tonight i went to nathan's bachelor party at sing sing in the irvine spectrum. it is a 21+ place where you get to sit and watch two professional piano players play anything you request. there are mostly older people in their late 20's through late 40's so the music that are usually requested are classic rock songs. they have these pieces of paper where at your seat you can write down the song, walk up there with a tip, and place it on the piano top. and for some reason, lots of bachelors and bachelorettes go there. since it was my first time there, that place is probably for special occasions. just to let you know, the pianists are rude people, they swear, make fun of you, talk about sex all the time and shine a light on you if you look bored. i requested a song for nate, so nate had to walk up there and be made fun of. everyone shouted at him "dont do it!!" and called him a bitch, whore, slut, but in a funny way.

after i left the place, i went back home and prepared for my leg workout at midnight. cant miss anymore days.

Its tool time:

Once or twice a year, the bathtub drain gets clogged with hair and as you know I shower a long time, the water level rises. After the water slowly drains out, the suds gets left over and its not a pretty picture. i would have to clean it up, scrub the walls, etc. Then in order to fix the problem, I would un-wine a clothes hanger and bend the tip into a mini hook, stick the hook in the drain and pull out gunk. This was smelly, dirty, and had a nasty feeling to it. It made me want to gag everytime i took a whoof of it. So, for the past couple months, i have been lazy and just let the water level rise and everytime i got out of the shower, my feet would be wrinkled. i just let the water go away by itself. I couldnt take it anymore so yesterday before school, i decided to pour the remaining bottle of nair into the drain and let it soak overnight. then after i woke up and came back from school, i turned on the water and the water still wasnt draining. I lost hope. Later on that night, i took my normal long shower and again, the water rose to extreme levels. i must have taken a 3 hour shower. i got frustrated and i used my foot and stomped on the drain a few times hoping it would force the water down. then suddenly, a miracle happened and the water started to drain like crazy. i was mezmorized and was happy at my accomplishment. So boys and girls, next time your drain becomes clogged with hair, use NAIR.

maritza: first of all she is way smarter than me. she is a golden key society officer for the past 2 years. means that she is top dog and has high honors. i knew i shoulda joined that club although it may mean picking up trash at huntington beach or dancing with senior citizens but its too late now. she is a business marketing major and will graduate (on time, unlike me) this quarter :( she is active in school clubs and does community service on a weekly basis. she was a butterfly for halloween (see im not the only one who is immature) and her favorite hobby is shopping. i can already tell without asking. what more can you ask for in a girl? smart, pretty, and humble. now, when to ask her out?

news time:

Exercising their right under Utah law, serial killer Roberto Arguelles and Troy Michael Kell, a white supremacist who stabbed a fellow inmate to death, have chosen the firing squad over lethal injection and are set to die at 12:01 a.m. on June 27 and 28, respectively. Anti-death penalty forces are protesting, arguing that the firing squad amounts to cruel and unusual punishment. And the prison is bracing for large crowds of protesters. Utah's use of firing squads predates statehood in 1896 and is a remnant of the early Mormon belief that bloodshed is a required punishment for taking a life, said Richard Dieter, director of the Death Penalty Information Center, which says it is neutral about the death penalty but critical of its application. "Certainly no other state has continued its use or allowed people to choose it. It's the one thing that stands out," Dieter said. "It's part of the history, so there's a reluctance to change." The notion that murder must be atoned for in blood has never been part of official church doctrine, and the Mormon church has not taken a formal position on execution methods, said Robert Millet, Brigham Young University religion professor. The Utah Corrections Department is recruiting law enforcement officers for two five-person firing squads, asking the police departments in the communities where the crimes were committed to nominate volunteers. A hood will be put over the condemned man's head and a target will be pinned over his heart. The executioners will fire simultaneously from gun portals in a separate room at the inmate, seated in a chair about 30 feet away.

One of the five rifles will contain a blank so that no one will know who fired the fatal shots.

In 1992, Arguelles abducted and strangled Margo Bond, a janitor at a junior high school where he had been hunting for teenage victims. He also kidnapped, sexually assaulted and killed two girls, ages 13 and 15, and stabbed a 16-year-old girl more than 40 times. He was sentenced to death in 1997. Arguelles has repeatedly said he wants to die. Kell was convicted in 1996 of killing a black man, Lonnie Blackmon, at the Utah State Prison. Kell, serving time for a previous murder, stabbed Blackmon 67 times with a homemade knife in 1994. A prison videotape shows Kell shouting, "White power!" during the attack. (YAHOO)

i was downloading jackass the movie on kazaa. it was around 785MB and it took me the whole time i was sleeping. when i woke up to see if it was done, it wasnt because kazaa knows when you are idle and then turns down the bandwidth. so i waited an extra hour or 2. after it was finished, it turned out to be fight club. although i watched it before, i decided to watch it again. i didnt realize this movie was such an awesome movie till the second time around. if you like weird movies with twist at the end, youll like this movie. it is about having double personalities and not realizing it. thats all i can tell you because i cant explain the movie in detail. its full of twists and surprises and itll come together at the end.

