Experiementing with food: BRIAN'S HALLOWEEN SPECIAL!@!@

Log start: 10:05pm October 31st 2009 HALLOWEEN


BRIAN'S HALLOWEEN SPECIAL!@!@

This was really annoying to make because i ran out of plastic knives and i had to bring out my secret weapon.... which can't see mankind...
but this was something i thought of while watching some SNSD videos xD
there's a drama that Yoona from SNSD is in called "You Are My Destiny" and in one of the episodes, she goes to a korean BBQ restaurant and orders BBQ, rice, and some other stuff and she mixes it all into a bowl and eats it. (and i will say that she looks cute eating it LOL)
after remembering that dish, i started to crave it, but i didn't have any Kimchi in my fridge.
so i went to the asian grocery around Stony Brook and got myself some kimchi LOL
i was surprised after i mixed everything together because it was something that i couldn't scarf down all in one sitting -_- so i split it in two! ta-da! for dinner and either a late night snack or tommorow's brunch
i don't know if i'll make this again, but if i think of my good ole' SNSD again and that episode comes up, i probably will. and it was just a coincedence that this halloween looking dish was given birth during halloween :p

ok so, the ingredients are as follows:
1 cup sticky rice
~15 pieces of MINI chinese pork & chive dumplings
2 spicy italian sausages (here i go again with the sausages -_-)
2 handfuls of Trader Joe's uncooked & unmolded VEGGIE PATTIES (i baught these because they were cheap and, to my surprise, they were actually not bad at all. it was just a bit too salty for my tastes)
~1/4 cup of kimchi? (I DUNNO, I JUST SCOOP FROM JAR AND DUMP INTO RICE)
~1 tablespoon of sweet & sour sauce
a sprinkle of chili soy sauce
a small scoop of chili garlic sauce (you asian ppl know what i'm talking about! those peppers that come with a green cap and a chicken on it lol)

and i think that was it...
cook everything, put it in a bowl and MIX!
pictures are below






HakoneDayDreamer, i think it needed more peppers

Experiements 2+3: "Nap Time" + "Sesame Noodles"

Log start: 3:27pm October 31st 2009 HALLOWEEN

Brought my beloved camera from home to the dorm so i decided to try that out. results: i love it! *hugs camera* you can even see the cheese sweating!
and FYI, i'm using sausages in most of my meals because they were on sale LOL


Nap Time:



THINGS USED:
1 box of Rice-o-Roni Rice Pilaf
2 spicy italian sausages
2 slices of swiss cheeeeeeeeeeeeeese

i had higher expectations for the rice pilaf -_-
but it looks easy to make and easier turned asian. next time i'll make my own pilaf -_- so look out for that!
other than that, i felt like this dish could use more.... things... in it. but the lack of ingredients is a problem >.> time to make a supermarket run!


Sesame Noodles <-- NEED TO CHANGE THE NAME LATER! (unless someone wants to think of a name, i'll credit you, LOL)




In this picture you will see the results of:
1 pack of knorr's thai sesame noodles
2 spicy italian sausages

you can see the results. i don't like this dish much though... i feel like i can do a better job than instant noodle quality.
the noodles were simply just noodle, soy sauce, just a bit of chopped peppers, sesame oil, sesame seeds, and just a bit of ginger
i can make that myself >;o


HakoneDayDreamer, i ran out of things to cook -_-

Three Cheese Asian Pizza

Log start: 10:07pm Octover 19th 2009

Experiment One: Start

So, quite out of the ordinary for me, actually making a dish to eat lol
it's very out of the ordinary because i have no where to cook :x
i'm too lazy to go downstairs to the basement in my building and usually i just don't care very much, but on sunday i wanted to make something funky and new to eat.

it didn't start out like that though, it started out with my just making rice with a chinese sausage in it. but then i got occupied and when i was comming back from driving ppl from the lirr, it sparked in my head >;o

and this is how it goes.

Ingredients:
1 cup of sticky rice
1 can of Cambells Tomato Soup
1 link of chinese sausage
2 links of spicy italian sausage
1 slice of Muenster Cheese
1 slice of Mozzerella Cheese
1 slice of American Cheese

and all i used to cook them were a rice cooker and a george foreman grill :D



experiments usually aren't that pretty <-- going to come back to haunt me later on
and since i thought of this on the spot, the actual preparation and cooking kinda took my imagination by surprise.

So, put rice in rice cooker and leave the chinese sausage on top and then wait for the rice to fully cook.
then i added a can of tomato soup into the cooked rice and i stirred until it was completely even.
then i flicked the rice cooker on to the cook position.
i don't know why i did this but i think it was to heat the tomato & rice combo up, lol.
then i cut the cheese up (har har har, cut the cheese xD) and spread it out evenly and again, i flicked it into the cooked position.

ok, rice is done.

then i sliced the two italian sausages in half so that it cooks faster on the grill and i plopped it on for about 4 mins on each side.

get a bowl and try and get the rice out on to the bowl with the cheese upright and then place the sausages on top!

Experiment One: End


here's a picture of the completed product, more individual pictures are posted on Facebook though so check that out if you have time.




overall, it wasn't bad, but it also wasn't great. i'm sure if i had more prep time then it would be better than letting my imagination run wild, especially with food. but this was a good run, i enjoyed the results.

Oh, and i gave the name Asian Pizza some thought after i thought of what to do lol.
i was thinking hmm... bread + tomato + pepperoni = pepperoni pizza!
so rice + tomato + sausages = asian pizza!

oh man, i amaze myself sometimes. LOL.

HakoneDayDreamer, i'll probably end up fine tuning it soon, hopefully.

When things start to get boring...

Log start: 1:07am October 19th 2009

energy... depleted... all my focus is on ESSAYS and MIDTERMS right now ~_~
still have 1 more midterm to worry about, then i can have a nice week to relax then it's back to hell again, *sigh*

But for those off times that i'm not busy, mainly weekends, there isn't much that you can do really. and when you do something to combat boredom, it can only stay fun for sooooo long

so what do you do when things start to get boring?
I do nothing.

such a simple answer, but it's not the answer i was looking for in myself. i expect better comming from myself, but the brain juice that's usually for creative things right now are being re-directed to a lot of studying :\
a lot and a lot of slow...and..painful....studying -___-"

WELL, for the time that i have to relax, if it's not entertaining guests, it's usually on the xbox playing rock band 2 with the suitemates.

well this weekend, we decided to take it up a step. someone purchased a set of perfect pushup pro this weekend. those things that you see on TV that rotate your arm when you do push ups so you get to move more muscles while doing them.

so we hit up the xbox, yeah.
and this time, it wasn't a battle against completing the song like it always was. this time, it was a battle against each other.

if you know the basics of rock band, this post is easy to understand, for those of you with no knowledge what-so-ever. sorry xD

so we started playing and we got our instruments. we played a song and after every song, the person who had the least percentage of notes hit was punished with 10 push ups.

oh yes, 10 push ups. FYI, pushups for a person like me, is pain waiting to happen. let's just say i did so many pushups i couldn't take a shower properly last night and all my activities today were limited to things that i could do with my arms below shoulder height.

painful indeed.

but there was one thing that i didn't notice until the latter half of playing the game. it was that i was at a huge disadvantage -_-
i'm usually on vocals and the mic is UNFORGIVING on expert. for guitar, bass, and drums, all you have to do is hit the notes on time. i'm not saying they're uber easy, it's just that i'm at a HUGE disadvantage when it comes to bet like these.

i can't explain it over words and i wish i had a camera good enough to VLog this. but this is insane x_x

i was practically the one doing push ups 2/3 of the songs lol. even on my best songs i would completely bomb it. Aiya.

that's what happens when things start to get boring. people end up in pain, usually me -_-
now if you excuse me, i need to get back to the homework i was procrastinating on all weekend long.


IN PAIN, HakoneDayDreamer

Perspective

Log start: 4:47am September 28th 2009

They say hip hop’s fallin’ apart
But that wont stop us from callin it art
Yea we gotta hold it down as a collective
And make sure that they see our (per-per-per-perspective)

Jin - Perspective

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First post in a long time, no reason not to post, i can't even tell myself why but i read an email today that sparked the need to blog again, something worth mentioning and not something like "OH HAY GUYZ I ATE CHICKEN TODAY, AND I WATCHED HOUSE. CYA TOMMOROWZWZWZWZW"

You get the point.

But the email today was pretty interesting if you look at it the right way.
So long story short, my mom and aunt went to Canada (lol moose ppl) for vacation to see their long-time-no-see classmates from back in the day China, yah.
They took some pictures that some of my relatives in China wanted to see, so they turned to me to send those pictures over the interwebz half way across the world to them.

The person i sent it to was my cousin who's like half a year younger than me. I met her when i went back to China for vacation the past winter. Horrible english speaker at that time btw :p (If you're somehow reading this later on when you DO know english, call me up or something, we'll have lunch!)

So when i sent a photobucket web address in the email, i wrote to her in Chinese. Typical, right? My cousin is Chinese, she lives in China, her main language is Chinese, therefore i communicate with her in Chinese!

Genius Brian, absolute genius. <-- self-flattery with no intent of putting myself down

So the instructions that i sent along with the email went something like "if you want the hard copies of the photos, just email me back and i'll send them over!"
In Chinese, of course.

