El Dorado

Went to Mervyns today to get some bath robes that were on sale and I found a special section.There were a lot more but there was this one employee that was in that area working and I didn't want to look like a type of predator with some kind of underwear fetish or whatever.

Watching: Futurama
Listening: It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine) - R.E.M

Merry Christmas

Worst Pies in London

Was going to see National Treasure with my mother today for Christmas but it was sold out. Backup plan was to see I Am Legend which started ten minutes later, but that was also sold out. So where do the National Treasure/I Am Legend rejects go to watch? Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Here is the preview:

It is a funny/scary/bloody musical type movie. It's pretty good I guess. My mom couldn't stop talking about Step Up 2 after she saw the preview.
Ever since Travis Barker did the Soulja boy drum thing, other drummers are doing it to other songs now. Unless they've been doing it and I didn't know about it. Christmas in Hollis:

Also finished my puzzle today.
It's a wizard manifesting some the Earth in some fireball.

Watching: Astro Boy
Listening: Don't Go - Mary J Blige

Ovaltine

Downtown
Mystery of the day: what is in hereHere is my work stationWatching: A Christmas Story
Listening: Acknowledgment - John Coltrane

House Omelette

So this one dude donated a ton of action figures to the church and since my then Sunday school teacher Steve works for Ebay, Rev gave them all to Steve to sell. So now, his garage looks like this. Jackson looking for some treasure.
Steve also gave me this. It's really cool. It's like some kind of case that fits six cards and they are all Kevin Garnett.I was also reminiscing over past Christmas presents that I have received and I found some jigsaw puzzles. So over break, I will try to complete them. I've chosen to attempt the one titled Wizard's Touch which consists of 550 pieces. Like most jigsaw puzzlist, I separated the border pieces and assembled the border first.
That is all I did today. I'll continue tomorrow.
Watching: Family Guy
Listening: Saint Stephen - Grateful Dead

Fatal

After watching part of Planet Earth on Blu Ray yesterday at Sammy's house, I tried searching for more scenes and I found this clip of a bird of paradise in its mating ritual. I remember seeing this part but I don't recognize the dialogue.


Watching: Home Alone
Listening: Jah Pretty Face - Culture

Cactus

Just reading the Sports Illustrated I got in the mail today and I saw this picture.If you can't tell, this guy's fingers are in the other guy's eyes. Gross. And if you read the caption under it, Sports Illustrated still feels the need to make a joke out of it. (shakes head) I hope this doesn't happen in our new home court. GOOD!

Watching: The Office
Listening: Obviously 5 Believers - Bob Dylan

Break starts... NOW!

Hey all, haven't been updating on a daily basis, but now that school is over for christmas, I have more time to update! So this week was finals week and here is what the view looked like for most of this week.
Just a bunch of Scantrons. Teachers for four of my six classes utilized the convenience of a Scantron. But what about the other two? For Film Lit, we watched:For our final, we had to write about some characters and relate it to our lives in a daily writing entry. And I hate daily writing for Film Lit. Refer back to the post on November 1st titled "Sacrifices" And for psychology we watched The Family Man.It was pretty laid back during 6th period. Didn't really do much but watch the movie, so that was cool. Pretty good movie too. What if...
And here is Mr. Newell trying to be funny.Oh man, choice C, getting a little promiscuous. Or he is referring to the song Santa Claus Is Coming To Town.

Watching: Houston Rockets vs. Denver Nuggets
Listening: Get It Like You Like It - Ben Harper

Kirkland

Word of the day from my Snickers wrapper:
Substantialiscious (noun) The weight of something when you weigh it with your tongue
dumb...
last weekend, played some basketball for the cebc sunset college team in the swede nelson tournament. I was the only seventeen year old in the whole tournament. Didn't do much, played like a total of 5 minutes in two games, but I got a free t shirt and free meals! cool. Then went back to the high school team to play against the east bay cardinals who are ranked number 1. We got killed. We could have been killed by a lot more if it weren't for my five blocks! domination, but not really because we lost. The league is having a long winter break so our next game is on January 6.
Saturday was also the musical SOS, but before that, we went to dinner and there was a big mouse that could have also been a cat. And after was lawrence's party and there were drunk people on the floor and running around that could also have been mistaken for cats. O yea, the musical was cool too. Mike Chai! Donald and Clifton with solos. woot.
Speaking of rats, we are watching Ratatouille for Film Lit class and we have to relate it to life.
Speaking of musicals, here is a video that does not relate to them at all

I prefer frozen yogurt from pinkberry over poop from a butt.
that's just me.

