Well... Prom was really really fun. I can't begin to describe the emotions I have regarding it, there are happy and sad ones. But a quick description of what went down. I went to a friend's house to meet my date, but it turned out that she wans't there, neither was her friend, and the friend's mother had absolutely no idea what was going on. At any rate, I had a chat with the mother and then found my date and friends. My date and everyone else looked really nice :) Well, we went to Cheesecake Factory in Redondo Beach, and we arrived 1 hour late, partially because of those darned traffic lights, which were sometimes red and *gasp* other times they were green! Okay, well that was an inside joke, but anyways...

Cheesecake Factory was crowded, but the food wasn't too bad. My pasta, "Evelyn's Favorite Pasta" or something like that, wasn't too good. The broccoli was huge and I kept thinking to myself, if this is her favorite pasta, whats her least favorite? Ugh, bad thoughts. I shelled out $40 bucks for dinner there and someone else also paid another $20 and somehow we ended up short money on the bill still... long story, I don't understand it still, but oh well, it wasn't my money. We then went to Long Beach Aquarium for prom. Let me say this now, this place was niiiiice. I only have one problem with the site... well two actually, but they were mostly stupid complaints. One was the fact that I never saw the magician that was supposedly there, and there were no poker tables. Yes, yes, I realize that I shouldn't complain since prom is more about dancing and friends... but... but... POKER! :) The site was really nice, like I said, lots of stuff to do, and the whole experience was just lots of fun. I made a buttload of money gambling, thanks to the dice rolling of a certain person, who I'll be going to Vegas with in the future hopefully :).

Afterwards it was pretty calm, just some eating, some chatting, and some giggling over some weird things going on with a certain person who fell asleep, ask me if you really want to know... it was really really weird, I can't wait for my pictures to get developed. These seem to be all happy thoughts, no? Yes, they are. But thats exactly what's sad about it. I will never be able to go back to Prom! Never again! Well unless someone asks me when I'm in college I suppose, but other than that scenario, I won't ever be going back to prom! I suppose thats a good thing for some since it means that they're leaving high school. But this is all back to the whole I'm not ready to leave yet thing and I won't get into that right now, again. More later, have a nice day.

Fastball - Out of My Head

*Sigh* Prom is over. It was mucho fun. But I'm tired, I'll detail tomorrow. Good night, morning, whatever......zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Van Morrison - I'll Be Your Lover, Too

PROM IS TOMORROW! AHHHHH! Here's some pictures of the site. I need sleep, I'll write tomorrow, maybe before prom :)

Blondie - One Way or Another

Argh, I'm getting lazy and not updating, but at least I have stuff to say :). Well last night I was watching Leno and you know who was on? Aaron Carter. Now prior to this episode of the Tonight Show I'd never seen or heard the younger version of BSB Nick Carter. Now I'm secure enough in my masculinity to admit that I somewhat enjoy this whole "Teenie-Bopper" music thing. Despite the fact that a good majority of these stars and boy bands are manufactured stars, I'm quite sure that they do possess some assemblance of talent. Both *NSync and BSB can sing and for the most part, they can dance, so I won't knock their act. And then of course there's Britney Spears and her kind. Well.. what can I say? She's Britney Spears. She makes me want to drink Pepsi!

But anyways, I digress, back to Aaron Carter, I only caught maybe the last 2 minutes of his song and I won't be blunt about it, it was perhaps the worst "music" I've ever heard, and accompanied with that dance... It shouldn't even exist on the face of this earth. First of all, this man, no wait, this boy, this 13 year old boy is accompanied by dancers, both male and female, who look like they are 17, 18 years old and forced to act like they are 13. But I figure, thats okay, they probably couldn't find some 13 year old dancers to accompany Aaron. But then I hear the lyrics that he is singing. His song is about a dream in which he does these crazy things, most notably "packing Shaq" if I remember the exact line. Now this boy, he dresses and attmepts to sing as though he's rapping/singing and tries to act as black as possible. His dancers were even black too if I remember correcetly. At any rate, when he finished up his song he sat down with Jay Leno and started talking, and do you know how he talked? BLACK! Yes, I realize that I'm stereotyping, but it is a widely accepted fact that each culture and nationality has certain distinctions about them, and speaking "gangsta" or "black" is a cultural identity of sorts. Aaron Carter spoke with a "gangsta" accent! This white boy, from God know's where, speaks with a "gangsta" accent. What is this? At first I thought perhaps it was only the song that would be crappy and have this whiteboy "gangsta" overtone, and that his producers forced this upon him, but... he talks normally like this too! Bah, oh well, I'm probably just bitter that this less than deserving 13 year old boy gets to act "gangsta" and make money while I get to idle around high school doing a lot of nothing.

