the object of the "game" was basically like The Weakest Link...except now you sit down if you get the answer correct...if you get the answer wrong, he makes fun of you and moves on down the line to the next victim. if no one gets the answer correct, then they vote off someone.
Yanaga: what's the denominator for days sales in accounts receivable?
Mohammed: ummm 365?
Yanaga: NOOOO!!!! what's wrong with you? we just went over this five minutes ago!!
Yanaga: brad??
Brad: umm...one?
Yanaga: NO!!!! everything in the universe is divisible by one!!!
Yanaga: Vanessa?
Vanessa: ummmm...is the denominator the top one or the bottom one?
Yanaga: oh god!!! you should've learned that in third grade!! that should've been like 12 years ago!!! i don't know how the hell you passed accounting, let alone fourth grade!!
its kinda funny to watch him make fun of people...butt i know its gonna suck ass when he gets me up there.
kinda bored...here's some things that have happened in the past couple weeks
met a girl named Janus...and i couldn't stop laughing inside cuz her name is like ANUS with a J.
did my first beer bong with the montecito crew. but for some damn reason i couldn't get drunk.
had another boaty call with april over some beer, hard lemonade, chewy chips ahoy and bruce almighty.
dropped my accounting class because i apparently don't have to retake it...so now i only have 2 courses...which is 4 classes A WEEK. ...sad thing is i might be in school for another 2 years...
might go to mexico with cathy for spring break.
went shopping with melissa (le)...she helped me realize how much i talk about food...literaly...
Mel: oh, and that's the papa johns where i used to eat with darwin and bojo every tuesday...soo good Mel: oh, and over there is mongolian bbq...you can eat as much as you want and they cook it right in front of you...used to go there every friday...soo good Mel: oh, and that's the only KFC around here that still sells chicken nuggets...not the crispy chicken strips...the old school chicken nuggets...sooo good Mel: ohgood, lets go to quiznos...they have the greatest cookies there ever...just ask them to put 'em in the oven and its all soft and squishy and chewy...sooo good
got a proposal from Yahoo! Sports College Broadcasting that'll pay to advertise on my justbball.com...
blocked the CRAP out of some really tall asian dude in basketball...god damn that was an ego booster.
i was playing guitar in my room and some drunk white guy comes in:
Drunk White Dude: hey!! you're filipino!! sing the filipino anthem for me!!
dunno why but i woke up at 7:30am this morning...even though went to bed at 2:30ish. i guess i shouldn't have eaten buffalo wings before i went to bed or something. anyways, can't really think of anything else to do but write about yesterday.
aight, so i started off my week with a semi-finals playoff game for basketball. the tourney ended up a little wierd so basically my team, the Pink Dot Delivery Service (gay teammate's gay idea), has to beat the undefeated team twice to win the championship. so anyways, i've been pumped about this game for the whole weekend...and that energy carried over throughout warmups when i was nailing every single three i was putting up. so come gametime, my first play of the game, i get the ball on the wing...feed the post and make a hard cut...i get the ball back...pump fake...drive and shoot...and then i fuckin' land on someone's foot and i fuck up my ankle royally. that's it, i was done. the good thing though is we ended up winning by 1...so now i am in my 3rd straight finals appearance. my first time we upset an awesome team for the championship...second time my underdog team lost in double OT by 1...hopefully i'll be able to play in the final game and pull out another win.
aight, so later that day i had two group meetings. i'm lucky as fuck because i have group members that are willing to take most of the work load for me. one of the meetings was for my sex ed class presentation on sexual fantasies. i've kinda got the rep as the class clown so i'm really trying to think of something awesome/perverted to live up to my own standards. i was thinkin maybe we'll do a dramatic reading of a sexual fantasy...with a little twist of "mel" in it...i dunno, we'll have to see what happens.
so yada yada, i have sex ed...and then after that i had my presentation for business. orginally we weren't supposed to dress up but i just felt like rockin' my new clothes i got from Guess over the weekend. anyways, the presentation went great. i had a part where i talked about "positive reinforcement"...so here was the example i used...
