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.

fuckin' a...i will never get my project done. aight, here's the deal...for my accounting class i was supposed to do the online computer lab shit all throughout the quarter...and of course i delayed that shit til the very end...its almost 1am and this thing is due 14 hours from now. each chapter takes 30-45 mins and i think there's about 15 chapters...you do the math.

aight, so i didn't work on it at all today because i had to work on my sex ed shit...and then i didn't get out of class til 8pm...but by that time i was tired as hell so all i wanted to do was relax. next thing i know, i'm in a 2.5 hour conversation with april (who i totally love and i'm totally convinced she's my long lost twin sister)...

so anyways, after talking to her i decided to watch Headlines on Jay Leno cuz that's the best shit...then i find out shaq is on the show, so i watch his little interview...and then i find out kelly preston is on, so of course i watch her cuz she's hot as hell...

aight, so midnight rolls around and darwin (my roommate) decides to bust out a little Mario Kart: Double Dash on his gamecube....next thing i know all of the guys are over and they're having a fuckin' Mario Kart tournament...all hollerin' and hootin' and shit...

ok, so its 1 in the morning now...the guys are still herre, playin' Mario Kart....and i haven't done even started on this thing...

UPDATE

oh hell yeah, i just got a call from my boy, johnny, and he said he'll hook me up with his stuff!! yeah baby!!! this calls for some Mario Kart!!!

you can't see me now but i'm krip walkin!!!

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

you get what i mean? shit packed?

hehehe

shit packed like butt sex!!! hahahahaha

damn. mama called me to bitch about my phone bill...i never thought i'd go over but i did...and it costs an extra $40. here's one interesting stat: out of the 1800 minutes i used, 1000 were from talking to phoebe. daaaaaamn that girl's got me on a digital leash.

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...

MONTECITO PRIDE 2003, BABY

aight, so last night darwin (my roomie) and i put our hamsters, pube & duke, into our hamster playpen. pube is 1 year old and duke is only a couple months, but he's gone thru a growth spurt and caught up in size with pube. (duke has also got a fuck buddy hamster, which belongs to darwin's gf....pube is still in the v-club). aaaaaanyway, in the past the two have been ok when around eachother...but last night the little shits started fighting. if you've never seen a hamster fight, its just like in the cartoons when a "fight cloud" is formed and the two roll around in a ball trying to bite eachother. i slap the two of them to break them up and when i reach down to grab pube, that hairy little shit named duke jumped at my hand and bit the shit out of my middle finger. HURT LIKE A BITCH.

i've been bit before but those were just a little painful and had no piercing of skin....but this time...this time the little fucker had penetration. my fuckin' finger wouldn't stop bleeding. also, pube got bit in the face...but its all good cuz he got duke in the back real good. :tonguefawk:

as chin likes to put it:

Scoreboard

Duke: 2
Pube: 1
Mel: 0

oh, and to add insult to injury, the only bandaid around here was at neil's room...and he only has winnie the pooh bandaids.

god damn, what a fucking weekend. on thursday, had lunch with this one cutie from my class...also, i was supposed to have my econ test but my professor accidently printed the wrong exam...so the test was cancelled. i ran back to the dorms to watch Game 6 of the Lakers-Spurs series...only to watch the Spurs knock the Lakers out of the playoffs (we'll be back next year, bitches). alan drove in and we headed to my place in long beach. i smoked up, got shitfaced and pigged out on like 10 of those little microwaveable white castle burgers...can't remember what else happened cuz i was a little fucked up...

friday we didn't really do much...woke up and watched matrix reloaded...i kept fading out during the movie cuz i still had some shit in my system (yes, 15 hours AFTER i smoked and i was still fucked)...went back home and watched more movies and played nba street...at night i smoked up, got shitfaced and watched some low-budget porn called Play-mate of the Apes....yeah...you think the title is horrible, try watching the movie...high...

saturday, my good 'ol buddy joe called me up to play some ball. played with a buncha dirty black guys (dirty in the 'they played dirty' sense)...played for like 2 hours and then we were spent...but OGB (aka omar gharbo bastard) called us up so we drove down to huntington beach to kick it with him. oh yeah, on the way there we were pulled over by a cop for speeding...but we were eventually let go. anyways, his bitch ass aunt wouldn't let him come out, but we just chilled for a few hours. we also had my brother's GPS system so after leaving gharbos, alan and i explored around huntington beach for an hour or so...oh yeah, we were also pulled over AGAIN by a cop for the suspicion of DUI. apparently alan was swirving left and right while speeding...he even had a little sobriety test...anyways, eventually we drove to a hooka place and smoked hubbly for an hour...went back home and passed out.

on sunday we were all sore and shit but then natalie gave us a call and wanted to have dinner with us at benihanas in santa monica. we got my brother's GPS again and met up with natalie and her friend yasmine (sp?) from dhahran. they were already finished eating so we just had some icecream tempura and chilled there for a while. we mentioned that we smoked hubbly the night before so natalie insisted we do it in LA at this one place she knows...went there and smoked for a couple hours then eventually parted ways...but the night wasn't finished yet. since we had a GPS system we decided to explore all around LA (which under normal circumstances, i would NEVER have the balls to do). we got lost for like 45 mins but we eventually found our way out.

monday, after my PE classes and group meeting, we went to Brea Mall...a damn nice mall in a very nice part of town. my cousin that works at the banana republic there, always mentioned how hot the girls are at the Holister store there...so alan and i decided to check it out...and GOD DAMN. holister is supposed to be a subdivision of Abercrombie or something...not exactly sure but one thing i know is MAD HOTTIES shop there.

anyways, that was how i spent my weekend...

Thursday, May 8, 2003

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.