Sup. Well today was a pretty good day. Some bad things, but I'll get to that later. I woke up, blah blah, kicked the English final's ass. I went home, felt bored, so I took out my DC and played some NBA2k2. Fun game. Then around 5 something I went out for a lil run and some vert training. Then I ate dinner, and now I'm pretty much screwed for the history final. Ah wellz. As long as I get a Sat or Merit on this I'm fine (or, a C or B in layman's terms). Hmm, the convo over dinner was kinda interesting. Jenny and I takled about kindergarten and graduation and stuff. Then out of nowhere my mom says that Joana said that I've got less pimples now. And I've grown taller too. :) Eh, whatever. Hmm, so anyways I gotta go study ... I mean cram for the final. Oh yes, I'm screwed for the chem SAT II also. Argh I'm going to have to cram like crazy tomorrow and in addition to that I have my job interview also. Noooooo! lol Oh yeah, one more thing before I go: Build Me Up Buttercup is a quality song.
Why do you build me up? Buttercup baby, just to let me down/ And mess me around/ And worst of all/ You never call baby / when you say you will / but I love you still / I need you / more than anyone darlin / You know that I have from the start / so build me up / buttercup don't break my heart.
Woohoo, quality peppy song. Even though the lyrics are mad AFC, it's still a good song to sing along to and it's damn peppy and catchy. :)

Well, today was a pretty damn good day. In Spanish we had a lil party and ate some crappy Key Food flan I brought in, along with chips and some mmmmmm tortilla that Nick's mom made. Hmm ... oh yeah, and in Theo Scac made the people who didn't forget their bibles all year do something for the other people's pleasure and entertainment. Ryan, BC, and I sang the Ghostbuster them song. It was bad. Really bad. lol Other people did some teacher impersonations, and one really funny moment was when Jake was forced to dance. A white kid who can't dance at all, forced to do a really stupid lil jig. hahaha It was great. Afterschool, in ACS we got our new t-shirts. Woohoo. They're nice and simple, yet soooo ... kickass. Yep, kickass. On the front it says "got rice?" like those "got milk?" shirts, and on the back it says ACS 2002. Very cool shirt. So in ACS we ate pizza and drank rspberry ginger ale. Yum. Then Quang, Joe, Jorge, and I went to play some pool. Oh wow I kicked some ass today. I wetn like 4-1. Oh yeah, and I won about 8 cents. Cuz the deal we made was if you lost, you'd owe the winner one cent for each ball left on the table including the cue. So I got 4 cents from Joe, 4 cents from Jorge, and I got 0 cents from Quang since the first game I won one cent, second game Quang won two cents, and then my third game against Quang I won one cent to nullify everything. Wait, so that means I went like 5 or 6 wins for 1 loss. Nice. :) Hmm, the DJ Boot Camp assignment will go on until June 9th. I gotta get more numbers cuz I don't know if this chick is going to reply, and if I want to complete this DJ assignment I'm going to have to get a date. Aight, if the chick doesn't reply by Friday night, then on Saturday I'll try to get some numbers after the SAT IIs. Yeah I think that's feasible.

Sup. Well it turns out that the e-mail that the girl gave me wasn't fake after all. So it's good for now. I'll set up something for Saturday, and I'll see what happens. In the meantime I gotta get some more numbers. MotU hasn't put up the next DJ Boot Camp assignment yet ... ah wellz. Tomorrow I'll start up my vertical jump workout routine, which will consist of twice a week training lower body, twice a week training upper body. And Saturdays I can ball or whatever. When I complete it by mid-summer, I'll be ready to dunk. :)

Estoy pretty damn cansado. Oh boy. Well, today my family went out to the park for Memorial Day while I had to suffer through a day spent at home studying for the damned SAT IIs. AAAAAAAAAAAAH! I hate those things. Well, it took me about 3 or 4 hours to finish up brushing up on the history, and then I was bushed. I didn't even start on chem yet. This is going to be rough, and I don't know if I'll be ready for chem, but at least I know I've got what it takes to kick some historian ass. Woohoo. I watched the Celt-Net game, and that was a decent game. Kidd is the f'ing man. He drew like 5 charges in key times and was pretty damn solid since he almost got another triple double. I'm tired. Ah wellz, I think I'll start to study a bit for chem and I'll be off to bed for tomorrow.

Well. I didn't study at all today. Hmm ... aight. I gotta get down and dirty now. Right now I gotta do my approx 300 word job application essay, and then perhaps read up a lil on American History if I have time. Then off to bed I go. Tomorrow I'm going to be stuck at home studying for that damn Chem SAT II. In the morning I'll study mostly American history, and then in the afternoon I'll study for this Chem stuff. Then I can just study more and more and more over the week. WHy must the SAT IIs and finals be within the same week? Why oh why? Ah wellz, I've been through a lot this year workload-wise, and I've made through it all so I'm ready for this shit.
Now, as for my favorite failed pickup of the dya. Aight, these three girls walk by. two of them are holding hands. The other is walking next to em, just talking a bit. Chui tells me to ask them if they're gay. I hesitate, for fear of my ball being squashed with a swift rough kick. But I go anywyas, approach the lone girl. Then I ask the two if they're lesbians. They just smile and walk away. :)

Hey! Well today was pretty damn good. I got up, went through my morning, went to Mass, taught at CCD, and then ate at Mickey Ds. After that, it was time for me to get my rejections. I approached about 10-12 girls today, out of them, some ignored me, some basically walked away, some I walked away from, 5 rejected me, and I got one e-mail. Overall, a productive, yet tiring day. Sometimes I still don't go for the close though, one case in point was a cute girl and her friend and we were having a decent convo. I ask the cute girl for her name, and it was Judy. Then I was like, oh shit, didn't I hit on this girl before? So I became disoriented and said, ok bye. Now I remember that I hit on a different Judy on the library steps. Argh. Ah wellz, I'll learn to always close if given the opportunity, cuz I prolly won't see them again so it won't matter. So yeah, I'll check if the e-mail is real on Tuesday night, and then if it is, then I can prolly see if she's cool on Saturday. If it's fake, then I'll just get more numbers/e-mails. Good stuff.