Mel: i used to play football back in the day...and everytime i made a really good run or scored a touchdown, i'd get back into the huddle and all my teammates would give me a nice, big 'ol pat on the ass!! :bigthumbup: its positive reinforcement like that that made me wanna bring it every time i was on the field.
so yeah, the crowd loved that part. i dunno, its kinda wierd how lookin' back i used to absolutely dread doing presentations and shit. but nowadays, since i do it for almost every single fucking class, i've gotten used to it. i'm usually the guy that pulls something stupid like that ass-patting example and it just loosens me up.
so anyways, i went back to the dorms and all i wanted to do was chill. i was still wearing my Guess shit so everyone was like, "daaaaaaaaamn, lookin' good, mel!!" so that was cool. oh yeah, there's this one hot asian chick that walked past by my door so i walked out and i caught her looking back...twice!! hahaha awww yeah, she was checkin' me out, baby!! skidmark's still got his way with da ladies!! hell, later that night she passed by again and i totally caught her looking back again!!
aaaaanyways, later that night i promised april that we'd have another quickie. she was a little down about some things so i brought over some boba to her place and we watched tv. originally we were just gonna watch friends and i was gonna go...but as usual, our quickie ended up being a long night of pillow talk.
one of the reasons we hung out so long was she showed me a book that she wrote. yeah, that's right, a BOOK. seriously, like 30 chapters. its the fuckin' coolest thing because its a 60 page (single spaced, 9 font, front and back) novel that is an extension of her personality. i read a couple chapters of it and oh my god she got me hooked. she's totally gonna make me a copy of it so i can read it over break...but she also totally got me in the mood for writing my own book. her book is cool as hell cuz its mostly fictional but based on herself, her friends and their boyfriends and a whole lot of drama. hell, she even has big fights with her friends in the story!! i was so amazed by the detail she used too.
i dunno, maybe one of these days i'll write a book like that...or maybe i'll just continue to make endless journal posts like this stupid thing you're reading. aight, that's all for now. laaate.
so today was my first day of sex ed. what did we do today in class, you ask? alright, well we started off by playing this game where we name all the dirty synonyms for "penis," "vagina," "breasts" and "sex."
my group had "breasts"...and surprisingly i found it quite a challenge to get past 20 dirty words. i had to call up alan during class for some help...
alan: dude, i can't think of anymore for 'boobs'...i can only think of 'penis'....is that a bad thing??
its all good, dude....my team managed to get 3rd place...its good to know that i got friends to back me up at a time like this...
oh yeah, one thing that i've never heard before was "hiding the salami"...its a good thing i go to college to learn vocab like that. oh, and check out our first homework assignment...
"Use a flashlight and mirror to examine your genitals. Write a 1-page essay describing your genitals, how you feel about them, and how this will, or already does, affect your sexual relationship(s). 5pts. Due Oct 8."
man, this was a crazy summer. this summer concluded my first full year since leaving home...its definately a sad thought...but i think i've made the best of it.
this summer was all about trying new things. back home its typically the same 'ol same 'ol, which is not bad at all, but now that i was here in the states i finally had the opportunity to meet new people and try new things. :bigthumbup:
the first thing i did to kick off my summer was....vegas, baby!!! not only did i get to kick it with my webb homie, hayes...but i also got to meet gorgeous, sweetheart friend, isabelle. man, that was crazy. i finally was in vegas for the first time since turning 21 and it was definately cool doin' the whole vegas experience with people that are down to do anything.
after vegas, i did my little annual manly bonding trip with mark, raynell and some other guys...and where's a better place to do then the porn convention!!! cough i mean Adult Entertainment Expo...yeah...
a few days after that, i was a little depressed over some girl shit...so i cruised up to santa monica to kick it with hayes & isabelle for a couple hours. next thing i know i was set to go to san diego with 'em!! down there i got to check out the beach and meet a couple cool guys, KC and...and...uhhh....fuck! i can't remember the other guys name...blame it on the shibby. but anyways, it was cool.
4th of july came after that and it was really chill. i got to kick it with a buncha webbies who i haven't seen in a while and we talked up some good times...over some shibby. :mrgreen:
oh yeah, around this time i joined a bball league with sj, joe, emil and some other guys...but man, that shit was such a flop. the league was so piss-poor at organizing, it just collapsed. we only played one game...and got blown out by 25+ points...but whatever, i blocked that one tall motherfucker!! mwahahahahaaha
oh man, the weekend after that was NorCal, baby!!! man was there a lot of drinking that weekend. i'll always remember (although a very blurry, drunken memory) playing king's at isabelle's place with cathy, soren, meagan, stan, bas & hayes. good times!!
the weekend after that was a really chill one. finally got together with hayes, stan & jose and we visited our fallen homie, walter cooley. first went to his place to reminisce with his parents...and i finally figured out why he died -- liver cancer. i teared up a bit...but it was good having some of the homies around again.
