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월요일 밤, 936p: this morn, i went to the sunnyvale skate park n' skateboarded 4 a bit. the ground was a li'l wet. i guess it had rained really early in the morn. i did not get there super early cos the beautiful kaela hwang n' i were out late @ our friends jane n' sean's house 4 a new yr's eve party. jane's our friend from our ol' 산호세 제일 교회 san josé jeil gyohwe (fkcc - first korean christian church) days. she grew up in the area n' went to homestead w/ our friend mark. she joined our adult beginner taekwondo class @ u.s. taekwondo academy 4 a short while. thus, we're associated w/ her in several ways. neway, yah; we were out late, so i didn't start my skate session till 'round 1000a. i stayed till 'bout noon... a li'l after noon. i skated (skateboarded) a good 'mount the past few days, altho' i skipped sun. i feel like i've gotten back into the swing'f things w/ skatin'... sort'f. i mean, i've never been super good @ skateboarding, so... *shrug* i started droppin' in from 50.50 in the medium bowl / 0.5pipe (halfpipe). i think i was doin' backside 50.50 axle stalls in the medium bowl on sat morn, wasn't i? *shrug* i 4get. neway, i've also started prakticin' more frontside kick turns n' even do those li'l rear axle pivot grinds frontside instead'f just backside. that's a big breakthru. i don't wanna be "backside beno." neway, i came home, thinkin' that kaela'd be ready to make 뗙만두국 dduhkmandoogook (rice cake n' dumpling soup), but no... she was still in bed, which didn't surprise me. i tried to take care'f kaela. i walked sooni. then, i rode my bike to 한국 마켓 hangook market to buy just a few gro¢eries: 멸치 myuhlchi (dried anchovies), some dried oyster shrooms, a 양파 yangpa (onion), n' some 반찬 banchan. i came home n' tried to wake kaela up 4 dinner... well, i cooked 뎍만두국 dduhkmandoogook all by myself. it turned out ok, but just ok. 2morrow, i've gotta go back to werk.
so what's been up? hrm... kaela n' i used many, many giftcheck ¢oupons. on thurs nite, we ate @ vaqueros chop house (bogo). i think it used to be a mexican.style restaurant, but now it's a middle eastern / persian style restaurant. on fri? 4 lunch, kaela n' i went to left @ alburquerque ($10 off). then, we got chai drinks from coffee society (bogo). we went to the 4 dinner, sunnyvale chipotle w/ mark n' grace. i used my "free dinner for four" voucher that i got from icer air. on sat? :-/ hrm, in the morn, i went to the sunnyvale skate park, as i sed. then, kaela, sooni, n' i went to the santa clara farmers market, which was really small on this particular sat. uhm, after that, kaela n' i ate lunch @ queen of sheba (bogo), an interesting ethiopian dive in the rose garden area'f san josé. 4 dinner? oh yah, kaela n' i ate @ ravioli's a fast italian pasta joint (bogo) in the westgate west area. then we went to watch the pursuit of happyness @ santa clara's amc mercado 20. on sun, kaela didn't wake up in time 4 the 1st service @ grx, but we went to the 1100a, 2nd service. after service, we went out to lunch @ tomatina w/ pastor ali n' his wife karen. after that, we took sooni to santana row, where we got some huge smoothies @ smoothie king (bogo). then, we brought sooni to stanfurd mall. we visited our friends mac n' stephanie @ their artificial christmas tree store @ the mall: balsam hill. on our drive back home, we stopped by 갤러리아 프라자 (galleria plaza) to get some gro¢eries n' some soju.type liquor to bring to the party. we bought some 군 고구마 goon gogooma (roasted yams) from an 아저씨 ajuhssi outside'f the market. he was sooo enamoured by sooni... which isn't unexpekted. if he wasn't absolutely in love w/ sooni, i'd hafta scratch my head n' wonder. kaela cooked some 수제비 soojeibi from 1'f those refrigerator packs. it was good. then, we both kind'f fell asleep on the couch 4 a while. i started thinkin', "wow, maybe we can skip the new yr's eve party, sleep early, n' then go snowboarding on new yr's day." *sigh* well, my hopes were totally killed soon enuf. :-/ it's not that i'm anti.social: i like our friends; but well... the idea'f goin' to a party where ppl just get drunk n' stuff seriously doesn't appeal to me as much as the chance to go snowboarding. i dunno... maybe i'm turnin' into a big kid or sumpthin'. skateboarding n' snowboarding r much more appealing to me than gettin' drunk. sorry, but yah. i don't wanna miss out on life, u know?
well, it's been a few days'f lots'f fud, lots'f eatin' out. *sigh* it's a new yr now. resolutions? yah, i toldju 'bout 1 already: i resolve to keep my sideburns shaved. what else? well, along the lines'f what i was just talkin' 'bout, i'm wanna make some kind'f resolution 'bout drinkin' less alkohol... i'm thinkin' i'll resolve "not to get drunk." to some'f my friends that sounds like i'm aiming low; to others it sounds like i'm aimin' hi. furthermore, to some "drunk" is relative. the whole term "buzzed" sure creates 'lot'f probs. i recently saw ads that say sumpthin' like "buzzed driving is drunk driving." that's true. well, what else? i should resolve sumpthin' 'bout grx's unstoppable campaign, that i'll fulfill my pledge, etc. what else? *shrug*
목요일 점심: ¢oupon ¢ode 4 free shipping on up to 100 prints @ snapfish: freeshipjan. what's up? i sure haven't been writin' in my journal much this yr. *sigh* i dunno why. well, i s'ppose it's simply cos i've been so bizzy. what else can i say?
오후: thanks to bronx's junkyard, i have plenty'f hip, trendy pop tune mp3 albums on my lg chocolate playin' thru my motorola ht820 bluetooth headfons: fergie, gwen stefani, lady sovereign, fin.k.l's latest digital album, big bang, 비 bi (rain), jin da mc, christina aguilera, jojo, the pussycat dolls, ... these are some really hip groups rt now, eh? really trendy! u know that the beautiful kaela hwang got me these motorola ht820 bluetooth headfons 4 christmas, rt? i also got some new cds from our friend kaz from taekwondo: jars'f clay's good monsters n' relient k's mmhmm. kewl!
a few months 'go i was reading vibe magazine's short article on bluetooth headfons. the 1s they mentioned were: 1) samsung sbh 170 ($120), 2) jabra bt620s ($130), 3) blueant x5 stereo ($140), 4) plantronics pulsar 590a ($250), 5)motorola ht820 ($119), 6) bluetake iphono bt450rx ($109). if i had bought myself some bluetooth headfons, i wouldn't've gone so extravagant. i would've settled 4 the iogear 1s that were like $89 or less during christmastime. i wasn't tho' gonna settle 4 the logitech 1s: i heard 2 many bad things n' not 'nuff good things 'bout'em.
well, it's been a slightly bizzy wk. mon was new yr's day. kaela pretty much didn't get out'f bed the entire day. on tues, i had to return to werk. even tho' i skateboarded 'lot last wknd, i didn't skateboard @ all this werkwk! *sigh* i seriously dislike that. i was making such good progress. i noticed that the toeside'f my tail has gotten worn cos'f all the backside pivots that i do. i ride my skateboard as a twin tip, so i use the nose as a tail as well, thus the heelside'f the nose is also worn, since it's the toeside'f the tail when i'm usin' it as a tail. wow, i'm glad i got this twin tip kind'f shape cos i'm gettin' like 2ice the life out'f my deck, 'specially since i can't nollie n' can't really ride switch/fakie. i can totally snowboard switch/fakie, but i can't really skateboard switch/fakie. i was reading in future snowboarding magazine 'bout the debate re: whether snowboard tricks r ever really "switch" n' not always "fakie." the debate arises cos ridin' fakie implies that u'r ridin' backwards on ur board, while ridin' switch implies that u'r ridin' 4wards but that ur board's flipped 'round. w/ snowboard bindings the way they've been since the beginnin'f snowboarding, u can't possibly really flip ur board 'round backwards. maybe someday we'll invent some crazy binding system that'll allow 4 real "switch" ridin', but... *shrug* well, the way i figure it is this: if u ride a twin tip board n' use a duck or parallel stance, then u can say u ride switch. if u have a direktional board w/ 4ward binding angles, then u definitely should say all ur backwards tricks r fakie n' not switch. well... the pro snowboarder n' commentator/announcer todd richards sed in that magazine column that he now prefers the terms forward n' backward instead'f all this switch n' fakie stuff. true, it makes more sense to the gen'l viewing audience n' clears some confusion; but it sort'f takes some uniqueness 'way from the boardsports. :-/ after all, we pull 1080s n' not double axels. ('pparently, 'ccording to wiki, 1 "axel" = 1.5 rotations, so 1080 = 3 rotations = 2 ×: 1.5 rotations = 3 rotations.) oh well.
on tues, kaela's bro jay arrived @ our house. he's stayin' here this wk 4 a brocade class. on tues nite, we had him meet us @ the east arques 24 hr fitness, where kaela took a cycle class n' then joined me 4 a yoga class. i tried to take the cycle class 2, but they were 2 full. *sigh* after that, we went to our friends jane n' sean's house to pick up kaela's cellfon, wallet, n' scarf; which she left there after the new yr's party. then we went to eat a modest dinner @ cupertino's porridge place. we felt a li'l ripped off. 'gainst my volition, we left a really scrawny tip. we waitress kind'f scowled or 'least frowned. last nite, kaela n' i went to sach's turbo kick box (tkb) class. oh yah, 4 lunch yesterday we ate @ the sunnyvale una mas. i had this gallitos grillers steak burrito, n' kaela had this chicken margarita salad. we used this bogo (buy 1 get 1 free) ¢oupon that we got in the mail; a good deal. i didn't eat much 4 dinner last nite cos i had such a big lunch. we watched spirited away on dvd. 2day, @ lunch, kaela picked me up n' we went to ¢0$+¢0 to get homewood lift tix ($54/2pk), a 100.spindle'f dvd-rs ($39.99), n' some "hot n' spicy" pacific gold beef jerky. then we ate lunch @ sweet tomatoes.
[later] some alibris ¢oupon ¢odes (expire 2007년01월31일):
- textbooks3 $3 off $30+
- textbooks8 $8 off $80+
- textbooks10 $10 off $100+
월요일 아침: well, i continue to be 2 bizzy w/ life to updatechu 'bout it. is that ok? i hope it's ok. we've been bizzy snowboarding. this past wknd was the u.s. taekwondo akademy snow trip: 01월04일, 뽁 ~ 01월07일 일. we left on thurs nite, snowboarded @ homewood on fri, snowboarded @ northstar on sat, n' snowboarded @ sugar bowl on sun. *breath* wow, what a rockin' wknd... if i'm 'llowed to use that term. otherwise, what a uh... hrm... what's a word i'm 'llowed to use? "bodacious"'s definitely out. "b!¢hin'"'s 2 obscene 4 me n' also waaay passé. uh... "radical"? would that do? does it werk as a retro 1980s thing? *sigh* neway, 'twas a really fun wknd. i mostly rode freeride but got a few chances to hit terrain parks. wow, i aktually didn't get to ride ne terrain parks @ northstar, but @ homewood n' sugar bowl, i did. this was my 1st time @ homewood. uhm, it's seriously nuthin' special. the view's nice, but the lifts take so freakin' long! none'f them r detachable "express" lifts. they're all the ol' fashion lifts. no wonder only the non.hardcore ppl ever say they love homewood. they're just there 4 the nice view'f lake tahoe.
[later] i saw a bunch'f good deals on *buy.com*:
- kingston 1gb microsd card - $27.95 - $8.00 mib = $19.95
- transcend 4gb sd card - $49.95 w/ free s&h
- anycom bsh-100 bluetooth stereo headfons n' usb-200 bluetooth usb bundle - $69.99 - $20.00 mib = $49.99 w/ free s&h
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iomega silver series 320gb hi speed usb 2.0 external hard drive - $139.95 - $30 mib = $109.95
[later] the beautiful kaela hwang n' i rarely play video games, but we really want to play rayman: ravin' rabbids. we 1st saw the commercial last month, during our 12월 december tahoe trip, in our hotel room @ the resort @ squaw creek. we played it @ valley fair a couple'f wks 'go, while doin' after christmas $hopping. this past wknd, our student/friend chris brought the game n' his nintendo wii. we were 2 sleepy to play but wanted to.
[later]오후: i got a very interesting piece'f spam in my inbox this afternoon. it looked like sumpthin' i'd wanna read cos it talked 'bout all sorts'f issues i'd wanna discuss. hrm, weird. i bet this spammer has a program that searches profiles, webpages, n' blogs n' then generates spam msgs that look interesting to the recipient/viktim. check it out:
The Lord, and Satan in this case, knows that metal as we know it today needs more bands like Mastodon who understand more about shredding than they know about Soundscan.
subject: As a Democrat and a self-proclaimed Pro Choicer, I don't really see that I have a right to say ANYTHING about this.
from: Weiss <mlnze@adisciplednation.com>
date: Thursday, January 4, 2007 3:04:52 AM
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Try putting it on some morning when you wake up with a hangover - let it wash over you, giving you just enough rhythm to keep crawling forward.
I do hope things get better for you. Gay marriage - Okay, c'mon and just say it people: what's the big deal?
Thanks for the great article, TasT!
Any advise for Photoshop user on this one?
Rope an ole blue northern, and milk it til it's dry.
I am in similar circumstances as I enrolled in University at age 31.
I imagine you will be a fine engineer or architect one day. This album is the exact kind of album that blossoms as you listen to it.
Army for 6 years right out of High School, and then I got out and entered the conventional workforce.
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Glad to be back, things are still a little stressful, but everything should be pretty much undercontrol in the next few weeks.
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were originally released, The Clash forfeited their royalties so that the multi-record sets could be sold for the same price as a single album.
Swan Lake comes close to crafting a brilliant album, but the lack of true collaboration drags Beast Moans down and prevents it from being as good as any of their other projects.
All because people can't handle their dogs.
Luckily, there ARE men and women out there who only care about personality, so those ugly women and poor men out there do have a . This album is the exact kind of album that blossoms as you listen to it.
I can do without DesktopX and IconX, I can do without logons, bootscreens and cursors. I guess I'll find out soon.
Some better than others, yes, but none would fall into the category of unlistenable, horrible, or Down In The Groove. I want quiet but, that will probably make things worse.
well, during my lunchbrk, i went 4 a quick lunchtime skate sesh @ the sunnyvale skate park. crazy, huh? shameless, eh? *sigh* 3 days in a row'f snowboardin' n' then i'm back on my skateboard, eh? yah, that's just the way it is 4 me. it's a way'f life. i'm a skater/skateboarder. i'm a snowboarder. what's up? what's wrong w/ that? some guys play basketball @ lunch, some play ultimate frisbee, some jog, some cycle, some lift weights, some do stairmaster. me? i go n' skate/skateboard @ lunch. no biggie. 4 lunch, i ate a grilled chicken sandwich from my werk.com cafeteria.
2day, durin' my skate sesh; yah, i was happy to be back on my skateboard 'gain; n' i felt that this time, it didn't take me 2 long to get back into the swing'f things. i could do backside rear axle grinds, i could ollie, i could do backside 50.50 axle stalls, i could do some frontside rear axle grinds. i felt like i was back where i left off; that i didn't take ne major steps backwards. the crowd during lunchtime was a nice crowd. i saw a few'f the morn regulars from the morn crew. there were a few kids. there was this 1 southeast asian dude that i'd cn b4 during my last lunchtime skate sesh, i think. i didn't have ne extra sunblock w/ me but wish i did. that was 1'f the reasons i kept my skate sesh kind'f short. also, i went to ¢0$+¢0 to fill up on 87 oktane gas @ 2.539/gal.
[later] was it last wk or the wk b4? :-? oh yah, 'twas on 2006년01월30일. 2 sats 'go, kaela n' i watched the pursuit of happyness after eatin' dinner @ uh... where was it? :-? oh yah, raviolis in campbell. we used a bogo gift¢he¢k$ ¢oupon. i definitely expekted it to be as good as it was cos'f all the hype. i knew it'd provide good competition 4 dreamgirls in the fight 4 the oscars. i expekted to like it cos it's 'bout a dad strugglin' to provide 4 his family, n' yah... i totally feel that... even tho' i'm not a dad... just the dad to sooni (our doggy): 순이 아빠 sooni abba. however, u do realise that i have this 1 particular rule 4 movies, rt? i believe every movie needs an element'f romance. it doesn't need to be the main focus'f the movie, but the movie needs to have some element'f romance. the pursuit'f happyness? well, there was the conflikt btwn will smith's charakter n' his wife, but... that was really nething romantik to me. not really... i like will smith. on some web profile somewhere, i was asked to list my heroes. i 4got to include him. i think he's a good guy, as far as celebs go. *sigh* i wonder what kind'f dad i'll be when i "grow up." this wknd, i saw on the slopes a dad snowboardin' while holdin' his kid up on his snowboard, i.e. the kid was pretendin' to be snowboardin' on his dad's deck. *sigh* wow, i think that's a good snowboardin' dad.
[later] so kaela's bro was @ our house last wk. last wk was a strange wk. it flew by. mon was new yr's day, i werked 4 3 days, n' then i took fri off 4 the snowboarding trip. the wk flew by. still, kaela n' i managedto go to the gym (24 hr fitness) quite a bit. now, 2day was kaela's 1st day back @ skool. we finally really need to get back into the swing'f things, back into certain routines. i've gotta get organised 4 both my taekwondo class n' 4 my church small grp. u should realise that those r my 2 big leadership responsibilities.
[later] after this wknd's snow trip, w/ my mp3 cd soundtrack in my car, i think i'm pretty much all fergied n' gwen stefanied out. i'm also quite christina aguilera'd out. i'm still up 4 jars'f clay n' relient k, tho'.
"who i am hates who i've been" by relient k from their mmhmm album
i watched the proverbial sunrise
stop right there
i'm sorry for the person i became
i talked to absolutely no one
and i heard the reverberating footsteps
and i can’t let that happen again
who i am hates who i’ve been
©2006 capitol
coming up over the pacific
and you might think i’m losing my mind
but i will shy away from the specifics
cause i don't want you to know where i am
cause then you'll see my heart in the saddest state it’s ever been
and this is no place to try and live my life
that’s exactly where i lost it
see that line
well i never should've crossed it
stop right there
well i never should've said that
it’s the very moment that i wish that i could take back
i'm sorry that it took so long for me to change
i'm ready to be sure i never become that way again
cause who i am hates who i've been
who i am hates who i've been
couldn't keep to myself enough
and the things bottled inside had finally begun
to create so much pressure that i'd soon blow up
syncing up to the beating of my heart
and i was positive that unless i got myself together
i would watch me fall apart
cause then you'll see my heart in the saddest state it’s ever been
and this is no place to try and live my life
and who i am will take the second chance you gave me
who i am hates who i’ve been
cause who i’ve been only ever made me
[later] 져녁: the new yr has started. new yr's resolutions r underway. what r ur resolutions? plz fill out my gbook n' discuss. 1'f my resolutions involved alcohol consumption. maybe many other ppl in this world made new yr's resolutions involving alcohol consumption. i assume more ppl resolved to drink less alcohol than those whio resolved to drink more alcohol. as i sed it may sound like big or small goal to u that i resolved not to get drunk this yr. some'f my friends get drunk often, n' some'f my friends can honestly say they've never been drunk. i have been drunk b4, i've gotta admit. however, i've always believe in not usin' alcohol to escape reality or even relieve stress but just to complement a meal or to celebrate. i've sed that, in gen'l, i won't drink by myself; n', in gen'l, i won't drink if i'm not happy. that's my belief. also, i feel i learned sumpthin' last yr: i came to believe that it's wrong to laff @ drunk ppl, that it's wrong to have fun @ the expen$e'f drunk friends. from those 2 statements'f my beliefs, i'm pretty sick n' tired'f hearin' 2 things: 1) "so n' so got drunk, but she really needed it... she really needed to blow off steam." 2) "so n' so was sooo funny when he got drunk." pastor dave's asked a few times b4 in sermons 4 us to find the 1 thing in this world that u just "can't stands no more." @ this moment in my life, i feel this's the thing "i can't stands no more." 4 every time i pressured a young friend to take a shot ('specially in the ol' cal taekwondo party crew days), i'm sorry. 4 every time, i did hoping 4 hilarious results, i'm especially sorry. i know i'm such a freakin' killjoy; n', 4 that, i'm just so.so sorry. some1 i knew in the past 1nce sed, "i'll apologise 4 things i do, but i'll never apologise 4 who i am." personally, i'm not 100% thrilled by that statement'f philosophy, n' i totally question the philosophies'f the person who sed that. however, maybe it sort'f fits my feelings 'bout this subject. honestly, my new yr's resolution; i may or may not fulfill it. there r times, i go out to dinner w/ kaela n' we order a bottle'f wine n' i drink 2 much. there've been times in the not distant 'nuff past that i let young friends pressure me into takin' 1 2 many shots. that shocks some'f u; that makes others'f u yawn. whate'er. we've all gotta wake up n' c how wide this world is.
화요일 아침: w/ the popularity'f her recent hit single "the sweet escape," gwen stefani has successfully completed her gradual metamorphosis into madonna. "true blue, baby, i love you."
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[later] 오후: 4 lunch, my_group@werk.com went to grand indian buffet. i'm stuffed. buffets rn't always a great idea. when i returned, i found on my desk a foto taken'f me as i was crossin' the finish line'f the 5k i did back in 2006년10월 (oktober 2006). 'member? oktober was a really bizzy month last yr. that was the 1st time i ran my company's 5k run w/o sooni. usually, the run's @ mission college, but this time 'twas on company property.
fergie's "london bridge..." why do fergie n' gwen stefani swear so much? fergie, gwen stefani, n' lady sovereign; they all swear so much. i wonder if ne1 made a new yr's resolution this yr to swear less. i'm sure some ppl did. why's it that last yr the pussycat dolls n' michael bublé were both popular n' sang the same songs: "sway" n' "feelin' good"? what's up w/ that? why's it cm to me that kids these days simply don't have much'f an attention span?! i had more'f an attention span when i was that age, didn't i?
last nite, the beautiful kaela hwang n' i went to the gym (24 hr fitness, fremont ave in sunnyvale). i skipped my usual sach's turbo kick box (tkb) class @ the east arques ave, sunnyvale 24 hour fitness. my left knee felt arthritik neway, potentially aggravated by my lunchtime skate sesh (skateboard session) @ the sunnyvale skate park after 3 days in a row'f snowboarding in tahoe. kaela went to the hip.hop dance class, n' i wanted to go as well; but i got there 2 late from werk. i saw our friend darrell there in the weight room, so we just lifted, while our wives did the hip.hop dance class. after the gym, kaela n' i went to trader joe's to buy some gro¢eries. we went home n' ate a trader joe's flatbread thingy (sort'f like pizza) - which we bought on our last trader joe's expedition, not this 1 - n' some leftover organik salad from the snow trip. we watched 복수는 나의 것 boksooneun nauyguht (sympathy for mr. vengeance)
[later] i realised sumpthin': the item that prob'ly popped up in the most grp pix this winter's the nintendo wii remote controller!!!
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수요일 아침: *sigh* i wish i could hang out all day @ the sunnyvale skate park. this morn, i did take sooni 4 a walk on skateboard, but i didn't get to hit up the sunnyvale skate park. *sigh* i wish i could've. in some ways, reality bites.
[a li'l later] i found some more great links off'f (super)dave kim's starkdavingmad.com (sorry 4 always bitin' off'f u, dave... i hope it's 'nuff that i give u credit 4 posting the links): from best'f craigslist (san diego), "how to tell your friend his cat's dead" n' "how to search amazon for deals" (but, of course, use my amazon link
[later] i'm pretty scared'f rebate deals nowadays. how 'boutchu? [just a li'l later] r ur $pending n' budget under control now in this post.holiday season? r u ready 4 v.day? the next major blow to ur wallet, 'specially 4 guys/men. [a li'l later] i've been debatin' whether'r not to buy the entertainment book 2007, a book'f ¢oupon$ to local restaurants etc. last yr, i bought the gift ¢he¢k$ book 4 $10 @ the santa clara farmers market, but i bought it like in feb... 'twas that winter day when i ordered my skateboard from tactics.com, i think. i think 'twas a cloudy day, but i 4get. i know kaela was gone 4 some chiropraktic thing, n' i felt really restless. neway, i can get the entertainment book 2007 4 $22. that's more than $10, obviously. however, this book does have some ¢oupon$ to nicer restaurants like monsoon in mtn view on the chic castro. [a li'l later] oh, ok... the day i bought my skateboard was 2006년01월21일. i received it on 2006년01월25일. we're almost @ my 1.yr anniversary'f my return to skateboarding. however, maybe what's more significant'll be my 1.yr anniversary'f my 1st visit to the sunnyvale skate park, which was in 2006년05월 may'f 2006. aktually, 'twas 2006년05월20일.
[later] 오후: during my lunchbrk, i went over to palmer west chiropraktic college's tasman clinic to get treated by the beautiful kaela hwang. afterward, we had a hasty lunch @ the nearby extreme pita. [later] kaela had a small (6")gyros sandwich, n' i had a "regular" or large (9") philly cheesesteak sandwich. extreme pita isn't a terribly terrific joint, but it's ok. i can find better falafel sandwiches @ house'f falafel, falafel drive in, or eat.a.pita; better gyros sandwiches @ yiasoo, athena grill, or daphne's; better cheesteak sandwiches @ steven's cheesesteaks, the cheesesteak shop, or i.b. hoagie's. this place tries to do so much, but it ends up being just so.so @ all'f'em. still, the fud's decently fresh, healthy, n' customisable. i appreciate the option to add hummus to my sandwich @ no additional charge. on our way back to my car from this quick, quick lunch, we ran into my sister grace's friend leena's husband omar. i already knew he werks in that area 4 a silikon valley semiconduktor company. silikon valley @ lunchtime.
i didn't really get ne exercise 2day, n' that's bad. ever since we came back from the recent snow trip, i've had tortilla chips in my car. i've been eatin' them every.so.often, 2 often. 2nite, i'll miss both sach's n' will's turbo kick box (tkb) classes cos i've got a "core" mtg 4 my grx t3 light couples bible study small group. if i hadn't had my chiropraktic apptmnt this noon, i would've hit up the sunnyvale skate park 4 'nother lunchtime skate sesh. sure, skateboarding's not conventional exercise, but it's better than most ppl'll ever know.
[later] i'm glad that we went to tahoe last wknd cos i didn't plan on goin' to tahoe this wknd cos it's mlk, jr. wknd, n' thus tahoe'll be super.crowded. my ol' cowerkers from the college program r goin' snowboarding over the 01월26~28일 wknd. however, kaela's gettin' lasik done the next wk - not so much 4 cosmetik purposes but 4 serious health purposes since she's been gettin' frequent eye infektions from her contakts. 4 lasik, she hast'a stay off'f contakts 4 a wk, ie 7 days. she can't snowboard w/o contakts rt now, so she wouldn't be able to go snowboarding that wknd. however, *shrug* maybe i'll try to make a day trip on that sat to meet up w/ my cowerker friends. [later] in ne case, this wknd... i didn't plan on snowboarding this wknd. i planned on usin' this wknd to 1) do base repair n' maintenance on my snowboard, 2) skateboard @ the sunnyvale skate park, 3) catch up on household maintenance tasks - somehow mount the hot surface ignitor in the furnace, despite the fakt that the technician from performance air n' heating took the bracket w/ him; finally take down the christmas tree; finally get rid'f some yard waste; gen'lly clean up / tidy up... i also have some issues pertaining to 'puter hardware, 'puter software, 'puter files (musik, pix) to sort out. dude... there's always some werk to do 'round the house. i've sed b4 that in the modern era, u hafta do housekeepin' in ur house n' also do housekeepin' in ur 'puter. crazy.
u may've overlooked or 4gotten that my palm tungsten t5 pda's been in the shop 'gain 4 repairs since b4 the winter break. yup. *sigh* yup, it broke down 'gain. i'm s'pposed to get it back soon. i'm contemplating this tho': what if i sell off the refurbished unit that they'll send me n' then buy a brand new palm t|x like kaela's? the advantage? built.in wi.fi. the disadvantage? less built.in storage. let's find the aktual specs to compare: the t|x has "128mb w/ 100mb accessible to user." the t5 had "256mb flash memory (215 mb available): 55mb program memory, 160mb internal drive." processors? t|x: intel 312 mhz arm.based processor. t5: intel xscale processor (arm) 416 mhz. *sigh* dude, it's a real toss up!!! the main advantage to sellin' off the refurbished unit n' buyin' a new t|x'd be to get a full warranty. built.in wifi? yah, that's nice, but i've already got the wi.fi sd card... which is only so.so convenient, of course.
[just a li'l later] 저녁: i just realised that, this past sat, i could've gotten us northstar tix 4 $43 instead'f $44 if i'd shown my tahoe card instead'f that ubiquitous snowbomb.com coupon. [a li'l later] *sigh* yah, i've gotta figure out how to $ave $$$ here n' there. 1) i $pent a bundle @ christmastime, tryin' to be a nice santa, 2) my pay¢he¢k's gettin' slashed cos i'm puttin' more $$$ into fsa 4 kaela's upcomin' lasik surgery, n' 3) i've gotta $ave $$$ to contribute my pledge to the grx unstoppable campaign.
목요일 아침: last nite, the beautiful kaela hwang met w/ our grx t3 light small group bible study's "core" group/team @ l&l hawai.ian restaurant aka l&l drive inn. [later] kaela ordered the lau lau mini plate, n' i ordered the large seafud combo "e" plate, which included fried fish (mahi mahi?), fried shrimp, n' kalua pork (w/ cabbage). 'pparently, many ppl specify kalua pork w/o cabbage. the fud was all good, but i sensed the presence'f msg. after our dinner mtg, kaela n' i drove over from campbell back to santa clara, to the mercado to watch code name: cleaner @ amc mercado 20. kaela fetched us a grande 녹차 nokcha green tea latte from $tarbu¢ks, which she really drank almost 100% by herself as i got like 2 sips. since 'twas wed evening, we got 2 free small popcorns w/ our movie watchers cards. the movie was just so.so. we tend to watch these lucy liu movies to try to support an asian.am aktress, but... *shrug* i'm not so sure she does all that much 4 the asian.am community. personally, i detested her involvement in ally mcbeal as i totally hated that show. i don't feel she ever really plays charakters that truly posi+ively portray asian.am women. seriously! she's so borderline "good list" / "bad list." seriously! this movie? 'twas just so.so. cedric the entertainer was so.so funny. the whole movie kind'f reminded me'f jackie chan's the tuxedo. to spoil the movie, lemme tell u that, in the end, lucy liu kind'f flirts w/ cedric's char. that reminds me'f how jennifer love hewitt flirts w/ jackie chan @ the end'f the tuxedo.
when we came back from the movie, i installed the hot surface ignitor in our furnace w/o the necessary mounting bracket. i was n' still am worried that sumpthin'll go wrong cos i don't have the mounting bracket. the dude from performance air took our ol' hot surface ignitor n' took the mounting bracket w/ it. he was gonna charge us $234 to install this $33 part. grrr! they should've been honest w/ breakin' down how much the part'd cost n' how much the labour'd cost. that's what andy kwon @ ace auto does. he's honest. last nite, we were warm in our house 4 the 1st time in a long time. i researched on line the idea'f buyin' a whole new, diff hot surface ignitor that comes w/ its own mounting bracket from ignitersdirect.com.
[later] 오후: during my lunchbrk, i sold off the 512mb ipod shuffle (1st gen) that i won @ the grand re.opening'f the santa clara safeway on homestead n' kiely back in 2007년12월 dec 2007. i sold it off 4 $40 to some1 from my company via our intranet classifieds. he told me some bad news 'bout the outlook 4 us employees. i dunno; i hope it's just rumour n' just rumour.
[later] after that, i met up w/ kaela @ 금봉황 geumbonghwang / china china 4 a buffet lunch. i felt kind'f uneasy while eatin' cos'f that bad rumour. still, i ate 'lot; 2 much. 2nite, s'pposedly we're goin' over to our student chris's apt in sunnyvale to eat some grilled, marinated steaks.
this morn, i took sooni 4 a walk on skateboard. while ollieing up a curb, i somehow fell on my rt knee n' rt palm. i made it up the curb, but somehow my rt (back) ft slipped off. *sigh* somehow i'm so less confidence while skatin' on the street than in the park. i've gotta overcome this fear'f streetskating!
금요일 점심: i found 'nother good link off'f (super)dave kim's starkdavingmad.com: "pho beef noodle soup history, recipe." dude, dave: i'm sooo sorry 4 always stealing ur links. seriously, if u need a favour sometime, then simply ask me! i think i neglekted to mention that on tues nite, the beautiful kaela hwang n' i went out w/ a few'f our u.s. taekwondo academy friends to the santa clara pho hoa, rt in the heart'f k.twon (koreatown) on el camino real @ flora vista. i wanted to get their "special" bean drink w/ my rare steak n tripe noodles, but they were out; so i ordered the avocado shake, which was very tasty. we tied sooni outside by the door. she was a good doggy, but this 1 middle.aged couple was leavin', n' the woman was all scared'f sooni... ridiculous! as kaela pted out, sooni slowly came up to her w/ her tail all wagging, n' all smiling. the owner had me move sooni off to the side. i was quite disgruntled, but i did it, n' i still left a good tip. *sigh* sooni's so sweet.
well, last nite, after taekwondo praktice, as i sed we'd do, we went to our student chris's apt in sunnyvale to ea some steaks n' play rayman: raving rabbids on his wii. it was really fun.
[later] 오후: 2day, @ lunch, kaela picked me up, n' we went to 명동 순두부 myungdong soondubu; where kaela ordered her usual 버섯 순두부 buhsuht soondubu, n' i ordered 섞어 순두부 sukkuh soondubu. i noticed things've changed there: 1) the 순두부 찌개 soondubu jjigae prices've gone up by $1 - kaela pted out that the prices haven't risen in ~4 yrs, n' 2) the restaurant has a whole new marketing scheme, including a new logo n' a website tofucabin.com. 3) they have fancy menus that look like they belong @ a fancy korean restaurant like boas. (is that place 'round nemore? un4tunately, i don't think so.) 4) some young, 2nd gen korean.amerikan dude cms to be managing the restaurant. 5) they have more waitresses. 6) they have a new 2nd lokation in san mateo.
i feel like i never really 4malised or finished my new yr's resolutions. have u made ne?
월요일 오후: my pants r fittin' 2 well these days, if u know whad'ah mean. i haven't been gettin' 'nuff exercise n've been eatin' way 2 much. *sigh* on sat nite, 심 사범님 shim sabuhmnim (master shim) had us instruktors over @ his house 4 dinner. 사모님 samonim (master's wife) cooked lots'f good 한식 hanshik korean fud: 낙지 볶음, 잡채, 떡볶이, 불고기, 새우 튀김, 슈마이, 연어, 게장, ... nakji bokkeum (spicy oktopus stir fry), jabchae (special, clear, bean noodles), dduhkbokki (rice cakes in spicy sauce), saewoo twigim (shrimp tempura), shumai, yunuh (salmon), geijang (spicy, marinated, raw crab), ... it was very delicious, all'f it. we had a really fun time. i was honestly very disappointed thi past thurs to c that the so.called "adult" black belt class was mostly kids. i was happy to get to hang w/ the adults on sat nite. i realise that the best way to get more adults in our "adults" black belt class's to teach my adult beginners well so that they become black belts. it's not that i hate kids or nething, but it takes 'way the important social aspekt'f the class when ur classmates can't go out w/u after class n' can't relate to u @ all. they're all talkin' 'bout hi skool (or worse, middle skool), n' we're talkin' 'bout careers or 'least college. like, it's 'least easier to relate to kids that r like 16 n' up. under 14? it's hard. furthermore, it's weird cos it's startin' to be that i'm closer in age to these kids' parents than to these kids, u know? that's kind'f weird.
[later] on sun, the beautiful kaela hwang n' i tried to go to grx's 1st service but couldn't wake up, so we went to the 2nd service, where i won a grx beanie 4 answerin' a grx history trivia question on the 5th anniversary service 4 our church. the question was: who's the oldest grx staff member, n' i knew the answer was pastor ali. after service, kaela n' i ate dim sum 4 a late lunch @ canton delites in cupertino. then we stopped by home to do some random chores n' walk sooni b4 goin' out to oakridge mall's gymboree 4 our nephew nolan's 2nd b.day. on the way, we stopped by the homestead safeway to buy him a mylar balloon. it had a froggy on nit n' sed "hoppy birthday." @ 1st, we wanted to get him an elmo balloon, but safeway didn't have ne more'f'em. @ the party, my sister gave me her camera, n' i took pix. i felt like a professional event fotographer, like a wedding fotographer. 'twas fun. i ate some costco sushi n' costco croissant sandwiches, n' some b.day cake. after the party, kaela n' i went to borders in oakridge mall n' sat 'round. we were waitin' to have dinner w/ ken n' grace. later, we ate dinner w/'em @ cali4nia pizza kitchen. i ordered the new mango tandoori chicken pizza on honey wheat crust. 'twas just like the ol' tandoori chicken pizza but w/ mango. kaela ordered some kind'f thai pasta w/ shrooms n' chicken. kaela n' i also shared a "2 in a bowl" soup w/ some kind'f healthier barley soup n' an unhealthy adobe chicken chowder soup. i only chose that 1 cos it reminds us'f sierra@tahoe n' also normally costs more than the 3rd choice'f soup, which was sumpthin' healthier. neway... *sigh* i've been eatin' 2 much lately. eatin' 2 much n' exercisin' 2 li'l.
it's been really cold lately in the bay area. on sat morn, i went to the sunnyvale skate park; but i haven't been goin' so much lately. i think the thing i werked on the most was doin' frontside kickturns. i made a lot'f progress over winter brk, but now i'm kind'f stagnant 'gain. it's almost the 1.yr anniversary'f my return to skateboarding.
[later] this morn, i really wanted to hit up the sunnyvale skate park but didn't. i did however skateboard w/ sooni. there's a prob: she tends to pull while i'm crossin' the street, which prevents me from prakticin' ollieing up curbs. i had to bail on the 1st'f my 2 usual curbs but did make it up the 2nd. @ the sunnyvale skate park, there's this 1 dude w/ a mutt that aktually rides his skateboard in the park. can u believe that? it's pretty kewl. however, as the doggy rides the board, he also tends to chew on its nose. that's bad. i'd like sooni to be able to ride my skateboard like that. i trust that she wouldn't chew on its nose.
well, @ lunch, i did 2 things: i got my car washed @ santa clara lozano's brushless car wash n' had lunch w/ kaela @ king noodle house on el camino real @ lawrence expressway in the 갤러리아 프라자 (galleria plaza) strip mall that also used to have compusa. i don't think that style'f soup noodle's very healthy. it's sort'f a southeast asian / chinese version'f in.n.out, u know? i don't think it could possibly be healthier than burgers, just fast n' ¢heap like burgers.
when i go to the sunnyvale skate park in the morn, i get decent exercise ridin' the bowls. when i just skateboard 'round the block w/ sooni, i don't get much exercise. as i did last wk, i'm gonna try 'gain 2nite to go w/ kaela to the hip.hop dance class @ 24 hr fitness. last wk, i couldn't join the class cos i got there way 2 late cos'f werk.
화요일 오후 hwayoil ohoo: ugh, i'm havin' all sorts'f puter_probs@werk.com. i need to get my werk done. i've got ppl breathin' down my neck. that's simply how it is 'round here. i notice we didn't make fortune magazine's list'f companies to werk 4. werk's sometimes fun, but i take 'lot'f abuse here. some ppl simply rn't very nice to me n' don't make my life ne easier. however, there r nice ppl here n' there.
[later] i was talkin' to a cowerker friend chris re: pda (like palms), smartfons, n' other cellfons. i'm still undecided whether to continue tryin' to sell off my palm tungsten t5 n' get a tungsten tx or to keep my recently refurbished palm tungsten t5. it's a toss up. each has its advantages n' disadvantages. why can't i have the best'f both?!
during my lunchbrk, i snuck off to the sunnyvale skate park n' had a great lunchtime skate sesh. dude, i'm so diggin' these lunchtime skate seshes cos it makes werkin' @ my location all that more worth it. well, 2day, i got to the park, n' there were lots'f those 20.sumpthin' yr.old guys who r aktually pretty good. they're the 1s that've been (continuously) skatin' since they were kids n' can do lots'f good tricks, etc. they're not like me. i fit in better w/ the older guys who r tryin' to relearn or else tryin' to do stuff they never could do when they were younger buy wished that they could. . . . [unfinished entry]
수요일 아침 sooyoil achim: ugh, what a not.so.good morn. i had an awful nite w/o ne good sleep cos the beautiful kaela hwang was coughin' n' wheezin' all nite. sooni didn't like it but was tryin' to sleep on the floor'f our room. she scratched @ the door to try to get us to let her out. i called her over to the bed n' made her lie there n' told her, "if i hafta put up w/ this, then so do u!" poor doggy. this morn, we all woke up late, very late. sooni looked sooo groggy! i didn't ahve time to take her on her morn walk, but she looked fine w/ that. she just wanted to go into the living rm n' curl up in her bed.
*sigh* some scary, bad news: "Heating home takes chilling toll: COST OF WARMTH: JANUARY PG&E BILLS TO RUN 10 PERCENT OVER PROJECTIONS." (http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/16478718.htm) (printable version)
[later] on mon nite, kaela n' i went to the 24groove / super street hip hop dance class @ the fremont ave 24 hr fitness in sunnyvale. we saw our friends elaine n' darrell there @ the gym. i hope we'll get to hang w/ 'em more. after that, we came home n' ate some leftovers from sun nite's dinner @ cpk. we also ate 1'f the 3 samosas that we bought @ the santa clara farmers market on sat early afternoon. we watched the golden globe awards. i'm glad dreamgirls got lots'f awards. it's also nice that ugly betty, the english language remake'f betty la fea did well. i haven't watched it tho'. neither have i cn babel, but i want to. i wish the pursuit of happyness did better. i wish heroes or lost beat grey's anatomy. i hate hospital/doktor shows! furthermore, i question whether sandra oh is ne kind'f posi+ive influence on the asian.am kommunite despite her being in lots'f films that've been labeled as asian.am cinema. really, has she done nething to help the asian.am kommunite?!
[later] 오후 ohoo: well, i didn't get to talk 'bout sumpthin' yesterday: so i had a great, fun lunchtime skate sesh (skateboarding session) @ the sunnyvale skate park yesterday. however, when i got there, no 1 was wearing pads or helmets, so... immature me, i decide to skate (skateboard) w/o pads or helmet. well, i simply played it safe n' didn't push myself 2 hard. well, all was fine; but then there was 1 incident that ended my skate sesh: i ollied onto this metal copinged ledge that's just a li'l taller than ur avg curb. i 50.50 grinded it fine n' even popped off w/ a decent dismount. however, soon after i rode 'way from the ledge, i stepped off my board to stop; n' somehow... carelessly, i let my foot step on the nose or tail'f my board n' the other end (tail or nose) popped up n' whacked me in the rt knee. ow. it wasn't really hard, but it hit me in just the rt (wrong) place. it stung really bad, so i sort'f skated in a limping manner over to a bench ledge n' sat down n' rubbed it out, while coolin' it off w/ the cold metal coping on the ledge. *sigh* it just hit @ just the rt place, @ just the rt angle. it's like it hit me in a pressure pt or sumpthin'. well, i ended my skate sesh there n' went back to my office. it hurt thru the evening n' nite n' this morn.
last nite was the 2nd time (i think) that i had to teach both the black belt n' adult beginners taekwondo classes. it's fun to have a evenin' full'f taekwondo. in a way, that brings me back to my "glorious" ucmap days. i was very happy that kaela came w/ me, n' we got to the dojang on time. i wore a neoprene knee brace on my rt knee, n' i felt my injury now n' then.
this morn, somehow kaela n' i woke up really late. well, as i sed, kaela was sick n' coughin' n' wheezin', which kept both sooni n' me up. i had to hurry off to the office to werk on some stuff 4 a mtg @ 1100a. after my mtg, i had to drop off my 'puter w/ the it dept to have them fix some stuff. i went home 4 lunch. i ate the 3rd n' last somosas (which we bought from the santa clara farmers market on sat) n' a can'f annie's organik low fat minestrone. i guess i also ate a tangerine. that kind'f tangerine's a minneola tangerine, rt? i tried to clean up the house a li'l n' do other housechores n' then took sooni 4 a walk on skateboard. i'm frustrated that she keeps pullin' @ this 1 particular street corner where i wanna praktice ollieing up the curb. my knee still hurt a li'l as i skated (skateboarded) 'round the neighbourhood w/ sooni.
is it true that there's mario kart 4 the new nintendo wii? this is the most tempted i've been to buy a video game console in ages!!! i really don't play video games n' feel i don't have time to do so. however, kaela's really into the cuteness'f ubisoft's rayman: raving rabbids, n' i can imagine gettin' into some skateboarding n' snowboarding games. i know there's tony hawk's downhill jam, but i'm much more interested in checkin' out tony hawk's project 8, which isn't out on the wii.
2nite, kaela n' i r goin' over to pastor abel n' annie's apt 4 a grx leaders dinner. the dinner's @ 630p. i thought 'twas @ 700p. i guess i've gotta bust out'f werk "early."
목요일 아침: what's up? how's it goin'? how'r u doin'? u know, i have a gbook (guest book) 4 u to sign. plz sign it. if u r here, readin' this page, then u ought to sign it. plz do. well, it's still pretty cold/chilly here in the cali bay area. aktually, all'f cali4nia's s'pposed to be pretty cold. i saw news footage'f snow in malibu, down in socal. i heard the grapevine - on (the) 5 - was closed yesterday cos'f snow n' ice. wow. i heard it snowed in various areas'f the bay area. yesterday, i saw snow atop mt. hamilton n' the other east side hills. that's kewl. last march (2006년), i took sooni up to the west side hills - in saratoga - to c (n' touch), the snow. that was fun. i'd like to do that 'gain this yr, but i dunno how the weather'll be. *sigh* it's been a relatively dry yr. is this "tundra" weather? it's been cold n' dry. we need more snow in tahoe!!! i guess dry weather's good 4 skateboarding. there's a posi+ive flip side, u know? last sat, when i was @ the sunnyvale skate park, there wws an icy patch on the medium bowl / 0.5pipe (halfpipe)'s roll in. i don't usually use the roll in but just drop in off my tail over the coping, but 'twas pretty kewl to be able to say in sunnyvale - as opposed to tahoe - that there was an icy patch in the 0.5pipe (halfpipe). kewl, huh? well, there're also icy patches on the sidewalks. when i skateboard in the morn w/ sooni, i sometimes run over the icy patches n' purposely push into a li'l slide, just 4 fun.
i may orn may not drive up to tahoe this sat 4 a day trip. all sorts'f old time p.crew ppl r goin' up w/ the absolute dragons dragon boat team, so i may join'em, but... *sigh* i dunno if i have a passenger or not. 1 friend sed he might come w/ me. we'll c. i'd really like to ride w/ some'f these ol' timers 'gain. it'd be such a reunion.
last nite, the beautiful kaela hwang n' i went to our frineds pastor abel n' annie's apt in sunnyvale 4 a nice dinner. we like hangin' w/ 'em.
[later] *sigh* what's up? i don't like how i simply don't have energy in the morn these days like i did in the summer. i used to be able to get up sooo early n' hit up the sunnyvale skate park in the morn so often. nowadays? not really.