But enough about other people, and more about me! I got my tuxedo fitted and what not on Monday from Formal Notice. Its a double breasted tux! I don't know whats this whole anti-double breasted tux thing. Is it the name/description? I don't get it... I think that double breasted tuxedos look just as good if not better than normal tuxes. Also, regarding prom, today at school the juniors decided that since they hadn't sold enough prom bids that Sophmores would be allowed to attend the prom as well... And I must say, I'm definately trying to stay positive about this whole prom thing, but... it just keeps going barreling downhill. First, the prom date is this week, a good 2-3 weeks earlier than usual at least, second, a good majority of seniors wouldn't go, and then I had some personal problems that I won't go into with asking girls, and now this. But I'm still staying positive because its better than being negative about everything.

Well, that was enough writing for one night, I'm off to bed, tomorrow is another day.

Utada Hikaru - Sukiyaki (Live)

Okay, well this is my first post for a few days because I just got back from UCSC and its a fairly nice college. At first I was unsure as to whether or not I'd be willing to go to Santa Cruz because I've grown up in a suburban environment all my life and UCSC is in the middle of a forest. But the tour and "open house" they had convinced me. They have access to San Francisco and what not and while I'm sure I won't go to 'Frisco every week but knowing that I have that option is quite nice. The school itself is in a nice setting, and the people there seem nice at least. But I do have some complaints, although these complaints are hardly reasons not to attend UCSC. First of all, the radio station selection there sucks, at least from what I heard while there, its pretty crappy. Second, the girls that I saw aren't really "lookers" if you catch my drift. In the winter I bet it'll be really freaking cold. And last but not least, as of now, nobody that I know of is going to UCSC.

Anyways, here's something that I came upon in my internet browsing. Its about some people suing the media, and mostly video game makers, for damages regarding Columbine. You know what I say? Give me a freaking break. These people claim that the video game industry needs to regulate itself, and since it can't, they need the government/judicial system to step in and do it for them. They also claim that money isn't the biggest thing here, then WTF is the $5 billion lawsuit for? Why ask for that number? And I also think that these people are crazy because they need to realize that "Guns (or video games in this case) don't kill people. People kill people." They need to stop looking to blame others, and realize that the responsibility should fall on the parents to regulate what their children do, and what games they play, etc. It all comes down to the parenting.

I'm tired, and I've still got to study for a 1984 test in English tomorrow... blah!

Beach Boys - Kokomo

Hmm... I didn't update yesterday... but then again, I didn't have much to say yesterday. At any rate, I got this link from my cousin today... it's a flash video, and its not only funny (although some may disagree about its comedy value... *ahem* Greg) its a well done flash video. Anyways, if you have time, which you obviously do if you're bothering to read this, check that link out.

Well as for myself, spring break is more than half over, and what have I done? Well, here's a quick recap: Shoot pool, shoot pool, drink iced tea, lots and lots of iced tea, shoot some more pool... oh! go online and play Counter-Strike... did lots of that too, secure my position as one of the top AIM junkies at Whitney, yes, sad isn't it? And I don't even talk to that many people on AIM, I'm just on all the time. And... oh, had a small discussion with Ander about Mr. Barber. But Friday I'll be going to UCSC for a the "open house" there on Saturday. Hopefully that'll be fun. At any rate, it looks like I'll be going to UCSC for college. I don't want to prejudge anyone, but from what I hear the entire college is in a forest, and the nearest major city would be San Jose. Now, seeing as how I've grown up in suburbs all my life... I don't know if I could handle the forest 24x7. Its not that I don't think the forest is beautiful or whatever, but... its just... I don't know how to explain it, but I have a feeling I'll be leaving the college a few times a month at least. Perhaps things'll change when I get there and hopefully they will, but I think I'm too much of a city kind of person, I like the hustle and bustle, even though I live in the suburbs.

Oops, I took a litte CS break (of some 2 hours) inbetween this... oh well, I guess that shows how short an attention span I have :) Good night.

Vanessa Amorosi - Have a Look

Just some quick stuff today:

1) I picked up my grandpa from the airport today... and I don't know, he seemed somewhat... out of it. I mean I kno he's old and all, but he's... I don't if its just me... more on that later.
2) I was watching a Master Card commercial during Ally McBeal today and it was this old couple and they were going around China doing this whole "2 bikes and helmets, 900 yuan," and the voice-over guy couldn't pronounce "yuan" worth crap by the way, but anyways, at the end of the commercial the "priceless" thing was "Crossing number 6 off your life's to-do list." And I realized I should get myself a "Life's To-Do" list too.

