Bigger tools, lotsa toys, nimble hands... Chicks DIG modelers!

Two more weeks and summer school is over!! YAY!! then two weeks after that and fall semestar starts!! YAY!!!.. NOT! neway, The finals for chem will be on Aug 11th and for Physics will be the next day. And guess what! we won't have the first 5 chapters included for physics! WOOHOO!!! Now, i only have to worry about Electrostatics... only magnetics and optics, which I understand alot better. I really am hoping for an A...

If y'all are wondering about the title, it's one of those clever things I get from the finescale.com forums.... they are alot of fun.....

Love, loaves of bread and dried fishies

I don't have much to say, really. I just want to type sumthin here cuz im crappy. well, last Friday, i went to school for a cuple of affairs. about two, we (Ie, Ivory and Christy of the Volunteers) made posters for our genaral body meeting. Christy said she will hang them on Monday but I guess I would come early so i can get them stamped and hang some of them on the designated places.

Around seven or eight (i dunno for sure cuz my watch stopped giving the right time in the morning), Minh picked me up to go to her friend's bday party. I also met Manila (yes, i think she was named after the city but she's Laotian), Thuong (sp check)(or Vivian), her friend Phuong and her bf, Mike. They are generally nice. However, when we reached the party, we seemed like we were crashing Johnny's bday party! I was kinda embarrassed. we were like a horde of Asians brought into a white party! We didn't even know the celebrant! we were just there to crash! shortly afterwards, we felt ou of place enough that we decided to just go somewhere else in Dallas to go clubbing maybe but I was wearing shorts! stupid me. the idea entered my mind but I didn't entertain it. Anyway, we just hung out in this place called Don Pepe's or sumthin, and then chatted and picked on Minh. Honestly, I kinda pitied her cuz her friends picked on her real bad. owell.. After that, they decided to go to "Village Station" (remember the gaybar Tesha brought me to?) to see if the gay ppl would hit on us (Mike and me, the only guys in the group). Well, the girls are amused but I was not. I declined. i gotta go home anyway (It was almost eleven). So Minh carefully and skillfully drove (sarcasm intended) me back to my car parked at UTA. From there, i went home really tired but I still checked Minh if she got safely home. i would say it was fun meeting new ppl but I can't forget how embarrassed i was in the "party." Then again, I am just always pessimistic and not relly a party guy.

The Gospel for todays mass was about Jesus' miracle of feeding the 5000. I like what Deacon Rey said:

"Love is like the loaves of bread and dried fish... it won't multiply unless you give it out."

I think this can be the answer to those atheists. We always search for the material miracles but tend not to see the little details in our days: the air we breathe, the lil toddler that make you smile or maybe the sunset that calms u down while driving home from a crappy day in school. After so much pain, it causes us to deny ourselves out intrinsic thirst to believe and to search for a higher being. We think that God couldn't have existed because of the pain we are suffering. But hey, shouldn't we thankful that our lives aren't "perfect?" It isn't just boring and walking around and picking flowers? The more we are thankful of His gifts, the more should we be thankful of the other things! It was given to us in a package deal. We can't just get what we like and throw the not-so-acceptable things out of the window.

We should all be thankful. Yeah, but what else is new? The old man on the pulpit has been saying that alot from time immemorial but seeing it for ourselves really do take some time. I believe that the main point of religion is love. Yeah, love and acceptance. It's not debating what is right or who will be condemned but how we should accept ppl whoever they are or whatever they did. This is tough.. Loving a person especially if he/she is just begging for ur hate. This is where our sacrifice is called for. It sounds so bad and unrealistic... isn't it supposed to be easy? it's really quite simple: just to give out love and acceptance like lil loaves of bread and pieces of dried fish.

LEO, the lion, goes GER!

I had a haircut which was OK. i get it like every two months or so (they call it scissor cut which is logicals because they use scissors to cut the hair -- durr). For some reason, My hair looks bad before AND after a haircut. it grows better after sometime then gets uglier again. Why don't I ask the hairdresser to fix my hair to the proper lenth right away? Cuz haircuts aren't cheap in the US, foo!

I received my Chem test results today. I got an A (yay -- no exclamation marks) but not good enough for me. I still had stupid mistakes which were brough forth by carelessness. hmm.. maybe I just will never be satisfied. I just really want to make an A for this class. After this sem and after i get my grades, I will prolly look back and won't believe that worked that hard just to get a character in the alphabet..