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valid thru 2007년01월21일.
this morn, just as i stepped out the door to take sooni out on skateboard, i realised that i wasn't wearin' sunscreen. usually, i wear jack black double duty facial moisturiser w/ spf 20. over the past summer or so, to save $$$ n' to get more spf protektion, i switched to some coppertone spf 50 sublock. well, last month or so, i bought 'nother pump bottle'f jack black double duty facial moisturiser, so i've been tryin' to use that, but i sometimes 4get. u c, every morn, i use 2 bathrms! funny, huh? i do some'f my stuff in the master bathroom n' some in the hallway bathroom. i leave the jack black lotion in the master bathroom, but i prob'ly should keep it in the hallway bathrm. i end up usin' the coppertone spf 50 sunblock more often. it's good to have more spf, but i'm just worried that i'm givin' myself more zits w/ this sunblock. neway, 2day i 4got to use either, but as i brought sooni outside, i stepped back in n' noticed this 1 bottle'f ¢heap spf 45 sunblock that i got 4 free @ a werk.com picnic a couple'f yrs 'go or so. it has a strong piña colada scent, which kaela hates. i remebered sumpthin': the smell'f piña colada reminds me'f snowboarding - sunscreens, which i wear while snowboarding, often have a piña colada smell; n' snowboard wax sometimes has a piña colada scent!
[later] i'm curious 'bout nhs's ricta wheels. they cm to be pretty good. *sigh* i wonder what hardware i'd want if i were to get a new board. i could imagine this setup: santa cruz rob welsh deck, independent eric koston 129 low trucks, ricta 52mm aircore or core or star wheels... bearings? whoa, 1nce u get into bearings, u could go super hi end n' pay 'lot or go ¢heap. *sigh* like, aktually skateboarding's 1 hobby that's getting me back to my mechanical engineering roots. bearings r sumpthin' that mechanical engineers r very concerned 'bout. harndess'f wheels? yah, u use the shore durometer scale to measure wheels. that's 'nother mechanical engineering concept.
[later] 오후: so, even tho' i've been deprived'f the sunnyvale skate park lately; i s'ppose i'm gettin a decently helping'f sidewalk cruisin'. yah, as i sed earlier, i skateboarded w/ sooni this morn; but then, @ lunch, i went over to my chiropraktic apptmnt w/ kaela @ her new benton clinic location in the heart'f ol' town santa clara: kaela informed me that she'd be late, so i parked, grabbed my skateboard and skateboarded over to the nearby togo's to buy a regular sized #24 on honey wheat to go. i felt a li'l weird being there w/ my skateboard amongst ppl in nice bizziness attire, but... *shrug* i must've appeared like a santa clara university grad student. i saw this 1 guy @ the sandwich counter that i recognised. i believe he's a korean lawyer who's adverts used to run on korean tv in this area. i rode back to the clinic. just as i reached the parking lot, i crossed paths w/ a desi / south asian dude 'round my age who was skateboarding w/ a backpack on. he looked like a santa clara university grad student. *shrug*
[later] on mon nite, kaela n' i were watching the golden globe awards, as i mentioned in an earlier entry. durin' that, we saw a quick newsflash ad thingy 4 the 1100p news on nbc 11 re: netflix's "getting movies to you faster." in my head, i was thinking, "dude, they're gonna do online, streaming movies like movielink
." i was rt! i told kaela that i'd been thinkin' that but hadn't sed it aloud to her. she sed, "2 bad; u need to say it aloud 4 it to count." *sigh* that's true.
the next movie on our netflix.com queue, after kaela changed it, is the devil wears prada. up until, i had picked all the movies (selfish me, i know); n' i'd picked only korean movies. well, after she added all these other movies like brokeback mountain, i thought, "skrew it; i'm addin' that christian hosoi biopic!" oh yah, i should also add those dogtown skateboarding movies: lords of dogtown n' dogtown and z-boys. aktually, i noticed that they have plain out skate videos as well. i need to add those to the queue.
[later] my trader joe's $hopping list:
- trail mix (nuts, dried fruit, no bad sugars)
- kefir
- garlic naan (frozen pack)
- bagged salad
금요일 아침: 2day's the beautiful kaela hwang's n' my 3.5 anniversary. we won't get to celebrate 2nite cos we have bible study group. 2morrow, i'm drivin' my cousin walter up to tahoe n' mtg up w/ some ol' cal taekwondo p.crew friends, 1s that r (or were) on the absolute dragons dragonboat team. sun evening, we're s'pposed to take our friend duk out to dinner to thank him 4 all his soonisitting. it's bizzy life. i used to say sumpthin' like "it's a noisy life." "noisy life" was the title'f a song from an ol' j.drama (japanese drama, as opposed to k.drama 4 korean drama) called long vacation. : sure, i could use a long vakation! pressure's built up @ werk. am i 2 bizzy w/ extra.curriculars? well, rt now, it's mostly church n' taekwondo. when the wedding season resumes, things could get worse. i live a full life, but i don't wanna burn out. i don't wanna crash n' burn.
neway, i took a paragraph that started out 'bout keno n' made it all 'bout beno. >:-( [later] on mon nite, kaela put the dishes in the dishwasher b4 goin' to sleep. i appreciate that. also, i'm very happy that so far this 0.25, she's made time to have lunch w/ me n' go to the gym w/ me. i respekt her 4 takin' a firm stand on a certain issue: ppl in church tend to think that the idea'f keepin' a fit body is only tied to vanity. they cm to think that christians don't need to concern themselves w/ fitness, that if u werkout in the gym it's only cos u'r out to check out n' pick up on members'f the opposite sex n' that u'r just obsessed w/ ur looks. kaela's been tryin' to get ppl @ our church simply to have a better attitude 2wards health n' fitness. it's great. we need to be better stewarsd'f the bodies in which god has placed each'f us! seriously! no more'f this stuffin' faces w/ pastries n' donuts cos it's simply part'f church culture. no more!
토요일 밤, 1142p: i boarded @ sugar bowl 4 the 3rd time this season. 'twas my 8th day'f boarding this season. i drove up w/ my cousin walter n' met up w/ ol' friends mostly from the cal taekwondo p.crew crowd or else absolute dragons dragonboating team. when i returned to my car, i found an innes sticker on my window above my santa cruz snowboards sticker. i told walter, since it looked nice n' was nicely placed, i didn't mind.
월요일 아침 wuhlyoil achim: my laptop's bein' fixed, so i'm typin' this passage on my cellfon. how r u? how was ur wknd? mine was ok. sat @ sugar bowl was great. sun morn @ the sunnyvale skate park was great. i spent sun afternoon gardening in our front yard w/ sooni. well, b4 gardening, i went to costco to buy roses n' dahlias. [later; now, from laptop, not fon] 오후 ohoo: the beautiful kaela hwang was @ yet another chiropraktic seminar this wknd. i s'ppose i should be thankful that 'least these seminars r local. yah, it's 1'f the benefits'f livin' rt smack in the heart'f silikon valley. we live very close to the santa clara convention center, various big hotels, n' the ubiquitous techmart bldg. hrm, that was kind'f incorrekt use'f the wurd "ubiquitous," or 'least misleading use'f the wurd, eh? i mean to say that the techmart bldg is frequently used 4 seminars n' classes. the santa clara convention center, the adjacent hyatt, the hilton, n' the marriott r all used frequently 4 conferences, classes, seminars, tournaments, pageants, mtgs, convetions, etc. the marquee shared by the convention center n' the hyatt had an odd sequence'f messages this wknd: "2007 school nutrition conference . . . chef says chicken wings and beer for superbowl xli." ha ha ha! the 4mer was advertising the conference. the latter was an ad to bring ppl into the hotels bar to watch the superbowl. ha ha ha! shoot, i should've videotaped that marquee n' posted it up on youtube! grrr!
yesterday morn, i dropped kaela off 4 her conference 'round 900a. then, i went to the sunnyvale skate park 4 ~1.5 hrs. then, i went to church @ grx. then, i picked kaela up to have lunch w/ some'f our friends from church: david, deb, gregory, susan, david n' deb's kid jonathan, n' deb's mom. we ate @ 만두랑 칼국수 mandoorang kalgooksoo. the nice 아줌마 ajoomma was there, not the mean 1. the nice 1 likes sooni n' has us bring sooni into the restaurant. the mean 1's snobby n' akts like she's 2 good to be serving us. i'm sure she's lived a pampered life n' somehow just got dragged into helping out @ that restaurant. neway, after lunch, i hastily dropped kaela back off @ her seminar n' went to costc to buy a few things: 2 2pacs'f roses, 1 bag'f deep red dahlia bulbs (11 plants), some duck jerky 4 sooni, some natural peanut butter cookies 4 sooni, a flat'f unenvironmental kirkland bottled hsubo (swirly tops), a box'f larabars (apparently, a colorado.based company, unlike berkeley based clif bar n' powerbar.), some trumpet shrooms (locally grown), 2 bags'f 8 cali4nian avocados ($4.99/bag), a 4.box pack'f la vache qui rit (laffin' cow) light spreadable cheese... nethin' else? i don't think so. [later] oh yah, i did buy sumpthin' else: nature's path organik oatmeal: a big box'f li'l packets. nethin' else? yah, i don't think so. [later] then i drove home n' planted the flowers. after that, i started watching the devil wears prada, but then kaela called me @ some time btwn 630p n' 700p to pick her up from her seminar. originally, we were gonna take duk out to dinner 4 watchin' sooni, but he cancelled on us. instead, i brought kaela to kampai house to celebrate our 3.5 anniversary n' use a restaurant.com dining certificate. we had: wild orchid (shroom salad w/ pine nuts n' toasted garlic), k.h.c. (chicken skewers w/ asparagus), black n' blue (beef n' eggplant), hotate nigiri, ebi nigiri, "asian ice cream" (more like an asian sundae - vanilla aisukuriimu w/ red bean paste, condensed milk, a sliced up strawberry, n ' a sprig'f mint), n' many pots'f green tea. when i paid, the polite waitress told me i had to order $50'f fud to use my $25 restaurant.com
certificate, so we ordered a tsunami caliente roll to go. kaela was mad @ me cos she didn't like my selektion'f roses. *sigh* it wasn't pretty frustrating cos i'd spent so much time n' energy plantin'em. *sigh*
now 4 a bunch'f skateboarding articles that u don't care 'bout but i do:
"extreme success", a santa cruz metro article 'bout nhs, inc., the parent company'f santa cruz skateboards, santa cruz snowboards, independent trucks, ricta wheels, krux trucks, mob grip, nor*cal clothing, etc.
"flip skateboards dissected" - flip skateboards's 'pparently a british company. i didn't know that. some memorable quotes:
- "Why does a skateboarder care where a skateboard is laminated, as long as it's made of the correct materials? If it's made in the U.S., it's made by Mexicans. If it's made in China, it's made by Chinese. If it's made in Mexico, it's made by Mexicans. Where is the issue?" - boo!!!! >:- *thumb down* i wanna find out which skateboard manufakturers make their boards in the usa. i know indy trucks r made in the usa.
- "There has been a serious issue with contests probably for ten years in the U.S. Skateboarding has been wrongly allied with in-line skating, BMX, and all that garbage. It was very unattractive to the pros. They didn't even want to go to the events." - ooh, yah; i totally c his pt! skateboarding goes 'long w/ snowboarding n' surfing. it doesn't go 'long w/ bmx, mx, street luge, etc. well, maybe it shares more common connektions w/ street luge cos'f downhill skateboarding. downhill skateboarding kind'f like freeride snowboarding. :-/ hrm... n' i know inline skating has wheels, n' so does skateboarding... *sigh* neway, in my book, the boardsports belong 2gether, but i'm not into wakeboarding. i think the boardsports that don't associate w/ motorsports belong 2gether. i personally wouldn't mind cing skateboarding in the olympiks. i think snowboarding's doin' fine as an olympik sport... freestyle snowboarding, that is. i think boardercross n' the 0.5pipe r great snowboarding events, but i wish there were a slopestyle event in the olympiks.
"active halts sales Of blank skateboards"
- "In light of the recent outpouring of concern among skateboard manufacturers over the rise in popularity of blank and shop-branded skateboard decks, Active, California's largest skate retail chain, has reevaluated its hardgoods business model. . . Although Active Owner Shane Wallace says he always caters to consumer demand, he's willing to temporarily suspend the sale of blanks. . . While it's not exactly orthodox business to cease the sale of a product that's in demand, Wallace says his decision was based on ethics and his vision of sustaining a healthy market. 'I'm a Christian first, a businessman second, and I have to treat others the same way I would want to be treated,' says Wallace. 'ethics plays a big part in this decision. The $29.99 blank is a good portion of our skateboards sales. However, we're supporting a blank-board market that is spinning out of control.'" *ears perk up* kewl! more christians in the skateboarding world!
- "According to Wallace, the current production of super-cheap blanks in Asia will soon flood the market with commodity decks with prices lower than any skate shop can compete with. He says it's not a question of if, but when: 'The distribution on a blank skateboard is the demise of everyone that relies on selling only skateboards. Soon China will make these boards for a dollar and put them in Wal-Mart. That would totally hurt all of us. We have guys poaching our store parking lots, selling $19.99 blanks to kids on their way into our stores. It just feels wrong at this point. People will never remember Active for how much money we made. They will remember us for what he did to make a difference to positively impact our market.'" - as i sed earlier, yah, i wanna find out which skateboard companies manufakture in the usa n' support them. i especially wanna support bay area companies or 'least cali4nian companies, as u know... i guess, cali4nian companies often manufakture in china, so... more accurately, i wanna buy produkts produced in the usa by cali4nian companies. that sez it.
man, so i watched the devil wears prada. maybe u think i'd hate it cos it's a chick flick, but no! i really liked it. after all, i do really like fashion. 'member: when i'm depressed, sometimes goin' to sephora cheers me up cos i'm surrounded by so many diff colours. yah, that sounds a bit less than straight, but it's not like that, man. i like fashion. i don't like the terms "metro" n' "metrosexual" tho'. i don't really wanna be labeled as such. i guess lately, i've been dressin' down tho'. my wardrobe has been influenced a bunch by skateboarding n' snowboarding, so i don't look so "metro." however, aktually, lots'f my casual shirts r still kenny cole or br (banana republik), but they just look really casual. neway, i especially liked the devil wears prada cos it reminded me'f what it's like to werk in silly valley's semiconduktor industry, 'specially @ the biggest, most respekted company in its sektor. i kind'f stumbled 'pon my entrance into this great company. i didn't expekt it. i guess god really blessed me. however, i've felt weird @ times... i've felt "not worthy." when my company talks, ppl must listen. i feel kind'f weird sometimes havin' to be the mouthpiece. uh, u know what bunny suits r, rt? we wear bunny suits in the "cleanroom."
[later] juhnyuhk: this morn, i didn't take sooni on her usual morn walk. instead (poor her), i ditched her in the backyard w/ a plastic dish'f h2o. :-( then i took off to the sunnyvale skate park 4 a much needed early morn skate sesh (skateboarding session). i continued werkin' on the usuals: carvin' or kickturnin' frontside as well as backside, backside rear axle grinds, occasional frontside rear axle grinds, backside 50.50 axle stalls (in the medium bowl as well as the small bowl)... yah, i've been tryin' to do more in the medium bowl instead'f just the small bowl. it's often less crowded. i feel that ridin' the medium bowl's pretty good exercise cos i've gotta pump my legs. wow, come to think'f it, b4 i learned to drop in over copin', i used to ride the medium bowl more than the small bowl. i believe that this past wknd, i passed the 1 yr anniversary'f my return to skateboarding.
화요일 아침 hwayoil achim:: yesterday nite, i read on bronx's junkyard that korean pop singer 유니 u:nee hung herself in her dressing room. dude, that's really sad. it hasn't been 2 long since korean aktress 이은주 lee eunjoo killed herself. i think she jumped off a tall bldg; i 4get. neway, these r such tragik stories. :-( *sigh* 'twas sed that u:nee was really depressed that her latest mat'l wasn't very well received by the korean publik. she received harsh criticism on korean internet sites. *sigh* if only she knew how much fans @ bronx's junkyard liked her. in fakt, the day b4 yesterday, jerome (jet) had posted up an article on her upcoming album release as the front page article. then the next article was the announcement'f her suicide. dude, that's sooo sad. i dunno if it's true; but my feeling's that korean entertainers don't earn the megabu¢k$ that amerikan entertainers do. i think they make a very good living, but they rn't super, super, super rich. i think many'f them, even if they're pretty famous, simply maintain an upper middle class lifestyle. of course, i learned in sophomore yr hi skool social studies that most professional entertainers r teknically middle class n' not upper class cos they're still werkin' 4 their $$$. according to my teacher, u'r only upper class if u'r born into ur wealth. kaela asked why many korean entertainers disappear from the pop culture scene after they get married, n' i think it's cos they've earned 'nuff $$$ in their career 4 'least a com4table living n' rn't greedy 4 more. i think so. neway, wow... this suicide.... it's so sad that she hung herself cos i bet most ppl that do that like her don't hang themselves the way executioners hang some1. i think executioners hang ppl in such a way that their necks brk immediately n' then they die rt 'way. on the other hand, i ppl like u:nee who hang themselves end up slowly strangling themselves. *sigh* i think it's really sad.
neway, last nite, i went to the 24 hr fitness hip hop dance class, expekting to meet up w/ the beautiful kaela hwang n' our friends elaine n' darrell. in the end, i saw none'f them n' did the hip hop dance class all by myself. yah, that felt a li'l odd ('specially since the class's mostly gurls), but eh... afterwards, i came home, met w/ kaela, hurriedly changed back into my normal clothes (out'f my gym clothes) n' went w/ kaela to 시골집 shigoljip to meet up w/ duk to treat him to dinner to pay him back 4 all the soonisitting he did this past winter. we ordered 흑염소 전골 heukyuhmso juhngol n' 매운 가자미 조림 maeoon gajami jorim. the 아줌마 ajoomma also gave us an order'f 파전 pajuhn as "서비스 suhbiseu (service)" (on the house).
yesterday, i went to the sunnyvale skate park 4 a good, morn skate sesh (skateboarding session). 2day, i wanted to go 'gain but didn't. i simply took sooni 'round the neighbourhood on skateboard. 'least i ollied up those 2 curbs ok.
[later] *ohoo*: i'm 'f course havin' such a freakin' bizzy day. i ate a veggie wrap from the werk.com cafeteria in my cube 4 lunch. oh yah, i didn't mention that kaela n' i ate lunch @ java coffee town on el caminio real, near bowers, in the moonlite plaza yesterday 4 lunch. java town's a korean café that sells sandwiches. we went there cos we had a ¢oupon. aktually, we have a ¢oupon book 4 that plaza n' wanted to go to kabab korner in that same bldg, but 'tis closed on mons (mondays). thus, we used the buy 1 get 1 0.5 off ¢oupon 4 java town. java town used to be java city. i don't quite understand what's up. aktually, i just checked out the java city website (javacity.com) n' learned that java city has locations in only 3 countries: usa, ireland, n' south korea. interesting... however, i saw no mention'f java town on the java city website. u c, it's weird cos the signs @ that café say java town; but the posters, cups, java jackets, etc. all say java city. what's up? -- java town: 2792 el camino real; santa clara, ca 95051; fon: 408.244.9157
i'm still all hyped/stoked 'bout this transworld business magazine website that covers news on the boardsport industries. wow. check out this article: "Sessions To Incorporate d30 Tech in 2007/08 Line." it's 'bout a viscous mat'l that sessions can put into clothes (like snowboarding jackets) that'll pad u when u crash. kewl! this makes mechanical engring fun, eh?
[later] *juhnyuhk*: $hopping list
- tp (teepee = toilet paper)
- 우유 ooyoo (ooyoo = milk; 4 cereal n' oatmeal)
- kefir or yoghurt
- bread (only if there's sumpthin' good, i guess; to go w/ our jar'f trader joe's almond butter)
- convenient but healthy meals 4 quick dinners on nite when we've got stuff to do
- (if i go to trader joe's) trail mix
- 식초 shikcho (shikcho = vinegar; to replace the very ol', expired bottle we have in the cabinet)
수요일 아침: so i think i'm gonna stick w/ my palm tungsten t5 4 now. i believe that i can purchse the $49.95 extended warranty on my recently refurbished unit. dude... i've given palm sooo much frickin' $$$. do they appreciate me?! *shrug* our friend from grx sunny werks in finance @ palm. also, this other dude i knew from *grx*'s community connektions (summer 2006) insung werks as an engr there. i lost touch w/ him n' wonder if he's 'round nemore, but... *shrug* neway, dude... i wish palm'd show me some more appreciation. *shake head*
this morn, i really wanted to hit up the sunnyvale skate park but didn't. instead, i took sooni 4 an extended walk 'round the neighbourhood on skateboard. i told myself it's good 4 me to werk on my "streetskating" neway. when i skateboard w/ sooni, i get to ollie up curbs here n' there. i don't think u can really call that "streetskating" cos i'm not ollieing off staircases, sliding down handrails, or polejamming up dented vehicle.blocking guard poles. i wish. i could do that kind'f stuff. if only i were as good as streetskating pros like jerry hsu, eric koston, or daewon song.
목요일 오후: ah (*breathe*), how r u? man, what a hektic life. i've got so much stuff_to_do@werk.com these days. my palm tungsten t5's broken 'gain. *sigh* i'm gonna hafta send it rt back in 4 repair; but palm's s'pposedly pickin' up the bill 4 $hipping. ok, that's a relief. it'd suck if they made me pay 4 $hipping yet 'gain. palm, w/ their tungsten line; they've got a great produkt, but they just can't market quite rt, if u ask me. all their marketing effort... they cm to be puttin' all their marketing effort into the treo line... which is good, but not what i want... n' not what some other geeky tech types want. i mean, really geeky, tech types!
this morn, i skateboarded w/ sooni. i did go 4 more'f an extended ride/walk w/ her. i wanted to hit up the sunnyvale skate park but knew she really wanted a walk. sometimes, tho', she's so difficult. i hate when she pulls me 'cross the street (me on my skateboard) n' then makes me bail rt b4 i ollie up the curb. aktually, 2day, i fell 1nce just rolling up the wheelchair ramp part'f the curb's corner. *sigh* i dunno why that happens. skateboard wheels r smaller n' harder than they used to be. when i was a kid, i could ride 60mm, 92a wheels r roll over lots'f junk... even more so on 60mm, 88a wheels. did i ever have wheels that soft? i don't think so; did i? my 1st wheels were 97a slime balls, rt? then i had 92a bullets, rt? what's crazy's that they re.released those bullets as classik/vintage or what'ever, so i could aktually get 'nother set'f those now... not that i would: i'm a li'l ol' skool, but not that ol' skool! i still wanna ride a twin tip style board, ~7.75" wide, etc. [later] i'm not ready to go back to hammerhead boards r nething... even tho' my 1st real skateboard deck was a christian hosoi hammerhead deck.
neway, since the beautiful kaela hwang was 2 bizzy to have lunch w/ me 2day, i took off to the sunnyvale skate park during my lunchbrk 4 a good skate sesh (skateboarding session). man, the last 2 times i had lunchtime skate seshes, tho'; :-/ i aktually skated sans pads/helmet. that's bad. however, i showed up n' no1 was wearing pads or helmet, so... *sigh* it sounds really juvenile, but i pretty much gave in to peer pressure. boooo! dude, i can't get hurt during lunchbrk; i'd be in so much trouble. *sigh* well, i just took it kind'f easy, n' i didn't plan on a long skate sesh. i mostly rode the curbs but also skated the small n' medium bowls. i like skateboarding; i like snowboarding. it was getting kind'f warm under the sun. i went back to my office, got a small salad bar n' ate 2 my desk.
this wknd, i've been invited to 3 diff snow trips, but i dunno if i'm gonna go to ne'f'em. i'm really not sure. u c, kaela can't wear contakts this wk. i went w/o her last sat, so i'd feel bad 'bout goin' w/o her this sat. i have 2 sets'f friends doin' wknd trips: 1 to north tahoe, the other to south tahoe. me, i'd only do a daytrip on sat, n' only if i have passengers. kaela sed she might go n' ride w/ glasses under her goggles, but she's not sure. oh yah, i have those 2 trips, n' my cousin walter's also plannin' on goin' to sugar bowl on sat. that's 3 trips. i dunno what to do: sugar bowl, northstar, sierra, or just hang 'round the ol' silly valley n' skateboard @ the sunnyvale skate park. i learned that boreal has an indoor skate park @ their resort! it costs $5/hr to ride there. dude, i'd love to check it out. i dunno if i'm good 'nuff'f a skater to skate there tho'. furthermore, 'f course no1'd skate w/ me.
금요일 아침: how r u? it's fri. it's the end'f the fiscal 0.25 4 me. it's almost the end'f 1월 jan(uary) 4 all'f us. dude, i've gotta finalise my list'f new yr's resolution b4 the end'f the month. what've i got so far?
- i resolve to keep my sideburns short n' groomed.
- i resolve not to get drunk.
- i resolve to fulfill my grx unstoppable pledge (monetary donation; a 3.yr commitment).
what else? i've considered resolvin' sumpthin' 'bout weightliftin' more often. also, i've pondered resolvin' sumpthin' 'bout eatin' less sugar n' maybe less land animal meat or non.organik or non.local fud. :-/ i dunno. whadya think?
last nite, the beautiful kaela hwang n' i went to taekwondo praktice @ u.s. taekwondo akademy (not the new url / domain name, ustaekwondo-academy.com): 1st we went to our black belt sparring praktice, n' then we adminstered the 심사 shimsa (belt test) 4 the adult beginners (white, yellow, n' orange belts). after that, we went w/ the adult beginner class n' fellow instruktors to 고향산천 gohyangsanchun. we ate some good fud: 해물 파전, 오.불.당, 순대붂음, 오댕국, 떡볶이, ... haemool pajuhn, oh.bool.dang (ohjinguh boolgogi tang... 4 some reason 탕 tang turns to 당 dang, i dunno why), soondae bokkeum, odaenggook, dduhkbokki, ... wow, i stuffed myself. the fud was so good. i had this strange incident afterwards, where this middle.aged woman (our friends estimate that she was 'bout 50) was kind'f hittin' on me or sumpthin'. she looked pretty drunk. 1st, she was talkin' to me 'bout sooni. uh, weird... *shrug*
this morn, i wanted to hit up the sunnyvale skate park, particularly cos i heard it might rain this afternoon. well, shoot... even if it doesn't rain, i can't pull off a lunchtime skate sesh 2day cos i've got a chiropraktic apptmnt w/ kaela.
[later] 오후: ah, it is fri 2day. i've been a bit more hi_strung@werk.com lately cos i've had plenty, plenty, plenty'f werk to do. it's hard to realise that 2day's aktually fri. i keep thinkin' it's just a tease. after all, i've got lots'f stuff due @ the beginning'f next wk, n'... *sigh* it's scary n' stressful. neway... *sigh*
i went to my chiropraktic appt w/ kaela @ her benton clinik. then we went to lunch @ kabab & curry's (1498 isabella st, between lincoln n' scott, "behind new holiday inn [sic, according to their bizness card]"; santa clara, ca 95050.) it's a buffet. we ate plenty. their bbq chicken rocks. it's a got a great smokey taste!
[later] here's 'nother kewl link that i'm stealing from superdave kim's starkdavingmad.com: 50 fun facts about credit cards (http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/50-fun-facts-about-credit-cards.html).
일요일 밤 / 월요일 오전, 1207a: the bay area needs an indoor skate park. dude, i'm so bummed that i skipped snowboarding this wknd. originally, i told myself that i wouldn't feel 2 bad if i missed snowboarding this wknd cos i'd just hit up the sunnyvale skate park 4 some extended skate seshes (skateboarding sessions). however, (much to my chagrin), it rained all wknd down here! *sigh* lookin' online on skateboardpark.com, i learned that the closest indoor skate park's in frickin' petaluma! >:-( grrr! i can hardly believe i missed the whole era'f the vans skate park in milpitas's great mall. *sigh* on sat, i drove the beautiful kaela hwang to a home bizness party (tupperware, mary kay, homemade jewelry, etc.) @ our friends hannah n' eric's house. after dropping her off, i swung by the campbell skate park to check it out. it was wet from the rain n' thus closed. however, i got a good look @ it. it's not nearly a good as the sunnyvale skate park, but i wouldn't mind checkin' it out 4 real sometime.
아친: argh, it's monday, n' it feels like monday. this wknd? *sigh* it was an unusually lazy wknd. kaela n' i didn't do much: we didn't go to tahoe. i didn't even make it to the sunnyvale skate park. in a way 'twas a disappointment. 4 most'f the wknd, i was simply stressed, stressed, stressed 'bout my job. i didn't like that. i don't like stressin' 'bout my werk over the wknd. in fakt, i really hated that feeling this wknd. i'm a bit unhappy w/ how this wknd went. i dunno. there were still fun things: 1) we went bowling on fri evening w/ our grx t3 light couple bible study small group. 2) on sat nite, we went to our friend tony's place to eat hot pot. we don't eat hot pot much. some chinese n' taiwanese ppl r sooo into hot pot, but me? i haven't been that much into hot pot over the yrs. if nething, it's only been sumpthin' i do w/ my family, not so much w/ friends... unless we go out to do it, like @ hot pot city. shoot, that may've been the very 1st time i did hot pot @ a friend's place; i'm not sure. crazy, huh?
[later] ugh! it really feels like monday. :'-( sorry, i'm really not havin' the greatest day.
밤, 953p: so what's up? i had a freakin' exhausting day. i ate a werk.com cafeteria lunch in my cubicle, but it was decently good: seared, rare, black n' white sesame crusted ahi tuna w/ basmati rice n' stir.fried asian veggies. not bad. after werk, i went to sach's turbo kick box (tkb) class @ the east arques 24 hour fitness cos i definitely could not make it out the door to the 24groove hip.hop dance class that kaela went to.
oh yah, in the parking lot 2day, i saw a dude i recognised. quickly, i recognised him as the dude i saw last wk during my lunchtime skate sesh (skateboarding session) @ the sunnyvale skate park. quickly, i looked down @ his shoes, n' sure 'nuff he was wearing red converse hi.tops, a popular choice 'mongst ol' skool skaters. neway, i didn't get a chance to talk to him or nething. maybe if i c him 'gain @ the sunnyvale skate park, i'll talk to him. crazy tho'.
well, on fri nite, kaela n' i went bowling w/ our small group. it was really fun. we played 2 games. afterwards, we went to café aroma. that's a kick@$$ place. neway, kaela n' i didn't eat dinner, so we aktually got take.out from pho hoa n' ate it @ café aroma. the dude told us not to bring in outside fud 'gain. well... i aktually didn't really wanna patronise pho hoa. they rn't really nice there. [a li'l later, 1008p, watching simpsons] i did buy a 녹차 nokcha green tea frap.
on sat, i woke up late. 'twas raining. man... the bay area needs an indoor skate park. i talked 'bout sat n' sun, didn't i? we ran several errands, kaela n' i. on sun, afer grx's 1st service, kaela n' i went w/ my mom to lunch @ 비눵 biwuhn (sekret garden). we ordered 화덮밥, 알찌개, n' 갈비찜 - hwedupbab, aljjigae, n' galbijjim. 'twas a good lunch. afterwards, kaela n' i hung out @ 차생원 chasaengwuhn, a tea house on el camino real. 'twas pretty good. i had 감잎차 gamipcha (persimmon leaf tea). kaela had 장미차 jangmicha (rose tea). we shared an order'f 과일 빙수 gwailbingsoo (fruit shaved ice). it was pretty good.
화요일 아침: there's no better way to kick off my entry this morn than to steal yet 'nother link from superdave kim's starkdaving mad: "unhappy meals" (from the new york times).
[later] 오후: this morn, i sacrificed sooni's morn walk 4 a (most) excellent morn skate sesh (skateboarding session) @ the sunnyvale skate park. what made it so "most excellent"? yah, i dunno; i guess 'twasn't really "most excellent." i just wanted to use that phrase from the late 1980s or whenever bill & ted's most excellent adventure came out. there's this 1 dude on nbc's heroes that talks like he took akting classes from keanu reeves. ha ha ha! r u followin' that show? i'm not really, but i like it better than some'f the other shows that r out these days:
hyped up shows i'm kewl w/:
- lost
- heroes
- america's next top model
- beauty and the geek
- the biggest loser
- law & order (not that hyped up)
hyped up shows i'm not kewl w/:
- desperate housewives
- grey's anatomy
- er
i really don't watch much tv. i've aktually never cn an episode'f this season's beauty and the geek. in fakt, i don't think i've ever watched a whole episode'f lost, have i? however, they cm like decent shows.
[later] so this morn, i had a decent but rushed skate sesh (skateboarding session) @ the sunnyvale skate park. i was in such a frickin' hurry cos i woke up later than i had expekted. there was this huge traffik jam on lawrence expwy cos the stoplites @ the lawrence expwy / arques ave intersektion were out. that's where i turn 4 werk n' where i turn 4 the sunnyvale skate park. i rode n' got good exercise. i just did my usual: mostly backside rear axle grinds, a few frontside rear axle grinds, backside 50.50 axle stalls, whate'er li'l grinds on the ledges n' curbs. i wish i could ollie higher, n' i wish i could ollie out'f the bowls like so many guys n' gurls can do. why can't i pop out'f the bowls?
so i was reading an article online that referenced the "greer skate park" in palo alto: "new sunnyvale skate park offers alternative" (paly voice, 2003년06월03일, http://voice.paly.net/view_story.php?id=892). "Many Palo Altans ask why the skaters don't go to the Greer Skate Bowl. Callone says that it is out of date; the bowl favors the flowing surf-like style of the 1980s in which people used long boards; now there is a new style of skating." hrm, well, since i can't do a switchstance hard flip to frontside boardslide to save my life, maybe the greer skate park'd be a good place 4 me. :-? of course, man... being "all 'bout local grown," maybe i prefer to skate @ the skate park that's closest to me... however, that'd be the santa clara skate park... which i do wanna try out, but they're only open in the afternoon. here's a link to a better page 'bout the geer skate park: greer skate park; palo alto, california (http://www.skateboardpark.com/skateboardpark/viewpark.asp?ID=288). there r 2 sites that pop up 'lot when i google up skateboard parks:
- skateboardpark.com
- skateboardparks.com
i prefer skateboardpark.com (singular). i think it's a better site. hrm... funny. :-? the greer skateboard park's bowls don't have coping. so u can't grind, u really can only do surf.style carving. :-/ as much as i'm guy who can do a switchstance pop shove it to nose grind to save my life, i dunno if i really wanna travel "all the way" to palo alto, into nasty stanfurd territory (the 650) just to ride 1970s, surf.style bowl w/o coping to grind. i can't do fancy grinds, but i still like to grind. in a way, i think the way i skate the skate park these days is the skateboarding equivalent to snowboarding's freeriding. i'm not doing fancy tricks, but i'm still tryin' to do some stuff like grinding n' ollieing. it's like how snowboarding freeriders mostly just ride fast, carve, n' catch big airs w/o doing really fancy tricks. oftentimes, i'm a freerider when i'm snowboarding, but i always prefer to be a freestyle snowboarder. this season's not great 4 freeriding n' better 4 freestyle. i saw a glimpse on youtube'f the 2007 winter x.games slopestyle event. man, the 1st park feature was a big jump where u land on either a handrail or box. crazy. it was a big jump. most guys landed in a frontside boardslide, which i figure's harder than a backside boardslide. personally, i'd prefer to face the direktion i'm goin' while boardsliding. however, in most cases, i'm just 50.50in' the rail or box. i'd like to start doin' backside boardslides more often. i've gotta 'member not to go on my edge n' slide out. so, while lookin' @ skateboardpark.com
, i saw that peninsula covenant church (pcc) has sumpthin' called skate church. dude! not only am i excited (stoked) to hear 'bout skate church, but pcc is a covenant church, so it's in my denomination, which means it's slightly more likely that i'd ever get a chance to go there. i'd surely like to go someday, but i dunno when.
so the beautiful kaela hwang was s'pposed to get lasik 2day, but she didn't realise till last nite that 2day was s'pposed to be just an exam n' not the aktual surgery. d.oh! i'd already told my manager that i needed the afternoon off to take my wife in 4 eye surgery. *sigh* well, i needed the time to finish all this freakin' werk i've got these days, so i didn't take the afternoon off. aktually, she still believed this morn that she was goin' in 4 aktual surgery. 'twasn't until just an hr b4 the appt that she totally confirmed that it was just an exam, so i was ready to take the afternoon off until rt 'bout noon 2day. it was frustratin' cos i didn't dress rt 4 werk 2day cos i thought i was just goin' in 4 a li'l bit. well, durin' lunch, i went home, ate some stuff, washed dishes, changed into a collared polo shirt, put sooni out in the bakcyard, n' went back to werk.
[later] 밤, 1057p: i went to 태권도 연습 taekwondo yuhnseub (praktice). kaela didn't go cos'f some skool thing. i took sooni. after praktice, 사범님 sabuhmnim took us out to dinner @ 구이구이 gooyi gooyi(2331 el camino real; santa clara, ca 95050; 408.615.9292 - "9 2 9 2" = "goo yi goo yi"). i told dennis that kaela'd kill me 4 goin' there w/o her, n' i was rt. i tried to reach her n' left her a txt msg, but... *sigh* neway, u know what's funny? we had 'nother 1'f those experiences that prove that sooni's so famous! the waitress asked us (in korean), "that isn't sooni, is it?" ha ha ha! crazy! when we asked her how she knew sooni, she sed that she met sooni outside'f 서울 곰탕 seoul gomtang (3028 el camino real; santa clara, ca 95051; 408.615.0370).
[later] a couple'f links'f my own:
- stolenidsearch.com
- "top 5ive items to always buy generic" (bad grammar by smartmoney.com... split infinitive!)
1. produce
2. coupon.scarce goods
3. over.the.counter medications
4. canned fruits n' veggies
5. pantry staples
수요일 아침: dude, is it the last day'f 1월 janvier already?! 1월이 벌써 끝나요? hrm, wasn't i s'pposed to finalise my new yr's resolutinos by 2day? *sigh* well, heck; i've got waaaa 2 much werk werk (werk.com werk) 2 do to think 'bout new yr's resolutions. *sigh*
this morn, i awoke early (or 'least on time cos i was havin' a bad, bad dream. it was pretty disturbing. it involved my being "2 nice'f a guy," but then i got really violent n' started beating up some ppl. i woke up all sweatty. *sigh* i worry 'bout being passive aggressive. [later] neway, i groggily ate a bowl'f flax n' oats oatmeal (from nature's path, a big costco box'f nature's path oatmeal i bought a li'l while 'go...) n' then took sooni 4 a walk on skateboard. then i gathered my stuff 4 werk, saw the beautiful kaela hwang off to skool, n' then hit up the sunnyvale skate park 4 'nother great morn skate sesh (morning skateboarding session). the park was luckily not crowded yesterday or 2day. yesterday n' 2day, there were these 2 chicano dudes there, 1'f which i c pretty often. [later] yesterday n' 2day there were also a few other ppl. yesterdasy, there as that dude larry, n' then there was this kind'f odd gurl. she got there 'bout the same time i did. as a common courtesy, i sed hi or good morn to her, but suprisingly, she immediately replied w/ "what's ur name?" instead'f "hi" or "good morning." *shrug* i guess she was just friendly, but it was kind'f like i was being interrogated. i felt like i was in trouble n' was gonna get a traffik tic or sumpthin'. i told her my name's beno, n' figured i ought to ask her name in return: 1) maybe it's courteous n' 2) if i was being interrogated, wasn't it only fair? so she sed her name's jen. ok. well, not to be unfriendly or nething, but i kind'f avoided talkin' to her the rest'f the morn cos i had "serious bizness" to take care'f, ie i came to skate not to hang out. neway, larry spent a decent 'mount'f time conversing w/ her, so i didn't feel like i was making the place 2 less friendly, rt? *shrug* well, 2day when i got to the sunnyvale skate park, there were these 2 young dudes there n' a few older dudes, 1 who drove a big delivery truck w/ some sign 'bout solar panels. i guess 1'f them installs solar panels 4 a livin'. 2day n' yesterday, i felt kind'f weird padding up cos every1 else there had that "pads rn't kewl" aura. whate'er, dude. neway, uh... when 1'f the younger heavy metal dudes 2day accidentally crossed my path, i think he sed, "sorry, sir." whoa! i'm "sir?" ok. well, 2day, i mostly rode the bowls n' mostly werked on frontside grinds n' backside axle stalls. 'gain, it felt like such good exercise... all this pumpin' n' jumpin'.
[later] 오후: here r some 4tune cookie 4tunes that i'm 'bout to throw into the recyclin' bin:
- "stop worrying and take a chance."; lucky numbers 11, 25, 38, 15, 44, 7; learn chinese - medical doctor = hai-zi
- "spectacular accomplishment is never preceded by less than spectacular preparation."; lucky numbers: 38, 50, 22, 13, 47, 9; learn chinese - delicious = hao-chi
- "careful thinking will command respect."; lucky numbers: 44, 5, 38, 4, 11, 10; learn chinese - duck = ya-zi
- "creative energy is up - capitalize on it."; lucky numbers: 16, 34, 15, 25, 28, 4; learn chinese - automobile = qi-che
[later] 1월 janvier ends 2day, n' days only continue to get longer. isn't life crazy? time flows! 세월 유수. seiwuhl yoosoo. time really does fly. i'm gonna turn 32 this yr. *sigh* time really does fly. when was it that kaela n' i went down to socal n' watched that kpop concert? that was aktually 2005년 not 2006년, huh? rt? if so, crazy! man, i feel i've changed so much over the yrs, but i stay the same. my life continues to be very cyclical. like, i can barely believe that i find myself smack dab in the middle'f the whole skateboarding scene (or whate'er u call it) rt now. then 'gain, it makes perfekt sense cos my life's always very cyclical.
금요일 아침: it's fri. *sigh* i'm glad it's fri, but i've got lots'f cr@p to finish@werk.com b4 i go home. in fakt, simply btwn now n' the afternoon, i've got lots'f cr@p to do. *sigh* i went to the sunnyvale skate park 4 quick skate seshes both yesterday n' 2day. did i skate every single wkday morn this wk? :-? i think so. i've been doin' my usual, but the big thing's been that 1) i mostly rode the bowls ("vert") this wk (as 'pposed to ridin' the curbs n' ledges, ie streetstyle) n' 2) i've been tryin' to werk on frontside grinds (fs grinds) in the bowl (in the small bowl). in the medium bowl, i'll do lots'f frontside kickturnin', but i don't really ride the coping frontside yet.
an interesting thing happened this morn @ the sunnyvale skate park. i noticed a young dude teaching this european yuppie guy how to drop in in the small bowl. i wasn't sure if they were friends, family friends, relatives... the european yuppie ended up drivin' off in a mercedes suv. nuthin' wrong w/ that... i'm personally all 4 gettin' more yuppies into (back into) skateboarding. it's as if it's time 4 my generation to take back our sport or sumpthin'. ha ha ha! neway, after the euroyuppie left, the young dude came up n' introduced himself to me n' gave me a flyer. 'pparently, his name's josh, n' he's selling skateboarding lessons. honestly, i think this ain't a 0.5 bad idea. lemme show u the txt'f his flyer:
i found out 2day, that i can get 40% off the seth huot snowboard deck that i want @ porter's boardshop... even online w/ free ups $hipping. dude, it's so tempting! the board that has a list price'f $479 goes down to $287.99!!! to use my special di$count, i've gotta buy the deck by 2007년02월06일. when's that? 2morrow's the 3rd, sun's the 4th, mon's the 5th, so i guess next tues's the 6th. crazy! should i do it? <:-? the prob's just that there ain't 'nuff snow this season to ride a new deck. i'm so worried 'bout scratchin' it up as soon as i get it.
일요일 밤 1129p: this wknd, i went snowboarding on sat n' skated @ 2 diff skate parks on sun! woo hoo! yah, on sat, the beautiful kaela hwang made a day trip to kirkwood. on sun, i went to the sunnyvale skate park b4 church @ grx. then, in the afternoon, after oiling/lubin' my bearings; i went to the santa clara skate park 4 my 1st time. *sigh* i think i really need some new bearings, n' i'd like to buy that santa curz seth huot deck.
월요일 아침: this morn, i aktually rather purosefully skipped my usual morn skate sesh (skateboarding session) @ the sunnyvale skate park. my body's honestly a bit tired from all the exercise, all the boardsporting (all the skateboarding n' snowboarding) i did this past wknd. i think i figured i needed to let it rest. furthermore, i had a bad stomachache from my spicy catifsh @ krung thai #1 last nite. even furthermore, i have lots'f cr@p to do 2day, so i didn't wanna delay. i went to my office earlier than usual.
[just a li'l later] last_wk_@_werk.com (i think 'twas last wk), i got as a hand.me.down from my cowerker, a 3dconnexion spaceball 5000. it's really kewl.
[a li'l later] it's not rainin' 2day, but it'll s'pposedly start rainin' on wed n' maybe continue rainin' thru the wknd. ugh, wknds when i'm not snowboarding, i wanna be skateboarding; but i can't skateboard in the rain. *sigh* oh, how i wish the vans skate park still existed in the great mall. :-( i like rain cos it translates into snow in tahoe; but i don't like rain cos it means i can't skateboard down here. also, sooni doesn't like rain cos it means she can't play outside. i s'ppose, when it rains, i can do gym werkouts. *sigh* i've been needin' new x.training shoes 4 a while now.
i "need" all sorts'f new hardware:
- santa cruz seth huot pro model deck, 157 cm
- bones swiss 6 competition skateboard bearings
- new crosstrainer shoes
- new taekwondo instep pads, arm pads, n' shoes
- independent 129 low eric koston trucks
- ricta boltz white lightning tom penny wheels, 52mm
- santa cruz powerlyte rob welsh "branded" deck, 7.75" wide × 31.4" long (old model, ie 2005~2006... i think i prefer the ol' graphics over the new cos they're more subtle.)
- a pair'f new denon dj cd turntables n' a new denon dj mixer
aktually, yesterday, i spent a bit on myself: the beautiful kaela hwang n' i were @ westfield's valley fair mall, which straddles san josé n' santa clara (as u undoubtedly know). we went mostly to $hop 4 a friend's b.day present. however, kaela bought a box'f aveda tea 4 us, n' i bought some shirts 4 myself. macy's was havin' a pretty good clearance $ale'f spring clothes from last yr. i scored myself a paul frank, short sleeve button up shirt 4 really ¢heap n' a fashionable matix t.shirt also 4 really ¢heap. i know matix's a skateboard.related company, but what exaktly do they make? just clothes? ok, here's their wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matix. yah, they're just 'nother skateboarding/snowboarding/surfing/boardsports clothing company. ah, they sponsor daewon song. that's kewl. daewon song n' rodney mullen; kewl. their official website: ... i wonder where they're located cos u know i always wanna support local
companies, nor*cal companies. i bet they're yet 'nother oceanside, ca company; but i dunno. neway, after the mall closed, we had some time to kill b4 dinner w/ kaela's recently engaged skoolmates rachel n' ken @ krung thai #1, so i drove us over to rasputin musik on bascom ave. there, i bought 3 used cds: for the masses a tribute album'f depeche mode covers from 1998; relient k's the anatomy of the tongue in cheek; n' hawk nelson's smile, it's the end of the world.