Eh... just random thoughts.

Metallica - I Disappear And you know what Lars Ulrich? Screw you! I got your stupid Metallica song off Napster, whatcha gonna do about it, eh!? Thats right..... bitch! Hehe...

Hey to all my... what... 6 readers? :P Anyways, Happy Easter. And some of you may respond with, "Hey, you're not religious!" Or something like that, but you know what? Easter has become a commercial thing, more than anything. No offense to anyone who religiously celebrates Easter, but you've got to admit, Easter has become very commercialized, much like most other holidays. And I'm not really complaining either, Easter is just one of many days that I get to eat chocolate that I didn't have to pay for. There is something that I could complain about, and I will for a minute since I really have nothing important to post.

Easter, along with other holidays, have become such commercialized things. And while this isn't necessarily a bad thing, in the whole picture, when something becomes commercialized, what happens is the true, original meaning of something is lost. For example, I don't even claim to be a person of great knowledge about religion, however, I'm pretty sure that the Easter Bunny and egg hunting wasn't originally part of the entire idea of "Easter." But if I'm wrong, let me know. And while I used think that this commercialization gives the wrong idea to our children about these holidays, I've realized something about them now. The commercialization of these holidays may have led the general public away from the true meaning of these holidays, however, it has also redefined these holidays for the general public as well. And while some of the older generation may not like the fact that during Easter no one truly thinks of Jesus and rebirth, but thinks only of the Easter bunny and egg hunting, it is the reality, and we need to accept it for what it is. This redefined holiday is what it is now, and we need to take that and build on it.

Okay... well as you can probably see from that last paragraph and yesterday's urinal one, I need help closing my essays/ideas, but blah. Anyways, I don't really have much going on with me. Spring break is quite dull and uneventful so far. And it looks to be that way tomorrow too. Although I am going to the airport! Woo Hoo! But I'm not going anywhere, I'm just going to pick up my dad who's coming back from Taiwan with his parents... oh well, at least I'll be getting counterfeit stuff from Taiwan.

Apollo 440 - Lost in Space Theme

Well... I haven't heard anything new about Mr. Barber, my high school's band teacher, for anyone who reads this and has no idea who I'm talking about.

Anyways, I said I'd write about this bathroom stall thing, and I will, even at 3:00am in the morning :) And I'm sure that tons of other guys have thought of this before me too. But after watching Bridget Jones's Diary I went to the bathroom and there were 3 urinals. And unconciously I walked up to the one nearest the door. Now here's where it gets interesting. As I took a piss and stared at the white tile walls, I thought to myself... "Does the choosing of bathroom urinals mean anything?" Subconsciously, of course. I thought to myself, while I was still taking a piss, do more macho, self-confident guys pick the middle urinal? Or is it the center of attention types? Extroverts? You catch my drift? And then, vice versa, those with less confidence, or are unsure in public, do they pick the urinals way out of people's ways? Either to the far left or right? And this experiment works only when the urinals aren't crowded, such as at a sporting event where guys just pick the next available one. At any rate, while still taking a piss, I decided to myself that for the most part, guy's who pick the middle urinal, or at least the urinal that is clearly the... most important. Perhaps I'm not making any sense at all... which in all likelyhood is probably the case. But hey, once again, its 3:00am in the morning, you can't blame me either.

Good Night. And on a side note, I'll be fooling around with the layout of my blogspot soon... if I ever get around to learning HTML :P

Miles Davis - Someday My Prince Will Come

Mr. Barber got arrested? I don't know if this is true, although it probably is, seeing as how its on the Press Telegram website. I'm not sure what I think about this yet... since I don't know any of the details really... so, if any of you know anything, let me know, not that I'm a big gossip or anything, but I mean, it is my school too, y'know?

Black Rob f/ Jennifer Lopez - Spanish Fly

EDIT: Link to Press Telegram news article about Mr. Barber no longer works, so I removed it. I'll put it back if I find it in the archives or something.

Well... I went to go watch Bridget Jones's Diary and I must say, I probably should've been in my late 20's, or early-mid 30's to enjoy this movie. Being British wouldn't hurt either... and then of course, being a woman would probably help my understanding of this movie too. Don't get me wrong, its not a bad movie, I mean there are some bad movies out there. "Battlefield Earth" anyone? At any rate, Renée Zellweger is a cutie :) And whats even worse is that she had to gain somee 20 pounds for the movie, or at least thats what I think she said on Leno, but her personality was cool.