A few hours later, i get an email back, and it's replied in English.

Maybe it's a bit hard to understand from someone that's not me... <-- just realized this after typing this far, but it must go on!

So i adjust to her by writing in Chinese, and she adjusts to me by writing in English! To me, at the time, it was incomprehensible. Just so many thoughts ran into my mind. The few main thoughts that ran into my head were,
1) she'd rather type in English to practice it because she's immigrating to Canada soon
2) she's making fun of me >;o
3) we both so thoughtful of each other that we try to make it easier for that person

LOL

a part of me wants to think it's #3 but then i lean to #1 and then i can sense some #2 in it.

Whatever it was (still haven't thought of a clear answer), i didn't know why it took me by shock when i opened that email.
it was just so weird to me that this happened.
Maybe i'm just thinking too much on it and the answer is more simple that i play it out to be, i hope it's that easy because i need to sleep, been thinking about it mostly all day. while i'm watching House, while eating dinner, even WHILE SHOWERING it was bothering me.

maybe similar things happen to you guys. some little things that take you totally by shock and surprise but it turns out that you were just overthinking it. because it sure as House making a diagnosis in every episode happens to me! <-- YEAH! READ THAT SENTENCE AGAIN! LOL. Grammatically correct, BY THE WAY. (hopefully)

But in the end, i guess it all comes down to our perspective. <-- see what i did there? :x


HakoneDayDreamer, HARDCORE STUDYING BEGIN! LALALALALALA NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! STOP PROCRASTINATING@@@@

Junior Year, continued

Log start: 2:29pm September 2nd 2009

So yeah, last time i was short on time so now i'm going to finish it.
One thing i wanted to talk about last post that i didn't have time to talk about was the food. VERY big change this year.
It seems like while everyone else has a budget cut, Stony Brook keeps getting ninja funds from nowhere and now they're finally using it. Thank you new President of Stony Brook, doing something for the students :D


The food this year has been pretty good so far, but it's only the second day so it might all change...

They redid a lot of the places and added a lot of extra choices to the menu. It's really amazing, i'm totally in love with this chopped salad that they offer around campus, it's $5.55 for a HUGE salad and it comes with 6 toppings, definately than me making one at the SAC and spending like 8 dollars on it, rofl.

So food is good, the campus looks kinda nicer too, i noticed that they did a lot of work on the plants and stuff, especially around Javits... now it looks like a bomb shelter hidden in a forest, rofl.

What else..... hmm

Oh, this year you can see that Stony Brook obviously over-admitted asian in general... so many more asians running around and the campus is so FULL. more undergrads have been admitted this year, definately. i get scared walking around the academic mall now because there's no place to walk xD

HakoneDayDreamer, ending early again because i want to take a nap. rushing through this post so i can SLEEP, sorry xD

Junior year, START!

Log start: 11:17pm August 31st 2009

Back at Stony Brook and finally got everything situated. Oh happy times, being at home has it's advantages but there's nothing like "living" on your own with some buddies with limited rules. Although they did make our building "substance" free.

*insert imaginary line here that has my thoughts about our "substance" free building*

So yeah, on the way bacl to Stony Brook, i was lightly crusing while exiting the Northern State Parkway and my mom was driving behind me when this white lady in her minivan wants to change lane.

One problem: i was right next to her.

Good thing i wasn't passively driving and i thought fast, quickly evade, pressed on my girly horn and gave her the evil eye while she does the classic "oh my" pose with her hand over her mouth.

I mean, seriously now, what the fuck? When i am Emperor of the world... i mean uhh... some high law making seat in the future i'll definately propose a law going like "MUST HAVE IQ OVER 90 TO DRIVE"

Well, this is a new school year and everything is going well so far *knocks on wood*
Not too much to write right now, pretty sleepy and i have a morning class tommorow, but i'll remember to write more tommorow! :D

HakoneDayDreamer, note to self: talk about campus food... again...

why i dont have nice things

Log start: 12:57am August 26th 2009

It's not that i don't want nice things, it's that my nice things get fucked up by people.

example 1: my car. side is all scratched up thanks so some long island wannabe thugs who thinks its cool to side swipe a car at the mall.

and now my brother, who i ENTRUSTED my pride and joy camera to, and now he fucks that shit up by leaving it uncovered on his desk so all his junk can stab the LCD touch screen to fucking pieces. he breaks EVERYTHING that i lend him. this guy needs to get a job so he can buy my stuff back before i kill him.

man vs man + nature

Log Start: 10:17pm August 17th 2009

I feel like i owe myself a lot. i've been slacking off on the blogging, mainly because there's just no time for me to blog. there are so many things to do during the summer besides work. and i have no time (or effort) to come and type up so many words after work, even if it's for my memories. But, good thing is, work is about to end. that means i can keep on re-capping since the last time i updated. and hopefully i can remember a majority of what happened.

because funny shit happens during the summer, i love it.

but for my first update since forever, id like to focus on today, mainly.

what's so special about today?
see, i believe in a cost/reward system for life, or at least myself. so i get bad luck one day, and then good luck on other days.
i've had some days with bad bad luck, but they're not worth mentioning. and i've also had days with good good luck, that is also... not worth mentioning.

But then there are days with shit OMGWTFFMLLLLLLLL luck. Which is today -_-

see, today was not a normal day at work. it's the final week countdown, which is what all the pool staff wait for EVERY SINGLE YEAR.
this year i've had the worse experiences with kids too, i've yelled more this year than ever, i've kicked more kids out, and i've wanted to kill more kids -_-

despite being a bad summer for me this year, i've also had pretty rough days like today.

Here we go, today started out as #5 on the countdown. 5 more days until the end of work, 5 more days until freedom, 5 more days until i go pig out somewhere and then resume my normal (ok i lie... not that normal) college life in stony brook in about 2 weeks.

first it's at work, i get a morning break, which is the worst and i haven't had one since my 1st year here. so i thought it'll be nice to go to red mango to get some yogurt. okay i'm good on time, i reach the parking lot and theres fucking no space. dead smack in the middle of the day, there is no space for me to park.

i come here any other day during the morning-afternoon hours. i find parking.
but not today, eh. so i come back to work a few mins late, get yelled at by the head lifeguard. nothing much. and then i become the messenger boy of the 40 minute teaching period.
i get called up to the office to talk about a kid who has ADD, and possibly downs and i have to sit there to come up with an excuse to tell the parent about how their kid has an inability to learn.

first of all, you're a bad fucking parent if you haven't realized that your kid can't learn shit. you probably call up the schools every week asking why your kid doesn't know how to count to ten or recite the damned ABCs. and then you blame it on the instructors that your kid can't learn.

meanwhile your kid likes kicking me in the fucking crotch and feeling up on the female lifeguards butt. sorry for your son being such a pervert at a young age. may he have a normal life when he grows out of the stage were he has to open his mouth all the time and lick every fucking thing he sees and then asks me why his foot tastes so fucking funny.

maybe you should shower him once in awhile or maybe you should be the one giving him more attention. i know women are trying to be independent and get a job and stick it up to the man. but if you let others take care of your child and then complain that they're doing a bad job. then fucking quit your job and pamper your son 24/7. maybe you'll know what it's like to watch little devils run around into walls because they "couldn't see it"

and to the fat little white kid who thinks he can swim because he passed my level one class. YOU'RE A FAILURE. YOUR PARENTS ARE A FAILURE and i hope you grow more independent. everytime this kid swims he burps in my face and laughs while i'm ready to fucking puke. i ask him what he ate and EVERY DAY it's something along the lines of "SCRAMBLED EGGS! and LOTS of them! i love scrambled eggs and sausage for breakfest" there's a huge problem if you're feeding your child this junk everyday. and then you don't know how to swim an claim that you dont need a floatation device.

so this kid takes off his bubble (the floaty) and jumps into the pool. Good game. sink sink sink *help help*


i remember saying to someone last year that the office upstairs give these kids placement tests and then put them in classes with similar IQ. because some of these classes are the smartest and best people ever and then some of these classes are full of fucking idiots.

So the kid i discusses with my boss is the kid who licks everything. she comes down from her office and watches this kid.
so i teach this class with someone else and while she's talking, i'm helping the kids with swimming. and then my boss has the guts to say "Brian, you're not teaching anyway, help this kid out. give him some private time so it looks like you're doing something"

that was it.

i wanted to fucking walk out right there.

i dont care if you're my boss, you dont disrespect your employees like that in front of children and co-workers and you especially don't assume shit because the last 3 weeks of camp i've been handling the most shit and i sure as hell am teaching and doing my job.

so i spent the rest of this period trying to teach this kid meanwhile he says "i can do it without the kickboard!"

i dont want to deal with kids anymore.

and then i get into a mini brawl with a female co-worker. worst day ever.
girls' best weapon are their nails. usually i'm fine with them and they dont hurt as much but today the chlorine was at 8.

oh right, let me tell you about the chlorine. The chlorine is considered "High" at 5 and the pool should be closed if it's any higher or if there's any poop or puke in the pool.
my boss, lazy as shit. doesn't close the fucking pool because she doesn't want the parents calling complaining that their child doesn't swim.

