| 2003 in Perspective |
| Cool Stuff of 2003 -Making bank during stupid summer job -Working at Anthille Pub & Grille and Zot Zone -Japanese dramas: Trick and Trick 2 (Naoko's laugh hella cute in first Trick. "Donto Koi!") -Korean drama: Bodyguard -Game Boy Advance emulator... Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow was awesome -Winning a 12 team competitive players fantasy baseball league (ending David's streak!) -NFL at Steelhead -Jeremy Anderson's Fantasy Female League -Temporarily having a cell phone (thanks, Chin) -Lots and lots of free stuff/gift certificates. Ford's Californopia Tour 03 was awesome! -BitTorrent! Asian movies! -Finally leaving California (to Vegas) |
| Crap Stuff of 2003 -Stupid A's blowing it yet again! -Oakland Raiders sucking soooo bad! -Moving out of Campus Village -Problems at University Hills -Stupid California Governator, Arnold Schwarzeneggar -Unfortunately, no 2nd anniversary/birthday celebration of the website -Grocery strike and crap -Dr. Bissell leaving UCI to become Dean of Education at Cal Poly Pomona -Big fat lack of working out! Lost like almost 10lbs of muscle (or more and gained back fat) -The SARS and Mad Cow Disease scare |
| ***The 3rd Annual Mak Awards*** 2003 MAK AWARDS!!! |
| The MAK Award - Winner: Lawton "the STUD" Mak "Daddy" Runner Up: Uh, honorary Mak, Gabriel Lem Denton True Bro Award - Winner: *Nobody* Most prestigious award goes to nobody b/c only person (of 2003) Lawton could truly rely on was himself Runner Up: Gabe Denton Wise Man Award - Winner: Kao Saephanh Runner Up: Michael Tran Generous Buddy Award - Winner: Jun Dong Runner Up: Michael Tran Cocky Bastard Award - Winner: Shahrom Roshani Runner Up: Christopher David Chin Genius Award - Winner: Christopher David Chin (3peat! Why are you at UCI?) Runner Up: Reynold Tang (pulled a "Reynold" in order to "study" <-ha, yeah right) Stupidest Moron Award - Winner: Esteban Lucero (cuz of everything) Runner Up: Reynold Tang (cuz you still took forever with the education books) Funniest Idiot Award - Winner: Kevin Javier Runner Up: Patrick Phanthanusorn Annoying Like Archana Award - Winner: Shahrom Roshani Runner Up: David Hoang Best Taste Award - Winner: Kenton Mak Runner Up: Chris Chin Cutest Person Award - Winner: Andrea Che Runner Up: Thuytien Trinh Most Helpful Award - Winner: Gabe Denton Runner Up: Chris Chin Biggest Testicles Award - Winner: Kenton Mak Runner Up: Shahrom Roshani Most Improved Award - Winner: Jennifer Lynn Sam Runner Up: Kenton Mak Most Skilled & Talented Award - Winner: Michael Tran Runner Up: Matthew Bell Sweetest Person Award - Winner: Kieu Nguyen Runner Up: Jennifer Au Craziest Savage Award - Winner: Esteban Lucero (3peat! Biggest monster... EVER) Runner Up: Jeremy William Anderson (sooooo close...) Shitty Jackass Award - Winner: Yankees#1 (?) Runner Up: Eddy Masciarelli Lifetime (during 2003) Achievement Award - Winner: Stanley Mak Runner Up: Esteban Lucero Best Song Award - Winner: "Smooth Sailin'" by Roscoe (thanks, ChinC) Runner Up: "Dancing in my Heart" by Linda Low [Drastik Dance Remix] (thanks to myself!) Greatest Moment Award - Winner: Lawton's afternoon at the Ford Californopia Tour '03 (not day b/c got bad grade on midterm in morning) Runner Up: Esteban Lucero and Jeremy Anderson absolutely DEMOLISHING the previous Krispy Kreme record |
| Hmm, 2003 wasn't too bad for me. Nothing especially great, but I did what I said I'd do, which was being more social (i.e. fake). Hahaha, sure it sucks like that... But hey, I gotta do what I've gotta do. It's not too bad though, cuz I guess it kinda means I just care less about what people think now. Heh heh, it allowed me to meet some ladies and stuff, even off the street. Yeah (right), I'm too cool. Anyway, like I've said, nothing particularly interesting happened. Although the Asian dramas were cool, in reality, it's not like they did anything special for me. It was just that without cable, there weren't too many options for me. It all began with Trick, which I thought was only a special or something, but then I realized it was the first episode of the series. Too bad there were times when it had a time conflict with Bodyguard. But hey, everything has a price... Or do they? Wow, I received/earned/won many gift certificates and other free junk so many ways. The Ford Californopia Tour 03 was especially great. Won two free pizzas, ate some free Krispy Kreme donuts, got some free Fuji water (those bottles are nice), etc, etc... Ended with my first kinda real concert with Jurassic 5 performing at Bren Events Center. Anyway, regarding the awards, some have been omitted because there wasn't as many people or whatever that shined in something or another. |
| Ugly Stuff of 2003 -Hurting and being injury prone like Grant Hill (Pub & Grille) -Esteban Loaiza! -Even fewer updates of the website (hahaha) -Ashton Kutcher everywhere... I don't like him very much -Hilary Duff and Paris Hilton, too! Nothing really against Duff, but I don't like Hilton very much either -Friendster's popularity (I thought it was a business network, not a dating service!) -Driving skills (especially mine) -Walking the looooong distance from Turtle Rock Elementary to UCI twice a week during a quarter |
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