30 May 2006
23 May 2006
18 May 2006
Hostage Being Held
until someone does something awesome such as fill my house with hand-woven baskets from ceiling to floor, builds a samoan hammock hut in the back yard for ten, or...
comes over and cooks me dinner and hangs out with me.
Those are my terms and they are non-negotiable, otherwise webface here get whacked.
comes over and cooks me dinner and hangs out with me.
Those are my terms and they are non-negotiable, otherwise webface here get whacked.
14 May 2006
Happy Mother's Day
to all the mothers out there! i would in particular like to thank my mom, Cheryl and my grandmothers Grandma Jones and Grandma Choate. Let's all take a moment to let the women in our life know that they are special!
12 May 2006
Two Points
1.Old Man: "Looks like you were up before breakfast this morning..."
Whipper-Snapper: "Well, i wasn't eating in my sleep!"
2. "i can't find your shorts, so i guess you're just going to have to go without them!"
Whipper-Snapper: "Well, i wasn't eating in my sleep!"
2. "i can't find your shorts, so i guess you're just going to have to go without them!"
05 May 2006
01 May 2006
Moving on...
Well.
in other news.
school is almost out and i've a few more projects/essays left over. This week is going to be particularly crazy and assignmentful. i'm really excited for school to be over and for this summer to begin. It's high time.
Wow, that was random! Sorry about that...
i'm really stoked for the play to premiere as well. It's been faily cool to be part of, but unfortunately quite stressful and annoying as well. It should be good...i hope.
Due to brain farts and prolonged staring i'm going to wrap this up and hope that i don't explode.
in other news.
school is almost out and i've a few more projects/essays left over. This week is going to be particularly crazy and assignmentful. i'm really excited for school to be over and for this summer to begin. It's high time.
Wow, that was random! Sorry about that...
i'm really stoked for the play to premiere as well. It's been faily cool to be part of, but unfortunately quite stressful and annoying as well. It should be good...i hope.
Due to brain farts and prolonged staring i'm going to wrap this up and hope that i don't explode.
28 April 2006
Snippets of: An Interview with Carmen Laforet
"You are sweetness and light, I can see myself in your eyes."
(a Mother's Day poem from Agustin to his mother, Carmen)
Interviewer: If you could speak with a writer from the past, whom would you pick?
Laforet: No one, because I have their works. I believe that writers are their books, although once in a while you may meet someone wonderful who is both a writer and your friend.
(My true feelings about Aro...*sigh*)
CL: ...I also won a prize for La mujer nueva, but I forget what it was called.
Interviewer: Not only one, but two of the most prestigious ones: the Menorca Prize and the National Prize for Literature. So I know more about your work than you do, and I am going to become your biographer along with your son!
CL:Yes, you know a lot more, because I forget about things like this.
(yeah!)
CL:...My father remarried, which was a very trying thing for me because my stepmother was very nasty.
Interviewer: You were determined to leave home and study in Barcelona?
CL: My father and stepmother didn't want me to take the trip. So I had to blackmail my father with something I don't want to talk about. I actually turned eighteen on the boat on my way over to the mainland.
(crazy! i laughed a lot when i read this.)
"Carmencita, tell us a story, tell us a story." My brothers still remember the stories I made up about captains who had to be three years old because if they were older they were not worth mentioning.
Interviewer: Do you still play with reality and fantasy? Can you keep them apart?
CL: It is one and the same thing. Reality is made up of dreams, impulses, friendships. Sometimes I think there is no reality at all. But I don't like to philosophize, you know...
(sorry Grant!)
CL: I lead a very quiet and peaceful life, I am always available to help out someone in need, and I value my freedom, so I don't like to be surrounded by many things. In fact, I throw many things way. The other day, I came across a blouse a friend of mine gave me when I lost my suitcase during one of my trips. She thought it was a tragedy, but I didn't see it that way. I didn't mind going to the lecture not wearing a pretty dress and nice shoes. I like to think that I own very little, and that it can all fit in those two suitcases I never open. The next time I go on a trip I will take only hand baggage.
