Louie

Man, its been awhile since I've posted here. I've been too busy I guess. Everythings changing..me, my work, the way I think about everything. I'm not the same person I used to be. Its all for the better though.

In the past few months I've started heavily studying escrima again. Carlito asked me and some of his other students in the LA area to start training with some new people. Its been fun, if not painful. I usually can't hold a pen the next day or have big red marks on m y head and arms. Thats escrima for you though. But the new guys are good people. I had forgotten how much my escrima family means to me.

Due to financial reasons, my study of the Chinese language is off and on with my tutor. Hopefully I'll be able to focus on this in the near future.. although I've been thinking of focusing on either Japanese or Spanish. I figure since I understand more of those, maybe I should make a big push to become fluent in one of those languages. I'm not sure, I may go that route.

I've had visits from both my father and mother in the past months. My mom spent a week down here. We visted with my family that I rarely see. My cousins from Texas came into town and we all hung out. I wish we could be together more often.

my cousins

I took my mom to Phillipes. She enjoyed the french dip... even though it looks like shes not enjoying herself in this picture


Then my Dad and my brothers came to visit. We went to Catalina island and had a good time, even though my father griped alot. Heres a pic of me and the fam


I miss everyone in the bay. I hope you are all doing well and that I get to see you soon. Thats it for now, I gotta get some shut eye

So I went to see both Pirates 2 and Superman recently. Both were so so.
I had trouble staying awake during both. It didn't help that the one
theater in my area that served Pepsi changed to Coke. I wont drink Coke
no matter how much you pay me. Coke is the Devil!

Since I sometimes do sound work for no-budget films, I always pay attention
to the sound mix when I go see a movie. Both of the movies I saw had good
mixes. Nice surround sound, especially Superman. The directional sound effects
were fantastic. I was really impressed with the crying baby sound effects.
It sounded so real! I could have swore that some idiot had brought a crying
infant into the theater. I wonder if other people were impressed with that
portion of Superman's sound mix?

In other news, my sister is being a big help with my attempt to lose weight.
She did it. She went from fat to thin. So I figure I'll do what she did.
exactly what she did.

She ate lots of weight watchers frozen dinners. So I buy a few and ate them.
Not bad really but not alot of food either. But thats the point isn't it?
To deprive yourself of food to lose weight?

I was in Target looking for a weight watchers meal. I see "Enchilada Dinner".
I thought "cool, mexican food". But I take it to the office and cook it up and
I'm like "Whats all this white stuff?". It was sour cream. I hate sour cream.
Actually, I don't really hate sour cream. I just hate it on Mexican food.
It doesn't belong. My Grandmother never served me food with sour cream.
The Aztecs didn't have ancient sour cream recipes. Sure you may like sour cream
with Mexican food, but you are probably not Mexican. And if you are, shame on you!
You probably drink Coke too! And take infants into movies....

This weekend I would like to: see Adam Sandlers new movie while eating buttered
popcorn and drinking a diet Pepsi, with no crying childrens. And then later to eat
some diet style Mexican food, with no sour cream. I hope I can pull it off.

Last time I tried to sneak a Diet Pepsi into a theater I got caught. I was like
"How about this? I'll go buy a large drink from your stand, so you guys get your money,
but I get to take this Diet Pepsi in...?". I was refused and forced to throw the Pepsi away.

Damn you Coke! You'll pay for this!!!!

Last weekend I took my mom to S.F. I needed to film the bart station and she
needed to get out of the house. We also took Corey along. It seems that as he
gets older he gets pickier (I don't know if thats a word). While he used to
like Cha Siu Bao when he was a kid, it seems he doesn't anymore. When I was
a kid I didn't like Stove Top Stuffing...now I keep a 3 month supply on
hand just in case we get attacked by Russia. Here is a picture of Corey and my Mom:



Two days ago I rented "the Office" from blockbuster, the British version. I heard
so many good things about this and then I pop it in and realize that ten minutes
into the first episode, I'm only picking up about 10% of what the main character
is saying. I was like WTF? Am I gonna have to use subtitles here?? But all of a
sudden there was a scene where his boss couldn't understand him so he switched
to a more understandable way of speaking. I thought I had lost brain cells or
something. That would be so weird, not being able to understand British people.
Oh well,, everything turned out good and I enjoyed the show.