And on that note, I'd like to point out that for me, its not all about looks in a woman. I mean there is certainly a good proportion of it based on looks, and a hot woman is well... a hot woman. But once you get to know someone, personality certainly comes into play. I would consider myself a fairly average guy, and with that in mind I'd like to state that we're not after ONLY looks, it helps to have personality.

Tonight I was watching Conan, and Tom Green was on Conan. Now Tom Green is certainly an interesting character. What I wonder, along with others to be sure, is if he's as crazy as he acts all the time? I refuse to believe that someone could be that crazy all the time. I mean he's funny, but... if I were Drew Barrymore, I would certainly want him to act normal sometimes. And a funny joke I heard on Conan tonight, while he was taking an "NBC Studio Tour": "If Stone Phillips were on an episode of The Flintstones, you know what his name would be? Stone Phillips." Hehehehehehehe.

Okay, I have another thing about bathroom stalls to write about, but I'll write about that tomorrow, I'm tired now and I need to play some Counter-Strike right now before I sleep :).

Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Under The Bridge

Ooohhh its Friday the 13th. You know, this day has never really held many bad... omens for me. I don't know, some people are scared of it, for me and most people that I know, its just more of a joke than anything superstitious. But then again, I don't know too many superstitious people soooo...

At any rate, second day of spring break, and what am I doing? Well... lets see now, I slept till a little after noon, got online around 2:00 and I've been online since, doing absolutely nothing of course. You know what bothers me? The fact that a lot of guys *shun* "chick flick" movies. But you know what? They're not really that bad. I mean sure, some of them are pretty stupid, but they're still fun to watch. Actually, its probably just me, I'm just a big loser and this whole hopelessly romantic thing is me. If I weren't such a big chicken, I'll be that I'd do all these crazy romance thingy's. And the fact that I've never had a *date* or a girlfriend before might add to that too, I suppose. I'm just a big contradiction. If you were to ask me what I think about girlfriends/boyfriends in high school, for the most part, I'd probably say something along the lines of:
"Oh, I don't see a point in them because most of them end up in breaking up, and most of these relationships will just end up in a breakup, no?" But then I still wish I was close to someone. I know this for sure at least, I try to base my life too much on things I see on TV and in movies. Anyways, I'm going to watch a movie, more on this later if I'm not too lazy.

Tatyana Ali f/ Lord Tariq & Peter Gunz - Daydreamin'

Stupid double posting... argh, I still have to figure Blogger out still :P

Blackstreet, Mya and Ma$e - Take Me There

Stupid Blogger wasn't posting yeseterday... blah, I tried posting twice, but oh well. Anyways, I changed the background template from that crappy "matrix" one that I had before. After looking at it a few times, I must say, it did look a bit... I don't know... not serious I suppose. At any rate, i'm thinking that I'll expand my little "diary" thing to more stuff when I have more time and learn more HTML. Oh yes, and did I mention that its SPRING BREAK!! Woo Hoo! And you know whats the first thing that I did for spring break? Sleep! I came home from school! And then WENT TO SLEEP! Well actually... I played Counter-Strike first... and THEN I went to sleep. Haha, story of my life, to be sure.

In other news about myself that is... I got myself a prom date. Yup, me, the big chicken guy (when it comes to stuff like this anyways) got myself a date. :)

And in other news, I was reading through ABCNews.com and came across this. I certainly hope all of the people at Whitney are normal folks. And while its kind of scary, I think its kind of cool too. Hehe, this person gets to be in high school for... what? 10 extra years? And while I would never do something like this... right now, with this whole graduation thing coming up and going to college, I don't know if I'm quite ready to leave High School, and I'm sure lots of seniors feel the same way too. But whatever, I'm going to go shoot pool now. And here's something new I'm going to start, at the end of every post I'll post what song I'm listening too :) Then you'll know what kind of music I listen to.

QB's Finest f/ Braveheart & Nas - Oochie Wally

Hmm... I guess I don't have as much stuff to write about as I thought I would when I started this Blog at first... blah, oh well. I'll just interest/bore you with stuff from my daily life and some random stuff that I think about:

Is this not the most beautiful woman in the world?

