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the vmas sucked! the only good thing was OK GO's performance. that was orsome! i'm glad the all-american rejects did move along. beyonce was the only one who wasn't pitchy. everyone else was.

al gore, what a nice treat! a free geology/science lesson. yay (= the biggest problem this generation will face? THE ENVIRONMENT?! what about IMMORALITY!

pretty

it was a gorgeous drive home from priya's house last night... the moon looked beautiYfell, i wanted to stop somewhere and just watch it. i can never do that alone... at night. that's just too dangerous for my health. then the drive from kristy's was gorgeous as well - thanks to daphne loves derby. new ear addiction! that, waking ashland, and the yo-yo ma cello suites.

i had a great time making sushi with kelley and kristy. we made our hand rolls as we were eating. i guess you could say it was an interactive dinner. it was so yummy. my mouth craves for more at the moment. ugh!

singing about breakfast

the song Don't Wanna Try by Frankie J. the song is okay. it just bugs me that one of the lines in the song goes, "... and have breakfast ready on the table". kinda random, and out of the blue. i donno, it just doesn't seem romantic adding the word BREAKFAST. maybe that's just me. breakfast is the most important meal of the day.

if i ain't got you...

i donno why i love that song again all of a sudden. well, i did like it when it was popular. eventually it did kinda die down, as newer songs (or newly discovered) came into my world. what caused me to love it again was hearing it played at a wedding reception as the couple's first dance. it does sound lovely and appropriate to dance to. all i want is you... nothing else in this world matters, or it wouldn't matter if i can't have you anyway. everything just seems better when you have the person you love by your side, to share this thing called life with. with that said, i love it. and i just love how "chill" (i hate using that word, but there's nothing else i can think of to describe the mood that resonates from the music of the song) the song is.

"i was the lion"

And as Shasta gaped with open mouth and said nothing, the Voice continue. "I was the lion who forced you to join with Aravis. I was the cat who comforted you among the houses of the dead. I was the lion who drove the jackals from you while you slept. I was the lion who gave the Horses the new strength of fear for the last mile so that you should reach King Lune in time. And i was the lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came to shore where a man sat, wakeful at midnight, to receive you."

- the horse and his boy

golf & classical music

so my dad attempted to teach me to play golf today. we ended up going to the meriweather driving range because i hit the ball too well that it flew over our fence into the sidewalk. hahaha. it was quite funny actually. i didn't even hit it hard, but it turns out that i hit it the way i'm suppose to hit it, and that's why the club did it's work perfectly. psshhh. once we got to the driving range, i sucked! i realized that in our yard i was a little elevated standing over the ball because i was standing on the patio. once i was on the same level as the ball, it didn't work quite well because the club was too long for me & my height (or the lack there of). i totally understand why jessica simpson complained that her boob gets in the way of hitting the ball to nick in that golfing episode of newlyweds. it does! "the twins" were getting in the way of a good form. it makes me wonder if those women golfers are flat chested. it also makes me wonder if the reason why they have women golf lessons is that they have to teach women how to hit the ball without having your well endowed chest get in the way. sheesh. or maybe i really was doing it wrong. give me a break, i'm not a pro yet. this is only my third time in a driving range, and the first two were just times of fooling around. i was with friends so we were laughing so hard while trying to hit our balls. that sounds funny. anyway yeah. we were also too busy trying not to hit each other or ducking to make sure we don't get hit ourselves. sheesh. we needed to be enclosed in a cage or something, it was totally unsafe! but it was fun. this time around my dad was giving me all sorts of directions and pointers. man golf is hard. it hurts my back. sheesh. but i think i'm gonna like it eventually. i mean, i feel like i have to because i already have a set of clubs (that have to be adjusted to my height), a glove, and shoes waiting for me.

in the last hour i let my dad finish the rest of the balls in the bucket. my hand and back was so sore so i just sat on the bench and admired the view and the weather. man it was so pretty today, because it was somewhat cloudy, and windy. surrounding the golf course were farm lands. i mean, i'd get a wiff of cow dung every now and then, but it was still a nice spot. the nice thing is that it's only 5 minutes away from where we live.

my ears have been searching for something new lately, needing a break from the usual rock loud slow jam stuff. a few days ago i've acquired bunch of bollywood, hindi, spanish, and reggeaton songs. today i got a bunch of classical music and opera. i grew up hearing Handel, so i got a bunch of songs from Handel's Messiah. i also got some random classical music by chopin, mozart, vivaldi, arias sung by the likes of cecilia bartoli, jessye norman, and elly ameling, opera stuff by luciano pavarotti and andrea bocelli. have you heard "Der Hölle Rache Kocht In Meinem Herzen"??? it drives me nutts everytime i love it! i donno how these people sing that song.

i'm 4 pages away from finishing The Horse and His Boy. what am i doing here then. yes yes, it'll be done tonight and then i'll be moving on to Prince Caspian. i hope they'd make another narnia movie. The Horse and His Boy would definetely be a good movie.

disorganization

i hate being disorganized. everything seems to be scattered all over the web! i have multiple accounts everywhere! and the latest one, a multiply account. i mean, it seemed sensible to have an account where you'll be able to post pictures to share with everyone so that they don't have to sign up to multiply just to view things i've posted. i had that on phojo, but that was about it, pictures. multiply has a blog, links, and you can upload videos and mp3 files if you wish. sounds like the perfect "basic" homepage. anyone could have this. and truly i desire a web page of my own, with my very own domain. but why pay for web hosting and domain name when i have within my resources a multiply account? and now i'm stuck with all these accounts

myspace
friendster
multiply
flickr
livejournal
xanga
orkut
last.fm

i think my geocities account is still active. that's where i used to have everything, all in geocities. but i hate the stupid ads. well, it doesn't looks so bad now actually. it can be easily made to disappear with a click. need i remind myself that i didn't want to pay for a web space. that's what you get when you're cheap. or i should say when you're broke! hahaha.

anyways, so why revive this little piece of blog? i love w.bloggar! the fact that i don't have to sign in anywhere. just type type, type and more typing and then this "post and publish" and WALAH! i'm good to go. i had multiple blogs under my blogger account, and i stumbled upon this one. i like this layout, because it's very neat and simple and pleasant to look at - well, at least for me. 'coz there's barely anything in here. and i wanted to start fresh. i guess i also wanted something that no one else knew exsisted. i think. i hope. because i was debating whether to revive xanga. sigh... i'm still confused. where which how? i need some sort of organization. i suppose i could make my multiply page the "home page" and link out to everything. i donno.

well, what's been going on? no work. i have to admit that i do like it the way it is right now. a part of me still wishes i had a job. i feel like a loser - being the only (or so it seems) among my friends who wasn't able to get a summer job or a job in general. with the circumstance that had just come to pass, i guess it's understandable. i need to appreciate what i have. i love that i could read chronicles of narnia, watch countless episodes of american chopper (as a result having a dream about going on a date with paul jr. what the?!). i've baked a yummy banana cake! i did it all by myself. yay me!

i'm loving Mae's Destination: B-Sides. it's quite lovely. and i've also acquired Emery's acoustic stuff, the new FM Static album Critically Ashamed (i love the song moment of truth), a bunch of random bollywood songs, some sonu nigam songs, Oye Como Va by Santana (the music makes me wanna dance and head somewhere really sunny), and a few Reggeaton stuff.

i really don't want fall term to come. i'm hoping to finish chronicles of narnia before the summer ends. i think it's possible.