Watching: Monday Night Football
Listening: Complexity - The Roots ft. Jill Scott

The Heist

So the Christmas season is upon us. We just went Christmas caroling last Saturday, but as we were singing, I was wondering who some of these Christmas characters were. So I did some research. The following will include a short description of the character and a picture from Google images.

1. Miss Fanny Bright
Well, the infamous, promiscuous Miss Fanny Bright from the holiday classic, Jingle Bells. I am not able to open the website that seems to hold the answer to who Miss Fanny Bright so I'll just read the little caption under the website on Google. It seems that Miss Fanny Bright was in an 1860 U.S census. She was 11 years old and lived in Connecticut. But after all these years, she has a myspace.
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=26764369
I couldn't find a picture of Miss Bright but here is her maid:2. Jack Frost
I'm familiar with that movie with the dad dying then resurrecting into a snowman or whatever it was. But I wanted to know more. So according to Wikipedia, Jack Frost is an elfish creature who personifies cold weather. The lyrics to The Christmas Song are "Jack Frost nipping at your nose" So a literal interpretation would be an elfish creature pinching your nose. Probably means the cold is freezing your nose off, but whatever. I like the other one better. And like Miss Fanny Bright up there, Jack Frost also has a myspace.
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=248807495
Martin Short playing Jack Frost in The Santa Clause 3
3. The Other Reindeer
"All of the other reindeer, used to laugh and call him names..."
Bully reindeer. Olive the other reindeer doesn't count because he is really just like Will Ferrell in the movie ELF. But I found another blogspot where he gives his opinion about the song as a whole, but he focuses on the other reindeer. You can find it here. It's pretty negative, so look out. No wacky warning sign here, just beware if you are a fan of the song.
The leader of the gang. 4. Parson Brown
The line goes, "In the meadow we can build a snowman, Then pretend that he is Parson Brown, He'll say are you married, We'll say no man, but you can do the job when you're in town." In my research, I've discovered that Parson is a title for like a preacher or something and Brown is just a last name. According to a website I found, he was actually a real person. He even started an orange farm in Florida. But either way, I don't think a snowman is eligible to marry a couple. Preacher or not. Here is another.
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=259875171



Watching: Futurama
Listening: Nothing

Come with me if you want to Live

So I was reading the newspaper today. I haven't read it in a while and I found that the state of Michigan held their eleventh annual wacky warning labels awards. Here are the winners:

3rd place:
On a baby stroller that had a small pouch attached to it for toys and stuff. The label read:
"Do not put child in bag"

2nd place:
On an iron-on t-shirt transfer. The label read:
"Do not iron while wearing shirt"

1st place:
On a small garden tractor. The label read:
"DANGER: Avoid Death"

There was also a hidden graffiti wall found in Soho. Contributions were made by a ton of taggers and a handful of historic graffiti artists. Here is the pic from the newspaper but in color.
Does stuff like this really happen everyday? I love the Chronicle.

