lemme start today's post with a lil something about yesterday.

my older cousin, joshua, got into a car accident yesterday next to HEB..
neither him or my aunt was severely injured, but the same can't be said about his honda civic..
yep..the car's totalled..so..m..yes. dilemna.

well, today my parents dragged me to UH to some open house / national merit luncheon thing..
the only good thing to come out of the entire ordeal was a bunch of free pens and pencils and a free lunch.

anyhoo..after lunch, we stopped by my cousin's (amy) new house..
its in bellaire, and at first sight, i said "eww"..
its an old-style house, one-story, but once i went inside and to their backyard, i gotta complete picture in my head of the house after all the remodeling is finished..
my uncle had so many plans for everything, and it all seemed pretty cool!
hm..i was just thinking..itd be pretty cool to do that one day..sometime..in the far-off future..
buy a nice one-story house and totally remodel it =) ah..how cool!!

hehe well, i gtg to church now..
cya there!!

Being told I would be expected to talk here, I inquired what sort of talk I ought to make. They said it should be something suitable to youth-something didactic, instructive, or something in the nature of good advice. Very well. I have a few things in my mind which I have often longed to say for the instruction of the young; for it is in one's tender early years that such things will best take root and be most enduring and most valuable. First, then. I will say to you my young friends-and I say it beseechingly, urgingly-

Always obey your parents, when they are present. This is the best policy in the long run, because if you don't, they will make you. Most parents think they know better than you do, and you can generally make more by humoring that superstition than you can by acting on your own better judgment.

Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any, also to strangers, and sometimes to others. If a person offend you, and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures; simply watch your chance and hit him with a brick. That will be sufficient. If you shall find that he had not intended any offense, come out frankly and confess yourself in the wrong when you struck him; acknowledge it like a man and say you didn't mean to. Yes, always avoid violence; in this age of charity and kindliness, the time has gone by for such things. Leave dynamite to the low and unrefined.

Go to bed early, get up early- this is wise. Some authorities say get up with the sun; some say get up with one thing, others with another. But a lark is really the best thing to get up with. It gives you a splendid reputation with everybody to know that you get up with the lark; and if you get the right kind of lark, and work at him right, you can easily train him to get up at half past nine, every time- it's no trick at all.

Now as to the matter of lying. You want to be very careful about lying; otherwise you are nearly sure to get caught. Once caught, you can never again be in the eyes to the good and the pure, what you were before. Many a young person has injured himself permanently through a single clumsy and ill finished lie, the result of carelessness born of incomplete training. Some authorities hold that the young out not to lie at all. That of course, is putting it rather stronger than necessary; still while I cannot go quite so far as that, I do maintain , and I believe I am right, that the young ought to be temperate in the use of this great art until practice and experience shall give them that confidence, elegance, and precision which alone can make the accomplishment graceful and profitable. Patience, diligence, painstaking attention to detail- these are requirements; these in time, will make the student perfect; upon these only, may he rely as the sure foundation for future eminence.

A final word: begin your practice of this gracious and beautiful art early-begin now. If I had begun earlier, I could have learned how.

But I have said enough. I hope you will treasure up the instructions which I have given you, and make them a guide to you feet and a light to your understanding. Build your character thoughtfully and painstakingly upon these precepts and by and by, when you have got it built, you will be surprised and gratified to see how nicely and sharply it resembles everybody else's.

- Mark Twain - "Advice to Youth"

DarkJediPete: hey roomie
DarkJediPete: i like u
fallin f0r y0u: ha
fallin f0r y0u: really?
fallin f0r y0u: or..just back-up?
DarkJediPete: "i choose you!"
fallin f0r y0u: alrite
fallin f0r y0u: ill..get back to you
DarkJediPete: "a moment like this"
DarkJediPete: we were meant to be
fallin f0r y0u: aiyo...
DarkJediPete: come on now
DarkJediPete: don't deny

looks like i found myself a roommate for UT =)

..if i go to UT, of course.

survived yet another day at clements high school..
a land where the chumps reign over the indifference of the anti-chumps..

anyways, stayed up pretty late yesterday night studying for today's calculus test, which i believe i did rather well on =)
what a relief!! one of the WORST feelings in the world is doing terrible on something that you really studied for.

but anyhoo, after doing my QT yesterday, i decided to start keeping all my prayer requests in a little notebook sorta thing..
ive been meaning to do something like this for the longest time, but i finally decided to start it yesterday.
this way, ill be able to see how God really DOES answer prayers..
seriously, that Big Guy never ceases to amaze me.

ladeda..anyway, im gonna go start some hw real quick..
blah, the LAST day of school before SPRING BREAK..
cant teachers give us a BREAK?!?

..no, of course not.
that was a rhetorical question.

man..my cousin and i were just browsing through some japanese guy's fashion magazine..
and holy CRAP all the guys in there are so gay.
..literally.
i looked through the entire magazine, and only 3 of the people in there looked halfway normal.
what the crap..there's this picture of this one guy wearing a red shirt that says "so many guys, so little time"..
WHAT?!?

in english, thomas and danny were speaking chinese to each other across the room..

mrs. spradley: stop that!
marvin: *starts muttering "chinese" words*
mrs. spradley: danny! i said stop that!!

wow..i must say..marvin booker is the best chinese-speaking black man i have ever seen.