On the way home, I passed by Walmart to get a money order. I already paid but it took them forever to deal with it. Their key for the money orders were missing or sumthin. I waited for like over 30 minutes and they didn't find it. i just ended up getting my money back and wasting time and gas and effort. i will just try the Walmart in Arlington tomorrow...

pH, pOH, pKa... Welcome to my Chem World

Last night was the second test for my chemistry class. It was alright. I am confident with ALL of my answers BUT Dr Roger's tests may be deceiving (as I found out fron the first test.) I am really hoping I get an A. Anything lower than that would be a disappointment. I want to maintain my Chem grade, and most especially, my average. I have been studying alot for it also. I didn't do that many problems from the books but I read the nots thoroughly and studied the examples. I redid the practice test to get the hang of acid-base chemistry (I.C.E. and B.C.A. diagrams etc). NowI have Physics HW due today. I haven't started it yet because of the freakin Chem test. Yeah, that was stupid on my part.

Again, I have been talking with my hunnie and her friend Abi alot lately. Abi is the greatest person ever!* She keeps me company when my kat is not around but I am afraid it's makin my hun a lil jealous. Of course she won't admit it and that makes it bad. owell..

Again, I have been talkin on the phone with my hun alot. like yesterday and on Sunday. Sunday was a special day for reasons I can't say here. lol. anyway, today is the fourth month since me Kat met in the AOL reading chatroom. one more month and it will be five months! Then five more after than and it will be ten! just two more months after that and it will be one year! WOW! this is so great!

(*This statement has been forced and was not purely the view of the author.)

Bull shish!!

I visited coco's blog and saw this thing about a guy lying if a girl is fat. i asked her online and she claimed that a guy shouldn't hurt a lady's feelings by "teling her she's fat or agreeing to her when she asks." This, she says, makes a woman look lower upon herself. Therefore, Lying here, is ok.

Of course, I begged to differ. Should we really lie just to appease a woman's feeling? A guy should be able to be honest to his lady whichever the situation is. I am not saying a guy should deliberately hurt her feelings but politely says what should be done. When a girl asksif she's fat and the guy agrees, he should rather politely say "u look like u gained weight but i still love u." I firmly believe that trust is a central part of a relationship of any kind. A woman should be able to ask anything to her partner and expect a truthful answer and vice versa. This "tradition" has been probably spurned by the culture of Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy. The "innocent" should be spared from disppointment through white lies.

Oh! a Starfighter!

On the way to school, I passed by hobbytown to get the Hasegawa F-4E Phantom II I saw last thursday but i wan't able to buy it cuz i didn't have enough cash with me (It was on sale -- 50% off from $25.00). I was about to go to the cashier when I saw the scale: 1/72. I was shocked!! I almost bought the model!! I was almost fooled into buying a 1/72 model!! Just shows how big the phantom is! I immediately replaced it on the shelf and browsed more for clearance items. I saw this half-price 1/48 (my scale) Italeri Phantom (same bird, different scale and brand, $24) but I don't trust kits from this company yet. I heard they reboxed Testors kits and this company's offerrings undoubtedly can't match those from the asian market (Japan's Hasegawa being one of them). I picked it still and tried to go for a last check before going to the cashier. Then I saw this Hasegawa box with an orange clearance sale tag on it. It's a 1/48 F-104G! A Starfighter!!! I actually saw this last thursday but I thought it was already bought or sumthin. So, after doublechecking the scale and the price (almost $29), I proceeded to the counter. =)

Buying models make me feel good. Although I got stacks of partially build ones and more of unbuilt airplanes, I can't seem to pass up on a good deal.I found out in the finescale.com forums that this habit is normal to modelers. I wonder if I can finish them all tho. Prolly, when i get older, I will create a scale aircraft museum. Not only filled with scale aircraft but unfinished ones!! People will get to savor the unpainted plasticky goodness.... Tehee.. im so smart!

Another good thing, I passed my Physics test!! In fact, I almost got an A if not only with my sporadic clumsiness (scantron-shading-wise). And I didn't do it once but TWICE! A screaming TWO TIMES!! Right on the first page of the test! I know this sucks but I know I should be happy. Besides, I can easily bring up my grade. I got a high B anyway.

Speaking of bringing up my grade, I have been doing alot of HW lately. i think the coming chapters are getting easier to understand. This afternoon, I have been solving problems like pancakes! partida pa! I was talkin with my hun! hehe.. i guess that was to my advantage. I have y inspiration readily available to me =).