Watching: Futurama
Listening: That's Not Me - The Beach Boys

The grammar police

Did an assignment today in psychology class. I've mentioned that class a couple times in previous entries. But here is what we did.
We drew a car and filled it with whatever we need to live life
props to Gayle for the cool drawing, but after seeing Lawrence's self portrait, I think he should have shown his skills, haha. Looks tight with the peace sign rims. Why am I bald?
Then we had to make a puzzle out of it and we had to move to a different group's car and do their puzzle. Looks like the group that did ours did a pretty good job. A couple days ago, I was helping Ryan do his photography project. He said he would buy me something to eat if I went with him to the apartments so he could take some landscape photos. But then we end up wanting to go up this big hill which turned out to be like a patch of forest in the middle of my hood. We snuck into somebody's backyard and hopped their fence to climb up the hill and spent like an hour stranded in the woods until we found a house and hopped their fence to get back to society. We ended up on the street next to my house... weird. Here are some pics with my phone from the side of the forest where you can still see houses.The fool ended up taking like two pictures.

Watching: Futurama
Listening: Stand To The Side - Talib Kweli

My Life's In High Definition

We've just started a new movie in psychology called Colma: The Musical. Yes, it is about Colma Daly City. It is very cool to see Serramonte, Bart and of course Westmoor High School in a movie. On my way back home from serramonte today, I saw this funny Indian kid waiting at the bus stop performing some High School Musical or Prison break: The Musical type choreography on the street. It was hilarious.
It was a kid like this:

Doing This:


I also just heard The Cool by Lupe Fiasco on MTV The Leak. Pretty good, I think Food and Liquor is better though. Look out for High-Definition ft. Snoop Dogg and Pooh Bear, that song is a hit.

Watching: Futurama
Listening: Stand! - Sly and the Family Stone

One Size Fits Most

So today, we went Christmas caroling for fellowship in retirement homes as we do every year around Christmas time. We Wish You A Merry Christmas is always a popular song. And when we went to a patio type area to carol, there was a dog in the vent or something barking obsessively. And then today on my Yahoo! homepage, I found this article on stopping this type of barking. So if you have a dog, read these 4 tips so they don't interrupt Christmas carolers that show up at your house.
Here is the craft we made for them OGs at the retirement home:This one is actually three combined together. It's supposed to be one flat tree, but you know us Seniors gotta step it up a bit for one lucky Senior citizen.

Watching: Bewitched
Listening: The One I Love - R.E.M.

Kick Me

So remember these guys from a couple posts back?
They challenged guys like these to dodgeball. Money involved.Here are some pictures:Ben Stiller's team:JC Chasez for NsyncAlso vandalized Fernando's back this morning:Remind you of Jojo and Jackson much? Haha. Inside joke to CEBC people. To make the joke even more inside, to CEBC choir pplz.

Watching: Family Guy
Listening: Miuzi Weighs A Ton - Public Enemy

TRL

So it's Total Request Live cause I have nothing interesting to blog about. So here are some pictures upon request.

Winterball: There is a same shirt alert so... wardrobe changeLawrence's birthday

Jimmy Breaking Pauline's Umbrella Day
Total Request Live Over.

Watching: Family Guy
Listening: You're Gonna Get Yours - Public Enemy

Apple Cider

Special Birthday Shout out to Lawrence Troung, I don't have a picture of him but it is also somebody else's birthdayWatching: Family Guy
Listening: Rocketship - The A'z

Iced Single Vente, 7 pump Peppermint, Caramel Sauce Top and Bottom, Light Ice, No whip, Mocha

Fish taco Tuesday at Rubios today, as it would be every week, and Steven with just his permit drove us to devour some world famous fish tacos at a dollar each. And as I ponder what to do with Gilbert Arenas on my almost last place fantasy basketball team, I stumbled upon a package of Pop Rocks. I haven't eaten those in years. And so I found a new subject to think about. Click on the "pop rocks" to open up a link to discover the science behind this truly electrified candy.

It was like

On my
I also wonder why Family Guy is aired almost an average of 2-3 hours a night on different channels. Besides it being funny.

Watching: Family Guy
Listening: Homeless - Paul Simon

Hydro Pumpin' It

Not much time right now to update but here is what we found in the bushes today. I went looking for the basketball we stash in the bushes and found this bonus.

Tony looking very suspicious

As you can see, it's pretty big, almost half of Tony's body, (he's 7 feet). Somebody shooting a BlastoiseI'll blog more about Winterball and Sunday tomorrow.

