Cliffs notes version of what happened on our weekend roadtrip / foodrun...

Friday, February 13, 2004

originally planned to head out on the road by 10am...filipino time ended up being 12:20pm. the drive was hella long 6 hours but we kept ourselves busy with the usual singing and beat-boxing and eating. there was one moment when i was driving with my knee while eating a chocolate krispy kreme donut and sipping a coffee frappacino. yeah baby, i like to eat dangerously.

had a kickass weekend...unfortunately most of it is a big drunken, cloudy blur...

thursday, alan & james came down...played ball behind my dorm and then went back to my place...shibby...and then ate a lot.

friday we cruised up to santa barbara to party down with dan & his kegerator. started out with some tequila shots (my first time) and then had several rounds of beer pong...uhhh memory is fading...oh yeah, these three girls said i was hot.

they were all up on my jock and shit...actually not really but they did say i was hot.

oh yeah, some dude was walking the streets by his loser self so we invited him for some free hot dogs & beer...i was already sloppy drunk but he said his name was Brandon and he was from Knotts [aka Knotts Scary Farm area]. i didn't realize it until later but he was johnny tsunami from those lame disney movies!! its kinda funny cuz this was the second time i met him...he used to work at this hawaiian restaurant that i was a regular at...and he unsuccessfully tried to hit on my cousin. hahahahaha

saturday morning i had a massive hangover...yacked quite a bit but then i was fine...my vision was a little blurry for the rest of the day though. we ended up eating at some hibatchi place...and the hot waitress was all up on my jock.

drove back that night to cal poly so i could launch my JustBBall.com v2.5. in the meantime, alan & james were drinking with potty, anthony, angela, & elisa.

sunday afternoon, me & the guys went to an arabic restaurant that these egyptian chicks told me about. (they were all up on my jock too.) they had some real good shwarmas and arabic bread...ahhh the memories.

that night we drove back up to cal poly...had a little shibby...actually, it was a lot of shibby. A LOT. we were completely gone after that...we had a really good time...i just can't remember exactly what we did. :-p

anyways, here's some quotes:

James taking a piss in a crowded, public bathroom...

James: oooooh it burns....

Mel trying to ask James if he's coming or staying...

Drunken Mel: james, you coming or going?

James: huh??

Drunken Mel: are you coming or going???

James: what??

Drunken Mel: NO!!!...WITH US!! ARE YOU COMING OR GOING WITH US???

James: i'm staying.

Drunken Mel: oh...that makes more sense...

In the car, driving back to my house from Cal Poly...

James: are you gonna try to break melvin's time?

Alan: fuck no. i'm not gonna get another ticket.

Mel: what's the matter? too slow, too curious??

Alan:

Alan: omg that was pathetic. was that supposed to be the opposite of "fast & furious?"

Mel: yeah, we drank so freakin much last night...i'm gonna quit drinking for a while...

Mel: ...unless you guys are gonna drink tonight...

damnit, i was in a rush for class today so i brushed my teeth on the fly...then while i was walking around campus i realize i have this big, white, fat, suspicious-looking toothpaste stain on my blue shirt, sitting right on top of my crotch. :redface: no wonder they were laughing at me.

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!!

the first thing i hear when i wake up from surgery (exactly 4 years ago)...

Nurse #1: i think he's somoan.
Nurse #2: no, i think he's mexican. he looks a little japanese though.
Nurse #1: nah, he's too fat to be japanese, he has to be samoan.
Nurse #3: guys, he's filipino. it says right here on his chart.
Nurse #1: but filipinos are skinny.
Nurse #2: yeah, he's fat.

Doctor: ok, now take off your shorts, lie on your side and try to relax...

Mel: ok.... (awkward)

Doctor: now i know its a little easier said than done...

Mel: (awkward awkward awkward...)

Doctor: i said relax!!!

Mel: (i-i-i-i'm....t-t-t-trying!!!!)

