this is me on paper or should i say the web...im really not like this in person...the voices in my head tell me that im pretty normal... ***************** UPDATE: i have disabled the link to the pics page...ill activate it when i get some pics on it...just check here for the status on it...

saturday laid out was basically...homework...lunch...homework...movie...homework...yeah it seems that i got a lot of homework done but i didnt...i spent that time organizing my stuff and doing everything else but my homework...i know you get the feeling also...you know you have work to get done but you just cant seem to get to it...oh well it means it just gets pushed at a later time...which is bad news for me...cause this whole week i havent done any homework and im already digging myself a ditch and school just started...i dont know whats up but i just cant seem to get into the swing of things...hopefully this will change in the next 48 hours or so...cause it isnt going to be any fun playing catch up...

for lunch i went to good ole subway...havent been there in a while so decided to check it out...man i get there and they got new bread, new sandwiches...they even cut the bread differently...the first two things i liked, the last one i didnt...the reason i say this is because with this new style of cutting (only one side is open) vs. the old style (the canal)...the new style makes the sub smaller...i remember it took me two hands to hold the thing together...now its resembling a hot dog...where are all the good food places going...enjoy them while you can cause next thing you know...itll be gone...

in between one homework session today, rick and i made it to "snatch"...man i cannot get enough of this movie...its gotta be one of the top movies ive seen recently...right next "crouching tiger, hidden dragon"...my brother enjoyed snatch just as much as me...if you havent seen this movie please go out and watch it now...this movie kicks ass...witty dialogue, awesome cinematography...whoa just had deja vu...
posted by ryan edu 1/27/2001

i have only one class this morning...its only an hour long...as i step outside of class it begins to drizzle...im thinking where is this coming from...it was fine this morning fairly, clear skies with no hint of rain...so after class i meet up with some people from bio lab to exchange some info...as soon as we're done with that the once drizzle is now pouring rain...just great...i dont have my umbrella or a jacket...i just have this nice cozy sweater that ends up soaking up the rain like a sponge...ahhh...

after lunch i go shopping with my sister rosanne...coming this tuesday is our moms birthday...we go to the navy exchange looking for this mini chopper thingy...my mom first saw it during christmas at my grandma's house in san jose, it was a gift from one of my aunties...as soon as she saw it she knew she could use one of them so we thought it would make the perfect gift...too bad she has to work on her birthday but she'll have a suprise waiting for her at home that day...

at night my sis convinces me to take her and her friends to the movies...the rain hasnt stopped so it took me a while to be convinced...i ask my brother rick if he wanted to go watch "snatch" and he agrees...so we get there and the parking lot is packed...i end up dropping them off and parking in another stores parking lot...when i step inside the theaters, my sis and her friends are already watching the wedding planner...i step in line to buy tickets but then i realize that the movie started at 730 and its already 745...my bro didnt want to watch anything else so we ended going home...well my friday night didnt go as planned...i guess its "snatch" on the morrow then...
posted by ryan edu 1/26/2001

*ring*...my alarm goes off and its still dark outside...ahh it must be thursday...my 730 class today...oh yeah...so i struggle to get up, you know the feeling...your body is use to the warmth and coziness of the bed and blankets...when you lift up your covers, the rush of cold air attacks your body...the first steps on your carpet are an icy one...even the door handle of your room door is freezing...ahh but when you reach your bathroom...to rub out those "eye boogers" and brush and gargle that oh so funky morning breath...the warm blood begins to flow within...but my brain doesnt function so well in the morn...it has simple commands and wants..."get food, stay warm"...yeah my gray matter doesnt start kickin into gear until 9, i think i mentioned this previously...

well so after breakfast with a cup of hot cocoa...i feel satisfied and warm but what do i end up doing...sitting in my car thats like a friggin freezer...its colder inside the car than the outside...and with my luck, the heater in my car doesnt work...so i have a choice of cold or colder to blow in my face...hmm i need to fix it or invest in a ski mask or something...heheh thats a funny picture...wouldnt you think "what the hell!?" if you saw someone with a ski mask driving in the next car over...the ski mask would probably be a bad idea...