Fuck. because now we have to deal with the shit in the pool and it's the lifeguards bodys that are taking the damage. so the scratches break a layer of my skin and then the chlorine rushes in. i now spend the whole day in pain and the cuts are now swollen thanks to the chlorine.

and to top it all off.

after we breakdown the pool and we're ready to go home, i grab my waterbottle and theres a fucking bee on it.

now, i didn't know there was a bee on it because it was on the other side. i grab my bottle and as soon as i walk 3 steps the bee fucking stings me and now i can't move my middle finger on my left hand.

if anyone's been sting by a bee before (that was my first time) it hurts so bad. so very bad. you can't even imagine how bad it hurts unless it's happened to you. i'm lucky the stinger didn't get stuck in me or i would of broken something.

the venom of the bee just makes it hurt so much and my finger is still swollen. if i find the nest somehow i'm going to shoot water at it and then jet to my car. fucking bees, go back to making honey.


today is just a bad day overall. although the excessive swearing in this post does make me feel a lot better, my finger still fucking hurts, my cuts are still swollen and my hatred for stupidity as grown more.


HakoneDayDreamer, i'm going to raise my kids the right way. No fucking scrambled eggs in the morning, you're eating some noodles damnit!

Why the MTA/Port Authority are retarded.

Log start: 12:20am July 20th 2009

First of all, i'd like to say thanks for a great day at hurricane harbour guys! we had a minor setback at the end but it was still great. splish splash next time though.... hurricane harbor sux ballocks.

But what does this have to do with the MTA and Port Authority? Well, the MTA and Port Authority of NY/NJ are closely linked together. they're owned by the same greedy bastards and they both like to "monopolize" various things. even thought monopolies are prohibited by law, but these so called "legal monopolies that are governed by the states" might not be that smart at all.
if these monopolies are indeed goverened by the state, then i'm choosing new people come election day this year.

But seriously. today, i went to hurricane harbor and then went to some place in NJ called Mr Sushi to eat. by the time i was rolling out of NJ, it was 11pm.
By the time i got near NYC, it was 11:30pm.

So i'm sitting in my car blasting music (because it keeps me awake :D i sang to keri hilson's song about 3 times... IT JUST HAPPENED TO BE ON THE RADIO, KAY? CHILL!)
and then the road splits into two.

one road says EXPRESS, George Washington Bridge: upper roadway. and the other one says LOCAL, George Washington Bridge + all local exits.

i'm sitting here thinking, i like upper roadways and i like express lanes, so i'll choose THAT one.
so yeah, i'm the only person in sight shooting down this 2 lane express track to the GWB until i get to about 3 miles near it. then traffic and POW. long lines back up for 3 miles.

I'm here thinking, LOLED which idiot fell asleep and crashed?
But i soon realized as i got nearer and nearer to the bridge that no one crashed at all.

I'm sitting here reading a sign ON THE "LOCAL" PART that says
ALL TRUCKS AND CASH UPPER ROADWAY and ALL E-Z PASS HOLDERS LOWER ROADWAY.

Then i say to myself: "F M L"

so 30 miles before when the road split, it didn't say any of this, because i have an ez pass and i would of gone the lower roadway, but they were too poor to afford signs that have some meaning to it.
instead, they spend money on signs that say "SIGN IN CONSTRUCTION"
Man, what the fuck? i don't need to know if a sign is in construction, I NEED THE FUCKING SIGN INSTEAD.

so for 3 miles, this gay 5-10 mph traffic slowly strolls to the bridge.
and for me, i never had a chance to even change my lanes...

And for real. It's fucking 11:30 at night, and you single out 90% of the population to the upper roadway.
Seriously? i mean, if it was rush hour, Yes, i understand that concept. BUT IT'S FUCKING MIDNIGHT.
how many cars have ezpass? apparently not that many. SO WHY CONJEST UP TO 3 miles of traffic at midnight? i dont get it... and they recently changed it too.

about the same time when they HIKED BRIDGE TOLLS UP TO 8 DOLLARS NOW. FUCK.
and the buses/trains to 2.25

so these retards who actually came up with the 24hr lower roadway ezpass only is going to put A LOT of people in hell.

midnight and it was backed up 3 miles, how is it during rush hour? ugh...

Someone from the port authority hire me, please.
because fist, you're doing something wrong to come out with more than half a billion in deficits and second, you're doing more wrongs now because you hire 12 yr olds off the books to do this instead of college educated people to figure this shit out.

I mean, SERIOUSLY?

HakoneDayDreamer, bunch of faggots.

New posters!

Log start: 6:48pm July 9th 2009

i've had my Girls Generation posters for awhile and i just put them up today! :p

the posters range just over my laptop when i'm sitting down, so everytime i look up, i can see all the smiling faces, LOL.
i sound so much like a creep :p

here are some pix!
larger ones posted on facebook.

Categorization of children through various stages in life

Log start: 7:08pm June 30th 2009

Children. Some are cute, yet some are so bad you want to punch them in the face. But you can't since that's "wrong."

But the focus here is why they're so cute and why they're so bad. As a swimming instructor, i believe that we see the best and the worse of kids. Kids who normally wouldn't do something would suddenly EXPLODE when they get in the water and kids who are normally loud as those asian construction workers at 7 in the morning who would suddenly lose their pride and cry the loudest in the room.
but what does that have to do with anything?

Well listen up. i am an instructor, and i work for the camp during the summer. weekend lessons are okay but summer camp is the craziest thing ever. the cute little 4 to 7 year olds that i have in the shallow end are the first people who will be analyzed.

We'll name this category as Children.
These children have the ability to be the cutest little people ever and at the same time, they have the ability to be the most annoying little brats ever.
during the course of the day i teach a few of these classes of these children and some are so cute you can pinch them in the face and they'll start laughing and then go about their odd worldly lives. and these are also the children that won't listen to a fucking thing you say.

4 to 7 year olds have not yet enter the society yet because some of them have not been in kindergarten or 1st grade yet.
And before they enterered kindergarten or the first grade, their greatest influence are their parents, who love them.

And you see, this is the problem. My theory is that the children who get an equal share of love and ass-whooping from parents turn out to be cute and cuddly. like my little asian peoples in my classes. some of them are the cutest ever. and then there are parents who love their kid too much, SO much that the child will only listen to them and not to anyone else, mainly their LIFEGUARD.
one of my classes later in the day has a class where i think the kids will ONLY listen to their parents and not other people. kids who are so riddiculous i would snap at and probably break something... (over their heads)
but you know... i can't -_-

these kids you tell them something and they'll do whatever the fuck they feel like.
i'm here thinking to myself, am i doing something wrong? maybe it's the way i teach?
but i soon realize that it is not the problem.

for my children-classed classes on the weekends, they listen to everything i say and they do exactly as they are told. but for camp they go around jumping and jumping and they let go of the wall to go under the water and then they get scared and crys.

to my own defence, all the lifeguards are told to tell the children to ALWAYS stay on the wall unless the lifeguards tell you to do otherwise.

and then my boss blames us that they're running around like fucking ADHD infested lunatics screaming and splashing. Yeah, like ONE PERSON could handle about 10 screaming children. Please get real.

These children then advance to a later staged named Kids.
i notice that children and kids are the same thing but in urban terms, children are younger than kids. and kids are just a little more mature. and when i say just a little, i mean the difference of a droplet of water in a gallon of water. Ok, i'll just some kids a teaspoons' difference.

So, kids.
From the children stage, the quiet and obedient ones usually become better swimmers than the kids who just run around having fun.

It's like those who study, get a high grade, those who just sit around and play, fail. but there are some exceptions, as always.

In swimming we rate a kid based on their ability to swim on a scale of 1 through 6, 6 being the highest.
Usually, kids aren't levels 5 or 6 yet so i'd say that the good kids end up becomming a level 2 or 3 while the A.D.D. kids stay at a level one with a life jacket or a floaty or something.

Although, do keep in mind that some children and kids start later than everyone else. And hear me out here, after the age of 7, you start to develop more rapidly due to hormones, and that only adds to the problem.

Now, by this stage. the kids who know how to swim will advance quickly and then the kids who don't listen will ALWAYS have trouble holding on to the wall or wont do what you say correctly. but at least, at this point, the kids all listen to you.
the main problem with these kids is that it takes A LOT of shouting to get it across to some of these kids, while some of these kids can listen and execute everything you say, some you really have a hard time dealing with. Ok, so that takes cares of the kids.

The next level are the adolescents.
These kids are 12 to about 10 years old.
These kids have seen their fair share of family and the outside world so they know what's going on around them. these kids are the most obedient out of the bunch and they listen to everything you say. only problem, they get bored fast. so fast that when you're sending kids off one by one to swim, the person who just came back goes "OMG WHEN DO I GET TO GO AGAIN?? CMON!"

Yeah. here, the kids who listened when they were children, tend to be level 3-5 swimmers while the failure children group start from lvl 1-3
So this group is the best group out of the bunch, but then... what about the teens?

Teenagers. ages 12-14 (in camp)
These kids are the ones who have seen TOO much of the outside world and they start to rebel.
they try to rebel so hard that they always try to get what they want.
me - "okay guys, butterfly there and back. GO!"
some of them - "OMG! BUTTERFLY IS SO HARD!!! can i do freestyle?"