This is my third paragraph, and like the first two, has no relationship to the
others. I've almost been hit about 5 times over the past couple of weeks. People
just don't drive well. They turn without looking and start to switch lanes without
checking their blindspot. They still do teach that don't they? About checking your
blindspot? I swear people are stupid. But I have to admit... I almost smacked
somebody this morning. My eyes were drawn towards what I hope was not a high school
girl with huge... eyes. My goodness what are these girls eating?

I have a new car and almost crashed it because of everyman's natural chick radar.
I couldn't help looking. I wonder if that would work in court? I'd be in court
and the other attorney would be saying "Your honor, Louie wasn't even watching the
road and smacked right into my client". And in defense I would be all like
"Your honor, here is the picture of what passed within 5 feet of my vehicle right
before I made contact with the defendant's car".

The judge would be like "Can you bring that photo up here so I can examine it?"....
Who knows, it may work. Speaking of high school kids, check out this photo of
two coco-nutty highschool kids I know: Adrian and Issey. Thats Cat boy in the
background. Cat Boy AKA Jemericles, or Jeremaih T. Dong (the "T" stands for "Thaddius").




I heard that james wore the Pocky suit for awhile and got molested by a very cute
Cowgirl. He complained about this. This is why his new nickname is "Monkey Nuts"

Last week my mother had a heart attack. Shes doing okay now, but it was very scary.
Besides that, I bought a new car, a Toyota Yaris. It gets 39 miles per gallon.
From L.A. to Stockton didn't even use a full tank. Thats really wonderful considering
how much gas is these days.

Speaking of gas, did anyone notice Bush's response to the high gas prices?
He rejected a windfall earning tax on the gas companies and is trying to open up
Alaska to more drilling. Something that has failed in the past. Lets see... gas companies
have record profits, Bush says don't tax them for gouging us, and hes trying to drill in
Alaska, kinda sounds like this whole high gas price thing is on purpose doesn't it?

And whats not to believe? He's already spying on us when he said he wasn't. I like that,
when news came out about the first wire tapping thingee, first they denied it. Then they
said it was only on people suspected of contacting Alqida (SP). Now this new report comes
out and they are spying on every American, of course the president didn't confirm or deny it yet.

Remember when the story about sending people to secret bases around the world to torture them
came out? They denied that too, at first. I read an article the other day about an agent being
fired for leaking that info.

I hope everyone wakes up soon. These fuckers need to be in jail and I think its gonna happen.
Remember Bush saying " I would llike to know who is responsible for the leak (about Valerie Plame)"
He also said he would fire anyone responsible if they were in his administration.

It was Scooter Libby and Karl Rove. They had permission from Bush and Chaney. This is not
speculation, this is fact. Just wait you lying pieces of shit. I hope they lock all of you
under a jail.

I expect a visit from the NSA next week because of this post. If I go missing, tell my mom
I love her. I'll probably be at some secret base being tortured...

My Aunt passed away about two weeks ago. I couldn't write about it until
now. She was more than my aunt, she was my Godmother and was very
much a second mother to me. Most of you know that she was the reason
I had moved back towards the bay awhile ago.

I thought she was getting better. I really didn't expect things to take a turn
for the worst so quickly. I had just spoken with her and then a few days
later my mother called and said that I needed to come home because she
could go at anytime.

I was in the room when she passed. She couldnt' speak, I hope she
could hear. Being with your loved ones as they die is a tremendous
experience. I never said goodbye to her, I couldn't. I just told her I loved
her.

A few weeks before she died she had been in the hospital, it was
a close call then. I had stayed with her for a few days but she started to
get better and I had to go back to work. I called my mom everyday for
updates. She wasn't awake when I left for home. My mom called me and
said that my Nina had a message for me, that she loved me.

This is a picture of my Nina, my sister and myself. Sometime in the
seventies



Here is a picture of her and my Nino, this was after he came back
from the war



Its a weird feeling when someone you love dies. I keep thinking I can
drive or fly somewhere where I can see her again. It doesn't seem
real that she's not here anymore.

I wrote the following note and put it with her in her grave:

Nina,
Thank you for a lifetime filled with love. Every Christmas, every birthday,
every special event was filled with your kindness and beauty. You made me feel like a prince.

I miss you so much. I wish I could wake up and see you.One day I will see you again. I love you.

Louie

Last Sunday my boss (Sig) and I went exploring in Los Angeles. We took the train.



Sig right before we got on the train



Me before getting on the train


We got of the train near Little Tokyo and saw a movie being filmed.
I don't know what movie it was but they had left over trucks
from King Kong. Maybe I'll recognize the vehicles when I'm
watching a movie some day soon. Below are pics from the set:



Here is a futuristic LAPD vehicle



This is a scene with a fake dead body and an armoured car



This guy was also taking pictures of the set




After checking out Little Tokyo and playing endless rounds
of Battle Gear 3 ( a better racing game than initial D) we
walked through Olivera ST to get to the famous Phillipes.