[later] i think 2day, 02월05일, 's the b.day'f an ol', good friend from whom i haven't heard in a very, very long time. hrm... i can't quite 'member if it was jack, jeff, or both. *shrug* [later] i think it's jeff who has his b.day 2day. i think i'm just gettin' the 2 confused cos they both, @ 1tym or 'nother, lived in the same neighbourhood: it's called pierce ranch, rt? over by castillero middle skool. jack chen's the good ol' friend who gave me the "nickname," which became much more than a nickname, "beno." jeff picard was my best friend thru elementary skool n' was my skateboarding buddy thru middle skool n' the early part'f hi skool. hrm, it's very interesting how these 2 ol' friends aktually represent very diff corners'f my varied life. oh yah, jack was also the friend who 1st got me to start goin' to church. [later] jack was also worship team leader w/ me 4 our church's youth fellowship thru hi skool. i'd surely like to find jeff n' skate w/ him 'gain.
over the wknd, i kept thinkin, "wow, should i really plop down all that $$$ n' buy that santa cruz seth huot deck?" would it be more praktical (or 'least less impraktical) to use that $$$ 2wards upgrading my skateboarding equipment? i guess i was thinkin' that cos'f this season's lack'f snow: as i sed (or 'least implied in earlier entries), if i buy a new deck i might not even get to use it (ride it) this season cos i don't wanna scratch it up. however, if it starts precipitating this wk n' continues to precipitate; then maybe this season'll be redeemed. *sigh* i've gotta "have faith." "keepin' the faith..." 'member when those 2 songs were popular in the 1980s? billy joel's "keeping the faith" n' george michael's "faith." [later] neway, yah... especially since this season may finally be redeemed; maybe i should proceed w/ shellin' out that $$$ 4 that new santa cruz seth huot 157cm deck. :-/ i only have until 2morrow to snag that nice pri¢e. *sigh* on the other hand, i also think it'd be wise (well, i use that term very loosely) to proceed w/ getting some upgraded skateboard parts. in a way i still regret not investing more $$$ on my 1st "return to skateboarding" setup. i mean, i didn't realise i'd get sooo (back) into it. however, on the flip side my bullet wheels, my bullet trucks, n' my mini.logo deck have served me very well! obviously, i really like nhs boardsports produkts, but i also think skateone makes some decent produkts (mini.logo decks, bones bearings)...
[just a li'l later] yesterday was super bowl xli (41), chicago bears v. indianapolis colts; but i barely cared. if i absolutely had to choose btwn the 2 teams, i'd definitely choose da bears cos 1) i lived near chicago in naperville when i was 2~4, n' 2) bears... cal bears... neway, the colts won, but i barely saw ne'f the game. instead, kaela n' i took sooni w/ us to eat a late lunch @ daphne's greek café on west el camino real in sunnyvale. then we went to the mall, as i sed.
[later] 오후: i've been pondering this deal: $79 4 amazon prime gives u $50 amazon grocery certificate. i used amazon.com
[later] lately, i haven't had so much elektronik gadgetlust. i just wanna buy boadsports equipment, it cms. however, i saw that buy.com has a 500 gb, usb 2.0 drive (fantom drives titanium ii) 4 $169.95 - #20 mir = $149.95 w/ free budget $hipping. crazy!
[later] 저녁: *sigh* worn out... @~:-/ is that the rt smiley? i feel quite drained.
화요일 오후: i'm a li'l depressed this afternoon, but i won't dwell on it. 2day, i had a hurried lunch w/ the beautiful kaela hwang @ 갤러리아 프라자 (galleria plaza). kaela ordered 알 찌개 al jjigae, n' i ordered 돌솥 비빔밥 dolsot bibimbap. we also picked up a pack'f 김치 전 kimchi juhn. the fud was fine, but the situation was very frustrating: there weren't 'nuff tables; ppl were eatin' slow; n' the fud was comin' out slow. *sigh* some1 had put down a tray'f fud @ a table n' ditched it, n' that was occupying 1 table. i was in a hurry, n' so was kaela. kaela went to the restroom, while i waited 4 a table. when she returned, she laffed, n' sed i looked very mad. it's true; i was mad. i had staked out a table, but this ol' 아줌마 ajoomma basikally stole the table from me by sayin' "excuse me" n' putting her purse down on the table while the exiting couple was still gathering their stuff. >:-( i was just bein' a decent guy n' lettin' the exiting couple have their space but was obviously ready sit there next. i let her take the table cos i figure i hafta respekt elders. *sigh* well, eventually, we took the table that had the ditched tray'f fud. as we ate, some 아저씨 ajuhssi came by n' sort'f apologetikally took his tray n' relokated to 'nother table that had opened up; aktually a very nice table, as it gave a front row view'f the flat panel tv that was playin' mbc's 비밀 남녀 bimil namnyuh. i've been under sooo much pressure@werk.com. "it's not even funny," as ppl say. it's not. werk's killin' me. <:-( i feel so drained, so exhausted, so depleted. @ times, honestly, i feel that i've tried my best but am barely keepin' my head 'bove water @ best. to make matters worse, i feel ppl r in fakt being relatively nice n' accomodatin', yet i'm still strugglin' not lookin' good. thus, this afternoon, i feel a bit depressed.
this morn, woke up later than i wanted to. kaela had hurried out'f the house early, while i was still sleeping. i sacrificed sooni's morn walk to hit up the sunnyvale skate park 4 1 last skate sesh (skateboarding session) b4 the rain comes 2nite. however, the park was wet n' slippery in many places, so i didn't skate much. i mostly prakticed ollieing over the pyramid. i didn't wanna do much "vert" riding 4 fear'f slippin' out on vert. i was all by myself. i could feel how my bearings either have lots'f junk in'em or r damaged. i really wanna get a set'f nice, replacement bearings. however, which kind? i think i'll treat myself to a set'f swiss bones; but, 'gain, which kind? swiss super 6? swiss ceramic labyrinth? original swiss? swiss ceramic labyrinth bearings have a list pri¢e'f $120!!! most likely, i won't go w/ those, but i think i've cn some deals on them on ebay. otherwise, i figure i can get a decent deal on swiss super 6 bearings on amazon.com
, then 'least i'll be supportin' a local .com corporation, 4 which many'f my friends werk. sumpthin' feels n' sounds very wrong w/ my bearings. last time i cleaned them, they provided significantly improved per4mance. t his time, they feel worse. also, i'm missing a bearing washer. i need a washer 4 an 8mm shaft. last nite, i was surfin' the net (skatin' the net? snowboardin' the net?) 4 bearings n' stumbled upon a site that had "micro speed bearing washers" or sumpthin'.
[later] 2nite, the adult beginners class @ u.s. taekwondo akademy resumes. i've gotta be ready to teach. mark's not teachin' much this 0.25/session/term, so i've gotta do more werk. i think kaela'll teach more this term. i hope so. also, i figure jen'll continue to teach 'lot n' that ernest'll continue to teach. the wurd's out now that the u.s. army's sendin' dennis back to iraq soon. i wouldn't wanna stress him out w/ teaching duties. i just want him to make sure to come back alive.
[just a li'l later] last nite, kaela n' i went to the 24groove hip.hop dance class @ the fremont ave sunnyvale 24 hr fitness. 2wards the end'f every class, the teacher (i think she's the 1 that calls herself "j.no.") picks 2 students to be "team captains" 4 a dance off. last nite, i got picked, to my surprise. it was fun. there was this los gatos day spa place sellin' di$¢ massage vouchers, so kaela bought us a couple. i 4get the deal, but it sounded good.
man, it's hard (almost impossible) to believe i'm talkin' 'bout $pendin' all this $$$ on boardsports equipment when v.day's just 'round the corner. 'f course my wallet'll take a big hit cos'f that. *sigh* kaela's lasik plus operation's on feb 16, i think, rt? yup. neway, she sed we should celebrate v.day on the wknd after her operation. i agreed to that. aktually, we won't be havin' our grx t3 light couples bible study small grp that fri nite, so maybe we can go out that nite... or wait; maybe that's a bad idea.
on sun, @ grx (church), during service, we (in the congregation) tied these black strings 'round each others' wrists (bracelets) as reminders that we're committed to the church n' that we'll pray 4 each other n' support each other in this commitment, etc. i think the black string bracelets look kewl, but i guess they make me look even more like some teenage punk sk8rboi... it's like i have friendship bracelets. we each got up to 4 bracelets, n' i had 4 on, on sun; but 2 fell off on sun nite in bed. i still have 2. i wanna wear the other 2 as well. i'm thinkin'f somehow combinin' all 4 strings to make a sturdier, single bracelet: a "more robust design," as we mechanical engrs say. as i've resolved to keepin' my sideburns short n' groomed this yr; i've also pondered the idea'f simply cleanin' up my image n' lookin' more professional in general this yr. i dunno. 'xaktly what would that entail? on nbc 11, they're havin' a series'f sort'f "human interest story" segments entitled moving pictures. s'pposedly they dokument everyday life'f various ppl thru digipix they take thru.out the day. i dunno all the details, but they say they'll feature the ceo'f youtube or google. i'm confused as to which it is; but he's s'pposedly 26. when i c this 26.yr ol' dude on tv, i think he looks so much more mature than i do. *sigh* has it gotten to a pt that ppl can't take me seriously?! there's that pet shop boys song: "how can you expect to be taken seriously?"
what's wrong w/ lookin' young?! i avoid smokin', try not to drink 2 much alkohol, try not to drink 2 much caffeine, try to eat healthily, try not to get 2 much sun, try to take good care'f my skin, try to get a good 'mount'f exercise each wk... try not to stress. try to get 'nuff sleep. &nbasp; recently, on korean yahoo!, i saw a feature on this 1 40.yr ol' woman who managed to get herself into tip.top physikal shape. honestly she looks great. they call her "몸짱 아줌마." ("momjjang ajoomma" = hot body auntie.) her name's 정다연 jung dayuhn (jung dayeon). she cms to run a fitness company called 봄날 fitness (bomnal = spring day). honestly, in some'f her pix, she looks like she's in her 20s. however, i suspekt she's also had some plastik surgery. shoot, i wanna stay fit from now till i'm 40 n' beyond.
[later] oh yah... heh... here's sumpthin' that's definitely'f some interest to me: u know how it cms like my life's sometimes split btwn asian/korean culture n' cali4nian skateboarding/snowboarding culture? well, here's sumpthin' that kind'f bridges that gap...
[later] 저녁: oh yah, i 4got to mention... yesterday evening, i proceeded w/ buyin' that santa cruz seth huot 157cm deck. whew! crazy! well, it's gonna arrive 2morrow from porter's boardshop. crazy, crazy. well, maybe the next time i hit the slopes, i'll be ridin' this new deck! that sort'f depends on if there's 'nuff snow, huh? well, w/ the storm that's s'pposedly comin'... yah, i believe that i'll be ridin' this new deck the next time i hit the slopes. well, i've renewed my uh... *shrug* "devotion" to the santa cruz brand, i guess.
[later] "never underestimate my jesus. you tell me there's no hope. i'm telling you, you're wrong. never underestimate my jesus. when the world around you crumbles, he will be strong." - from "for the moments i feel faint" by relient k wow! n' that's 'xaktly how i've been feelin'... i've been feelin' faint, stressin' 'bout werk.
수요일 아침: i stayed up 2 late last nite, $hoppin' online 4 a new set'f skateboard bearings. well, shoot; this morn, i went 'head w/ my original plan to order a set'f bones super swiss 6 bearings from amazon.com
2day, ups'll deliver my new santa cruz seth huot 157cm snowboard deck. that's kewl. i'm a bit excited. is it rainin' yet? *shrug*
[later] 오후: durin' my lunchbrk, i gro¢ery $hopped @ 갤러리아 프라자 (galleria plaza) n' then went home to eat lunch n' wait 4 the ups delivery'f my snowboard. we had some pasta leftovers from mon nite, but i left those in the fridge n' opted to eat an avocado, since i bought 16'f'em @ ¢0$+&ecent;0 a couple'f wks 'go or so. i toasted a couple'f slices'f this multi.grain, organik bread from some li'l bakery somewhere in marin county. i put a 0.25'f an avocado n' a slice'f soy provolone btwn the 2 slices n' ate it while sittin' on the kitchen floor, thumbin' thru some ads from the sunday paper that we took from the driveway'f the vacant house next door. *sigh* that sure doesn't sound like a glamourous, yuppie life, eh? ha ha ha! *sigh* yah, it's kind'f scary how trashy we get in our house. if u only knew... well, the small sandwich obviously wasn't 'nuff, so i made guacamole w/ the rest'f the avocado n' ate it w/ some multi.grain, litely salted chips from trader joe's. oh yah, i also ate a leftover 김치 전 kimchi juhn (or 김치 부침 kimchi boochim) from yesterday's rather frustratin' lunch @ 갤러리아 프라자 (galleria plaza). well, my snowboard deck didn't come until after i left, n' i dilly.dallied 'round the house 4 a while, waitin' 4 the delivery. i tried to tidy up here n' there.
yesterday, i got a comment on my youtube acct re: the video i posted'f my snowboarding @ sugar bowl back in 2006년12월 dec 2006 - "beno at sugar bowl (snowboarding)", http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4o4d8WVYb0. dollabill17 wrote, "you are decent but it looks like ur style reminds me to much of skateboarding!" hrm, ok. well, i replied, "thanks 4 the feedback. yah, i skate as well as snowboard, so the 2 aktivities influence each other. i'll give a shot @ a style that's less skateboarding n' more snowboarding. we'll c." i'm a bit perplexed tho'. i think my skateboarding looks 2 much like snowboarding, not the other way 'round.
[later] on our last trip to kirkwood (on this past sat), i tried to do some backside boardslides. on the best attempt, i imagined i was on a skateboard, ollied n' turned frontside. i ended up landing @ like 45°, not quite 90°. i slid 4 a while @ that angle n' then slid off the side, w/ my board following its nose. yadadamean? it wasn't quite what i wanted to do but better than fallin' on my butt or on my face.
목요일 아침: *breath* life's a bit overwhelming these days, mostly cos'f werk.com. rt now, i'm tryin' to juggle werk, taekwonodo, n' church duties. honestly, that's less categories than usual cos in the spring, i'll have more weddings to dj; so it'll be werk, taekwondo, church duties, n' djing. however, i guess, to be fair, i'm really throwin' snowboarding into the mix; so it's werk, taewkondo, church duties, n' snowboarding. however... *sigh* to tell u the truth... boardsports (both snowboarding n' skateboarding) r hardly responsibilities but pure fun. :-/ however, can't i have a li'l fun sometimes? *sigh* taekwondo n' church shouldn't be obligations n' duties but also joyous aktivities, rt? how 'bout my gym werkouts? should i count those in this list? *sigh* neway, last nite, i was @ werk till a bit past 900p. it was the 1st 12+ hr werkday'f the yr. *sigh* werk's tuff these days. freakin' a! is it thurs already?! argh, altho' i ought to be thrilled that the werkwk's comin' to an end; in my industry... ugh, there r so many freakin' deadlines, so... *sigh*
[later] neway, last nite, i missed my usual gym werkout. when i finally came home, i found my new santa cruz seth huot 157 cm snowboard deck delivered by ups. woohoo! i was pretty excited. the idea'f switchin' from a 152 cm to a 157 cm deck does make me think. i mean... i'm s'pposed to ride a longer deck. however, i've always preferred short decks cos i figure they're lighter n' can spin faster. this longer deck should help me ride pow (powder) better n' also help me build up speed on flat areas, rt? i may need to carve more tho', i think. i may need to use more effort to carve 2. i dunno. w/ my current 152 cm gian simmen santa cruz snowboard deck, i can often ride w/ my base flat, w/o edges. i may need to use my edges more now. we'll c. i'm really curious.
[later] while @ my werk.com desk last nite, i got hungry n' ate a couple'f 4tune cookies that i left in my drawer last wk. i have 2 4tunes:
- "you have a natural grace and great consideration for others." "daily numbers 8 8 0 lotto six #s 40 28 35 46 10 36"
- "work hard, and you will become more wealthy." "daily numbers 3 7 9 lotto six #s 12 46 79 40 2 34"
hold up; wait up a minute! can my werk.com cafeteria hand out 4tune cookies w/ 4tunes that read "work hard, and you will become more wealthy????" i had gotten those 2 4tune cookies from my werk.com cafeteria! sometime last wk, i ordered the kung pao tofu @ lunch. i think 'twas fri; but i 4get. neway, dude... i s'ppose i'm not 1 to believe in 4tune cookie 4tunes.
last nite, i cooked some refrigerator package 수제비 soojeibi 4 dinner. we had a pretty late dinner, i guess. i tried to go to sleep early since i stayed up 2 late the nite b4 $hoppin' online 4 skateboard bearings. the beautiful kaela hwang fell asleep 'gain on the couch watchin' tv. she's done that a bunch this wk. it's bad. however, we're both wakin' up earlier cos'f that. :-/ still it's no good.
[later] i got an spam mail w/ an interesting subject line: "is progress and skill in martial arts up to the teacher or the student?" they sent it to my ucmap.org acct, so wow... these spammers r clever... or rather, they have clever software.
[later] 오후: ok, during my lunchbrk, i got 'lot accomplished (in a way): i hurried off to the sunnyvale skate park n' got a 0.5 hr lunchtime skate sesh (skateboarding session) in b4 the rain started... well, it didn't start raining really; it just started to sprinkle. then, i went to sports basement to pick up a dakine spike stomp pad n' a powerbar protein plus, both 4 almost free thanks to the $10 voucher from val.pak. [a li'l later] i only paid 14¢: [(stomp pad = $9) + (power bar protein plus = $1.75)] × 90% - $10 = 14¢. then i drove my subaru back to my office, ran in, bought a grilled salmon sandiwch on ciabatta, n' ate it in my cube. not bad. 'twas very refreshin' to get out'f the office.
a while 'go, our friend ben moon posted up on his xanga a video'f the fedex (i think) commercial where an office gets a wooden skateboarding 0.5pipe (halfpipe) n' the employees spend all their time gettin' hurt on it instead'f werkin'. he posted that up the day after we went to 쥬쥬비 jujubee n' i took out my skateboard n' let my intoxicated friends ride 'round on it b4 n' after goin' to 노래방 noraebang. well, u know, many times in the past, i saw all the extra land on my werk campus n' wished we had a skate park on campus. of course, that'd never happen, but it's fun to imagine.
a couple'f nites 'go, kaela n' i watched j.lo n' jane fonda's monster in law. it's an ok movie. it's pretty kewl how j.lo keeps changin' her hair thru.out the movie. [later] it's an ok movie, not really intelligent, not really thought.provoking, definitely 2 gurly... but i have a higher tolerance 4 chick flicks than most guys, i think. [later] i guess it's a "romantik comedy," n' i guess i like romance. i think being absorbed in guy aktivities like engineering ('specially mechanical engrng), skateboarding, n' taekwondo (well, berkeley taekwondo's a very co.ed environment; but outside'f berkeley, i guess it's more male.dominated) has gotten me 'way from my romantik side. that's particularly bad cos ('f course) v.day's comin' up.
[later] this afternoon, durin' my luncthime skate sesh (skateboarding session), i was surrounded by guys who were really good. *sigh* i guess it surely was not a morn sesh. morn seshes have lots'f guys like me who r tryin' to learn. dude, 4 all i know, some'f the guys that were there like pros. *shrug* amazon.com
[later] shoot. 2day, i'm wearing a kenny cole shirt that i really like; but, while lookin' in the bathrm mirror just now, i realised that i lost a button. where? @ the skate park when i opened my shirt a li'l cos i was gettin' sweatty? i n my office/cube? in my car? 'least this is 1'f those shirts that comes w/ extra buttons sewn onto it. [a li'l later] i'll need to do some sewing pretty soon.
금요일 아침: groggy fri morn... u know i'm a big fan'f east asian linguistiks. a while 'go, 1'f my 태권도 taekwondo students was askin' me 'bout chinese names translated into korean. his last name's chan. i told him that i 'member that on korean tv, they call jackie chan "성룡 sungryong," so i sed that chan must translate into 성 sung. i knew that was odd. well, i figured it out 2day... jackie chan's 1st name translates into "성룡 sungryong," but his last name "chan" translates into "진 jin." that makes much more, much better sense! last nite, the beautiful kaela hwang went out w/ our friend eric n' our friend sohee to dinner @ 99 치킨 chicken next to 길목 gilmok after 태권도 연습 taekwondo praktice. (heh, yah, i know i'm throwin' extra 한글 hangeul 2day 4 no good reason!) we had a big dinner: fried chicken, 양념 yangnyuhn "spicy" fried chicken, 골뱅이 무침 golbaengyi moochim (sea snail salad), n' some delicious ob 맥주 maekjoo 
. later, last nite, kaela n' i started watchin' the korean adaptation'f dangerous liaisons, entitled 스캔들 scandal or "untold scandal" in english. wow, it's quite a racy film, i've gotta admit. that's very interesting cos it stars the ever.famous 배용준 bae yongjoon'f 겨울 연가 gyuhool yuhnga (winter sonata), possibly the most famous k.drama. i thought 배용준 bae yongjoon was such a goody boy type from his gyuhool yuhnga (winter sonata) role. well, he plays a really h0rny womaniser in this film. wow, quite a change!
this morn, the big news's that anna nicole smith died. wow. yah, i guess there's been lots'f news lately that i haven't talked 'bout, but well... 'lot'f this isn't really important. like that female astronaut that drove 900 miles in diapers to kidnap some other female astronaut that she considered a love rival. *shrug* also, last wk, the harry potter aktor came out in an onstage produktion (play or musikal) that has him n@ked. ick! dude, that is sooo frickin' "brokeback!" eww. what else has been in the news? the super bowl, super bowl ads... eh! nuthin' much'f interest to me.
some other chinese names translated into korean: zhang ziyi = 장자이 jang jayi. yao ming = ??? 명. jet li = li lianjie = 이련걸 yi ryuhnguhl. sun mingming = 손명명. chow yunfat = joo yoonbal. chu muyen = joo mokyuhm.
[later] wow, i came to werk kind'f early 2day cos i didn't walk sooni or go skateboarding cos'f the rain. poor sooni. the morn feels much longer 2day cos i came early.
it's ok that i got a 157 cm deck this time instead'f a 154 cm, rt? while reading snowboarding forums, i read more from park riders who insist on short boards. my 1st deck was a 153 cm, my next was a 152 cm. well, the dude @ porter's did recommend a 157 cm 4 me. furthermore, 2 often my friends keep me on freeride terrain or pow n' 'way from the park. 2 many'f my friends don't do freestyle. it may surprise some, but my best terrain park buddy's my wife! w/ my longer deck i'll be more able to catch those long ski skier friends like our taekwondo student friend ken. [later] it should be ok, rt? think 'bout how gian simmen rides like a 159 cm, n' he's relatively freestyle, rt? well... aktually, he's more'f a big mtn rider, huh? :-/ well, what length deck did he ride when he won the olympik 0.5pipe (halfpipe) event?
dude, when r my bones super swiss 6 skateboard bearings comin' in from amazon.com
*sigh* this wknd, it's gonna rain, so i can't skate (skateboard). it's s'pposedly gonna snow up in tahoe, so i can't necessarily go snowboarding. furthermore, we have our friend's b.day party 2morrow nite; n' kaela has a seminar, so i wouldn't even have my terrain park buddy.
토요일 아침: i'm @ werk.com 2day, in my cube. *sigh* i've got lots'f werk to do, lots'f pressure, lots'f deadlines. neway... *sigh* yah, neway, i read just now on korean yahoo! news that aktress 정다빈 jung dabin committed suicide by hangin' herself w/ towel in her bf's apt's bathrm. :<:-o dude! what's goin' on here?! what's w/ all these korean female celebs killin' themselves?! this is awful!!! what's up?! here's the bronx's junkyard newsclip 'bout it in english: "[News] Jung Da Bin Commited Suicide" (http://www.bjunkyard.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17087). here's the wiki article re: 정다빈 jung dabin (in english): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jung_Da_Bin. crazy, crazy.
[later] 오후: argh, it's so frustrating! i'd been waitin' 4 the beautiful kaela hwang to txt msg me when her lunch brk from her seminar was approaching. just now, she called me, n' sed she's goin' w/ all her chiropraktic skool friends to grand indian buffet. argh, we were just there yesterday. the restaurant's ok, but i don't wanna go there 2 days in a row, so i'm not goin'. that's sooo frustrating! >:-(
[later] late afternoon: what was just s'pposed to be a short time in the office has turned into almost a full day already. i dunno how long i'll be here. it's ~330p now. i think i may stay till 400p. the whole lunch thing cms to have ruined my day, but... *shrug* it's all perspektive, rt? i dunno, man. i ended up not eating lunch. instead, i ate a washington fuji apple that i left here in the fridge, some planters brand pistacchio trail mix, n' a chocococonut lara bar. what a cr@ppy diet, n' i need exercise!
월요일 아침: groggy mon morn... this past wknd, i read this "special report" by the iasc (international association of skateboard companies) 'bout the bad effect'f "blank boards" on skateboard companies. it's fascinating. check out the report: under fire: a special report on the skate hardgoods market (http://www.theskateboardindustry.com/tsi/article.aspx?ID=263). seriously, it's very interesting. the report is in .jpg 4mat. it might be aktually more convenient to print it out onto paper to read; but it is like 22 pages. if u have an adobe acrobat .pdf writing program, that'd be good. [later] hrm, i really hope that those'f u who r interested in: 1) bizness, 2) art n' culture, 3) sports, 4) sociology, or 5) boardsports (like snowboarding)'ll read this report cos it's very interesting. the opening article (by miki vukovich)'s the best. hrm, i'll try to extrakt some important quotes:
- "today's top skate brands are owned and managed by individuals who've been involved in skateboarding for most of their lives."
- "skateboarding is unique, in part, because the individuals making critical decisions abou its future are not only financially, but emotionally invested in it."
- "and their experience has led them to the alarming conclusion that, if current trends continue, the next generation of skaters will not have pros to look up to, videos and magazines to study, or pro demos to look forward to. if the proliferation of generic hardgoods in specialty retail stores continues to erode the pro-branded marekt, the skateboard industry - hardgoods and all higher-margin categories that depend on it - will cease to exist as we know it."
- "many pro skaters today fail to actively represent their sponsors. comopanies have been reluctant to innovate their products. distributors and shops have allowed generic products to infiltrate the skate-specialty supply chain."
- "pros need to rock their sponsors' gear and ride the products they're paid to. companies need to put their manufacturing expertise to the test and offer products that no one else can. an distributors and shops need to promote those efforts to their respective customers. and non-branded, generic skate products must be seen for what they are - bland, unwarrantied commodities that support faceless factories that do nothing to support professional skateboarding, magazine ad campaigns, pro teams, pro tours, and all the other efforts skate companies make to help preserve skateboarding's unique heritage. buying (or selling) a pro-model deck from a reputable brand circulates the profits back into these efforts."
- "the $9.99 ebay deck is the red flag that should have us all realizing that the core skate companies aren't the only link in the pro-skate supply chain being threatened. without demand for professionally endorsed products, the exclusivity that core shops and the distributors that supply them have means nothing. skate shopes represent the best that skateboarding has to offer. if a young skater walks into a shop looking for a particular pro's board, and the shop has it; that kid is sold on the store's credibility. the link between all the promotional efforts core skate companies make (ads, tours, dvds, and other events) and a sale at the local shop is direct and self-evident."
- "the range of pro-endorsed skate products that a shop carries and the expertise of its staff sets it apart from sporting-goods and mall stores. but if the kid walks out of the store with a blank or shop-branded deck, his support stops with that shop - the rest of the profits from that deck don't go to help a company send their team to town the following summer, to produce the new dvd, or to support the mag. the rest of that profit goes into the pockets of disinterested entrepreneurs."
- "skateboarding has survived for more than a half century because it has a magic quality that attracts kids to it."
- "[pro skaters]'ve served to inspire other skaters and are responsible for turning a business into a culture, a lifestyle, and a livelihood for many of us. if we can't find a way to preserve the role of pro skaters, and to support the companies that support them, then skaters will have to find their skateboards on aisle five, somewhere between the tennis racquets and free weights."
my 1st skateboard had a christian hosoi pro model deck, n' i looked up to christian hosoi cos i read 'bout him in rolling stone magazine. rt now, i ride a mini-logo deck. it's almost a blank but not. it's a pricepoint deck from a core skate company, ie skate one. it has minimal graphics, but it still has some n' isn't a "blank." i realised this wknd that i insist on buying pro model snowboard decks, but i've recently resited buying pro model skateboard decks. why? well, when it comes to snowboards, i say that if no pro's willing to ride a deck, then it must not be very good. there must be sumpthin' wrong w/ it; so it's not good 'nuff 4 me. i consider myself decently proficient in snowboarding. to whate'er extent i'm talented in snowboarding, it's a gift from god. neway, w/ skateboard decks? well, i feel i can't justify havin' 2 nice'f a deck cos i'm simply not that good, not yet. @ the same time, as i've sed b4, i do regret not investing in nicer equipment from the get.go. i could've 'least gotten a pair'f indepedent trucks, even tho' my bullet trucks r servin' me just fine. i dunno how kids akt these days; but, when i was a kid, if u had super nice gear but couldn't skate well, then ppl'd call u a poseur. then 'gain, that was back in my day. in the report, 1 older pro skater (i 4get who) talked 'bout how in the early 1990s, it wasn't kewl to have graphics on ur deck, that all the pros rode blanks n' kids'd sand off the graphics from their decks. c? that was what skate culture was like when i stopped skating in college. now, there's this movement 2wards supporting skate art n' skate culture thru the purchase of "branded" decks. i guess interested parties r tryin' to pass it off as "socially conscious," n' maybe it is. true, it's 'bout culture n' art. i've cn books on skate art that i really wanna buy. however, here r some deterrents to my buyin' expen$ive, branded, pro boards these days: 1) i need to c a technolgical advantage (maybe cos i'm an engineer). [later] i don't wanna buy the same 'ol slab'f ply wood n' pay more just cos'f some painting. 2) i need to c pros that r worth supporting, 1s w/ good charakter n' rn't just punks. who r some current pros that i respekt? christian hosoi, steve caballero, daewon song, rodney mullen, ... if i c a skate company signin' on more minorities n' women, then i'm more likely to wanna buy their stuff. it's hard to wanna "support" pro skaters n' the whole skate industry if they don't make me as a consumer n' enthusiast feel welcomed. like, what if a pro skater begs ppl to buy his board n' then goes off n' calls'em all poseurs cos they have nice boards but can't skate as well as he can? that's not rt! 3) if i'm gonna pay 4 artwerk on my deck, i want artwerk that i like! i don't need demonik images, anime gurls spre@din' their l3gs (hookups), references to drugs, gore, juvenile cartoons that rn't really all that cute (world industries)... lemme tell u; if santa cruz put their snowboard graphics on their skateboard decks, i'd be all over'em. 4) i need to c skate hardgoods that r manufaktured in the usa or 'least not made in china. all my snowboard decks were made in europe. i think they were made in germany. i wanna support, local nor*cal or 'least cali4nian companies. 5) i need companies to make produkts that i want. i'm an old guy skater who doesn't really wanna ride old guy skateboards. i want a 7.75" wide "all.around" deck w/ steep concave n' a bidirektional/twin shape n' low trucks that carve but wheels tall 'nuff to ride vert n' that r hard 'nuff 4 max speed in the park but soft 'nuff 4 a smooth ride while i skate w/ sooni 'round the block. i want the best engineering in my bearings, griptape, n' hardware as well. 6) i need skate shops to make me feel welcomed. i don't wanna be stared @ cos i'm asian or cos i'm a kind'f yuppyish guy. i don't need punk attitude from the employees. i wanna know that my bizness's appreciated.
how does the skateboarding industry differ from the snowboarding industry n' team sports industries? maybe consumers'f snowboarding equipment have more $$$ on avg. team sports make most'f their $$$ thru advertising @ events n' during broadcasts'f events. team sports events happen much more frequently than boardsports events. honestly, i think skateboarding'd benefit from being added to the olympiks. x.games n' olympiks r good things 4 the board sports, if u ask me. the way i c it, "punk" attitude's ok, but loser attitude isn't, so int'l competition's a good thing. think 'bout how hard taekwondo supports fought to get taekwondo in the olympiks! then consider how hard some skateboarding afficianados r fighting to keep skateboarding out'f the olympiks. sports should be co.ed or 'least as co.ed as possible. like even tho' there should often be men's n' women's divisions, teams n' praktices should be co.ed. ooh, check out this very short article 'bout skateboarding in the olympiks: "Skateboarding in the Olympics?" (http://skateboard.about.com/od/events/a/Olympics.htm) hrm, here's an article that opposes the idea: "skateboarding and the olympics" http://www.sublimited.net/miscellaneous/skateboarding_and_the_olympics.html) oh yah, the 1st article mentions how the olympiks's @ its medal limit as far as nombre'f sports. dude, imagine if they had to pick btwn taekwondo or skateboarding. :-( yah, not a good choice. dude, why not take out like... uh... basketball. ha ha ha... i was tryin' to think'f a sport i don't like.
[later] dude, i didn't know george powell'f skate one's a stanfurd engineering grad! check it out: http://www.twsbiz.com/twbiz/features/article/0,21214,1016690,00.html.
ok, some skateboard companies that still manufacture in the usa = abc board supply (acme n' scarecrow), beer city, cohort, n' skate one, independent, sector 9, arbor, watson laminates (makes laminated "fiberlam" decks 4 tum yeto - foundation, toy machine, deathbox), ... aktually, i think the list is much, much longer than what i'm quickly findin' online. it's prob'ly just that most corporations wanna reserve the rt to start makin' 'least pricepoint boards in china, so they don't advertise the fakt that their decks r currently made in the usa. 4getchu not that i have this insane loyalty to santa cruz n' the nhs corporation cos'f the time when my dad booked the asme tour'f the nhs faktory in soquel, n' i got to meet the founder richard novak.
ok, finally gettin' 'way from the topik'f skateboards, i'll give u a link to an article that i started readin' cos'f tim fong's xanga: "The Rise of Christian Fascism and Its Threat to American Democracy" (http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/47679). i don't agree w/ everything this author writes here, but... *shrug* it's simply an interesting read... 'least to c what some ppl think. i'm not alone in being sick'f ignorant ppl equating christianity w/ conservative politiks. i'm @ a pt now where i can accept the existence'f a politkal rt as well as a politkal left, but i definitely want ppl to realise that christians can be demokrats (w/ a "big d").
a good, currently popular song: mat kearney's "nothing left to lose" (http://www.matkearney.com/)
call me a hippie, but if i had to move 'way from the bay area n' all the beautiful, diverse culture it offers, then one place i'd prefer to live is santa cruz cos it's got a great, established skateboarding culture n' a up.n.comin' contemporary christian "scene. however, i'd be that much further from tahoe, n' i wouldn't like that. obviously, the lack'f real asian fud's the biggest drawback."
[later] 저녁: 'gain, here's an article from transworld business re: santa cruz skate/snow/surf: "Hardgoods Trifecta" http://www.twsbiz.com/twbiz/print/0,21538,1025868,00.html)
[later] 밤, 1101p: i'm sleepy. ok, i never gave a recap'f this wknd. on fri, i went to our grx t3 light couples bible study small group by myself cos the beautiful kaela hwang sed she was 2 bizzy w/ clinik stuff to go. i was really worn out from a hard_wk@werk.com, but it was refreshin' to hang w/ some friends n' their cute kids. when i came home, kaela was asleep. on sat morn, i woke up later than i wanted to. i spent the whole day (pretty much) @ werk. >:-( very unpleasant! i didn't get to eat lunch n' not even really dinner. it was rainin' all day. i went to santana row to pick up a b.day present 4 our friend grace. kaela n' i were s'pposed to go bowling 4 grace's b.day, but only i went bowling. i bowled horribly! after 2 games, i went home n' picked up kaela, n' we went to 루머스 rumors 호프 hof 4 some fud, drinks, b.day cake, n' 노래방.
well, in contrast w/ sat, sun was a much better day. i woke up n' went to church in the morn. 'twas a bit drizzly still, i think. i went to church. then, my mom n' i went to jamba juice n' tj maxx. then we returned to the church location (santa clara hyatt) 4 the grx town hall mtg. after that, i went w/ some friends from our ol' small grp to lunch @ chez mayflower in the milpitas 99. after that, it was well into the afternoon, n' the drizzly skies had yielded to very sunny, dry weather. i went to the sunnyvale skate park. dude, that was fun! well, i dunno; the park was crowded w/ kids. i don't like that. i prefer morns, when they're just a handful'f ppl there. *sigh* i skated 4 a while. i've gotta admit. i didn't pad up cos almost no 1 else was padded up (kids, u know?), n' i knew i wasn't gonna push myself 2 hard. i had 1 kind'f scary fall, where i fell onto my skateboard down a transition. i thought i'd be really hurt, but aktually, landin' w/ my leg on the skateboard, somehow broke the fall ok. *shrug* well, after skating @ the sunnyvale skate park, i went home n' skated w/ sooni 'round the block. then, i mounted my burton cartel bindings onto my new santa cruz seth huot 157 twin tip deck. then, i proceeded to give it a full hand wax. then what? i think kaela came home, n' i cooked dinner. i cooked some 만두 라면 mandoo ramyuhn. *sigh* what a nite, what a wknd.
this morn, i woke up, ate some cereal, skated 'round the block w/ sooni, n' went to werk. @ lunch, i went w/ kaela to the sunnyvale house'f falafel. it took'em an hr to get us our fud!!! it was so crowded. i ordered the combo kebabs plate w/ 1 lamb n' 1 beef, n' kaela got the house falafel wrap. i werked a long day n' then went to sach's turbo kick box (tkb) class @ the east arques ave, sunnyvale 24 hour fitness
화요일 아침: in the ccs catalog, i've cn a shirt that has the slogan "skateboarding ruined my life." sometimes i feel that's true 4 me. as u can c from my journal, it often occupies my mind. why? i dunno. it's just really fun 4 me. furthermore, i feel like it's sumpthin' that i've gotta do now or never. i feel like this is my last chance to get good @ it. i realise tho' that i've gotta chill. this morn, i didn't touch my skateboard. originally, i was gonna head out to the sunnyvale skate park. however, when i looked out the window, i realised that the ground was drenched from rain last nite. i didn't even take sooni 4 a walk on skateboard. i told her we had to walk on our feet like chumps. well, i guess she's always on her feet. well... *sigh* i feel weird that skateboarding kind'f takes me 'way from the culture that i'm s'pposed to be in n' the society i'm s'poosed to be in. like, my friends don't skateboard. my family doesn't really skateboard. my cowerkers don't skateboard. i dunno... lots 'bout me goes 'gainst "corporate culture," i guess. in order to fit in best w/ "corporate culture," u've gotta firmly believe that $$$'ll buy u happiness, so u'll do whate'er ur corporate employer tells u to do in order to get a chance'f makin' it big. :-/ i dunno. oftentimes, i wonder if my lack'f materialism'll be my downfall. sometimes i wonder if "corporate culture" wants every1 to worship $$$ n' the white picket fence life, etc. whadya think? i mean, shoot... sometimes i feel sooo inspired @ church to live entirely 4 jesus, n' that goes sooo 'gainst the whole materialism, $$$, n' pursuit'f winnin' the rat race stuff. *sigh* dude, am i experiencin' 'nother 0.25 life crisis, or am i 2 ol' 4 that? if i'm experiencin' a 0.25 life crisis now, then i'll live past 120. :-) otherwise, is this a 1/3 life crisis, in which case i'd only life to 90. :-/
as much as i've recently been more inspired to support apple cos it's a silikon valley, bay area, cali4nian company; i've gotta admit that 삼성 samsung's "iphone killer" appeals more to me.
"N. Korea agrees to nuclear disarmament" (http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/16683716.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp) - "North Korea agreed Tuesday to shut down its main nuclear reactor and eventually dismantle its atomic weapons program in exchange for millions of dollars in aid, just four months after the communist state shocked the world by testing a nuclear bomb."
[later] instead'f thinkin' 'bout skateboarding, maybe i should focus on snowboarding. we finally have some decent snow levels:
- kirkwood: 77~128"
- alpine meadows: 42~105"
- squaw valley 24~90"
- sierra@tahoe: 33~88"
- boreal: 45~70"
- diamond peak: 40~70"
- northstar@tahoe: 26~61"
- sugar bowl: 16~60"
- pathetik dodge ridge: 12~55"
수요일 아침: 2day's v.day. happy v.day. my valentine = the beautiful kaela hwang who's urs? here's the wiki on v.day: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Valentine%27s_Day. so what's up? r u gonna buy some overpri¢ed flowers 2day? i don't blame u. it's a day to do things that r illogikally n' impraktically romantik. i was 'bout to use the phrase "3 sheets to the wind," thinkin' that it means sumpthin' 'bout bein' carefree, but i just learned that it aktually means bein' drunk: http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-thr1.htm. i got kaela a present this past wknd but haven't given it to her yet. it's... just sumpthin' small. however, i wish she knew how much i love her even tho' i so terrible @ expressin' it. i wish i were better @ it. it makes me very happy when she goes to taekwondo praktice w/ me like last nite. it makes me very happy when she goes snowboarding w/ me like a couple'f wknds 'go. it makes me very happy when she goes to church w/ me. it makes me very happy when we can get dressed up n' go out to a nice dinner. it makes me happy when we can watch a korean drama together. she makes me laff, n' i like that. neway, it's not all 'bout just good times n' doin' stuff ('specially stuff that i like to do. i love her thru the good times n' the bad. i wish i were better @ expressin' it.
heh, it really made me happy that 1 time a while 'go when kaela brought sooni n' met up w/ me @ the sunnyvale skate park. i really appreciated that. neway, i didn't skateboard yesterday nor 2day, n' i did it on purpose. as i sed yesterday, i wanted to take a deliberate break from skateboarding in order to be less obsessed w/ it n' put things back into perspektive. after all, i'm not super good @ it, so it's kind'f sad if i'm totally obsessed w/ it. *sigh* well, i think taking this brk really did put things into perspektive n' remind me that there's other things in my life that i really like; like snowboarding, taekwondo, musik, etc.
[later] 저녁: days r gettin' longer, n' they'll soon get even longer cos daylite saving time starts earlier from this yr on, eh? crazy. we'll be springin' 4ward on march 11 instead'f the end'f april, rt? didn't daylite saving time used to start @ the end'f april? *shrug* well, no... maybe 'twas the end'f march, but a quick wiki search'll settle this debate! ok, here's a quote from the wiki, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time:
"Start and end dates and times vary with location and year. Starting in 2007, most of the United States and Canada observe DST from the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November, with transitions typically at 02:00 local time. The 2007 United States change was part of the Energy Policy Act of 2005; previously, from 1987 through 2006, the start and end dates were the first Sunday in April and the last Sunday in October." daylite saving time used to start @ the beginnin'f april, eh? wow, this shift'll affekt the snowboarding world cos we'll have more hrs to board, rt? or 'least spring n' fall boarding feel a li'l diff from b4, rt?
2day, kaela n' i had a v.day lunch @ midori sushi in sunnyvale on el camino real. kaela sed the owner/manager sounded like my dad. shortly after that, i heard the dude totally bust out in taiwanese. he made lots'f jokes, n' that reminded kaela'f my dad. we ordered 2 much fud: a sushi combo lunch'f spider roll n' spicy tuna roll (w/ miso soup n' salad), a hamachi teriyaki bento box (which also came w/ miso soup n' salad as well as chicken teriyaki, rice, 4 pieces'f cali rolls... but came as a salmon teriyaki bento instead'f hamachi... w/ the waitresses explanation that the kitchen cooked the wrong thing), n' also the spicy snowballs (tempura stuffed shrooms - hecka yummy!) n' hawai.ian poki (very good as well). wow, the fud was all very delicious, but we simply ordered 2 much. i had to take some'f it to go. kaela had picked the restaurant. we met up there. it was a good lunch.
[later] yesterday n' 2day were both beautifully sunny days, n' yet i didn't go skateboarding. strange.
last nite, i watched pirates of the carribean: the curse of the black pearl. it was ok, decently fun, w/ good visual effekts. however, i thought the ending was a bit'f a (what ppl call a) "cop out." i wish i had cn this 1st installment b4 watching the 2nd, but oh well.
mokyoil achim: it's sort'f like i "deprived" myself'f skateboarding 4 2 days n' then jumped back in. 2day (this morn), i skateboarded w/ sooni n' then hit up the sunnyvale skate park 4 a morn skate sesh (skateboarding session). i had much fun; much, much fun. well... heh, it's not like 2day was ne diff from many other days, but... *shrug* u know, while carvin' n' kickturnin in the medium size bowl, i got fatiqued kind'f fast. :-/ why? *shrug*
last nite, i was stuck@werk.com till pretty, stinkin' late! >:-( grrr! *sigh* neway, when i finally escpaed, i headed over to the ol' san francisco rd. safeway in sunnyvale, bought a frozen combo pizza, bought 2 bags'f caeser lite salad, bought 3 tins'f anchovies, bought a big bottle'f pomegranate white tea, bought a mixed bouquet'f flowers 4 the beautiful kaela hwang n' headed home to cook an oversimplistik *v.day* dinner'f frozen pizza w/ anchovies n' caesar lite salad w/ anchovies, soy parmesan, n' various nuts n' seeds n' black pepper. *sigh* yah, it surely wasn't fancy, but well... it was just 1'f those "simple things in life." while eatin', we watched the pirates of the caribbean: the curse of the black pearl 'gain cos kaela'd fallen asleep the nite b4 when i finished watchin' it. as i sed, i don't really like the ending. however, i do enjoy the pro.proletariat mood'f the whole pirate thing. it's got sort'f a han solo feel, u know? i enjoied sort'f havin' the nickname "hwang solo" in the *cal* taekwondo party crew. neway, since i had watched the movie in its entirety on tues nite, i was mostly just readin' the latest issue'f future snowboarding magazine instead.
well, while the oven was warmin' up (earlier), i ran to the garage n' fetched kaela's *v.day* present: a homedics quad.roller massage chair thingy. i installed it, n' we tested it out last nite. since kaela was watchin' the movie, i ended up usin' it more. wow! my back muscles were sore after usin' that thing 4 a long time.
[later] ohoo: so over the nxt wk or so, if i bring a *netflix* envelope flap into blockbuster, i'll get a free movie rental, eh? i've gotta do this.
[later] i checked the status of the delivery'f my bones super swiss 6 bearings, n' they should be @ our house by now. man, i've been so tempted to take off, go home, install those bearings, n' well... it's not like even if i were to install those bearings, i'd have a chance to test'em out. :-( i had fun skating 2day. i prakticed stayin' a bit more crouched as i grinded. i figure eventually, i should be able to do those grab grinds like indy nose picks, etc.
[later] a good song - delirious's "didyou feel the mountains tremble" from their album sonicpraise... 'nother good song - switchfoot's "this is your life" from their album the beautiful letdown... "this is your life. are you who you want to be? this is your life. are you who you want to be? this is your life. is it everything you dreamed it would be when the world was younger, and you had everything to lose?" really makes u think, eh? i feel like switchfoot's musik really asks 'lot'f questions. it akss more questions than it answers. however, it's ok. these questions make u think, n' thinkin's good. 'nother good song - hawk nelson's "things we go through" from their album letters to the president.
월요일 화요일 아침: oh, it feels like mon, but it's tues. upes. yesterday was presidents day n' also the beautiful kaela hwang's n' my 43rd wedding monthversary. i had an extra long wknd, a 4.day wknd cos i took fri off to take kaela to her lasik apptmnt n' take care'f her afterwards. u know what? even tho' ppl've sed that lasik isn't that painful, she was in pain!!! yah, altho' i'm not sayin' that lasik is bad or nething like that, wow... it sure looks very, very painful. she was screaming in pain afterwards. furthermore, when i saw a guy leave the next day, while waitin' 4 kaela's follow.up apptmnt, he looked like he was in a tremondously unbearable 'mount'f pain. yah, i don't believe it's @ all painless. it looks very, very painful!