another time i downloaded a movie like james bond, it was a european gothicporno. i got scammed.

today was just too hot. i was sweating in my pants and my legs felt all sticky. i had to stay on campus today to do my project. i always wait till the last last minute to do my projects because i get good grades like that and i finish them in one shot. i had a good 6 hours of good sleep therefore i felt really awake after french class. i got out of french class around 11:30am and headed to the agriculture building computer lab. i stayed in there for 2 hours to do part A and then i went to carl's jr to eat at the marketplace. it was my first time ordering a combo from them. after that i thought about going back home to do part B, but going back home would just make me sleep. the air conditioner is not probably on either and i didnt wanna cook. so i headed back to the computer lab and spent the next 4 hours in there typing up an essay. it was a 5 page essay double spaced without any BS. why, because nutrition is my specialty. i can write forever about nutrition and working out. my friend from northridge had a final in weight training and he had to design a workout plan for a high school football player so i did that for him and helped him get a 97%. it was a 3 page in-depth essay as well. he helps me on JAVA projects so its cool. im not a fan of essays, but when it comes to something i like to write about, its cool. it felt good finishing my project so early. i was happy and messed around for the rest of the night since my 4 hour class got cancelled.

first of all, my bodybuilding mood is coming back slowly after the week's rest. thanks to phillip and akash, i needed people to push me. like always, the only thing that is lagging now is my diet. i cant eat homemade food anymore. its just nasty (my own food). for example whenever i cook up something, itll take me about 4+ hours to finish. i dunno why, maybe its the distraction of the computer or TV. so im still wondering whether ill be ready for next year's competition. the thought of it is scary and it seems so close and i feel so unprepared.

SMALLVILLE was awesome tonight. just when clark is about to get inside lana's pants, he screws up. its funny to see lana and clark do some porno-style kisses up close. so we have 3 cliffhangers here: will clark return to smallville? will lex survive the plane crash? where did everyone go in the plane? we will have to wait 4 months before finding out these answers. too me this is way too long because its the best show ever made. you have a little dukes of hazzard here and a dash of superman.

ok today in class maritza was looking as fine as ever and here i go enjoying her prescence. she totally knows i dig her from all the eye games we play. the other day when she was presenting, i totally paid attention for the first time and understood the topic. she seemed like she was presenting to our table because she would just always look our way. maybe it was the tank top i was wearing, jk. how to describe her? an elegant chola. im serious, but shes different from the rest of the cholas. she is smart, she has the looks, the style, the figure and most likely, the performance. she wears high heel converse's and that already tells me she is cool. im gonna miss her after this quarter is over.

oh no! its gonnna be 97 degrees tomorrow unless you are already reading this on a wednesday. whats up with this weather? its bad for our skin, it dehydrates our bodies and its bad for our cars. i have to sleep naked like phillip now with my window open because im afraid i might drown in my sweat. my car is slow as ever now. feels like im hauling a boat. but as night time comes it feels normal. i prefer living in alaska than this death valley. there should be a law allowing everyone to walk around naked in malls, the streets, at school, etc. dont you think?

simon's life saving tip of the century: do not put nair on your arms unless you wanna look like a leper for halloween.

lets try this again:

pic of 4 great leaders

(from left to right) sadaam, hitler, stalin, OBL

after akash found a way to post pics i decided to investigate on how. here it goes:

pic of michelle branch and jessica harp at the roxy:

the weekend was full of adventure and theres no better way to end it than going to a michelle branch concert. i woke up at 10am and picked up paige, a girl i met on the message boards who i have never met or seen. she needed a ride there so i offered her one. her and i drove to hollywood to pick up sean and then we headed to east hollywood for the michelle branch party at a venue called hudson theater. over there was trivia and prizes handed out. i thought michelle was gonna be there like last year so i brought my guitar, but she didnt show up. so we ended up listening to michelle's new album and playing guitars for the crowd. we met up with more people who i have emailed to but never seen. micheal is a taylor guitar employee and he has offered me good advice on taylor guitars before i made my purchase. david is also on the message boards and he needed a ride from the party to the roxy, so i offered him a ride also. i felt like a bus driver picking up people i didnt know. mike drove from san diego and he hung out with us after the party. so it was me, paige, david, sean, and mike who went to grab a bite to eat. we went to California pizza kitchen and had an excellent table where the view of hollywood can be seen. mike was kind enough to treat us all to this $44 meal. after, we caravaned to guitar center on sunset to play some guitars and mess around with other things. we stayed there till 5pm and headed for the roxy. once we got there the line had about 50 people there already. there i saw old high school friends: eva, michelle s., david, cathy and some other people. waiting for the doors to open was torturous because i was weak for not having enough sleep and i was hungry. i sat down and took some short naps. sean didnt have a ticket but i wanted him to go in also. he had a lot of confidence that he can talk his way in. so he worked his magic and somehow got his way in. then at 7:30pm the doors opened and i went to the front of the stage a little to the left. more bad news, we heard she wasnt gonna come out till 9:15 so now i had to stand for another 2 hours. the good thing is they passed out these battery powered michelle branch necklaces that glowed blue light. at 9:15 she came out. i musta made eye contact with her once every minute of the show because no one really got into the music and they were mostly asian FOBS. michelle doesnt like FOBS. then like always i got a guitar pick handed from her and got a high 5. SOOOOO MUCH CHEMISTRY. once the show was over i was sad, but they passed out MB stickers outside and kelly osbourne was in front and i stood like a foot from her the whole time. i didnt wanna keep on looking at her so i turned my back to her but looked over every now and then. dont dog on her, she is cool. after that, we left and i took paige and sean back home.

who else was at the concert:
brittany murphy
rob zombie (yes its him)
rick woolstenhume (lifehouse drummer)

the trip to arizona was totally insane. insanely boring that is. i had a better time hanging out with the MM than the whole graduation thing. i wondered if we went there to help jackie fuel her popularity during the walk or to actually celebrate her success. i think its more of the popularity thing. that makes us sick. we did not see one sign of appreciation.

mesa, arizona, a place of kokopelli's, red rocks, and dumb white college kids all bundled up in the 100+ degree weather. these people have no place to hang out and are forced to go to one mormon dance to the other weekend after weekend. they try so hard to make it cool that they actually had the dance at an outdoor ranch with gravel as the dance floor. carrie, jerry, jason and i knew better than to dance to hip hop songs being DJed by a retarded whiteboy and a lame wannabe folk-punk band. no one danced and everyone stood around just because it was better than standing around at home. i wanted to start a brawl for fun because i think jason, jerry and i can take everyone down. and one more thing, frozen custard, someone's not-so-bright idea and an overrated desert that had us wanting to eat it. but after tasting it, it was the same crap as overpriced vanilla yogurt. this trip was a waste of $200. one thing i can take back from this trip was learning how to play pasoy dos, the card game.

if i were to point out the best time of the trip, i would say going to chandler mall and bonding with the walnut crew. (flying on the plane was just as fun because it felt like a top fuel dragster) jason and i had a great laugh looking at all the big, old, white women with huge flabby triceps!! im soo jealous that they have 30+ inch arms. freeloading steak at courtney's house was also cool because that steak was one of the best homemade steaks i have ever eaten. isolating ourselves from the ASU people was funny, because it totally stood out and we saw people looking at us like we were aliens. anyways i feel sorry for courtney being jackies roommate and i hope she will also see that soon.

the plane ride both ways were odd. its funny to hear the person next to you talk and meeting them. on the way to phoenix i sat next to a lady which is in her 40's. she kept on blabbering and being touchy on her subjects and i couldnt make her stop even with just nodding and uh-huhs. she told me that she was fired from her job and is gonna find her girlfriend in phoenix to start up a new business. it turns out that she wanted to start a clothing company for lesbian golfers. i didnt know how lesbian golf clothing looked like and i certainly did not ask her. she wasnt a lesbian but it does apply to what i learned in ebiz classes: originality in your product. she asked me what i was doing here and i said i was going to a graduation. after we got off the plane, she made it seem like she wanted to party with us and wanted to meet my friends. scary.

the ride back to LA, i sat next to a caucasian girl and her mom. the girl was around 4-5 years old and kept on bumping into me. i wasnt bothered because she was having fun. she looked out the window and identified these structures such as, the control tower, the runway, tugs, etc. she was a smart little girl and she even colored within the lines in her coloring book. before takeoff, her mom showed her the diagrams of proper emergency procedures and i remember her showing the yellow slide during a crash. her mom told her that people slid down the slide to get out of the plane. once she heard about the slide she asked her mom when the plane was going to crash so she can go on the slide and i started to laugh. then once the plane went from 0-60 in 2 seconds, she screamed with joy while i heard other kids crying. this girl thrives on speed.

and guess who wears a blue G-string?