I've heard some complaints about girls who have webcams up lately... no names mentioned of course, (this is going to expand onto a bigger subject too) and the complaints that I heard about them are that "oh, these girls are just craving attention" and they are "needy" and stuff like that but you know what? These girls (and guys as well) are, in my opinion, just trying to share themselves with the world, and make new friends. And the of course, the girls (and guy's who say this too I suppose) are just jealous, in some cases at least. They are jealous that these girls are showing off (in their mind's) and flaunting their stuff. These complaining girls, methinks, are at least somewhat jealous that these CamGirls are able to setup a cam and have people oogle them. And (here comes the "expand" part) I think that a good proportion of girls are jealous of each other. I mean guy's, stereotypically, are open about which guy's they hate and say so on and so forth. But for girls/women they are quiet when they don't like other girls stand out. They whisper amongst themselves or glare at these other girls.. and methinks its because they're jealous, but of course, thats just me. And, to back up my point, I think I read in YM or Seventeen once that girls are jealous of each other... and of course Maxim told me so too! And the writers of Maxim wouldn't lie would they?

Okay... well Its now 2:00 am and... well... I didn't do much studying at all. Ah well, it doesn't much matter now. Anyways, I'm only posting to put some stuff up that I was looking at while not studying:

Can We Say... Great Balls of Fire?

and there is of course:

C'mon, If this doesn't tell you playing CS is good... what will?

and finally:

This is what computer stuff really should say

Alrighty, I'm off to bed now.

ARGH! This is horrible. I can't even focus on studying for comps (midterms/finals for you non-Whitney High School folks). I know I'm a senior and all... but I probably should at least try to study... right? I mean I've been trying to study all night on physics but I always end up finding myself doing something else... like, well... posting here, and reading something on my desk. And its not I'm lazy, although I am lazy, this isn't really the case here. Methinks that this is more of a, "I get bored of stuff too quickly" type thing. I will start reading my Civics book and within 10 minutes I'll be reading the text of an irrelevant box on my desk. Anyways, I oughta get going before my mom yells at me and tells me to get off the computer..... again.

Hey, Me am aqui en yearbook... and... well... i'm bored, but now that we have a computer here in the yearbook room, I may as well update my new thingymabobber, no news to report of course. So here's a fun site that some of you may know of.. and others who haven't can enjoy :) www.engrish.com

Okay, me am signing off.

You know, expanding on what I was talking about yesterday while on a "natural high" I suppose one could call it, I keep thinking about the cast party, and not so much about the events, although the events there were cool, but I'm thinking about what's gone on in high school, especially about stuff that's happened senior year. And I know I already mentioned this but I do agree with past senior class peoples, if you hold back during senior year and don't do everything you want to do, and don't do it to the fullest without any inhibitions, you'll regret it. It's been less than 24 hours since the cast party and I already wish I already I had done something crazy (you people who were there know what I mean). At any rate, I came to a small epiphany (is that a contradiction of terms?) about myself, and I'm sure this can be applied to other seniors too, seeing as how obvious this epiphany is... my "last" things in high school are upon me. For example, my "last cast party" just passed me by and I missed out on the chance to do something that I know I would remember forever... or at least a long time... and of course my "prom" is almost upon me as well... etc. etc. At any rate, you get the idea. And with the passing of each "last" thing, I'm regretting I didn't do more in the time I had... and this is basically a reminder telling myself to make the most out of what's left of senior year, and telling future seniors, MAKE THE MOST OF SENIOR YEAR, its your only and "last" one, so to say. And you know what? I'm saying this as seniors from previous year's told me and I'm sure you'll tell the underclassmen of your senior year the same thing... and it seems to me no one ever believes it. Everyone says they know that senior year is the last and yada yada, as a matter of fact I even told myself throughout this year that I would live it up to the fullest since the beginning of senior year... but its only now that I realize that I haven't done everything I could...

Anyways... thats my small epiphany for the day, more later tonight (on a different subject likely) or tomorrow some time. I'm able to update this daily, even more than once daily unlike an AIM profile which has no archives :) Alright, have a nice day, thanks for reading.

Well well well... I guess i don't really know how to use this program since I just wrote something and its gone now... anyways, I'll try this again! This is my first post and I feel good about myself after an interesting cast party at Mrs. Improta's house :) No details necessary of course... Anyways, I feel really good about myself and I think I understand how seniors of year's past felt when they told me to not hold back senior year because I'd regret it... I'm at this point in my life where I feel that I'm up for anything! Well ... nearly anything *wink wink* Anyways, I'm off to bed now, assuming this stupid Blogger thing works and posts my message :)