*sigh* this morn, on the today show, they had a short feature on some german dude (i think 'twas in germany) who has bred this ginormous (gigantic + enormous) bunnies. the feature was titled "monster rabbits." neway, i knew that'd get kaela out'f bed (as she was already late to wake up), so i shook her n' told her that there'd be bunnies on tv. she scrambled up n' immediately fixated her gaze on the bunnies on the tube. however, 'twas a very odd sight 4 me cos she didn't 1st scramble 4 her glasses, she just scrambled to push the comforter out'f the way n' proper herself up to c the bunnies on the tele. wow! yah, that was very diff.
*sigh* neway, dude; 'twas a very packed wknd. cos'f kaela's lasik surgery, we did not go snowboarding in tahoe or @ kirkwood. nope. however, on sat, we went to santa cruz n' biked n' walked 'lot. 'twas very fun. i loved bein' in this boardsports epicenter.
[later] aktually, i need to discuss this past wknd from its begnining. on fri, kaela n' i woke up early n' went to her lasik apptmnt @ dr. kawesch inc. they made it sound like i could be in the rm w/ her while she got thes urgery, but no. instead, i sat in a 2nd waiting rm, sort'f a "secret" waiting rm, not the main lobby. they played dvds there: 1st some ol' martin lwarence movie where he dreams that he's in camelot n' then 50 first dates. a quick google search told me that the martin lawrence movie was black knight (2001). 'twasn't a very good movie. [later] rt after the surgery, kaela was cryin' 'lot but not yet screamin', mostly snifflin'. i noticed that the clinik pretty much shoved us out the door in order to prevent waitin' patients from observin' her pain. wow, slick. i tried to drive us home but had a flat tire. i had to pull over in fron't the hummer dealier on steens creek blvd. [later] 오후: @ 1st i noticed the dealers kind'f smirkin' @ the sight'f a subaru breakin' down in front'f their hummer dealership, n' that really annoyed me. however, eventually, they sent a mechanic out to laon me a tire pump that was bigger than the 1 i was usin', which i keep in my trunk. however, their tire pump eventually blew the fuse on my 12v outlet w/o fillin' up my tire. i had to drive off in search'f a gas station w/ a tire pump. the 1st 1 i pulled into was a union 76 station on stevens creek blvd @ kiely near the whole woodhams strip mall n' bevmo etc. the machine required 50¢. bein' ¢heap, i decided to 4go it n' try to find a free pump @ the arco down the street; down kiely, @ homestead. well, i couldn't make it that far. i had to pull over on a pruneridge or some street near pruneridge, in front'f a 2.story green house to remove my flat tire n' install my spare tire. since i was parked, blockin' the driveway, my knuckle scraped on the driveway as i cranked the jack. *sigh* while i was in the middle'f changin' the tire, a gurl came out'f the house to get sumpthin' or check mail or sumpthin', so i apologised to her 4 blockin' their driveway. well, eventually, i changed out the tire n' got on my way. kaela had fallen asleep back when i was in front'f the hummer dealership but awoke after i suceeded in changin' the tire, when i pulled over @ the santa clara post office to pick up a couple'f packages: my bones super swiss 6 bearings n' my repaired timex helix watch that kaela got 4 me. she started screamin' very loudly cos'f the pain from the surgery. i knew i looked very suspicious w/ durty, durty hands n' a screamin' female in my passenger seat. worse yet, she started kickin' my dashboard n' hittin' stuff; so it really looked like i'd kidnapped her. when i got her inside the house, she kept screamin' n' screami'. she made me call the lasik office. aktually, she had me do that 1nce earlier in the car 2. 1st she had me ask them if it was ok that her eyes wouldn't stop tearing (눈물 noonmool... teardrops not tear as in paper). they sed 'twas fine. the 2nd time, she had me ask 'bout the incessant pain, n' they sed it cmed normal n' that she had to take the prescription painkiller eyedrops which she had opted not to buy. well, kaela sent me off to kaiser to pick up her painkiller eyedrops. that was my 1st time @ the new, lawrence expwy kaiser facility. it's nice. however, the number'f ppl in white coats disturbed me. i had decided to dress casually 4 that day n' looked like some sk8erboi punk, so i felt a bit self.conscious 'round all these ppl 'bout my age w/ medikal degrees, etc. wow, it must be great to werk as a pharmcist! the job looks sooo easy! it's like stuffin' envelopes! while waitin' a long time 4 the eyedrops, i went to the nice cafeteria there n' ate some chana masala (indian garbanzo bean dish). [later] 'twas such an interesting experience! well, i went home to give kaela her tiny, $83 vial'f eyedrops, but she was asleep, which was good. i watched the korean horror movie 분홍신 boonhongshin (red shoes). it was ok, but only ok. it was a bit like the ring up until the end, where it just became really ridiculous. i watched the movie while kaela slept cos she wanted me to watch it w/o her cos she hates horror movies. i'd picked the movie on netflix.com simply cos it's 1'f the newest korean movies they have. when kaela awoke, she was ok. i had some errands to run: 1) mail off the 분홍신 boonhongshin (red shoes) dvd back to netflix.com
; 2) get my tire patched; 3) pick up a free blockbuster dvd rental w/ my netflix.com
envelope flap. kaela n' sooni came w/ me. i ended up buyin' a whole new set'f yokohama avid tires from america's tire company. we walked to blockbuster on stevens creek blvd near lawrence expwy, near pet fud express, while we waited 4 my tires to be mounted. we picked up marie antoinette. &nsbp; well, we went home. kaela felt up 4 a belated v.day / early monthversary dinner; so i made reservations to take her to twist bistro in downton (historik / ol' town) campbell. she ordered the pâte, the portabella shroom napoleon (w/ couscous inside), a side'f garlik spinach, n' iced tea. i ordered the chicken liver on frisée, the hanging steak frites (steak n' fries), n' a glass'f syrah - simply to complement my steak. we shared a dessert'f chococovered profiteroles (cream puffs) filled w/ vanilla aisukuriimu n' each had a cup'f decaf.
on sat morn, kaela had a 800a apptmnt w/ the lasik office. it was pretty quick. she noted that it was an interesting experience cos the optometrist was an asian gurl that was maybe younger than us. after the apptmnt, we drove 2wards santa cruz, as i'd loaded our bikes into my forester. kaela wanted to grab brkfast on the way, so we pulled over in los gatos in an attempt to eat @ sweet peas, but 'twasn't open; so we ate @ gilley's, a li'l ol' fashioned coffee shop. kaela had the special brkfast'f 2 eggs (over easy), 2 links'f sausage, n' 2 pancakes. i had the veggie omelette, which came w/ hash browns n' a choice'f bread (english muffin). we each had a cup'f decaf. i was so full from brkfast n' the previous nite's dinner. well, we got on our way to santa cruz.
it didn't take 2 long to get to santa cruz via highway 17 (the 17). i 1st drove us thru santa cruz past the boadwalk. we spotted a nice bike trail along a creek/river, but kaela wanted to ride along the beach, so i got back on the hiway (hiway 1 / the 1?) n' drove us to seacliff beach. i parked on the street, outside'f the state park's parking lot, to avoid the parking fee. we rode down to the beach n' along the beach. it was fun n' relaxing but was 2 short'f a ride. we rode back up the hill, which was interesting. then i drove us back to santa cruz n' we parked by the bike trail, near the new skate park that's under construktion n' opening this wk. i thought the park was open n' wished i could skate there but felt less bad when i saw it wasn't yet open. we rode to downtown santa cruz n' walked 'round. we got a café freddo @ peets n' went to the santa cruz bookstore that coined the slogan "keep santa cruz weird." then we went to this pacific wave board shop. kaela bought a cute bikini, n' i bought a ¢heap, on.sale t.shirt in order to change into a short sleeve shirt (out'f a long sleeve shirt, cos 'twas sooo warm). i'd wanted to buy a santa cruz skateboards or independent truck company shirt but didn't really like the designs or pri¢es, so i bought an $11 element shirt instead. element's an irvine company, n' i'd wanted to support a nor*cal company. i like nhs's nor*cal line'f clothing, but it's become less a skateboard / snowboard thing n' more'f either a hick thing or a hyphy thing. neway, i guess i've now added to my wardobe'f skateboard.related clothing. we strolled more down the main strip'f downton santa cruz, n' i was so happy to c so much skateboard.related stuff like the skate works store. we rode our bikes down to the boardwalk. we walked down the pier n' ate a shrimp cocktail n' a crab cocktail. then we rode back to my car n' packed up. we drove back to the silly valley.
since we had some time to kill b4 mtg my family 4 dinner, i wanted to get more biking in. i suggested sierra azul, los gatos creek trail/park, the almaden lake trail, n' quicksilver park. un4tunately, i picked the last - quicksilver park. 1nce i'd unloaded n' assembled our bikes, n' after we rode uphill to the park's entrance, we found out that the park no longer allows bikes. i didn't know that! well, we rode 'round the neighbourhood n' visited some expen$ive model homes just 4 fun. we ran into kaela's skoolmate jenny n' her husband. her classmate announced that she's pregnant. well, we killed time there. then we drove to sushi masa to meet up w/ my family but were still 2 early, so we went to drove over to princeton plaza to browse 'round berean christian store. well, finally, we went to dinner. kaela ordered this combo w/ chicken teriyaki n' lobster tempura. i ordered the deluxe chirashi. after dinner, my mom, kaela, n' i walked 'cross the parking lot to longs drugs, so that i could buy kaela some systane eyedrops. well, kaela n' i went home. it was still quite arm, especially 4 fevrier (feburary)!!! we dropped off our bikes, picked up sooni, n' went to the cupertino fantasia. 'twas a bit cold there, so we got warm drinks n' didn't stay 2 long. we went home n' watched marie antoinette.
on sun, we went to church - grx's sunday celebration service (early service) - @ the santa clara convention center. then, we drove to blockbuster, where kaela watched the end'f marie antoinette on my laptop. then we met up w/ my family @ 팔각정 palgakjung (the octagon) korean buffet on homestead btwn san tomas n' kiely. after lunch, kaela n' i picked up sooni n' went to santana row 4 the farmers market. then we washed sooni @ pet fud express. then, we dropped off sooni n' went gro¢ery $hoppin' @ 한국 마켓 hangook market, where kaela ran into her skoolmate 지영 jiyoung. we went home n' ate non.korean fud 4 dinner: guacamole, stuffed sole, mixed veggies, n' peju wine. we watched 나쁜 남자 nabbeun namja (bad guy). then we made it a double feature n' watched 엄정화 uhm junghwa n' 감우성 gam woosung in 결혼은 미친짓이다 gyuhlhoneun michinjisida (marriage is a crazy thing). albeit 'nother racy, racy movie w/ tons'f steamy $3x scenes; it's such a profound vision'f how young ppl 2day view relationships n' marriage! dude, it's so revolutionary. it's a li'l like when harry met sally in that way.
well, on mon (pres day) morn, i spent 2.5 hrs @ the sunnyvale skate park. i had such a good time n' made some breakthru improvements like ollieing off the 3rd level'f the block (manual pad block, the top level), gettin' backside shove.its decently repeatably, gettin' some frontside grind aktion in on a somewhat repeatable basis. oh yah, my new bones super swiss 6 bearings really help!!! now that i'm goin' much faster w/ my new bones super swiss 6 bearings, i don't yearn so much 4 a new deck, wheels, or trucks. i go much faster, 'specially in the bigger bowls. [later] when i arrived 'round 800a, 'twas just english mike, me, n' 2 younger guys/kids. later, this family from gilroy arrived. i could tell they weren't locals, n' i wasn't sure if the other regular guys didn't want non.locals, cos i know some skate spots have this "locals only" vibe. neway, i figured it's better to make friends n' spread god's love, so i talked to them n' found out they were from gilroy.
[later, 2007년02월21일, 1223a] restaurant reservations i've made online over the yrs:
feb 16, 2007 twist bistro
dec 18, 2006 plumpjack cafe squaw valley
nov 18, 2006 tarragon
nov 13, 2006 kampai house
aug 12, 2006 kampai house
jul 14, 2006 kampai house
jun 21, 2006 village california bistro & wine bar
may 26, 2006 menara moroccan restaurant
may 14, 2006 bayleaf
apr 23, 2006 piatti - santa clara
feb 11, 2006 chez tj
jan 26, 2006 cascal
jan 19, 2006 tarragon
dec 18, 2005 alexander's steakhouse
sep 5, 2005 straits restaurant - santana row
sep 2, 2005 park place
aug 13, 2005 the plumed horse
jul 16, 2005 stokes restaurant and bar
may 19, 2005 kaygetsu
feb 14, 2005 faz sunnyvale
dec 22, 2004 arcadia
nov 19, 2004 7 / seven restaurant & lounge
sep 9, 2004 nola - palo alto
aug 13, 2004 stoa restaurant and wine bar
jul 19, 2004 tamarine
apr 2, 2004 consuelo mexican bistro
feb 14, 2004 cascal
dec 19, 2003 emile's
oct 24, 2003 vin santo
sep 19, 2003 7 / seven restaurant & lounge
jun 22, 2003 tsunami - las vegas
jun 21, 2003 mon ami gabi - las vegas
jun 13, 2003 consuelo mexican bistro
apr 19, 2003 park place
feb 14, 2003 anton & michel restaurant
jan 20, 2003 the basin
nov 22, 2002 bella mia
jul 20, 2002 maya - san francisco
jul 13, 2002 thirsty bear
mar 20, 2002 la rue
feb 15, 2002 foreign cinema
dec 20, 2001 fifth floor
nov 21, 2001 eulipia restaurant & bar
sep 14, 2001 xanadu
jul 28, 2001 brix
jul 20, 2001 a.p. stump's
may 21, 2001 thirsty bear
mar 16, 2001 montage
feb 21, 2001 oliveto cafe & restaurant
feb 16, 2001 basque
feb 14, 2001 enrico's
jan 20, 2001 shanghai 1930
nov 20, 2000 alegrias food from spain
oct 20, 2000 xanadu
so after my morn skate sesh (skateboarding session), i came home n' watched the rest'f 결혼은 미친짓이다 gyuhlhoneun michinjisida (marriage is a crazy thing) w/ kaela. then we went out w/ sooni to lunch in campbell. we tried to go to stacks, but they didn't have outdoor seating. then we tried to go to sonoma chicken coop, but the construktion'f aqui 'cross the street was waaaay 2 loud. we went to the pruneyard instead, in hopes'f hittin' up hobees. they didn't have outdoor seating. we saw grace, steve, mason, n' nolan @ the pruneyard. we ate lunch @ café artemis. kaela had this okra dish. i had this ground lamb patty dish w/ tzaziki sauce. it was all really good mediterranean fud. we couldn't finish tho'. oh yah, kaela also had a sangria, n' i had this turkish bier. after lunch, we walked 'round pruneyard w/ sooni. we went to the campbell roasting co. n' had some hot drinks: soy latte 4 kaela n' oregon chai soy latte 4 me cos they were out'f spiced chai. i realised that i really prefer spiced chai cos oregon chai's 2 sweet. then kaela went gro¢ery $hopping @ trader joe's while i walked sooni. then what? i guess we went home. what else? hrm... i guess i cooked chicken curry 4 dinner. oh yah... no, 1st we cooked brown rice (which takes 4ever), n' then we went to the fremont ave, sunnyvale 24 hr fitness, planning to take the hip hop dance class. it was replaced by a turbo kick box (tkb) class taught by this gurl mary ann, who usually teaches a pilates class after the hip hop dance class. i had her as a substitute tkb teacher 1nce but didn't 'member her. when she started pushin' me harder n' harder to bend my knees lower n' lower; i 'membered her. well, we went home tired n' a bit sore n' cooked chicken curry.
2day (yesterday), i had yet 'nother stressful_day@werk.com. *sigh* i came home 4 lunch, n' so did kaela. we ate some guacamole n' some bagged mexican salad w/ a couple'f portabella shroom garden burger patties. well, 2nite, kaela n' i went to taekwondo praktice n' then taught the adult beginners class. afterwards, we went w/ our students n' fellow teachers to verdi in cupertino 4 some boba drinks n' taiwanese fried stuff on skewers.
수요일 아침: the stress@werk.com just don't quit, man. neway, what's up? how r u? do u like mat kearney's song "nothing left to lose"? i'm sure u do. most ppl prob'ly do. it cms to be very popular. i was reading the wiki article on mat kearney, which sez many ppl think he sounds like coldplay's chris martin. pesonally, i'd liken him 'least in his singer/songwriter style to jason mraz. u 'member that roland took the beautiful kaela hwang n' me to the jason mraz concert last summer @ villa montalvo as an anniversary present, rt? well, the wiki article sez that mat kearney started in oregon but is now located in nashville, tn. why do so many christian musicians end up in nashville?! i can't imagine nashville being a pleasant place to live.
[later] 접심: since lunchtime skate seshes (skateboarding sessions) r the perfekt way to relieve pent up stress from werk (n' i've got plenty); i wanted to hit up the sunnyvale skate park @ lunch. however, i realised soon 'nuff that it's "ski week" this wk @ lokal skools, so the skate park may be filled w/ kids. i don't like to skate there when the skate park's filled w/ kids. *sigh* so much 4 that idea. i wanted to skate @ the skate park 2day cos it's gonna start rainin' 2nite. i didn't go this morn cos i had to make sure kaela woke up. i did skate (skateboard) 'round the neighbourhood w/ sooni tho'.
[later] 오후: kaela had to meet w/ our friend nancy during lunch. i went home n' ate leftover chicken curry. lemme ask u: do u call it "chicken curry" or "curry chicken"? as i was growin' up, my mom always called it "curry chicken," but most'f my friends call it "chicken curry," so now i say "chicken curry," i think. while warmin' up curry, i took my ol' independent truck co. bearings, opened them up, n' soaked them in mineral spirits (which i bought yesterday @ lowe's during my lunchbrk b4 goin' home). after eatin', i took the bearings out n' dried them. i'll need to lube'em n' seal'em back up someday. i dunno... maybe someday, i'll get a 2nd set'f wheels, n' i can put them inside those wheels. maybe someday, i'll get a whole 2nd skateboard setup. i could either get a setup 4 kaela to use (if she has ne interest) or keep 1 in the house 4 skatin' (skateboarding) w/ sooni n' 'nother in the car 4 skatin' @ skate parks. i dunno. *sigh* i'm still usin' my 127mm (7.6") bullet trucks on my 7.75" wide mini.logo deck. now, how do i dispose'f used mineral spirits (paint thinner)??? i found this link via a quick google search: "disposing of used mineral spirits from badger pond power tool forum." hrm, it cms like strainin' it thru a coffee filter's a good idea... strainin' it n' then reusin' it. here's 'nother page that sez so: http://www.purdue.edu/dp/envirosoft/housewaste/house/paintth.htm.
목요일 아침: it's a rainy morn. i'm glad it's rainin' now while it's the kids 'round here's ski wk. if i can't go to the skate park, then no 1 can. >:-/ as i sed yesterday, i don't like goin' to the skate park when it's full'f kids cos 1) i don't like the liability or risk or whate'er'f runnin' into a kid, n' 2) sometimes kids r punks. neway, it's rainin' 2day just as the weatherppl sed it would. i woke up this morn to the sound'f heavy rain.
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i had such a hard_day@werk.com yesterday. demeaning, discouraging, abasing, humiliating, frustrating, dehumanizing... abused, kicked 'round, spat upon, looked down upon, disrespekted, unrespekted, hated, bossed 'round, micromanaged... :-( depressing. *sigh* neway, the crud i take @ werk, i guess, make me appreciate other things in life so much more, the precious things, like my beautiful kaela hwang. also, there r days when i come home so beat n' exhausted, open the door to find this cute, fuzzy doggy strollin' up to me w/ a waggin' tail. the she likes my face. such is life. as always, i've gotta quote switchfoot from their song "this is your life": "this is your life. are you who you want to be? this is your life. are you who you want to be? this is your life. is it everything you dreamed it would be when the world was younger, and you had everything to lose?" *sigh* thinkin' 'bout my situation... rt now, like this... almost brings tears to my eyes. "yesterday is a wrinkle on your forehead. yesterday is a promise that you've broken. don't close your eyes. don't close your eyes. this is your life, and today is all you've got now. yeah, and today is all you'll ever have. don't close your eyes. don't close your eyes. . . yesterday is a kid in the corner. yesterday is dead and over." what do i have to show 4 all the effort i've put in, in life, in my career, over the past few yrs. i feel my last major accomplishment was graduating w/ my masters degree, my msme, back in 2004. back then, i werked on a projekt @ werk that was direktly related to my field'f study, n' my cowerkers considered me an expert in my field. since then, i've been given tasks that rn't 'xaktly what i was trained to do... but sort'f... yet i've been kicked n' beaten 4 not doin' it like i've been doin' it 4 a million yrs... n' in engrng, as many software programmers'll tell u, it's always harder to fix some1 else's mistakes instead'f creatin' sumpthin' new on ur own. it's hard cos u've gotta spend so much time figurin' out what that other person was thinkin'. every1 bosses me 'round. how wouldju like to be told constantly that u'r worthless n' stoopid? scapegoated. in most'f my other aktivities, i feel like a leader... i am a leader. @ werk, i feel like a total loser. mostly, it's cos ppl tell me i am. i werked 'bout a 12.hr day 'gain yesterday... n' 4 what?
금요일 아침: it's fri. that's good. i have tons'f crud_to_do@werk.com b4 the end'f the day. that's bad. it rained last nite, so there's snow in tahoe. that's good. it rained last nite, so i couldn't skateboard this morn. that's bad. it rained last nite, n' thus there's snow in tahoe n' even in the silly valley hills. that's good. i have to be in livermore 2morrow. that's bad. i'm gonna go watch n' maybe ref @ a taekwondo tournament in livermore 2morrow. that's good. i only have 1 student competing when i wanted n' expekted many more. that's bad. good, bad; good, bad... is life good? is life bad? i dunno. i werked really late last nite, missed taekwondo praktice, missed the class i teach, missed dinner w/ my students n' friends afterwards. i went home after 900p. the beautiful kaela hwang was watchin' that wretched show e.r.. i ate some leftovers butternut squash w/ chicken marinara sauce (which was very delicious, which we cooked on we nite). afterwards, i ate an apple (organik fuji or braeburn; not sure). then i showered n' fell asleep... not on purpose. i was totally exhausted, just from the stress alone. this is sooo not healthy.
일요일 아침: what's up? it's sun morn, n' i'm typin' this entry from some bar/café inside the santa clara hyatt, where the beautiful kaela hwang n' i attended grx's 1st/early sun celebration service. we're waitin' 4 the short term missions "sharing," n' then we have a t3 light couples small group core mtg after that. lots'f church biz 2day, huh? yah... but... *shrug* it beats doin' werk werk, rt? well... it's not that i don't enjoi werkin' as an engr, mindju; but it's just freakin' stressful rt now. seriously. *sigh*
neway, on fri nite, we had a "social nite" (fud n' games) 4 our t3 light small group @ our friends tim n' nancy's beautiful house; n' it was really fun. talk 'bout de.stress! talk 'bout decompress! man, i really appreciated my friends @ that pt; seriously. we ate delicious (but *sigh* fatt'nin') l&l drive inn fud: kalua pork (pig), teriyaki (?) chicken, steamed white rice (a given), maccaroni salad (hawai.ian staple), spam musubi (mmmmmm! but we should make it w/ spam lite), a delicious spinacci salad (not l& l) w/ cranberries (or cherries?) n' almonds... neway, delicious. nancy also "baked" a microwave "tupperware" cake. she sells these tupperware containers that u can make cakes in w/ ur microwave. kewl, huh? it was a good cake, 2: chococherry cake. we played guesstures, which is really fun.
i really like akting/drama games n' aktivities... however, 4 some reason, i'm an awful aktor... 'specially when it comes to makin' an aktual movie or skit, etc. *sigh* i wish i were better. dude, sometimes i think it'd be so kewl to be an aktor, rt? however, i'm horrible @ it. *sigh* if nethin', the only kind'f akting i can do is comedy. when kaela n' i tried to help our filmmaker friend out by aktin' in his film class projekt... :-/ it sounds like we didn't do so hot. we never got to watch the aktual, finished projekt... well, come to think'f it, we never saw ne'f that footage, but i don't think we did so hot.
on sat morn, i woke up early n' took sooni w/ me to the sunnyvale skate park. ah, it was ('gain) sooo "decompressing n' relaxing to skate (skateboard). i werked on the usual grinds n' stalls n' tryin' to ollie over the pyramid etc. i had lots'f fun. it was a good time. i took sooni 4 a short walk/ride (whate'er u call it). then, i packed up my stuff (pads, helmet, etc.) n' drove us 2wards home, stoppin' by ¢0$+¢0 (costco) to get gas. gas is sooo expen$ive rt now. however, i noticed that whenever gas gets super.expen$ive, the ¢0$+¢0 margin grows, ie the 'mount'f di$¢ount u get from buyin' @ costco grows. costco's a good company, a good store. i guess sam's club's a bad place, but costco (in gen'l)'s a good place. i just worry that if i buy clothes there, every1 else'll have the same clothes as me. however, my mom told me that she 1nce bought me a burberry polo shirt @ costco, n' it's a really nice shirt. i mean, i wear it; so i know it's a nice shirt, n' i have it. however, sometimes i wonder if she really bought it @ costco. she sed she did, so i don't really have (a) reason not to believer her; but some'f my friends don't believe me.
neway, i came home n' woke up kaela. we watched some qubo cartoons like veggie tales. i like veggie tales. it's a funny show. then we ate some l&l drive.inn leftovers. then, we packed our stuff n' headed off to livermore's las positas college 4 the amerikan open taekwondo tournament. we wanted to watch our student cam compete in 품새 poomsae, but we arrived rt after she did her 품새 (form). we saw her get her bronze medal. we watched 'lot'f the tournament; sat on those hard, uncom4table bleachers. i coached our teenage, black belt classmate alex in his fight. he did well but lost. we watched kaz really fight well n' win gold in his division. kaela n' i sed hi to the masters etc. we sed hi to master yoon, his wife, master shim, master shim's bro who just moved back to the u.s. from korea. we were happy to c him. afterwards, we drove some kids back w/ us to santa clara. we ate dinner @ 한성 갈비 hansung kalbi. it's a 숱불집 sootbooljip (wooden charcoal bbq house). we ate 'lot. dude, i've been eatin' 2 much lately, not exercisin' 'nuff, n' stressin' 2 much. what do they call'em? cortisols? ugh. i gotta fight the bier belly / spare tire, etc.! skateboarding's aktually great exercise 4 me; but i haven't gotten to do it as much this past wk cos'f my overload'f werk n' the rain.
last nite, when we came home, after we fed sooni; we watched crash on dvd from netflix. 'twas a really good movie. i really respekt the locksmith charakter. the 2 important wife charakters in the movie were a bit whiney... but they were also pretty realistik. like, thandie newton's char was well developed. sandra bullock's? she was not quite a sdeveloped. neway, overall, 'twas a very good movie.
[just a li'l later] 점심/오후 1208p: we also received the 1st dvd installment'f 궁 from netflix, but the dvd was craked/broken in 0.5! crazy, huh?
*sigh* rt now, kael an' i r so hungry. the hotel has this snack bar thing set out, sellin' overpri¢ed fud, but they only take ¢a$h. the ¢a$hier told me that there's an atm 'round the corner, but dude... i'm sooo freakin' sick'f hearin' that reply. i don't wanna withdraw ¢a$h n' pay those outrageous atm fees. i wish ppl'd strike that lame excuse 4 not takin' credit card from their vokabulary or whate'er. i'm soo sick'f hearin' that.
[later] 밤 1011p: current nor*cal snow conditions thx to snowbomb.com:
- alpine meadows: 60~124" (12" new)
- bear valley: 50~88" (7" new)
- boreal: 56~90" (12" new)
- diamond peak: 58~92" (14" new)
- heavenly: 62~82" (12" new)
- homewood: 53~103" (18" new)
- kirkwood: 92~142" (10" new)
- mammoth mountain: 60~84" (7" new)
- mt. rose: (do u care? i barely do.) 30~44" (12" new)
- northstar@tahoe: 49~90" (10" new)
- sierra@tahoe: 40~100" (12" new)
- squaw valley: 48~118" (18" new)
- sugar bowl: 16~95" (0" new) <- i don't believe that.
so kaela n' i went to our short term missions sharing session n' then our t3 light core mtg @ red miso / ramen rama. kaela ordered the clam ramen, n' i ordered the chicken teriyaki ramen w/ "suicidal" (spicy) broth. eh; it wasn't that spicy. seriously! well, it's a pretty good ramen house. i think it's owned n' operated by cantonese ppl, which is fine. most japanese restaurants rn't owned or operated by japanese or japanese.amerikans; nope. however, korean, taiwanese, n' chinese ppl've learned to cook japanese fud pretty well. sometimes they rn't as up to date w/ trends, but it's still good. i mean... whereas most non.japanese japanese restaurants still focus on sushi or ramen, most japanese japanese restaurants r focused on kaiseki.
well, the core mtg went pretty long; but, after that, we drove home. then, after a while, i drove back out to do gro¢ery $hopping @ both trader joe's n' safeway. wow, i proved to myself 2nite that trader joe's is indeed signifikantly ¢heaper than safeway!!! i came home n' gave kaela a choice: i could either cook homemade pizza or fish tacos. she chose fish tacos.
who won oscars?
월요일 아침: monday... everything cmed to grow dark as i walked nearer to my cube. such a dark, grey cloud looms over my head. it's ridiculous. i jogged this morn n' yesterday morn. i hadn't jogged in a long time b4 that. of course, i jogged w/ sooni. it's just that the grounds been 2 wet to skate (skateboard), so i jogged.
"therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entagles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us." - hebrews 12:1
"i have seen something else under the sun: the race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all." - ecclesiastes 9:11
"do you not know that in a race, all the runners run; but only one gets the prize. everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. they do it to get a crown that will not last; but we do it to get a crown that will last forever. therefore, i do not run like a man running aimlessly; i do not fight like a man beating air. no, i beat my body and make it my slave so that, after i have preached to others, i myself will not be disqualified for the prize." - 1 corinthians 9:24~27
"i have fought the good fight, i have finished the race, i have kept the faith. now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that day - and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing." - 2 titus 4:7
"however, i consider my life worth nothing to me, if only i may finish the race and complete the task the lord jesus has given to me - the task of testifying to the gospel of god's grace." - acts 20:24
[later] 져녁 이지만 아직도 직장에서: didju know 'bout this james cameron film 'bout an archeologikal find back in 1980 that some ppl believed to be a tomb that contains bones'f james, brutha'f jesus; mary magdalene (or else two other marys); (s'pposedly) jesus; n' (s'pposedly) jesus n' mary's son "judas"? "cameron: jesus tomb film is a 'detective story'"(http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17349123/page/2/print/1/displaymode/1098/) yah, it's further davinci code mat'l. i figure, even 4 christians, this is a good topik'f discussion. my freshman yr ivcf (intervarsity christian fellowship) small grp leader always sed, "if god's wurd doesn't stand up to our qusetions, then maybe it doesn't stand @ all." let's not play church, n' let's not play dumb. we can suspend disbelief 4 a while to listen better 4 god's voice; but let's not necessarily suspend reality cos god's real.
often, those'f us that r fascinated by asian (or 'least korean) pop culture want to know what our celebs looked like b4 they were famous, especially since korean celebs r kind'f famous 4 gettin' plastik surgery, eh? check out this batch'f fotos: "'미녀들의 졸업사진' 누가 얼짱" (http://kr.news.yahoo.com/etc/print_text.htm?articleid=20070227085507587a3) "minyuhdeuluy joluhb nooga uhljjang" (which beauties' graduation pix r these?)
[later] kpop... krock... last nite, i dled from bronx's junkyard the o.s.t. (soundtrack) to some movie or drama called 미녀 괴로워 minyuh gwerowuh. oh, i think it's a movie. i think this is the official website 4 the movie: http://www.sline2006.com/. however, i haven't clicked the link yet myself. neway, it has a track by 김아중 kim ajoong, a korean language cover'f blondie's "maria." kewl. when that blondie comeback song was new, i bought the cd single just cos i liked it.
[later] after werk (n' 'f course i werked decently late), i met up w/
the beautiful kaela hwang @ sach's 730p turbo kick box (tkb) class @ the e. arques, sunnyvale 24 hr fitness. then we came home n' ate some leftovers (okra n' a small lamb patty from café artemis, some kalua pork/pig from last fri nite, some bagged salad). i'm gonna make some homemade pizza sometime this wk, either 2morrow nite or... *shrug* i dunno; lately, i've been more into cookin' n' cleaning. *shrug* i guess, since i've been so stressed2werk.com, i'm goin' into that mode that i was in back in college when i always wanted to cook whenever i had lots'f hw to do... u know?
so... i'm gonna be a mod on the snowbomb.com forums as well as on bronx's junkyard. go there now n' join in on the conversation... or start a thread or sumpthin'. seriously. i'm s'pposed to plug it, etc,; so yah... i'd like u to help me out. thx.
목요일 아침: i came into the office early this morn. originally, i was gonna hit the sunnyvale skate park 4 a morn skate sesh (skateboarding session); but it started sprinkling. that's annoying. i prefer that it either pours or simply doesn't rain. this sprinkling... argh; like i couldn't tell if it'd persist, get heavier, or go 'way. it just kept sprinkling. i was gonna skate (skateboard) w/ sooni this morn, but yah... it started sprinkling, so we just walked (like a couple'f shmucks). *sigh*
here's an article that talks 'bout the height n' weight'f korean celebs: "연예인 실제키 몸무게" ok, it mostly just gives out nombres. can u believe it's now 3월 march? werk's still bizzy, but i feel better now than i did last wk. 4 those'f u who checked up on how i'm doin' under all this stress, thnx!
[later] 오후: i went to lunch w/ our friend andy n' grace, who r getting married on labour day this yr n' wanted to talk 'bout wedding musik. i ate this good chicken w/ lemongrass n' peanut sauce, which came w/ a deliciously crispy, fried egg roll. dangerous stuff, fried fuds. neway, i had a good time talkin' to'em.
it's still kind'f sprinklin' outside n' only litely sprinkling. u nkow, i wish every day, it'd start rainin' 'round 100p n' then stop 'round evenin' time. then, the skate parks'd dry up overnite. then, i could go skateboarding every morn, u know? *sigh* neway, this wk's been more 'bout snowboarding than skateboarding. the whole snowbomb thing's got me more stoked 'bout snowboarding.
[later] so i'm obviously hyped 'bout snowbomb.com n' bjunkyard.com; but 'nother site i'm currently hyped up 'bout is lala.com, which our friend tim yuen introduced me to. it's a peer trading site, where u send each other used cds. kewl!
월오일 오후: i had a good n' bad morn. this morn, sooni was behavin' badly on her walk. she pulled n' tugged. then, after she took a dump, she started kickin' up the grass as she wiped her feet. that's ok, but then she stepped in her on 똥 ddong! eeeeew! she was bein' a troublemaker. that was the 1st thing that made my morn not a great morn. the 2nd thing's that i left both my wallet, my 'puter bag, n' employee id badge @ home n' had to drive back home get them. argh. well, i had a good morn cos'f 2 things: 1) i skateboarded w/ sooni n' 2) i had a morn skate sesh (skateboarding session) @ the sunnyvale skate park.
this wknd, i was @ kirkwood 4 a fun snowboarding day trip: my cousin walter, his friend terry, terry's wife rita, clarence, eric, toby, the beautiful kaela hwang, n' me.
[later] 이요원 lee yowuhn was the innocent, naive gurl in the kbs k.drama 패션 70s (fashion 70s). u know how a few days 'go i gave a link to some korean yahoo! news article that had fotos of various celebs when they were in skool n' then now? here's sumpthin' like that 4 her: "이요원, 졸업사진 화제 "10년이 지나도 그대로"" (http://kr.news.yahoo.com/service/news/shellview2.htm?articleid=20070305162300438d9&linkid=rank_photo&type=hour&cate=ph) ("lee yowuhn, graduation pictures n' then 10 yrs later"). 서인영 suh inyoung was (or is?) a member'f the popular korean gurlypop group jewelry. lately, she's gotten a reputation 4 havin' a really 섹시 seiksi image. here's a korean yahoo! news article that shows her b4 n' after gettin' her makeup done: "서인영, 메이크업 전 '청순' VS 후 '섹시'" (http://kr.news.yahoo.com/service/news/shellview2.htm?articleid=20070305152024945b0&linkid=rank_photo&type=hour&cate=ph) ("suh inyoung, before makeup 'pure' versus after 'seiksi'") fans'f korean pop culture often like to observe the diff btwn celebs b4 the do their makeup n' after. well, heck; same goes 4 fans'f amerikan celebs; but, really, u know how korean gurls have a rep 4 doin' makeup really well.
[later] 밤, 1159p: snowboarding @ kirkwood on sat was fun. skateboarding on fri n' 2day was fun. boardsports rock.
목요일 아침: can u believe it's thurs already. man, i'm sorry that i haven't given a proper update or posted a decent journal entry in so long. it's prob'ly been 'bout a wk since i posted a decent journal entry. i've written some entries that i haven't yet uploaded. i didn't get 'round to talkin' much 'bout our day trip to kirkwood on sat, when i got to ride my new santa cruz seth huot snowboard deck. i've skated (skateboarded) pretty much every morn this werkwk. usin' that paypal $15 rebate off $30+ pur¢a$e, i proceeded to buy a pair'f independent stage 9 129mm low eric koston trucks n' a set'f (4) ricta white lightning 52mm tom penny wheels. oh yah, n' to qualify 4 free shippin' i bought a black matix t.shirt, since matix's co.owned by daewon song, n' i think he's a kewl guy. i was debatin' b4 whether to use my $15 rebate on a skateboarding pur¢ha$e or else sumpthin' that better suits a yuppie like an elektroniks pur¢ha$e, as i was contemplatin' buyin' a sleek, slim metal case 4 my palm tungsten t5. well, shoot... after i bought my skateboard stuff, i was still uneasy 'bout that; but then the beautiful kaela hwang gave me my belated v.day present: 2 nice papermate multi.funktion stylus pens n' the sleek, slim palm tungsten t5 case in ana kewl anodized navy blue. perfekt! i feel like i have my cake n' am eatin' it 2. crazy, eh? *sigh* well, my skateboard equipment should arrive 2day or 2morrow. soon, i'll be ridin' on pro trucks n' wheels instead'f kind'f "pri¢epoint" equipment. the nicest thing on my setup rt now r my bones super swiss 6 bearings. dude, they rock!
part'f the reason i haven't been posting journal entries (besides havin' to werk extra long hrs lately)'s cos i've been tryin' to post more on the snowbomb.com forums since i'm s'pposed to be a mod (moderator) there, but i haven't heard back from jim mcalpine in a while... in a'bout a wk.
maybe i'm a boardsports gear freak. plz allow me to post up my current setups 4 skateboarding n' snowboarding:
snowboarding
- deck: santa cruz 2007 seth huot tt 157cm
- bindings: burton 2007 cartel medium
- boots: airwalk 1999 park size 9
skateboarding
- deck: mini.logo 146 ki11 7.75" × 31.375" navy blue
- trucks: bullet 127mm silver
- wheels: bullet birds 54mm 99a white
- bearings: bones super swiss 6
- risers: independent 1/8" black
- grip: jessup
- hardware: iron horse wonder 1"
it feels good to ride good hardware/gear; but i guess boardsports shouldn't be all 'bout gear. sometimes, gear can only do so much. u've gotta have skills n' praktice. i 4get... do they make pro model (signature) bearings? i was surprised 'nuff when pro model wheels started poppin' out. then, pro model trucks?! crazy. well, i'll have pro model trucks n' pro model wheels w/ a pri¢e point deck. neway, mini.logo decks r really good.
[later] 오후: ok, sorry 4 all the talk 'bout skateboarding. i know i bore u all to death w/ it.
[later] dude! heh, heh... my trucks n' wheels came in from caliskatz! woo hoo! 2morrow, i shall be ridin' on pro model trucks n' wheels. heh heh. the ups woman came, dropped off my box, n' gave sooni a milk bone.
[later] we've been watchin' 'lot'f netflix (dvds) lately, but 1 movie that i wanna watch in the theatres as soon as it comes out is the namesake. oh, wait! it debuts 2morrow nite. :-/ i dunno... would we be able to watch it on sat or sumpthin'?
금요일 아침: *breath* well, i installed my new independent stage 9 129mm low eric koston trucks n' my new ricta white lightning boltz 52mm, 82b tom penny wheels. u'd think a not.so.experienced skater (skateboarder) like me ouldn't notice the diff, but man! the ride feels sooo smooth n' controllable. i really do notice the diff! the independent trucks r sooo responsive. they feel so steady. they grind smooth 2! wow! the ricta wheels, they feel so in control... the rt slip:grip ratio. wow! i skateboarded w/ sooni 1st. then, i headed out 4 my 5th morn skate sesh (skateboarding session) in a row @ the sunnyvale skate park. kewl 5 4 5. i worried 'bout switchin' to a lower profile truck. s'pposedly my ol' bullet trucks were already a "low profile" truck, so i wasn't 2 worried, but when i put them side to side, the indies were lower. i'm still usin' indpendent 1/8" riser pads, so i dunno if i'm sort'f negatin' the whole pt'f switchin' to lower trucks. *shrug* i've always used risers, so it's just natural 4 me to continue usin' risers. many skaters insist that risers don't do nethin' as long as u have small 'nuf wheels n' hi 'nuff trucks. my new ricta wheels r 52mm, whereas my ol' bullet birds were 54mm. however, i'd worn them down to less than 52mm over the past yr. what can i say? skateboarding's so much fun!
a while 'go, i was readin' an interview on some site called "bob's trick tips," an interview w/ the founder'f this skate zine (skateboarding magazine) called concrete wave: "blank boards? an interview with michael brooke" (2006년12월18일) michael brooke had lots'f good things to say. his magazine talks 'bout all kinds'f skateboarding: streetskating, ramp skating, vert skating, park skating, pool skating, longboarding, slalom skateboarding, freestyle skateboarding... in his interview, he quoted the minutes from a 1994 mtg'f skateboarding companies where they sed that "skateboarding doesn't seem like fun anymore": u either r super hardcore n' ollie off 40-step stairs or don't do it @ all cos the other skaters call u a poseur. dude! i totally get what they were sayin'! michael brooke totally pts the finger @ transworld skateboarding magazine n' alludes to how they only show impossilbe tricks, that they don't promote positive role models in the skateboarding community, that they're all focused on the image'f bad boy skaters n' not 'bout the thrill'f the sport/art. i totally feel where he's comin' from. look @ me; i'm not an 18.yr ol' boy that can akt all tuff n' have punk@$$ attitude. i skateboard cos i have fun doin' it, not cos it validates my place in society. if nethin', it takes 'way from my place in society, but i do it neway cos i have so much fun.
yestrday, outside my cubicle, this manager.type woman was talkin' to some process technician, n' she sed, "hey, those r skateboarding shoes. i found that out from my son. those r vans!" my ears perked up, n' i kind'f worried 4 a sec if i was bein' "outted" as a skateboarder. no, she was talkin' bout that guy, the technician. he was wearing vans. however, that manager.type woman was in my cubicle earlier, n' she might'f also noticed that i was wearing vans. furthermore, my vans totally have a worn.in ollie mark. this wk, i've been goin' home @ lunch often, n' @ home i've been changin' out'f my vans n' into my banana republik sneakers 4 a more gentrified look. i dislike havin' to maintain a refined look 4 werk, but whate'er. earlier this wk, i noticed this "modern art" type paintin' that recently got mounted in our stairway@werk.com. i noticed a shoe print on the paintin'. dude, i immediately recognised the shoe print as havin' the waflle sole'f vans shoes! what's up?! skateboarding's all 'round me.
so... i like the idea'f promotin' all kinds'f skateboarding, stuff other than streetskating, stuff like longboarding. however, me? i have a total streetskating setup. the shape'f deck i like is 'pparently called the popsicle shape.
1 obvious thing that i just realised in the past wk is this: when those crazy.good skateboarders ollie onto handrails, they don't ollie all the way up onto the handrail. arther, they ollie off the staircase n' then by the time they get onto the handrail, the handrail has gone down the decline a bit, so... yah, u don't hafta ollie super hi as long as u go fast 'nuff to maintain ur elevation 4 a bit. neway, i won't be ridin' handrails on a skateboard 4 a while... i can do it on a snowboard, but not on a skateboard. it's kind'f interesting n' kind'f sad that, 4 how much i skateboard, i'm not that good.
[later] so what've i been eatin' this wk? well, the beautiful kaela hwang n' i haven't been dinin' out as much this wk, which is better 4 my wallet. intead, we've been eatin' @ home more. on mon, we went to udupi palace (on el caminio real by wolfe rd) 4 south indian (vegetarian) lunch buffet. that was the only time i went out to eat this wk so far... besides pluto's on sunday w/ the hasans.
[later] 오후: durin' my lunchbrk, i went to big! lots n' then albertsons. *sigh* i've been doin' 'lot'f gro¢ery n' household $hoppin' lately; 2 much. i've gotta learn to be more efficient n' do it all in 1 trip. :-( i ate some cereal n' then a trader joe's garlic naan w/ some land o' frost honey smoked turkey n' some bagged spinacci. [later] i took care'f some housechores while i was home, just random odds n' ends. *sigh* it's hard: i'm a housekeeper as well as full, full.time werker, u know?
[later] 거미 싫어: this morn, i woke up to a bad dream re: spiders. i don't like spiders.
토요일 저녁, 628p: dude, it's sat eve, n' i.m@werk.com, werkin' hard. *sigh* [later] this morn, i woke up decently early. i took sooni w/ me to the sunnyvale skate park 4 a morn skate sesh (skateboarding session). there was this other doggy there that had been there earlier in the wk w/ its owner. the doggy's name's daisy, n' she's a black retrieverish doggy'f some sort. since daisy was off leash, i let sooni off leash, n' they both ran off out'f the skate park n' explored the perimeter 2gether. @ some pt, daisy's owner got her n' left. then i told sooni to come over cos i was gonna put her back on her tie out. however, as soon as she figured out she was gonna be tied down, she took off. >:-( well, i simply ignored her n' skated (skateboarded). when she got rowdy w/ some nasty, disobedient pug out there, i grabbed her tie out from off the fence, called her over, n' pretended to be leavin'. i got her into the car, put her tie.out on, n' brought her back into the skate park. as we were leavin', this other wknd regular brought his li'l doggy into the park. sooni wanted to be a li'l dominant w/ that doggy, but she wasn't that bad.
well, 2day was my 2nd day w/ my independent stage 9 129mm low eric koston trucks n' my ricta boltz white lightning 52mm tom penny wheels. they still feel great, but... i've been riding these trucks really loose. @ 1 pt, i was on the coping'f the medium bowl, n' my front truck hanger fell off!!! :-o wow! that could've been really dangerous! the english dude mike that i talk to there brought me over to his car, n' he had a "skate key" wrench, n' i tighted the hanger back on, tighter. he advised that i get some softer bushings if i wanna ride loose trucks like that, n' i knew he was rt. yah, it was pretty obvious, but i had just been sort'f mindless. *sigh* neway, i had fun. oh yah, i didn't mean to stay long, but i met this dude there that was really interesting. he's a 36.yr ol', ol' skool skater. he also graduated from cal but in 1992 w/ a bsee (eletrical engineering). he werked @ my company 4 a li'l. now he has his own startup. his family owns a winery in spain, cortez winery or sumpthin' like that. they make white wines like the trendy pinot grigio. his wife was a saberkitten cheerleader 4 the sbercats arena futbol team. neway, interesting guy.
