3.23.03 what up. i just finished watching a chinese movie called "hero" wit jet li, zhang ziyi, n a whole lota other crazy actors. its being released in america sometime this year, and it is incredibly good. this is like crouching tiger but simply so much better; much more fighting, more girls (uh...), and its just a lot faster. the fight scenes are incredible. and its all artfully done with lotsa cool symbolism stuff. basically, u should watch it now, but if u dont understand chinese itll be crazy confusing. but if u wana see it, ask me, n ill try to make u copy. its SO FRIKIN GOOD.
anyway since ive been grounded, i was reading crime and punishment, and i gota say this is a really good book. i kno that everyone says its incredibly boring n shit like that, but i really think its a masterpiece. i hated tale of 2 cities, great expectations, even great gatsby and even king lear, but i gota say i really like crime and punishment. its basically about the thoughts and events that unfold after a very intelligent but desperate man kills someone. he tries to justify it and yet he realizes that he can not, and all the while he borders on insanity while all the people around him struggle with the same issues that he had to deal with to a certain degree. and its not juss that... like everythin that happens is juss crazy... like in a good way. so yea i really cant describe it so go read it and if ur in McEvoy then u gota read it anyways so nevermind.
im actually almost done with the book... shiet man yea its tru i havent been doin much this weekend. usually when im grounded i go work out a lot or i play video games n watch movies but this time i got stuck readin this book... how odd. it SUCKS being grounded.
damnit i guess ill go call up some traffic school places... shiet man... anyway im out. peaace.
3.21.03 sup its friday. im grounded again. i got 2 saturday work programs for ditching and so now my parents r really mad ...again. i guess im not really grounded again cuz i wasnt really ungrounded... things juss keep on happening. cmon why cant the skoo juss let me go! im a senior and im a frikin valedictorian. ppl r gona b like "wtf" when i go to saturdayworkp... thas gona be gay.
ok im gona read crime and punishment... ironic eh? anyway...peace
3.20.03 what up homies. well im friked cuz i got a AP physics test, a AP stat test, and AP english notecards all tomorrow. n plus i cant stop watchin this war stuff.
i went to court a few days ago and i gota go to traffic skoo... not too bad. except that i got to pay for it all... the accidents and tickets and insurance hikes i have to pay for... thas $430+189+50+who knos how much for the insurance.
mr. wells felt bad that i didnt get into MIT. if he feels bad, i dont feel so bad anymore. mr. wells is amazing.
about this war, im so glad we're finally through with all this diplomacy n peace crap n were finally fighting. this guy has had it comin for 12 years and for those 12 years we've been bogged down in diplomacy crap. if the UN is willing to admit that they have no sovereignty over anythin and they are going to remain motionless while a crazed dictator amasses weapons and tortures his own people, then we cant wait for the UN to pull its head from its ...@$$ and look around. saddam is a criminal by anyone's standards and deserves to die; there is NO argument about that.
the bottom line is this; he is a threat to our country, and the role of government is to protect the innocent and especially the innocent in America. therefore, his regime should be taken out. he has ties with terrorists, and has weapons that he would not hesitate to use against us. hes a frikin maniac and a definite threat. so we cant let him start the war; like bush said, that would be suicide. also, we must protect the innocent of iraq from his schemes... saddam shot his own sons that stood against him.
so yea support our troops in iraq and run over those stupid anti war protesters waving signs on the sidewalks. well... i guess it is freedom, including freedom of speech, that they are fighting for, but cmon theyr annoying and theyr probably ugly too, like the dixie chicks. so take them out.
aiite i gota study... peace.
3.17.03 what up i got rejected from MIT. wtf... well f- them its their loss. damnit that juss ruined my month... ill be nervous till all the other letters come in april. it pisses me off kinda, but not really. all i got to say to them is f- them and their interviewer was a fag and their school sucks anyway cuz harvards down the street and its SO MUCH NICER. heh dont worry im just kidding i didnt care anyway.. i wana do medicine so MIT wasnt the right place for me anyway. damnit i shouldnt have put my major as engineering especially because i had to bs an essay bout how i love engineering. oh well.
aiite im out. peace.
3.17.03 well MIT sent its decisions... whatever man im expectin to get rejected so no stress at all.
i was wonderin if theres a correct way to benchpress. i usually do a few reps of 10 and a few reps of 5 of 155lbs. (assuming the bar is 45lbs.) and i dont kno if im supposed to go all the way down, halfway down, over my shoulders, or whatever. oh well.
i miss my SE-R... i miss peeling out after flooring it around 15mph... i miss lining up to celicas and being excited... i miss feeling that special bond when i see a fellow SE-R. shiet man i really need that car back... my baby.
i need springs, preferably Sprint 2" or Eibach pro-kits. i heard bad things about the Sportlines, which are a larger drop, but a little too soft. oh well. first i need my car back. aiite im out. peace.