Phillipes is the place that invented the French Dip
sandwhich. These sandwhiches were freaking incredible.
You have to try this place.





The atmosphere was very different. They serve you on paper plates
and there is saw dust all over the floor. I wish I could eat
there everyday. And everyone there including the customers
were very friendly. You can talk to anyone and really feel
comfortable as you enjoy your roast beef with potato salad.

We had a good time. I needed to relax and laugh a little.
There was some crazy conversation going on.

Here's a snip. I was told "Everything's funny to you isn't it?"
"Life's one big joke to you"

I answered "Yeah, childbirth is the funniest joke, with that
whole Kid out-of-the Vagina gag, hilarious!"

My mother has long had some sort of psychic abilities. When i was a kid she predicted my father's
accident and my cousin's death, along with lots of other things. My sister has always claimed
that she had the ability too. I never believed her until she did something that convinced
me that it was true. I never experienced anything like that myself until today.

I was walking to work and listening to my ipod. In my head I imagined I was about
to be hit by a car. You know how your imagination is, everything plays out like a movie.
When the car was about to hit me I planted my hands on the hood and lifted my
legs up until the car stopped moving, allowing me to avoid getting hurt.

Not ten minutes later, the EXACT SAME THING happened to me! A korean lady, who
had a red light, didn't see me and decided to try and whip through the intersection.
I turned and saw her at the last minute. I planted my hands and lifted my feet.
She stopped about five feet beyond where I made contact with her vehicle. I didn't even
take my headphones off or stop the music, i walked up to her (she looked horrified)
and pointed to the red light, then walked away.

I wonder if I will be able to do this type of thing again (see things before they happen,
not get hit by cars)?

Have you ever laughed at someone who tripped? I couldn't help it yesterday.
I saw this guy walking across the street. He tripped on the curb and fell down.
He was laying on the ground, his backpack was to the left of him, he was
carrying a bag with stuff in it and it was all over the grass.
It looked like he was having a yard sale.

Myself, I'm doing okay. I've started walking again and I feel
really good because of it. I saw the following online about Chuck Norris
and thought it was funny:

1. Chuck Norris' tears cure cancer. Too bad he has never cried.

2. Chuck Norris does not sleep. He waits.

3. Chuck Norris does not hunt because the word hunting infers the
probability of failure. Chuck Norris goes killing.

4. Chuck Norris is currently suing NBC, claiming Law and Order are
trademarked names for his left and right legs.

5. If you can see Chuck Norris, he can see you. If you can't see
Chuck Norris you may be only seconds away from death.

6. The chief export of Chuck Norris is pain.

. Chuck Norris sold his soul to the devil for his rugged good looks
and unparalleled martial arts ability. Shortly after the transaction
was finalized, Chuck roundhouse kicked the devil in the face and took
his soul back. The devil, who appreciates irony, couldn't stay mad and
admitted he should have seen it coming. They now play poker every
second Wednesday of the month.

8. To prove it isn't that big of a deal to beat cancer. Chuck Norris
smoked 15 cartons of cigarettes a day for 2 years and acquired 7 different
kinds of cancer only to rid them from his body by flexing for 30 minutes.
Beat that, Lance Armstrong.

9. Chuck Norris built a time machine and went back in time to stop the
JFK assassination. As Oswald shot, Chuck met all three bullets with his
beard, deflecting them. JFK's head exploded out of sheer amazement.

10. When the Boogeyman goes to sleep every night he checks his closet
for Chuck Norris.

11. A blind man once stepped on Chuck Norris' shoe. Chuck replied,
"Don't you know who I am? I'm Chuck Norris!" The mere mention of his
name cured this man blindness. Sadly the first, last, and only thing
this man ever saw, was a fatal roundhouse delivered by Chuck Norris.

12. Chuck Norris always has sex on the first date. Always.

13. When Chuck Norris sends in his taxes, he sends blank forms and includes
only a picture of himself, crouched and ready to attack. Chuck Norris
has not had to pay taxes ever.

14. According to Einstein's theory of relativity, Chuck Norris can
actually roundhouse kick you yesterday.

15. Chuck Norris once ate three 72 oz. steaks in one hour. He spent the
first 45 minutes having sex with his waitress.

16. Chuck Norris counted to infinity - twice.

17. A Handicap parking sign does not signify that this spot is for
handicapped people. It is actually in fact a warning, that the spot belongs
to Chuck Norris and that you will be handicapped if you park there.