화요일 아침: i'm sick. i came down w/ sumpthin' over the wknd. i had to werk in my office on both sat n' sun. that frustrates me n' upsets me. i'm so frickin' sick. i have like a flu or sumpthin'. *sigh* [a li'l later] i feel really weak, n' my head doesn't feel rt. my joints r a bit achy.
'member over the wknd, i had that whole thing 'bout my new independent stage 9 129mm low eric kostoin trucks' bein' 2 tight (not that u care)? 'member how i bought those soft, blue doh.dohs bushings from fishbanks skate shop on sat? well, i found out sun that they don't fit my trucks. i'm still unsure if they don't fit indy lows or don't fit ne indy trucks. *shrug* neway, i've been askin' 'round the skateboard-city.com msg boards. apparently, i have a few options:
1) sand down my doh.dohs
2) get diff bushing cups
3) buy some independent brand soft bushings
fishbanks only sold doh.dohs n' bones bushings, n' they were out'f soft bones bushings. if i were to order some independent bushings, i guess i should 'least try to return these doh.dohs even tho' i already opened the packages. *sigh* i was mindless n' opened both packages rt 'way w/o knowin' whether or not the doh.dohs'd fit. i know i can buy some independent brand bushings from tactics boardshop online. should i do that? *sigh* c... it sucks that i tried to support my local boardshop / skate shop, but they simply don't have what i need, i guess. i wonder how they're able to pay the rent 4 that decently big $hop in such a prime neighbourhood. [later] 오후 had i known i'd need to change out the bushings on these trucks, i would've bought the bones bushings from caliskatz along w/ my original ebay
order. when'll i c my $15 paypal rebate?
ah, the wurd i need is "presenteeism", not absenteeism!
what's up? how r u? me, i'm sick. sick, worn out... *sigh* i hope to get better soon, of course. *shrug* *sigh* what a wk. s'pposedly, i'm goin' snowboardin' w/ ppl from our 태권도장 taekwondojang on sat, snowboarding @ kirkwood. yah, i'm pretty certain i'll go cos i have a free kirkwood tic from icer air to use. i have been adjustin' only so.so to daylite saving time. as u knkow, daylite saving time (dst) came early this yr. well, i've been more'f an early riser in recent yrs neway, so that made the transition easier. last nite, since i was sick, i fell asleep really early. still, over the past few days, the position'f the sun has thrown me off. even when all the clocks n' watches 'round me ahve the rt time, the sun has been throwin' me off. *sigh* this move to a longer daylite saving time period has brought w/ it an early end to winter this yr, an early spring. [later] the weather in cali4nia's so warm this march. it's still the 1st 0.5'f march, but s'pposedly temps in the bay area'f reach ~80°f. in socal; yah, temps've definitely passed 80°f. *sigh* time's precious. i wish i could spend more time w/ friends. last nite, i skipped sach's 730p, mon nite turbo kick box (tkb) class @ the east arques 24 hour fitness cos i was so frickin' sick.
[later] 저녁: on my way back to my office from spendin' most'f the afternoon @ 'nother company's office 4 werk, i stopped by fishbanks to return those soft, blue doh.dohs that don't fit my indy trucks. the woman gave me ¢a$h back even tho' i aktually bought'em w/ ¢redit ¢ard. i saw that the decks that they had in stock already changed from sat. wow, that store has 'lot'f turnover, i guess. they had this 1 santa cruz "signature" powerply 7.75" wide deck that i'd like. [later] i'd prefer a powerlyte deck, but i dunno... aktually, i wonder which's aktually lighter. powerlyte is 8 plies: 7 plies'f wood + 1 ply'f kevlar. powerply's just 7 plies'f wood. now, r the powerlyte's 7 plies thinner? if not, then the powerlyte's stronger but not lighter. however, the powerlyte's 7 plies might be thinner; i dunno. [later] powerlyte's 8 plies'f wood + 1 ply'f kevlar.
[later] 밤, 906p: i came home after a loooong_day@werk.com. i cooked fancy 우동 oodong... threw in some 만두 mandoo, fish sausage, n' all sorts'f veggies.
오후: i s'ppose 2day's "the ides'f march," eh? yesterday was "pi day." march's flyin' by, n' it's totally been spring 4 a while now. i mean, we've been havin' spring weather 4 quite some time now, even tho' it's aktually winter. i'll be hittin' up kirkwood 4 snowboarding w/ my taekwondo friends on sat. next wknd, the beautiful kaela hwang n' i'll be in socal 4 kaela's dad's 60th b.day. [later] these r bizzy times, eh? *sigh* i think spring'll fly by. i believe that.
well, this morn n' yesterday morn, i skateboarded w/ sooni n' then hit up the sunnyvale skate park 4 early morn skate seshes (skateboarding sessions). it's good exercise. 2day, i videoed myself w/ my fon. oh yah, 2day, when i got the skate park, no 1 was there. i was surprised. maybe 'twas a li'l chillier this morn. just b4 i left, a couple'f the other morn regulars showed up. yesterday, 1'f the morn regulars was there when i got there, n' then later 'nother showed up.
my cousin walter e.mailed out that u can win tix to the conan o.brien show (ie late night with conan o'brien) when they come to sf in late april / early may by e.mailing nbc @ a certain e.mail address. yah, i saw the blurb on tv last nite. dude, that's very kewl that they're comin' to town.
금요일 아침: it's st. patrick's day eve. dia de san patricio... seriously, st. patrick's day doesn't mean much to me, but i know lots'f other ppl really care 'bout it. *shrug* when i was in elementary skool, teachers made such a fuss 'bout it. 2morrow, i shall be snowboarding @ kirkwood, n' 4 the 1st time in 10 yrs, i won't be drivin' myself to the slopes but ridin' as a passenger in my student/friend ken's huge suv. it'll be my 2nd day on my new santa cruz 2007 seth huot 157cm deck. i've gotta get used to the pivot pt 4 ollies... yah, since it's a longer board, the tail's further 'way. on my last trip, a couple'f wks 'go, i wasn't used to it. i've gotta get used to it now. over the past couple'f wks, i've been prakticin' jumpin' n' spinning 360° backside in hopes'f gettin' my backside 360 back. i haven't been pullin' them much or even tryin' them much lately cos i've focused more on rails n' boxes. i've only made so.so progress w/ those, un4tunately... like, i was already com4table w/ 50.50s on the rails n' boxes even on bent n' rainbow stuff. i guess i've gotten even more com4table w/ that stuff, so that's good. however, i'm still not pullin' real fsbs (frontside boardslides) or even backside boardslides. well, my guess's that i won't be doin' 2 much terrain park ridin' on sat. i think my grp'll be more'f a downhill crew. @ best, i'll get to do some freeride jumps off'f ledges n' a few hits here n' there.
the beautiful kaela hwang's in her 3.day chiropraktic board exams rt now. she has board exams n' finals @ the same time. she's really bizzy.
a couple'f wks 'go, i tried to make this cd full'f mp3s 4 our last snowtrip. i kept in mind that eric only likes rock, so i put lots'f rock songs on there. however, i had probs w/ nero (the cd burnin' program), so i didn't burn the disc in time. instead, we listened to my ol' mp3 cds, n' eric was all disgruntled w/ the kpop n' the christian punk. i hadn't realised that some'f my christian punk tunes r so blatantly spiritual. neway, lemme share w/ u the file listing'f that cd that i eventually burned:
volume in drive c has no label.
directory of c:\200703~1
03/16/2007 08:58 am <dir> .
directory of c:\200703~1\0304
03/16/2007 08:54 am <dir> .
directory of c:\200703~1\adore
03/16/2007 08:55 am <dir> .
directory of c:\200703~1\anatomy of tongue in cheek
03/16/2007 08:56 am <dir> .
directory of c:\200703~1\ballad.type stuff
03/16/2007 08:57 am <dir> .
directory of c:\200703~1\dance or pop or techno
03/16/2007 08:57 am <dir> .
directory of c:\200703~1\for the masses
03/02/2007 06:57 pm <dir> .
directory of c:\200703~1\good monsters
03/02/2007 07:05 pm <dir> .
directory of c:\200703~1\mmhmm
03/03/2007 12:41 am <dir> .
directory of c:\200703~1\smile, it's the end of the world
03/02/2007 08:02 pm <dir> .
directory of c:\200703~1\stoysideb - connect set
03/02/2007 02:22 am <dir> .
directory of c:\200703~1\various rock
03/03/2007 01:06 am <dir> .
total files listed:
volume serial number is bc4f-9b9e
03/16/2007 08:58 am <dir> ..
03/16/2007 08:54 am <dir> 0304
03/16/2007 08:55 am <dir> adore
03/16/2007 08:56 am <dir> anatomy of tongue in cheek
03/16/2007 08:57 am <dir> ballad.type stuff
03/16/2007 08:57 am <dir> dance or pop or techno
03/02/2007 06:57 pm <dir> for the masses
03/02/2007 07:05 pm <dir> good monsters
03/03/2007 12:41 am <dir> mmhmm
03/02/2007 08:02 pm <dir> smile, it's the end of the world
03/02/2007 02:22 am <dir> stoysideb - connect set
03/16/2007 08:58 am 0 total_list.txt
03/03/2007 01:06 am <dir> various rock
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03/03/2007 12:32 am 2,319,574 jewel - 01 - stand .mp3
03/03/2007 12:32 am 2,615,178 jewel - 02 - run 2 u .mp3
03/03/2007 12:32 am 2,786,328 jewel - 03 - intuition new - (full song) .mp3
03/03/2007 12:33 am 2,423,033 jewel - 04 - leave the lights on .mp3
03/03/2007 12:33 am 2,334,937 jewel - 05 - 2 find u .mp3
03/03/2007 12:33 am 2,540,309 jewel - 06 - fragile heart .mp3
03/03/2007 12:34 am 2,310,488 jewel - 07 - doin' fine .mp3
03/03/2007 12:29 am 3,341,176 jewel - 08 - 2 become 1 .mp3
03/03/2007 12:30 am 3,495,400 jewel - 09 - haunted .mp3
03/03/2007 12:30 am 2,975,363 jewel - 10 - sweet temptation .mp3
03/03/2007 12:31 am 2,876,669 jewel - 11 - yes u can .mp3
03/03/2007 12:31 am 2,586,400 jewel - 12 - u & me = love .mp3
03/03/2007 12:31 am 2,655,985 jewel - 13 - america .mp3
03/03/2007 12:32 am 3,154,402 jewel - 14 - becoming .mp3
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03/02/2007 08:11 pm 2,614,626 the smashing pumpkins-annie-dog .mp3
03/02/2007 08:11 pm 2,565,730 the smashing pumpkins-appels + oranjes .mp3
03/02/2007 08:12 pm 3,134,043 the smashing pumpkins-ava adore .mp3
03/02/2007 08:09 pm 3,752,219 the smashing pumpkins-behold! the night mare .mp3
03/02/2007 08:08 pm 3,502,999 the smashing pumpkins-blank page .mp3
03/02/2007 08:12 pm 3,016,181 the smashing pumpkins-crestfallen .mp3
03/02/2007 08:13 pm 3,376,675 the smashing pumpkins-daphne descends .mp3
03/02/2007 08:10 pm 5,982,228 the smashing pumpkins-for martha .mp3
03/02/2007 08:12 pm 2,967,285 the smashing pumpkins-once upon a time .mp3
03/02/2007 08:11 pm 2,419,645 the smashing pumpkins-perfect .mp3
03/02/2007 08:08 pm 3,449,388 the smashing pumpkins-pug .mp3
03/02/2007 08:10 pm 4,789,786 the smashing pumpkins-shame .mp3
03/02/2007 08:09 pm 4,197,327 the smashing pumpkins-tear .mp3
03/02/2007 08:13 pm 3,287,355 the smashing pumpkins-the tale of dusty and pistol pete .mp3
03/02/2007 08:13 pm 3,381,998 the smashing pumpkins-to sheila .mp3
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03/02/2007 08:03 pm 2,602,119 relient k - failure to excommunicate .mp3
03/02/2007 08:03 pm 2,731,271 relient k - for the moments i feel faint .mp3
03/02/2007 08:04 pm 2,100,240 relient k - i'm lion-o .mp3
03/02/2007 08:04 pm 5,076,948 relient k - less is more .mp3
03/02/2007 08:04 pm 1,655,442 relient k - may the horse be with you .mp3
03/02/2007 08:05 pm 2,335,038 relient k - maybe it's maybeline .mp3
03/02/2007 08:05 pm 2,728,134 relient k - my way or the highway .mp3
03/02/2007 08:05 pm 2,518,722 relient k - pressing on .mp3
03/02/2007 08:05 pm 2,131,282 relient k - sadie hawkins dance .mp3
03/02/2007 08:06 pm 2,939,409 relient k - the rest is up to you .mp3
03/02/2007 08:06 pm 3,352,566 relient k - those words are not enough .mp3
03/02/2007 08:06 pm 2,443,511 relient k - what have you been doing lately- .mp3
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03/03/2007 12:48 am 2,828,096 11 fergie - mary jane shoes (ft rita marley) .mp3
03/03/2007 12:48 am 3,403,897 4 in the morning .mp3
03/03/2007 12:48 am 2,893,945 aqualung-brighter than sunshine .mp3
03/03/2007 12:49 am 2,327,501 black eyed peas - gone going .mp3
03/03/2007 12:49 am 2,611,175 corinne bailey rae - put your records on .mp3
03/03/2007 12:49 am 2,821,497 daniel powter - bad day .mp3
03/03/2007 12:50 am 2,767,903 dixie chicks - landslide .mp3
03/03/2007 12:50 am 2,864,366 dobie gray - drift away .mp3
03/03/2007 12:50 am 3,459,263 eagles - take it to the limite (greatest hits 08) .mp3
03/03/2007 12:51 am 3,398,619 early winter .mp3
03/03/2007 12:42 am 3,332,453 edwin mccain - i could not ask for more .mp3
03/03/2007 12:42 am 2,670,574 edwin mccain - i'll be .mp3
03/03/2007 12:43 am 4,500,466 elton john - tiny dancer .mp3
03/03/2007 12:43 am 2,895,433 elton john - your song .mp3
03/03/2007 12:43 am 2,402,114 elvis costello & burt bacharach - i'll never fall in love again .mp3
03/03/2007 12:44 am 2,956,942 five for fighting - 100 years .mp3
03/03/2007 12:44 am 3,135,014 green day - boulevard of broken dreams .mp3
03/03/2007 12:44 am 2,775,120 helene rolles - je m'appelle helene .mp3
03/03/2007 12:45 am 2,962,559 howie day - collide .mp3
03/03/2007 12:45 am 2,772,913 jet - look what you've done .mp3
03/03/2007 12:45 am 3,803,627 lifehouse - you and me .mp3
03/03/2007 12:46 am 3,634,333 no doubt - underneath it all .mp3
03/03/2007 12:46 am 2,633,767 red hot chili peppers - scar tissue .mp3
03/03/2007 12:46 am 2,974,075 rem - the one i love (live & acoustic - mtv unplugged) .mp3
03/03/2007 12:47 am 2,526,556 sarah mclachlan - rainbow connection .mp3
03/03/2007 12:47 am 2,926,855 sixpence none the richer - don't dream it's over .mp3
03/03/2007 12:47 am 1,861,073 the jesus and mary chain - sometimes always .mp3
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03/02/2007 07:54 pm 3,511,456 01 fergie - fergalicious .mp3
03/02/2007 07:54 pm 4,627,745 01_and_she_said_valentin_extended_mix__lucas_prata .mp3
03/02/2007 07:55 pm 2,898,624 04 fergie - london bridge .mp3
03/02/2007 07:55 pm 3,096,453 andrea burns-100 stories (sanger remix) .mp3
03/02/2007 07:55 pm 3,567,605 colette-feelin' hypnotized (blackliquid remix) .mp3
03/02/2007 07:56 pm 2,752,547 danity kane - show stopper .mp3
03/02/2007 07:56 pm 3,119,263 erasure - blue savannah .mp3
03/02/2007 07:56 pm 3,111,479 erasure - solsbury hill .mp3
03/02/2007 07:57 pm 2,773,566 frou frou - breathe in (radio edit) .mp3
03/02/2007 07:49 pm 2,377,038 groove armada - at the river .mp3
08/17/2006 05:12 pm 3,621,504 ivy - aha .mp3
03/02/2007 07:50 pm 3,121,369 les nubians - tabou (remix w the roots) .mp3
03/02/2007 07:50 pm 2,653,517 los lonely boys - heaven .mp3
03/02/2007 07:50 pm 3,212,715 madonna - american life .mp3
03/02/2007 07:51 pm 2,440,335 madonna - hung up (radio version) .mp3
03/02/2007 07:54 pm 2,685,498 nelly furtado - promiscuous (radio edit) .mp3
03/02/2007 07:51 pm 3,066,361 notorious b.i.g - big poppa (benocleaned) .mp3
03/02/2007 07:51 pm 3,184,090 olive - you're not alone .mp3
03/02/2007 07:52 pm 2,453,499 orange county girl .mp3
03/02/2007 07:52 pm 2,936,255 scissor sisters - i don't feel like dancin' (linus loves vocal edit) .mp3
12/16/1999 11:37 am 2,786,557 sneaker pimps - 6 underground .mp3
03/02/2007 07:52 pm 3,018,735 the federation - i wear my stunna glasses at night (dj louie lu) .mp3
03/02/2007 07:52 pm 2,065,136 the wolfpack - vans (rmx, dj louie lu) .mp3
03/02/2007 07:53 pm 3,006,744 usher - yeah! .mp3
03/02/2007 07:53 pm 3,264,475 zero 7 - in the waiting line .mp3
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03/02/2007 06:57 pm <dir> ..
03/02/2007 06:51 pm 3,859,733 apollo 440 - i feel you .mp3
03/02/2007 06:51 pm 2,080,174 deftones - to have and to hold .mp3
03/02/2007 06:51 pm 2,709,617 dishwalla - policy of truth .mp3
03/02/2007 06:52 pm 3,125,277 failure - enjoy the silence .mp3
03/02/2007 06:52 pm 3,875,427 god lives underwater - fly on the windscreen .mp3
03/02/2007 06:52 pm 3,857,847 gus gus - monument .mp3
03/02/2007 06:53 pm 2,870,118 hooverphonic - shake the disease .mp3
03/02/2007 06:53 pm 2,647,237 locust - master and servant .mp3
03/02/2007 06:53 pm 3,888,587 meat beat manifesto - everything counts .mp3
03/02/2007 06:54 pm 3,080,146 monster magnet - black celebration .mp3
03/02/2007 06:54 pm 5,453,117 rabbit in the moon - waiting for the night .mp3
03/02/2007 06:55 pm 3,413,663 rammstein - stripped .mp3
03/02/2007 06:55 pm 3,027,147 self - shame .mp3
03/02/2007 06:56 pm 3,501,441 the cure - world in my eyes .mp3
03/02/2007 06:56 pm 2,896,465 the smashing pumpkins - never let me down again .mp3
03/02/2007 06:56 pm 2,949,416 veruca salt - somebody .mp3
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03/02/2007 07:05 pm <dir> ..
03/02/2007 07:01 pm 2,702,091 jars of clay-all my tears .mp3
03/02/2007 07:02 pm 2,398,973 jars of clay-dead man (carry me) .mp3
03/02/2007 07:02 pm 3,140,010 jars of clay-even angels cry .mp3
03/02/2007 06:58 pm 2,940,328 jars of clay-good monsters .mp3
03/02/2007 06:58 pm 3,378,249 jars of clay-light gives heat .mp3
03/02/2007 06:59 pm 2,859,456 jars of clay-mirrors & smoke .mp3
03/02/2007 06:59 pm 4,384,164 jars of clay-oh my god .mp3
03/02/2007 07:00 pm 2,764,467 jars of clay-surprise .mp3
03/02/2007 07:00 pm 3,360,378 jars of clay-take me higher .mp3
03/02/2007 07:00 pm 2,775,447 jars of clay-there is a river .mp3
03/02/2007 07:01 pm 2,855,388 jars of clay-water under the bridge .mp3
03/02/2007 07:01 pm 2,807,408 jars of clay-work .mp3
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03/03/2007 12:41 am <dir> ..
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03/03/2007 12:38 am 2,069,491 relient k - high of '75 .mp3
03/03/2007 12:38 am 3,375,834 relient k - i so hate consequences .mp3
03/03/2007 12:38 am 3,658,157 relient k - let it all out .mp3
03/03/2007 12:39 am 3,683,050 relient k - life after death & taxes (failure ii) .mp3
03/03/2007 12:39 am 2,413,275 relient k - maintain consciousness .mp3
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03/03/2007 12:35 am 2,079,375 relient k - my girls ex-boyfriend .mp3
03/03/2007 12:35 am 2,552,246 relient k - the one i'm waiting for .mp3
03/03/2007 12:36 am 1,034,938 relient k - the only thing worse than beating a dead horse is betting on one .mp3
03/03/2007 12:36 am 2,506,533 relient k - this week the trend .mp3
03/03/2007 12:36 am 5,665,940 relient k - when i go down .mp3
03/03/2007 12:37 am 3,527,249 relient k - which to bury, us or the hatchet .mp3
03/03/2007 12:37 am 3,251,863 relient k - who i am hates who i've been .mp3
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03/02/2007 08:01 pm 2,437,536 hawk nelson - bring 'em out .mp3
03/02/2007 08:01 pm 2,939,413 hawk nelson - everything you ever wanted .mp3
03/02/2007 08:01 pm 3,484,206 hawk nelson - fourteen .mp3
03/02/2007 07:58 pm 2,968,557 hawk nelson - head on collision .mp3
03/02/2007 07:59 pm 2,161,049 hawk nelson - hello .mp3
03/02/2007 07:59 pm 2,432,211 hawk nelson - is forever enough .mp3
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03/02/2007 08:00 pm 3,109,621 hawk nelson - something on my mind .mp3
03/02/2007 08:00 pm 2,246,645 hawk nelson - the one thing i have left .mp3
03/02/2007 08:00 pm 2,316,531 hawk nelson - the show .mp3
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10/23/2006 03:51 pm 4,177,816 storyside_b - dance to me (connect sets) .mp3
10/23/2006 03:51 pm 3,455,989 storyside_b - everything and more(connect sets) .mp3
10/23/2006 03:51 pm 3,313,792 storyside_b - it's not over (connect sets) .mp3
10/23/2006 03:51 pm 3,892,171 storyside_b - miracle (connect sets) .mp3
10/23/2006 03:51 pm 3,327,553 storyside_b - more to this life (connect sets) .mp3
10/23/2006 03:51 pm 4,301,665 storyside_b - off the ground (connect sets) .mp3
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03/03/2007 01:06 am <dir> ..
03/02/2007 07:10 pm 2,303,669 american hi-fi - flavor of the week .mp3
03/02/2007 07:23 pm 3,107,380 ataris - boys of summer .mp3
03/02/2007 07:13 pm 2,451,900 avril lavigne - sk8er boi .mp3
03/02/2007 07:15 pm 2,589,072 blink 182 - all the small things .mp3
03/02/2007 07:05 pm 1,759,815 blink 182 - what's my age age again .mp3
03/02/2007 07:08 pm 2,080,163 blink-182 - feeling this .mp3
08/18/2006 10:26 am 3,085,419 bowling for soup - 1985 .mp3
08/17/2006 01:28 pm 3,436,505 bowling for soup - girl all the bad guys want .mp3
03/02/2007 07:20 pm 2,938,450 carbon leaf - learn to fly .mp3
03/02/2007 07:31 pm 4,064,169 chris tomlin - where the streets have no name .mp3
03/02/2007 07:14 pm 2,579,847 cowboy junkies - sweet jane .mp3
03/02/2007 07:18 pm 2,861,634 creed - one last breath .mp3
03/02/2007 07:30 pm 3,913,019 delirious - all this time .mp3
03/02/2007 07:22 pm 3,040,324 delirious - here i am send me .mp3
03/02/2007 07:16 pm 2,756,682 delirious - pride (in the name of love) .mp3
03/02/2007 07:22 pm 3,007,729 depeche mode - precious .mp3
06/14/2006 11:23 pm 3,105,709 diamond nights-the girl's attractive .mp3
03/02/2007 07:08 pm 2,111,210 dinosaur jr - just like heaven .mp3
03/02/2007 07:31 pm 4,073,194 dinosaur jr - start choppin .mp3
03/02/2007 07:06 pm 1,970,036 dope - you spin me right round .mp3
03/02/2007 07:25 pm 3,253,813 elton john - don't go breaking my heart .mp3
03/02/2007 07:19 pm 2,871,629 evanescence - bring me to life .mp3
03/02/2007 07:07 pm 2,030,944 ex-idols - go away .mp3
03/02/2007 07:26 pm 3,409,308 fighting instinct - like it, love it, need it .mp3
03/02/2007 07:25 pm 3,252,853 finger eleven - one thing .mp3
03/02/2007 07:14 pm 2,491,677 firehose - sometimes .mp3
03/02/2007 07:13 pm 2,839,961 garbage - im only happy when it rains .mp3
03/02/2007 07:12 pm 2,423,413 garbage - when i grow up .mp3
03/02/2007 07:09 pm 2,141,606 gnarls barkley - crazy .mp3
03/02/2007 07:09 pm 2,175,777 good charlotte - girls & boys .mp3
03/02/2007 07:19 pm 2,920,261 good charlotte - hold on .mp3
03/02/2007 07:06 pm 1,970,757 good charlotte - i just wanna live .mp3
03/02/2007 07:07 pm 1,982,070 good charlotte - if you leave .mp3
03/02/2007 07:09 pm 2,121,562 good charlotte - the anthem .mp3
03/02/2007 07:08 pm 2,115,302 green day - american idiot .mp3
03/02/2007 07:06 pm 1,854,799 green day - good riddance (time of your life) .mp3
03/02/2007 07:20 pm 2,938,451 h.i.m - wicked game .mp3
03/02/2007 07:17 pm 2,776,396 hoobastank - the reason .mp3
03/02/2007 07:06 pm 1,909,573 jack johnson - flake (acoustic) .mp3
03/02/2007 07:07 pm 1,991,693 jimmy eats world - it just takes some time .mp3
03/02/2007 07:17 pm 2,764,462 joy division-ceremony .mp3
03/02/2007 07:29 pm 3,550,644 joy division-dead souls .mp3
03/02/2007 07:13 pm 2,471,074 joy division-love will tear us apart .mp3
03/02/2007 07:27 pm 3,431,224 joy division-she's lost control .mp3
03/02/2007 07:32 pm 5,511,710 joy division-sister ray .mp3
03/02/2007 07:12 pm 2,452,271 juliana hatfield three-my sister .mp3
03/02/2007 07:32 pm 1,722,520 juliana hatfield three-spin the bottle .mp3
03/02/2007 07:07 pm 2,080,810 juliana hatfield three-supermodel .mp3
03/02/2007 07:09 pm 2,253,799 kim ahjoong - maria .mp3
03/02/2007 07:15 pm 2,597,669 linkin park - in the end (remix) .mp3
03/02/2007 07:26 pm 3,403,311 oasis-supersonic .mp3
03/02/2007 07:25 pm 3,199,510 orgy - blue monday .mp3
03/02/2007 07:32 pm 1,657,188 pennywise - california dreaming .mp3
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this morn, i skateboarded w/ sooni but did not go to the sunnyvale skate park 4 a morn skate sesh (skateboarding session). that does not make me happy, but i had 2 many housechores to do n' was runnin' late. instead, i simply went to werk extra early. i went to teach taekwondo last nite. i still feel a li'l sick, un4tunately, but am gettin' better li'l by li'l. i know what's keepin' me from recoverin' faster's all this stress@werk.com. aktually, things've been better lately, but i still have plenty'f pressure.
[later] *sigh* i'm still tryin' to get some soft bushings 4 my independent stage 9 129mm low eric koston trucks. just now, i called up fishbanks to ask what bushings they've got, n' it's still the same stuff. *sigh* man, i might wanna try drivin' over to either caliskatz in fremont or nc boardshp in los gatos on sun afternoon, if i have time. 2day, i had fun skateboarding w/ sooni. while she was peein' or sniffin' 'round; i got onto a curb n' prakticed pivoting off a 50.50 onto my tail. in the process, i scratched the "koston" logo on my truck hanger. *sigh* it's like u pay $$$ 4 some silly log n' then it all gets scratched off neway. that is what skateboarding's all 'bout tho', eh? there's that book 'bout the art'f skateboard decks called disposable, rt? yah... i, personally, consider it all a great parallel w/ life: in order to create a thing'f beauty (skateboard tricks) u've gotta let ur board n' trucks n' all get all scuffed up. such is life... in order to create beauty in ur life, in order to succeed, in order to have a full life; u've gotta go thru the bad times as well... however... even tho' u get banged up n' damaged, god still loves u n' thinks u'r beautiful.
every time i visit or call fishbanks, it's always that same lady werkin' there. hrm, is she the only person that werks there? maybe she's the owner; i dunno. 'gain, i sometimes wonder how that store survives. i dunno... their deck inventory turns over 'lot; so there must be lots'f kids that come in during the afternoon n' buy tons'f stuff. the store has lots'f space that they don't use. mayb, in the afternoon, lots'f kids go, n' it gets crowded. i dunno. whenever i go, it's all empty. oh yah, the 1st time i went, it was to $hop 4 pads, eh? i $hopped there n' @ copelands, n' ended up buyin'em on amazon.com
월요일 저녁: if i were to say that this past wknd was a very full wknd, u'd prob'ly say that i say every wknd's a "full wknd." well, *shrug* this wknd was a full wknd, but i've had wknds that were more full or fuller. fri nite; after finally bustin' out'f werk, went home to cook dinner 4 the beautiful kaela hwang, n' then went to grx t3 light bible study. on sat, i spent dio de san patricio on the slopes'f kirkwood w/ my taekwondo students. on sun, i went to grx n' had various church.related aktivities. also, i took kaela out 4 dinner @ amber india @ santana row, n' we watched mira nair's film the namesake.
2day, i recieved my packages'f goodies from snowbomb.com. this's really kewl!
i skateboarded w/ sooni this morn but didn't hit up the sunnyvale skate park this morn 4 a morn skate sesh (skateboarding session), which upsets me. instead, i went into werk early. *sigh* well, the snowboarding daytrip to kirkwood on sat n' 2day's snowbomb.com stuff's got me more stoked on snowboarding than skateboarding @ the moment. after all, i'm much better @ snowboarding. the cellfon video footage i took'f myself last wk kind'f rein4ced that pt. even tho' i have fun grinding up the small bowl, it looks like such small peanuts compared to the tricks i can do on a snowboard. watching the videos was a li'l discouraging. *sigh* it might start raining 2nite, n' kaela n' i'll be in socal next wknd, so no boardsports. :-(
화요일 아침: how r u? i'm ok. i'm just ok. i don't feel 100% content w/ life, but... *sigh* maybe i'm just a whiner. *shrug* havin' been so stressed@werk.com over the past couple'f months, it's hard to be 100% content. however, i know god blesses me w/ much, n' i appreciate that. i couldn't ask 4 nethin' more, rt? i mentioned yesterday, that on sun nite, the beautiful kaela hwang n' i watched mira nair's film the namesake starring kal penn of harold and kumar go to white castle fame. of course, kal penn's role in this film's much more serious. *sigh* this film talks 'bout like 'least 2 generations'f an indian.amerikan family: immigrant parents n' born.in.amerika kids. the film made me think 'bout life, death, relationships, family, purpose.in.life... the purpose driven life; obviously, that's the name'f a very famous, popular book. i've never read it.
it rained this morn. i didn't skateboard w/ sooni n' didn't hit up the sunnyvale skate park 4 a morn skate sesh (skateboarding session). yah, these past couple'f days, i haven't felt like much'f a skateboarder, more'f a snowboarder. i took sooni 4 a walk on foot this morn cos'f the rain. wouldn'tchu know that it'd just start rainin' as soon as we stepped out'f the front door? i had put my vans skateboarding shoes on n' was ready to skate w/ sooni. usually, i walk out the front door, open up the garage door, fetch my skateboard out'f my car, n' then take off w/ sooni. well, 2day, we walked. rt now, it's the city'f santa clara's annual spring cleaning dump time. ppl r 'llowed to throw all their trash unto the curbside, n' then the city sends ppl out to haul it 'way. it's a very fun time 4 sooni. she loves to sniff all the junk that ppl throw out. i took her 4 a long walk 2day to humour her. i hope she had fun.
[later] 오후: i had lunch w/ kaela @ 명동 순주부집 myungdong soondubujip. it's raining harder now. didju know that there's a 1975 horror movie called the milpitas monster? i was born in 1975.
[later] phew! brief scare... i thought i accidentally overwote this entry w/ a review i wrote 4 judysbook.com 'bout snowbomb.com. nope, i stored it in a file w/ the same name but diff direktory. whew. neway, u've gotta check out this link i found on superdave kim's starkdavingmad: diego goldberg: the arrow of time (http://zonezero.com/magazine/essays/diegotime/time.html). that makes me wanna dig thru some ol' pix n' post'em up or 'least organise'em, so that i can c how i (n' also kaela) have changed in appearance over the yrs. ppl think i'm younger than i aktually am. i hope that lasts. *sigh* however, ppl my age rn't concerned 'bout snowboarding n' skateboarding like i am. i mean, they might like snowboarding but rn't into it as much as me n' definitely rn't into skateboarding. they're into raisin' their li'l kids, parenting. otherwise, they're 'least into travelin' the world.
[later] "toi, c'et très complique, mais il est fou d'être trop raisonnable moi. l'amour, c'est plus fort que j'ai besoin de toi." that's the bit français from bijou's "love love." hrm, sumpthin' doesn't look rt 'bout the grammar in those sentences, n' i 'member hearing that there's sumpthin' wrong w/ it. uh, what does it mean? otherwise, what r they tryin' to say? i think that they're tryin' to say, "u? u'r 2 complicated, but it's crazy to be 2 reasonable like me. love? it's 2 strong, so i need u." *shrug*
수요일 아침: i had a decent morn despite the fakt that it rained last nite n' so the ground was wet. u c, i ran out the door w/ sooni n' myskateboard n' then noticed that the ground was wet. i skated w/ sooni fine n' then went to the sunnyvale skate park 4 a morn skate sesh (morning skateboarding session). the park was wet, n' there were some "teenage punk" types there 4 some strange reason (is it spring brk 4 kids already?); but i still skated n' had fun. since i wasn't planning to go big cos'f the wet surface, i didnt' bother padding up. i just skated. still, that's bad; i should pad up most'f the time. i don't wanna get hurt. thankfully, i haven't really gotten hurt... god, plz continue to watch over me!
during lunch, the beautiful kaela hwang picked me up from werk.com, n' we went to the mexicali grill in the mercado (rt in the heart'f silikon valley) w/ a 2.4.1. ¢oupon that i printed off'f valpak.com. in the parking, after lunch, i met up w/ a woman to sell off my 2 diamond peak lift ticket vouchers (4 $40 total). i also gave her 2 free "basic" tahoe cards. ah, i gotta say, it's fun bein' so involved w/ snowboarding, snowsports, boardsports... @ a recent session'f grx's t3 light couples small group bible study, we played an ice breaker game that was like the newlywed game, where we each answered questions 'bout our spouses. 1'f the questinos was: "if $$$ weren't a concern, what would he/she want to do 4 a profession." kaela wrote down "dj or snowboard shop owner," n' she was absolutely correkt. my cousin walter pted out tho' that u don't wanna be stuck in the shop on wknds while every1 else is off playin' in the snow. true... but i do like boardsports equipment just as i like the boardsports themselves. i wish i could have my own snowboard/skateboard shop n' dj in it. some ppl prob'ly think owning n' operatin' a skateboard shop is risky cos u'll get punk kids, n' i do think that's 'least somewhat true, but i'm always pushin' 4 more posi+ive role models n' a more posi+ive image 4 skateboarding. if i could werk 4 snowbomb.com n' get a decent salary n' get to stay down here in the silikon valley, i think i would. they cm to be a very promisin' venture.
[later] so 2day, kaela n' i had lunch @ mexicali grill. we each ordered a 3.item combo to max out the value'f the 2.4.1 combo ¢oupon. they have a name 4 that combo, sumpthin' like "el rey." what does that mean? *shrug* [less than a min later] i checked babelfish.altavista.com, n' "el rey" means "the king." ah, that makes sense. "le roi" = "el rey" = "the king." makes sense... thus, monterey must mean sumpthin' like "king mountain," eh? wow, so "cruz" means "cross," so "santa cruz" must be the same thing as "saint croix," rt? "alameda" = "tree.lined avenue." "alma" = "soul." "alma den" = "soul gives." neway, kaela picked: tamale, chile relleno, n' beef enchilada (i think). i picked: tamale, chile relleno, n' chicken taco. we also ordered the sweet corn tamale appetizer. the tamale was special; it had mole rojo sauce. we took home lots'f leftovers.
while i'm on the topik'f fud, let's talk 'bout the delicious indian fud we had on sun nite @ amber india, santana row: teen mirch ka fish tikka (tandoori sea bass), bhara jungli khumb (portabella shroom stuffed w/ paneer n' asparagus bhurjee), asparagus kofta, n' the bread basket. also, kaela ordered a glass'f riesling, n' i had a 1.pt bottle'f taj mahal lager. also, 4 dessert, we shared an order'f gulfi n' each had a cup'f chai. yah, 'twas an extravagant meal, n' we took home lots'f leftovers which we ate @ home on mon 4 lunch.
[later] kaela was really happy that i sold off those diamond peak tix cos she didn't wanna go back, 'specially since last time, the lift exit was all icy, so she slipped. it's a bit'f a dinky, li'l resort n' out'f the way. i didn't wanna drive out there, 'specially not 4 a daytrip. we'd gotten those tix free from the tahoe tourism reps @ the bay area snow show. the woman who bought them was very happy to get them 'specially @ such a good price. i also gave her 2 snowbomb.com "basic" tahoe cards, so she can get more di$counts, n' snowbomb.com gets more exponsure. dude, it's a win.win.win.win.win situation! i win, kaela wins, the buyer wins, the resort wins, snowbomb.com wins; everybody wins.
shiftin' from snowboarding to skateboarding: i still need to get some soft hardcore bones bushings. where can i get some? nc boardshop? caliskatz? i'm sure caliskatz'll have'em, but they're all the way in fremont, n' fremont has higher sales tax.
[later] 세월 유수 seiwuhl yoosoo: this past sat nite, clarence was asking me questions 'bout how to learn to snowboard better n' asked me to draw from my experience. i've been snowboarding since 1992. it's been a long time. those questions made me dig deep into my memory. wow, how life has changed. snowboarding's been w/ me over many yrs, so it brought me thru many stages'f my life. i thought 'bout things that happened during college n' after college, during grad skool, 'til now. *sigh* i started 'memberin' ppl i used to snowboard w/. u know, this season, i had the chance to snowboard w/ some friends that i snowboarded w/ in the past but not in a long time. that would be ppl like toby, dave, n' eric. i dunno if phil counts cos i think i have snowboarded w/ him sometime in the past few yrs. oh yah, in socal. i've snowboarded 'lot over the yrs.
[later] 밤, 1048p: after a longday@werk.com, i went to will's turbo kick box (tkb) class @ the east arques 24 hour fitness in sunnyvale. afterwards, after stretching, prakticing a li'l taekwondo, gathering my stuff from the locker, etc.; i stopped by ¢0$+¢0 to fill up on 87 oktane gas @ $3.059/gal. expen$ive, eh? then i came home. kaela n' i ate some fridge pack 수제비 soojeibi.
금요일 아침: this morn, i discovered a whole bunch'f fraudulent aktivity on my ebay account: a whole mess'f elektronics pur¢ha$es in germany! i'm chattin' w/ an ebay
rep rt now, tryin' to sort it out.
- sony ericsson w850i precious black (200092694846) from kutscheluppi (51) eur 200.00
- nokia 6233 classic black wie neu mit garantie (250097538815) eur 209.00
- samsung sgh-e900 noir - tous opérateurs - gar. 1 an (140100065829) from jmarc9661(129) eur 200.00
- nokia 6680 gps tomtom avec carte sd 512 mo (120101153330) beste_schop(39) qty 2 eur 663.80
- nokia n73 *OVP* garantie *neu* (260096943898) dannycn321(13) eur 325.00
- nokia n73 handy **music edition** (220095492206) marsi120(25) eur 230.00
- sony ericsson W900i weiß wie neu (120101243467) euroexpress1tiger(4304)
- nokia n73 *OVP* garantie *neu* (260096943898) from beste_schop(38) qty 2 eur 663.80
일요일 아침, 814a: the beautiful kaela hwang n' i'r in socal, n' sohee's watchin' sooni n' our house. yesterday morn, i hit up the sunnyvale skate park 4 a morn skate sesh (morning skateboarding session) n' also brought sooni. i started doin' rock to fakies. i felt bad 4 ridin' the small bowl n' not pushin' myself cos this 1 dude jerry, b4 i dropped in 1nce sed, "ok, let's see something fancy now," so i knew people were sick of seeing me do my usual. however, i was riding really boringly especially cos my left ankle was kind'f all misaligned or sumpthin'. i had taped it up b4 goin' to the park.
last nite, kaela n' i had an extravagant dinner @ yamashiro w/ kaela's skoolmates rachel n' ken, who might get married there.
[later] 밤, 1120p: many yrs 'go i talked 'bout a japanese bunny named yuebing who has become a big internet star. well, this is a page w/ some'f her best pix: http://www.h6.dion.ne.jp/~yuebing/031102/031102-2.htm.
2day, we ate brkfast w/ kaela's parents 2 some chino café burger place. i 4get the exakt name. they had good decaf coffee. after that, kaela's bro jay dropped us off in irvine 4 the 2nd church service @ newsong covenant church (http://www.newsong.net/). we met pastor dave gibbons there n' told him we came from their sister church grx. after church, jay picked us up, n' we went to his place in quail hill (or whate'er it's called) in a new part'f irvine. i think the neighbourhood or region might be called sand canyon or sumpthin'. we hung 'round there 4 a li'l while n' then went out to bevmo n' cvs in a strip mall that had a 24 hour fitness active. we needed to buy disposable champagne glasses n' some b.day candles. then we went to 'nother strip mall n' had boba.type drinks @ a lollicup café. kaela n' jay had watermelon juice, n' i had blueberry yogurt slushee. none'f us had boba. we browse thru a li'l sanrio / morning glory type store called kitty house. then we went back to jay's place n' watched 'least 0.5'f jet li's fearless. then, we took off 4 garden grove to go to 북경 bookkyuhng 4 kaela's dad's 60th b.day banquet.
life's gettin' bizzy soon btwn werk ('f course) n' djing, so i'm gonna hafta cut sumpthin' out. i think i'll be skippin' some turbo kick box (tkb) classes soon. it's gonna rain on mon nite n' maybe tues, so i won't get to skate (skateboard) much this wk. still, i'm on course to hit up squaw valley on sat 4 a snowboarding day trip. *sigh* @ the same time, some taekwondo friends have all these big plans 4 clubbin' on sat nite. i might have a very exhausting wknd next wknd. werk hard, play hard.
kaela n' i r flyin' out'f ontario aeroport @ 610a 2morrow morn. i have a mtg@werk.com @ 930a. i bet my mgr sent me some tasks to do over the wknd, but i haven't had access to my e.mail. it'll be a hektic morn!
화요일 저녁: this morn, i skateboarded w/ sooni n' had a morn skate sesh (skateboarding session) @ the sunnyvale skate park even tho' it had rained last nite. i saw that the ground was pretty dry, so i proceeded. i needed to get back on board, u know? on sat, i had started doing rock.to.fakies, n' i didn't wanna lose that. well, i did them ok 4 a while but then started to regress. i started puttin' my back fut down on my way back down, n' that'd really cause probs. *sigh* aktually, 1 semi.trick that i started doin' 2day (better than rock.to.fakies) is pivoting from 50.50 stall to tail stall. these r a couple'f long overdue tricks. dude, when i got to the skate park, i was all alone. then some teenager came. then some like drug dealer came n' sold the kid sumpthin'. man, that wasn't the 1st time i saw sumpthin' like a drug deal go down. i don't like cin' that, but... *sigh* man, it's a skrewed up world. it was really cold this morn, so i padded up but put on my planet earth wool jacket on top of my pads.
@ lunchtime, the beautiful kaela hwang (who's on spring brk) dropped her car off 4 brake werk @ 애이스 자동차 정비 ace auto repair. we went 4 a rushed lunch @ 옛날 짜장 yeitnal jjajang: kaela had 짜장면 jjajangmyuhn, n' i had 고추 짬뽕 gochoo jjambbong. kaela dropped me off @ home in my subaru, n' i rode my bike to an afternoon class 4 werk.com.
dude, yesterday_evening@werk.com, i heard that 1'f my cowerkers died @ home. we think he had a heart attack. *sigh* it's such a frickin' shame. this hi pressure industry n' all... *sigh* *shake head* he was a big time smoker tho'. ppl need to stay healthy! i refused to werk extra late but went to sach's 730p turbo kick box (tkb) class @ the sunnyvale east arques 24 hr fitness. 4 dinner, kaela cooked some pasta.
rolling stone magazine's "best songs" of 2006 (http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/12769472/the_100_best_songs_of_2006)
1. gnarls barkley - "crazy"
2. the raconteurs - "steady as she goes"
3. chamillionaire - "ridin'"
4. t.i. - "what you know"
5. the pack - "vans"
6. bob dylan - "thunder on the mountain"
7. lily allen - "smile"
8. clipse with slim thug - "wamp wamp (what it do)"
9. wolfmother - "dimension"
10. goldfrapp - "ooh la la"
11. pearl jam - "world wide suicide"
12. the killers - "read my mind"
13. the flaming lips - "free radicals"
14. cham - "ghetto story"
15. afi - "miss murder"
16. the strokes - "you only live once"
17. my chemical romance - "welcome to the black parade"
18. christina aguilera - "ain't no other man"
19. the rapture - "get myself into it"
20. the dixie chicks - "the long way around"
21. justin timeberlake - "sexyback"
22. the red hot chili peppers - "tell me baby"
23. regina spektor - "fidelity"
24. bruce springsteen - "how can a poor man stand such times and live"
25. arctic monkeys - "when the sun goes down"
26. tv on the radio - "province"
27. mastodon - "capillarian crest"
28. the raconteurs - "level"
29. gnarls barkley - "smiley faces"
30. hot chip - "over & over"
31. thom yorke - "the clock"
32. cherish - "do it to it"
33. the hold steady - "chillout tent"
34. the killers - "when you were young"
35. the decemberists - "summersong"
36. rihanna - "sos"
37. beck - "strange apparition"
38. dirty pretty things - "gin & milk"
39. fall out boy - "dance, dance"
40. sonic youth - "incinerate"
41. cassie - "me & u"
42. chris smither - "origin of species"
43. the sounds - "tony the beat"
44. rick ross - "hustlin'"
45. chris borwn - "yo (excuse me miss)"
46. cold war kids - "hang me up to dry"
47. tokyo police club - "cheer it on"
48. shawnna with ludacris - "he said, she said"
49. snow patrol - "chasing cars"
50. justin timberlake - "my love"
51. prince - "black sweat"
52. taking back sunday - "makedamnsure"
53. the decemberists - "o valencia!"