Some good classic songs for your enjoyment: "I'm Too Sexy" and "Jump, Jive, an Wail" Woohoo. Those are quality songs. I want to learn how to swing. That's the shit. Merengue, salsa, swing. Those look like they're really fun to do. I'm starting to like the casual look more and more. My mom got me the support thing, so now I'll wear it for a couple of days. Excellent. I'm off to watch some of that SNL stuff and then it's off to sleep I go.

Some good classic songs for your enjoyment: "I'm Too Sexy" and "Jump, Jive, an Wail" Woohoo. Those are quality songs. I want to learn how to swing. That's the shit. Merengue, salsa, swing. Those look like they're really fun to do. I'm starting to like the casual look more and more. My mom got me the support thing, so now I'll wear it for a couple of days. Excellent. I'm off to watch some of that SNL stuff and then it's off to sleep I go.

Well hyeah. I don't have to update daily anymore since this English assignment is officially over. Ah wellz, I'll still update somewhat daily cuz I just like writing all this shit up. Lets me organize my shit in a somewhat productive way. Anyway, tomorrow I'm going to get 5 rejections. Looking forward to it. Yesterday I went to see Star Wars II again cuz I bought Chui the ticket for his b-day, and so we watched it along with a couple other friends. After that, ate at Wendy's, went back to my place to chill and watched High School High. That is probably one of the dumbest yet funniest movies of all time. Mad dumb movie, but in a good way. So today I stayed home most of the day, except to go out for lunch and a quick stop at the library. There I saw a cute chick making eye contact but she wsa too old (prolly college). Then I went home, did homework while watching the game and Shawshank Redemption. Very feel good movie.

Well I was checking out some splints online, and it's not too bad after all. It says on one of em that it just stops abnormal backward movement of the thumb, so I guess I can buy a splint today. Nah, I'll just ask my mom to buy one so I don't have to spend the money. Good stuff.

Ah crap. My thumb joint is fucking swollen today. It's inflammed and swollen. Crap. I still can't grip items too well, and what's worse is that it's hurts a little bit to even write! Fuck fuck fuck. Oh yeah, and now I know that the thumb things is a sprain. I can't see a doctor for until like Tuesday, and I dunno if I'll want to cuz then I'm probably going to be put into a hand splint and I don't wnat that. The reason I don't want a splint is that I'm going to get finals coming up soon, and if I cna't write with my right hand full speed I'm fucking screwed. Aight, let's keep it cool, calm and collected. I shoudl start practicing with my left hand just in case.

Whooooa. I just came back from seeing Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, and damn! It's freaking good. Better than Spider-Man I'd say. Several of the scenes made me go ooooh shit. I only did that twice in the Spider-Man movie, once in the scene where Parker fights Flash, and once when the bomb blows up in his face. Mad cool stuff. But ooooh shit. Several stuff in Star Wars made me go oh shit, but I'm not going to spoil em for you just yet. See it. Now, as for my day, it was rather nice. It was the first day this week with no tests, quizzes, or what have you. So I just relaxed throughout the day, played some ball at lunchtime, went to games club for a half hour afterschool, and then played some more ball. My shot was ok today, and my passing and rebounding was really good. But damn, I got a sprained (or are they strained? dunno) right thumb and left pinky. I don't know how i go the sprained pinky, but I got the thumb hurt when Christian drove to the basket hard and I went for the steal but my thumb got slammed. It hurts when I grip something with it. Ah wellz, it'll be better in a coupla days.

Whooooa. I just came back from seeing Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, and damn! It's freaking good. Better than Spider-Man I'd say. Several of the scenes made me go ooooh shit. I only did that twice in the Spider-Man movie, once in the scene where Parker fights Flash, and once when the bomb blows up in his face. Mad cool stuff. But ooooh shit. Several stuff in Star Wars made me go oh shit, but I'm not going to spoil em for you just yet. See it. Now, as for my day, it was rather nice. It was the first day this week with no tests, quizzes, or what have you. So I just relaxed throughout the day, played some ball at lunchtime, went to games club for a half hour afterschool, and then played some more ball. My shot was ok today, and my passing and rebounding was really good. But damn, I got a sprained (or are they strained? dunno) right thumb and left pinky. I don't know how i go the sprained pinky, but I got the thumb hurt when Christian drove to the basket hard and I went for the steal but my thumb got slammed. It hurts when I grip something with it. Ah wellz, it'll be better in a coupla days.

Woohoo. Today was a pretty damn good day, but it got off to a bit disconcerting start. Aight, so I normally sleep on the train right? Well today I overslept on the train, and I woke up at 7:55. I looked around on the train and it was mad empty. I was confused, so I checked the street. Oh crap, I was going the wrong way. It ended up that I slept from Shea to Times Square, and now the train was headed back to Flushing. Good thing I wasn't late for school. In school, I did well on the spanish quiz, computer test, and history test. Not bad at all. Afterschool I saw some cute girls but I didn't approach. I should start approaching again to get some more rejections. Yeah. Then I went to the doctor's for an appt and ate at Sizzler's.