Interviewer: Who is Carmen Laforet?
CL: Who is she? I don't know.
Interviewer: But you have known her all your life! Who is she?
CL: Nobody, nobody.
Interviewer: What do you mean by nobody?
CL: An average person, for whom at any given moment friendship is what matters most. What I cannot bear is that false publicity given about me.
(a Mother's Day poem from Agustin to his mother, Carmen)
Interviewer: If you could speak with a writer from the past, whom would you pick?
Laforet: No one, because I have their works. I believe that writers are their books, although once in a while you may meet someone wonderful who is both a writer and your friend.
(My true feelings about Aro...*sigh*)
CL: ...I also won a prize for La mujer nueva, but I forget what it was called.
Interviewer: Not only one, but two of the most prestigious ones: the Menorca Prize and the National Prize for Literature. So I know more about your work than you do, and I am going to become your biographer along with your son!
CL:Yes, you know a lot more, because I forget about things like this.
(yeah!)
CL:...My father remarried, which was a very trying thing for me because my stepmother was very nasty.
Interviewer: You were determined to leave home and study in Barcelona?
CL: My father and stepmother didn't want me to take the trip. So I had to blackmail my father with something I don't want to talk about. I actually turned eighteen on the boat on my way over to the mainland.
(crazy! i laughed a lot when i read this.)
"Carmencita, tell us a story, tell us a story." My brothers still remember the stories I made up about captains who had to be three years old because if they were older they were not worth mentioning.
Interviewer: Do you still play with reality and fantasy? Can you keep them apart?
CL: It is one and the same thing. Reality is made up of dreams, impulses, friendships. Sometimes I think there is no reality at all. But I don't like to philosophize, you know...
(sorry Grant!)
CL: I lead a very quiet and peaceful life, I am always available to help out someone in need, and I value my freedom, so I don't like to be surrounded by many things. In fact, I throw many things way. The other day, I came across a blouse a friend of mine gave me when I lost my suitcase during one of my trips. She thought it was a tragedy, but I didn't see it that way. I didn't mind going to the lecture not wearing a pretty dress and nice shoes. I like to think that I own very little, and that it can all fit in those two suitcases I never open. The next time I go on a trip I will take only hand baggage.
Interviewer: Who is Carmen Laforet?
CL: Who is she? I don't know.
Interviewer: But you have known her all your life! Who is she?
CL: Nobody, nobody.
Interviewer: What do you mean by nobody?
CL: An average person, for whom at any given moment friendship is what matters most. What I cannot bear is that false publicity given about me.
23 April 2006
He's got the whole world in His hands
I fear no evil for You are with me
Strong to deliver mighty to save
He's got the whole world in His hands
Strong to deliver mighty to save
He's got the whole world in His hands
18 April 2006
Progress
My first phone. AT&T Wireless (before they went belly up). An old Nokia.
My second phone. On AT&T Wireless to start and then devoured by Cingular, which still somehow has no idea what they're doing and doesn't care about how many people got screwed by being 'transferred' from AT&T. Another Nokia. This one got stolen or lost (i think i left it in front of my house). 'Twas a shame because i had some cool old pics on it which i'll never get back. :(
Sort of the same deal as the last phone. Crappy ATT/Cingular/something/no service (no reception in my house including my own room and a crazy pirate signal which hijacks any and all speakers or radio systems causing them to malfunction and make weird noises. How i hated this.) The phone was ok in some ways, but very annoying in others. Special thanks to Krista of the Pine Street house for letting me have this though, to tide me over 'til the switch.
My current phone. Sleek, new, exciting, sly. Mostly great features, a few annoyances. The best part, though, is no pirate radio hijacking and reception EVERYWHERE IN MY HOUSE. Great reception most places, actually. Verizon kicks Cingular's singular cellular butt.