NEW POLLS TO YOUR LEFT!!

do vote.

today was a rather humorous day

in humanities, daniel noll pointed out that this friday is pi day, so the class should be allowed to have a pie party..
we then spent about 25 minutes trying to persuade ms. ruddel to let us have a party and watch various movies..
we started out asking to watch a beautiful mind, i am sam, and even shallow hal, but to no avail.
we then asked for vanilla sky, daniel trying to emphasize how fitting it would be to watch vanilla SKY on PI day..
ms. ruddel refused, so we went with the banal "but we love you" routine, which was quickly shot down.
then we said "but we're your favorite class" to which the teacher responded " i have never said anything about you being my favorite class"..

darren: oh, we're your favorites??
ms. ruddel: NO! which class did i give a pop quiz because they got me so angry?!
ashley: oh, that was all because of arjun!! arjun's a proverbial A-hole!!
arjun: lunch detention!!
ashley: no, you know, apple-hole, worm, because he's sneaky...

lol man that class is so screwed up..
haha anyways..then just now, outside, it rained capri sun. that's right, capri sun.
jason and i were playin some bball, when my mom walked out of the house with a box of capri sun, so i asked for one.
she threw me one, and she left one on the ground for jason..
after we finished playing one-on-one, i was about to go inside, when jason picked up his capri sun, and i noticed that he was in the act of punting it.
i screamed "NOOOOO!!!" but BAM! he kicked it, the pouch split open on contact as it flew above his head, seemed to change to my direction in mid-air, all the while having droplets of capri sun falling to the ground..as well as my body.
so now, i am sweaty from the exercise, as well as sticky from the capri sun.
and somehow, jason STILL finds it funny.
*sigh* what am i gonna do with that kid..

on sunday morning, my cousin, joseph, was driving with his bro, joshua, to church..
you know how, at the intersection at the church entrance, the stupid city is doing all that construction on the street?
well, yeah. at this point in time, theres only ONE lane there..and its HIGHWAY 6..jeez, texans are idiots.
but, anyways, my joseph was unaware of this, so when he saw that his lane was ending, he quickly switched lines, apparently cutting off some lawnmower people in a big truck.
they got mad and started shouting obscenities, and before joseph knew what hit him, the truck in front of him backed into him..
turns out they were all friends, and my cousins were caught in the middle.
after the driver purposely backed into my cousin's camry, he even got out of the car to continue taunting him..
joseph quickly called the police, but when an officer finally arrived, he only told them that he couldnt do anything.

man..the injustices of the world today..
*shakes head*

MAN i really hate it when i decide to spend all night working on some assignment until the wee hours of the morning..
and THEN finding out that the stupid teacher doesn't take it up.

BLAH. IN NEED OF SLEEP.

UGH. FINALLY GET TO SLEEP NOW.

taken from danny kou's info:
man, people looking at my house seem to like to steal random stuff, especially consumables.... which is why i leave a bunch of unmarked ex-lax (chocolate) lying around on my table... it really makes me smile when i notice half the bar's missing...

LOL. HAHAHAHAHA

m iss ja an ee: watcha doin
fallin f0r y0u: homowork
m iss ja an ee: ...that cn be taken two dff ways...
m iss ja an ee: knwoing u
fallin f0r y0u: ...
m iss ja an ee: im not sure whcih one either haha
m iss ja an ee: jkjkjkjkjk
fallin f0r y0u: wha?!?!?!

ok..my girlfriend knows im gay..
..er..thinks im gay..sorry, typo.

wow..work was pretty insane today..
i was just sitting there peacefully at about 6:30..thinking it was gonna be a slow day..
when alla sudden, people started migrating in from who knows where..
no joke, in the time span of about 5 minutes, 30 people walked into the restaurant..
and, lucky-ducky me, i was in charge of the entire restaurant since only my manager and i were working..(we have 2 restaurants where i work)
so..yeah, things were pretty hectic, but it all turned out real good..
..except when i spilled iced tea on some lady..
but other than that, things went smoothly =)

so, now sweetwater country club owes me money for 25 hours of work..

the highlight of the evening:
i was serving this yummy $15 plate of pasta to some girl, when she told me that she couldn't eat meat cuz she was vegetarian..
SO, lucky-ducky me, i got the whole plate all to myself. yipee!!

..alrite then. time to chump what's left of my night away..

hm..you know, im not sure if upenn is still my first choice school anymore..
first of all, i didnt know the business honors program was so hard to get accepted into..only 10% of all applicants?! jeez..how the heck did i get in??
also, i just did the math. one year at UT for tuition, as well as room and board, is approximately $13 thousand..
13 thousand minus the 4 thousand guaranteed b/c of national merit is $9 thousand a year..
and i am expecting at least $2 thousand more in scholarship money coming my way, which would make it $7 thousand a year..
on the other hand, one year at upenn is about $38 thousand..
so, let's bust out the calculator here..

4 years at UT = $28 thousand
4 years at upenn = $152 thousand

hm..seriously now, is it TRULY worth it?!