Ghost Town UCSD

Thanksgiving break and I’m stuck here in UCSD. The school became a ghost town here from sunrise to sunset. It’s kind of weird walking around with no around; It’s kind of creepy. The dining halls are closed so I have to cook my own dinner, or boil water for instant noodles. I hate not eating dining hall food. It is way better than my cooking. Haha. So .. what did I do for Thanksgiving? I had no plans to begin with. I was just gonna cook steak for myself to eat and invite whoever wants to come eat. During the afternoon, my roommate came back and invited me to have Korean BBQ with him, his girlfriend, and his friends at his girlfriend’s place. I had nothing to do so I said sure. I also invited Angela along. Afterwards, Betty needed to go to Ralph’s so I went with her. I bought some cereal and milk for breakfast, then we went back. I walked her back to her place, then I went back to get stuff for Korean BBQ. It was really good! We did run out of food really fast, but it was still good. Afterwards, Angela and I went to her place to watch Molin Rouge. After watching it, I went back to my apartment and slept.

It’s Saturday and the school is still a ghost town. I barely see anyone walk on the streets or play anything. I did see some people play tennis though. I hate coming home to an empty apartment all the time, knowing that when I go to sleep, I’ll be the only one in it. Other than weekdays, 80% of the time, I’m the only one in the apartment when I sleep. Sucks.

Slacking to the Max

When I’m bored, I usually find myself surfing YouTube, watching videos of just about anything that interests me. One obvious interest is basketball. I search of videos of Dwayne Wade crossovers, Yao’s top ten plays, etc, etc. All the videos that I watch of basketball tells me one thing; I haven’t been practicing at all. Well, maybe not at all. I’ve been to the gym every week, at least two times a week. It’s been about three months since I’ve been here, so I’ve been to the gym a lot. The thing is, out of all the times I’ve been to the gym (about … 24 times?), I’ve only been playing basketball there three times. It’s not that I’m lazy. Mostly, it’s because the courts are always full. Out of the three times I played, only once was there a challenging game. I mean it wasn’t just ordinary challeneging. It was so crazy that I felt like I was playing with the wrong people. Back in San Francisco, it wasn’t that hard playing basketball. In fact, it wasn’t hard at all. Most people in San Francisco are barely 5 feet 10. People here average like .. 6 feet 3. Even the Asians here are that tall. They’re also buff as hell!

I gotta start practicing and playing basketball or I’m gonna end up back in San Francisco missing easy lay-ups and being stupid. I don’t want to find everyone’s basketball skills improving and mine are receding. What’s up with that? I can’t play against white people? If Yao can, I can also! I’ll show you people back in SF.

Those were the days...

Muse.Sick

I’m too lazy to actually type up an entry, so here are some songs.

Jay Chou – Capricorn

Jay Chou has a new album! The album’s name is called Capricorn. I got all the songs to it, but I’ve only listened to about three of them. So far, 2 of them are good to me, which is a good sign. One song I would like to mention is “Shuo Hao De Xing Fu Ne” (Where’s The Promised Happiness?). From the very first second to the very last note, it got my hooked. Be warned! This song is very addicting, as some people may know already. Haha. It sounds like his older songs, but thats why its also good! Thats a plus one if it sounds like all his other great songs.

 

Jay Chou - Capricorn

Another song I would like to mention is “Zui Chang De Dian Ying” (The Longest Movie). Not only is the song good, but the music video is also good! Take a look at it if you have time. Man.. Jay Chou never cease to amaze me and my ears with his songs.

Korean BBQ

Mmm! Who would’ve thought Korean BBq was gonna be so good! What is it? I’d say its similar to hotpotting with the grill right below the hotpot… but without the hotpot. Haha. Basically, you have a BBQ grill in the middle, and you toss raw meat on there to cook. It’s so good! Some of the meat tasted like Vietnamese pork. I was like “Whoa!? Isn’t this Korean BBQ?! Why does it taste Vietnamese?” Anyways, I totally raided that place with my black hole-like stomach. They totally found a good way to scam me to eat vegetables. They had me WRAP my meat with the lettuce they gave us. To my surprise, it tasted pretty good! I had veggies all night! (See? I do eat veggies once in a while!)

