A Cringeworthy Walk Down Memory Lane

Wednesday, April 23, 2003

hey HEY first pOst! damn it kinda tOOk me a while tO get all Of this tOgether. there's the practices, then the reviewing fOr apec (24'7 fOr realz!), hOmewOrk, american idOl Of cOurse, phOne, and just wanting tO take a nap fOr Once! ha well at least i gOt this thing dOne - yeah. u dOn't understand hOw relieved i'll be Once this week is Over. i still gOtta make up a vOcab test in apec frOM friday and a pOlar graph quiz. and Our last guard shOw On sunday! it's at cOx if any Of yOu wanna gO, and but u knOw u can prObably pass it up unless u really wanna spend $15 that is. then nO mOre rEHEARSALS! i'll actually have time fOr a l.i.f.e. O mAN i'm excited. i think i'll start wOrking On my scrapbOOk fOr guard this year next week tOO. damn if Only u can see my james lOgan pix...haha

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...And that was my first Xanga post. And no, I'm not posting links to it either.

Rawfiki Bonus:

Wednesday, August 20, 2003

yo yo yo...waddup yall...wells the past weeks been pretty tight....yup yup ..yeah know...just turned 16 on the the 13th yall...yeah practice was tight that day wasnt too hard...yeah then later that day i went out with oliver and roy and met up with erwin, krystle , and raffy at tapioca heaven..........haha good times good times...."LISTEN LISTEN"..haha yeah... i didnt know they give free boba to you hmmm....yeah then the next day the 14th i had a bbq...it was tiight how a lot of my friends went...and yes my lovely girlfriend Kristine...hey babe i love you.....yeah the bbq was tight..you know breaked a lil chilled a lil but it was fun the last ppl left around 11 .......damn i had a lot to clean up and shit....i feel like having another bbq ...hahaha sike maybe some other year......lets see then on friday i went to a bonfire with oliver and the youth group and met up with OLMC ...yeah i got to see kristine...yup we had a great time...we chilled on the beach and watched the sunset...it was really really nice...then on the weekend i went to the mall with lu ray mark jordan and oliver...bought some new kicks and yeah we saw bad boys 2 ..yall have to check that movie out its tiight...uhm as for the past few days its just been the same ...bboying on monday..practice on tues. and wed. ...well right now im at olivers house and everone is playing street vol.2 im out peace

PEACE.....LOVE.......AND SOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUL!! i love you!!!

I love me a good mashup.

I know some people who absolutely hate mashups but for the most part I LOVE them. Mashups, random mixtapes, remixes, fusions of different genres, I eat up anything that fucks with the familiar. I'm not as forgiving with covers that are too faithful to the original version though, not that you can totally discern a cover from a remix sometimes. That probably doesn't make any sense but I'm just gonna run with it.

I'm a little late with this one (it came out around January), but I've been listening to it lately so I thought I'd share.

“Enter The Magical Mystery Chambers” by Wu Tang Vs The Beatles, produced by Tom Caruana featuring Wu-Tang acapella tracks mixed with samples from Beatles songs.

I'm sure a lot of people think messing with Wu-Tang's music is sacrilegious. And of course, you can say the same thing about die-hard Beatles fans . I myself must admit that I love The Beatles' songs but I prefer when they're performed by other artists /unpopular opinion. But what I like about this mix is that the sampling is done very subtly, which works well for me. I don't know if you can compare this to the execution of The Grey Album but for some cruising-in-the-beautiful-SD music? This will do just fine.

Download the .rar file here or you can hit me up for it

And for a little taste of it -

If I ever decided to switch to Mac...

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If you haven't noticed already, I've updated my blog roll so check it out. Trying to revive this whole blog thing is easier when I have fellow bloggers to draw inspiration from.

Throwback Thursday

I saw this TT theme on Tumblr somewhere, & now I'm going to steal it.

In honor of Airbands season.

A music post.

I just uploaded about 400 songs to my computer thanks to my brother. NIOCE.

