what the hell?

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Not as many pictures as I should have gotten but I gave up my battery
to Xinlei so that there could be more pictures for the CA website.

We're coming up this Saturday for CHF.

Be there or be not there.

Friday night I decided to go to Jack In The Box to get some food for dinner and on my way back I got pulled over by a cop for not having my lights on and missing a stop sign. Then he just let me go with a
warning so I don't know if I was lucky or if it wasn't time to issue tickets or if he was cutting me some slack but here I am without a ticket.

Thursday night I played with Erik at the Coffeehouse thing CA was hosting. Lots of great performers at the Pre Show. Everyone sounded nothing short of awesome and I'm glad I decided to participate.

That being said, talk about being nervous. Waiting for our turn to go up I was sweating bullets and constantly pacing around. I hadn't played in a performance since last year when we got jacked at the CV Talent Show. Only after about half way through the first song was I able to calm down and just start playing. Luckily I didn't do anything majorly stupid and I didn't mix around the verses like had done in practice. All in all it turned out well for us. I thought this would be the last show for what our group has called, The Team but now I am excited about future possibilities. :)

Also I'd like to say a big thanks to TL, Toni-Lynne, for driving down all the way from LA just to catch our show . Talk about being an awesome friend to go through all the trouble of driving down from LA
all for little ol Erik and Shuan.

Setlist: Josie, Fake Plastic Trees, Say It Ain't So. Undone (Jay-Z Intro)

Album:
Taken by Toni-Lynne

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Nostalgia Factor:

Chris' Lunar New Year Party was last night

I saw Steve and Dave Grotts at Albertsons on Saturday when I went with Le to buy some alcohol. Kimsun and one of his friends, Emily came and tagged along since we were all a bit too early to the party.

At the party I was made to take a shot because Le forgot Trinh(?)'s name. So somehow that made me liable for party foul by friend relation. Either way I just took the shot because how can you refuse alcohol?

From there things escalated. Chris made me a drink and then I think James also made me one although I might have just imagined that. Kevin made me 2 or 3 shots as well but the stuff he made was pretty light.

And then when I went back for more to drink no one was there to mix me a drink so I made my own drink. I put in some kind of banana flavored rum(?) and some melon alcohol and then put some pepsi on top of it. It tasted pretty good I wonder if Pepsi will ever come out with Banana Pepsi because that's what it tasted like.

The rest of the night was fun. Just going around randomly and hanging out with people. Being outside was nice because it was cool but apparently the Cha people could hear us across the street?

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Le let me crash at his place since I had driven over there. I had to wake up early to head back home because I was going with my family to some Chinese New Year Festival in Pasadena.

First though, we stopped off at this place that sold these beautiful pieces of pottery from somewhere in China (forgot the name) where all they do is make pottery.

Here is an example of some of the pots.



For some reason there was some sort of "Military Museum" next to this place but it turns out it was just some random guy who kept a lot of old military junk and charging $4 to see it all. There was a tank and battleship AA gun. I couldn't tell what kind of tank it was so it may just be some fake but my sister and I took pictures in front of it anyways.



Here is the AA gun.



More stuff inside the store.



Haha and then I saw the greatest thing as I was about to leave


So when we got there I guess we got on the butt end of the parade because everyone was stopping and getting off their float.
The girl on the very top of the float is Miss Los Angeles China Town 2005. I didn't catch her name though


This is one of the bands. Santa Ana Winds Youth Band. They have a Bass Clarinetist


Here's me in front of the dragon that was at the end of the parade.

Erik and I will be performing at the Coffeehouse SSPA 1100 at UCI this Thursday. Not that anyone who reads this can make it because no one is really near UCI anyways. But yeah, that's it. We don't know how many songs we're going to play because that's still up for discussion.

Honesty, loyalty, friends and then wealth.

I had this commented out. I decided I'd rather not. I guess I'm going to have to implement private entries or something.

3:18AM edit:
I mean I already understood, "friends" so why make such a big deal about it afterwards?

