanted to join me for lunch. We went to Johnny Rockets, pretty good. As for the Missy Elliot album, it was a good purchase. Awesome beats and it makes my bass sound awesome in my car. I like track eight, Nothing Out There For Me, very creative producing there.

Memorable Moment #3: Never ever going to string a racquet with two strings. So damn difficult. So Niles better appreciate my job.

Life comes and goes, but it's the memories that last forever.

Sunday, April 06, 2003

Memorable Moment #1: Well i finally watched "Far From Heaven," as beautiful as that movie was to watch, it was somewhat boring. Nothing really spectacular happened in the movie, nothing really new. Maybe i was expecting too much. *Spoiler* Man did Julianne Moore's character get the short end of the stick. Gay husband, black love interest leaves her. Sucks to be her. *End of spoiler* But it did please the one thing i was looking forward to when i rented the movie. So if you want to watch a beautifully shot movie, with all the lovely bright colors go rent "Far From Heaven."

Memorable Moment #2: Went to Shari's apartment for our Adv 124 group meeting. Those apartments are nice. So we did our radio spot, was quite hilarious when we recorded the first time, and the tape player was set to play fast. We sounded like children. That was hilarious, because we didn't know it was at that setting so we were like what the hell, we sound like that. Man hilarious.

Life comes and goes, but it's the memories that last forever.

Saturday, April 05, 2003

Memorable Moment #1 (Friday): Strung my Hammer 6.2 raquet, took me three hours. Yes i am getting better, cut two hours from the last time we strung a raquet. But damn my hand hurts. The price of doing things yourself. But hopefully i will get better and faster. I am thinking about using my workout gloves to hold the crank next time. Relieve some pain on my hand.

Life comes and goes, but it's the memories that last forever.

Thursday, April 03, 2003

Memorable Moment #1: Went to Evergreen to play some tennis, but apparently the new high school, Evergreen Valley High, boy's tennis team had a home match today. So i decided to stay and watch, since i have been hitting with their number one guy. They split sets so i talked to Niles, and told him to start hitting to the guy's forehand. Niles lost the third set, oops. Just joking, no he beat the guy 6-1 in the third. Quite impressive. Pretty sad though, James Lick doesn't even have enough players to form an entire varsity team. All they have are 4 singles, and one varsity doubles. They have to forfeit two matches. To add to the sadness the Evergreen High lost as a team. Only the number one guy won. Pretty sad, given two free matches and still lose to the school.

Life comes and goes, but it's the memories that last forever.

Wednesday, April 02, 2003

Memorable Moment #1: I stayed in my Bus 188 class for the whole period cause i assumed that the teacher would do a review for the midterm next week. Well it turns out that she posted review questions online, and didn't any type of review other than state the obvious. "If you do the questions, you should well on the midterm." What a complete waste of nearly 3 hours.

Memorable Moment #2: Made plans to play tennis with Niles after class but that was spoiled due to rain.

Life comes and goes, but it's the memories that last forever.

Tuesday, April 01, 2003

Memorable Moment #1: Well today started off terrible. Woke up to no sun, so therefore felt like crap at work.

Memorable Moment #2: After work went to the gym for almost an hour, then headed off to EVC to pick up a summer schedule but apparently they are all gone. So i thought since i am here i might as well train for the race am i taking part in on Sunday. Man am i out of shape, was huffing and puffing after two laps. Quite sad. Did a total of 6 laps, pretty good i must say.

Life comes and goes, but it's the memories that last forever.