54. ghostface killah - "kilo"
55. beck - "nausea"
56. nelly furtado with timbaland - "promiscuous"
57. lady sovereign - "love me or hate me"
58. outkast - "idlewild blues"
59. kelis with too $hort - "bossy"
60. yeah yeah yeahs - "phenomena"
61. css - "let's make love and listen to death from above"
62. the rakes - "work, work, work (pub, club sleep)"
63. band of horses - "the funeral"
64. corinne bailey rae - "put your records on"
65. ben kweller - "penny on the train track"
66. eef barzelay - "ballad of bitter honey"
67. beyoncé with jay.z - "dèja vu"
68. arctic monkeys - "bigger boys and stolen sweethearts"
ush do somethin' crazy
69. jay.z - "trouble"
70. lupe fiasco - "i gotcha"
71. yeah yeah yeahs - "let me know"
72. the walkmen - "louisiana"
73. the long winters - "pushovers"
74. tapes n' tapes - "just drums"
75. carrie underwood - "before he cheats"
76. be your own pet - "fire department"
77. "weird al" yankovic - "trapped in the drive.thru"
78. solomon burke - "that's how i got to memphis"
79. yung joc with nitti - "it's going down"
80. pimp c - "i'm free"
81. sean paul - "temperature"
82. fergie - "london bridge"
83. elvis costello and allen toussiant - "who's gonna help brother get further"
84. panic! at the disco - "the only difference between martyrdom and suicide is press coverage"
85. silversun pickups - "well thought out twinkles"
86. green day and u2 - "the saints are coming"
87. pink "u + ur hand"
88. cat power - "the greatest"
89. john legend - "show me"
90. james kochalka superstar - "britney's silver can"
91. the pussycat dolls - "buttons"
92. dropkick murphys - "i'm shipping up to boston"
93. tom petty - "saving grace"
94. li'l wayne and birdman - "stuntin' like my daddy"
95. the roots - "don't feel right"
96. oakley hall - "if i was in el dorado"
97. teddybears - "automatic lover"
98. amerie - "take control"
99. the coup with silk e - "baby let's have a baby before bush do somethin' crazy"
100. amy millan - "skinny boy"
*sigh* dude, there just ain't 'nuff hrs in a day. it's hard to come out'f this burnout mood.
수요일 아침: this morn, i woke up not 2 early. i drove my car w/ sooni over to andy's 애이스 자동차 정비 ace auto care. i dropped it off 4 brake pad changes n' an oil change. then, i skateboarded back w/ sooni. skateboarding is fun. the hard black bushings on my independent stage 9 129mm low eric koston trucks r starting to break in, so i have a more com4table, looser ride. i still do want to change those black bushings out 4 some bones hardcore soft bushings tho'. *sigh* did i mention? now that i'm doin' 50.50 stalls to tail stall (pivots), i'm startin' to rub off the "koston" logo on my trucks. wow, that's the nature'f skateboard graphics: they're only temporary; very temporary. that's why there's that book titled disposable.
here r some interesting links, 'gain from (super)dave kim's starkdavingmad.com:
- "how to: tricks of the trade"(http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/how_to/tricks_of_the_trade.php)
- "ten ways being a geek makes you more attractive"(http://mingle2.com/blog/view/10-ways-being-a-geek-makes-you-more-attractive)
- real simple's "101 new uses for everyday things: the multitasking hall of fame" (http://www.realsimple.com/realsimple/gallery/0,21863,1030084-2,00.html)
recently, dave sed sumpthin' 'bout in his blog 'bout breakin' up w/ a gf. i think the fakt that he's postin' links like "top 10 child actresses that grew up to be hotties" n' "celebrity babes with high iqs"'s sort'f indikative'f this. heh heh, no offense; just an observation. i'm always snaggin' links from dave's site, not cos i want to use his links to make my blog more interesting but cos i wanna 'member to go back n' read this links or print'em or whate'er. how many real readers do i have neway? it's mostly just me. if i had real readers, more'f'em'd sign my gbook!
'puter frustrations: why can't my lg vx8500 chocolate connekt to my laptop via bluetooth? why does my windows xp on my laptop not c my sony dvd burner??? did the "netwerk_nazis@wer.com" push some kind'f applikation to disable my bluetooth n' my dvd/cd burning capabilities? it's possible. recently, they pushed symantec netbackup, a program that backs up data on ur drive to a netwerk drive. the thing is that i noticed that it's set to backup all ur "my documents" files, n' so it's aktually very easy 4 the corporation to search ur personal docs. i have reason to believe it's configured to delete all mp3s from our 'puters, even totally legal 1s. i don't like that. oh yah, it's also configured to back up all ur internet explorer bookmarks. >:-/ hrm, sounds very fishy to me!
[later] 오후: during my lunchbrk, i had lunch w/ the beautiful kaela hwang @ bombay gardens, where pasand used to be on el camino real @ lawrence expwy near osh n' albersons. man, i'm stuffed. buffet lunch's like $10.50/person or so. it comes w/ drinks, including chai. they have a big, big buffet. it's really tasty stuff, n' they play indian musik videos on flat panel screens. [later] afterwards, kaela dropped me off to pick up my car. i got all 4 disc brake pads changed n' an oil change. when i got back to the office n' parked my car, i kind'f expekted to c my cowerker outside smoking. then i 'member that he died. it's quite sad.
as i sed in an earlier entry (this wknd), life's gonna get very bizzy soon w/ djing stuff. i'm mtg 2nite w/ some clients, so i'll miss my turbo kick box (tkb) class. i'll prob'ly be cuttin' back on turbo kick box (tkb) 4 a li'l while un4tunately. *sigh* i gotta make time 4 dj stuff. djing, taekwondo, church stuff, snowboarding/skateboarding, ... how do i balance it all? the important thing's that i don't watch much tv. i don't watch much tv n' i don,'t "party" 2 much.
일요일 오후, 205p: yesterday was a total snowbomb style day even tho' i didn't meet up w/ the snowbomb.com staff like i sed i would. it was just 2 hard to plan 4 me. neway, i was up @ squaw w/ my taekwondo student ken, w/ clarence, w/ walter, n' w/ walter's friends ben n' daniel. we had a good time but the snow got kind'f slow in many places. aktually, it got very slow in many places. however, i got to ride the "superpipe" halfpipe... altho' only 1nce, n' i got to ride thru the mainline terrain park a few times or so. i rode rails n' boxes n' got ride 1 transfer quarterpipe... like a quarterpipe where u jump from 1 quarterpipe to 'nother. uhm, aktually, i dunno if i should call it "transfer" quarterpipe... it's not like a spine transfer or nething... *sigh* aktually, come to think'f it... it's a li'l depressing cos i used to have more guts to do stuff like ride up a big quarterpipe jump over a spine and drop back in on the other side. dude, what happened to me? i have lets guts but more teknical skillz.
this afternoon... later this afternoon, i've gotta drive up to san francisco to meet up w/ a dj client. man, gas's expen$ive these days; very expen$ive. well, i'm gonna try to hit up the slopes 'least 1 more time this season. however, as we cruise thru april into may (as april's rushin' into may), i'll need to transition from snowboarding into djing. however, skateboarding'll always still be there! :-) heh heh... skateboarding's the best in the morning cos i don't wanna absorb 2 many uv rays. the sun damages ur skin. protekt urself!
the beautiful kaela hwang wants me to go give sooni a bath now, so i've gotta jet 4 now. i'm writing this while sittin' on a lounge chair in my backyard w/ my feet propped up on 'nother lounge chair. sooni's back here w/ me, loungin'. as soon as i let her out she ran to the sunny part'f the patio n' plopped down like a dead doggy. a cool breeze gently blows by me, convekting heat 'way from me, but i'm wearin' my courduroy pants n' also my brown zip.up sweater, so i'm ok. it's a sunny day, but i'm sittin' in the shade. i'm a bit drowsy cos'f the long drive yesterday n' cos i was up a li'l late on fri nite @ our friend mark's b.day party @ rumors hof.
월요일 아침: april fool's day came n' went; but i didn't c many april fool's day jokes yesterday (sunday). i saw google had some funny jokes. as i sed, i'm making this transition from snowboarding season to dj season. i still wanna hit up either kirkwood or sugar bowl on april 21 4 a day of only terrain park riding since that's the only kind'f riding u can really do in this soft, soft spring snow.
[later] 오후: i dunno where the beautiful kaela hwang is, but i'm assuming we're gonna have lunch 2gether but haven't heard from her, haven't received a fon call from her. i'm assuming she's cing a patient, maybe my cousin walter. [later] ok, she's on her way. she wasn't cin' a patient. rather, some doktor in her clinik simply wouldn't stop talkin' to her. *shrug* 'f cousre, i hope he's not some durty perv.
so i played that snowtrip mp3 cd in my car this wknd. it has lots'f rock n' punk songs as well as some other stuff like soft stuff n' dance, pop, n' hip.hop tunes. that cd only has 1 korean song: ivy's "a-ha." [a li'l later] if u 'member, i made that mp3 cd, keepin' in mind that our friend eric j. would only want rock n' punk tunes, etc. well, that cd still has lots'f variety. oh yah, eric wasn't on this trip or nething, but i still played that cd. neway, 1 song that i heard on that cd that i hadn't heard in a while was juliana hatfield's "my sister." do u 'member juliana hatfield? do u 'member that fahad n' i used to go to her concerts? here's the wiki on her: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliana_Hatfield. here's her official website: julianahatfield.com
[later] 4 lunch, kaela n' i went to sweet tomatoes by ¢0$+¢o cos 1) it's close, 2) it's fast, n' 3) i had a ¢oupon. 4 those same reasons, we've been goin' there a bit much over the past fwe months. each month, the restaurant has a different theme 4 its menu. in feb, the theme was cherry. last month? uhm, the theme was like kid fud. this month (april), the theme appears to be lemon. i've gotta watch what i eat. i don't wanna get fat. i need to get exercise, n' i wish i could stress less, but my werk stresses me out plenty. that's bad. life oughtta be simpler than this. on a brighter note, this morn, i skateboarded w/ sooni - longer than usual - n' then skateboarded @ the sunnyvale skate park, my morn skate sesh (morning skateboarding session). *sigh* 'gain, i saw that drug dealer guy. i feel really uneasy 'bout him, but it's not hate the person, i hate crime.
[later] 저녁 이지만 아직도 직장에서: r u following amerikan idol this season? i'm sure not. however, i heard 'bout this sajaya guy. this situation sounds interesting. here's the wiki article link 4 sanjaya malakar: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanjaya_Malakar.
*sigh* *breath* man, werk's still stressful; pressure, pressure. i haven't given very good updates 'bout my life in a while. on fri evening, kaela n' i went to our friend mark's b.day party @ rumors, the korean hof. oh yah, i did mention that. well, we had the chance to sing some 노래방 noraebang there. our friend hana's a great singer. i mostly belt out stuff... but 'least i try. 2 many ppl r microfon shy. they shouldn't be. it's fun. it's just 4 fun.
on sun, after church, i went w/ some'f our friends to eat lunch @ 만두랑 칼국수 mandoorang kalgooksoo. did i mention that? i ate 얼근 수제비 uhlkeun soojeibi. in the afternoon, 'round 230p, i drove sooni to pet fud express n' washed her. then 'round 345p, i picked up kaela from home n' drove us out to dominic's @ oyster pt in south san francisco to meet w/ a wedding djing client. after that i drove kaela 'round sf a li'l. i wanted to drive us to skates on haight in the haight, so that i could buy some bones hardcore soft bushings, but eh... i wasn't gonna put kaela thru that. i bought some gas @ a gas station on geary. then, we went to lulu 4 dinner... a very over.extravagant dinner. shoot, that's a prob! lately, we've been slippin' back into the bad habit'f having over.extravagant dinners 4 no reason... 4 example, that evening @ yamashiro's in hollywood. that was very much unnecessarily extravagant. *sigh* aktually, b4 this past wk (which was kaela's spring brk... but no excuse!), we were pretty good 'bout cuttin' down on over.extravagant dinners. this isn't good. lately, kaela n' i've been eatin' out @ lunch plenty. hrm... we've gotta watch our budget! recently, i $pent 'lot'f $$$ on car maintenance n' gas. that brake job n' oil change wsn't 2 ¢heap.
[later] in the past few days, i think i've been more stoked 'bout snowboarding than skateboarding. i dunno... i'm often wavering btwn the 2 but i really like both neway. i like how i aktually have friends to snowboard w/. w/ skateboarding, i just mostly do it by myself, altho' there r guys @ the skate park that i talk to now n' then. however, those guys don't really know me. i'm tryin' to be friendlier @ the skate park 'least 'mongst all the ol' guys like me. *shrug* neway, i think the snowbomb.com thing got me more stoked 'bout snowboarding. i proudly wore my snowbomb.com hoodie on the slopes on sat. i feel like part'f an online community'f legit snowboarders. [later] man, this season, i haven't tried many 360s. in fakt, i haven't tried so much aerial tricks ore new grabs. i'm mostly doin' indy grabs n' stalefish grabs still. more than aerial stuff n' grabs, i've been ridin' boxes n' rails n' mostly just 50.50in'em. :-/ i wish i had had the chance to werk on my aerial stuff... 360s n' nicer grabs n' halfpipe stuff. well, w/ my new santa cruz seth huot 157cm deck i get to do nice manuals n' presses. that's good. well... cos'f my friends, i've had to do ride 'lot more downhill ridin' n' freeride n' not 'nuff freestyle, terrain park, n' pipe. :-/ c, if kaela boarded w/ me more this season, then i would've gotten to do more terrain park. it's a bit ironic, i geuss. most ppl'd think that i'd do freestyle n' terrain park w/ my guy friends n' not my wife, but it's flipped. walter made a funny statement 'bout me over dinner @ some cantonese restaurant in davis on sat nite on our way home. i had sed that these days i'm 2 lazy to carve, so i just go fast n' bullet down. in case u don't know a thing 'bout snowboarding, carving is the process'f turnin' n' gradually slowin' down. 4 not.so.expert riders, turning = slowing down. as u progress, u learn to eurocarve / make fast turns n' speed check w/o turning (by pushin' snow laterally). neway, carvin' takes energy, but goin' fast takes guts; i guess. goin' really fast can be unnerving; but since i've been snowboarding so much 4 so long, i'm more used to it... even despite how i ride a really, really soft, flexible freestyle board, which isn't designed to be super stable @ hi speeds unlike certain all.mountain or freeride boards, which r really stiff. neway, i sed that i'm sometimes 2 lazy to carve, n' walter retorted, "dude, u never carve! u always just bullet down. n' then if u think u wanna slow down, u look 4 a jump to go off of, n' then u'r like 'oh, ok, now i'm goin' slower.'" ha ha ha... i guess he's rt. X-D
회요일 아침: i had a slightly frustrating morn: i did housechores instead'f hittin' up the sunnyvale skate park 4 a morn skate sesh (skateboarding session). >:-( very unpleasant, but such is life!
things to do during lunch 2day:
- e.mail toby to invite him to april 21 snowboarding n' april 14 super suppers n' snowboard repair.
- take out laundry.
- deposit $$$ in bank, if time.
- clean out car.
- send grx t3 light survey results to pastor abel.
- in the case that i'm superman n' get this all done w/ plenty'f time to spare, buy zip.loc bags.
[much later] 오후: ok, so what did i accomplish over my lunchbrk? :-/
- e.mailed toby to invite him to april 21 snowboarding n' april 14 super suppers n' snowboard repair.
- took out laundry.
that's it. nuthin' else. i ate some caesar salad, a chicken sausage, n' a honey ham sandwich on whole wheat bread.
here r a couple'f interesting things i learned on the internet:
1) "the cure team up with ashlee simpson" (y! music): wow, robert smith's prob'ly gonna record a track w/ ashlee simpson.
2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pwned: "pwn3d"'s an intentional misspelling'f "owned." i, like many others, thought it meant "pawned." here's a funny clip from the wiki article: "On a South Korean news channel an anchor said, “Youn Hong-Gyu PWNS” because a rival news anchor told him that it was a formal, professional way to say “good bye” in English." here's an list'f internet slang from wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_slang_phrases
so how's the weather these days. yah, it's decently warm, what most ppl'd call pleasant. the temp's somewhere in the 70s (fahrenheit). i wish that it'd snow more in the sierras. :-/
수요일 오후: 사 사... 4 4... *breath* *sigh* what a bizzy day. man, of course it's hard balancin' werk, taekwondo, church, djing, snowboarding, skateboarding... it's tuff, but i've gotta do it. these r the things that make me who i am, i guess. sometimes being a leader stresses me out. u wanna do what's best 4 the group but wonder if ne1 appreciates it. i believe in leading from the bottom. i think positions'f authority mean i'm out to serve the ppl i lead, not abuse'em. sometimes i wonder if ppl take advantage'f that or if they appreciate it or... *sigh* i've been "preachin'" 'bout "ownership" 'lot lately. i don't appreciate it when i'm put in a position'f aktion n' told to do 'lot'f things, but ppl don't let me make ne'f the decisions. u nkow, when the $#!+ hits the fan, if i'm gonna get in trouble; then shouldn't i be the 1 callin' the shots? vice versa, if i'm assignin' some1 else to werk in the trenches, i believe i can allow him/her to make 'least some decisions w/o always checkin' in w/ me. as a leader, i try to avoid micromanagement, but... *shrug* i hope i do; i dunno.
well, this morn, 'gain, i didn't hit up the sunnyvale skate park 4 a morn skate sesh (skateboarding session), but i went 4 an extended ride 'round the neighbourhood w/ sooni. i made sure to ollie up n' down more curbs. skateboarding w/ sooni's fun, but the skating (skateboarding) @ the skate park gives me much more exercise... all that transition riding - up n' down, pumpin', pumpin', pumpin'. skate park ridin's a whole body werkout. a while 'go, i read some webpage that gave a review'f this 1 skate park in benicia. back in the late 1980s, 1'f the santa cruz skateboards / nhs, inc. skate videos features natas kaupas skatin' @ that benicia skate park. they made it sound n' look sooo kewl. now, in this day n' age, i guess kids rip on that park 4 bein' borin' n' ancient. heh... my how times've changed! the review on the website n' bagged on it, leavin' its only saving grace as bein' "'least more fun than the curb outside ur grandma's house... altho' i dunno... curbs r pretty fun!" ha ha ha... true, curbs can be fun. on my street, there r 3 houses w/ waxed curbs. in case u don't know, skateboarders ('specially the young 1s) wax curbs so that they can "grind" n' slide on'em. this morn, i purposely avoided usin' wheelchair access ramps onto sidewalks n' instead ollied onto sidewalks in order to avoid rollin' thru the h2o runnin' off alon' the street gutter. when i got back to my house, instead'f rollin' up the driveway, i ollied over the li'l street that was runnin' across its entrance. what can i say? ollieing is fun n' praktical. :-) i gotta say... 2day, i felt more in my elements while "streetskating." 'member how in the past, i always felt so weird streetskating but felt more com4table skating @ the skate park? well, streetskating wears out my deck n' other equipment more. ollieing on ruff concrete sands down my tail more. cos'f that, kids who streetskate 'lot might need to buy new decks all the time, while ol' guys who only skate @ skate parks can use the same deck 4 yrs.
목요일 아침: skateboarding is fun. this morn, i skateboarded w/ sooni as usual. i just took our usual short route 'round the block (or aktually 2 blocks). that was fine. then, i hit up the sunnyvale skate park 4 a nice, quick morning skate sesh (skateboarding session). i had skipped 2 or 3 days, rt? i skipped tues n' wed. when i got there, that dude clint was leavin' in his truck w/ his friend that always sleeps in the passenger seat'f his truck. left was just this 1 couple - a guy n' a gurl. they both skateboarded. they looked very "santa cruzish," like they were from santa cruz. well, the gurl was ridin' a santa cruz signature powerply deck, n' the guy was ridin' (i think) a creature deck. however, i'm talkin' 'bout how they were dressed n' the gurl's dreads. [much later, 오후] i didn't try many rock.to.fakies. *sigh* i need to pick those back up. i did however continue werkin' on rear axle pivot type tricks. also, i continued werkin' on frontside grinds (what that dude jerry called "frontside slash grinds"), ridin' frontside to the lip n' then slidin' into a fakie backside 50.50 grind, n' backside 50.50 grindin' on the deckside not the transition side. i'm werkin' on those things... werk in progress - wip. uhm, that trick where a skateboarder approaches the lip 1 way n' slides into a fakie 50.50 grind... that might be called a "hurricane," but i'm not sure. maybe it's called a "sugar cane." *shrug* c, i'm readin' the wiki article on skateboard grind tricks rt now - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grinds_%28skateboarding%29 [later] however, more sources say that a hurricane grind needs to be a feeble grind, not a 50.50.
while diggin' thru my ol' cds to make that 1 mp3 cd full'f lots'f altrock n' punk tunes 4 snowboarding trips, i stumbled upon my ol' dambuilders' promo only single'f their 1 hit "shrine." do u 'member or didju ever know who the dambuilders r? here's a link to the wiki article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dambuilders.
[later] a good article from that board-crazy.co.uk site: http://www.board-crazy.co.uk/180_ollies.php. 1'f the few things left that i could do as a kid on a skateboard but not now is a backside 180 ollie. i can do most other things n' more.
[later] 저녁 이지만 다직도 직장에서: 2day's maundy thurs. do u know 'bout "maundy thursday?" here's the wiki article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maundy_Thursday. washing'f the disciples feet n' the last supper r 2 important events that happened on the nite b4 jesus's crucifixion on good fri, leading to his resurrection on easter sun. these 3 days r very important days in history.
2day, @ lunch, the beautiful kaela hwang went to 청기와 chunggiwa. kaela had 닭구이 백반 dalkgui baekban, n' i had 육계장 yookgyeijang.
금요일 1249a: mirei antonia, thanks 4 signin' my gbook. i came back not 2 long 'go from dinner @ 모두랑 modoorang (tutti) on el camino real near calabazas in santa clara's koreatown. we went there after taekwondo praktice 2nite. 2morrow (2day), the beautiful kaela hwang n' i go to berkeley 4 the uc open. duk'll take care'f sooni.
2day's good fri, the day jesus died 4 our sins.
일요일 밤, 955p: "easter: because literally anybody can be your martyr, but only one can be your risen saviour."
where did i leave off updatin'chu? on fri morn, i packed my clothes n' toiletries to stay overnite @ roland's condo 4 the 38th uc open. i skateboarded w/ sooni 'round the neighbourhood, but it was less than ideal cos sooni kept pulling. the beautiful kaela hwang dropped me off @ werk. during lunch, i tried to walk to this bank to open an acct w/ $25 to get a free $25 4 opening the acct as my mom's referral. i used google maps n' walked 2 miles in the hot, harmful sun w/o a hat or sunglasses n' w/ minimal sunscreen. google maps was very, very wrong. i ended up @ lakewood elementary skool in sunnyvale next to lakewood park, which has a skate park n' where 'nother group from my company was having a picnic. i walked back 2 miles under the toxic sun.
in the evening, kaz picked me up from werk n' drove me n' john park to berkeley via 280, 92, 880, 24. i found kaela n' some'f my berkeley taekwondo friends like roland, samantha, sally, n' bobby @ haas paviliob. later in the nite, roland, phil, kaela, n' i ate a fancy dinner @ a thai restaurant on university ave near san pablo ave.
일용일 아침: it's the day after easter. some ppl've told me easter's the most important holiday... 'least 4 us christians. it's more important than christmas. 봄예요. it's spring. i sense that this summer'll fly by. [later] *sigh* so what's up? maybe i should finally sign the gbook qs 4 the current version'f my gbook.
name: 황명록 (hwang myuhngrok) beno hwang
e.mail: 비노 앳 비노믹스 닷 콤
homepage url: http://www.benomix.com
birthplace: ann arbor, michigan (u knew that, didn'tchu?)
new yr's resolutions 4 2007? 1. keep my sideburns groomed. 2. not get drunk (i've been drinkin' almost only bier, wine, n' soju).
new yr's prediktions 4 2007? maybe this is wishful thinkin'; but how 'bout a breakthru in renewable energy?
what's the next big teknology? uh... renewable energy. ha ha ha... well, lemme instead put down, "super.compakt, mobile computin'."
tell me 'bout a restaurant u like: well, i liked
bombay gardens (http://www.dinebombaygarden.com/) in santa clara on el camino real near lawrence expwy, which the beautiful kaela hwang n' i recently visited.
if u could be a celebrity; then which'f these wouldju most wanna be (criminal, musician, athlete, actor, model, author, politician, news/media/announcer, ceo, socialite w/ no talent)? musician... but i don't really play much musik on musikal instruments these days... so i guess i'd wanna be a famous dj (remix dj, not the talkin' kind)... but... *sigh* maybe that's 2 far.fetched. :-(
additional comments: i'm not a gbook spammer.
wow, so mirei antonia's the only real person to've signed my gbook so far, eh? every1 else was a gbook spammer, eh? i mean... i'm talkin' 'bout the current version'f my gbook. i'm gonna hafta change the questions 'gain soon, so i hope others sign this version soon. i'll post up mirei antonia's answers now... here. if u sign my gbook, i'll post up ur answers here to dokument them in a safer place in case my gbook server disappears. well, i'll do that unless u don't want me to.
name: Mirei Antonia
e.mail: mirei [dot] antonia [snail] gmail [dot] com
homepage url: http://rosesnchaos.livejournal.com/
birthplace: Kuching, Malaysia
new yr's resolutions 4 2007? To do well in my Japanese language studies.
new yr's prediktions 4 2007? It's gonna be another dull year and so far it's proving to be so.
what's the next big teknology? We need teleportation!! So I can teleport myself to places I want to visit but don't have the time and $$$$ to.
tell me 'bout a restaurant u like: No particular fave, but lately love to hang out at a Korean restaurant serving AUTHENTIC Korean food, a rare thing in this part of the world.
if u could be a celebrity; then which'f these wouldju most wanna be (criminal, musician, athlete, actor, model, author, politician, news/media/announcer, ceo, socialite w/ no talent)? musician
additional comments: Beno needs to update his questions. :P
that's true, mirea; i do need to update my questions; but i want more ppl to answer them 1st. :-/ *sigh*
i have a couple'f topiks that i wanna discuss in greater length: 1) how i now feel 'bout the "asian party crowd" n' 2) how i feel 'bout demons n' false prophets. which should i discuss? either, both, or neither? heh, i didn't know how to phrase the 2nd topik just now. "how do i feel 'bout demons n' false prophets?" the smart@$$'s response: "hrm, lemme guess... u don't like'em, eh?" *sigh* well, it's not just that... i wanted to talk 'bout some'f my recent encoounters w/'em this past wknd. re: the "asian party crowd," my have i changed since the ol' cal taekwondo party crew days, eh?
[later] 오후: kaela n' i had lunch @ shan indian restaurant on el camino real @ halford (near big! lots, albertson, n' osh). i ordered the "beef roll" (a beef sikh kebab wrapped in naan w/ onions), n' kaela ordered this chicken curry w/ a roti n' a naan. we prob'ly should've ordered more cos the beef roll n' the curry were small. afterwards, we $hopped @ big! lots. it's a sunny, sunny day here in the silly valley 2day. yah, it sure is spring now! [later] the day's flyin' by. 2nite, i'll prob'ly go to sach's 730p turbo kick box (tkb) class @ the east arques ave sunnyvale 24 hour fitness. i'm glad i didn't eat a huge lunch cos last wk, i got a stomach ache during his class from eatin' 2 big'f a lunch. after eatin' sooo much this wknd n' exercisin' sooo li'l; i need a good gym werkout, a good aerobic werkout. i did skate (skateboard) w/ sooni 'round the neighbourhood n' had a short but decently sweet morn skate sesh (skateboarding session) @ the fair oaks park sunnyvale skate park (as opposed to the lakewood park skate park that i just discovered but haven't yet skated). i mostly werked on doin' those alley.oop style backside powerslides to fakie 50.50 grinds. there were more kids in the skate park this morn cos some kids r on spring brk. sure, it's often embarassing to fumble 'round the skate park while kids r doin' all sorts'f fancy kickflip tricks all 'round me n' totally showin' me up... but i guess i don't let my bruised ego get me, n' i mostly ride transition, while they're mostly ridin' ledges, rails, n' stairs. there was this gray.haired man there skatin', playin' frisbee w/ himself, n' talkin' 'bout how he's not much good @ skateboarding either. neway, i didn't stay long.
*sigh* so yah... i have a couple'f things to talk 'bout, the 1st'f which is how my perception'f the whole "asian party crowd" life has changed over the yrs. my life's very cyclical. u can c this in the kind'f musik i listen to from yr to yr. i mentioned this yrs 'go on the "beno talks about music" page (http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~beno/music1.html). over the decades'f my life, i've found myself either hangin' w/ a "mixed race" group'f friends (like thru skateboarding / boardsports or thru mutli.ethnic church groups) or w/ a "cool asian" (only predominantly asian, never exclusively) group'f friends (like thru cultural/political aktivities or asian church groups). neway, sicne i've gotten quite absorbed in skateboarding n' snowboarding lately n'm part'f a church that is trying very hard to be "multi.ethnic," i'm sort'f in the "mixed race" mode rt now. @ the same time, since i'm in taekwondo n'm @ a church that so far has a history'f havin' a mostly asian congregation, i'm sort'f in the "cool asian" mode as well. well, 1 nite a few months 'go, i went to a b.day party, n' i know i was dressed totally like i was in my skate punk mode, but the group was totally that "cool asian party crowd." i think many'f the ppl were 4mer asian sorority gurls n' 4mer asian frat boys, etc. wow... all'f the sudden, i felt like i was back in freshman yr'f cal. i felt like i was 1nce 'gain that purple.haired kid from san jo amongst well.dressed asian kids from socal, drivin' their sleek integras, sportin' well.groomed hair. worse yet, i was wearin' my depeche mode shirt from their recent 2006 tour, so that really threw me back to 1993. i felt like i gained back that 50 lbs'f fat that i shed during college! seriously! it was so much so that @ 1 pt i had to take off my zip.up cal hoodie to remind myself that i did lose all that fat. it was a surreal experience. [later] neway... i also had 'nother strange experience recently. we have this friend that is very exuberant 'bout gettin' ppl out to party all the time. this person also has a tendency to pressure ppl to consume more alcohol than they should. i know this person's intentions r really good because i 'member,during the cal taekwondo party crew heyday, being the person who would well... pester young folks to come out n' party regardless'f whate'er financial hardships or whate'er homewerk or werk needed to be done. shamefully, in those days, i also sometimes encouraged young ppl to drink more than they should've. that's a person who i used to be, but that's not me now. however, after a recent revelation, i know this person feels he/she has a good intentions. this person wants ppl to feel included n' to have a great time. me, now? i know i'm prob'ly often perceived as such a killjoy, such a party pooper n' a downer. i'm this snowboarding christian monk. i take everything so seriously. perhaps 2 seriously? "god, i'm scared to ask u this; but maybe i'd like u to teach me how to have fun 'gain."
now onto my 2nd topik: on sat evenin', after the uc open, kaela n' i were talkin' to an ol' friend. i admit that he was never (like) my closest friend, but he's been a friend. neway, he's really into all this new age "healing" stuff, n' he was talkin' to kaela 4 a veeeery long time 'bout it, tryin' to sell us both on it. i dunno, man... well, he claims to have the power to read ppl's past lives n' futures. i know that in recent yrs, he's gotten into lots'f new age stuf, but wow... he's really into it. i know he sensed that i obviously wasn't super into what he was talkin' bout, but 1 thing his powers prob'ly didn't tell him is that it isn't cos i don't believe in the supernatural. he prob'ly assumed that i'm just ur typikal "scientifik.minded" engr that doesn't believe in god or nething spiritual. i didn't tell him 'bout how i'm a follower'f the christian bible n' jesus. shamefully, i find it hard to profess my faith 'mongst the berkeleyish new age crowd. yah, he spoke'f past lives, 'bout dead souls* ('f overseas soldiers) that haunted the (sf) presidio, 'bout how some new age cleric.types banded 2gether to chase out those evil spirits, 'bout the spectrum'f energies released n' described by crystals n' rainbows, 'bout ppl communicatin' to each other thru dreams... he told us that kaela had a "past life" as an accupuncturist who failed to save a person's life n' felt guilty 4 it n' that i had a "past life" as a siberian horse.ridin' instruktor. i found that interesting cos i do like snow 4 snowboarding (n' i didn't tell him 'bout how i'm so into snowboarding n' skateboarding), n' i feel like a horse could be like a snowboard or skateboard, n' i do like to teach ppl physikal stuff like snowboarding or taekwondo. he told us to make a shield'f protektion by thinkin'f a colour that comes from the center'f the earth, n' 'nother that comes from (like) the heavens. i chose respektively green n' grey; n' then realised that: 1) was wearin' my big green backpack n' my grey planet earth wool jacket, carryin' a green towel n' that my car's green n' grey n' that the nite b4 i had worn a pair'f green n' grey warm up pants to bed. neway... the thing is... i feel our friend, especially w/ the "past life" thing was really reading our hopes n' fears n' makin' a good story to fit them. some kind'f trick or somethin' spiritual? well... *shrug* i'll tell u this: in a way, what r our hopes n' fears? in a way, they're demons! the things that scare us, the things that tempt us! not to say our friend's a bad guy; but in some i really feel he's basikally communicatin' w/ the demons that surround us! u c, i don't doubt the existence'f the supernatural... but not all that is supernatural is good. what is a miracle? a miracle's somethin' supernatural n' good... but more than that, it's somethin' supernatural n' good that glorifies god. would u befriend demons to gain wealth, health, a longer life, power, or $3xual prowess? wouldju befriend demons in order to gain the strength to physikally overpower some1? wouldju befriend demons in order to gain the strength to heal some1? honestly, i was very uncom4table in that conversation not cos i didn't believe in the existence'f his powers (as he prob'ly assumed) but cos i don't like where i think they're comin' from. neway... i don't wanna feel "uncom4table" in these situations cos i wanna have the confidence to proclaim god's truth... whether or not these r demons or not. we sang a song on easter w/ the lyrics "god above all my hopes and fears." wow, that really struck me yesterday. i have a confession to make rt now: kaela n i r tryin' to go on a "short term missions trip" this summer to london to help let the south asian community there know 'bout god's biblical truth n' the power'f jesus. heck, i know that that kind'f talk scares the hell out'f many'f u, n'... *shrug* i believe i have a constitutional rt to a religion in this country. that trip aktually means even more to me after this experience this past wknd cos i know lots'f this "new age" stuff likes to claim to have roots in south asian religions (altho' it's prob'ly mostly wannabe 1960s mumbo jumob more than nething), n' i think goin' on this mission would teach me to speak out 4 my god in awkward situations like on sat instead'f compromisin' 4 lettin' ppl assume i'm just 'nother godless engring, "scientifik mind."
from the indigogirls.com website, the lyrics to the indigo girls' hit song "galileo" (http://www.indigogirls.com/discographyandlyrics/lyrics/ritesofpassage.html):
"galileo's head was on the block the crime was looking up the truth as the bombshells of my daily fears explode i try to trace them to my youth then you had to bring up reincarnation over a couple of beers the other night now i'm serving time for mistakes made by another in another lifetime how long till my soul gets it right can any human being ever reach that kind of light i call on the resting soul of galileo king of night vision king of insight i think about my fear of motion which i never could explain some other fool across the ocean years ago must have crashed his little airplane how long till my soul gets it right can any human being ever reach that kind of light i call on the resting soul of galileo king of night vision king of insight i'm not making a joke you know me i take everything so seriously if we wait for the time till all souls get it right then at least i know there'll be no nuclear annihilation in my lifetime i'm still not right i offer thanks to those before me that's all i've got to say maybe you squandered big bucks in your lifetime now i've got to pay but then again it feels like some sort of inspiration to let the next life off the hook or she'll say look what i had to overcome from my last life i think i'll write a book how long till my soul gets it right can any human being ever reach that kind of light i call on the resting soul of galileo king of night vision king of insight how long, how long, how long
i'd like u to read a li'l from tim fong's xanga (http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=edg176), his sunday, april 8, 2007 entry. if u absolutely refuse to do the extra readin', then 'least absorb this excellent quote: "It seems to me that in the religion can be and often is a shared language for people to talk about life, death and feelings. Show me a person who claims not to subscribe to a religion, and I'll show you a person who has made up their [his/her] own." dude, wow... tim's word's speak to 'xaktly what i experienced on sat nite. even tho' our friend thought i couldn't dialogue w/ him cos i don't buy into his religion; aktually, i had 'lot to say cos i do believe. furthermore, at this pt, to my anonymous friend's credit, i'll say that perhaps he doesn't speak to demons but to angels. *shrug* maybe an angel who 1nce followed a siberian horse.ridin' instruktor now follows me 'round. an angel or a demon; i dunno. i don't. i do know that i'm not a gnostik cos i know some ppl that don't know me that well might think that's where my monologue has been headed. no.
a dialogue from the video'f new order's dance hit (the asian.amerikan national anthem) "bizarre love triangle":
stereotypikal chinese woman: (angrily) "i don't believe in reincarnation because i refuse to come back as a bug or as a rabbit."
anglo man: "you know, you're a real 'up' person."
2day on our drive back from shan indian restaurant in kaela's kia sportage, we heard the dj say that "everyone knows new order's songs, but they never know which song's which." what she failed to pt out (but i've known all 'long)'s that new order rarely puts the song title in their lyrics! some examples that counter that over.generalisation r: "regret" n' "world in motion." however, true... songs like "bizarre love triangle," "blue monday," "ceremony," n' "everything's gone green" follow this pattern. maybe the trend started durin' the band's previous life as joy division since "ceremony" was 'riginally a joy division song. well, "love will tear us apart" surely doesn't follow this trend, nor does "sister ray." is "sister ray" a joy division original or cover? ah, a quick wiki search revealed what i already knew: "sister ray" was originally a "velvet underground" song.
[later] 저녁 이지만 아직도 직장에서: i'm gonna leave my ofice soon to go to the gym. [later] 밤, 1011p: while cookin' 수제비 soojeibi after sach's turbo kick box (tkb) class n' after prakticin' my 태권도 품새 taekwondo poomsae; i watched on youtube, a clip'f an enjoi skateboard video starring jerry hsu n' louie barletta that used new order's "age of consent" 4 a soundtrk. mazin' stuff! u know, a good amt'f skateboarding videos r filmed in the san josé / silikon valley area. i sometimes c bldgs n' streets that look familiar.
* i'm usin' that term cos'f the joy division song, which the cure covered 4 the crow o.s.t. back in the days.
화요일 오후: 2day, i skateboarded w/ sooni 'round the neighbourhood but sacrificed my morn skate sesh (skateboarding session) @ the sunnyvale (fair oaks) skate park in order to 1) c the beautiful kaela hwang off to skool, 2) try to do housewerk, n' 3) get to werk early. *sigh* was it worth it? :-/ i wonder if i can hit up the sunnyvale skate park 2morrow morn or else if it'll rain. *sigh* earlier this wk, the weatherppl sed that it'd rain. what's the current 4cast? *shrug* 4 lunch 2day, kaela picked me up, n' we went to afghani house on el camino real rt @ the sunnyvale / santa clara border (1103 east el camino real; sunnyvale, ca 94087), 'cross the st from 한국 마켓 hangook market. that place's overpri¢ed, n' the service's spartan if not mediocre. i feel they waste all their $$$ on the décor. it looks kind'f overly flowerly, kind'f like lotte hotel style stuff. 2nite, kaela has some cali4nia chiropraktic association dinner to attend (sans moi; w/o me 'f course) @ santana row's posh hotel valencia. i'll be off teachin' taekwondo. i've gotta 'member to bring sooni to petco to use our $2 off ¢oupon. life's bizzy. <:-( r things gettin' out'f hand? i dunno, man; i've gotta stay strong n' (above all else) pray; pray hard. [later] weather.com sez it'll rain 2nite n' 2morrow. the rain'll start @ 100a. it'll last till thurs nite @ 300a, eh? shoot; i really wish i could be on the slopes on sat then. *sigh* [later] it really doesn't look like it's gonna rain 2nite; but i guess it will.
수요일 아침: a 2nd day in a row w/o goin' to the sunnyvale skate park in the morn 4 a morn skate sesh (skateboarding session)'s driving me utterly insane, 'specially cos it's rainin', so i assume that it's snowin' in the sierras n' yet i can't hit the slopes this wknd unless i were to skip church on sun. i'm aktually tempted. @ the same time, s'pposedly, we'll be out late on sat nite clubbin' 4 our friend laura's not.nemore.a.suprise b.day party; so i guess i wouldn't be able to wake up neway. *sigh* that's not the 1st time the "bay area party life" has come into conflikt w/ my boardsports life. 'member how i was s'pposed to go clubbin' after snowboardin' @ squaw a few wks 'go now? well, we ended up not goin' clubbin'; n' luckily, since the beautiful kaela hwang stayed out till like 400a 4 our friend mark's b.day on fri nite that wk, she fell asleep @ home after her seminar that sat n' didn't mind that i didn't take her clubbin'. it's not that i don't like clubbin'. i really like musik n' dancin'. i don't necessarily love the hassles'f takin' care'f drunk ppl; but then again... i wouldn't be a good christian if i don't show compassion n' 4giveness. seriously! u've gotta admit that certain so.called "conservative," goody.goody christians failed to recognise this. ham didn't take care'f his drunk father, noah. ham's bros shem n' japheth did (take care'f noah). they didn't ridicule him; they didn't give him a lekture in the morn; n' they didn't shun him. let that be frickin' lesson to u (n' me). neway... *sigh* i really like boardsports... @ the sanme time, s'pposedly i'm reachin' that pt in the yr when i must transition from snowboarding to djin' weddings. w/ that in mind, i ought to focus on party musik etc. clubbin' wouldn't be a bad idea, u know? i need to keep up w/ what's hot (on the dancefloor).
jerome (aka "jet"), thanks 4 signin' my gbook. as i sed, i'll be publishin' gbook entries here in my journal (unless u ask me not to).
name: Jerome "Jet" Ri
e.mail: jet [snail] bjunkyard [dot] com
homepage url (don't 4get to use http colon slash slash!): >http://www.bjunkyard.com
birthplace: los angeles, ca
new yr's resolutions 4 2007? get to the gym more. get somewhere w/ my life
new yr's preditkions 4 2007? i'm gonna start studying more. beno will hit the slopes a lot.
what's the next big teknology? big tek? hrm... beats me. i'm not that smart. cyborg ninjas. that's what we need in the middle east.
tell me 'bout a restaurant u like: in n out. they have lots of burgers.
if u could be a celebrity; then which of these would u most want to be (criminal, musician, athlete, actor, model, author, politician, news/media/announcer, ceo, socialite w/ no talent)? model
additional comments: i'd want to be a model since no one's ever said that they want me for my body. would be nice to get that comment from time to time.
wassup beno. i'm moving back north in late june/early july.
jet, thanks 4 signin' my gbook. i'd been ponderin' givin' u a call or e.mail. maybe 'twas cos i was @ the uc open this past sat, n' u weren't. *shrug*
[later] did i mention that we're watching the k.drama 궁 goong
목요일 아침: uhm, is 하리수 getting married??? y! news foto article - "하리수-미키정 5월 결혼 축가 김창렬 박상민, 사회 신영일 아나운서" (http://kr.news.yahoo.com/service/news/shellview2.htm?articleid=20070412171847331e7&linkid=rank_photo&type=hour&cate=ph) "harisu - mickey jung 5wuhl gyuhlhon chookga kim changryuhl, park sangmin, sahwe shin younngil announcer" "harisu n' mickey jung: may wedding. congratulatory song by kim changryuhl n' park sangmin. public announcement by shin youngil." uhm, if u rn't familiar w/ turn'f the century korean pop culture, then u might not understand that 하리수 harisu is a transgender aktress/singer. here's the wiki article on her: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harisu. whoa... uhm, lemme ask u guys: could u marry a woman that u knew was 1nce a man? :-? seriously, let's not have some kind'f frickin' theologikal, moral debate over this. rather, it's just a simple n' maybe lighthearted question. now, what if u didn't know but somehow later found out that ur wife used to be a man? i'm quite sure we've discussed all these issues on the bronx's junkyard forums ages 'go!
on sat, the beautiful kaela hwang n' i r goin' w/ our friends from grx t3 light to the sunnyvale super suppers (769 east el camino real; sunnyvale, ca 94087; 408.625.7821, info@sssunyvaleca.com, http://sssunnyvaleca.com) after dimsum @ bamboo garden (711 town and country village; sunnyvale, ca). super suppers is a place that provides a kitchen n' ingredients n' lets u assemble pre.planned meals to store @ home 4 later reheatin' n' eatin'. it's a neat concept, but i hope the fud's healthy. i need to pick uh... 6 entrés to assemble w/ kaela. we're allowed to choose 2 0.5 entré in place'f 1 full entr&eactue;e. i wonder what i should pick. these r our choices:
- baby back ribs
- barbecued meatloaf with mashed potatoes
- beef fajitas
- beijing chicken noodle bowl
- breakfast braided bread
- cheddar chicken and rice
- coconut chicken with dipping sauce
- garlic chicken with olives
- lemon-caper cod with steamed rice
- meaty cheesy lasagna
- pork and green chile stew
- shrimp scampi on pasta
ah, diff entrées, 'f course've diff reheatin' times:
- baby back ribs: grill or oven - 15 mins on each side
- barbecued meatloaf with mashed potatoes: oven - 1 hr if thawed; 1 hr 20 mins if frozen
- beef fajitas: 10 mins if thawed; stovetop - 15 mins if frozen
- beijing chicken noodle bowl: stovetop - 10 mins if thawed; 15 mins if frozen
- breakfast braided bread: oven - 20 mins if thawed; 35~45 mins if frozen
- cheddar chicken and rice: oven - 1 hr if thawed; 1 hr 10 mins if frozen
- coconut chicken with dipping sauce: no reheatin' info provided... serve cold or frozen?!
- garlic chicken with olives: oven - 25~30 mins if thawed; 35~45 mins if frozen
- lemon-caper cod with steamed rice: stovetop - 15 mins if thawed; 20 mins if frozen
- meaty cheesy lasagna: oven - 55 mins if thawed; 70 mins if frozen
- pork and green chile stew: stovetop - 30 mins if thawed; 40 mins if frozen
- shrimp scampi on pasta: stovetop - 10 mins if thawed; 15 mins if frozen
hrm; which 6 should i pick? also, we'll prob'ly be givin' 'way 1 entré to a couple that recently had their 2nd child. neway, 6 entrées 4 $132. hrm... :-?
4 full entrées:
1. baby back ribs
2. barbecued meatloaf with mashed potatoes
3. shrimp scampi on pasta
4. lemon-caper cod with steamed rice
n' 4 half entrées:
1. meaty cheesy lasagna
2. pork and green chile stew
3. coconut chicken with dipping sauce
4. beef fajitas
[later] 오후: during my lunchbrk, i didn't luncheon w/ kaela cos she had lunch w/ 2 "sistas" from our grx t3 light small group 4 lunch @ krung thai. instead, i went to trader joe's to gro¢ery $hop. i really like trader joe's... 'cept when it gets 2 crowded. i had a good time there 2day. i $pent $55.36. i got 6 raffle tix (4 bringin' my own reusable, environmental bags). kaela n' i discussed how discouragin' it is, tho', that we never win the raffle. i didn't eat much 4 lunch, just organik carrot sticks w/ "mediterrannean hummus" n' a li'l bit'f leftover pasta w/ a li'l bit'f olive oil drizzled on it.