Well today was a pretty damn good day. I woke up, felt rather decent compared to recent mornings since I got 7 hours of sleep, and went to school. I got a couple of grades back today, got an 86 on espanol, and an 41.3 out of 50 on my chem test. Wonderful. Ah wellz, at least I did better than most people in my class, but I really thought I got at least a 45. Hmm, oh yeah. The theo test wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, and afterschool 2E went to Chinam for dinner. Mmmm they had good foor there. We went in, sat down, ate some of that appetizer stuff, and then some bigger appetizer stuff, and then came the entrees. There was General Tso's chicken, fried rice, steamed white rice, grilled pork chops, chicken and brocolli, some other chicken dish, dumplings, and all of it was good. Yum. After that I was stuffed, so I went back to school to get my stuff and went home. I just checked the DJ site and the leader of the boot camp has given us recruits an extension to get the required 10 rejections. Good stuff. Well tomorrow we have a big history test, a computer test on C++ and HTML (ARGH!!!!), y una pruebita de espanol. Excelente. (rolls eyes) Anyways, Chui posted on his blog yesterday and he said that masturbation is a sin. Hmm, time for my analysis on this. First let me quote his passage:

"How come everyone thinks about sex all the tyme....and if they can't get any they masturbate....and masturbation is a sin u know?!!?!? Everything is surrounded by sex...movies, music, and the economy is surrounded by sex! I think b out sex bout i can control it an dnot masturbate anymore cuz i knew since last year that masturbation is sin! Even when a grl does it for you it is considered a sin...but when i am married or get laid i dun what to do? oh well...ponder on that for now!"

Aight, so this is a good topic of debate. First off, yes, it's rather easy to control thoughts of sex. Even thought we've got raging hormones doesn't mean we've got to go humping chairs and shit like that. It's freaky sometimes what people will do. Second, our culture is so saturated with sex because plain and simple: sex sells like fucking beanie babies in their prime years. lol Third, masturbation is a natural tendency, and the Church's restriction of that is pretty stupid. Okay, let's check this morality issue out. First of all, babies, lil innocent babies, are known to fondle their private parts b/c it induces feelings of pleasure. We are a sexual people, and the Church, it seems to me, tries to repress that. That's why there aren't so many priests these days, cuz I know I sure as hell would definitely NOT enter priesthood if I had to remain celibate. That celibacy shit must go. OKay, now, masturbation is a sin? I would say not. Reasons: 1. It's natural. 2. It doesn't hurt anyone. 3. Masturbation is just giving oneself pleasure. The only way I can see it is a sin is if one views pornography while engaging in the act. That would be wrong then, now wouldn't it?
Now that that's outta the way, will someone help me with something? I gotta think of an Italian name that doesn't end in a vowel. Espo gave us the challenge to think up a name and none of us could think of one. lol I'm out

WOOOOOOOOOO!!! Well today was a rather good day, considering I woke up feeling dizzy and woozy. I went to bed at 12:30 last night studying for that damn Math test, and I think I kicked some sorry ass today. We got back our American Studies papers today and as predicted I got an A. Woohoo! And if I didn't mess up the oral section of the spanish test, I can get another A ... it might be my first A average for a trimester in Spanish ever. And I believe God has a conspiracy theory that Noel has discovered. Whenever I actively go out looking for girls I find none, or I get rejected. When I feel totally shitty and grumpy and thus don't feel like talking to anyone, let alone girls, I get taunted with several cute girls walking around. Case in point: today I felt really horrid while walking to school and lo and behold, I see like 4 or 5 cuties walking around. Crazy I tell you. And what about those Nets eh? Ooooooh yeah, the game yesterday was pure basketball bliss. That Jason Kidd is a demi-god with his kickass passing. It was freaking crazy how nice he ran the fast breaks. The amount of alleyoops in that one game alone were probably more than I've seen in any other game. That was some crazy ass shit. Woo! Afterschool, I went to St. Mike's for Mrs. Rogone to fill out my volunteer form. Then I went home. The Theo test coming up tomorrow is going to be hell. Well that's all for today, I'm out. Oh yeah, and read Cat's Cradle. You'll like it. I guarantee it.

Sup, well today so far was a decent day. After CCD classes I went around to collect some rejections. Okay, today just wasn't my day, for I got 5 rejections and no numbers. I'm thinking it's that I got too nervous when going for the close. With practice I'll get there though. My weaknesses I need to work on:
1. Closing smoothly
2. Maintaining composure
3. Realizing that I need to just relax, let the game come to me, and just converse naturally with the opposite sex.
I just realized number three right now. I was pre-planning my convos and that didn't pan out. I'm so tired from last night ... and that's Cat's Cradle book is very interesting. Pretty damn interesting indeed. Hmmm ... I forgot what else I wanted to say ... ah wellz. Oh yeah, it's Chui's b-day today, but I can't go to his birthday party cuz I've gotta study for my bigass Math test tomorrow. Whoop de doo. Bleh. This sucks. Okay, tomorrow I'll get some more convos in and I'll be set.

Well today was a rather kickass day. Tiring, but fun. In the morning I felt like total crap; I felt dizzy because of lack of sleep. Alas, I had to attend my class's First Holy Communion, so I got myself outta bed and did what I had to do. The kids were beautiful, all dressed up in their suits and dresses. The mass was nice too, and the only minuses were that the kiddos didn't say their responses well and that the parents kept on trying to raid the aisles to take pictures of their young'ns. After that, I went to Kaplan for the SAT II chem review class. It went from 1 to 4:30 and that class was freaking hell. Torture I tell you! Agh, the room was so stuffy and I felt sleepy and tired. I went home after that and took an hour nap since I felt dizzy. At 6:30 I woke up and my mom, my godmother, and I went to the Regis Mother-Son dance. It was pretty damn fun. The food was tasty, and the DJs were mad fun. They had some creative ideas: for the YMCA, they had a special NY version, but that didn't pan out. There was a dance showdown, which Christian won. There was a loveshack walk down the middle thing they did too. Their most creative thing was when they made us do the electric slide to Janet Jackson's All for You. Haha, that was good. In a certain part of the dance a circle was formed and I went in a did a lil bit of popping. Nothing big, just a lil to scratch my popping itch. So overall a good, fun dance, and now I should get to bed to prepare for my LONG day tomorrow. I'm out.