my bio class is only an hour and a half but i have a 3 hour gap till my next class...i go home eat some more and sleep...my next class is bio lab...the capacity of the room is 22 and there is like 34 people in there...my professor says its "cozy" but im thinking were sardines...how in the heck are we supposed to do labs when you have no room to work with...hopefully in the next couple of weeks, people will start to drop out cause it was a nightmare for our first lab...there was not enough equipment so we had lines to wait...there was contamination by some students...breakage of glassware...i was surrounded by idiots i tell you...and guess what we were dealing with during the experiment...e. coli and staph...someones bound to get sick...

well at night me and chris get together to spend our last moments with our buddy dan , whos going back to frisco on saturday before school starts up again on monday...the plan is to watch snatch...while we are at dan's pad, jeremy swings by to drop off something...we pressure him to watch the movie cause he had plans on studying for a quiz the next morn...heheh you got to love those friends who pressure you...

"snatch"...what a weird title for a movie...whenever i hear the word, its used as a sexual reference...so the whole night we were using it that way...when i go to the ticket booth, "one snatch please"...you had to be there...anyways the movie was so kick ass...witty dialogue, awesome cinematography...im definitely watching this bad boy again...

well to cap off the night we head back to dan's pad to watch the video of that snowboarding/carne asada saturday we had......so we pop in the tape into camcorder and watch...we laugh all the way till about 1am...we end the night cause all of us except dan has got school the next morning...
posted by ryan edu 1/26/2001

wed-nes-day...hmm thats what i think in my head whenever i write it down...eventhough we pronounce it "wensday"...same thing with cham-pag-ne or "shampain"...ive heard from many individuals that english is the hardest foreign language to learn...we have so many stupid rules, silent letters, and different ways to pronounce our vowels...well if you think about it, sometimes we cant even get it right...

ahh i love having class at 1030 in the morn...my body and mind are ready to take on anything at this time...when i have a class at 730 its totally the opposite...im struggling to stay awake and im wishing that i was in bed...but whats weird by the time class is over my body and mind is energized...so what im thinkin my prime learning time is from 9am and on...everything before that doesnt register cause im still in sleep mode *zzZzZ*...

chem was refreshing this morning...my professor realized that she was going lightining fast the first day and decided to take her time and review what we were supposed to learn that day...the second time around, it was more digestable and im thinkin the majority of the class along with myself picked it up...physics at night wasnt too bad...we started our first lab and for the second day, my professor is still acting normal...something changed him during the course of last semester...im just waiting till he flips out or goes beserk...
posted by ryan edu 1/24/2001

haha...my second day did not start off as great as yesterday...i have a 730am class tue thur and i specifically asked my sis to wake me up the same time she gets up...that way i would have ample time to eat and get ready...this morning i dont hear my alarm, and better yet the sound that i hear is my bro and sis leaving the house...this puts the time at about 640am...whats going through my head is that i have to get ready and be out the door by 7 to stand a chance of finding a parking spot and still getting to class on time...so i weave through traffic, find a decent parking spot, and end up making it to class with time to regain composure...

as i look around i notice half of the faces there are all from last semester...this meaning that the other half of the class failed or couldnt fit this class into their schedule...im suprised that i was even sitting in the class cause i was putting up C's and D's on my previous bio tests...all i could say, is that my teacher last semester is a saint for giving me a C...if he didnt i, well i wouldnt be calling him that but i wouldve definitely been pissed to have to see his face again for another entire semester...so everything so far is going as planned...