Even the kids who started off as angels here turn for the worse.
these kids listen to you, but they always have something in their mind like "lalala, i'll just listen to him or else i'll be in trouble!"
The obedient children level up to the equivalent of a person who can do things and also give a little extra.
the bad children eventually learn how to swim but then they learn to think outside the box.
the make fun of others to higher their self esteem and they do things like swim to the bottom of the pool when i clearly tell them to stay on the wall. and these are also the kids that are going to flip and turn on the diving board when i tell each and every single one of them to no flip or turn.
these kids are not the worse because you can figure out their next move because you were once them. but the straining yourself to figure them out part is the only turn-off about it.

from a scale of best to worse, the scale would definately be something like.

Good adolescent -> Good teen -> Good child -> good kid -> bad teen -> bad adolescent -> bad kid -> bad child.

Different stages of a child's life.
first hand experience comes at a hefty price.

experience that i've built up over the years in the profession, just tips to make the world spin a little bit smoother.

HakoneDayDreamer, a paycheck for two days came in :D time to treat myself to a large frozen yogurt and red mango instead of a medium! XD

It must of been that darned black cat!

Log start: 10:39pm June 29th 2009

I think it was last week, i slept pretty late, at like 3 or 4 something and then i was rudely awoken by some screeching noise outside on the streets. So behind the safety of my curtains, i peeked outside to see wtfizzle was going on.
To my amazement, it was 3 cats running around chasing eat other.

My inital assessment was that it was 2 male kitties fighting over a female kitty. But the thing is, all three of them were black cats. and whenever i go around my neighborhood meeting those black cats. bad things happen.

So on sunday afternoon, the mount a34 peeps minus an old person went to see the new Transformers movie, and let me tell you, it was a good movie :D

And i went to Flushing Meadows Corona Park to pick up Mok, i had to detour a bit because the cops were stealing all of the parking spots that weekend for the subway series. so i went around and around driving around the park AT SPEED LIMIT. when suddenly THIS CRICKET PLAYER RUNS THE FUCK OUT OF NO WHERE CATCHING A BALL ON TO THE DAMNED ROAD. i slammed my breaks and managed to stop about 3 feet away from him and he just gives me this shocked looked. as did all of the indian people that were on the field and family that was watching from the side.

MAKING ME, looks like the bad guy.

Either way you look at it, IT WASN'T MY FAULT. To be honest. It's like you're fasting and then you get tied up and get fed a hamburger. he was RETARDED for pulling that and those people stared at me like i was a fucking criminal almost running over their over achiever who has no fear but is in awe when a fast car almost runs him over.

And today at work. Omg, work.

This is my fourth year working for Queens College. FOUR YEARS. last year i had the best schedule ever. i had some horrible kids, but i also had amazing kids that i loved to teach each and every day.
but this year, i am ranked 4th in seniority out of 17 people and i get a shit schedule with kids that are just... KIDS. stupid little munchkins that think they know everything. I know that i was once like that and thinking back, i hated myself for being what i was.

So i am in the water about 7 out of 10 periods a day. and on top of that. newcommers who were just hired, get a better schedule than i do!
and my kids... ugh... i'd hate to get started on them..

me - "hey kiddo, i'm going to test you now, okay? do you know how to swim?"
kid - "of course i do! i have a pool bigger than this in my house! i swim in it everyday!"
*self thoughts - either this kid is the most honest kid i've ever met, or retarded and will sink to the bottom of the pool like 100% of the kids i ever taught"

so you know, i thought that i would take a chance, i like to prove myself wrong sometimes.
so i'm like "ok little guy! slide into the pool, do freestyle to the lane line and then backstroke back to the wall!"

kid jumps in, sinks to the bottom, i face palm myself while having a minor heart attack and then pull him up.

FML, right?

EVERY SINGLE KID IN THAT CLASS. sunk to the bottom. imagine how pissed i was. i was the only person teaching in that section, i and get the worst swimmers in history.

and now i get to prune myself even though i'm an old timer there.
there better be soem justice by the end of the summer or i wont come back next year. i guarantee it. i'll just work with my friends in the city parks. THEY GET PAID MORE, THEY WORK LESS, AND THEY ENJOY THEIR WORK MORE.

i dont fucking enjoy shit anymore this year! we get no free lunch, my break is in the morning, and i dont even have kids that i like.

i'm sorry if i sound so negative this post, but nothing's been going the Brian way this week except for one thing today, which i will share at a later time which involved some frozen yogurt :p

but overall, it's a shitty week waiting to get more shitty :\

OTAY GUYZ! ONLEE SIRTY ATE MOAR DAYZ TO GO! <--- chinaman impression


FUCK! AND I FORGOT!
my damned airbag lights turned on today, i dont know why. and my inspection is due by the end of july, and i'm working all of fucking july. WTF IS THIS SHIT??
i can't get it checked out at the dealer because then i'll have no ride to work, and i dont want to take off from work because that's a lot of money. but then i need to pass the inspection so that my car is road legal. WTF IS THIS SHIT!>

HakoneDayDreamer, i need to sleep tonight and catching some luck in my sleep.

As pigs take flight in the sky

Log start: 8:33am June 25th 2009

Today, i woke up and witnessed the most riddiculous thing ever.

So i woke up about 3 minutes ago, and my usualy morning routine includes getting off my bed, moving my cell phone from next to my head to the computer, turning on the computer, and then opening my curtains for some morning sunshine goodness.

Today, all was well until i opened my curtains to let to sun in.

As i finish looping the knot for my curtains, i saw a student driver drive into my block, on the wrong way.

Now listen here for a second, my block is a one way. And somehow, the student driver, as retarded as he is. Missed the do not enter sign.

It's one thing to miss the do not enter sign, but i think something is wrong if you travel more than half the block, not knowing that you're in a one way.
I mean, shit, all the cars are FACING THE SAME DIRECTION!?

I think that if you don't know which way the cars are facing and you just drive in that direction, you shouldn't be able to touch a car at all.
if you can't tell which way the car is facing, go read that little manual that they give you at the time you register for car school.

and that instructor is also one of a kind, letting his student go down a one way, unless he didn't know himself, that's even worse! he should lose his fucking teaching license and his drivers license.
make that loser take his road test again!

what a nice way to start off the day...

HakoneDayDreamer, i'd take a pair of scissors to my license if i drove down half the block not knowing which way the cars are facing.

As time moves on

Log start: 2:04am June 25th 2009

Something tonight just makes me think of the past as i was listening to one of G.E.M. Tang's new song (in chinese: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2e4aNNX_88&feature=channel_page )



The name of the song is entitled All About You. The lyrics are pretty good but the music that goes with the song would definately be something that you would put into a happy flashback or in a high school senior video that shows the four years that you were there. If you can't catch what i'm saying by now, there's no other way to say it.

But look, today i thought about the past and i started to remember all the good times i had and how i wished that i could relive them. this odd feeling that i usually don't get was sparked by GEM's song >.>
i don't know why it happened though, i usually don't like thinking about the past. not that i don't like it, but everytime i think about the past, i can see past regrets here and there that i wished i did something and then there are things that i wished i didn't do.
i know that people should live their life with no regrets, it's being preached all over the place.
Good job, preachers, you're all fucking losers.

The truth is, not one of us can look back and not regret something. maybe i'm just talking about myself here but if i look at a lecture hall from the front of the room, looking at hundreds of faces, i probably won't be able to find someone who didn't regret a past decision.
simple.

but why is this post entitled "As time moves on"?

One part of the "you should live your life" is true. but that's only 100% true if you're doing whatever you can to fix the wrong. and let's be honest guys, none of us will do that, it's just not practical.

so as time moves on, we think about the past and we just sit there and kick ourselves in the butt. i do it too. all the time. trust me.

there are SO many thing that i wish i did... so many things... that you just regret once you lose the chance to do it.

but as time moves on, what can a person like you and i do at all?
happy or sad, we look back smiling and crying because it's all over with. there's no way to relive it except in our memories.
i can't even bring myself to complete something that i haven't finished doing.

see, this is why i don't like thinking about the past. even if there are happy thoughts, i do not believe that you have more happy thoughts than sad. i really don't think it's posssible.
maybe it's just me, maybe i'm just a little senile.

i dont know what went wrong with this post, i had something to write about in mind but my thoughts just got carried away and now i don't remember what i originally wanted to write. it's so frustrating sometimes.

HakoneDayDreamer, use time wisely, for it is the only thing that you cannot have enough of.

The power of advertisement

Log start: 9:57pm Saturday June 20th 2009

Usually i'm not one to fall into advertisement. When commercials come on the TV about feeding children elsewhere for a month with just 5 dollars, i say to myself "what...the...heck...?"

Some people might find me cold and heartless, but i just dont understand why.
i am well aware that there are people who are less fortunate than i am, yes.
if you want to donate and care for those children. go ahead.

but listen here. what happens to them after they live off your 5 dollars? ask more people for 5 dollars? live on welfare and the bread of others?

THINK ABOUT IT.

Some of them DO have a chance to succeed, but i feel that the chance of them comming out of their social sphere is little to none.
So you would let them grow up to reproduce, and then let their child live off of donations too?

WUT?
i know it's heartless, but i'm not telling them to go die either, i'm telling them to go get a job -_-

Or that was what i thought.