Sup. Well today was a pretty good day, except for the fact that I was maaaad tired. Still am in fact. (sigh) I went to bed at 1 last night, because it took a while to do my homework, which mostly consisted of studying for the Spanish test. I finished that at 12, but thne foolishly decided to look at the yearbook at that hour. Kooky me. Well, I kicked that Spanish test's ass I think, and the rest of the day went pretty well. In phys ed we played softball and I went 1-1. First time up the bases were loaded 1 out, we're down 2 runs. I hit a grounder, forceout at home. Argh. Then second time up, man on second, down 3-1, 1 out, and bang I hit a sharp shot to the shortstop and I reach on a throwing error. I end up scoring the tying run, and our team continues our monstrous rally to win 7-3 I think. Something like that. Afterschool I felt shitty and muy cansado, and so I decided not to evben try to get rejeted today. I just wasn't up for it. Damn, now I'm behind in rejections ... I gotta do 10 on Sunday! AAAAAAAH! lol Anyways, I went to PS 20 to see about some the possibility of volunteering there for my Christian Service, but there was nobody there. I went home, and for our family outing we went to see Spider-Man, my second time seeing it. It was still very enjoyable ... and my two favorite scenes are still when he dodges those sharp spiky spinning things and when a bomb blows up in his face. Wooo! Crazy shiat there. I heard Star Wars II is mad good. Noel rates it among the top 5 movies he's ever seen. Pretty strong talk there. But I think it'll contend well with Spider_Man, cuz in the trailer I saw today there was this one scene when they had like 10 Jedis all together with their lightsabers lit and ready to fight the robots who were surrounding them. Quality stuff right there. What I don't get is why peopel absolutely bosess about that movie. Standing in line for 5 months in front of a movie theater so that you can be the first to get the tix? WTF? Shit like that makes me sick. Get something interesting to do people

(sigh) Well today was a rather good day. Except for one aspect, which I'll get to later. Aight, so heregoes. Woke up at 7:27 since we had late advisement today. I went to school, blah blah. So far I've been doing rather well this tri ... I just got back a 99 on my Spanish quiz and a 90 on my math quiz. Since today was such a beautiful day, I was able to eat outside in the quadrangle. It's so nice and calm out there, unlike the stuffy and humid cafeteria. Afterschool I went home since I didn't have enough cash for billiards, and I went to the library. There I read a lil bit more of Cat's Cradle, and checked out some books. Again, I had one good opportunity but I blew it. I did have a short convo with a girl sitting across from me, but that didn't pan out. Then there was a pretty cute girl in one of the aisles but I didn't approach. Dammit. I honestly don't know if I'm going to be able to complete this weeks' DJ Boot Camp assignment due to my lack of opportunity and shit. That and there is SOOO much shit I have to do. Tomorrow afterschool I gotta go to P.S. 20 and ask them about my Christian Service volunteer work. Then I have a family outing to see Spider-Man, since my dad didn't want to go last week. Then on Saturday I'm fully booked to the max. I have to go to my class's first communion from 9:30 to 11:30. Then I've got a 3 or 4 hour review class for SAT II Chem test sometime in the afternoon I think. Then at night, from 7 to 10:30 is the Mother-Son dance. Okay, I better see a couple cuties in that chem class. That would be great, and possibly I can get a rejection or two in that day. Then on Sunday, whammo. I've got CCD teaching in the morning, then I have to finish up aobut 180 pages of Cat's Cradle, do the film paper, and study for the Math test that'll be on Monday. When the going gets tough, the tough get going. Tomorrow I better get one rejection, because I sure as hell am not going to be able to finish up 10 rejections in one day. That would be rough. Okay, time to get some rejections this weekend.

Well today was a pretty good day. I kicked the chem test's ass, played some ball after school, and overall it was good. On to the DJ boot camp news. Well with all the progress I've been making for the past few weeks, I've stalled today. I went to the library, saw a really cute girl, felt like approaching, but didn't. I froze for the first time in a while. I dunno what happened. Thankfully I was able to get over that soon enough and talk to another girl I saw outside. However, she didn't make too much eye contact during the conversation, and though it was pleasant enough, I didn't think we had anything going so I decided not to go for the number. Well tomorrow is another day, so hopefully I can get a couple of rejections in.

And oh yeah, tomorrow I definitely have to get some rejections in. I gotta study for my big chem test tomorrow, and then I can go to bed at about 10:30 so I can have enough rest to feel kickass tomorrow.

Well, today was a pretty decent day. I woke up REALLY feeling like crap today. In fact, I went throughout the day feeling like utter crap. I was getting mad sleepy by the end of the day ... in English class though, I received a big wake up call when I was called upon to lead the class discussion for the story. I did an ok job at best ... could've been a bit better. Ah wellz. As promised, I started my running regiment today. I ran a mile at the great lawn, and oooh shit, am I out of shape or what? I didn't know I was this bad. Okay, so I was feeling like shit, it was rather cold and windy, but I still wanted to go. The run, I thought, would give me a wakeup. So I run. Afterwards, I'm huffing and puffing and totally out of breath. I check my pulse and it was about 160 bpm. I don't think that's healthy right there. Well with better diet and good exercise, I'll be on my way to a sixpack. The hardest thing is the healthy eating part. I'm willing to eat healthier though ... except I can set aside about 150 calories a day for a lil snack. If I'm too strict, I'm not going to get anywhere cuz one day I'll just pig out on cookies and shit. The worst part is that my mom ... oh my gosh. She buys all this crap and I ask her not to. But my sister likes to eat all this junk food shit, and then there's tons of it staring me in the face. Argh, it's torture I tell you. It's surprising how much we stuff ourselves ... I mean read this: A jelly donut is about 240 calories. A Big Mac is about 590 calories. Medium McDonald's fries are about 450 calories. That's crazy. Hmm well I'm going to try to start observing my diet. I'll keep a lil notebook full of what I eat every day. I think I should eat just about 2000 calories, since I don't think I've been even eating that much lately. Well I'm outties

