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Archived Weekly Columns This is a record of everything James blogged prior to March 20, 2002. Highlights include eeyore stuff, and at the bottom, a description of attraction, like, and love. I wonder how many ppl actually read this stuff hehe. March 9 Whazzap everyone, it's been a month since I last updated. Lots of changes, the biggest one probably being that my cousins are now living in my room back at home! They are going to live in Albany for at least the rest of this school year and maybe for the rest of high school. One is a soph, one is a freshman, both girls. My sister, who's in 8th grade herself, is going to have soo much fun with 2 new "sisters" hehe. I ordered some speakers, some cheap Altec Lansing SW500 speakers. I got them for like 42 total on Ebay, which is a pretty good price. But the dude won't respond to my emails asking about when the speakers will get here. I'm not too worried tho cuz he has so many good references. Can't wait to get rid of these cheapo free speakers that came with the computer. My bed feels so good! The longer I've been away from it the better it feels...i think the formula should be something like Force of Attraction of Bed = (Gravitational Constant)(Mass of Bed)(Mass of Me)(Time since last contact with bed)^2/(Distance from bed)^2. Similar to Newton's gravitational force equation, with an additional variable. Michelle Branch is so cool...I practice playing her songs n stuff. Last night Crossroads went to Giradelli's Square in SF for some good ice cream, but Jerry, Kevin, and myself got lost! We were walking around SF at after midnight...kinda scary, but I guess the area there is kinda upscale so the crime rate should be a little lower. neways we finally found it and it was already closed, so we mosied-on-down to In-N-Out 3 blocks away. I am SO SCARED of the Wax Museum and the Ripley's Believe It Or Not. I closed my eyes while walking by...I would never walk into either of those places, never ever...well...maybe, if the building were on fire and there were people trapped inside, but yea. I dont think I'd go in if you paid me like 1000 dollars. I feel sorry for all the high school seniors out there fretting over college stuff. My little cousin Annmerlyn is sooo cute!
February 8 Jerry's newest idea for a parody song: "Aiya! There it is!" which is going to be the Asian version of "Whooop There It Is." I changed the "My Background" page a little little bit. I guess the most notable thing is the updated favorite music. This morning I played basketball from 8 am to 10:30 am! Isn't that crazy? On a school day in the morning so early! But it's good, because basketball is good excercise, it's fun, it's competitive, and I just spelled exercise wrong. The Chinese quiz today was okay, I think. I was basically done with like 10 minutes left, but there was one character that I forgot how to write! So I sat there thinking and thinking and finally remembered it. So far 3 people have called me because my cell phone was feeling lonely. Do you want to be the fourth? Hehe. February 5 Look everyone! It's my first update where I updated in back-to-back days!. That's amazing! When this page gets too long I'm going to start archiving the blogs and I'm also going to start a quotes page, because like Tiffany says, "only recorded genius matters." Oh look! That's another quote in and of itself! I can see it now...it'll have funny quotes, serious quotes, sad quotes. Everyone should check out some of the stuff Einstein said about the Atom Bomb. I don't know...I found it very compelling. Speaking of quotes, where's my copy of Allegedly Alleged, huh? February 4 Quote: "You know a class is light when you touch it only once a week." - Jerry Shen Quote: "Buying shoes always makes you feel better when you're down." - Jerry Shen Quote: "Men take up as much space as they can. That's what makes men men!" - Jerry Shen Quote: "Hillfinger is from another planet." - Clancy, my CS professor, about Hillfinger, my CS professor last semester. Some parody songs that Jerry and I will release someday. See if you can recognize the original tunes they will be based on: "Hit the Road, Mo, don't-wanna-see your head no mo no mo no mo no mo, hit the road, Mo, don't wanna see your head no mo" for Moses Ip "Baby Why Y Y" for YiYin "Codin Codin Codin" for CS projects "Loadin Loadin Loadin" for slow computers Got any more ideas? Lemme know. By the way, I think the funniest parody song of ALL TIME is "It's All About the Pentiums, Baby" by Weird Al, only because you KNOW I know you know I know a lot about computers. I tried wearing my Nike Shox (Boing Boing!) and they really hurt my feet. They better break in soon or else they're the worst and most expensive pair of shoes I've ever worn. Maybe Nike just doesn't really fit my feet well.