Shit, okay big fuck up on my part. Hindsight is 20/20 and I wish I could take what happened back now but I'm an idiot. I'm weirded out by this whole experience. Christ, I didn't want any long term commitment, hell I'm probably leaving Irvine in 4 months. Perhaps using the phrase "date" was too strong of a word, in the 1800s, but I guess I learned my lesson. Interest apparently means some kind of phase into seriousness. Lesson learned. Lesson learned.

First saying you didn't want to get serious, fine I didn't want it to be serious. Then you flake for us to hang-out. And the whole not bothering to make eye contact with me at all and then you having to reiterate something along the lines of "not interested." I GOT IT THE FIRST TIME. Goddamn, talk about being weirded out.

I'm not leaving this experience angry or hateful. It's just kind of sad actually. I'm not going to give her any stupid silent treatment because I refuse to be the one responsible for this whole mess. I'm glad you thought it would be nice to tell that you didn't want to lead me on but you can't really lead anyone who's lost interest already and is just trying to save the situation from becoming awkward, which it already is.

Added bonus for telling me not to get distracted too easily when I'm studying for my midterm and then throwing down drama 5 minutes later.

Also I'm really starting to find it more and more difficult to just head out to CA events. I mean lately it's just been really bad in terms of what I see around me. Some people are real bitches. I only stay because of the people who are actually nice decent people are in the organization

Patriots win Superbowl XXXIX over the Eagles 24-21, lots of food and people. Way more food than people though.

Lesson learned from the Superbowl? No matter how good you are (Donovan McNabb), someone will eventually fall down when you need them the most (Eagle's return man on the Patriot's last punt basically costing them 6 yards and probably the game)

Went Bowling at Anaheim Concourse which was 5 minutes away from my house. Bowled really shitty games and then my thumb started hurting at the end.

Super Bowl Tomorrow

Dirt off it.

I finally got a haircut two days ago at Great Clips since they were having a haircut deal and I was in need of one. It sucks because my hair's not really good for growing out. Most of my friends' hair grows long downward and naturally but for some reason whenever my hair grows long it grows outward and I'm left with a pathetic asian fro.

I had lunch with Erik, Steve, Pranav, Josh, Holly and Michelle, who stopped by all the way from UCLA. Lee's took about half an hour from ordering our food to finally getting it. They girl at the counter also messed up my drink order and gave me an Iced Tea instead of a Thai Iced Tea .

Then right after that as I was walking back to CV I saw Josh talking to Kirk and Kirsten from Troy and so we made small talk for about half an hour before I had to head back to my apartment.

Before I saw Kirk and Kirsten I went to the UCI Bookstore. I decided to buy an iPod Shuffle on simple impulse. I experienced some problems with it and was thinking about taking it back but then it started working so now I must choose whether or not I should keep it.

Pros
Nice and small
1GB for both storage and music

Cons
I don't want to use iTunes
Slow as hell trasnferring files
It's white which messes with the rest of my whole computer setup.
???

I couldn't sleep last night. I wanted to go to bed at 12:30 but I started thinking.

And trying to think basically caused me to lose about two hours of sleep. I was kept awake by the thoughts that were going through my head while I was awake. At the time, all of these ideas that I was thinking in my head sounded pretty plausible. Then I'd start imagining what would happen if I actually went through with these ‘thoughts’. I would give myself a little sheepish grin, "Oh Shuan that's just such a crazy plan but look it worked!"

The next morning (today) I forced myself up at about 8:05. I was angry because I was late once again for my 8AM class but also angry that I had cost myself two hours of sleep for nothing, for stupid, stupid thoughts. Still groggy I attempted to put on my clothes and drag myself to my class. Sam was already awake and hocking up his loogies, wondering why I hadn’t gone to class yet when he himself was late anyways. Then when I went to go shave it hit me, that for those two hours I was wide awake I was actually dreaming. Dreaming about realities that I know won't happen because I'm pretty much too afraid of the damage it could possibly cause. When I'm lying there in bed the obvious benefits of executing these crazy dream schemes outweigh the risks but when I wake up in the morning it is certainly not the case. I laugh quickly that I would lose two hours of good sleep over such a silly idea.

Then I cut myself shaving. Damn.