Sup. Well today began in a sour note, since I was feeling like crap due to lack of sleep. When I went to school, it didn't get any better because in every freaking class except history and english, we had a quiz. Ack. I did well in all of them though, so that was ok. Coming home I was still in a pretty bad mood since I'm usually that way when it's a dark, gloomy, rainy day such as this one. On the way home I saw a couple of cute chicks, but I didn't feel like trying to get some numbers today yet, so I'll start tomorrow on my DJ boot camp assignment. Oh yeah, the DJ boot camp assignment for week 4 is to get 10 rejections from girls you'd normally want to date. Well, still in a bad mood I got off the bus when it started to POUR. I was getting all pissed since my lil umbrella was broken and my pants were getting totally soaked. I still tried to keep my head dry with it though, and then a broken section of the umbrella started to hit my head over and over again b/c of the wind. When I noticed that, I started to laugh and smile for the first real time today. The thought of myself getting totally drenched walking home with a small broken umbrella over my head trying to keep my head from getting wet was hilarious. And then came the beautiful part. For the only time today, light shined through. In the torrential downpour, there was a beautiful brightness that was just ... wow. That was one of the only times I have truly enjoyed nature and how beautiful it can be. What's crazy is that this beautiful thing came out of nowhere in the middle of an ugly day. I can still remember how nice the street looked. Well anyways, I've realized that if I'm going to get a six-pack like Spider-Man, then I'm going to have to get some cardiovascular workouts into my schedule at least 3 times a week. I can do that. Just maybe 20-30 minutes afterschool to run a mile or so at the reservoir. And if it's rainy, soon we're going to bring up the treadmill from the basement into my mom's room so that will be good. :) I'm outties

Sup. Well, I finally finished all of my homework except studying for some quizzes i'm going to be having tomorrow. The American Studies paper was hell; it took me about 4 or 5 hours to complete it. Ah wellz, the finished product is quality. Hmm ... well today I woke up, felt made tired. I went to mass, went to CCD, and then ate lunch at Mickey Ds. I went home and then for dinner we went over to my aun'ts house for a family gathering. There I finished all my homework. It was pretty rough but I was able to accomplish it. Right now I'm tired of doing work, yet I gotta study for those quizzes.

Whatr's up? As predicted tdoay has been pretty tiring so far. Aight, so what happened was that I played b-ball from 9:30 to 11:30. Then we played a lil bit of handball, so that was good practice. After a couple of rounds of handball, we played some more b-ball. There was this one odl dude who was basically an Asian John Stockton. It was crazy lol. He could pass, he could get the consistent open jumper, and he even had a face similar to Stock's. It was eerie. We played until 2, and then my sis and I ate some KFC. After that, it was time for my weekly DJ assignment.

Okay, so I was feeling really tired since I had been playing b-ball for quite a while. I was feeling pretty damn tired ... but I still had to complete this assignment. So around 3 I go out, bring my sis to the library, and Chui accompanied me walking around. We went to the Wix to check out some stuff, no girls. On the street not much luck, so we made our way to Macy's. I was a bit hesistant at first, but bang I saw a decent girl my age and I talked to her. Once again, it was for ideas to get my mom for mother's day, innocent enough but it gets them takling. Aight, so I had one down, 7 more to go, since I talked to two girls already on Thursday. Aight, then I talk to another girl, who even introduces herself when their was a lil lull in the conversation. If a girl does that next week I'll get her e-mail and number for sure. 6 more to go. I talked to a few more girls, and then I was down to 4. I start taking to this one girl, and in the middle of the conversation, her friend comes over and I see her blatantly signalling to her friend to get outta there ... so I pull her into the convo too. Bang, two left. Girls my age in Macy's weren't showing up, so I went to Old Navy's to finish it up. On the street I see two girls and initiate a convo, but they were all prissy and wouldn't talk so I left them. Then I entered Old Navy's, and lo and behold there is this one girl in a yellow jacket all by herself. I initiate the convo, and soon enough 4 or ger friends join the conversation. And so there I was, stading in the middle of a store talking to 5 very cute girls (7s to 8.5s), something that I wouldn't have even dreamed of me doing just two weeks ago. So that was the end of that assignment. lol Can't wait til next week's.

Well I'm going to take down the link to the DJ Bible, since if it was going to change any AFCs life, it should have already. If an AFC feels he's ready to get out of AFCness, then he'll do a search and actively try to change his ways. Until the breaking point, there's no use.

Whoa fuck! A Clockwork Orange is one of the strangest, freakiest movies I've ever seen. Okay, there is this dude, Alex, and he's a freaking psycho. He's a leader of a band of crazy guys who go around breaking the law. Okay, so one scene, they break into a middle aged couple's home. They beat up the husband, bound and gag him, and cut the wife's clothes up with scissors. Alex makes holes around the breasts, and then cuts off her whole body suit or whatever she was wearing. He rapes her in front of her husband. Another scene the viewer finds another gang tearing the clothes off another woman for the old in-out as they say in the movie. Alex's gang comes in before they rape her, and a rumble ensues. The fight was freaking crazy, almost like a wrestling brawl, with bodies flying all around the place. In another scene, Alex picks up two girls from a music store and he brings em home. What happened next was crazy. A super warp speed sex scene. Yep. They show the threesome and everything in warp speed. Alex is like a sex god cuz he does both of them, then one girl in several positions, then the other, and then rinse and repeat several times. It was rather strange ... but then the next scene tops the cake. Alex breaks into this 45-ish year old woman's home, and in it she has this rather giant statue of a penis and tight testicles. It's freaking huge. He starts playing with it, and she tells him to stop. She gets pissed that he broke into her home and that he's playing with the statue, so she attacks him ... or tries to. He uses the giant penis statue to block her from hitting him. He keeps this up for a while, using the length and size of the giant penis statue to prevent her from hitting him. If you can't picture that, then picture a small kid trying to attack a huge guy who flails at the behemothe while the juggernaut places his massive hands on the lil one's head to stop him from advancing. Eventually, the woman was able to knock Alex down, and he then slammed the giant penis statue down on her face to kill the poor woman. Yep, and that's just the first part. Watch the movie, it's strange, but a new experience.