I am falling in love with Eeyore. I even try to put my Eeyore somewhere around my head when I go to sleep at night, but sometimes I can't put him right next to my head because I turn and might crush him, which would just be devastating. Quen or Jerry should take a picture of me when I fall asleep like that so I can put it up on the website. Yeah, Eeyore is a cartoon, a donkey, and male, which are three factors which would preclude any romantic admiration from me. He's not even a real cartoon donkey! He's a toy cartoon donkey that exists in the imagination of Christopher Robin. Please correct me if I'm wrong, by the way. newho, coming up is an Eeyore appreciation page. I'm gonna be working on that with part of my free time, so expect something soon. In other news, I didn't even watch the Super Bowl yesterday. I'm just not interested unless the Niners are playing. I'm not interested in watching cool commercials and anything either. I think maybe cable TV is spoiling me, because I'd rather watch a Duke game on ESPN or Behind the Making of the Video or whatever it's called on MTV than a Super Bowl. Maybe I'm not a true man. I'm inventing or finding different words to help remind myself to grow....or just to put myself in situations where growth more easily happens. So far I have "Dominus" which means "lord" or "master" in Latin, but I chose it because it sounds cool (kinda like Domino's Pizza, but more like Dominator and Dominion). So yeah, feel free to say "Dominus" to me whenever you see me and I'll either say "Fo Sheezie My Neezie" or "Thank you for reminding me." Maybe I'm just inventing some of this in my head...like...I think things are worse than they are? Or maybe I'm not inventing things. A note on the previous update's comments about attraction vs liking vs loving...where does Infatuation fit in? I think it's on a different scale...but again that's just me. I think that you can be attracted and infatuated with someone, or you can like someone and be infatuated, or you can love someone and be infatuated. I think there are situations where infatuation clouds one's judgement and stuff, but there are also situations where infatuation is perfectly safe because the two people in the relationship really are sold out for each other, and that's a beautiful thing. One last observation...right after PE I have Chinese class, which is really small (20something students). Walking in all sweaty and stuff, wearing basketball shorts and a tshirt, carrying my street clothes, is kinda embarrassing when everyone else is wearing nice clothes...it makes me feel like I don't belong in their company. Iono I guess people like to dress up to go to Chinese class. OR, maybe I need to update my wardrobe. Speaking of which, I'm going to try to use the 40 dollar Gap card to get a black coat from Gap. You know those kinda fuzzy soft warm black coats that everyone has? Dominus! I need one too! February 1 I skipped Comp Sci lecture today because I wasn't feeling good. I sat there for an hour before Chinese class because I need God to really help me out right now. Ruguo wo jianzi zuo shi dui de, qing ni gangkuai gaosu wo. qing ni yong wo yiding buhui kan suo de banfa gaosu wo. Ruguo wo jianzi zuo shi suo de, qing ni ye gangkuai gaosu wo. porque no quiero vivir como estoy viviendo ahora. no puedo continuar pensando que hay una posibilidad que la decision fue irracional. I need to write a song about this...if only I had songwriting skills. Vanessa Carlton, Lifehouse, DCTalk, and Sonicflood here I come. i wish...i really do wish! I need chocolate! I need chocolate! I need God, I need to know, I need everyone to know. Does feeling like this help? Does it help? Does it help me win? Is it all about me? No, it's not. But it's just so ke xi! Ke Xi! KE XI!! okay...change the subject.... Two days ago I dropped my cell phone....the cheap little thing stopped working! I fixed it but now it looks really messed up. At first I was happy cuz it meant I could get a new one. Now I'm sad because it means I get to use a really beat-up piece of cheap-plastic made stuff. Goes to show you that paying a lil extra for a metal case might be worth it. This is kinda random: my definition of attraction, like, and love, as of Today. Attraction: the feeling you have when you think someone is funny, cool, good looking, or has some qualities that you think are really cool. I know other people might call this part of "liking" but this is my definition. I can cry if I want to! (Allusion to "This is my party I can cry if I want to"). Like: when you've seen the person when he/she isn't acting funny, when he/she isn't acting cool, when he/she isn't dressed up, and you still feel the same about them. By now you don't just know of some of the person's qualities, you know their good and bad habits, and you still feel the same way about them. Love: when you decide that you'll stick to this person through thick and thin, come what may. Sometimes there will be low times, sometimes good times. Low times can get as low as the other person saying that they hate you. Or even saying that you hate the other person. But once love is there it overpowers everything. There must be forgiveness, there must be patience, there must be no regret. Another random definition: the difference between being pretty and beautiful. Pretty: You know how people say beauty is only skin deep? I think it's completely the opposite. Someone can be pretty but not beautiful at all. Someone can be beautiful and not pretty at all. Someone can be called "hot" and not be pretty at all. But most of the time things fall somewhere in the middle. Prettiness is therefore mostly natural physical look but also how one uses one's looks. People who want attention may flaunt themselves and to me, they become not pretty. Beautiful: More important than pretty, beauty is basically "love" in my book. You can do something that is very beautiful, like help someone or do something honorable, etc. Hence a beautiful person is loving, caring, resolute, moral, yeah, stuff like that. What does it mean, James? What does it mean? That's why I like Winnie the Pooh, because he's really pure, very loving, very beautiful. He always has good intentions. He's not terribly smart, he's not strong, he's not witty, but he tries his best to do the right thing. I think that's one of the most important things you can ask for in a person right there. Eeyore on the other hand is always so sad. I feel like Eeyore right now. Eeyore, if you're out there, I need to talk to you! How do you do it? What happened to you? I dont know whose idea it was to have an Eeyore character, but yea... So don't go knockin me when you see me watching Winnie the Pooh okay? I'm learning important life lessons! James Dumb Quote: "Illinois? Is that near Chicago?" |
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