I like the word "scantron." It reminds me of those animated robot cartoons like Transformers and Voltron. Or maybe Voltes V and Daimos. Ahhh........the good ol' times...

THIS IS THE TITLE.

I just figured out how to include a title field!! After tweaking the sourcecode several times, i finally succeeded in making it look "just right." MWAHAHA!! Im so smart! ...Well not really. I just am glad =)

"You're provoking me."

I have been talkin alot with my hun lately on the phone. I have noticed that the "comfort level" in our conversations is obviously going down gradually to an acceptable level (the upper part being "extremely uncomfy"). This is a great thing since I am her boyfriend so she hould be comfortable talkin with me! However, she is complaining that that I make fun with her all the time (no, not that serious kind of mad complaint). Then I realized once again that nature of me. Ganito ako manlambing. When I make fun of a person when I am talking to him/her, that means I feel comfortable anough with the person to say jokes like that. Sometimes, I just do that to see cute reactions of people. Well, I always take care not to go out of my bounds but being me, It's highly possible (and often) that I do. however, i usually do my best (believe it or not) that I don't offend a person.

Guess what!! i helped "spice up" Kat's journal last night!! I am so proud!! hehe. I know it really isn't that hard to pick a layout and change the colors for those who know the HTML color code but it's still an instant influx of Pogi Points! She said the new look is "sexy." ..Gaaah... makes me so happy! I didn't think my HTML book would be of this great use!

Also last night, I got an email from the guy I made payments for two books for (in ebay) that says he didn't receive my money order. This was contrary to his earlier email saying that he already received the money order and shipped the items. Fortunately, i found the money order receipt stub in my bag this morning so i scanned it and showed him a copy. he then apologized "for the confusion", and told me he will ship the items immediately. he better because I have been waiting for it in a month! he told me he will include an added bonus tho. Im so excited. Hmmm.... I wonder what that will be..

Today seems to be quite eventful somehow but not really. I have been thinking of putting to my thoughts about some stuff in here (about religion and things) but I always lose the train of thought as soon as I step out of the C.R. (bathroom, to my American friends.) Yeah, for some reason, I have thoughts flow more smoothly in my head as i contemplate in private confines of the shower. Maybe i should put a pen and notepad in my bathroom. Or maybe, just a pen. The tissue would do...

These are my quotable qoutes for today:

5.) "Something"

4.) "That"

3.) "...knock yourself out!"

2.) "Aha, so you're doing this on purpose!"

1.) "Stoppit... you're provoking me."

Today is our (me and kat's) 3rd Monthsary!!!! YAY!! I get to call her 3 times today (a total of about umm.... 30 minutes), so it it feels good. I got to send her a Rhino card from Care2.com and I got two cards from her! both with interesting graphics of course! One contains her sweet nothings mated with a pic of two naked member of barenaked ladies cuddling with each other. The other just contains a teddy bear that directs me to press his tummy and then exclaim profanities when I do. Really crassy...

....but still very cooul..

After about a week of getting nervous over the warrant, I was able to deal with it once and for all last thursday (July 3). About 8:30, I went to The Arlington Mucipal Court with my mom and I immediately saw the laady I gave my ticket to. I told her the situation and she checked for my name in my log. After an hour of lookin through it and a hundred times sayin "I cant really find your name in here," she decided to deal with it with the court clerks. After a few minutes, she came back and told us that they found my ticket, the warrant has been cancelled and my application for the deferred adjudication has been approved. She even let us cut the line to pay for the original fine. She showed us my ticket. I seriously thing think that it wasn't really mine. she just made that up because her ass will get in trouble if I complained in court. She could lose her job so she was extra nice. The stupid system now prolonged my probation period. It was supposed to end this month but now, It started last thursday, to end on october. crappy court system.

At night, We had our physics test. 37 problems for less than two hours! What can you sayy about that?! I can safely say that everyone will fail if Dr. Black doesn't curve. After that, In the lab, everyone was talkin about the stupid test. My group didn't finish the lab at all because our terminal box kept giving us wrong values. Now, we have no choice but to make up the lab on the week before the finals.