18. As a teen Chuck Norris impregnated every nun in a convent tucked away in
the hills of Tuscany. Nine months later the nuns gave birth to the 1972
Miami Dolphins, the only undefeated and untied team in professional football history.

19. Chuck Norris doesn't read books. He stares them down until he gets
the information he wants.

20. Chuck Norris is 1/8th Cherokee. This has nothing to do with ancestry,
the man ate a fucking Indian.

21. Chuck Norris sleeps with a night light. Not because Chuck Norris is
afraid of the dark, but the dark is afraid of Chuck Norris

22. If Chuck Norris is late, time better slow the fuck down.

23. Someone once tried to tell Chuck Norris that roundhouse kicks aren't the
best way to kick someone. This has been recorded by historians as the worst
mistake anyone has ever made.

24. Filming on location for Walker: Texas Ranger, Chuck Norris brought a
stillborn baby lamb back to life by giving it a prolonged beard rub.
Shortly after the farm animal sprang back to life and a crowd had gathered,
Chuck Norris roundhouse kicked the animal, breaking its neck, to remind the
crew once more that Chuck giveth, and the good Chuck, he taketh away.

25. The quickest way to a man's heart is with Chuck Norris's fist.

26. Chuck Norris is not hung like a horse... horses are hung like Chuck Norris

27. Chuck Norris does not teabag the ladies. He potato-sacks them.

28. Chuck Norris's girlfriend once asked him how much wood a woodchuck could
chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood. He then shouted, "HOW DARE YOU RHYME IN
THE PRESENCE OF CHUCK NORRIS!" and ripped out her throat. Holding his girlfriend's
bloody throat in his hand he bellowed, "Don't fuck with Chuck!" Two years and
five months later he realized the irony of this statement and laughed so hard
that anyone within a hundred mile radius of the blast went deaf.

29. Chuck Norris appeared in the "Street Fighter II" video game, but was
removed by Beta Testers because every button caused him to do a roundhouse kick.
When asked bout this "glitch," Norris replied, "That's no glitch."

30. If you ask Chuck Norris what time it is, he always says, "Two seconds till."
After you ask, "Two seconds to what?" he roundhouse kicks you in the face.

Years go by where I don't celebrate holidays because I'm working. Thats the way it goes sometimes.
Before i went to work I saw lots of kids walking around in funny costumes. I miss that.

I remember when i was a kid, lots of people who lived in the ghetto took their kids to
trick-or-treat in better neighborhoods. I'm sure there were more than a few
people suprized by the number of black and hispanic parents that were showing up on
their doorsteps. I never understood this really. Even as a kid I knew that there
were good people in the poor parts of town. Most of the houses were owned by
respectable people. As long as you avoided apartments you should be okay.

Two years ago I made some costumes for my brother and nephew. They were
invader Zim and GIR. They had fun. I started with my tutor last week.
Things are going pretty well. I have high hopes for the future. I just
have to keep my head clear.

I hope everythings good with you and that you had fun on holloween. Laters

Man I've been busy. I have alot I have to get through to be successful right now.
I have to pass my Stat class, which isn't easy for me. And I spoke to my
Japanese department advisor. He told me i only needed one more class but that class
was taught in purely Japanese. he asked me how my Japanese was. I told him honestly
that it wasn't very good but that i've been practicing. He looked worried but i told him
(like a tough guy) that it was my responsibility to get it up to a level where i could do well
in the class.

Besides that, there is lots of red tape to cut through in order to be re-admitted.
I wish that someone in admissions would say something like this " You know Louie,
there are these 25 things you have to do in order to be admitted, and not all of
them are easy... but lets cut through the shit. I'll go get some hoops out of the
back and you can jump through them. That should take care of everything... oh,
you realize that they will have to be flaming hoops right???"

That would be so much easier. I got sick the other day. Luckily I didn't throw up.
So next week its back to SJSU to take care of more stuff. I looked around the campus
and realized that i don't know anyone! Oh well, I don't have time to make friends really.
Would be nice to know at least one person who attends the school though.

Crash- the movie
Yesterday I went to school. The teacher was encouraging. She said not to worry
about doing bad on the last test. I feel better about that now.
I went back and studied the things I missed and feel like I know
them pretty well.