My second phone. On AT&T Wireless to start and then devoured by Cingular, which still somehow has no idea what they're doing and doesn't care about how many people got screwed by being 'transferred' from AT&T. Another Nokia. This one got stolen or lost (i think i left it in front of my house). 'Twas a shame because i had some cool old pics on it which i'll never get back. :(
Sort of the same deal as the last phone. Crappy ATT/Cingular/something/no service (no reception in my house including my own room and a crazy pirate signal which hijacks any and all speakers or radio systems causing them to malfunction and make weird noises. How i hated this.) The phone was ok in some ways, but very annoying in others. Special thanks to Krista of the Pine Street house for letting me have this though, to tide me over 'til the switch.
My current phone. Sleek, new, exciting, sly. Mostly great features, a few annoyances. The best part, though, is no pirate radio hijacking and reception EVERYWHERE IN MY HOUSE. Great reception most places, actually. Verizon kicks Cingular's singular cellular butt.
Engrish
"If any native speaker of English would have seen this, they could have easily told them to fix it! Horrible."
-Kirsten
(click on image to read it
...sorry it's unreadable as is)
Aro poignantly pointed out how lost we'd all be trying to write in Vietnamese. All the characters are so similar, so how could you tell the difference between them, like, say between an 'l' and a 't'?
i like positor food, myself.
-Kirsten
(click on image to read it
...sorry it's unreadable as is)
Aro poignantly pointed out how lost we'd all be trying to write in Vietnamese. All the characters are so similar, so how could you tell the difference between them, like, say between an 'l' and a 't'?
i like positor food, myself.
09 April 2006
Slap!
This year it occurs on Thursday April 20th.
Check it out!
Also-video! A little long with a few unneccessary parts, but definitely worth braving for a few minutes!
it's coming....
Check it out!
Also-video! A little long with a few unneccessary parts, but definitely worth braving for a few minutes!
it's coming....
08 April 2006
Brandon White
He's a magnetic poet
Shifting slightly,
Pondering cautiously,
Trying to determine
the perfect order
of words and rhythm
and perhaps rhyme.
He arranges the pieces
on the refridgerator
He magnetizes his audience,
attracted by his artful essence.
Shifting slightly,
Pondering cautiously,
Trying to determine
the perfect order
of words and rhythm
and perhaps rhyme.
He arranges the pieces
on the refridgerator
He magnetizes his audience,
attracted by his artful essence.
05 April 2006
True Tales of Bravery and Honor rocks!
i am ready for Easter Break and going up to San Jose with Kirsten.
i am tired of producing for school for professors whom i don't think really have anything valuable to teach me but i have to take their class anyway for my program.
i go through phases.
My cell phone doesn't work in my house! GGGGRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!
i like doing crossword puzzles even though they are often too hard for me. Encouragement makes me want to do them even more.
i want to cut down on the sheer amount of stuff i have. Or should i say crap?
i wish i had more time to build and strengthen relationships.
If you can, you should go to the Graphic Design show on Chapman's campus. It goes until Friday and good ol' Jeff Werner has worked on it!
Grant's movie Making Out Like Thieves is pretty good and you can find it here.
How's everyone doing?
.
.
.
i am ready for Easter Break and going up to San Jose with Kirsten.
i am tired of producing for school for professors whom i don't think really have anything valuable to teach me but i have to take their class anyway for my program.
i go through phases.
My cell phone doesn't work in my house! GGGGRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!
i like doing crossword puzzles even though they are often too hard for me. Encouragement makes me want to do them even more.
i want to cut down on the sheer amount of stuff i have. Or should i say crap?
i wish i had more time to build and strengthen relationships.
If you can, you should go to the Graphic Design show on Chapman's campus. It goes until Friday and good ol' Jeff Werner has worked on it!
Grant's movie Making Out Like Thieves is pretty good and you can find it here.
How's everyone doing?
.
.
.