[later] 저녁 이지만 아직도 직장에서: a couple'f days 'go, we received the movie transamerika from netflix. we haven't yet watched it. we're just into watching the kdrama 궁 goong aka palace: princess hours. it's fun n' funny. :-) 윤은혜 yoon eunhyei's so funny. she's the gurl that was the youngest member'f baby v.o.x. back in the days. aktually, last nite, we didn't watch an episode'f 궁 goong cos we're still waitin' 4 the next disc (dvd). our friend tim fong paid us a visit to catch up. 2nite, s'pposedly our ol' friend n' wedding videographer jason lee's gonna pay us a visit while we're @ dinner w/ our taekwondo colored belt students after their 심사 shimsa (belt promotional test). it's kind'f funny cos both tim n' jason r guys who r willin' to do stuff like take off to 'nother country to pursue some dream. :-/ *sigh* sometimes, i realise that i'm 2 anchored.
oh yah, this morn, i skateboarded w/ sooni n' then took off the the sunnyvale skate park (fair oaks park) 4 a morn skate sesh (skateboarding session). i had fun. skateboarding is fun.
금요일 아침: ah, tgif, eh? *sigh* well, shoot; wknds'll be pretty bizzy 4 the next month or the next few months. :-/ it's a li'l scary cos... like, sometimes i need to werk on wknds to meet deadlines, rt? however, w/ the packed calendar 4 the next few months, i won't have that option, n'... :-/ i just hope that doesn't get me in trouble. this wknd, i've got many church aktivities, we're goin' to laura's non.suprise b.day party, i'm mtg w/ wedding dj clients, i'm s'pposed to help toby fix his snowboard base, n' i hope to do some yardwerk n' housechores. eventually, i'll need to repaint some'f my house. my mom recently pted out some places where the paint's flakin' off, leavin' the wood vulnerable to h2o damage. next wknd, i plan to be on the slopes @ kirkwood on sat. then, on sun, i have a grx london mission team lunch mtg thingy. i guess next wknd isn't as bizzy as this wknd, but i think i'll need to take care'f some wedding dj clients next wknd as well cos... man! may's comin' really fast! april's rushin' into may. *sigh* well, the wknd after next wknd, the beautiful kaela hwang n' i'll be in socal 4 kaela's cousin linda's wedding (wait! linda or jessica? i'm confused). *breath* crazy. so much stuff to do this month. then, the wknd after that, i'll be djing a wedding on that sun @ ruby hills country club in pleasanton. c? i need to inspekt that site soon! i prob'ly've gotta do that on april 22, next sun afternoon after the grx london mission team thingy. sat, may 12's a grx church picnic. sat, may 19, i'll be djing 'nother wedding. wow, wow, wow... my skedule doesn't come close to clearin' up till late may. dude; what happened? like a yr 'go or so; i didn't have such a bizzy skedule. now, my skedule's loaded! well, i guess the answer's simple. in the past yr, i've picked up 2 major leadership roles if not more: 1) grx t3 light facilitator, 2) u.s. taekwondo akademy u.s. taekwondo akademy instruktor, n' 3) (maybe this counts) snowbomb.com forum "super.moderator." i feel bad that i haven't put as much time or effort into my bronx's junkyard forum moderator role. :-( *sigh*
[later] 점심: hrm, what can i do to reduce $pendin'? *sigh* man... i 2 often feel that we're livin' hand to mouth in this household. oftentimes, un4tunately n' shamefully, i envy couples that have really 2 incomes. us, we really r just livin' on my income, n' i'm always worried that i'll lose my job or sumpthin'. it's a horrible way to live. *sigh* this morn, i was wonderin' if i really have low self.esteem. how come i don't value my contributions to the ppl 4 whom i do werk. like... it's true, i'm a decent bargain in all the things i do. my pay's just so.so @ my job (my werk.com job). seriously, just so.so. i don't charge much 4 djin'. i teach taekwondo 4 free. *sigh* i dunno, man. i've always tried not to be all 'bout $$$, u know?
[later] 오후: i went 4 a late lunch w/ kaela n' 소희 sohee @ the santa clara pho hoa on el camino real @ flora vista, rt in the heart'f santa clara's koreatown. *sigh* i guess i really appreciate livin' here in santa clara rt by koreatown. last nite, after 태권도 연습 taekwondo praktice, after the colored belts' 심사 shimsa (belt promotional exam), we went 4 a late dinner @ 99 치킨 (goo goo chicken). man, i was so stuffed afterwards. we ate fried chicken, 낙지 볶음 nakji bokkeum (or was it 오징어 ojinguh? nah, i'm pretty sure 'twas 낙지 nakji.), n' 두부 김치 dubu kimchi. oh, n' we had plenty'f 오비 맥주 o.b. maekjoo . grace wanted me to finish off the 2 litre (is it 1.5l or 2.5l??? i feel like that "pitcher" bottle's not 2 litres.); but i felt no shame in abandonin' an almost full mug @ my place settin' since i had to drive. it was a good time w/ friends. aktually, there was lots'f talk 'bout relationships n' datin' @ our table. now that i've been married almost 4 yrs n' hang 'round w/ lots'f other married ppl, i'm honestly sooo not used to talkin' 'bout datin' nemore. ppl were talkin' 'bout tryin' to get some'f our single guy friends @ the table hooked up w/ gurls. ppl talked 'bout the site eharmony.com n' also 'bout xanga n' myspace. man, this is stuff i haven't talked 'bout in ages. i used to enjoy talkin' 'bot datin' n' relationships so much; but, nowadays, i can't relate; i really can't. i dunno; i guess i can talk 'bout like marriages but not datin'. i aktually had a weird dream this morn cos'f last nite's conversation. i dreamt that some gurl i used to have a silly crush on in college came to talk to me. i don't 'member 'xaktly what she sed, but i ended up telling her that i'm happily married. [later] *shrug*
*sigh* so i feel like i never really gave a complete update on last wknd. yah, we went to berkeley 4 the uc open; i know i mentioned that. sunday, we went to 2nd (easter) service @ grx cos we didn't wake up 4 1st service. after church, kaela n' i picked up sooni n' our bbq grill from home n' went 1st to the santana row farmers market n' then to dennis's goin' 'way to iraq picnic @ john mise park behind archbishop mitty hi skool, somewhere btwn saratoga ave n' lawrence expwy, near moorpark. we ate some grilled meats n' let sooni have some fun. she really missed human exposure after bein' locked up in our house all sat by herself, while we were @ the uc open. lots'f ppl had their lil "kick me" purse dogs there. i assured them that sooni wasn't gonna kill them but was just "posturing" as real dogs do. it's 100% true. she might lunge @ this li'l "kick me" dogs; but, as i sed that day, if she really wanted to kill those dogs, she could've n' would've. rather, she was just posturing. u might know that kaela n' i r rn't huge fan'f "kick me" purse dogs nemore. 2 many teacup this n' miniature that... yah, honestly, we're much more into real dogs like sooni. well, we left the bbq picnic early to go to my mom's house 4 an early easter dinner. dude, sooo much eatin'; lots'f meats. we ate hame n' rack'f lamb. sooni got to play in my mom's backyard. i think she really likes it there, sooni. oh yah, b4 we ate, kaela sed she was 2 full to eat dinner; so a few'f us took a stroll 'round the block. *sigh* ah, almaden valley... that's where i grew up. would i wanna live there now? :-/ nah, not now. later? :-/ i dunno. *shrug* *sigh* i like bein' close to fun biznesses... like where we r now. man, i often worry that my "luck"'ll run out, that i'll lose my job n' have no means'f supporting us 2 n'll hafta move to some boonies place. *sigh* well, honestly, if we lived in truckee, i'd appreciate livin' rt by the slopes; but i prob'ly wouldn't've a good job, so i wouldn't've $$$ to go snowboarding. furthermore, there's no good, real asian fud out there. *sigh* neway, i shouldn't think like that. this whole "my luck'll run out" kind'f thinkin's wrong. i know god wants to take care'f me. furthermore, regardless'f how my situation changes, he'll still take care'f me n' "bless" me.
[later] the wiki article on the city'f cupertino: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupertino.
월요일 아침: *sigh* this wknd, i sed i'd go out n' party a li'l n' try to learn to have fun, rt? sat was our ol' friend laura's b.day party. the beautiful kaela hwang went out, partied, n' stayed out kind'f late. now that it's mon, i feel like i'm still recoverin' from the lack'f sleep. u c, i had a really bizzy wknd. i didn't hit the slopes this wknd, n' i didn't even skate (skateboard). that's unusual. yah, i guess i didn't touch my skateboard on sat or sun even tho' i wanted to. i was 2 bizzy w/ other stuff. i guess i could provide a realy wknd update.
on fri evenin', i came home from werk, baked a delicious frozen pizza from trader joe's. kaela came home from... *shrug* where was she? i think she was @ trader joe's, rt? rt. she went to trader joe's after some chiropraktic apptmnt. in the afternoon, i had a late lunch w/ her n' our friend sohee @ the pho hoa in santa clara's koreatown. eh; i think i already toldju 'bout all this. :-p well, on fri nite, we went to our grx t3 light small group bible study. kaela n' i rushed over. it's honestly always a bit hard to get there on time cos... shoot, i'm kept late @ werk every nite, u know? i dunno, man. it's not like i werk 12 hr days every single day; but dude... it's so seldome that i don't hafta werk more than a normal werkday, n' it's not just the qty'f werk... it's the unpleasantness'f certain ppl's attitudes that wears me down. @~:-( i think that's the ascii smiley that conveys a frazzled emotion, rt? *shrug* yah, i feel frazzled. *sigh* neway, dude... what's up? :-) well, we went to our church group. that was fun. then, we went home. heh... that sure doesn't sound exciting, but we had fun. on sat, it rained, so i didn't bother wakin' up early. if it hadn't rained, maybe i would've woken up early to have a "most excellent" (to revisit the pop culturef'f my middle skool yrs) morn skate sesh (skateboarding session) @ the sunnyvale skate park. (uh, what happened to the bill n' ted charakter who wasn't keanu reeves? i mean, what happened to that aktor? *shrug*) [a li'l later] neway, kaela n' i slept in n' listened to the sound'f the fallin' rain. we both like the sound'f rain. well, i guess ppl in gen'l like the sound'f fallin' rain cos it's relaxin'. hrm, do u have those ne'f those cds w/ nature sounds that help u relax? wow, there used to be stores like uh... nature company n' uh... was it called natural wonders??? neway, those stores'd sell rain sticks n' cds w/ nature sounds. well, eventually, we woke up, got dressed, n' went to our grx t3 light dimsum n' super suppers event. we showed up @ dimsum late but had the best costume, i guess. we were told to dress alike, n' we both've lots'f military green clothing, so we wore all military green w/ black leather shoes. i guess we're all 2 often late, but 'least our decent costumes appeased our friends this time. heh heh. hopefully, i can share a pic'f our outfits soon. i sure as heck haven't posted many pix up on my journal this yr. *sigh* <:-( i'm sorry. i simply haven't had the time. hey, what 'xaktly is picasa? well, here's the wiki article on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picasa. *sigh* neway, i've gotten way off topik. well, we ate dimsum @ bamboo garden in sunnyvale. i'm so happy that that place's pretty ¢heap. that makes me happy. i like it when my friends' li'l kids recognise me n' wanna say hi n' stuff. :-) like... we all know that kaela n' i rn't quite as baby crazy as some'f our other friends, but yah... certain li'l kids n' babies really put a smile on my face! :-) some'f our friends really, really, really love kids, u know? we do like/love kids; we just rn't quite as extreme as some'f our friends n' also don't feel ready to have our own quite yet. *sigh* when will/shall we be ready? *sigh* dude, honestly, i used to feel more ready; n' now [interrupted] that we c more n' more n' more'f our friends' havin' kids, we're more scared. well, 'least that's how i feel. *shrug* *sigh* so... uh, where did i leave off w/ the update? oh yah, so after our dimsum lunch, we went to the sunnyvale super suppers. kaela n' i made 4 full dishes n' 4 0.5 dishes. we had lots'f fun. the kitchen stations r clean, n' we love how e didn't hafta clean up! :-) the host woman (robin) was nice n' led us in some contests n' games. i already listed out the dishes we planned to make, n' we stuck to those plans. we tried to modify some'f the recipes by addin' chili powder n' spices that weren't in the original recipes. we didn't wanna get in trouble tho'. well, we packed up our fud. the sun came out. we took our fud home. originally, i wanted toby to come over to our house, n' i would've done base repair on his burton t6 (aluminum core) snowboard deck; but he was 2 bizzy. he asked me to come out to his house in san leandro; but... *sigh* our skedule was 2 tight. kaela gave me a haircut. then we got showered n' dressed to go out to laura's b.day party. we picked up our friend eric j in fremont n' cruised on up to oakland, to 삼원 갈비 samwon galbi on telegraph in oakland's koreatown. we ate lots'f bbqed [interrupted] meat: 갈비, 불고기, 돼지 불고기 (galbi, bulgogi, n' dwaeji bulgogi) n' also some 김치 찌개 kimchi jjigae. somebody bought some nice asian.style cakes: 1 tiramisu n' 1 fresh fruit. our table ordered some hite 맥주 maekjoo . after dinner, my car drove off 4 sf 4 clubbin'; but we stopped to get gas 1st. we found some parkin' in chinatown near north beach, to go to the dragon bar. some bmw suv was really pi$$ed that i kind'f snaked his spot, but eric reassured me that i did the rt thing. *shrug* i felt bad 4 the dude, but he was also pretty reckless in makin' a 3.pt turn onto the sidewalk n' tryin' to back out, almost hittin' me. i know he was frickin' pi$$ed @ me, n' i didn't snake his spot out'f revenge but just cos i got there 1st. dude, if he hadn't made that reckless 3.pt turn, maybe i would've driven by the spot earlier n' the car that was pullin' out wouldn'tve been leavin' yet. c... cos he almost rammed into me, i braked n' honked. then as i passed him, i saw the car pull out. c? neway... that's that. we stopped by some atms to get ¢a$h. well, we went to the li'l club, which was prob'ly the smallest "club" that i'd been to in sf... more like just a bar w/ some dancin'. we had a couple'f cocktails n' danced. then i told my car that we should leave. well, on our way to my car, eric got a fon call. he led us to some cocktail lounge in chinatown called mr. bing's cocktail lounge. i thought he was gonna meet up w/ some friends there n' quickly introduce us n' stuff; but no... he aktually wanted to buy us some drinks there. well, since i really didn't wanna stay out 2 late, i just had a miller lite. then we went to some place called yoogo gelato to chill b4 finally goin' home. kaela n' i had a large coffee n' dark chocolate n' also a small latté (un4tunately full fat n' caffeinated). dude, i wasn't used to how late ppl stay up n' stay out in "the city" (sf). wow. neway, after hangin' out @ that gelato store 4 so long, we finally headed back home. i got home like @ 300a or so!
then, on sun morn, i woke up @ 611a to go setup 4 grx sunday celebration service @ the santa clara marriott hotel. i was prety groggy, n' so were others; so i worried some1'd get hurt while rearrangin' stage platform thingies, but... *shrug* i guess god protekted us n' no fingers were crushed. it was more complikated to setup this wk cos the uc santa cruz college republikans stole our usual room. i'm not a republikan. it was kind'f interestin' to me cos the republikan event was happenin' next to our church service n' our church program's introduktory blurb featured a story 'bout demokratik senator john edward's wife. yah, i'd like our church to avoid joinin' that whole conservative "envangelikal" politikal thing. so far, i feel our church's pretty objektive n' non.biased 2wards either major party. that's good. well, after settin' up the church4 an hr n' a 0.5 (i got there a li'l late cos'f a stomach ache), i went home to wake up n' n' pick up kaela. u c, b4 i left to setup, i put sooni out in the backyard, so she could pee since i couldn't take her 4 a walk. when i returned, there was a citation or warning from a santa clara police officer 'bout sooni! :-o whah?! it sed she'd been loudly barkin', n' the ticket thingy was timestamped @ 752a. dude, what stoopid, stoopid neighbour started this?! sooni doesn't usually bark! she's such a quiet doggy! if she barks, then sumpthin's goin' wrong! maybe some1 was tryin' to break into our yard. also, why file a noise complaint @ 752a?! just wake up! it's not like 'twas 300a! it was almost 800a! that was sooo frivolous! they should've left a written note instead'f callin' the cops. that was sooo wrong! *sigh* neway, i brought sooni into the house. kaela sed she heard sooni barkin' 4 a long time, but she did't get up to let her in n' didn't hear ne1 knock on our door or nethin'. *sigh* neway, we went to grx's early (915a or 900a, as i like to say in order to get us out'f the house on time) service. we saw lots'f friends n' my mom there. it's great to be 'round lots'f nice ppl. well, after church, kaela n' i drove over to the milpitas 99 ranch mlal cos i needed to meet w/ some wedding dj clients @ 200p. we ate @ café ophelia (http://www.cafeophelia.com/). interestin' menu; pretty good. kaela ordered stewed beef soup w/ bean noodles n' date n' longan tea. i ordered some kind'f special set w/ my choice'f 3 side dishes, an entré, a soup, rice, n' a drink. my side dishes were some kind'f braised tofu w/ shiitake shrooms, some kind'f marinated bamboo shoots, n' a garden salad. my entré was grilled sea bass w/ miso sauce, which wasn't very miso.tastin'. my drink was uh... some kind'f really, really sweet n' fatt'nin'.tastin' oolong milk tea. after lunch, we went back to sit in the warm car on the brisk, windy day. i prepared some stuff 4 the mtg w/ the wedding dj clients. then, i had to go to the restroom, so we went into 99 ranch market. we bought some gro¢eries n' then went to meet our clients. nuts, i should've gone to fantasia earlier cos the place was packed, n' we had to sit outside in the cold 4 our mtg, which ended up bein' really rushed cos every1 was cold. *sigh* i had hot taro milk w/ taro balls. after the mtg, i drove kaela n' me over to the santa clara costco to buy gas. then, i dropped her off @ a tupperward party n' went to target to buy her some systane eyedrops. then i drove by the campbell skate park, just to take a look. 'twas filled w/ kids, n' i was really sleepy; so i decided not to go in. i went back to our friends' house (where the tupperware party was @), parked, n' took a nap in my warm car. dude, i was so tired. later, i went into our friends' house n' ate some snacks. then, we left, returned home. i did a bunch'f yardwerk n' noticed that the kids in the back neighbours' house were 1nce 'gain firin' their bb guns n' wondered if maybe they had been shootin' @ sooni that morn, which made her bark. *sigh* in that sense, firearms suck. i did yardwerk, n' kaela cooked up the beef fajitas that we prepared @ super suppers. we ate that n' watched 3 more episodes'f 궁 goong. 2day was garbage day, so i had to pack up the trash n' recyclables n' set'em out.
yah, this past wknd, i feel like i kind'f did more "grown.up" things like takin' care'f yardwerk, goin' to target, preparin' meals... @ the same time, i did stuff that some ppl'd think is more representative'f "youngish" life like clubbin'. however, clubbin' really wore me out. i feel like if i do that 2 much, it might age me. maybe i'm just paranoid.
this morn, i told myself not to hit up the sunnyvale skate park 4 a morn skate sesh (skateboarding session) but to go into werk early instead. consequently, i took sooni 4 a longer walk on skateboard b4 goin' to werk. sometimes ppl give me either weird or durty looks 4 skatin' 'round my neighbourhood. in some ways, skateboarders r the modern bikers (motorcycle bikers). u know how some ppl view bikers as outlaws n' thugs? i guess in the more modern context, ppl think that'f skaters. i'm a nice guy tho'. many bikers that r dressed in black leather r also nice guys. i dunno, man... i guess sooni n' r both outlaws. [later] 오후: rebels w/o a clue.
2day, kaela picked me up 4 a late, late lunch @ bombay garden. the 1st time we went there, 'twas really crowded but really good. 2day, we went late. 'twasn't crowded @ all, but the fud wasn't nearly as good. the fud had been sittin' 'round 4 hrs n' didn't taste fresh. in fakt, some'f the stuff wasn't even warm. :-( i also, w/o thinkin', left 2 big'f a tip. *sigh* in a way, i've really gotta stop that cos it's burnin' a hole i my wallet. heh, aktually, this afternoon, i noticed that my wallet is literally fallin' 'part. i haven't used this wallet 4 very long. [later] b4, i wasn't sure if this was a real designer wallet that my aunt (my mom's sista) gave me in taiwan or a fake designer wallet that my bro.in.law, kaela's bro, got me when he was in china. now that it's fallin' 'part, i guess it's the fake 1 that kaela's bro gave me. *sigh* fallin' part. i don't like it when things fall 'part, 'specially when it's my stuff.
the wiki article on 1,000.yr.ol' eggs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousand_year_old_egg.
'k, i wanted to mention sumpthin' here 'bout the kdrama series 궁 goong. i'm 'bout 0.5way thru the series, so i hope i'm not givin' 2 much 'way. ok... in the series there r 2 princes. (1, 2 prices kneel b4 u. that's what i sed now; princes, princes that adore u.) 1 is this ultra.sensitive guy; the other's more'f a tuff guy. i'd think most guys'd sympathise more w/ the tuff guy prince. i know i do @ this pt. he sed sumpthin' pretty kewl to the main char gurl. like, the ultra.sensitive prince was like all "i'd die w/o u" n' all, rt? however, the tuff guy prince has a more realist approach on life n' told the gurl sumpthin' like "well, i've lived 19 yrs w/o u, so if u left me, i'd prob'ly still survive. however, i'd really, really miss u." ladies, doesn't that just make ur heart melt? ha ha ha ha ha ha! seriously, tho'. i really respekt that he put it that way to his lady cos... why lie? the fakt that a guy can live on w/o a certain gurl doesn't mean he loves her ne less. what was that song lyrik from back when i was in hi skool? sumpthin' 'bout "she needs u more than she wants u." what song was that? it cms to me that it might've been a u2 song but maybe not. it cms to me that it's 1 thing to need a person n' 'nother to love a person. however, i'm a li'l confused n' conflikted cos the bible says that the 1 who needs god more loves god more. :-? i dunno. is it a diff situation? maybe. ppl r diff from god. aktin' more desperate 4 a mate or a certain mate doesn't necessarily make u ne more attraktive or desirable to mates or that certain mate. oh, oh, oh! that song lyrik's either a smiths or morrissey lyrik, not a u2 lyrik!!!! which song? oh yah! it's "i know it's over." ah, it's a smiths song. it's such a depressin' song, n' yet... i didn't know the queen song "bohemian rhapsody" back then; so i didn't realise the similarities. ah, the depressingness, the drabness'f that song... it's sooo perfekt 4 over.emotional teenagers!!! ah, i 'member those days. *sigh* :-) ha ha ha! i'm glad they're over! i guess morrissey was such a romanticist, huh?
[later] 저녁 이지반 아직도 퇴근안해써요: as u know, many days, i start my day as a skateboarder, werk the werkday as an engr, n' then end the day as a taekwondoist / taekwondo instruktor. thus, i've been thinkin' 4 a long time'f making an mp3 cd 4 my car mp3 cd deck that has musik 4 skateboarding in the morn n' musik 4 taekwondo in the evening. u c, my mp3 cd deck can take an mp3 cd w/ files in diff folders n', well, keep'em separated by folder. thus, i've been thinkin'f making 1 folder called "morn" or "am," n' 'nother called "evening" or "pm." *shrug* the "am" folder'd have punk n' rock, while the "pm" folder'd've kpop n' some tekno or pop. well, i guess pop kind'f musik might fit in both. *shrug*
화요일 점심: honestly, i wasn't plannin' on writin' 2 much 'bout the va tech campus shooting spree; but then i found out just now that the gunman was a korean.amerikan. here's a y! news article i just read: "va. tech gunman writings raised concerns." wow. so... i'd 4gotten, but my cousin wendy n' her fiancé eddy go to va tech. i know 1'f my new taekwondo students came from va tech. i ought to talk to him 'bout this when i have the chance; but, i'm sure he's sick'f talkin' 'bout it. he's a very recent grad 2. cos the shooter was a korean.amerikan immigrant, the story's all over the korean news as well. here's an article: "美 언론, 버지니아大 총기사건 '용의자 조승희' 얼굴 공개."
[later] speakin'f the south, last nite, the beautiful kaela hwang n' i watched all the kings men on dvd (from netflix, plz use my links!). b4 that, after werk, i went (late) to maryann's 700p turbo kick box (tkb) class @ the fremont ave sunnyvale 24 hour fitness. she's a tuff instruktor, n' she really pushes especially me n' kaela cos she knows we do real martial arts. my hamstrings n' gluts r very sore 2day. *sigh* sometimes i think it's unfair cos if i were to push my (taekwondo) students this hard, i'd get in trouble. :-/ like, this gurl maryann doesn't push most'f her students like she pushes kaela n' me; but 4 us, she really pushes hard. [later] 오후: neway, last nite, 'twas just me @ maryann's turbo kick box (tkb) class cos kaela was comin' from somewhere but couldn't make it in time. instead'f drivin' all the way to the fremont ave sunnyvale 24 hour fitness, she went to the e arques ave sunnyvale 24 hour fitness. i was 2 full from our late buffet lunch @ bombay gardens, so i couldn't werkout very well. i was still full @ our late dinnertime, so i requested that we not each much. while i washed dishes, kaela cooked some'f these turnip n' taro cakes that we bought from 99 ranch on sun.
this morn, i skateboarded w/ sooni, n' it was fun. we went 4 an extra long time. i did not hit up the sunnyvale skate park 4 a morn skate sesh (skateboarding sessino) tho'. that makes me unhappy, but i knew i needed to get to werk early. still, instead'f headin' out the door earlier, i ended up doin' housechores n' leavin' @ just an ok time.
수요일 아침: reee.frickin'.diculous! i can't believe i didn't hit up the sunnyvale skate park 4 a morn skate sesh this morn. how many days in a row is that?! i purposely didn't go on mon n' tues cos i wanted to get to werk early cos i have 930a mtgs on mon n' tues n' ppl drill me n' grill me on my progress. sometimes, wed~fri rn't quite as bad, so i figured i'd 'least hit up the sunnyvale skate park this morn, but still no! >:-(: grrr! i took sooni 4 a li'l bit'f a longer walk on skateboard this morn. that's a small consolation. *sigh* [later] 'least i had fun skateboarding w/ sooni. that's the thing... like, whereas some kids these days get sooo intense 'bout skateboarding - they hafta jump off sooo many stairs n' do sooo many kickflips; sometimes u just gotta bring the fun back to skateboarding. u don't hafta be the greatest skateboarder to ride a skateboard. just go out, roll, n' have fun. i started watchin' this 1 dvd - transworld skateboarding presents: first love. in beginnin'f this dvd, some pro skater (skateboarder) sez sumpthin' 'bout how these days, skateboarding's 'bout drivin' to some skate spot, skatin', n' then packin' up n' goin' home... whereas, in the past, u skateboarded down the street n' 'round the neighbourhood n' maybe ended up @ some skate spot. "gettin' there" was the fun.
[later] 한국 가수 채연을 아시나요? u know the korean pop singer chae yeon? did she recently change her name to "이채연 lee chae yeon"? i did a li'l research on google n' learned that her 본명 bonmyuhng (given name)'s 이진숙 lee jinsook. in case u don't know, it's very common praktice 4 한국 가수 kpop singers to change their names. i mean, heck; it's not 2 uncommon here in the u.s. neway, i think she's now gone from 이진숙 lee jinsook to 채연 chae yeon to 이채연 lee chaeyeon. ok. neway, to confirm what i thought i was readin' on google in 한글 hangeul; i went to wikipedia. here's the wiki article on her: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chae_Yeon. so... she was born in 1978. i didn't know that! i always assumed she was just 'nother 1'f those li'l teenybopper gurls, but no! she's almost 30. dude, way to go! i like to support those kpop singers'f my generation. she looks really young! wow. a while 'go, i saw a y! news (korea) 'bout how some singer'f a kpop group called 상상밴드 sangsang band's in her 30s but looks like she's in her teens. seriously, from the pix she looked as if she were 16. [later] it's good to stay young.
*sigh* cos i haven't gotten in a morn skate sesh (skateboarding session), i'm not gettin' 'nuff exercise. the beautiful kaela hwang n' i missed taekwondo praktice last nite cos we were sendin' in our taxes cos the turbo tax server was broken or sumpthin'. it was quite an experience. we 1st tried to send them off @ the kiely blvd. we managed to weigh our envelopes n' buy stamps there, but the mail was already collekted, so we needed to go to the san josé main post office on lundy @ murphy. we trekked on over. when we got to that intersektion, we saw a big traffik jam. however, after we turned, kaela noticed that postal employees were standing on the curbside, collekting envelopes. kewl! since we had bought the correkt postage, we were set to go! awesome. we had sooni in the car w/ us cos we were on our way to an important taekwondo instruktors mtg @ 청기와 chunggiwa n' the owner woman there (i guess we call her an 아줌마 ajoomma even tho' it's kind'f weird cos as we get older, we're not that much younger than ppl that age.) wanted to c her. after droppin' off our taxes, we hurried off to 청기와 chunggiwa 4 our dinner mtg. we talked 'bot 'lot'f good stuff. wow, so we'll be takin' our next black belt level tests soon. i've been a 2단 (second dan) black belt 4 like... 8 yrs.
[later] 점심: when i came back to werk after easter, i found on my desk a small cellophane package'f easter candy that our nice "admin" or secretary left, i.e. she gave each employee in our division 1'f these. the pouch was full'f egg.shaped whoppers malted chocolate candies. over the past couple'f wks, i periodically reach down to my desk drawer n' pull out an egg.shaped candy n' snack on it. it's bad. this past wknd, i didn't get ne exercise other than dancin' a bit @ that dragon bar club. this current wk, my only exercise has been maryann's 700p turbo kick box (tkb) class @ the fremont ave sunnyvale 24 hour fitness on monday evening. frickin' a... other than that, i haven't gotten much exercise. :-( i've skipped my morn skate seshes (skateboarding sessions), n' those r good exercise. worse yet, this wk has been kind'f stressful 4 me@werk.com (what else is new?), so... *sigh* it's that kind'f stress that puts fat 'round ur belly, u know? *sigh* this is sooo frickin' unhealthy. :-/ i apologise 4 my extraneous use of the wurd "frickin' 2day, but plz appreciate that it's 'least a euphemism, so i'm not really swearin' or nethin'. oh yah, here's the wiki article on whoppers candies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whoppers.
[later] 오후: so i drove out to meet up w/ kaela n' our friend yvonne @ 금봉황 geumbonghwang, aka china china, 4 lunch. i made a conscious effort not to eat 2 much cos 1) i've been eatin' 2 much n' exercisin' 2 li'l lately, n' 2) i'd like the option to go to either will's 730p turbo kick box (tkb) class @ the e arques ave sunnyvale 24 hour fitness or sach's 700p turbo kick box (tkb) class @ the fremont ave sunnyvale 24 hour fitness. we'll c. sometimes i end up trapped@werk.com, which is very bad 4 my health. 4 the past couple'f months, i've been pretty sressed@werk.com. things were gettin' better; but, this wk, things rn't necessarily still gettin' better. i dunno. stress, stress, stress. aktually; stress, stress, stress, n' unpleasant ppl. i guess my werk load is lighter in recent wks than it was in wks b4 these. however... the gen'l atmosphere still stresses me out: the lack'f courtesy, the lack'f consideration, the lack'f common decency...
last nite, 사범님 sabuhmnim talked 'bout a bunch'f us takin' our next black belt degree/level test... 심사 shimsa. i've gotta admit, 1 silly reason i haven't been all that motivated to take my 3단 samdan (3rd degree) 심사 shimsa (belt test) @ our current 태권도장 taekwondojang (taekwondo skool)'s cos i like wearing my 버클리 대학교 buhkeulri daehakgyo (uc berkeley) black belt. i mean, my black belt is embroidered w/ "버클리 대학교" cos i earned my 1단 n' 2잔 (1 n' 2nd degree) black belts from berkeley, n' i'm honestly a bit proud'f that fakt. iy'd noe neen like almost 5 yrs since i left berkeley n' ucmap started doin' taekwondo here @ u.s. taekwondo akademy. honestly, now that the adult colored belt class (that mark n' i teach) is goin' so strong, i feel more proud 'bout bein' "from" u.s. taekwondo akademy. if i hafta wear a u.s. taekwondo akademy black belt, i'd wear it w/ more pride, u know? it's like werkin' 4 a start.up as opposed to werkin' 4 a huge, successful, widely.known company like the 1 i werk @ now. i don't wanna mention my employer's name here, but u can figure it out if u dig 'round my website just a li'l. if i were to mention my employer, i could say it w/ much pride. my company's like the undisputed leader in what it does. it's a huge comapny, very successfuly. however... i know i shouldn't be a proud man. i should find my identity as a child'f god, as a follower'f jesus, as 1'f the redeemed. earthly titles, university degrees, n' corporate schwag only getchu so far. as juliana hatfield sed @ the beginnin'f some blake babies song that my ol' roommate friend fahad liked back in the days, "u can't take it w/ u."
[later] 밤: well, i aktually had a decently produktive day@werk.com. however, we've yet to c if ne1 appreciates that. *shrug* well, after werk, i went to sach's 700p turbo kick box (tkb) class @ the fremont ave sunnyvale 24 hour fitness. they're redoin' the floor @ the east arques 24 hour fitness this wk. in case, i 4got to tell u, yah... that's why i went to maryann's 700p turbo kick box (tkb) class @ the fremont ave sunnyvale 24 hour fitness on mon nite instead'f sach's usual 730p turbo kick box (tkb) class @ the east arques sunnyvale 24 hour fitness. 2nite, i went to sach's class instead'f will's 730p turbo kick box (tkb) class @ the east arques 24 hour fitness cos'f that rfloor thing. will was in sach's class 2. i guess i like the fremont ave 24 hour fitness's classrm better cos it's bigger. the classes r earlier tho'. on mon nite, my stomach was still 2 full from that late, big lunch. 2day, i purposely didn't eat 2 much. well, aktually, i had some cookies @ a mtg in the afternoon. that didn't help. 2nite, after the gym, i came home n' cooked the green chile pork stew that we prepared @ super suppers on sat afternoon. it was ok, but the meat wasn't tender. our friend joanie recommended a place called "dinner my way" over super suppers. i'd give'em a shot.
목요일 아침: ok, i guess now that they media's been talkin' 'bout 조승희 jo seunghee (cho seung-hui) n' the va tech massacre all wk, i'll write a li'l more 'bout it. i just sent an e.mail to 1'f my friends 'bout sumpthin' he sed 8 yrs 'go. we took some1 in our social circle out 4 a b.day dinner, n' the friend to whom i just wrote sed 'twas the best insurance policy we could ever get cos if we had ignored him on his b.day, he would've gone crazy n' shot all'f us. true... that person was very "on the edge." he was violent, had a bad temper, n'... wow... 'lot 'bout him remind me 'f jo seunghee's profile 'ccording to what i just read on wiki. here's the wiki article i was reading, but keep in mind that wiki articles change n' evolve over time, so the article that u read when u click on the link may not be the same as the article that i just read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%A1%B0%EC%8A%B9%ED%9D%AC. wow, similarities: 1) ethnicity n' immigration status, 2) obsessed w/ a particular gurl, 3) similar edukation n' akademic interests/history, 4) listening to songs on "1 repeat," 5) interest in letting out trapped emotions via art, 6) interest in n' possession'f weapons. hrm... now, i'm not tryin' to make lite'f the situation or treat it litely; but wow... i told my friend in the e.mail that va tech 2007 could've been uc berkeley 1999!
this morn, the news was all over this "media package" that jo seunghee sent to nbc news. uhm, is that rt? did he send it to nbc news? *shrug* well, he sent it btwn the 2 parts'f his killing spree. the "media package" contains a bunch'f pix n' videos n' writings. wow. oh, ok; i just read msnbc.com; n' they say, yah, the package was sent specifically to nbc news: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18195423/.
wow, this massacre really was like columbine! in both cases... like, man... i dunno how to say this rt, but it's hard 4 me to say i'm more in the social circle associated w the victims than the social circle associated w/ the murderers, u know? not that i condone or necessarily "sympathise" w/ the killers, but... like, wow... the killers in both cases were the outkasts the kids who were diff from jocks n' cheerleaders. well, no... more so in columbine than @ va tech. @ va tech... wow... after readin' the profiles'f the victims (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18143312/), i feel more like... wow, did this guy really kill the ppl he wanted to? or were there many incidental killings? on the news, they cm to focus more on the victims who were like "the jocks n' cheerleaders." maybe the media's just tryin' to liken this incident to columbine n' stretchin' it more than it needs to be. however, well... the killer himself referred to columbine in his video. do u think he was 'bout the same age that the columbine killers would've been if they'd survived? [later] wow, the profiles say that many'f the victims were christians... like aktive christians. well, in a way, i feel bad cos'f that, but it's good that they're in heaven. it appears that many'f the victims were european language scholars/students; so the big massacre must've happened in a bldg that has lots'f european language classes. however, many'f the victims were engring students/profs. hrm... *shrug* [later] wow, yah... like many'f the victims were more like engrng types. i'm aktually kind'f mad that the media cmed to focus on a certain other type 'mongst the victims cos it kind'f creates this polarisin' faktor, u know? like, consider that some'f the victims were asian! it wasn't that jo seunghee only killed non.asians. [a li'l later] so yah... this klling spree was not all that much like columbine! perhaps columbine wasn't as much'f "jocks n' cheerleaders" v. goths outkasts kind'f thing as the media made it out to be. do u know? as u can c, i'm not in4med 'bout these things! here's the wiki article, which i'll now read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbine_High_School_massacre. man, i feel so ignorant. it's like wikipedia's my usa today! :-p [later] so wow... that whole "trenchcoat mafia" thing was a misconception! the killers in columbine weren't really part'f that crowd! wow, u learn sumpthin' new every day.
[later] 오후: i went home during lunch n' ate the leftover green chile pork stew w/ the leftover whole wheat tortillas. peter park (bronx or bronx99)'f bronx's junkyard fame (he's the founder) wrote some good stuff on his blog "life of the bronx" re: the va tech shootings - "when the press reported that it was an Asian kid, i just had a gut feeling it was gonna be a korean kid.. i hoped it wasn't.. but i was right. The thing that ticks me i guess is that so much attention is put towards what nationality he is. Does the crime became any less horrible if he was white or black? I just hope racial problems don't occur based on this single incident." that's so true; the media made such an effort to make sure every single freakin' person in amerika knew that the shooter was a kid'f korean descent... furthermore a korean immigrant. why?! is it cos'f the n. korean issue n' how it doesn't cm quite resolved? is it cos 'lot'f this reminds us'f better luck tomorrow? after all, how's it that this kid managed to shoot/kill 2 ppl n' then go send off a package n' return to shoot like 30 more ppl? isn't it cos no 1 suspekts that the asian kid's capable'f violence (n' thus it's ok to pick on him)? some1 on bronx's junkyard forums mentioned that 'lot'f weird, crazy stuff's goin' on lately n' mentioned va tech n' the rutgers womens b.ball team v. don imus. true, maybe the media's focused so hard rt now on racial tensions. it's important to think 'bout race relations in amerika, but we need to try to solve the issues n' not make them worse. peter brought up an important pt in his previous blog entry; that don imus got fired over his racist remarks 'bout afrikan.am women, but rosie o.donnell gets to make fun'f asians n' get off scott free! true, that's plain wrong! here's the 1st article i googled up 'bout the incident (typed in "rosie o donnell ching chong ching chong"): "Asian Leaders Angered by Rosie O'Donnell's 'Ching Chong' Comments." i noticed sumpthin' 'bout the pic'f rosie in that article: she looks kind'f asian. ha ha ha. i wonder if that pic came from some publik apology re: this incident n' if she did her hair n' makeup to look more asianish to gain brownie pts. ha ha ha. *sigh* well, the thing is that, in this country 2day, when ppl speak'f amelioratin' race relations, they're only thinkin'f black v. white. un4tunately, amerikan society doesn't care 'nuff 'bout asians (including south asians, middle.easterners, pacific islanders, etc.) n' not even quite 'nuff 'bout chicano.latinos (or native amerikan). it's like if they can 'least patch things up w/ the afrikan.ams, then society's ok. *roll eyes* really, that's great; but it doesn't stop there!
neway, after doin' 'least a li'l readin' on the va tech incident, i'm less convinced that it's a prob 'bout whites or whites n' blacks v. asians or 'bout jocks n' cheerleaders v. geeks, goths, n' punks. instead, i'm more convinced that it's a prob 'bout a kid who owned two too many guns... 2 more than ne person ought to own, if u ask me. guns n' college r 2 equalisers in life: a gun lets a weak person kill a strong person. college lets a poor person surpass a rich person.
well... heh, on the other hand, if i were to consider this a racial issue... then let's consider the case'f that 1 particular daily cal columnist who wrote an angry blurb cos he was a white dude that was goin' out w/ this korean gurl n' then the bro'f that korean gurl confronted him in a threatening manner. a long time 'go, i mentioned that the way he treated that incident exposed the racism in our society, how he obviously assumed that asian guys weren't capable'f physikal threat... meaning he obviously would've handled the situation diff'ly if he were a white guy datin' a black gurl n' was confronted by her black bro. i wrote my opinions on this topik in my journal. this all happened a long freakin' time 'go, n' the columnist aktually e.mailed me an apologetik msg 'bout the incident. he mentioned that he matured lot since then. yah, reflektin' on how he wrote that e.mail, i'd like to give him some credit. so... i never sed n' never'll say that what the korean bro did was rt; but i just think that the way the situation was handled... yah... wasn't very mature on either side... n' yah, really exemplified a racial prob in our society.
[later] this morn, when i skateboarded w/ sooni, i took the "short" route - just 1nce 'round our block or aktually 2 blocks cos our "block"'s cut into 2 blocks... later, i went to the sunnyvale skate park 4 a morn skate sesh (skateboarding session), prob'ly the only 1 i'll have this wk cos it started rainin' durin my lunchbrk, while i was @ home. *sigh* sooni really wanted to go out 4 1 last pee b4 the rain started, but i didn't let her cos she was bein' 2 eager n' tryin' to tell me to open the door 4 her. in our house, we don't tolerate that. however, i feel bad that i didn't let her go pee cos gee... i was home after all. *sigh* i had a pretty good time durin' my short morn skate sesh (skateboarding session). hrm... all this talk'f "sessions," reminds me that i saw on myspace.com that the sessions store in scotts valley's havin' a big sale like over the next couple'f wks. i'm sooo tempted to go. what do i need tho'? not much... maybe some socks... but not snowboarding socks cos i've got 'nuff'f those now.
2day's the beautiful kaela hwang's n' my 45th wedding monthversary, so we'll skip taekwondo sparring praktice 2nite to go out n' celebrate.
금요일 아침: hrm, 2day's 04월20일. :-/ i suspekt lots'f potheads'll be smokin' out @ 420p 2day. @ random times n' places in this life n' in this world; i c ppl smokin' pot. honestly, i don't like it. in gen'l, i don't like smokin' n' wish ppl wouldn't smoke. abovetheinfluence.com: they have these really cute commercials w/ this doggy that wants to go 4 a walk but his owner's 2 stoned on pot to get off the couch n' sez, "why don't you go walk yourself?" the cute doggy walks 'way sayin, "you disappoint me." it's very cute.
well, last nite, the beautiful kaela hwang skipped taekwondo sparring praktice n' went out 4 our 45th monthversary. it was an interesting evening/nite. i tried to get home earlier from werk, but 'f course i was trapped till late. well, i eventually came home, n' kaela was already home, watchin' simpsons. we recently bought the entertianment book, a ¢oupon book. kaela sed we could pick a restaurant from it n' chose some place called village rendezvous in saratoga on big basin way. well, when we got there, we discoveed it had closed down. shoot, should've called 1st, eh? *sigh* well, we looked 'gain in the book n' ended up @
the duke'f edinburgh (www.theduke.com) in cupertino on wolfe rd. wow, strange place to end up on our 45th monthversary; kind'f out'f char 4 us, but... *shrug* 'twas an interestin', shared experience! kaela ordered the beef wellington, n' i ordered bangers n' mash. also, to complete the british/scottish pub experience, kaela ordered a cider, n' i ordered a boddingtons pub ale. i thought i'd 1nce had a boddingtons pub ale @ our friend eric j's goin' 'way party, but... i was surprised when it came... pleasantly surprised. it's creamy like guiness but lite like hefeweizen. i can't quite 'member the name'f the cider that kaela ordered, but it tasted like sparklin' wine. she preferred my boddingtons n' didn't finish her cider. while tryin' to 'member the name by googlin', i stumbled 'pon this neat page: http://www.beersofeurope.co.uk/. here's a link to the wiki article on boddingtons pub ale: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boddingtons. well, it was an interesting experience to eat @ "the duke." we were 2'f very few asians in the place. some'f the caucasian clientele there @ british accents. we sat behind this 1 older (prob'ly) chinese couple. kaela pted out that they were extremely "lovey dovey" 4 a middle.age couple n' suggested that maybe they're havin' an extramarital affair n' came to "the duke" to hide from all the chinese ppl that would recognise'em. *shrug* these 2 korean hi.tech werkerish guys (i think they wore like suits) came in. i pted out to kaela that this is the only bar w/in walkin' distance'f cupertino village (the 99 ranch outdoor mall). those koreanguys came in w/ chinese fud leftover boxes, so i suspekt they were lookin' 4 a drink after dinner, n' 1 guy was maybe familiar w/ the place cos some local silikon valley engr brought him there in the past. *shrug* theories, theories, theories... neway, not to be prejudiced, but aktually, the fakt that the servers were all chicano helped me feel less like an asian guy that walked into a totally euro place, u know? i mean, it aktually made me feel more com4table. i enjoied my bangers n' mash but, after lookin' 'gain @ the menu after orderin', i kind'f wish i'd tried out some savoury pie like steak n' kidney pie. they sell scotch eggs there! 2 4 $8.50.
월요일 오후: the big news's that i'm on crutches. :-( it's a shock to many who run into me. sat's trip to kirkwood started out somewhat ok. well, i guess i didn't get very far. on my 2nd run down the mtn, i decided to go down the big terrain park. they had just had a big contest there last wk, so i guess the reshaped the jumps n' made it nice n' slick. my goal was just to go fast n' clear the deck w/o gettin' 2 much air. i went fast, but the shape'f the kicker was diff from b4. instead'f lettin' me fly low over the table, it shot me hi up in the air. i was prob'ly 'bout 5~6' in the air (not super hi). i wasn't freaked out but knew i was goin' pretty big, pretty hi. i tucked in nice, kind'f doin' an indy grab, but i prob'ly didn't get a good grab on my board. that' happens. neway, i barely noticed that i wasn't gonna quite clear the deck (table). n' when i did notice, i prob'ly didn't consider how hi up the air i'd gone. i landed hard @ the edge'f the deck or table, what ppl call "the knucle." i heard a loud pop in my left (front) knee n' immediately sumpthin' was not rt! :-o i slid down the landin' ramp, tryin' to go off to the left side but couldn't get very far. i was in 'lot'f pain. i unstrapped n' grabbed my knee in pain. the park wasn't very crowded, but some guy who went down n' cleared the jump n' sed, "that's not a good place to sit," which's a typikal thing to say in the park. however, he didn't realise that i was hurt. i saw my friends go down the mtn to the left'f the park. i called them up n' let'em know i was down. they walked up the hill to meet me. [later, 저녁] it took a long time 4 the kirkwood snow patrol to come fetch me. this dude named kip that reminded me'f our ol' friend mike shea 1st inspekted me n' took a few notes. then some dude named marty came w/ a sled n' sledded me down. then a snow mobile towed marty (who was towing me) to the clinik. there, i got walked over to a gurney. the staff there asked me questions n' filled out forms. then a physician asked more questions n' took 2 x.rays'f my knee. this dude almost 4got to put the lead drape on me while my crotch was totally exposed to the radiation, but rt b4 he fired the x.ray, i asked 'bout the lead. phew! good thing i asked!!! well, the doc sed no bones were broken. they wrapped up my knee, put a splint (immoboliser) on it, gave me a vicodin (i 4got to ask what the pill was b4 they gave it to me; upes!), n' sent me 'way on crutches. they sed if it still hurts in a wk, then i should get an mri. they were pretty optimistik, but i worried more when some kid in the lounge where i rested afterwards told me that the docs there 1nce told him that his broken arm was ok but it later needed a bunch'f pins. he sed they tend to wanna just getchu out the door. neway, the medikal staff there told me to wear the splint 4 only 2 days, so i'm already not wearin' it 2day.
*sigh* similar to the time i broke my hand in a taekwondo tournament in the summer'f 1994, i feel like i have more'f a window into the world'f the disabled.
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화요일 아침: uhm, i hate to be always stealin' from (super)dave kim's starkdavingmad.com, but i found 'nother article that he linked to that i'd like to put a link to here as well: "what the bubble got right" (http://www.paulgraham.com/bubble.html). i like item #5: i can understand what the dude's sayin' by how smart ppl don't need to wear fancy clothes to werk cos their werk speaks 4 itself. now whether i fall into that category or not... *shrug* i mean... which category do i fall into? *shrug* i'd like to think that i'm smart 'nuff. i dress pretty casually to werk, but i do like to wear somewhat fashionable clothes. *shrug* ooh, i also like item #9 - cali4ornia. yup, i'm a big fan'f my state. here r a couple'f excellent quotes from that sektion: "What makes the Bay Area superior is the attitude of the people. I notice that when I come home to Boston. The first thing I see when I walk out of the airline terminal is the fat, grumpy guy in charge of the taxi line. I brace myself for rudeness: remember, you're back on the East Coast now." "Silicon Valley may not be the next Paris or London, but it is at least the next Chicago. For the next fifty years, that's where new wealth will come from." [a li'l latr] hrm, 'f course, this article is from sept 2004... but i think it's still relevant.
[later] 점심: i just read a blog entry re: 조승희 seunghee cho. i found that link on tim fong's xanga, but the entry's not tim's. here's the link to the other person's blog entry: "seung cho, vengeance, and me." that entry aktually links to an article on an east coast tv station's website: "virginia tech shooter was laughed at." that article was a bit interesting. 1st off, it's funny how we keep readin' n' hearin' that 1) seung's speaking was often incoherent, but 2) his english was fine. i think ppl keep assumin' that he was a really recent immigrant who couldn't speak english, but we all know well now that that wasn't true. i mean, 'specially after cin' his videos on tv, we know that's true. in fakt, i'm very glad that nbc aired those videos n' straighten ppl out on that... 'specially cos the media already spent so much time labeling him as a korean. well, not cos'f that but cos'f many other reasons, i personally think nbc did totally the rt thing in airing those videos n' pix despite criticism. the article i read also mentioned a link btwn seung n' the award.winnin' 김기덕 kim kiduk film oldboy. wow... i aktually wondered 'bout that @ 1st, when they made seung sound like such a recent.immigrant.type. u know that we've watched lots'f 김기덕 kim kiduk films lately, n' yah... there' really violent. *shrug* they're very quentin.tarentino.ish.
well, i'm still on crutches. i'm mostly walkin' 'round on 1 crutch; n' yesterday afternoon, that really encouraged me, but ppl tell me to be careful not to hurt myself worse, n' that makes me wanna be more cautious, yes. i know my knee's fragile rt now. aktually, as i left werk yesterday, when the beautiful kaela hwang came to pick me up, i walked 'way barely usin' my crutches n' mostly carryin' them; but i saw my manager give me a very worried look; n' he was prob'ly quite rt. i shouldn't rush my recovery! i need to do it slow n' steady! i need to do it rt the 1st time. i wanna follow kaela's expert chiropraktic advice to the letter n' not mess up. she's havin' me take these capsules called "a.i. enzymes" to reduce the swellin', n' i'm doin' that. i'm tryin' to ice all the time; but last nite i fell asleep in bed w/o icin'. when i woke up, my knee felt horrible, n' i saw some brusin' on the outer side, below the kneecap. honestly, i was hopin' not to c ne bruisin' cos ppl say that bruisin's a sign'f torn soft tissue. well, kaela sed the bruisin's not 2 bad, so i may still be ok. :-/ ooh, i hope so! i mean, i hope it's not bad! :-/ *sigh* well, i used my crutches more 2day n'am icin' like crazy in my cube. i can walk a li'l on my left foot as long as i don't put all my weight down on it; but i'll try to resist. seriously! it's sooo temptin' to rush the recovery, not just 4 myself but cos i hate to c ppl worry 'bout me. like my mom... i know she's worried 'bout this, n' i want to tell her that i'm all better, that i'm walkin' on both feet... but if i rush it, i could make it worse! i wish she wouldn't worry. her worryin' stresses me out.
on sun evenin', kaela n'i had dinner w/ peter park'f bronx's junkyard fame. we went to 구이구이 gooyi gooyi on el caminio real, just east'f san tomas expwy on the eastern end'f santa clara's koreatown. it's great that peter's back in the area, n' i hope to hang out w/ him more.
[a li'l later] on fri nite, kaela n' i fly out on southwest to socal to attend her cousin linda's wedding. duk'll take care'f sooni n' our house in our absence. we return on sun afternoon. *sigh* i just wonder if i'll be on crutches still durin' that whole time. prob'ly, huh? [a li' later] just now i was readin' just some random page i googled up w/ "sprained knee", a uk (united kingdom, british) site: "knee ligament injuries". from what that site sed, it sure sounds like i *sigh* tore my acl. that scares me. yes, i hurt it while landin'; n' yes, i heard a distkinkt pop. acl, mcl, pcl, lcl... *shrug* i dunno... keep in mind how i was such an unathletik youth. bein' able to be athletik in my adulthood has been such a blessing.
[a li'l later] last wk, kaela n' i had lunch w/ our friend 소희 sohee @ fresh choice in sunnyvale. she was talkin' 'bout a famous musician n' used the term "emo." i admitted to her that i always hear that term but didn't know what it means. she kind'f got to explainin, n' i got the gist. still, i just now wikied the term to get a better idea: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emo_%28slang%29. i s'popse i was very "emo" in my sr yr'f hi skool, but i don't like the term just like i don't like the term "metro" or "metro$3xual." :-p bleh.
[later] 오후: durin' my late lunchbrk (i've been takin' late lunchbrks lately cos'f kaela's skedule), kaela picked me up, n' we went to acapulco mexican restaurant n' cantina off lawrence expwy in santa clara (near the dmv, btwn el camino real n' benton, by marina playa apts, near some street called granada). we went there cos i had a ¢oupon from the mail: buy 1 entrée, get 1 ('f equal or lesser pri¢e) 4 $2.99. kaela ordered some picadillo grilled enchiladas ($8.99), n' i ordered the halibut tacos($9.99). it was only a li'l ¢heaper than the $7.99 weekday fajitas lunch buffet, but we got to choose our dishes n' were more than full nonetheless. maybe some other time, we can come back n' have the weekday fajitas lunch buffet 4 $7.99/person. the silikon valley has 2 many buffets!!! 1 thing i've always liked 'bout acapulco mexican restaurant n' cantina ever since i was a kid's how they have a great view'f the ducks in the pond next to the marina playa apts. kaela n' i watched the mallards (almost all male), the 4 canadian geese, n' the 1 lonely turtle that was swimmin' in the pond that had 2 fake turtles on rocks. i commented to kaela that all those male mallards w/ only 2 females 'mongst them must be grumblin' 'bout "man josé," just like the male engrs'f silikon valley. the ducks n' geese had such a peaceful, idyllik life (if i'm 'llowed to call it that). *sigh* they don't hafta worry 'bout stock pri¢es n' mortgage. during stressful times in recent months, i've wished i could have a non.teknical job like bein' a full.time taekwondo instruktor (1 that aktually gets paid). however, now that i'm sittin' here, icin' a busted knee; i'm glad that i don't rely on my body 4 a pay¢he¢k. i've gotta admit that i was very glad to have my kaiser insurance when the bill @ the kirkwood clinink came out to only a $35 deduktible. phew. i may've mentioned this already, but i'm djin' my 1st weddin' 4 this season on sun, may 6 @ the ruby hills country club in pleasanton. i hope i'll be able to carry n' setup equipment. scary, huh? i surely don't wanna mess up my knee 'gain while settin' up there. *sigh* what can i say? this injury has been really scary cos i keep worryin' that it'll happen 'gain. will this disrupt my life? it's like there's a psychologikal injury as well as a physikal 1.
[later] 저녁: u know, every day since i hurt my knee, i wear my vans skateboard shoes even tho' i know i won't be skatin'. it's cos 1) they r wide n' stable n' 2) they remind me that i'm a boardsports athlete n' that whether it takes me a wk or a few months to recover, i'll eventually be ridin' some kind'f board soon 'nuff. i'm not 100% sure, but i believe the lyrics to the red hot chili peppers' "zephyr song" include the line "find a way to be a skater." if they do, i like that. i'm not 100% sure, but a quick google search 4 "find a way to be a skater" brings up a rt 'way a bunch'f pages that cm to confirm that i'm hearin' the lyrics rt. however, the diff pages don't agree on the subsequent lyric: "rev it up to levitator" or "rev it up to levitate her." *sigh* on thurs morn b4 this all happened, i was happily ridin' my skateboard, feelin' groovy. i recall that as i was leavin' the skatepark, this big dude named jeff who rides a longboard wanted to borrow my adjustable wrench, so i swiftly skated thru the bowls back to my car, gleefully olliein' up n' down curbs. it felt so good to be able to get to my destination no matter what obstacles were in my way. i felt so agile n' felt that that feelin' was the quintessential spirit'f the boardsports.
[later] now that i'm benched, i'm tryin' to 'member not to eat 2 much.
[later] 밤, 1038p: what a disappointing nite! kaela picked me up from werk, n' it looked like she was ready to go to taekwondo praktice. while we were pickin' our stuff up from home, i knew i needed to print out som pix 4 our next 단 심사 dan shimsa... 4 the applikations. while, i did that kaela fell asleep on the couch while watchin' an ol' simpsons episode that we've cn a million times. i tried to wake her up in time 4 the colored belt class, but she refused to get up. well 4 the 1st time since sat, i drove myself. i drove to praktice n' sat on the sideline. *sigh* it was so frustratin'. it turned out that 사범님 sabuhmnim didn't really need our pix yet cos we hadn't yet even filled out the applikations. wel, i stayed thru praktice n' thru the extra make.up test afterwards. i drove home. i noticed that there really is a bad sound comin' from my front rt wheel every time my car turns left. i thought maybe i was just imaginin' it as the passenger in my car. dude, it sounds very bad. i think the cv joint is busted. *sigh* dude, busted knee; busted cv joint!!! what's up?! when i got home... i saw the lite was on n' hoped that maybe kaela woke up n' baked the meatloaf that we put out to defrost a couple'f days 'go. nope, she was still asleep, n' the meatloaf would take an hr to bake, n' it was already 1023p. *sigh* instead, i just heated up a sausage 4 myself n' ate some soynuts. yup, that's dinner 'round here. *sigh* i dunno what to do 'bout 2morrow cos kaela has a 740a class. earlier, i sed maybe i'd drive myself, but now my car's apparently busted! :-( i almost wanna cry, but i guess i should pray.
수요일 아침: every day since the knee incident's filled w/ joy n' disappointment. this is why the good lord allows bad things to happen. he wants to make sure we feel, that we're not just goin' thru the motions in life. when i feel i can walk better, i feel great. when i look @ my left knee, n' it still looks so swollen; i feel horrible. the beautiful kaela hwang keeps talkin' 'bout lymph drainage n' how that's why my left calf looks so swollen. yesterday, while watchin' the adult colored belt class from the side, i felt such an "itch" to get up n' kick. often, while sittin', i 4get all 'bout my injury. then when i stand, as soon as i let my left leg extend a li'l; i feel the familiar tightness. i feel tightness n' also feel s#arp pain when my leg or knee gets jostled or jerked. i really want the swelling to go down. this morn, i considered takin' ibuprofen, switchin' from 100% natural remedies to the world'f "conventional," chemical pharmaceuticals. [later] i hate painkillers. anti.inflammatories r ok; but i hate painkillers cos as soon as they wear off the pain comes back 10fold. i mentioned that the kirkwood medikal staff gave me a vicodin, rt? i think it made me drowsy. oh yah, they also gave me a preskription 4 more vicodin, which i haven't filled n' prob'ly won't.
[later] 점심: i feel that, in gen'l, every day, my knee gets better. i dunno tho'. :-/ this morn, i could've woken up extra early when kaela woke up n' went to the gym in the early morn, but instead, i slept in w/ an ice pack on my elevated knee. i think that did me 'lot'f good. 2day, i've been tryin' to put ice on my knee under my pants instead'f on the outside'f my pants. u c, the jeans i've been wearin' this wk were 2 tight to hike up the legs. 2day, i purposely wore an older pair'f kenny cole jeans that r baggier. i can hike up the leg n' put the ice rt on my knee. well, the ace bandage's btwn the ice n' the knee. i think that's helpin' 'lot. as i sed, i go thru 'lot'f emotions: @ 1 moment, i'll feel like things r gettin' so much better. then the next moment, i'll feel like things r lookin' really bad. i really don't wanna hafta get surgery! u know? 4 the most part, i still think that i won't need surgery; but sometimes i really worry. don't worry 4 me tho'... when i c u worry, then i get stressed.
yesterday afternoon, i drew up a silly comic that recaps my knee injury incident. i hope i'll post it up here soon. in fakt, i have a whole bunch'f pix that i aktually already uploaded to my acct that i haven't yet posted here on my journal. if u know how to navigate 'round my publik direktory on my server, then u can find the pix. do u know the direktory that has all my pix? it's uh... http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~beno/journal/2007/pictures, i think. if i'm wrong; sorry.
[later] 오후: u guys know what facebook.com is? i guess it's like a trendy thing all'f the sudden. i've been on it 4 a while now but never really logged in. however, lately, 'lot'f my u.s. taekwondo akademy friends've been invitin' me to be their friends there. i think the 1st person to ask me to sign up w/ julie... a long time 'go; but i didn't c ne aktivity on that site 'mongst my friends 4 a long time till now, all'f the sudden. i heard'f facebook.com on the news cos the cops used it to solve some crime i think. well, i was gonna post up a msg on "the wall" there (i guess that's the personal netwerk bulletin board) re: my knee, but it sez the server's down or sumpthin'. this is what i was gonna write: "in case u haven't heard or cn; i busted my knee on sat, snowboardin' @ kirkwood. it was my 2nd run'f the morn, n' i went straight 4 the terrain park. i caught more air than i expekted on the 1st jump but barely didn't clear the table n' landed really hard. i heard a pop in my left knee as i landed n' couldn't go on. :-( i'm walkin' w/ 1 or 2 crutches these days. i won't be doin' ne'f my usual physikal aktivities 4 a while."
lately, when i sync the "recent" page'f my beno journal via avantgo on my palm t5, the page looks all messed up: it's 2 wide n' doesn't fit w/in the palm's screen, 4cin' me to scroll; n' that's very inconvenient. i dunno why this happens. there must be sumpthin' i my html that's makin' this happen, but i dunno what it is. :-( [later] also, i hate how my page always loads up in the western european character set, when i want it to load up in korean by default. i wish i knew how to write webpage code better. all i know is very simple html. :-(
durin' my lunchbrk, kaela picked me up n' brought me back to her clinik, where she did some ultrasound therapy on me. then we had lunch @ zafran's indian n' pakistani buffet. [later] i'm still tryin' not to eat 2 much since i can't exercise, but i also know i need to eat 'nuff protein to help me heal. such a dilemma, eh? [later] i'm so fidgety in my mind 'bout when this injury'll be gone. i just don't know! <:-( like, will i need a roadie to handle all my gear @ the upcoming wedding dj gigs? may 6? may 19? i s'ppose 2day, i'm kind'f "aggressively" icin'. i'm makin' sure the ice has good contakt w/ my wrapped up knee. it really helps, bein' able to hike up my pant leg. [later] kaela mentioned that her tasman clinik (as opposed to her benton clink, where i usually visit her now) has a "cold laser" machine. i wikied up "cold laser therapy": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_laser_therapy. i'd like to visit her tasman clinik to get cold laser therapy sometime.
u know, i've got 'lot'f issues swirlin' 'round my mind rt now, lots'f thoughts 'least (if "issues" ain't the rt wurd). *sigh* i wonder if this injury's simply usherin' me into a new (but not necessarily pleasnt) era: in my 0~10 yrs, i was somewhat aktive in the earlier 0.5'f that n' then got fat n' lazy in the latter 0.5. i nmy teens, i was very lazy n' grew fatter. in my 20s, i lost all that excess wt n' got very fit n' athletik, as u know. now, i'm 31, almost 32. is this a new era? am i doomed to be unathletik 'gain? <:-( i sure as heck hope not! what to do? c? i go thru a wide range'f emotions each day! yet, i think the worst thing's when ppl r overly worried 'bout me... then i stress. i mean... i so much appreciate friends' callin' me up; but honestly, i dread that my mom's worryin' 'bout me n'll nag me to quit snowboardin' when u know i obviously don't wanna. do u know my outdated index page on this website? it's the page that pops up when u type benomix.com into ur web browser. someday, i'll update that page, but man... rt now, it's sooo outdated. 1'f the few things there that is still true's that i always wanna go snowboarding. it's funny: this past season, i was bouncin' in btwn snowboardin' n' skateboardin'. which do i like more? *shrug* each has its posi+ives. u know, i think, statistikally, snowboarding has more accidents/injuries per yr than skateboarding. i read that somewhere on an official skateboarding organization's website. do u believe it? @ 1st i kind'f found it hard to believe cos snow's softer than concrete n' that's why so many more mature ppl (adults) n' gurls snowboard but won't skateboard. howe'er, 1) typikally, u don't jump as hi on skateboard as u would on a snowboard, n' 2) more ppl whether athletik or not try snowboardin' than skateboardin', rt? i think so. when'll i skateboard 'gain? when'll i snowboard 'gain? when'll i walk normally 'gain?
[later] 저녁: i'm stayin' late@werk.com 2nite cos kaela's gonna go to sach's 700p turbo kick box (tkb) class @ the fremont ave, sunnyvale 24 hour fitness. she'll pick me up from my office afterwards, sometime after 800p. i guess we'll eat our supper supers meatloaf 2nite. we also have plenty'f shrooms in the fridge that we've gotta eat, 'specially since we're goin' out'f town this wknd. *sigh* wow, life, eh? i need to mow my front lawn, but my knee's busted. whereas i usually detest yardwerk, i can honestly say i'm lookin' 4ward to the day i can mow my front lawn 'gain. no, i'm not fishin' 4 sympathy. ha ha ha, gee, is this kind'f crazy writin' what ppl label as "emo"??? ha ha ha! last nite, on youtube, i watched the madtv fake commercial 4 "tickle me emo." it's a pretty funny video clip. "emo," it's like what we used to call "mod" n' then called "alternative." yah, the wiki article sez it's very poorly defined, n' so were the wurds/terms "mod" n' "alternative."
[a li'l later] so is facebook.com the new place to hangout online? like, i don't think it can replace myspace, rt? like, in the past, i totally like friendster better than myspace, but i guess myspace's waaaay more popular than friendster. however, friendster's always cmed more mature, whereas myspace always cmed like a place 4 kids. myspace got infamous 4 bein' a place 4 online predators. already, ppl criticised friendster 4 bein' a meat mkt, so there r these other more "professional" netwerkin' site 4 ppl more like my generation or older. aktually, there r plenty'f those. i guess like whereas myspace sort'f won the mkt 4 the youths, the mkt 4 the older yuppies kind'f is still up 4 grabs. i dunno. however, like, i've noticed that some politicians r gettin' myspace pages. like, john kerry had his friendster fan profile thingy, n' that made sense; but i c these totally suit n' tie politicians w/ myspace pages now, n' it looks kind'f weird. i dunno if they're demokrats or republikans, but they kind'f stick out. i've toldju 'bout this 1 older dad that skates (skateboards) @ the sunnyvale skate park. @ 1st, i thought he was a mormon cos well... he has lots'f kids; but he might be "just" a standard protestant. neway, i noticed his myspace profile linked via the sunnyvale skate park's myspace profile. his screenname's "been there, done that, sold the t-shirt for a 5th." (http://www.myspace.com/somehowskating) on the page, he tells the story'f how he used to be an alkoholik but has now found god n' salvation thru the bible. hrm... ok, yah, he is a mormon. heh, figured it out... cos he sed he's a fan'f some author named "orson scott card," n' that author's a big mormon, so yah... i was rt. neway, yah, not every1 on myspace's is a li'l kid or an online predator.
these days, kaela has 'lot to say 'bout "ligament laxity." i got tennis elbow from bad ergonomiks@werk.com. kaela sed ligament laxity contributed to that. my knee injury; kaela sez "ligament laxity" contributed to that. she sez that eatin' 2 much sugar (refined sugar?) contributes to "ligmaent laxity." what is ligament laxity. let's consult wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligamentous_Laxity.
[later] well, it's late in the evenin', but i'm still@werk.com, waitin' 4 kaela; but that's ok. however, i'm still full from lunch. how'm i gonna eat meatloaf 2nite? my mom called me 2day: 1) she wants me to rub ginger dipped in rice wine on my knee cos that's werked 4 her in the past. 2) she hired her handyman to do our yardwerk 1nce on mon since i can't. *sigh* i guess, @ this pt, i'll accept that n' appreciate it.
밤,목요일 오전 128a: i'm up late 2nite. i feel yesterday, i finally really started rehab. durin' the day, i did visit the beautiful kaela hwang's chiropraktic clinik, n' that's important. however, the bigger brkthrus happened @ nite when she treated me @ home, which is 'bout the same as a chiropraktic clinik. she kind'f figured out how much'f my injury is 1) bone, 2) ligament/tendon/cartilage, 3) muscle, 4) psychologikal, 5) emotional. wow, i realised 2nite that more'f the prob was aktually muscular n' psychologikal than i'd realised. it's not so much that my knee repeatedly keeps failin'... it's the muscles that support the knee that kept failin'. kaela "turned them back on"; n' wow, i could walk better. i'm not walkin' normally yet, but i'm walkin' better.
well, here's my 만화 manhwa (comik):
그요일 아침: hey, what's up? it's fri. this morn, i woke up, n' i felt much better. i mean, my knee felt much better. my shin n' lower knee were all wrinkled up cos the swelling drained. isn't it strange that i'd be happy to wake up find that my skin was all wrinkly?! well, yah, i was happy n' felt better. this is the 1st time i felt good in the morn. earlier this wk, every time i woke up i felt lousy n' disappointed. wow, i've tried all types'f medicine from convential to alternative, u know? 1) chiropraktic, 2) traditional asian medicine, 3), convential "western" medicine. hrm, come to think'f it i highly resent that term "western" medicine. i'm sure doktors in asia also preskribe ibuprofen n' put splints on sprained knees. well, 2day, i have 2 doktor's apptmnts! i c the beautiful kaela hwang @ her clinik @ 1100a n' then my kaiser pcp @ 115p. crazy, huh?
[later] what's the weather like in socal??? prob'ly warmer than here, n' it really warmed up, up here this wk!
[later] 오후: just an ad - photostamps
[later] 저녁: i went to 2 doktors 2day. i 1st went to c kaela. then i went home to get some shorts, so i wouldn't hafta "drop trou" 4 the kaiser doc. thankfully, i didn't hafta wait super long to c the kaiser doc. she didn't have a whole lot to say. she made an apptmnt 4 me to c an orthopedist on may 14. that's 'bout it. she told me to continue takin' 600 mg'f ibuprofen 3 times a day. *sigh* that's what mds do, rt? tell u to do drugs. :-/ while in that kaiser office, w/ my shorts on, i noticed that my shin's really malleable! i was leanin' my elbow on it n' it molded to fit my elbow! it's like memory foam, like a tempurpedic bed! whoa! i showed the doc, n' she confirmed that it's just cos'f the fluid drainage.
월요일 아침: can u believe that april ends 2day? crazy, huh? as expekted, spring's flyin' by! my knee? well, i took sooni 4 a walk this morn on my own. i my knee got a li'l sore after a while, n' shoot... it took sooo long to make it 'round that short block. *sigh* however, we did it.
[later] phantom planet's "california" on the simpsons (the o.c. parody) -- i haven't had time yet to watch this clip on youtube, but i really want to. it's the clip of the simpsons parody'f the o.c., which uses (apparently) phantom planet's song "california." it's hilarious, n' i originally didn't believe that the song was a real song. i thought the clever folks @ the simpsons made it up. however, no. it's a real song that has really been used on the o.c.! neway, here's the url 4 the clip: http://youtube.com/watch?v=k8CmHCezz64. i so badly wanna watch it!
[later] 점심: have u ever googled up "beno hwang"? like, i did an img srch n' found it interesting. u can try it.
oh, so how was the wedding this past wknd n' the whole socal trip? well, the wedding ceremony was a bit long n' ceremonious. it was a greek orthodox wedding cos the groom's greek. that's all i really knew 'bout the groom b4 i went to the wedding. aktually, we'd heard that he was a movie producer, but we didn't know what kind'f movies. when i mentioned that, friends'd teased me that he made like uh... x.rated movies or sumpthin'. neway... guess what! @ the wedding reception, i learned that he makes skate videos! freakin' a! kewl! he makes videos 4 the popular skateboarding site 411mv.com. however, his biggest claim to fame is producin' the hookups skateboards 2001 video. now, that's particularly interesting cos yah, he married a korean gurl, n' hookups has been a bit criticised by the asian.am grps cos all their graphiks feature japanime dwgs'f scantily clad often asian women, rt? (furthermore, i don't think they have ne asian pros on their team.) yah, so... that's kind'f interesting, but... neway, the fakt that this dude makes skate videos makes him kewl by me. we'll have sumpthin' to discuss @ family funktions if i ever run into him 'gain.
neway, the beautiful kaela hwang n' i flew down on southwest on fri nite n' returned on sun afternoon. we were in such a hurry to the san josé mineta aeroport on fri nite after eatin' some mahi mahi 4 dinner, so i didn't get a chance to try gettin' a preboardin' pass due to my knee. kaela checked in our luggage, while i proceeded to go thru security n' get in the "a' line. i'd 4gotten that i'd left a cheapo corporate schwag multi.tool in my bag, n' they confiscated it. i didn't shed tears cos it was a cheapo made.in.china thing. it wasn't even very funktional 4 a "multi.funktion tool." i let them throw it 'way. on fri nite, we simply went to sleep when we got to kaela's parents' house. on sat, we woke up n' ate a traditional *korean* brkfast, meanin' fud u wouldn't expekt to eat 4 brkfast but 4 lunch or dinner. later, we had mcyukyuk happy meals 4 lunch. 'twas a pretty chill day (that means "lazy" not "cold"), n' i mostly just hung out online @ bronx's junkyard forums or on flickr. i uploaded some pix to flickr.
[later] 오후: oh yah, speakin'f flickr, a long time 'go, on (super)dave kim's starkdavingmad.com, i found a link to an interesting site called flickrleech. well, here's the link to my flickrleech page: http://www.flickrleech.net/user/benoburdy. those r all my flickr pix on 1 page "because paging sucks," as they say on that site. wait! but if some1 has 'lot'f pix, it does paginate. is that the rt wurd?
durin' lunch, kaela n' i went to thai chili on halford behind el camino real, behind citibank. kaela had some kind'f "silver" noodles, n' i had some mixed vegetables beef. everything was ok, but nuthin' super spektacular if u ask me.
[later] u know... *sigh* like this past winter, kaela n' i were hangin' out w/ 1'f our friends who's a total "socal" gurl, n' i'm pretty sure she'll say that herself. she sez that life's a total "rat race" up here, that it's sooo competitive compared to socal. :-/ well, it's true that ppl r really smart in the silly valley. ppl (in gen'l) r heck'a edukated/edumakated. it's a freakin' hi.tech world here. yah, it often cms that most ppl r from top notch skools like cal / berkeley or else stanfurd. well... it's really not that every1's from cal / berkeley or else stanfurd; but it's that, if they're not, then they're from some other big name skool like university'f michigan or m.i.t. or harvard law or sumpthin'... n' if they're not, they're still from some well.respekted skool somewhere. the standards'f edukation/edumaktion r very hi 'round here. that's true. that's very true. yah, i guess what i really mean to say is that even if ppl rn't from the best'f the best universities, they still contribute to this higher average'f edukational/edumakational level 'round here. that's true. now contrast that to what i experience pretty much each n' every time i go to socal! what matters down there? well... some ppl like our friend say it's more competitive up here, while other friends say it's more competitivel down there. well, i think both regions'f cali4nia r competitive but just in diff ways. i think in both places u find materialistik ppl who worship $$$ but in diff ways. ok, 4 better or worse, i've gotta say that i really believe that the whole hype 'bout big edukation/edumaktion's less down there, no doubt. listen; i'm not sayin' that every1's flat out stoopid down there, but the average level'f edukation/edumaktion must be less cos, unlike here, not every1's a freakin' ph.d. in plasma physiks. in agreement w/ popular belief, i've gotta say that, yah, image's more important down there than here. or... is that true? *shrug* *sigh* like, maybe, up here, it's more important to look smart; while, down there, it's more important to look rich. yah, maybe so... *shrug* like, up here... i think it's harder to be respekted 4 bein' born into wealth; don'tchu think? whereas down there, i think it's more acceptable. like, down there, it's respektable to gain wealth thru family or show biz. up here, u'd better've gained whate'er wealth u've got via a ph.d. in plasma physiks. rt? *sigh* i think this is all related to sumpthin' that i read in po bronson's book the nudist on the late shift
depeche mode - "walking in my shoes"
i would tell you about the things they put me through
the pain i've been subjected to
but the lord himself would blush
the countless feasts laid at my feet
forbidden fruits for me to eat
but i think your pulse would start to rush
now i'm not looking for absolution
forgiveness for the things i do
but before you come to any conclusions
try walking in my shoes
try walking in my shoes
you'll stumble in my footsteps
keep the same appointments i kept
if you try walking in my shoes
if you try walking in my shoes
morality would frown upon
decency look down upon
the scapegoat fate's made of me
but i promise now, my judge and jurors
my intentions couldn't have been purer
my case is easy to see
i'm not looking for a clearer conscience
peace of mind after what i've been through
and before we talk of any repentance
try walking in my shoes
try walking in my shoes
you'll stumble in my footsteps
keep the same appointments i kept
if you try walking in my shoes
if you try walking in my shoes
try walking in my shoes
now i'm not looking for absolution
forgiveness for the things i do
but before you come to any conclusions
try walking in my shoes
try walking in my shoes
you'll stumble in my footsteps
keep the same appointments i kept
if you try walking in my shoes
you'll stumble in my footsteps
keep the same appointments i kept
if you try walking in my shoes
try walking in my shoes
if you try walking in my shoes
try walking in my shoes
those lyrics r blasphemous, but not every song i post lyrics to here hastuh be rt out'f the church hymnal. i know u think i'm ned flanders 
, but i'm not that ned flanders. in fakt, i'd love to watch a musikal that uses all these songs that i like. i mean... this song'd be perfekt 4 a musikal cos it shows what our human nature tells us to feel 'bout things like sin. this is original sin n' how we justify it to ourselves. yah, like the musik'f depeche mode's sometimes blasphemous (like their song titled "blasphemous rumours"), but it's very thought.provoking 'bout spiritual topiks, n' i believe that's good. no, it's not christian musik, but it's spiritual; n' i've cn it discussed on christian websites exaktly cos'f that. must u always believe in the lyriks'f songs to listen to them n' enjoi'em? it's kind'f like that quote from the movie good night and good luck, which we watched yesterday afternoon. the main char ed murrow talks 'bout how a socialist british professor dedikated a book to him, not cos they agreed on politiks but cos they were able to discuss politiks w/ ech other so well despite not agreein'. hrm, as a christian, i think it's sometimes hard to find non.christians that will have a good conversation w/ me re: spirituality cos 1) christians tend to assume 'lot'f things 'bout other ppl, n' 2) other ppl tend to assume 'lot'f things 'bout christians.
shoot, freakin' a! i went from talkin' bout nor*cal v. socal to talkin' 'bout christianity 'gain. *sigh* well, lemme tell u sumpthin' bout nor*cal v. socal. this is a confession... a big confession! if i'm not allowed to snowboard 'gain, then i'd be much more likely to agree to bein' 4ced to relocate to socal than if i can keep on snowboarding! snowboarding's 1'f the biggest posi+ives to livin' in nor*cal. tahoe! even if i were to be told not to snowboard ever 'gain (which i believe is very unlikely), i sure hope i can still skateboard. u know, in the past yr, my skateboarding's really improved. i'm still not all that, but i'm much better. *sigh* i hope i haven't regressed 2 much cos'f this injury! >:-( i want this injury to go 'way!
yesterday, we watched 2 movies: good night and good luck n' volver. both were good movies, but i liked volver better. i'm just that kind'f person. i'm not as much into politkal movies. as i've sed, i believe every movie should have a romantik element. aktually, volver wasn't a really romantik movie either; but it had more emotion.
it's frustrates me extremely that i can't get exercise. the most exercise i've gotten recently was walkin' sooni 'round the block 2day. i can't jog. i can't do turbo kick box (tkb). i can't do taekwondo. [later] it's not so much that i want to exercise so badly; but it's that, if i don't exercise, then i can't eat; n' i wanna eat.
[later] i enjoied watchin' volver n' tryin' to learn some spanish. i learned that "tia" means "aunt." so that fud brand "tia rosa" means "aunt rose," n' "tia juana" means "aunt joan." in order to confirm that "juana" = "joan" ~ "john," i consulted babynames.com. *sigh* (someday) when kaela n' i have a boy or gurl, what should we name him/her? i like names that makes sense in an asian n' european context. i'm not averse to french or spanish names. last nite, after watchin' volver, kaela asked me how ol' penélope cruz's, n' i answered that she's 'bout "our" age. well, 'ccordin' to the wiki article, she was born in 1974; so i was rt.
[later] 저녁 이지만 아직도 사무실에서: can u believe that usps postage rates r goin' up 'gain??? [later] in recent months, whenever i hafta walk 'cross a parking 'lot or down a sidewalk, i was always thinkin, "shoot, i ought to be skatin' on my skateboard! here i am, walkin' like a sucker!" *sigh* now, i just wish i could walk w/o limpin', eh?
화요일 아침: hey, what's up? uhm, if u haven't done so yet, wouldju plz consider signin' my gbook? oh yah, i 4got that i'm s'pposed to post up gbook entries here in my journal unless the visitor/signer doesn't want me to. i had some deutsche (german) visitor. i should post that 1 up now.
name: Elke
e.mail: elke1972[at]lavy[dot]de
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new yr's resolutions 4 2007? [blank]
new yr's prediktions 4 2007? [blank]
what's the next big teknology? [blank]
tell me 'bout a restaurant u like:
if u could be a celebrity; then which'f these wouldju most wanna be (criminal, musician, athlete, actor, model, author, politician, news/media/announcer, ceo, socialite w/ no talent)? socialite w/ no talent
additional comments: Uhh, many questions :)
Greetz
Elke
as i did yesterday morn, i took sooni 4 a walk this morn... on fut. as it did yesterday morn, it took a long time. [a li'l later] yah, it took longer cos'f my limpin'. as i walked down the sidewalk, some teenager on a skateboard passed me, n' felt quite jealous. a couple'f wks 'go, that was me! aktually, this month (the month'f may) marks the 1.yr anniversary'f my goin' to the sunnyvale skate park, an event that really launched my skateboarding hobby or however, i should put it. i still 'member that early, early sat morn, that i timidly entered those gates n' met the father n' son duo'f dave n' danny kojima (or whatee'er their last name is; i'm not sure). that was rt b4 i spent the wk in denver 4 that werk.com conference. i knew i wasn't gonna skate that wk, so i wanted to get it all out'f my system by doin' sumpthin' a bit more extreme. also, i guess snowboarding season'd ended by then. well, as'f 2day, the only open snow resorts r mammoth n' squaw. *sigh* it'd be straight up dope to get to snowboard in chile or australia someday.
this morn, as i returned w/ sooni back to our house, i stopped to chat w/ our next door neighbour barry, who just had his dual hip resurfacing surgery. i told him that i sprained my knee @ kirkwood. he's a big skier, so he was interested. i learned from him that it was his step.son who called the cops on sooni that sun morn. *sigh* i always want to believe that guy's a good kid; but man... i dunno. why'd he hafta do that? geez! i always sensed that he n' his friends that hang out in their garage all nite don't get 'long w/ sooni.
so, as i was strollin' (n' limpin') w/ sooni this morn, i thought'f the title'f 2day's entry. geez, i sure hope i'm not a mayfly. i hope that my knee gets better, fully recovers; so it's not that my time as a somewhat athletik dude isn't bounded by the decade that's ruffly (approximately) my 20s. i sure hope that my time as a snowboarder isn't bounded w/in the past 14 or 15 yrs. i sure hope that my time as a taekwondoist isn't bounded w/in the past 14 yrs. i hope my time as a skateboarder isn't bounded w/in the past yr. <:-( *sigh* i feel better, but my knee n' lower leg still look so freakin' swollen. i don't like that. the beautiful kaela hwang confirmed my suspicion that i'll, from now on, experience more arthritis in this left knee. i already experience some arthritis in my knees, fingers, hips, n' other joints; but it's not 2 bad. *sigh* neway, "road to recovery," u know? i e.mailed our friend roland yesterday cos he's been thru some leg injuries in his time. he's spent more time on crutches than i have. i definitely respekt'im 4 havin' been able to deal thru all that (or deal w/ all that).
점심: yesterday, the gardener that my mom hired to do our yard came, but he really didn't do much. kaela came home while he was still there n' found him just loungin' in his truck. i hadn't cn the yard 4 myself @ the time, but my mom called him n' chewed'im out. later, when i got home, i saw that, yah, he really hadn't done much. he'd just mowed the front lawn... n' that's 'bout it. neway, personally, i don't wanna hire a gardener, but my mom just wanted to get this guy that does some other properties that she owns or maanages to take care'f our yard 4 a li'l cos'f my injury. neway, my mom sed he sed he'll come back next mon to finish the job n' then come back the followin' wk to do a li'l more. i don't plan on hirin' him after that. originally, my mom suggested that i hire him after this kind'f "trial period" that she set up; but now she doesn't think so, n' neither do i. *sigh* ppl've suggested that we hire maids tho'. in a way, i'm more open to that, but still... u know me; i prefer to do my own labour n' feel like more'f the... *shrug* proletariat. after, i recently explained how berkeley really brainwashed / taught me to shun kapitalisme. *sigh* heh, all this just after i watched good night, and good luck, eh? seriously! don't label me a kommunist or even a socialist. i'm simply a compassionate christian. :-/ maybe that makes li'l sense. *shrug*
오후: 2day, i read on tim fong's xanga his thoughts on the 조승희 seung cho n' the va tech shootings. (it's now so freakin' ridiculous that the media addressed him by his korean, korean name n' not the anglicised/amerikanised rendition! proof'f anti.asian racism in the media? maybe.) neway, this is what i commented in response (along w/ 2 eprops):
the role'f violence in society... great topic!
you know, it's illegal to punch someone, but it's apprently totally legal to be a total, annoying jerk. this is how it was on elementary school playgrounds, n' that's how it is today in the grown-up world! maybe it's cos i'm into martial arts n' all; but i notice that those who are incapable of physical dominance often use verbal and psychological ways to be offensive... and they don't suffer any consequences for irresponsibility and inconsideration. they aren't kept in check.
if only we were allowed to sock them now and then. even kids get away with throwing a punch or two now and then in the playground, right? a note home to the parents, some kind of white or pink slip, that's ok, better than criminal charges. as martial artists, we know we could force physical dominance, but we don't; at least not unless it's time... n' we all hope we know when that proper time is, right? anyway, we know we could beat certain people up, but we don't. at the same time, annoying people... people who say mean, belittling things or try to get their way always through verbal manipulation and whining etc., they too often don't hold back... ever!
do you know what i'm talking about? well... i'm obviously venting. i'm talking about what it's often like to deal with difficult people in the silicon valley, people with inflated egos. often it's because of great educational backgrounds and academic merit and stunning career records. i've seen some very smug people in my time. like... hrm... like when we were in berkeley, we were amongst many nerds, and heck... we're nerds too, right? like, in the martial arts program, a lot of times, we were amongst nerds who seemed to take up martial arts because they were sick of being bullied by jocks. i mean, this is kind of figurative, but in some cases it was probably literal. anyway, i'm proud we were amongst people like that... because there are many others that would just hide behind the yard duty / hall monitor instead. as you see, it really frustrates me. i just think people would be more considerate and behave in a more civil manner if they had to deal with the fear of getting the $#!+ kicked out of them now and then, right?
like, sometimes, kaela (my wife, who grew up in part in socal) sees people driving rudely on the road and says (kind of jokingly) that they'd get shot on the l.a. freeways, referring to that period of time in (i think) the early 1990s when there were many l.a. freeway shootings because of road rage. also, i guess l.a. has it's "dangerous" areas like south central and compton, and people talk more about street violence as a reality than they seem to here, at least in the silicon valley. maybe up in the east bay and sf, people think about it more. don't forget: i live and work _right_ in the heart of silicon valley, and yeah... this is how i see it.
you may have heard me say or read me write that i'm actually all for gun control. however, when someone actually takes all the items out of your shopping cart and steals the cart at target just because he's too lazy to go to the front and get his own cart, maybe you shoudl be allowed to sock him. don't you agree?
[later] kaela picked me up 4 a late but fast lunch @ the nearby sweet tomatoes. i tried not to eat 2 much since i still can't really exercise. 2nite, i'll suit up n' instrukt the colored belt class @ u.s. taekwondo akademy, but i won't praktice myself n' won't even kick or nethin' like that.
[later] big news items in the ca bay area this wk so far:
- mcarthur maze, eastbound i.580 bay bridge interchange destroyed in overturned gas tanker fire on early sun morn.
- conan o.brien's late nite show bein' taped @ sf's orpheum theatre this wk.
- immigration reform rallies
- sj sharks in playoffs v. detroit red wings
- golden state warriors doin' sumpthin' basketball.related... i'm not sure.
i'm glad the sj sharks r doin' well. the nite that i watched cal's disappointin' futbol loss to usc, i was slightly uplifted cos i saw the sharks win. i don't have the patience to follow pro sports teams, but i enjoi watchin' hockey games now n' then.
[later] ok, it's long, long overdue that i post up some pix. i sed i had uploaded some pix a while 'go, so lemme present them now. keep in mind that some'f these pix r really old now. 7 pix:
'member that warm day in 2007년02월 (feb 2007) that felt like summer? 'twas 2007년02월17일. 'member that kaela n' i drove down to santa cruz n' rode our bikes 'round under the hot sun? we stopped by the book shop santa cruz after gettin' some drinks @ peet's coffee. here's kaela w/ a book she found.
from that warm, warm feb day, here's a pic'f kaela n' beno (keno) hwang on a streetcorner in santa cruz.
'member how excited (stoked) i was this late winter (almost spring) to buy some nice skateboard parts? independent stage 9 129mm eric koston trucks n' ricta boltz white lightning 52mm 83b tom penny wheels... n' sooni. dogs n' skateboards: a great mix! 2007년03월08일
well, a wk later (2007년03월15일), i used my lg chocolate fon, propped up 'gainst a glass coke bottle to video myself sessionin' the small bowl @ the sunnyvale skate park. honestly, i've gotta say the video was pretty lame. here's a blurry, blurry screenshot that looks almost not lame.
our late winter / early spring color belt class @ u.s. taekwondo akademy; 2007년04월12일
that same nite, me (beno) in the 태룡 taeryong vest that kaela got me @ the l.a. koreatown festival sometime in like 2006년09월 sept 2006
that same nite, the taekwondo class @ 99 chicken (구구 치킨)
수요일 오후: i'm very frustrated n' upset 2day cos i lost over $300. i discovered 2day that i'd 4gotten to pay our property tax bill last month. our house's 2 messy, n' i didn't c the bill. it' so frustratin'. how can i lose $300 just like that?! u know, this is the 2nd time in recent months that the gov stole $$$ from me cos i missed a deadline by a li'l: my dmv car registration; i missed it by a day n' had to pay like a $20 fine or sumpthin'. *sigh* neway, this incident's much more extreme: $300! dude, u know what i could do w/ $300?! it's so frustratin'. *sigh* u know... like, 'member back in my 1999년 days, while hangin' out w/ s.mike, i used to talk 'bout luck 'lot. well, i don't like to talk 'bout luck nemore, but i know it cms like i'm havin' very bad luck these days: my knee, losin' $$$ here, stress, stress, stress... neway, i don't wanna hear cr@p 'bout good luck / bad luck or good 4tune n' bad 4tune. #@¢% that! life ain't 'bout luck. everythin' happens 4 a reason n' an eventual greater good. *sigh* neway, i'm out $300.
@ this pt, i look @ my life n' almost yearn 4 the days when life was simpler, like back in the early 2000s, back @ the turn'f the century, the turn'f the millennium. back then, i didn't hafta worry 'bout mortgage n' property tax. i didn't hafta worry 'bout so many bills. *sigh* u gotta admit: 'round the time that this bill was due, i was freakin' scramblin' 'round 4 funds to pay off our ¢redit ¢ard bill; so shoot... maybe i didn't even have 'nuff $$$ to pay the bill. well; no... i'd kept this $$$ 4 this bill tucked 'way in a special acct, so i did have it. this acct was s'pposed to have $$$ 4 our property tax n' 4 our grx unstoppable pledge. [later] *sigh* $$$, $$$, $$$. talk 'bout $tre$$! i hate havin' to worry 'bout $$$. i alway worry 'bout losin' my job n' then not bein' able to pay the mortgage. *sigh* man! seriously, home ownership's stressful; but, at the same time, it's the wisest investment. i don't care if ppl say u can make more $$$ on stocks, etc. home ownership's the wisest investment. i didn't say it's necesarily "the most lucrative," altho' it often is, here in the bay area. in ne case, it's the wisest. *sigh* however... am i livin' so hand to mouth? isn't this what i worried 'bout so much when i got into home ownership? isn't this why i chickened out the 1st time that i was 'bout to go into home ownership? i'm really upset that i hafta take care'f all the bills: i pay the fon bills, the internet bill, the gas bill, the elektric bill, the h2o bill, most'f the gro¢eries, the garbage bill, the mortgage, the property tax, everything!!! it's drivin' me crazy. c? so i think back to 2000년 n' how things were simpler then. that was a long time 'go now, n' i'm sure some'f u'd just tell me i've gotta grow up. *sigh*
well, let's talk 'bout sumpthin' else to get my mind off this disaster. this morn, on the the today show on nbc, matt lauer did his "where in the world is matt lauer?" segment from paru, bhutan. they did a feature on how bhutan finally legalised tv n' internet in 1999년. they talked 'bout how it's changin' the culture there, n' asked kids to identify various amerikan celebs from their promo fotos, such ppl as the cast from friends, jay leno, the japanese dude from heroes, prince... the kids recognised those faces but didn't recognise matt lauer's promo foto. ha ha ha; that made 4 a good laff; i've gotta admit. however, what irked me was this demostration'f amerikan egotism. amerikans believe that their pop culture really diktates what the rest'f the world thinks. u know what? it doesn't. we amerikans, we're not as kewl as we think we r! i betchu that these kids also watch plenty'f kdramas (korean "dramas") just like the rest'f asia. korean pop culture's drivin' much'f asian youths these days as is japanese pop culture n' european pop culture!