Doctor: this isn't working...i need some help.

Doctor: nurse!!!!

Nurse: ok now, just try to relax...take in deep breaths...

Mel: starts yoga breathing excercises

Mel: woooooosaaaaaaahhhh...woooooosaaaaaaah....

Doctor: ok mel, next time you come in i am going to have to dive back in there to make sure everything's ok. and next time, i am going to have to use...the probe.

its the start of another christmas break...but its also the end of an era in the dorms. no more d-man and melvie.

uhh...no one calls us that but you know what i mean.

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.

aight, so its thanksgiving today...the day that we're supposed to be thankful for the all the things that we have. i've been thinkin' about this all morning and i finally came up with my own little top 10 list...herre it is:

10. the internet - yes, i'm a such a nerd...i'm thankful for the internet. why? because i'm a f'ing e-business major, that's why! its a jungle out there in the internet...but its ok cuz i'm tarzan. hahaha...anyways, aside from business, i've found the internet to be the best way for communicating to my friends. whether its emailing my friends from all parts of the world, or posting something stupid like this thanksgiving list on my site, or IMing my roommate who is physically in the same room as me...i love the internet, man.

9. nice people - i'm thankful for nice people in the world. to me, its all the little things that make the world go 'round...little things like the chick at mcdonalds giving me more than enough sweet & sour sauce...or the guy at hanos remembering my usual order...or walking down to the parking lot and passing some random girl and she smiles at me...i'm thankful for all those simple things in my life.

8. music - i'm not music artist or anything anymore but i am truly thankful for music. to me, i like music because they remind me of a particular person or moment in my life...like the times of the webb homies and i dancing to "bye bye bye" at prom...and potty in the dorms blasting up "eye of the tiger" every single motherfucking day...and the endless nights of listening to techno in the car with alan and james, making our own remixes about food and gay stuff....

7. family - of course i have to thank my family...if it wasn't for my parents having sex one summer night, i wouldn't be herre typing up this list. i also have to thank my brothers for putting up with my shit...and always being there for me when i really need it. and i can't forget my relatives...they are the guys that...well...feed me. i'm thankful for them treating me out to expensive places like todai (seafood/sushi buffet) and genghis khan...and cooking up a fat ass 'ol turkey for thanksgiving.

6. 577 - i could never forget my 577 crew...you guys have been my life for so damn long...its amazing how we all grew up with eachother in saudi and still manage to find ways of getting back together here in the states. sorry i couldn't make it to north carolina for sausage fest '03...but i promise i'll make the next one.

5. cal poly crew - gotta love the cal poly crew...of new and of old. man, its kinda crazy thinkin of all of you guys....from my freshmen year with chris, craig, kristy, laura, eddie, leia (the hot girl that thinks i'm gay)...and now my 4th year with darwin, pavel, sudheer, ashley, ross, potty, tank, angela, elisa, melissa, karen, jp, chin, spencer, april...man, there's so many of you guys i can't fit you all in herre...but i could never forget all the good times. i'm thankful for having such a cool crowd to hang with here at cal poly.

4. webb homies - man, i miss ya guys. even though we spend most of the year apart, we always manage to meet up on breaks and wreak havoc 'ol fashion webb style. i'm thankful for those days of playin' ball, meeting up at SJ's, chillin' at stan's, road trips to norcal, and all of those other good times.

3. my hamster - to my furry little guy, thanks for being so good to me...sometimes i forget to feed you...and forget to clean your cage...but you still you never bite me. thanks, little dude...in return, i'll get ya a fine ass girly hamster one of these days.

2. my co-workers - i've gotta be thankful for my co-workers too. these guys helped me turn a small idea into an online community of 2,000 members and still rising. i'm lookin' forward to many years of workin' with you guys.

1. God - lastly, i want to thank God...for blessing me with all the things i mentioned above. i'm so thankful for all of these things...i don't deserve any of it.