Sup. Well, today's been good. Hmm ... in phys ed we played softball, and I had a pretty bad day hitting. I went 1-3 for goodness sakes. Argh. I went straight home thinking that my family was going to go see Spider-Man, and it ended up we didn't cuz my dad was too tired from building the fence in the backyard. Ah wellz. I just finished my theo paper, and now I'm going to watch A Clockwork Orange by Stanley Kubrick for my upcoming film paper. Tomorrow is going to be a loooong day. Hmm, I'll wake up, play b-ball, and then I'll have to have my 8 conversations with girls cuz on Sunday I have a family affair to go to. Then after talking to enough girls, I have to go home and do a bit over 4 pages of my American Studies paper. Yep, it's going to be a long day tomorrow. Hmm, I can do it though.

Hmm, well I just finished my math hw. Now I have Theo to do, which is going to be rather freaking hard. For some reason I've lost my creative touch with stories. Basically, it asks if Jesus was back in human form in NYC in 2002, who would his followers be, who the present day Pharisees (his opponents) would be, and what form Jesus's teachings would take. Aight, if anyone can help me out there, if youv'e got ideas, holla at me ok? Cuz I'm stuck on this one. Oh yeha, and earlier this girl Kristin started talking to me outta nowhere. Seems she was bored and jsut randomly IMed people from the AIM index. Somehow I don't know if this girl is for real, cuz people in my class have been known to play pranks. Ah wellz, I'm outties.

Woo! Guess what? Aight, it was around 2 o' clock and I didn't feel like staying at home so I decided to go out and get my haircut today after all. Aight, so I get on the bus, sit in the front, and who do I see? This girl I've seen before in the catechist training meetings. I don't know her name though so I didn't talk to her. After a couple of stops, she gets off, but her two friends are left behind. Bang, eye contact, look down. Eye contact, look down. I listen in on their conversation, and start smiling cuz the other girl starts saying some strangeass stuff in spanish, and it sounded pretty funny the way she was saying it.

The girl I was making eye contact with then says to me, "Hi, are you Dominican?" "Hehe Nah, I'm filipino (smile)." We kid around a bit, I give a couple of jokes kinda busting the other friend's balls ("Yeah, you can say that better than her, but she reads way better than you." "It's because I didn't have my glasses on!" "Haha yeah right"). The girl that initiated the convo introduced herself and her friend (her name was Melissa and I forget her friend's name), I introduce myself, get some handshake in there, and then I'm outties. Two girls down, 8 more to go this week. Both of them were cute, about 6 or 7s, so if I see them again sometime I can strike up a lil convo and I'll get the e-mail and number. But I'm prolly not going to go past the convos this week since the DJ boot camp assignment is to only make conversation with 10 female strangers you'd want to go out with. Next week will be to get rejected by 10 female strangers you'd like to go out with. So it'll be all good. First time a girl's initiated the convo with me I think ... so it's all good.

Well so what's up? I just came back from the doctor cuz I had to get some labs done for my school record thing. Okay, so in what happened was that I had to get some blood for tests, right? The nurse, (who I think was inexperienced, but I'll get into that in a sec) told me to sit down. Aight, so then she puts the tourniquet around my arm, sticks the needle in, and gets a vial of blood. Then she gets another vial. And then for the third vial, no blood came out. She called this other dude over saying, "Venga aqui, venga aqui!" lol The dude caem over and put the tourniquet back on, and she told me to squee my fist. The blood wasn't coming out still, and so she readjusts the needle. Nothing. So she sticks the needle further in. Nothing. She sticks the needle further in! Blood strts slowly trickling out into the third and final vial. It's not coming out fast enough, so she readjust ANOTHER time and finally it's finished. Argh. lol After that I had an EKG and an x-ray done, and then went to BK for lunch with my mom and sis. At BK, I decided to try out the Chicken Whopper, and I saw a sign that said that if you clucked like a chicken, you would get 50 cents off. I asked the lady about this, she said it's true, and so I clucked like a chickent and got 50 cents off! Woohoo. After that, my mom bought me the weights I've wanted, and damn ... that was hell hauling that crap back to the car. 20 lbs each hand, plus I had my bookbag too. Ah wellz. Well that's been my day, I didn't get a haircut but I'll get one tomorrow. I'm outties.

Sup. Well today went pretty well overall. Hmm, not too much class wise. In gym, we played wiffle ball since it was the 40 minute class. I had a good game. I went 3-4, scoring 2 runs. My first hit was a shot that should have been just a double, but due to some errant throws, I ended up at home. Next time up, I hit it and then while the first baseman was fielding the ball, he collided right into me, and my ear started to bleed. lol It was nothing though, and after the nurse cleaned it up I was able to go back to the game. In the last inning we were down 7-2. Ponterotto was making all of these taunts saying how much we sucked, and then bang. We storm back with a vengeance, and win the game 9-7. lol Afterschool, I saw Spiderman. Oh. My. God. Yup, it is that good. Kickass movie, very enjoyable. And that Kirsten Dunst girl is pretty cute too. the ending was disappointing to Chui, but I thought it was fitting. Can't wait til the sequel. After seeing that film, I wonder if Star Wars II has what it takes to actually challenge the kickassness of Spidey. Spiderman was always my favorite superhero cuz he had that freaking witty humor. The movie is long enough that it's able to both develop some of the characters well and have a decent plot. X-Men, on the other hand, just introduced characters like crazy in a 90 minute film, and it didn't even have a decent plot. Bleh. Spiderman was very good though. Okay, enough of Spiderman praises. Oh no wait one more thing. Okay, this may be a mini-spoiler for some, but it's in most commercials so it's ok. In the movie after he gets bitten by the spider, he goes to bed with no muscles at all. After awakening the next morning, bang he's ripped like crazy. Chui said that it took Tobey 4 months to get that six pack and muscle tone. Hmm, and oh yeah. I don't think my mom is going to let me get contacts. lol However, she'll probably be willing to buy me weights. If she doesn't want to buy me contacts, I'll buy them myself sometime in summer. I'm outties.

