Woke up early this morning at around 7:30AM (crazy shit for a weekend). Anyways, I woke up early to go with Nanny's CompLit class to visit Angel Island, the site of Chinese internment. We went to Tiburon (isn't there a car with the same name?), which looks a lot like Laguna Beach kinda like how Sausalito is too. From there we boarded a ferry which took us to the actual island. After a long hike which took us up the mountain and then back down again, we finally made it to the Angel Island Immigration Station. Since they could only take 20 people at a time, we had to split up the group. While waiting around, I took a panoramic picture.
The tour was ok but basically restated what I read while getting there. The only cool part of the tour was when you got to actually see the carvings people made in the walls. Spending a couple hours of hiking and waiting isn't fun on a empty stomach although Matt helped us out with his antics (sing song - take shower - dance) which was crazy funny. He should take it on the road. It would play well with bored college students and old farts who don't have anything else better to do. I'm overwhelming a part of the previous but some like Nanny say that I'm more into the latter.
Anyways, we all went to Baja Fresh (again) for lunch because that Japanese place next to Ben & Jerry's (they sold out.totally) was closed and Great China (love that lunch special) was closed as well. The manager went crazy hiring people. Hired too many. Now there's so much scurrying around, trying to look busy. I feel sorry for em. But, with the nice Mexican music, maybe some of em can be converted to dancing and playing instruments while we eat and munch our overpriced pseudo-Mexican food. Just maybe.
I've written up the script for the intro and by the look of things will take me about 5 years to finish. Well, maybe I'm exaggerating.only 4. I might scan in my script so that people might see what goes on in my head while those creative juices start flowin (only do when I'm doin my website.curiously enough).
Came back from the concert. Actually only saw the Save Ferris portion.it was pretty good especially when they played "Come on Eileen". After that we came home and played some Mah-jongg.
Yesterday, I went with Nanny to Baja Fresh, the new Mexican place on Shattuck. The enchilada was pretty good. Wonder how long those white walls will last with all those vagrants hanging around. Not sure what that Couscous Royale place is going to turn into. I saw Asian people working on the insides but there were Italian wall decorations in the place. Wonder what kind of a restaurant/Cafe that's going to be. After Baja, we went to Blockbuster and rented the "What Dreams May Come" DVD. Neato stuff although the ending was confusing. It's not often you see Robin Williams in a serious role.
Sucks that South Park is going to end soon. I guess only so many alien abductions/cow massacres/demons can a small town like South Park withstand. Their new stuff however is good (of course, nothing can surpass the first 4 episodes).
My boxes of College Jeopardy freebies diminishes day by day. My t-shirts/color-changing mini-footballs are going by much faster than the rest of the stuff. If any of you in the Berkeley area want em, email me or post in the message board.
Oh yeah, I would like to open this up to people to submit their own thoughts but don't have the time to create their own website. That would be really sweet. You even get to choose your own icon to put up next to your post.
Well, pretty exciting stuff. I think that I'll be able to really finish up my website layout this summer in between working at an I-net startup as a junior web programmer. No, I'm not Christian. Have to remember that I'm working for a company not God. The semester is winding down.finally. It'll be nice to be earning money again. I miss the feeling I got last semester earning money like crazy and bankrolling my sprees. This time around I'm looking at a Sony Wega TV (to replace my TV Tuner card) and a GeForce 2 GTS video card. There's 3 movies that just blew me away as to the performance of it. It even doubles as a HDTV receiver! Anyways, I'm tired of watching DVDs on my 19 inch monitor although the sound on my Desktop Theater 5.1 AC-3 speakers was great. This weekend I'm looking forward to attending the Ozomatli / Save Ferris concert at the Greek and later on the free showing of Gladiator.
One program that everyone needs to check it as opposed to Napster is Scour Exchange. I use it to find all of my new music videos. It's the Napster version of the old Scour software. That way, everyone can download Sisquo's Thong Song and enjoy it like I do.
Coupla days ago I made me some yummy Chawan-Mushi..damn good. Me and Nanny went to Kirala, a Japanese restaurant near the apartment, and an itsy-bitsy bowl cost like $5. I only got it because I hadn't had it in a year at least. Anyways, I broke out my Japanese cookbook and whipped out some of that stuff (a good 5 big mugs worth) for less than $10. I'll try to put up the recipe later for those who are also in need. Don't know if there is actually demand for it. Maybe I'm the only one. J Oh yeah, I put calamari, mushrooms, chicken, and fish cake in it. Sounds sick but tastes great.
Hmm.what else.oh yes.I recently downloaded a program called Pixmaker that takes pictures and stitches them together. Great with my digital camera, I've created 3 pics that are panoramic.
Well hey, this is my first post and the site will only get better!!! I plan to include parts of the flash animation that I had last time to it with a twist of lime. It's all currently in my head but it should be pretty neat to watch. Here's the old flash animation if you didn't see it before. My computer crashed a couple weeks back and I lost pretty much everything so like a phoenix, this website will arise anew.