Until Girls' Generation came along. <---- nice life brian, you're mad ghetto

SNSD did a section last winter where they were going around a busy street collecting money for starving children in various places including north korea.
and their facial expressions were just like OMG <3
because it was like

"1000 won (1 USD) can let a starving child eat for a week!"
and then they go on signing autographs for people who donated, and then this group of high school girls were like SCREAMING when they saw them and was like OMGOMG I'LL DONATE.

And then i thought to myself.

Yes, i would donate to them and feed them for half a year if SNSD came to flushing, and walked around the streets asking for donations.
i know it's a little sad, but... ok look. what if someone that you really enjoy (chose my word carefully) came up to you with a puppy face asking you to feed children for a month?

i'd be like, fuck, where's my camera hold on hold on
HEY GUYS, TAKE A PICTURE OF ME DONATING TO A GOOD CAUSE, NEXT TO MY FAVORITE GIRLS BAND, SNSD. REMEMBER TO GET ALL NINE OF THEM IN THE PICTURE.

The power of advertisement. powerful in deed.

enough to change a mans words.

for a second at least........

HakoneDayDreamer, WHY MUST YOU PLAY ME LIKE THIS!? oooommmggggg SNSD >.> >.> >.> >.>

Man vs Nature

Log start: 10:05pm June 19th 2009

Before i start, i'd just like to point out that tommorow will be the second saturday of swimming lessons for the summer term and i'd just like to point out that i'm REALLY starting to get old. like i can't even not admit it even if i wanted to <-- beware of double negatives.
i would teach beginner swimming (level 1) and these would be kids that age from 9-14, meaning they won't cry or anything and they'll catch on fast fast fast. well these level 1 kids that i taught last week during the first lessons, they advanced so fast that i wanted to send them down to the deep end with their kickboards, that's how uber they were.
but then i would get tired, because that's like me swimming back and fourth 20 times to let the 10 kids have a go around the pool once -_-
jeez, it's very tiring, trust me. thank god i'm getting paid more for lessons, i know why... you do more damn work. Aiya.


So, Man vs Nature. Allow me to explain.

Today, i went fishing.
Simple?
I think not.

Today my friend wanted to go fishing, so i went with them. if i heard correctly, there was also a raft involved. so my natural response was to not wear sneakers, and since i'm all about sandals, i thought that it was my time to rule.
But nope. As soon as we get there, theres a sign that says you need a permit to boat... (later found out that you only need a permit for MOTOR boats, but you also need lifejackets. which didn't make sense because 3/4 of us are lifeguards...
silly park rangers...

So me, only wearing sandals. is left to a disadvantage at the moment. because there was a nice hiking trail that led us to a nice fishing place, away from the docks and other people. i've never hiked with sandals before, when i was a chibi little kid, i used to go hiking with my mom and i'd have my own little waterproof boots going on and i'd use to keep up with the hike leaders and long time hikers because, you know, not bragging or anything, but i'm a natural at this hiking business, LOL.
back in the winter when i went to china/vietnam, we had to hike up this MOUNTAIN and all i had were my sneakers, so it took awhile to get adjusted to, because my sneakers are adjusted for comfort, not sport mode. but then it took me like 30 mins to get used to and from then on, i'd just blitz up and down the mountain like a pro, running and recording video logs with my phone while people are slowly strolling up the mountain.

But sandals + hiking does not mix. i almost busted my ass so many times and these sandals i take to work at the pool, so there's no traction on there too... so i'm like slipping off the rocks ready to bust my ass. so i was the slowest one today -_-

but even then when we got to the first fishing spot, it was gay. there was so many mosquitos even when i put my bug spray on and the giant rock only had enough space for 2 people, and our lines would get caught on the trees then our second fishing spot... dont even mention that one... there were ripped jeans and a campfire with beer cans/bottles around. no doubt that people did shady stuff there... and then my friend starts poking the ripped jeans... LOL i'm like YO WTF LOL

then after 20 mins of fail, we trekked on the road to a BIGGER rock and this had enough space for a lot of people, so we all fished there.
at the end of the day, everyone ended up with a fish.... except for me... only the fish they got were like 2 inches so they just caught and released it.

oh man... if we were on the raft, i would of gotten some footlong fish for dinnah! lolol

man vs nature, it hurts. my foot is so sore, then tommorow i have to teach, aiya aiya aiya!

but then when i got home my bro was like "yo, you got some mail from korea"
i'm like lolwut, korea?

THEN I REMEMBERED THAT I WAS MY AUTOGRAPHED GIRLS GENERATION POSTERS.

i was like OMG OMG OMG OMGO MOGM OGMOMGOMGOGMOWGMWPEOGMEWOIGNEWGMWOGWEMG
and ran upstairs like a little girl to open the box.

awesome posters, i love them ^^v

i'll have some pics up on facebook soon after i stop staring at it, LOL.


HakoneDayDreamer, tip#19357 - Don't hike in sandals.

The music we all listen to

Log start: 1:32am June 14th 2009

I've always wondered why my parents listened to the artists they listen to, always. I was thinking to myself about a week ago, damn... i don't want my kids to think i'm uncool in the future and all... maybe i'll just evolve with them or something right?

I just realized the answer today that it might never happen for us.

Ok, so i was listening to Girls Generation the past week right, they're this korean girls band composed of 9 members AROUND MY AGE <--- key words

Around my age... the artists my parents listen to are around their age...
the stuff that my grandparents used to listen to.... are around that time period

and i thought to myself.

"SHIT SON! THE LEADER OF GIRLS GENERATION (Taeyeon :D) IS ONLY 15 DAYS OLDER THAN I AM."
and then all the rest of girls generation are either 19 or 20

and i thought to myself... no wonder why... i mean, it's not because they're so hot or anything you know.
but then i thought... what about my friends who liked music from like the 70s or the 80s?

so i came to a conclusion after some time that either they actually love the music (comparison to how some girls <3 older guys and vice versa) or they're going through a phase (comparison to how a middle school girl goes out with a high school guy just because they think it's badass for about *cough* a few days, ok i'll give them a month or two)


so i realize this, that i should find music from artists around my age.

i mean, growing up there weren't like teenage artists like now but you grow out of it because when you're young (well for guys at least)
it was like "OMG SHE'S SO HOT, I WANT TO BANG HER" and stuff
YES, i just let out a guy secret. keep it on the downlow

and these were older women! i didn't know any better back then, i still thought some girls had cooties!
and now that we're older and can actually think rationally, our dreams were crushed because as soon as we could think rationally, they got older. and to me, if you're past a certain age, you're just an old fart.

so i realize that i'm at a stage now that the music i choose are from artists around a certain age and will probably listen to them in the car when i'm old. and then my kids will make fun of me.... and i will take their internet away from them for making fun of me! XD

because growing up now, i have a cousin that's 13 living in my house and her mom (my aunt) goes, (in chinese) Brian, take his internet away!
and then he's like NOOOOOO I HAVE TO PLAY THIS GAME!

and i just see that evil smirk in my aunts face and i'm like... damn... lol

so i have come to a conclusion that the music that we choose to listen during our "golden age" will stick on to us and will be what we listen to when we're older

you might not agree with me now, i find it hard to believe myself after i've read this post over twice... but time will tell if this is true. i see it in a lot of people and that's the only similarity between everyone that i've seen this in...

it's... inevitable :o (spell check!)

i had a little story about some girl in her early 20s in a pink swim suit and a fat hippy but i decided to leave that out since it was totally inapproriate LOL

HakoneDayDreamer, i can't keep up with kids anymore... they have so much energy!

Associated Content: Picture v0.1

Log start: 8:56pm June 10, 2009


A Field Of Grass Within A Busy City


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HakoneDayDreamer

Collective driving rants v1.0

Log start: 5:09 pm June 2nd 2009

Every since i started going to school at Stony Brook, i feel that my driving is more calmed, relaxed, and more sophisticated. Compared to the driving in NYC, Long Islanders drive very cooly and they seem to drift with the wind wherever they go.
As soon as i come back to the city for a long vacation, i feel my old road rage habit come up again at full blast.
i constantly yell out (with my windows closed of course, and it's only me in the car)
"WHAT THE FUCK!? GET THE HELL OUTTA HERE MORON! LEARN TO FUCKING DRIVE!"
or
"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE? MOOOOVEEE ITTT!!!!!"
or my favorite...
"these kids need to learn how to fucking drive" (and i say it like i'm so much older than they are xD)

these habits... they just don't come to me naturally, they're forced on to me by the stupid people who barely passed their road test and still don't know how to drive after 10,20, perhaps even 30 years of driving.

So the main thing that jogged my road rage back happened about a week ago when i was driving my brother, my mom, and my aunt to flushing. i was traveling down jewish main street going towards flushing.
i had just passed the first green light on the 495(long island expressway) mini overpass bridge thing when suddenly. this old guy yells out the window. "WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING, LEARN TO FUCKING DRIVE!!!"
and i was eager to see who he was yelling at.
i was saying to myself "wow this guy must really be really bad" so i look around and saw no one around us.

and then my blood pressure shot through the roof as a stared him down going past him at 35mph.

The thing is, i wasn't even doing anything wrong, i was getting yelled at for driving correctly while he was blaming me for this stupid fucking mistake. LOL.
so this is how it went.

