March 2012
1 post
February 2012
12 posts
At Stine's: Chief Larry
Me: I've been tryna go to New Orleans for a few months now. Always on TV, hella good food.. But who's down!
Drunk Larry: Oh dude, I had the best beignets from New Orleans.
M: You've been to New Orleans?
L: Yeah, I got the beignets from New Orleans Square in Disneyland.
Anyone ever wonder:
In Ocean’s Eleven, when Don Cheadle puts Vegas in a complete power outage, what happens to those on pacemakers at hospital & on aircraft? Talk about largest terror plot. Hmm..
“When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or...”
– C. Ponder
January 2012
14 posts
Twentysomething
Thanks, Anh, for this read. [source]
Here is an open letter to all the parents, aunts and uncles who write to me asking for advice about the twentysomething in their life who is an incorrigible underachiever: Lighten up! No one should be labeled an underachiever in their twenties! The first thing you should ask yourself is whose standards are you using? This is not the same workplace that...
What if we were living in a dream & one day, wake up somewhere else as someone else. Wouldn’t that be something.
Stop the deportation of DREAMer UCSC Graduate Jose... →
“There are two kinds of boys. There are those that want to be astronomers, and...”
– Dr. Grant, Jurassic Park III
Being okay
I can’t believe it’s been a week already. Just looking forward to each new day with hopes I feel much better. Here’s to recovery & maintaining a healthy lifestyle. I miss running, I miss having fun, I miss not having constant worry.. Soon enough, I’ll have you all back. (: But here’s to being MUCH better than I was a week ago.
When an adult took standardized tests forced on... →
thenewneutral:
A longtime friend on the school board of one of the largest school systems in America did something that few public servants are willing to do. He took versions of his state’s high-stakes standardized math and reading tests for 10th graders, and said he’d make his scores public.
[…] “I help oversee an organization with 22,000 employees and a $3 billion operations and capital...
December 2011
23 posts
When I turned 21..
I was at my friend’s house getting punched in the nuts by all my homeboys. Had Bacardi Superior running down my throat & woke up back in my bed. FOLLOWED by a dinner in San Jose at a restaurant that didn’t card nobody. Eating fried grasshoppers, downing my first official drinks.. Then I woke up in Santa Cruz out of all places with barely any recollection of how I got there.. WITH A...
Monte Poole: The Oakland A's are a travesty →
A’s are so fucking dramatic. Giants already own territory in San Jose. And besides.. SAN JOSE DOES NOT WANT YOU.
“This is the thing: When you hit 28 or 30, everything begins to divide. You can...”
– Relevant Magazine “11 Things To Know At 25”, #11
“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Every human encounter is a singular occasion which can never recur again in...”
– Japanese Tea Ceremony
At the top of my head, I feel like I lost the opportunity of a lifetime. Definitely think I blew it—the possibility of my big break. Can’t keep my mind off the “what-if’s” if this situation. To think, in the quickest moments of my life, I could’ve had it all. I hope, hope to God, they call me back.
But maybe better things will pop up. Sitting, wishing, waiting.
Tipping
I came across this when I was trying to find out the proper amount to tip a cocktail waitress in a Las Vegas casino. Since drinks are typically complimentary while gambling, I felt that the standard “$1/drink” rule was not a satisfactory tip, so I tried to find what a waitress would consider a “good tip.” Link provided for full read, posting a few parts here.. But reading...
A conclusion
To probably the most productive week I’ve had back in SJ.
Among 2-PT jobs, scattered through the week, I still managed to see and chill with all of the homies from back home. The Company, MRC, Mino, KDoc, AThangChung, JLam, Valdeezy, Richmoney, JoPo, Tiffaneeecheee and Michelle-True. Missed Eidreezy by a second, though. And my big SC bros, Chris, Marlon & Bernie.
And I probably only...