3.16.03 lets see the last time i wrote was weds... friday was retarded with NO PARKING except i actually came an hour early to get a parking spot and then i left... =)
anyway that was ok. i guess everyones gettin their UCLA letters... UCLA's acceptance rate is now around 9%, with 4,000 getting in out of a pool of 45,000, the most out of any college anywhere.
the thing is, everyone applies to UCLA, and that is why the applicant pool is so competitive. for the average student, UCLA is a goal for them, and so they apply. for the good student, UCLA is a reasonable school that they really want to go to. and for the exceptional student, UCLA is a safety school. and so in the end, i doubt that 2/3's of the accepted class will attend. the exceptional students, so to speak, aren't going to go to UCLA even with their regent's scholarships. those kids are going to go to ivy leagues and 7-year med programs (!), and so their spots on the UCLA freshman class will be wasted. but whose fault is it? you cant blame the average students, because theyr arent even getting in no matter what, and they dont care. the good students are hurt the most, because they are the ones that would actually go to UCLA had UCLA selected 4,000 that would actually go there. and you cant blame the exceptional students for applying to a safety school; everyone with any strategy at all applies to a safety school, and u would apply to UCLA as a safety school too if u were in that position. no person is to blame.
the thing at fault is the portrayal of UCLA as a school that is "easy" to get into. six years ago, you could get in with a 1280 and decent grades (like my cousin). now, that is definitely not the case; the applicants of today have grown up thinking that they would make it because they would have six years ago. the truth is, standards have changed, making UCLA harder to get into that UC berkeley, and maybe even UChicago, NYU, Northwestern, and other great colleges.
so what am i saying? im saying that in the end, dont hate on me for "taking your spot." thas bshiet... u would apply to UCLA if u were in my position too. if u didnt get in, its not because of me, its because of you. sorry to burst ur bubble, but a lot of people work hard for this shiet and u just may not know it.
if i sound mad, im not. aiite im out. peace.
3.12.03 well i had an ok day today. i woke up and decided that i wanted to go to the beach, and since i didnt read king lear like i said i would yesterday, i would read king lear at the beach with cathy. so i even dressed in beach clothes...
but after talking to cathy, who didnt want to ditch, i felt stupid and went to the commons and read king lear, which surprisingly only took about an hour. i surprise myself when i sit down and actually study. anyway i got bored and guess what... i went to the GYM. how sad... well i lifted weights for an hour, and then i ran and did some punches. what a sad way to spend ditch time.
anyway i ate lunch with the girls n then i aced my quote test... BUT the office bitch lady was askin me all these questions when i turned in my fake note, like where were you and when did u come back n stuff... so i freaked and told my mom everythin. shiet maing... oh well so i was grounded today, wednesday, and i couldnt go to the habit for senior class nite. oh well
so i played simcity3000 all afternoon. my citys real big now n its so nice. ohyea n my house got new faucets. theyr cool
btw i got my estimate on the car damages... $6000. shiet maing... thas like a used 2000 civic or an 1997 accord V6. oh well my cars titer than those anyway so it deserves the best. plus its insurance paid, but my rates r gona skyrocket. $6 Gs man... thas a grip.
aiite well i gues today was chill. i got 2 tests tomorrow, but i dont wana ditch again cuz im ditchin friday... well the whole frikin school is. ok gota study statistics AP! ... HAHAHAHAA *wheew what a funny joke.
aiite im out peace. lakers suck.
3.11.03 dayam i juss tutored brandon.. shiet man that kid... oh well i get paid n i barely do n e thin besides yell at him n hit him. heheh
damn king lear test... ill have to read it rite now.
i got simcity3000 shiet its the most addicting game. i didnt get simcity4 cuz 3000 was on $16. i spent all of school thinkin bout what i should do with my city, which i named La Primera.
ohyea pheebs cried today, which was really sad. i was thinkin bout it for a long time. seriously she really isnt fat, but just because me n john say she is so much, she really thinks she is. if u havent seen phoebe, she really isnt fat. i think that a lot of guys would jock her if she wasnt so mean to strangers. anyway she cried because she thought that she was fat, which she really isnt. i feel bad now for calling her fat. i didnt know she would take it so seriously.
see thats the difference between guys and girls. i mean, everyone says that me n john are gay but we dont care cuz we know were not. i mean, jeez we both have girlfrends. we even take gay pictures together like the one in the secret santa pics to the right of this aand we dont care. but pheebs gets so distressed when we crack fat jokes, and shes not even fat and she knows it. girls stress over the littlest, stupidest things. i mean, cathy does too but i try to understand sometimes cuz shes my baby and thats what babies do.
i think that girls would be so much cooler as a gender if they all blazed weed like the guys. they would be so much more relaxed and chill. damn if the girls here are uptight, think about how uptight tha chiks on the east coast are. shiet even guys over there r frikin prissy. well, jeannie from ohio is real chill, but i duno. there were a lot of fags at harvard...
ok then i gota start reading king lear for tomorrows quote test. btw dont call me cell, last months bill was $200 over... (!) so call my house first all tha time aiite? peACE!