31 March 2006
Provided by The Management for your protection
Provided by The Management for your protection.
Provided by The Man for your protection.
Stick it to The Man.
Take it like a man.
Provided by The Government for your protection.
Take it like a man.
Don't stick it to The Man!
Whatever you do, don't stick it to the man.
Protect yourself at all costs.
Use protection at all costs.
Don't expose yourself to anything, EVER that might make you stronger and build immunities, natural or unnatural.
Protect yourself at ALL costs.
Build your immunities.
Be unique.
Get down and dirty.
Dance unabandoned.
Dance undignified.
Sing, shout, and praise UNDIGNIFIED!
Don't be a non-conformist.
Don't be an idealist.
Don't be an activist.
Don't be active.
Don't be alive.
Don't be.
Don't.
Stick it to The Management.
Stick it to the government.
Stick it to the man.
20 March 2006
God is bigger than
the air i breathe, this world we'll leave
God will save the day
and all will say
My Glorious!
My Glorious!
God will save the day
and all will say
My Glorious!
My Glorious!
11 March 2006
The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk
Sometimes sweet things happen to me and i'm the only one who knows about them. God and i. i find this to be one of the most fulfilling things ever. Even though i try to explain them to others, it's virtually impossible to re-create the exact circumstances which made said sweet things funny, amazing, exciting, worthwhile, etc.
Wo ist bei ihm Anfang und Ende?
07 March 2006
i need your touch
i need your love
i need your holiness
to rest upon me
---------------------
i will sing
and make music
to my LORD.
i will sacrifice myself
with shouts of joy.
For He
He is worthy
to be praised
---------------------
What can wash away my sin?
What can make me whole again?
Nothing but the blood.
Nothing but the blood
of Jesus
---------------------
i need your touch
i need your love
i need your holiness
to rest upon me
i need your love
i need your holiness
to rest upon me
---------------------
i will sing
and make music
to my LORD.
i will sacrifice myself
with shouts of joy.
For He
He is worthy
to be praised
---------------------
What can wash away my sin?
What can make me whole again?
Nothing but the blood.
Nothing but the blood
of Jesus
---------------------
i need your touch
i need your love
i need your holiness
to rest upon me
27 February 2006
23 February 2006
When lacking your own words, steal! (or don't...)
"Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see." Hebrews 11:1
Borrowed from a fellow borrower--from the original source (i hope):
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."
-Albert Einstein
a similar case of borrowing:
"The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."
-Albert Einstein
i created an account and edited my first Wikipedia entry. It was about Chapman University. i also read a record number of entries (for me) and learned some things. Which could be entirely false.
...but prob'ly aren't! (this one's for you Kali--> ask me why later)
Yay learning!
i saw this bird in Irvine Regional Park and then, guess what? It appeared in this article! Crazy!
It truly looked magnificent, too.
14: number of teeth i have on the top row.
14: number of teeth i have on the bottom row.
28: total number of MY teeth!
Orange in anguish! (...ok, so this alreay happened.)
(Both photos w/text taken from Foothills Sentry Feb. 14, 2006 issue)
i'm done for now. It's past me bed-time!
Borrowed from a fellow borrower--from the original source (i hope):
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."
-Albert Einstein
a similar case of borrowing:
"The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."
-Albert Einstein
i created an account and edited my first Wikipedia entry. It was about Chapman University. i also read a record number of entries (for me) and learned some things. Which could be entirely false.
...but prob'ly aren't! (this one's for you Kali--> ask me why later)
Yay learning!
i saw this bird in Irvine Regional Park and then, guess what? It appeared in this article! Crazy!
It truly looked magnificent, too.
14: number of teeth i have on the top row.
14: number of teeth i have on the bottom row.
28: total number of MY teeth!
Orange in anguish! (...ok, so this alreay happened.)
(Both photos w/text taken from Foothills Sentry Feb. 14, 2006 issue)
i'm done for now. It's past me bed-time!
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