Well, today so far has been pretty damn good. I went through the day ... it was good. Afterschool I played ball for 2 hours since I didn't have an overwhelming amount of homework. I did pretty well today, getting rebounds, steals, and getting a couple baskets. Right now, I gotta just finish up a bit of spanish (I'll do the WB tomorrow since I forgot it in school), and then start my theo paper. Good stuff

Oh crap, I forgot about something! In theo, we had skits again today, and damn ours was so freaking strange/crazy/funny. And don't ask why we're doing skits in Theo class, it's strange. Okay, so our group was the Religious League of America (spoofing the Justice League) and we fought Tim, who was some Hairy Ass bad guy or something. I was B-Boy, with powers of breakdance fighting, Ponterotto was Outburst Man, with powers to give witty quips at the most opportune times, Christian was Super Mane, cuz we nicknamed his hair "The Mane" cuz it's really poofy and big, Ryan was Bird Man (because he's a Larry Bird worshipper) and Quang was the Asian Sensation. Okay, so the skit went like this: Hairy Ass declares to the RLA to bring it, for he can overpower us with ease. He calls us each out. First came Super Mane, who was overpowered after missing his "Mane" strike. lol This is so corny. Anyways, next was Bird Man, who just jumped around in a crazed manner until Hairy Ass kicked his ass. Asian Sensation was next, who declared something like, "You are going down!" At that he tried to do some karate and kungfu stuff, alas he was struck down also. It was all up to B-Boy, who came in and did some moves yet got defeated also. And then Outburst Man prayed for help, and guess who came!? Magrogan as Jesus! He destroyed Hairy Ass, slamming him to the ground and saving the day. Woohoo. lol

Well what's up? It ended up that the computer webpage assignment WASN'T due today. Argh. Ah wellz, at least I don't have to worry about that anymore. Today went pretty well I think ... in Chem we didn't do anything but eat some Greek food cuz it was Greek Orthodox Easter yesterday, and my chem teacher wanted to celebrate. The whole entire afternoon my left eye was bothering me ... it's like some sort of slight pain in the left corner of the eye. Bleh. Hmm, well besides that there isn't too much to tell about today. I'm outties.

AAAH! That fucker Mr. A is such a bum. His HTML assignment freaking took 2 hours to complete, and now I didn't get to even start my Theo essay. What a bastard. (sigh) Ah wellz, I guess if we don't have too much homework tomorrow I can start the essay then. Hmm, I really should start reading that Cat's Cradle book ... it's due in a week and half I think. Hmm, well I'll complete my theo by Tuesday night for sure. Then for the rest of the week I can work on American Studies so I won't kill myself this weekend. And have you heard the uncensored version of Khia's "My Neck, My Back"? Whoa. That's all i gotta say about that. And damn, Lenny Kravitz kicks ass. I got his Greatest Hits CD, and it's quality.

Whoa, I'm pretty tired. Let's review the day so far. I woke up around 8:30, ate some Krispy Kreme doughnuts for breakfast, and then went to Mass. After mass I went to help teach at CCD, and the kids today were a bit rowdy but they're starting to get friendly with me now. One girl even tried to teach me this number hand game thing. lol After that, I was ready to rumble for my weekly DJ assignment, which is to talk to 10 people and hold a 2-10 minute conversation with them. Okay, so I go to Mickey Ds for lunch, and bang there we go. To warm up, I see this old dude sitting alone, so I just strike up a light conversation with him. Friendly enough. Then outside McDs was another old lady, so I talked to her. Two done. I got a couple of convos out of other people just walking on the street and in stores. Most of the time I just asked for help trying to think of something to get my mom for Mother's Day. When I was about up to number 7, I had been walking around for like 2 hours already so I went to Mickey Ds to get a vanilla cone. I sit down to eat it next to this decent looking girl my age (a 6 prolly) and her grandmother. The grandmom leaves to buy something in another store, and I see the girl checking out this piano book. "You've just started learning to play?" She smiles, I smile, convo ensues. Turns out it was for her students, cuz she gives piano lessons since she's like on level 8 out of 10 at some Piano World place or something. My fav convo of the day happened like this. Okay, so I was getting tired from walking around, so I returned a book at the library that was due. When I go out, bang, there's this decent looking girl (a 6.5) reading/studying stuff on the steps of the library. I didn't notice her at first though, and I was tired so I just sat down on the steps to relax. There I am just relaxing, and so I start looking around and I see this chick. I look forward, turn back to her and next thing I know I see her sneaking a peek at me. I turn my head around to face her and it was pretty damn funny seeing how fast her head moved back down to her books. hehe So I was like, "Hmm, should I approach? I guess so." So I go up to her, "So whatcha studying there?" German. Convo ensues, I get her name. Looking back she was twirling her hair like crazy so I probably should have went for the e-mail and number. Ah wellz. After that I finished up my other convos. Here's what I learned today: it's usually best to start a conversation with a lil comment. Next best is a hi and how're you doing? Asking for the name does not work as the first question usually does not work unless they're pretty friendly. It's best to get the name during the conversation after you've established a lil rapport. I usually brought it up by saying, "Oh I didn't get your name... (She says her name), Nice to meet you (name), I'm John" Some funny stuff during the day: I see this lady has popcorn in her bag and I say, "Coming from the movies?" "No, I just came back from a parade" Then I asked her name (she was a middle aged lady btw) and she was like, "huh? Why do you want to know?" lol I hope she didn't think I was trying to hit on her. Another one was when I approached this other lady and I said "Hi, how're you doing?" She gives me this weird look and says, "I don't know you." lol I was able to rely back upon my mother's day gift ideas so that went ok though. Can't wait til the next assignment!

Man, I am sooo tired. Yet, I must trudge on and do quite a bit of homework. I totally forgot that I still had an English analysis and my computer webpage stuff in addition to my spanish and history. Hmm, well at least I've still got about an hour left, so tonight I'll do my spanish and my English. Then tomorrow all I'll have to do is read history on the bus or something, and finish up my webpage stuff at night. Tomorrow I also want to do my Theo paper, and start thinking about my what film I want to do for my film paper. Uhoh ... next weekend is going to be rough since I'm going to have to do my American Studies paper ... perhaps I should work an hour each night on that for the next week so I won't be overwhelmed. These last five weeks of school are going to be a bit rough, but I've gotten through this far.
Let me review today so far. I woke up, brought Jenny to her writing class, and read the English story and the computer assignment. After that, we went back home, ate lunch, and went out again. From about 2:30 to 5:30 I played b-ball w/ Chui. Today I was rocking the house, cuz I was feeling it. We played one game of HORSE to warm up, which was close, but I won thanks to my nice post work shots. Then we played some 2-2, Chui and I vs. Leo and Nestor. They got destroyed 21-9 I think. Some other people came to play, and we had a nice 3 on 3 w/ them. The two older Chuas and I vs the other 3 dudes. We won 21-14 after a monster run. After that was a 4 on 4, with Leo, two other dudes and I vs Chui and three other guys. They won 21-19. We were down 20-13, but made a six shot run at the end to give em a good scare. My day was great overall, except for the last game when I got a bit distracted and made some bad decisions. After playing ball, we went to Macy's so my sis and I could buy our Mother's Day gift. We went home, ate dinner, and I cleaned the house. Here I am. Okay, off to work I go.

Sup. Well today I had no classes since it was John Francis Regis Day. Instead, what we do is bring in some speakers to talk about a certain social topic that pertains to the modern times. Last year we focused on the issue of slavery, and this year we talked about the criminal justice system. Well, it began rather strangely, since Dr. I-forget-her-name was saying that she couldn't find them at the moment so we should just have a really long welcome. We ended up clapping for about 5-10 minutes before they came. lol Then some dudes talked, yadda yadda, and there was this one judge who looked like Bio Bob! He looked eerily similar to Mr. Weimann, and he was pretty damn funny too. During his talk, he went off into all sorts of tangents, so that was funny. One funny moment was when this lawyer dude was introducing himself and talking about his background saying he went to Xavier High School. Upon hearing the name of our archrivals, a chorus of boos came up from the crowd. hehe Later, he would say that he attended Xavier HS in Connecticut, not the one on 16th street. lol After the initial talks, which lasted from 9 to 11:30, we went up to talk in small groups. The guy assigned to us was this dude named Jim. He had just gotten out of jail recently (like a month and a half ago) after serving 27 and a half years in prison for killing a guy. Well, he's the first guy I've met that has killed a dude. He was a really well kept man though, and I think in the 27 years he's been in prison, he's learned a lot. Oh, and one more thing I learned today was that there is a difference between prison and jail. Jail is when the police just lock you up before you plea guilty or go to trial. Prison is the hardcore crazy shit. After today I feel like watching Shawshank Redemption. Great movie.

Today was a pretty damn fun yet exhausting day. Hmm, well the day began, yadda yadda, and during lunch time I shot around. I was pretty off today. In chem we had a quiz that I believe I bombed. Ah wellz. In English, we had read this story named, "A Good Man is Hard to Find" and it touched upon the idea that God may not exist. One theory is that God exists so we should be good, another is that God doesn't exist so we can do whatever we want. One philosopher's well ... philosophy was that he should be good b/c if there is a God, then it'd be all good. And if there isn't one, then he still had a satisfying life being good. Not a bad philosophy to live by. Last period we had phys ed and played softball. Last week I only got to get up to hit once, and I was hit by pitch on the first pitch. I didn't even get to swing! lol This week however, I went two for two. The first I got a single, but due to an error I reached third and next hit I scored a run. Second time I got another single, but got tagged out at second when the next batter hit straight to second. Softball is pretty fun, but it just ain't my sport. Afterschool, I went back to Flushing to play some ball with the Chuas. So we had our freethrow contests again today, and I kinda stunk today. Nestor was FT champ three times today, and Chui was a one time champ. Then the two on two games began. The games were all to 21, and the teams were kind of uneven since whomever had Nestor was at a clear disadvantage because he's so much shorter and slower than the rest of us. First game was Leo and me vs Nestor and Chui. We won pretty easily, I think about 21-13. I was missing a TON of easy shots that game, my J was off, and even my driving wasn't too accurate. Out of the 21 pts, I believe I probably had a total of 5 or 6 pts. My passing and rebounding were good as usual though. Next game was Nestor and Leo vs Chui and me. It was a total slaughter. I think we beat them 21-5. This game my J started to come back, but my driving was still off. Next game was the one I wanted the most, Nestor and I vs Chui and Leo. I wanted the challenge, even though I was having an off day until that point. I knew that since Nestor probably wouldn't do too great, I had to carry the game on my back. I made good on my goals by stepping up to the challenge. You must understand that Chui is about two inches taller than me, and can outpower the rest of us. Leo is a sharpshooter and a rebounding fiend an inch or two below me. Nestor is a plump sixth grader about 6 inches shorter than the rest of us. Okay, so the game began. Bang, we're off to a good start, 1-0 us. They get two straight points, 2-1 them. Then we battled. Nestor went on a hot streak, my J and driving were doing well, and my passing was doing pretty damn kickass. Bodies literally flew (I crashed into Chui on a drive, knocking both of us down in the process, Nestor and I collided going for a rebound) until it became 20-19 us. Point game! We were sooo close to winning this game, but they tied it up. Then came 21-20 them. We needed a stop, and I got it with a big steal over Chui. I take it out, drive, Leonard crashes into me, and bang! Tie game. Then we got another shot, and are in position for the win once again. Then came the Chui destruction. He scored three straight points to win it. So close, yet so far. Ah wellz. It was a good statement, showing that with teamwork and hustle, an undertalented team can challenge a better one. Okay, I'm ready. I need to work on (in this order) my outside shot, handles, and hops. If I can improve upon those three things, I'm going to be ready to rock this joint. Let the kickass begin. I'm tired. Paz