Why I bring this up: I can't stand putting my whole iTunes on shuffle because I need some consistency when listening to music. Unfortunately, that means missing out on a lot of good stuff that's right in front of me - if it doesn't come to mind, it just won't get played. I'm always looking for new stuff to add, only to be listened to a few times then forgotten...they're like the never-worn, still-have-tags pieces of clothing just sitting in my closet. What a waste.

But don't you guys have those moments when you listen to a song and you can automatically think of the perfect corresponding moment from your day? Or it takes to you somewhere very specific? Happened to me quite a lot today so I thought I'd share.

That guy that your friend won't shut up about but just needs to drop already. I will confront the dude for you my friend if that means getting all fierce up in his face Janet-style with accompanying dance moves. I'll even be content with a background dancer role. God I wish life was like a music video sometimes.

I hate this song. Heard it on the radio this morning. Every time I hear it, I'm standing on the bleachers inside the gym with 2 of my friends during a middle school dance, overlooking everyone else awkwardly slow dancing. OR I'm sitting on the floor in my room when I lived in the condo, crying over the guy I liked because he told me he was moving to the East Coast. Shoot me now.

I heard this song at Starbucks and it automatically made my heart all warm and gushy. It also makes me want to fly? It's just awesome.

Good morning at work...

and sometimes by the end of the day. Hah.

Yeezy thanks you for your time.

Cute couples make me gag.

Okay, just kidding. But even after all of the cutesy/cheesy/twee things I've experienced in my own relationship for the past 7 years, there's always those other couples induce the same reaction from me: a little bit rolling my eyes, this weird "agh" sound that I think is a mix of "ughh" and "aww!", followed by a jealous "hmph", all while my mouth is in this weird smile. I guess it's true that love - even that of others - makes you do weird things.

Cute couple example (one of my favorite Hollywood couples):

*sigh/barf*

Inspired by this ONTD post.

"When I Think About Love"

Always down for some new R-Les stuff, even just a snippet or two.

Too cute.

Lovers
Originally uploaded by Graça das Graças

I get it.

I'm small. Petite. Miniature. Lilliputian. However you want to put it. Whatever people have to say about me doesn't phase me these days but it gets old when people feel like they have the authority to make comments on my body type (and most of the time it's not in a complimentary manner) just because they feel like I don't have any body image issues. People won't dare tell plus-size women to watch what they eat but think it's okay to tell someone naturally skinny to "go eat a sandwich" and compare their body to that of a 12-year old boy. Yes, I eat. No, I don't have a problem. No, you don't have to question me about why I go to the gym because it's not about weight. It's like that pet peeve of mine when people glamorize that "real women have curves" bullshit. Whatever happened to celebrating all shapes and sizes?

Ugh whatever, I'm getting cheese fries.

/rant

Throwback of the day

Summer 2005. Peep the Edwards shirt. Me about five shades darker. But still as happy.

My current obsessions

I need to be stopped.

Quick Update

I've been working fulltime a little over 6 months now, and sometimes when I think about all the hours of sleep I lost during that time I die a little bit inside...

Okay, so not really. But let me tell you, it's amazing how much more you're willing to push yourself & stay on your toes when you're getting paid to do it. Shouldn't be that way but maybe I should have pretended I was getting paid to take my microbiology and ochem finals. If only I took that approach in regards to blogging. I really do miss writing though, out of all things school-related.

The funny thing about being at work all the time now is that before, I was so excited to get out into the "real world", like I was supposed to undergo this transformation and would magically become enlightened in...I don't know what. Something. That turned out to be not true for me. Now, with the change in climate across California campuses thanks to ignorant people being ignorant, budget cuts, etc., I feel like I'm missing out on some real issues that affect almost every 20-something I know. I just feel very out of the loop not experiencing anything firsthand.

Nevertheless, I am very thankful to have graduated and thankful for my job, one reason being that I can finally save a good amount of money. I don't do it to the degree that I'd like to, but anything to be one step closer to being on my own... You'd think that as you get older your parents would reason with you more and you wouldn't argue as much. That's false too.