There are three lanes on each side of the over pass. the 2 right lines are to go straight and the left one is for turning left ONLY.
that wigger (sorry if this offends you... well, i'm not really sorry. you get the point... no racism intended) was on the left lane and apparently i didn't let him cut into my lane.

WELL, SORRY FOR NOT YIELDING THE FUCK OUT OF YOUR WAY BECAUSE YOU CAN'T READ THE GOD DAMMED SIGNED CORRECTLY.
and by the way, once you get on that lane, THERES A FUCKING SOLID LINE WHICH SO HAPPENS TO MEAN YOU CAN'T SWITCH LANES.
Fuck tard.

So i get yelled at for being right, what kind of world is this?

So that's it for ranting so far.
This next one isn't really a rant... i just found it kinda funny, yet offending.
So i went to the Key Food (supermarket... -_-) by my house to get some chick peas; i was making hummus... <333
i had just come out of the store and got into my car. and i roll my windows down everytime i get in my car because it's so hot now i need to let the hot and muggy air out of the car.
i back up and i'm about to go forward when this kid RUNS across the road in front of me.
and hear me out, my gear was in REVERSE, i didn't even shift it to drive yet. and his mother goes "watch out son! it's a chinese man behind the wheel, they're dangerous"

now i'm thinking to myself. "Fuck son, did you really just say that?"
i was offended OUT OF MY MIND when i heard that... i almost flipped (road rage level up!)
So i get it, during my junior year in high school some asian lady drove without a license and crashed into a kid next to my school making him lose his legs.
Ok, it was all over the news.
BUT WTF? one asian lady's reputation ruins it for our whole fucking race?

I would like to call BS. But how would i look if i got out of the car or even yelled out the window? i wouldn't want to be the one teaching the little kid some new words... but i was really outraged... it's just a little funny when i think of it now, just a little.
but i get dissed for not moving my car, yelled at for driving correctly, and now my whole race are full of irresponsible and bad drivers?

I hate you people who are so shallow and retarded... grow some fucking balls and tighten up your vaginas you GROWN ass people. Now i'm not saying that EVERYONE is stupid, just people who can't even think INSIDE THE BOX. i'm not asking for much... i don't want to to tear up the box like lil bow wow in Tokyo Drift (movie quote). i don't want you to think outside the box like White Castle. i just want you to be able to think inside the box.... so you don't think EVERYTHING you do is right and the others are wrong...

Not saying i'm 100% awesomely correct and i'm a driving god or anything... just saying you should STOP YELLING AT ME WHEN I'M DOING THINGS CORRECTLY!

Aiya.



HakoneDayDreamer, people these days... *sigh* humanity has lost hope... or did the world just lose hope in americans?

The forever evolving New York City; my home

Log start: 4:37pm May 29th 2009

If someone asks me where i live, i tell them Flushing, if they don't know where that is, i tell them it's New York City (2nd response only when outside of NYC)
I consider NYC my home you know, all these years i've been living here, theres a lot of feeling and emotion when i travel somewhere.

For instance, today i went to Chinatown to get lunch, i was bopping my head to a Girls Generation (<33333) song on the way down the 495 (L.I.E.) towards the city on the inner lane. Then i notice myself missing the exit to get on the BQE towards the williamsburg bridge to get into chinatown. i was like "fuck, what the shit?" then i decided to take the scenic route via queensborough bridge and the FDR south bound.
If you're not a regular driver, you won't know what i'm talking about, but bear with me as i try to explain it. Theres this feeling you get when you blitz down the FDR Drive you're like "yeah mother fucker! i'm on a boat na na na na na i'm a REAL new york city person because i know how to navigate the FDR Drive at two times the speed limit, na na na na na"
it's what a REAL new yorker should feel like, if you live in the city and you haven't learned to drive on the FDR at a riddiculously dangerous, yet safe, fashion. then you should try it before you call yourself a NYC driver >.>

So i was thinking to myself, wow, new york is definately new york, i know i'm back home when everyone is either as reckless as me while driving or even more reckless, I LOVE IT. And then there are the forever changing parts of NYC that you as a resident don't want to experience.
Highered parking fees.
I went into chinatown today looking to park, i went to my usual "keep it down low because it's one of the only places in chinatown where you can park for free for as long as you like" spots. and i went there today and was like

WHAT...THE...FUCK...IS GOING ON HERE!?
they changed the 90º parking to parallel parking and then THEY MAKE YOU PAY 50 CENTS PER 15 MINUTES.
what the hell?
are you serious?

the once free parking spaces that not a lot of people knew about, became a 50 cent per 15 minute parking block that EVERYONE knows about!?
i mean, as an asian person, i know how to find a deal, but now theres MORE people looking for a spot which makes you pay 2x the price as you were parking in Flushing? i know i know.
chinatown is "different" from flushing.
BUT FROM FREE TO 50 CENTS PER 15 MINUTES?

Hell no. Even Flushing went from 25 cents per 25 mins to 20 mins then to 15 mins.
the last time i parked at chinatown was probably last summer before i went back to school and it was still free. or sometime during that fall term
so in about 6-7 months, you change something THIS dramatic?
and wow, all of these white people in chinatown now wanting to get to know the fucking orient. what the fuck is the orient? to be honest, our civilization came first, so you're the orient. and marco polo did not visit China. That is all.
don't get me wrong, i'm not THAT racist, but you know, i feel something special when i see an asian person walk down the street, if you know what i'm saying :p

but wtf. the usual CHINESE PEOPLE EXLUSIVE dumpling place that i went to in chinatown today now has signs in ENGLISH, their waiters speak ENGLISH, and there are WHITE people there ordering. and furthermore, the majority of white to asians were even a wtf-number of 2.25 : 2

*sigh* lets not get into that now...
but the forever changing NYC seems to be... uhh.. changing! :D
i have yet to explore my old spots in the city but i'll definately check it out soon, before i go back to getting ripped off at my job lifeguarding...

So yeah, this is my home, flushing, new york city. the place where the unexpected happens everyday and where CDs and DVDs are still being sold for 5 dolla.

Oh and the reason i went to chinatown today to grab some lunch was that i wanted to go on a "little less than super diet"
little less than super meaning it's not a full diet, because i know i can't keep myself from meat and stuff so i'll only eat meats and stuff during dinner then my family cooks it. for breakfest and lunch i've already got my plans down for that.
the main reason i'm going on a diet because 1) i'm fat. 2) my belly has been showing up lately and everyone has seemed to agree... a lot... -_- thanks a lot, fags.

well today i wanted it to be the last day before i start my diet so i thought of going kinda all out during lunch.
so i went to my favorite dumpling place in chinatown to grab some dumplings and a sesame pancake with meat (yum yum!) then i decided... oh why not... to go into flushing and grab some noodles and a scallion pancake.
full-out asianize it before i go on my diet, ya know.
so yeah... oh and before i wrap up this post today i'd like to promote the youtube channel "communitychannel"
her sense of humor and VLogging style is the best and it's what i hope to achieve everytime i try and crack a joke. i simply love it, i love her videos and her style ^^v
so check it out if you have time, it's great.

HakoneDayDreamer, if i stand up and look straight down, i can't see my toes. LOL i know, it's bad, i'm planning to lose the weight i gained during the last half month of spring term and a little more. maybe i'll diet until i go below 200 lbs :D

[Hidden]addicted

Log start: 12:30pm May 29th 2009

[Hidden] = not posted on facebook

no, i'm not addicted to alcohol.... stop saying i am -_-

but what i am addicted to right now is to the stock market... made a quick few dollars today and can't stop... trading....

oh the pain... my eyes are hurting me from looking at the damned stock tickers LOL
for small traders like me gambling on a few hundred dollars, i get excited when my stocks rise up 10 cents xD

ARGH WHAT AM I TALKING ABOUT!?
aiya >.>
stop brian STOP! omg rawr, can't stop... i need to find a hobby...
once school ended i remembered i had shares of a certain company in my account and i went to check up on that... now i can't stop...
STOP STOP BAD BOY
wuuuuuuuuttttttttttttttttttt


HakoneDayDreamer, aiya aiya aiya!

Camping is fun stuff

Log start: 11:26pm May 26th 2009

I only went camping once before and that was when i was little, so that doesn't count.

This time around, i went camping and i thought it wasn't that bad at all.

Although the style of camping that i want still stands; have everything you need to survive for as long as you're camping on your back and head on into the wilderness with some trust worthy buddies that will spot you some help when you need it xD

So i was supposed to camp for 2 nights and 3 days over the Memorial Day weekend but it got cut in half because of the possible thunder storm weather.

Which was actually kind of BS because from what i've learned about weather.com, they're never dependable. I am actually more dependable than weather.com, to be a little honest.

Well camping, i wasn't fully prepared for the trip, or was my family... which conveniently packed the wrong things... *sigh* but no problemo there! my good neighbors covered us there and we had a great time. :D
So we went to Assateague State Park in Maryland for our camping trip, it was pretty awesome camping at a beach, smelling the salty ocean air, watching the big egg yolk sun set and gazing at the stars upon a clear and pitch black night.