ahhh yes, and now onto the infamous week in NorCal...one of those nights was the strip club night....got drunk...and then ria's wedding...got hella drunk and i discovered that i can break dance....and then the house party at cathy's place...with beer pong....got WAAAAASTED...man, that was crazy. i beat meagan 4 times in beer pong.... ....sorry, just had to throw that one in there....anyways, my liver was hurtin' after those back-to-back-to-back nights of hardcore drinkin....but man, it was soooooooo worth it.
there was also this one night when john IMed me out of nowhere and told me that sean got FUCKED UP in a freak bike accident. i'll never forget that night...
shortly after that was alan's 21st birthday. the night was kind of a bust, however, because my dumb ass forgot to bring dress shoes to the club...so of course, we couldn't get in. it was all good though, because i came back the weekend after....and that weekend was when phoebe & james were in town. the highlight of the weekend was...well....getting trashed...and then checkin out Studio 54. phoebe...uhh...kinda almost passed out so the night was cut a bit shorter than it was supposed to. oh yeah, that night i was feelin' like a highroller...so i decided to throw $60 on black at the roulette....and...well...i was broke after that.
aight, so later that month was rose's cotilon (sp?) which is also known as the-18th-birthday-of-a-girl-and-she-makes-her-debut-into-society-as-a-woman-and-gets-a-shit-load-of-birthday-money. i didn't drink that night...liver was just rejecting the alcohol...but boy, did rose ever drink....
the weekend after that was probably the best possible way to end the summer....a udh reunion. it was just awesome having a bunch of the crew chillin at my place. i was glad that the whole mike-sierra-cathy thing worked out just fine too. :bigthumbup:
man, this was a crazy summer. all the babble that i wrote above doesn't even include all the endless nights i spent just kickin it with the webbies...and the nights i crashed at john/chin/sean's place...and even little things like talking to april online...all of these things made my day, everyday this summer.
dno't get me wrong though, i dearly miss the summer days in saudi. but this summer was really great. i went new places, met new faces, did new things with some old friends...the fun never ended. and when i wasn't hangin out or drinkin, i was workin my ass off on my justbball.com and my other sites (oh and btw i finally broke 1,000 members on my JBB ). i didn't waste a single bit of my summer.
so yeah, summer's ended and tomorrow morning i'm headed back to cal poly. i'm not sad at all though...i'm stoked more than anything. i get to see the rest of the cal poly crew again...start playin' some bball for PE...take some really cool classes on shit that actually interests me...its gonna be a fun year.
anyways, i gotta go and start getting my shit packed...looks like its gonna be a loooooong night of shitpacking for me tonight...hahaha
schoooooooooooooool's out for the summer!!! its kinda sad though...this year was definitely the best year in the dorms and now it must all come to an end. a ton of the montecito crew is leavin' and only a very very few are staying behind. i'm gonna miss the late nights when chops, neil-jason, spencer, sean, sam, tank, and all the other guys fuck around in the hallways...so many fuckin' good times and great laughs...gonna miss that shit. i dunno if there's gonna be another year in the dorms like this year again...
its days like these when i actually learn a lot from class. today a guest speaker came into our business management class and talked about his journey up the "corporate ladder." he's a cal poly alumn...but it took him 9 years to graduate. kinda makes me feel good cuz i'm probably lookin' at a 7 year plan myself. anyways, he talked about how he moved from wisconsin to LA in hopes of being a rock star...but he didn't make it in that so he turned to little jobs like sweeping at K-Mart...kept working at it...and now he's making $300 grand a year as CEO of a brokerage firm.
one tip he told us was "pick your enemies carefully...cuz you don't want an enemy that can beat you...you want an enemy that you can squash like a bug."
another tip he told us was, as shitty as it sounds, there is no real such thing as "fairness" in business...all it comes down to is how productive you are and how much money your company is making because of you.
he also made a big deal on how you can never be overdressed for an interview. "if you can spend $1,500 on a really nice suit...get it. if you can get a $500 tie...get it too. image is everything in the corporate world."
after 1.5 hours of speaking, the theme that was prevalent throughout his lecture was how when you start out at the bottom, be good to everyone and karma will pay you back. for example, whenever he finished a big project he'd give all of the credit to his co-workers and none to himself. even though he made the effort to make his co-workers look better, everyone knew that he was the one in charge and he deserved a lot of the credit. he modesty and generosity paid off and now he's a CEO banking in $300K a year.
on the way to lunch i watched two ducks doing it. mr. duck was all biting her neck and doing it rough and shit...it was was funny but also strangely arousing... :bigthumbup:
