Man, things have been slow on this site...probably because of several reasons. I'm finding myself going out a lot more and visiting people (esp in the dorms) now that school has started. Classes are pretty cool...I finally have some good teachers that have a teaching style that's compatible with me.
Tuesdays and Thursdays are definitely the best days...Astronomy, Basketball and Volleyball. Even though Astronomy is an 8am class, the stuff actually keeps me awake because this was my first passion when I was a kid. BBall and VBall are always cool...I finally got my buddy Pavel to enroll in the classes, and we play awesome together on the court. For volleyball, I've gotten a shit load better...probably cuz I was playing beach volleyball with Josh the whole summer. I'm also actually spiking the shit out of the ball on the men's nets...probably cuz I've lost weight since being traumatized by Super Size Me.
Food for Thought
Oh yeah, that's another thing...I'm actually doing really good with my eating..I've seriously cut down on the greasy fast food...no more burgers...eating more chicken and rice but in smaller portions...and no more eating after 6. I haven't weighed myself yet but I can definitely see my toes now the difference. Today was my cheat day but I realized that cheat day isn't even fun anymore...its just straight up gross. I actually had a difficult time downing one double-double (double cheeseburger)...it was really wierd but at least in a good way. Its kinda like that one summer in Saudi when Zizi had an all-girls fancy dinner party...I dressed up as a girl and got in...and when I was eating, all the girls jokingly gave me crap for my "eating like an animal" tendencies...that actually traumatized me so now my appettite gets psychologically surpressed when I eat around (most) girls.
Ohana
Oh yeah, a little update on my uncle...he's doing absolutely terrible. He has like zero energy...has to be spoon-fed...no energy to talk and can barely open his eyes because light is painful...omg, its just so painful to see him like this...and the really painful part is seeing Rose (my cousin, his daughter) trying to deal with this...I can't even imagine what its like for her...
One thing I'm really proud of is how all of my family and relatives are helping out anyway possible...when he was in the hospital, there was ALWAYS someone there beside his bed...and every weekend, there's always a family get-together..."Ohana means family. Family means no one gets left behind."
More Random Stuff:
Web Cams are fun...
Watch Shaun of the Dead...its funny as balls.
Free food @ Webb...I actually went back to Webb with fellow classmate, Stan, and got some free country fried chicken steak (chicken country fried steak? fried country chicken steak? chicken fried country steak?? )
My JustBBall.com was selected as the Site of the Month for theadminzone.com...()...I'll post my interview here when it's published this November.
Song of the Moment: Smile by Tamia
PL: we might have our share of fights here and there...there might be moments when you just absolutely piss me off...but at the end of the day, I care about you...and I'll always be here for you.
Random Quote of the Moment: if you don't like anal sex, you must be gay... at the irony.
tomorrow (today) is the first day of the quarter and i have an 8am class...its 1:40am right now and i just can't fall asleep.
this past summer was really chill...a lot more laid back than last summer, but still fun. it started out pretty cool, with josh being my roommate for like 6 weeks. the weekdays were mostly school for me and driving to LA for josh...but on the weekends it was all about shibbying @ huntington beach, beach volleyball, more shibby and cheap BJs courtesy of rose & diana.
there were times when josh and i would butt heads...one some nights, my laid back, low maintenance lifestyle would totally clash with his i-like-to-party-i-like-i-like-to-party attitude...and it didn't help that we only had one car (which my dad mandated that no one else can drive without me). meh, whatevers...i basically learned that being around the same person for a full 24-7, no matter how cool they are, is never a good thing.
anyways, fourth of july rolled around. loved it. it was that party @ natalie's place and i met some cool girls there. i'll never forget when josh and i were partners for taboo...
Mel: if everything about a girl is hot but her face, you'd cover it up with a brown... Josh: BAG!!! Mel: yes!!!Mel: if you sleep with an underage girl, you go to... Josh: JAIL!!! Mel: yes!!! Mel: i have a lot of this on my computer Josh: PORN!!! Mel: correct!!!
fourth of july was also the day i talked to my precious Jasmine Trias on the phone. (and i know that some of you fuckers voted "0 stars - terrible" for that post i made about it...but i don't give a rats ass what you think. i think its fucked up how you guys never rate anything "good," yet you made the effort to rate "terrible" on something i care about. )
anyways...there was also that weekend when mike came to party down in huntington. that was a good 'ol drunken time, i must say. :beerchug:
...unfortunately, that weekend was also when my beloved hamster passed away... you my boy, pube!!! you my boy!!!
i think it was the weekend after that when we had another shindig at my place...me, alan, james, josh and dan. i'll never forget the jamming on the ukulele while alan & drunken josh would freestyle the lyrics. that weekend was also the time when i hit an incline @ 60 mph with a full load of guys in my car...and also ended up paying $500 for fixing her up afterwards...
for the rest of summer, things got really chill. josh flew back home and i was left with a buttload of computer programming and web design projects.
oooooh wait a minute, how could i forget the cal poly sausage fest in my apartment!! all of the old school montecito crew were at my place, drinkin' & smokin' it up. that was also the first time "jimmy" tainted his virgin lungs. good times...good times...
once summer school was done, i headed to vegas for a week for some errands...tinted out my car, fixed like a bagillion computers and some other shit. it was my first time @ my parent's new vegas house, which i must say has that hotel suite feel to it.
the final days of my summer i spent working @ home...i have a deadline for my JustBBall.com that i refuse to miss. (on a side note, last summer i broke the 1,000 member milestone...this summer i broke 6,000. ) on the weekends i'd drive back to webb to visit cristina along with the rest of her family. at the football field, i bumped into my classmate, natasha...
Mel: natasha?? Natasha: mel??! Mel: oh shit, hey!!! how are you?? Natasha: i'm good.Mel: so what are you up to now that you graduated? Natasha: i'm relaxing now, but i'm gonna get my PHD over at UCLA. Natasha: ...what about you? Mel: oh, i'm still at cal poly... Natasha: oh...when you gonna graduate? Mel: 2 years...ish... Mel:
later that night i kicked it with my webb homie, stan, who also just graduated. damn all you people that follow the 4 year plan!!
so anyways, i'm at my apartment now. my roommate, sam, still smells like feet. the two new roommates seem cool though. one of the guys i played bball with a few seasons ago. they're also neat freaks, which is a good thing as roommates.
holy fuck, its 3am now and i have to get up by 7. alright, i'm out. thanks for the great summer everyone...and an even bigger thanks for actually reading this whole damn thing. have a nice day.
finally watched that documentary/movie...i've mentioned it before...its about a guy's one month mcdonalds diet...mcdonalds for every meal, three meals a day, for 30 days. he has to eat everything on the menu at least once and if the cashier asks him "do you want to super size it," he has to say "yes."
the guy (who was in perfect shape to begin with) gained 17 lbs in the first 12 days. daaaaaaamn.
it was kinda sad when he started listing all of the symptoms to his doctors...cuz me and alan related to every single one of 'em...like the wheezing after walking around a lot...and the feel good feeling when you start eating (or even just thinking) about food. this movie definitely makes me feel guilty for eating burgers...
Long Lost Cousin?
i got a message from some random flipino guy asking if i was related to former Judge Pedro Ablog Tajon of Cagayan Valley and former Governor & Congressman Mariano Tajon of Ilocos. I asked my dad and he said its true.
i got bored so i started searching up my lolo's (grandpa's) name, Marcelo Tajon, and then i find out that he co-founded Northwestern University in the Phillipines.
20s All Around
i finally got Sandy tinted out...20s all around... the back windows were already dark (dyed windows) so when they added the tint, the back became straight up limo dark. the front windows are illegally dark...its kinda cool... "you can't see me but i'm checking out your girlfriend."
More Stuff...
Girl Next Door was a cool movie...i need to meet a cool pornstar like that...
Resident Evil 2 was aight...that one chick is a hottie
got bored so i started plucking random strands of facial hair...hurts like a bitch!!
found out that "Flip" isn't just a short way of saying "filipino"...it stands for "fucking little island people." its supposed to be derrogatory and i'm supposed to feel offended by it.
saw Sherwin for the first time in like 5 years...i think the last time i saw him was when he took me to my first strip club to get my first lapdance...maaaan, that was a magical night.
$3 steak, eggs & pancakes rock...but waking up late at night and throwing it all up sucks...
cristina finally started high school @ webb. i tagged along with the rest of the family to move her in. maaaan, its a trip going back to my high school after 5 years. there was only a half-handful of familiar faces there...its kinda cool how teachers that i never actually met still remember me...
Mr. Brotchsul: hey, you look familiar Mel: hey, mr. brotchsul, right? i'm mel...i graduated here in 2000. Mr. Brotchsul: yeah i remember. nice to finally meet ya. Mr. Brotchsul: and you look familiar too... James: yeah, i came here for a year...and then i wasn't invited back... Mr. Brotchsul: oh...and how about you? Alan: ...well...i applied here...and got rejected...
i also bumped into my good ol friend, al, the head chef.
Al: hey!!! Mel: hey, whats up al??! Al: not much, man!! Al: hey, you should come here on thursday, we're serving fajitas!! Al: and we have your favorite breakfast burritos every friday!!
also, it seems like webb is finally restocking on good-looking girls...
on tuesday, we had a little cal poly sausage fest in my apartment. its kinda funny how the initial "couple guys" that came over ended up being like 10 more. we busted out the houka, some beer, and some "magical, medical stuff." oh yeah, we accidently smoked out chin...
Chin: lemme hit some of that [houka] Sudheer: there's shibby in there Chin: really? Pavel: yeah. Chin: eh, i sense some sarcasm... Chin: *smokes*later on that night Mel: uhh dude, there really was shibby in there... Chin: whaaaat?? i thought you guys were just joking!! oh no, my virgin lungs!!
watched 3 movies this week...Without a Paddle was meh...i shibbied beforehand and i only managed to get a couple good chuckles from it...
Hero with jet li was meh also...it was cuz i had to read all the f'ing subtitles for the whole damn 2 hours...and also the super deep, chinese philosophical stuff was just too much for me...i tried so hard to appreciate the movie but i just didn't...
Collateral was a good movie. tom cruise is a badass and jada pinkett smith is a freakin' hottie.
went to vegas for the weekend. it wasn't for gambling or drinking...i'm broke as hell...it was mainly to fix up alan's and my dad's computers. here's just some random shit that happened...
saw my parent's new vegas house for the first time. the first thing that came to mind was "a hotel suite." the ceilings are like 12 feet high (and the doors and just as tall), there's a lot of mirrors and marble, and all of the handles/faucets were painted gold. and of course there was all of the stereotypical hotel suite-like flower vases everywhere. not to be all jessica-simpson-ish but why the hell does everything have to be yellow gold?? why not white gold?? yellow gold is so tacky...
friday night i had a dream about eating white castles... it was wierd...it took place at some kinda movie theater complex and at the concession stands they were serving those 2 square inch burgers of heaven...it had to be magical or something cuz they were flying and shit...
...woke up, took a piss and then ended up having some really awesome sex dream. it was like me and some tall blonde chick in one of the showers of my parent's new place. total dream score!!
ate at mark pi's shanghai grill on like friday night...gawd damn their food is so good. mark pi's general tso's chicken is the shiznat. ...and then that night we played some bball and general tso was kicking my ass.
sing to r.kelly's "bump and grind":
*my wallet is telling me noooooooooo...
but my booooody
my body is telling me yeaaaaaaaaaaah!!
...i don't see nuttin' wrong, with a little steak and eeeeeeeeggs
...i don't see nuttin' wrong, with a little steak and eeeeeeeeggs*
i got a new cell phone. polyphonic ringtones, baby!!! when any of you girls call me, it'll play Naughty Girl by Beyonce. saudi sausage crew will play my Friends Theme ringtone. anyone else that calls will play the Party Boy Theme from Jackass.
alan, james and i ate at a restaurant called kahuna grill (only because shanghai grill next door was closed ). our waitress was stupid...like whenever we asked for something, she'd pull that unoriginal, sarcastic "no" bullshit.
Mel: can i have some extra honey mustard?
Waitress: no!!
Waitress:
Mel:
Mel: can i have some more water please? Waitress: i dunno, can you?? Waitress: Mel:
i swear, i was just about to do my own sarcastic shit...
Mel: i think i'll have the hibatchi chicken...you pathetic cocksucking slut bag of a whore!!! Waitress: Mel: just kidding!! Mel: ...i'll have the teriyaki chicken.
thank you for creating hooters restaurants. thank you for creating hooters buffalo wings. thank you for creating hooters girls...girls like kristine and jen. thank you for creating nights like this when one super hot hooters girl grabs the hooters of her fellow super hot hooters girls. thank you, god. thank you.
and it was fucking gone!!! two hours of driving, all for nothing. the place was supposed to be there for another 10 days as a promo for Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle...but it was so successful they finished all their burgers, packed up their shit and left early!!! noooooooooooooooooooooo!!!
Harold: i want that.
Kumar: want what?
Harold: i want what they have.
Kumar: hot dogs?
Harold: no. i want that feeling that they have
Harold: ...the feeling that you get when you know you got exactly what you desire...
roommate and apartment smell really bad...and extra-strength febreeze isn't working...searched half an hour for an air freshener but there's no such thing as a manly fragrance. why the fuck don't they make manly air fresheners?? maybe something that smellls like burgers or a BBQ or a strip club.
broke my computer chair...2nd chair in two years...damn you in-n-out!!
holes in your shorts are pretty bad...and its a lot worse when you rip it when you're freeballing on campus...
sold my ipod mini and got myself a new 4G (fourth generation) ipod.
last week i saw a huge sign in front of the Sears hardware section... "tool territory. where tools rule."
dead or alive xtreme beach volleyball = teh new hotness.
Bud Light Presents: Real Men of Genius.
Today we salute you, Mr. Compulsive Away Message Checker. While most people are out actually having a good time, you are at home reading about it on your computer screen. Right mouse click, get buddy info, or the little info box at the bottom of the Buddy List. You have people on that list you havent talked to in years, but you still loyally read their away messages everyday to see what they are up to. So crack open an ice cold Bud Light, Marauder of the Mousepad,and dont wander too far from your computer, because you never know when somebodys away message may change.