It was what i imagined real camping to be. Where you get away from the lolwtf stuff of officework and *cough cough cry cry* HK Dramas and just sit back and enjoy wilderness like it was intended for man kind.
If i had the choice (key sentence formation), i would do it over and over again. I guess i can't explain the feeling, like everything else that i often want to explain but can't. these are the things you just have to experience yourself. i don't think my words are dependable for anyone other than myself, that's why i TRY not to force my philosophy on to others, because it just won't work.
But this is foshizzle right here, i mean. camping is good stuff if you like things done the old fashioned, yet depenadble and high tech way. I mean, my neighbor had flashlights that are so out of the world that they have a mile+ visibility and can even mess planes up. that's effing hardcore, yo! LOL.
mixing 21st century technology (but not too much) and just kickin it back old school. i think that's the way life is supposed to be. live in the days of your technology and your office work and then relax one in awhile.

Although, i do like to add that i'm not going to leave at 9am anymore. IT'S TOO LATE! all the good tent spots get taken... i mean... i think i slept on some rocks -_-
i had some trouble sleeping because of that and I FORGOT TO BRING MY FUCKING PILLOW. omg... my neck... my back... and the morning dew was too powerful for my aunt's semi-broken tent so the droplets of water went on my face... my neck my back and my face... hutcha...but it's all good.
for the second day, we went to Ocean City, which was about a 20 minute drive.
and the boardwalk is something amazing. i mean, if ripleys open a "Ripleys Believe it or not" on your boardwalk, you're good enough for the whole nation to enjoy. and the food there was amazing, yo. well... the french fries and the popcorn, i can't say too much about the New York style pizza though, i still think new york does new york style the best, LOL.

beach volleyball, classic asian style BBQ and some spark creating action from my new survival tool from think geek, the SL3 Survival Fire Knife. :D

So all was good actually, only the lack of proper equipment during the sleep deducted points from my experience. so if next time i go fully prepared, i'll rank it an A+

Here are some pics, i'll probably only post up like a few, the rest will be on facebook, if you friended me of course.



HakoneDayDreamer, fun fun fun, i want to do it again! For real.

Sophomore 15!?

Log start: 11:09pm May 20th 2009

Who says the freshman 15 is limited to freshmans' only? -_-
i felt myself get fatter and fatter this past half month and i gained a grand total of 10 pounds.. aiya... all this finals pressure and studying made me eat so much instant noodles that i've gained soooo much weight >.>
not to mention the depleted meal points that also contributed to an un-healthy cause... *sigh*

although i probably blame no one other than myself... because how can i blame anyone else? xD
i DID feel kinda fat about 2 weeks ago... then i just felt heavier o.o

i never gained so much weight in such a short amount of time before, so i know how girls feel now LOL
well if good thing i can fix this with a good diet... excercise is going to be left for the summer when i have to deal with my camp kids again... aiya...

I FEEL SO FAT!

HakoneDayDreamer, fat fat fat like eric cartman

Some people are just so fake.

Log start: 6:23pm May 11th 2009
Note: this post will not be publicly noted on Facebook.

Well, from the topic ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ some people are just fake, even on the internets (I notice that internet is already plural, so if you're going to comment and say ZOMg GRAMMaR NoOoOoOB, save it for your children. and if you didn't recognize it as a famous joke about a president, you should get out of your cave, maybe you'll like it.)

Lately, there has been a new fad going around on facebook that lets people take quizzes and then from your answers, it spits out a result in relation to the question being asked. So i walked through the library today (PEOPLE IN THE LIBRARY DON'T EVEN STUUUUDYYY, GTFO. Social & Behavioral Sciences building FTW~!) and i overheard some girls on the computer taking a quiz and then after seeing their result they're like "OMG, this is SOOOO not me, let me take the quiz again so i can get the result i want, then i can publish it to the public"

Well uhh.... guess what?
WHO THE FUCK CARES?
AND WTF, you're manipulating what you've originally put in so you can tell the public you're something you're not!??!?
how does that even make sense? why do people take these quizzes to show people something completely fake?

Although i admit that some of these quizzes are slightly entertaining, you just don't change your answers about 205131358671308651 times to find something that you're finally satisfied with and then you publish it.

WHY ARE YOU SO FAAAKEEEEE, that's more low than plastic surgery. manipulating results so you can get what you want.
Jeez.

HakoneDayDreamer, respect -100 pl0x

My roomate has no life

Log start: 1:54pm May 11th 2009

My roomate has no life.

That is all.

JOSE, HOW THE HELL DO YOU GRIND 5 LEVELS IN WoW IN 7 HOURS!? WTF?


HakoneDayDreamer, sorry if the quality of my posts are slowly deteriorating, but it's the finals season.

Roth Regatta

Log start: 2:31am May 10th 2009
Mothers Day (Happy Mothers Day Mom!)

I just have pics and stuff up from Roth Regatta, including my awesome video that i just so happened to put up on youtube.

for pics and stuff, check my facebook, if we're not friended, too bad, lul >.>
Here's an embedded version (i hope it works)



So go post on it, rate it (GIVE IT A 5 OF COURSE!) and enjoy it! :D

The end of sophomore year... things went by so fast this year... i'll give a full detail of it after i get back home after finals, promise!

HakoneDayDreamer, PROCRASTINATION~ YAY~!

Chopsticks and you

Log start: 3:05pm April 29th 2009

Today, my music class ended early. So as par my usual monday and wednesday schedule, i went to the union to get myself some brown rice and general tso's chicken. (best on campus)

Well as i was walking out with my food, i past this table with four white people using chopsticks to eat their fried rice.

I suddenly went... wtf is going on here? (in my mind of course)

Some of you might understand if you come from a chinese background or even if you have just a little common sense.
You might know that utensils were created to do a job more efficiently.

First, let me talk about the uses of chopsticks when associated with food.

Chopsticks are used to pick (food in this case) up and to put it in your mouth. Yes. Not the best of explainations but that's all there is to it.
Now you ask me, why i have a problem with white people using chopsticks to eat just rice.

Because i also have a problem with asian people using chopsticks to JUST eat rice from a plate or a compostable container that the university now provides. And I have yet see any asian person use chopsticks JUST to eat rice. Because the majority of us uses something called a SPOON.

Get it?

I can spoon rice faster than you can pick rice up from a plate.

AND THAT'S ALL THERE IS TO IT. TO BE HONEST.

Really.

Seriously? I don't know what they were trying to do, four white guys using chopsticks to eat rice sitting around asian people using FORKS AND KNIVES to eat their meal.

Wait a second, maybe i can study for AMS using my philosophy text book.

HakoneDayDreamer, Seriously now people... how about JUST a little common sense so you don't make a fool of yourselves?

Service vs Attitude

Log start: 5:30am April 25th 2009

So it starts like this; Jose, Joe, and I went out to eat at Chilis today.
And that's it.

Our waiter, complete jackass.
I've seen my fair share of jackass waiters, but they try not to be one... this one is probably new to the game or something...

Service: Something that you must offer to patrons without bias no matter what. (Unless it gets too unreasonable)
Attitude: Something that you keep to yourself when you're under the clock.

Stony Brook University, Asian population; 65%+
Asian population off campus around the area; 5%+

I know that i'm a minority off campus, we've been seated in the corner before and we've seen our share of bad service. *cough* Friendlys *cough*
But today was on another level.

Our waiter today took about 30 minutes before he took out order. People came in before us and their waiters got them their drinks while we're still holding on to our menu, thirsty and hungry.
When our waiter came to our table i looked at him and recognized him as the person that goes around socializing with white girls while denying the minority their service.

I know, in this day and age it seems a little harsh to label someone this, but i have no other words that can possibly describe the situation.

We ordered out drinks and our food after 30 mins.
Someone came in and sat behind us. They ordered. and they receive their drinks before we receive ours. Of course, they had a different waiter. Our waiter is still going around the restaurant socializing instead of bringing us our drinks.
I know it doesn't take 10 minutes to get out two cups of water and mix an iced tea together. You fill a glass with ice, squeeze some syrup in, mix with water and then it's done. And if it's the bartenders fault for not being able to fill a glass of water within even 30 seconds, please fire him and hire me. I guarantee that i can fill a glass of water -_-

So our drinks come and he thinks he's a smartass by bringing Joe two of his iced teas to skip out on the refill time. He even got the drink orders wrong, while the three of us were talking (because that's what customers do right? i mean, we're not the ones working) he passed the drinks in the wrong order and then he looks at me when i look at the drinks weird.
He says "Not your order? Well speak up next time, okay?"

As soon as he said that i notice myself repeating a bad habit that i gave up for about a year already. i closed my eyes tightly and turned my head to the left about an inch giving the expression that said "Did you really say that? If you dare say it again one more time you're going to be sorry"

He dropped off our drinks and went to socialize again.
Jose said he treated us like children, and that would be the only way to explain it. Speak up next time? By the looks of it, we're only about +/- 2 years in age. How dare a waiter treat someone like that anyway?
I worked at Toys R Us for a christmas season 2 winters ago and i would of never thought to give the customer that attitude. I would help them and if i wasn't able to help them, i would call my supervisor to help them. You just don't treat people that way, you just don't.