well that was my only class today and i spent the rest of the morning talking to nellie and jeff during their wait for their classes to start...afterwards i purchased the book i needed for my physics class...150 bones for one friggin book...they're raping me i tell you...can you believe the prices of textbooks and the amount you spend every semester or quarter...its outrageous...and guess what happens when you try to sell your books back to the bookstore...they only give 30-40% of the price you paid or even less...and then when you go back to the store, they resell the book for about 80% its original price...a vicious cycle it is but they are making money...so what i decided to do is resell my books on my own...its a little more work but you get a hell of a lot more money back than selling it back to the store...

well the rest of my afternoon was pretty chill...i took my leisurely nap which ended up being a good 2 hour sleep...awake and ready i get a call from a friend who wants to take me to a company overview...i think why not...i get there and im introduced to an appealing business opportunity...i like what i see...and i think i might get into it...hey who knows where it might lead...
posted by ryan edu 1/23/2001

the first day back at school and i could say that it went pretty smooth for me...my first class was at 1030am so i had lots of sleep and lots of time to get ready...i had a stack of pancakes and a tall glass of milk for breakfast...my belly is full and im ready to go...there really is no traffic at 930am going south so the drive was fine...the only thing that worried me was parking because its a nightmare at my college...in order to get parking you either have to drive very aggressively, ask someone if you could take them to their car, or block up a lane and wait for someone to leave...and especially the first two weeks of school it's horrific...but the clouds parted for me and someone up there was smiling down on me...*cue the celestial music*...a parking spot opened up for me as soon as i entered the lot...well aint that something...things were just going my way...

its crowded on campus...i kinda like it because its really not like this the remainder of the semester...people fine tune their schedules and find their niches and it seems everyone disappears...thats the way it works i guess...well my first class was chemistry...the professor was brand new to the campus and totally did not waste any time to start crackin'...she handed out her syllabus and then began lecturing on a chapter...i was like, damn no transition time or anything...usually the first day is go over the syllabus and find out about your professor...not on her agenda apparently...well i noticed a few familiar faces from last semester and whole bunch of new ones...this is what makes college fun, the people you meet and get to know...

well that is my only class in the morning...but once again i have a dreaded night class...yeah im taking physics at night...i tried so hard to not schedule a night class but i couldnt get around it...they offered only one section of a particular biology class i needed, so im stuck with physics at night...oh and i was suprised by my professor...i had him for physics lab last semester before i dropped physics all together...my first impression of him last semester wasnt a great one...he literally came strutting into class with his chest stuck out and his chin slightly raised...he was so arrogant and so full of himself...he thought he was the best thing that ever happened...needless to say i didnt like him from the git go...and he talked like he knew friggin everything...negro porfavor...well tonight he wasnt like that at all...he walked in and was pretty much normal...looking forward to the semester and wanting to have some fun...im not sure if he's changed...it might all be just a facade that hes putting up in the beginning and maybe later in the semester he'll return back to his oldself...hey who knows, the semester just started so ill just have to wait and see...
posted by ryan edu 1/22/2001

sunday...the last chill day i have before i start school again...thats the way i would have wanted it but no, my dad had other plans...i was basically working on my two computers today...the one in my room is the most recent...and the one upstairs is the crappy packard bell that we got about 6-7 years ago...all its good for is word processing cause thats all it could handle...i cant believe i used that friggin monitor...you need a magnifying glass to see anything on it...i was so embarrassed when friends would come over and use my small ass screen...anyways so upstairs i was trying to add a larger hard drive...that didnt work out too well for me...some computer jargon appeared on the screen that i didnt understand...that took up pretty much my whole afternoon trying to figure what the hell was going on...and so back downstairs my dad was convinced that we could, rather i could get the scanner working...i tried telling him but he wouldnt listen...damn the stubborness...

the night wasnt all wasted though...my sister and i went to watch charlie's angels...it was her first time watching it and my 4th or 5th...ill never get tired of watching that movie...i think ive said it before but ill say it again...im praying that they make a sequel...them 3 fine women...yowzers!...well i must get to bed now...need some sleep for the big day back to school...
posted by ryan edu 1/21/2001