Watching: Orlando and Golden State
Listening: Call the Law - Outkast ft. Janelle Monae

Ghost Ride It!!!

Just got back from Winterball last night at the SF Design Center
Tired, I'll post more tomorrow

Watching: A Shot At Love
Listening: Big Brother - Kanye West

Grenada!

So today was a little different. There was a rally at lunch time. Whaaaaaaaat? Ok, so we should have won the rally, yeah yeah, there was some type of Polynesian dance or whatever, yeah ok, the cheerleaders were a little more coordinated than usual, yeah whatever, the Ram mascot's nose didn't break off this time, uh huh, and some band guys decided to perform as Nsync, WHOOO! Haha, they were pretty cool. They resurrected past hits such as Tearin' Up My Heart and of course, Bye Bye Bye, and others.
Nsync > Back Street Boys
Watching: Family Guy
Listening: Fire - Jimi Hendrix

Lower the Bar

This movie sucks, go watch it
This too, but it doesn't suck

Watching: Futurama
Listening: I'm the Man - Gang Starr

I Eat It

For fellowship on Saturday, we went to my leader Jeff's apartment and played some PS3, PS2, and Wii. There was also a potluck. And so Master Samuel, Christopher and me go to the "Fitness Center/Game room" and pick up Monopoly to bring back to Jeff's apartment. Caroline, Judy, Sammy and me are the only ones that decide to play. We had no dice so we took two of each Ace, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 from a deck of cards and we just pick from that pile to determine the number of steps we go. Everything goes smooth until Caroline and Judy team up and combine their money and property and the board looked something like this.It's not the original board, but it looks cooler on my futuristic monopoly board. So basically, everywhere there is a house/hotel is owned by Caroline and Judy. But me and Sammy were not totally dead. I had Boardwalk (yay yay) and Park Place and Sammy had the two useless purple ones. But we ran out of time so it was a tie.

Watching: Sunday Night Football
Listening: Doo Rags - Nas

Humble Pie

So the 49ers just won today, but I haven't been updating you guys on my Thanksgiving break. So on black Friday, went to Circuit City and Serramonte and that is basically it. Here is what I got:Some tv shows from target and some three dollar movies from circuit city. I got up pretty late so I had all the leftovers to choose from. So Circuit City had these bins for the movies that were 2.99 scattered throughout the store, but some fools decided to put some movies that weren't 2.99. I saw bunch of Knocked Up, 40 Year Old Virgin, Transformers, Hairspray, Live Free or Die Hard, etc. all up in those bins but ignored them. And some movies got rejected at the register including: Ali, The Truman Show, A Christmas Story, and Swordfish for their not 2.99 price tags. In the picture is also a catalog sort of thing from the grand opening of the Apple store on Chestnut. I went at night, so the free shirts were long gone but I left with some pictures for y'all. Watching: Sunday Night Football
Listening: Everybody's Crazy - Nas

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving... the day Pilgrim and Indian alike gathered together hundreds of years ago to give thanks to God for all their blessings. Yea, not sure if that is historically correct, but whatever. My family doesn't usually celebrate thanksgiving, so, we didn't. But I did have some quality cousin to cousin time by making that nine year old demon slave over the ps3 controller to help me level up on Call of Duty because I'm still a little sick, so I didn't feel like playing. But after about an hour of playing, he only got up one level. He went back to playing the campaign. I guess he does have a mind of his own. I'm pretty mean, so I will stop. Well, today is black Friday. I might just catch up on my Call of Duty if I feel better, but I hope to go to the brand new apple store's grand opening. What is a post without pictures? Boring.
Some random photos from my trip this past summer.

Random bear at the Beijing zooRandom stars from Hollywood, some bad lighting in these pictures...
Chevy ChasePaul WilliamsMichael JacksonJohnny Depp

Watching: Who's Line is it Anyway?
Listening: The Easy Spell - Mos Def