4/24/11

Too lazy to come up with a title. This blog post isn't meant to be read anyway. Actually.. Since when do people read my blog in the first place? Anyways, it's been a while since I've blogged, and I feel like talking- or typing in this case.

I've obviously been too lazy to make noob tournament reports about my little trips to friday night magic. Long stories short, I've gotten a little better, but I still suck. I've drafted a few times at another small store and won a couple times, it was fun, but I prefer my home location. A friend of mine also invited me to join him and some other friends at a Grand Prix Tourney down in San Diego this winter. Hopefully he wasn't joking because the thought of it excites me! I feel like my life has been revolving around Magic mostly lately.. Whatever, it makes me happy..

School's been going through pretty well, I was concerned about getting straight B's, but I've temporarily increased my grades to low A's. Hopefully I can maintain them for the rest of the semester! Not too long to go! The list of classes available for summer have already been posted and I haven't even looked at it yet. I need to get crackin on it. In fact, I've been wanting to speak with a counselor lately to help me get all my stuff straight. I should definitely do that soon.. Spring break is actually ending right now. Sad thing is, my school is like the last school on earth to have spring break... It's whatevs though, I had no one to hang out with.......
Speaking of which, I've been having this strange feeling of loneliness lately.. Not that I actually am lonely or not have any friends or anything, I just feel like I've been lacking in some true friends. Like a homie, or someone I can turn to whenever I want. Someone I can call up and hang out with whenever. Am I taking what friends I already have for granted? I think where I went wrong is that I spent all my time with my (ex) girlfriend that I never really spent time building strong bonds with anyone else. I value her as a friend, but she's still obsessed with me and I'm really hoping she'll get over me some time soon. On a side note, I've been having a bit of a craving for a new girlfriend... but I probably shouldn't talk about that..

For spring break a bunch of the friend's I've made in college wanted to have a big kick it at Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk last Thursday, but it was so terribly unorganized that it got cancelled. The "event" was made on facebook, and extremely few people actually responded consistently to it. I was going to drive (and my car was full), and I was about to bring a ton of food for everyone. I was actually excited to go hang out with a bunch of friends for once. It saddens me that everyone bailed out.

Kung fu has been a blast as always. The never ending struggle to communicate with my instructors is as funny as ever. The school's 10th anniversary is coming up and I have to do like 4 different forms in a row for a performance. It's going to be really tiring, but it'll be worth it. I look forward to it!

I've spent an absurd amount of hours on Minecraft.. I probably shouldn't talk about it..
I loaded up starcraft for the first time in a long time. Obviously I suck now.. I started up my placement match and got raped. Still feeling determined I started up another match. I was playing against the mirror and my opponent sends and overlords over to my base to see my flawless build order and he's like.. "16 pool?"

I've been trying to slightly get back into tricking lately. It's hard!! I actually got the guts to throw some sweat pants on and take a trip to the park down the street. I had a friend with me so I wasn't alone or anything. Unfortunately defying gravity doesn't work as well as it does in my head...

I took a whimsical trip to Milpitas Golfland with a friend the other day. I was really surprised to see that they have Beatmania IIDX 18 Resort Anthem! And DJ Max Technika 2! Makes me wonder what Sunnyvale Golfland has. I haven't played IIDX in so long I wasn't able to perform the way I used to back in high school but I still had a ton of fun nonetheless. Too bad a couple of guys were hogging Technika 2 the whole time..

I've been trying to diversify my itunes playlist lately. I've been listening to a little bit of acoustic. Nothing worth noting though, they just happen to be songs that I enjoy with acoustic guitar(s) in the background. I also noticed that the international side of my playlist(s) consisted of korean and japanese songs. I know that j pop and k pop are really really popular, but I wanted to try sticking to my roots, so I've actually been looking into some Chinese artists. I've found a little bit of success, but I'll keep it to myself for now.

Been craving to watch some anime lately, but I just don't have to the time and patience for it anymore.. Something really good might come up every now and then.

Oh yeah, I talked to a friend of mine who's attending Cal Poly right now for Computer Engineering (the same major as me) and his rate of education is sky rocketing compared to mine. His school goes by quarters as opposed to my school's semester system, so they're a lot faster. I took trigonometry last semester.. I'm taking pre-calculus this semester.. He's taken Calculus all the way up to Calculus 4, I think a physics class, a couple programming language classes, and he's learning Java now. His first quarter started several months after I started my first semester.. I can brag all I want about saving a ton of money at community college, but the education I'm getting over here is shit. I can tell some of the classes at Chabot cater to the level of most of the students at chabot. I'm not trying to say I'm better and smarter than them or anything, but so many students there lack drive. I just want to get all this general ed bullshit out of the way so I can start my journey towards becoming a ballin-ass engineer. I'm being held back by my high school ignorance and the fact that all the engineering classes require Calculus as a prerequisite. I want to focus as much as I can right now, but it's hard when it feels like I'm just waiting... I can admit that my classes provide enough of a challenge for me to not to be able to breeze by, but none of them really throw me into the textbooks everyday. I really want to work towards becoming a successful engineer, but I'm stuck working towards working towards becoming one.

This One Day...

An Indian man poked his head into my kung fu school and asked if the instructors there were Asian. He looked over his shoulder then back at me an whispered, "I don't want to be taught by white people.."




I couldn't help, but smile.





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School

Midterms in ALL of my classes and a 7 page essay all due on the same day? Coincidence? Hurry, someone shoot me now.

Too lazy to blog these days

I don't know how much longer this blog is going to last...

Anyways, in the past month I've started a new minecraft world, but didn't get very far on it. And I discovered some friends who play on a multiplayer server, but the server keeps crashing and going down and whatnot.

My kung fu school is having their 10th anniversary soon so they're gonna have all their students perform at some hotel or something. I have to learn like 4 different forms by June 5th! eeeehh... It'll be fun though, I look forward to it.

My birthday passed recently. It was nice. Went out to an all you can eat korean bbq restaurant where you fill your plate with raw meat and cook it on your table. It was awesome. I also got some boardgames (Dominion and Arkham Horror) from a friend as a gift, so I'm pretty excited about that.

But yeah...

So this weekend is a bit of a drag. It's friday, and there are just too many things on my mind. I don't even know why I'm here blogging. Sometimes I do the strangest things when I'm overwhelmed with things to do, and that doesn't include blogging. But anyways, it basically goes like this:
Next thursday I have a psychology midterm, a precalculus midterm, a 7 page english essay due, and on wednesday the day before, I have online chemistry homework as well as a lab report due.
Now I wouldn't be complaining about things like this too often, but the fact that it's all happening at ONCE is what's bothering me. I can handle the four classes I'm taking, but when they all coincidentally put me on blast like this, it just.... sucks... It's one of those weekends where you just gotta man up.

So friday... I'm thinking, relax a little. Maybe play some games or watch anime while I dread over the fact that the minecraft server isn't working right now. Then do some homework/study. Then once the evening hits, go out to FNM to draft. Seems like a decent friday to me. But then of course my dad appears out of nowhere and overrides all my at-home plans with car repairs. Now, I'm totally cool with helping my dad fix cars and I have no hard feelings or anything, but the problem is that the car that needs to be fixed belongs to my uncle. So that means we're doing it for FREE. And we have to remove the cylinder head. That aint no easy job to do for FREE!! The last time I had to do a job like that, my energy and drive was motivated by the big payout, but this time around I don't even know what to do. As selfish and spoiled as it may sound, my relaxing time today is being replaced with work, then if I have time, homework, then my escape: drafting. Any person like me would complain about something like that because its the free time that keeps us sane... right? I need a job... Since I actually have freetime, I can't use my homework and studying as an excuse..

So I definitely need to catch up on math, finish all my chem homework, and nearly finish my essay by the end of this weekend. If I can successfully do that, the rest of the week (until thursday) will be much less stressful.