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~!