Friday, 4th of July, I practically did nothing but talk to my hun. It's always interesting when it's like that. It was sort of my "rest day" after the stressing week. Now I got the warrant taken care of, I am really relieved. My sis invited me to come with Ate Francy and Kuya Chris to watch the fireworks display. I didn't wanna. I just want to spend time online, with my Kat, of course. That night, she slept over at Abi's (who is a great friend of hers, by the way) and i got to call her through abi's cellphone! haha. If I spent the night at Ate Francy's house, could I have done that?

Saturday (yesterday, The 5th). I went out with my sis, Ate Francy and her boyfriend, kuya Chris. I drove to the mall but on the way, Ate Francy was hungry so we ate at PeiWei. Then we proceeded to the Willow Bend mall. I can swear, that is the boringest mall ever made by man! Of course, my sis and ate Francy spent most of their time (say 2 hours) at this store called XXI. Me and Kuya Chris however, just lingered around, counted the bathrooms, went to tried out ththe devices at brookstone and waited for the girls to get out of XXI. We also found a Waldenbooks in the far out corner of the mall but they were already closing up when we arrived. On the way home, we decided to watch "28 days later" so we drove to Grapvine Mills. We bought our tickets but we had 55 minutes to spare before the movie starts (at 10:55) so we decided to go play some games at Gameworks. After some Arcade B-Ball, Time Crisis, House of the Dead and Silent Scope we went to see our movie.

I would say it was pretty disturbing (like really really really really really disturbing). Dr. Rogers was right... you would want to kill somebody after watching that movie. I wouldn't really want to say anything about it here to avoid spoiling it to the readers but I can say that it is about "rage." It was pretty violent too and contains some nudity (I doubt that you can call that sexual) so i think it deserves the R rating. I would say it was pretty good. It served its purpose an conveyed it's message pretty well.

After all these tho, I wasn't able to tell my hun where i am. I made her worry. My cellphone wn't make me talk to her. I received a txt msg from Abi but it won't let me send msgs in the theater (it turned out earlier that she received my msg five times). So sad.

Today, nothing much really happened. i didn't get to talk much with kat because she went to Ali's party or sumthin. Owell... Life is like that. Wednesday is the third month of us being together. im kinda excited but is not. It's weird. i am happy that we got to stay together this long and are still going strong.

Last Monday (June 30, I believe), I received an email from Detective Renteria saying that my application for the deferred adjudication wasn't in her file. I gave her. This call made me sigh in a somewhat relief. She told me that I am not the one that this happened to and she told me she will look it up and try to find my application. In the afternoon that day, she told me i wasn't even logged in on the date i went there and that they can't find it (oh no!), but they will be lookin for it more. She even told me "The court has been known to lose things and it is unfortunate that this happens." What's up with that?! I dunno if that will make me feel better or not. Maybe it is good because this just proves that I did what I needed to do and that i don't deserve this warrant. the detective told me to call her again the next day late afternoon for updates. They will try to look for it some more in the mail room and she will try to find what I can do.

Even tho she sort of admitted it was the court's fault, i still have the warrant in my name. I can still be arrested if ever i get pulled over or if some donut-eating cop decided to scan my plate. My solution for the latter was use my sis' car when I went to school. But I forgot to transfer my parking tag to her car so my heart went when she called and reminded me. Im lucky, UTA Police didn't give me a parking ticket (whew!). hehe. I have been nervous around cops lately.

Yesterday (tuesday), i called the detective at 4:15 pm but she wasn't picking up, I just left a message and hoped that she would call me back.

This morning, i was waken by my cellphone ringin in the morning. It was the detective. She told me that even tho I went to the court on June 17, my ticket didnt enter the system until the 28th! She said that it probably sat on somebody's table for over 10 days and was eventually forgotten. Honestly, this pisses me off. Why can't they just take the warrant off my name if they know it's their fault!?!?!? Stupid court system! owell. iIhe suggested that i can go to court and its up to the judge if he/she wants me to refund my money. owell. the system here really sucks. now my mom wants to go there and, as usual, defend her baby. argh. Neway, I guess i wont have much of a choice. Tomorrow, we are going there to settle this once and for all. Probably, we are going to file a complaint and go to court. Life is so beautiful... There are times that the one you can only depend on is what started screwing you in the first place....

Appropriately, I found this quote at a finescale.com forum:

"Face it... perhaps your purpose in life is to serve as warning to others."
Anyway, I wouldn't have survived all of these without ma hunnie.... gah... stupid online limits.... owell. I get to call her today anyway.. Mwahahahaha!! So umm.... I better go now finish my physics HW before she gets on. =)