what the hell?

Erik came by yesterday to help tune Andrew's guitar. Then he helped me out with some songs although the tab we got for Hands Down was weird, to say the least.

While he was here I realized that the VMAs were on. Only by Satellite is on EST for some reason so by the time we turned it on we had missed the first 2 hours. So we watched the final hour of it. I thought I had missed the Coldplay performance but it turns out that we were just in time to see it. And man were they spectacular. Seriously I want to make love to this band and have its babies.

Some thoughts about the show: I missed the Britney/Madonna kiss but thanks to the Internet I can relive those 5 seconds of hot hot kissing. Also 50 cent seems to have been nominated for every single award in the show. Every single time they go through the nominees for a category you hear, "In The Club." I think they would still have that song even if the category was Best Female Group or Best Rock Performance. When they started playing Beyonce Knowle's "Crazy in Love" during one of their commercial breaks Erik got up and said, "That reminds me, I got to figure out how to play that on guitar" and promptly went into the other room. Metallica seems to get worse with every showing.

Today I went to Guitar Center. I bought a tuner, picks and a book. I didn't know Fender picks were so goddamn expensive. I didn't know tuners were so expensive. Everything is expensive. I was playing around with a 100 watt amp with this nice looking bass. This is what I desire the most right now. A new bass and amp. Maybe it's just my amp or maybe it's my bass but I'm not happy with the way it sounds although technically there's nothing wrong with the sound, there's nothing really right about it either. It sounds nothing like what I think a bass should sound like.

Another thing I noticed, I never seem to fini

A man who lived by the sea loved seagulls. Every morning at daybreak he would go to the seaside and play with the gulls. Hundreds of gulls would come to him and not fly away.

His father said, "I heard that seagulls like to play with you. Catch a few for me so that I can play with them too."

The next morning when he went to the seaside the seagulls swooped about in the skies but none came down to him.

One may try, but unable to, hide one's inner thoughts. Even birds and animals can sense one's true feelings.

-Lie Zi

Music can be used to convey nothing, everything and all in between. No one ever told me that it produces irony.

Don, Gary, Jimmy, Derek, John Shin and I went to eat all-you-can-eat sushi yesterday. I think I am still feeling the reprecussions of that lunch.

So much has been going through my mind. At first I thought I was just stressed about the ICS 171 midterm I took today but when it was over there was still this feeling of gloom, that I am not happy.

When I got home I kinda moped around the house for a couple of hours. I watched some Daria as usual but it was one that I had not yet seen! But still there is just this certain lack of certainty about why I'm sad.

I decided I wanted an egg roll. Being the master chef that I am, I went into our garage to get one of those microwavable ones from our back freezer. When I looked through there were none :(

I looked around but all I could see were pizzas, pot pies and those rib sandwich things. Not an egg roll in sight. But as I was slowly closing the fridge door I glanced at some wrapped thing in the back. HAHA! YES! It was an egg roll, stuck in the very back to be lost and forgetten until one day when a future generations would stumble upon it looking for a futuristic snack. But not anymore, this egg roll was mine!

Friday was yet another week at an amusement park. This time it was Raging Waters. Once again I had never been to Raging Waters but compared to 6 Flags, I was going to enjoy this more. I mean compared to Six Flags, going on these water rides was going to be a piece of cake. I mean when's the last time a water ride made you go upside down? :P

I only went on a couple of rides once again (Stupid lines). But the only real "scary" one was The Wedge.

During lunch, we decided to buy a large pizza w/ 4 drinks at about $30. On our way to sit down, some guy ran into Jeanette and got pizza all over her and Fay. And all this guy did was stand there and say, "Oh man that cost $30s" and just stood there the whole time.
Luckily it wasn't all a waste because the manager of the place we bought our pizza gave us a new one for free. When Fay tried asking the guy to help chip in all he did was ignore her and went back to eating his stupid taco. I hate people like that. Never taking responsibility for anything. Arghhhhh

Edit:And then on Sunday James convinced a group of us to go bowling for some fundraiser thing for his sister sorority. Uhm, yeah that's about it. Nothing exciting happened while we bowled.

Saturday was a hectic and fun day for me. First I had to get up at 9 so I could go with Jeanette and her friends to Six Flags. It was so hot up there, at least 96 degrees. Even with the extreme heat it seemed like there were people willing endure it all to go on the rides.

This was my first time at Six Flags so I had no idea what to expect. The first ride we went on was . Which even for me, was pretty lame. The name was pretty cool though. The next ride for us was Scream!, which they had been promoting on TV and in their Buy 1 get another ticket free with a can of Coke commercial. That by the way is not completely true. You only get a free ticket if it is Sunday or Monday, otherwise you just get 15$ dollars off with the can.

The colors for the ride were very cheesy. I couldn't tell if this was intentional or not. I just hope they had hired blind badgers to do the paint job. They were promoting the ride as having "7 crazy loops." I couldn't tell if there were seven but looking at the ride there was a point where it was both a loop and a corkscrew combined. Serious Whiskey Tango Foxtrot going on.

And although I'd like to talk about everything that happened, I am too tired and I bet it would be plenty boring for you to read. So if you do have any questions, just talk to me. Otherwise, let me just say that we went on 4 rides total. Ninja, Scream!, Colossus and X.

I also got a tan even though I put on sunscreen. Even more annoying was how Jeanette didn't wear any sunscreen and yet she didn't get tanned! >:(

We left a little bit early because of me, or at least that's what it seemed like. Don had wanted to go karaoking at 10 so we left at around 8 or so.

Then I went karaoking for two hours. First it was just Don, Asuka and I but then Lynn, Pranav, Andrew and Christine joined us after they had finished at the ghetto-renovated Griffith Observatory. The place we went to for karaoke had this cheap synthesizer music for the English songs instead of the actual version of the song. Also a lot of the lyrics were wrong so sometimes they wouldn't make any sense. All in all it was a good evening to be had. We got boba afterwards and I was so thirsty/tired from it all when I got back I collapsed on my bed and went to sleep.