He didn't show his face until the end of the meal when he brought our check.
Oh, funny thing, he brought our check when Joe was still eating and didn't even say "thank you for choosing Chilis or is there anything else you guys need?"
already two major waiter taboos that you DO NOT cross over.
And of course, we needed something, we wanted some fucking dessert, are you serious? which waiter doesn't even ask if we wanted dessert?
And when Jose tried to get his attention, HE IGNORES US AND GOES TO THE NEXT FUCKING TABLE TO SOCIALIZE. When he finally stopped talking and turned around, he tried to walk past us until we were like "HEY!".....

In the end, we got our dessert... and our 6 minute refill on WATER.

By the end, we decided that we would give him 10% tips... i didn't agree, i think he shouldn't of gotten anything at all based on his service and attitude. But to be nice, i overcame all urges to speak out and 10% was given...

And guess what? I was going to pay with a Credit Card (note: a major credit card with a VISA symbol) and he was like "Oh sorry, i can't accept the card, we closed the registers already"
and then he walked away...

Let me get this straight... You're a major food chain and you don't accept credit cards, AND you closed the registers???? What does that mean? Does that mean you can't even accept cash? I mean, if you can't swipe something you must not be able to open up the cash drawer either right????? Or were you afraid that my card was stolen and won't accept it??

So much for being treated right.

If the registers are closed and you won't accept card, that means you won't be able to accept cash either right? does that mean that we can walk out without paying? I mean, your registers ARE closed. Fucking dick face.
I bet if i asked for your manager your registers will fucking turn on like magic and suddenly accept cards again.


People like this should get fired, i know people who are looking for a job off campus and have been denied a job because their positions are filled. This was the type of person who should just quit (maybe quit on life too because he's such a fucking dick to *maybe* only minorities) and leave others who are much more qualified with the job.

Don't get me wrong, for the 1937518036518356913650135713 times that we've been to Chilis, everything was only a little less than awesome. everything was on time and the food was good, the only thing bad this time was the waiter experience. And the only thing that will make us boycott chilis.
I know the service of some college kids won't shut down your business and it's certainly not meant to.
It's just to keep us away from stupidity.
Like a poster around campus says, "Accepting hate is the real crime"

And we're not people of crime :p

Bad waiters = bad experience of restaurant= Fail.

HakoneDayDreamer, I won't settle for this again.

Incase of extreme Awkwardness

Log start: 5:11am April 25th 2009

Incase of awkwardness, there are three things that you can do.

So ever since i went to college, i meet people of all personalities, and one type of personality that i recently learned how to categorize and deal with is called awkwardness.

No need to explain what awkwardness is, if you're reading my blog, i'm assuming that you're of some intelligence level...
So just yesterday i just came up with the complete awkwardness leveling system.
the levels get more extreme as the number gets higher, but it's not that complicated because it's only three levels.

Level One: Awkward Turtle

The awkward turtle in my scale is used to deal with lesser cases of awkwardness. Things that you know are awkward but it's really not that serious and you want to break the tension in the conversation... you do the awkward turtle xD
my personal experience is that for low level of awkwardness i can change the topic so fast that i don't even bother doing a turtle anymore...

Level Two: Awkward Turkey

The picture is a little complicated, so i'll explainyour left hand like you're grabbing something. After that you make a "thumbs up" with your right hand and then attach the base of the "thumbs up" to the center of your "grabbing" palm. Then at the same time, expand and contract the 5 fingers on the grabbing palm and your thumb of the "thumbs up" hand.
This is for mid cases of awkwardness.
i have to give credit to someone named Lisa for showing me this back in freshman year. But at the same time i think i've used this most on you LOL

Level Three: Haduken

I give the credit of this one to Abby. She has a friend that's so awkward that she does the Awkward HADUKEN to counter his awkwardness.
This one is for EXTREME awkwardness. like no joke, super hardcore stuff.
I learnt this one yesterday, so i haven't had the chance to try it yet. But i don't think i'll have a chance to try it soon, the only person i know would come in between levels 2 and 3 on my scale. i don't think anyone has yet to reach the ultimate awkwardness level yet...

So, awkward situations come up everyday in life, be sure to arm yourself with these three weapons XD
It will pull you out of a sticky situation!

HakoneDayDreamer, it seems the quality of my posts are slowly diminishing -_- *cry cry*

<---- LOL?

Log start: 5:08 am April 25th 2009

I found a new button on my dashboard of Blogspot one day called "Monetize"

so i clicked on it.

And the results... are seen to your left and on the bottom of the page XD

just trying it out to see if it really helps me monetize, and i'll probably get rid of it in like a week or something, it's annoying so far -_-

HakoneDayDreamer, NUVO = womens drink >.>

Skinny dipping

Log start: 4:50am April 25th 2009

Warning: Consecutive entries detected.

I just witnessed about 6-7 people skinny dip in Roth Pond. And for all my Stony Brookers out there, we all know Roth pond isn't the greatest place to sinny dip xD
But kudos to those people. I know who you are but i won't say any names here for reasons that i won't explain :p

So here is how it went.
I finished EU (TVB Drama), and then i took a shower and came back to my computer. While setting up an auto clicker before i go to sleep, i suddenly here a lot of noise from outside, and when i say A LOT, i mean A LOT. This is by far, the most noise that i've heard from people yet...

Last time the idiots who made that much noise were making it for about an hour and a half and i was so close to calling the cops, but someone was ahead of me and called the cops beforehand. After that experience i told myself that i would call the cops if they woke me up from my sleep at 4-5am again.
So this time i was like... hmmm these people sound familiar. So i went to my window to take a peek and as soon as i stared out the window, i see about 5 butt cheeks facing me and then they jumped into the pond. I was like OMGWTFBBQ!? because both genders were doing it, so i was looking to see who they were since they sounded so familiar.
They came back up and hid their goods and then 3 more people got undressed and cannon-balled into the pond.

I mean, this isn't some surprise thing, you expect things like this to happen in college... but i guess it wouldn't be happening ON campus, in an algae infested pond at 4:50am in the morning... more like "HAY GUYS. LETS GO TO THE PRIVATE BEACH WHICH IS ABOUT A 6 MINUTE DRIVE FROM STONY BROOK!" kind of thing.
I guess that kinda took me by surprise, seeing both genders skinny dip... in a dirty pond... drunk... and probably won't remember until their pictures pop up on facebook tommorow morning. Luls.

So yeah, that's one more thing to look for now.

HakoneDayDreamer, i think that in my drunk state, i wouldn't even agree to such a thing... but who knows? certainly not me :p

Education makes you a liberal!

Log start: 5:10am April 17th 2009

LOLLLLL

So while i was taking some mini quizzes for POL102, i came across this question... which made me look up a map... which ending up like this... LOL

College education makes you more liberal (democratic) and the south is mostly republican.

which equals no college education?? :P

Make up the conclusions yourself :P XDDDDDDDDDDDDD

HakoneDayDreamer, i did it for the luls.

Where is the love?

Log start: 2:07am April 17th 2009

Well... this actually isn't a "real" blog post. :\
I was walking back from class today and this song popped up on my iPod. After listening to it, i felt like i could translate their words into an essay.... here are my results LOL

Where is the love?
Song by Black Eyed Peas
Essay version by Brian Tien

I asked my mom one day, what's wrong with the world? I asked this question because people are living like they have no mothers. I think people of the world are only attracted to dramas which ultimately bring you trauma. Everyone mourns about 9/11 and the US attacks terrorists in the middle east. We try to stop terrorists overseas but shouldn't we start with the terrorists living in the USA? The CIA bullies citizens, the Bloods the Crips and the KKK bullies different ethnicities, but if they only have love for their own race, they only leave space to discriminate.
We all know that if you descriminate, you generate hate and you end up getting irate. If you discriminate, all you demonstrate is madness and that's how anger works and operates.
If only people can learn to love, then they can finally get it straight. Take time out of your life to control your mind and meditate; just let your soul gravitate to the love.

People kill and people die in our world everyday. The impact is largest on the children, you hurt them and you will hear them cry. People always practice different from what they preach, why do they turn the other cheek?

People ask the father above to help up, to send some guidance from above because people questions about the love that the world generates.

A lot of people ask, where is the love?

In this day and age, it just isn't same same, it is always unchanged. The days to come are strange, and people become insane, if love is as strong as they say, why are there peices of love that don't belong?
Nations today keep on dropping bombs and the children suffer from gasses filling their lungs.
Children are dying everyday to bombs and i end up asking myself is the love really gone?
In this world that we're living in, people keep on giving in. They make wrong decisions because they only worry about the dividends that they make in the market.
They don't respect each other and they end up denying everyone else.
No one really knows why the war is going on either.
The truth is hidden well under a rug but if you never know truth, then how will you ever know love?
I ask myself everyday, where is the truth, and more importantly, where is the love?

I feel as if the weight of the world is on my shoulder because as i'm getting older, people get colder.
Most of us only care about making money and that ends up in selfishness which has us following the wrong direction.
Wrong information is always shown by the media because negative images is only their criteria.
They infect the minds of children faster than bacteria and they end up acting like what they see in the cinema.

Whatever happened to the values of humanity? the fairness in equality?
Instead of love, all we spread is animosity.
It is because the lack of understanding that leads lives away from unity.
It's the reason why people feel down and why people feel under.

But despite all this, i still have to keep my faith until love is found.

So let me ask one question, where is the love?

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not the most exciting thing ever, but i felt like writing it down for shits and giggles, LOL.

HakoneDayDreamer, wut wut in the butt?