It looks a little like this. It’s not an actual picture though.

Korean BBQ

New music? Kanye West has moved up my top 10 favorite artists list! He used to be like … top … 4. Now he’s my second, right below Lil Wayne. If you guys haven’t checked out his new songs, check it out!

Kanye West – Heartless
Kanye West – Coldest Winter
and .. Kanye West – Street Lights

Music Updates 4 You!

It’s 2:40AM right now.. I’m kind of lazy to actually post something, so I thought of sharing new songs. Enjoy while they’re stll new.

Nelly – One & Only

T-Pain ft DJ Khaled – Karaoke

Chris Brown – Cry No More

Claude Kelly – Victim

Kanye West – Anyway

Three Day Post

My blog sure is gathering dust. I’ve had so much to do these days that even when I want to update my blog, I forget to or I don’t have time to. Let’s get down to blogging. What did I do for the past few days?

Halloween

For Halloween, Betty, Angela, Seward, Vinson Chen, and I signed up for this thing for MASA called “The Mystery Bus”. You buy the tickets for 26 bucks each, then they take you on this bus for 12 hours going to different places. Of course, they won’t tell you where you’re going. That’s why its a mystery. Haha. Well, I’ll unconver the mystery.

First stop: Haunted Trails

Dude! I have never been so scared in my life! Haunted trails is where they set up sets around the park, then you walk around the trail going to different sets. They got sets from “The Strangers” movie, “Halloween” movie, and just scary sets. The zombies on the bus was the scariest! We had to walk through this broken down school bus with zombies scattered around sitting on the seats with their heads down. You wouldn’t know which one would pop up to scare you. There were other scary ones too, but I thought the bus was the scariest. The also scare you on the path to other sets too. The scary thing is they also follow you. If you run, they chase after you. Jeez!

Next Stop: Laser Tag 15vs15

This was where my Boomer’s Lazer Tag skills came into use. This laser tag arena was so cool! They had 2 levels so you can shoot people below. You can capture bases, kill aliens, and everything. They also print out your stats sheet and rank you out of all the players to see who did well. Rank 3! Best ranked in my team. There were three teams by the way.

After Laser tag: Beach

Nothing special. We just went to the beach at night to play some games and tell some ghost stories. The hotel near the beach was apparently haunted. :X

After that: Bowling

Bowling again. Nothing new. I got a score of 111, darn it! I forgot how to spin the ball, so I had to bowl straight the whole time. How lame. Oh well, it was still fun.

Cha-Ching! Casino!

Yup. That day was the first time I went to the casino and tried out gambling. Never play the slot machines if you don’t know what you’re getting yourself into! I lost five dollars in less than a minute. Actually, me and Seward both did. Gambling sucks! Should’ve played Blackjack.

Final Stop: Some hill

The final stop was a stop on a hill that had a really nice view. We sat there to watch the sunrise and eat breakfast, which was bagel and orange juice.

The mystery bus was the bomb while it lasted. After we got driven back to UCSD, we all went back to our place and knocked out. I got back to my place at 9:00, then totally knocked out until 1PM.

November 1st: Cooking Day

After waking up, I went to eat with Seward and Angela at Canyon Vista, their dining hall. We ate there for a little over an hour, then decided to go to Tilly’s to check out their buy something and get something else 50% off. Angela bought two new pair of Vans. While walking back, we decided to cook dinner that night, so we decided to go to Ralph’s (I guess it’s like a SoCal version of Safeway). We bought Buy-1-Get-1-Free Raw Chicken Tender meat, Oil, 20lb of Rice, 2 Mongolian Beef Seasoning, Broccoli, and onion. Obviously, we were gonna eat chinese that night. Cooking was pretty darn fun. Too bad it was $50 and there were so many dishes to do at the end. Check out Betty’s facebook for the pictures.

Election Day

First time voting was pretty cool. I felt stupid not knowing where to go because all the booths looked taken so I was like, “Where do I go again?” Haha. I’ll just let a picture sum it up.

Obama's Victory

P.S. If you want to know how the haunted trail is like, click here. Then, click on haunted hotel. Then click on Video on the bottom left. The haunted trail is like that,  but on a trail.