introspection

So far it been a good day. Watch the Olympics Opening Ceremony last night. Glad to see that the US, Iraq, and Afghanistan got one of the loudest cheers. Also while watching I was listening to the music and noticed that some of tracks were from Tiesto. So today went online to checkout press releases from http://www.athens2004.com, and I was right Tiesto was spinning. Its always nice to hear your favorite artist perform especially at an international event like this. Especially when family and friends say, “Oh you listen to that rave stuff”.

Other good news is that Linette passed all her classes, which brings her 1 semester closer to being a vet. You have no idea how proud I am of her.

Today was my 28th birthday. My friend Jesse and his girlfriend took me to a live taping of some stand up comedians for Comedy Central. The first lady was eh… ok. Too political. The second person, Godfrey was hilarious. Couldn’t stop laughing. This guy was too funny.

Afterwards we went to the Bubba Gump Seafood Restaurant, food was pretty good. got this stuffed shrimp that was really filling.

Anyways, Kathy and Jesse got the waiters and waitresses to sing happy birthday to me which was a bit surprising.

What else … chatted with my cousin Glenn whom I hadn’t talked to in a while, who’s sending me a new keyboard /mouse combo. (gotta hit him back for his b-day). Also just heard from my cousin down in LA whom I did not hear from in the last few months.

Anyway, I’m really stuffed from Bubba Gump’s. I just want to say thanks to everyone who remembered my birthday today. I really do appreciate it.

Just downloaded this program called PocketBlog. Basically it allows me to write blogs on my pockctpc on or offline, so I’m giving it a try. If you have a pocketpc and want to give it a try go here

http://www.pocketblog.com/

In other news got a B+ in Accounting bringing my GPA to a 3.28.

Brought in my laptop to Best Buy to get my LCD screen fixed, it has 3 dead pixels on it.

Also was able to get a new battery under the warranty plan. So every is square with the laptop.

Just another 10 days before Linette comes back. I can’t wait.

After 7 months of rehab, my Uncle Ben decided to go for a walk, which was to be his last.  I don’t know all the details, but from what I was told during his walk he fell and hit his head causing massive bleeding and swelling inside his head.

 

I wish there was more I can do for my Mom, my aunt, and my cousins. 

 

My Uncle came to the U.S. for the first last June.  I’m glad though that he had a chance to come to the U.S. to see what it is like here, and that his almost 20 or so years of petitioning and applying for a visa wasn’t wasted.

 

My dear Uncle Ben, may you find your way to the gates of heaven and find eternal rest and peace.

 

 

Well its been almost a month since my last blog… again. Anyway, not much going on here.

School update: Got an A on my environmental science class, and an A on my Introduction to Business class, which gives me a 4.0 GPA for Summer Session I, giving me a cumulative GPA of a 3.26. So far so good.

Right now I’m in the middle of Accounting I, got a 91 on my first exam and will be taking the exam 2 tomorrow. I can see why people say that accounting is hard, and i can see why its not hard. Let me explain, Accounting is hard if you just sit in the classroom, listen but don’t do any homework. However if you do the homework, its really not hard. On the flipside, you need to understand how money moves around and be able to think in abstract ways, since all we’re doing is intangible. Just my 2 cents.

Thought I’d throw this:

CD’s in current rotation in my ride:

Sasha – Involver

Deep Dish – Toronto #025

Paul Oakenfold – Bunkka

Paul Oakenfold – Perfect Remixes

Paul Oakenfold = Great Wall

Tiesto – Just Be

John Digweed – MMII

Well its been almost a month since posting here. I seem to have big lapses in posting. Oh wells.

Let’s see what’s been going on. Spring semester was actually pretty good, 3 A’s and B giving me a 3.73 GPA for the semester but only giving me a 3.04 cumulative GPA since my Fall 03 semester was a disaster with a 1.89. In any case it seems that I have rebounded pretty well.

After the Spring semester I signed up for this 2 week intersession course that ran for 10 days between the end of the Spring Semester and the beginning of Summer Session I. All I have to say is that my life was that class for those 10 days. Everyday for 10 days I had class from 8am to about 5 or 6pm. Yes that class was rough, especially the first day where it as just 8 1/2 hours of lecture. That was a killer. The other 9 days weren’t as bad, it was either a mix of lecture and field trips or just field trips. The different places we visited was the Ref-Fuel plant, an air traffic control center, reformed land sites, Paterson, NJ, Trigen, and 2 wildlife preserves. After all that I got an A. I would say that the 10 days were worth it, got a 4 credit class out of the way.

In summer session I i’m taking an Introduction to Business course. Class isn’t too bad, its actually not that hard, just a lot of reading. For some reason everything that we’re talking about in class, along with the reading assignments seem to be sticking. I don’t have to study as intensely, like i ever study intensely. Had 2 exams so far and have gotten a 90 and 100. Now don’t go thinking I was studying like a mad man for that 100. I actually didn’t. I only studied, errr, crammed for the test 3 hours before hand. Like i said this stuff just seems to stick with me.

Enough of the recap. Today was just like any other day in class except that we had our reports due as well as do presentations on them. Wasn’t too bad, I was actually quite animate up there. Meaning that while others just stood there looking up and down I was making hand gestures and drawing figures on the board. I guess that’s from working and holding meetings with clients, vendors and managers where visual material helps get your point across.

On another topic, I washed Brownie today. For some reason he was just being a pain while trying to dry him. I really don’t know how these grooming places as well as vet techs get this done easily. Oh wells, that’s not my area of expertise.

Well that’s about it. Hopefully i’ll post some stuff tomorrow.

whew.. ok… missed my first class today, actually didn’t feel like going 😛 so i just stayed home being a bum. Thinking that my next class was at 2:30, i just basically bummed around the house. Then my pocket pc and outlook alarm rang saying that i had class at 2pm. Oh shit! i raced towards school cuz i had test today. Got to class 15 minutes late, the test was on Excel spreadsheets, fairly easy. Well too easy, finished in 10 min. Easiest 100 in a long time. Anyway, took a nice drive home.

There’s a going away dinner being thrown by Linette’s clinic later tonight. Hope its a good restaurant, I love free dinners.