Work has been crappy lately. There have been several incidents of people
having heated exchanges with the janitors. In each case it was because
of a lack of English language skills and paranoia. Can't we all just get
along? And you know what? I'm not anti foreigner or heavens forbid, anti Mexican,
but how are so many Mexicans working over here without proper papers?
I'm not one hundred percent sure that these people are here illegally but
how can adults be here and speak no English beyond "hi", "bye", and "ok"?

Even if you were here for just a few years you should be able to speak better
English than that. I was watching George Lopez and he was talking about how all fast
food places have Mexican workers. He was saying how its very hard to understand them through
the drive-thru. There have been times where I couldn't understand them at all, so I just say
"yes" and hope that I haven't bought something I didn't want. I'm glad they are working
though, I know some people aren't lucky enough to have steady jobs.

Other work related things that happened yesterday:

A woman broke off the key to her desk, in her desk. And wanted security to do something about it.
Security and Locksmith are two different professions, that's why they're spelled different.

A 911 called was placed from some guys cubicle and no one will confess to it.

An employee flat out told me one thing early in the shift the denied it to my boss later.

Some employees from another company were playing street hockey in the parking lot and hit someone's car
and then scattered.

a security guard ate some food he found laying around and got sick (not the brightest person)

I forgot I was told to do something that normally takes multiple people to do until half an hour
before my shift was over and then had to do it myself (I'm stoopid)

That's it for now. I hope nothing crazy happens today

Hello. Since I posted last, I've started school and have a better outlook on things.
I failed my first test though. I'm not get let that stop me. It was my fault. I didn't
study properly. I wont make the same mistake again. Actually, I'm pretty jazzed.

By this time next year, my life could really be headed places! One year isn't so long.
I wanna say thanks to my good friend John Tran. He's on a trip around the country right now.
Thanks for encouraging me and being a friend John, it means allot to me. I read your post where
you said I deserved a better life. Thanks. I do. And I'm making it happen.

I'm gonna start posting daily here. For myself really. I want to keep track of my study habits.
I need to study daily and diligently. Today I worked, ran, and studied the things I missed on
my exam. Now I'm gonna clean my room and prepare for tomorrow (class). I will be signing up for
a tutor (if they have them) and talking to San Jose state admissions office on Tuesday. Yeah!
I've got my fate in a death grip, and I'm not going to let go.

I have other people to thank for helping pull through my depression. John Fu, thanks for being there.
And thanks to the entire Fu family. I owe you guys. Thanks Sombat, your friendship and support over the
years has been incredible. We'll be together in the old-folks home having fun. Jeremy, I'm not trying to
give advice or anything, I just want to say that I realized the other day when someone at work talked
about visiting a prostitute (don't ask,)that love is everything. I'll always treasure the times I've been
in love with a girl and look forward to it again. I even treasure the times I've had my heart broken and
wouldn't trade those experiences for anything. Even the feeling of a broken heart is something wonderful.
.. oh yeah, the prostitute, when he talked about not needing love... I thought it was sad. That someone would
give up so easy. Id just seemed wrong. Like if he does that kind of thing he may never find love and
waste his life.

Oh well, I'm gonna give this my all!
Talk to you all soon. And if you feel a little romantic or in need of some encouragement, trying watching
Densha Otoko. Its a drama about an otaku who meets and falls in love with a beautiful woman who's way out of his
league.

Boku no Hermesu-san, aitai yo!

Its hard to keep a positive mood when you're down in the dumps. Sounds obvious I know.
I feel like I'm in such a deep hole that I'll never get outt. Even though I realize that
I shouldn't be complaining. I have a roof over my head and I'm employed. I could
be worse off.

I know deep down that things will get better, I just have to keep going. But it seems
like my whole life has been one big mess. And I understand fully that its my fault.
With the help of a few friends, I've realized that i can't be focused on the past.
I've got to keep my eyes on the now and the future, maybe one eye on the now and
one eye on the future. Hey, at least I have two working eyes! Poor Zatoichi doesn't
have that (but he's a bad-ass swordsman). But i've really examined the past today.
In an attempt to learn from it and let it go.

I was always very shy when i was a kid. It didn't help that my father always found
fault with me. He didn't hesitate to humiliate me in front of the family or his friends.
I was called things like "sissy" and "clown". Its tough for a young boy to go through that.
I think thats why I have some kind of tough guy complex. Its really a bunch of crap.
My father was also a womanizer. He had lots of women and was very self centered.
I'm not criticizing him. It was just the case. I used to tell myself that i would never be
like him. But thats exactly what I became.

Some people are popular their whole lives. Some are never popular. Some people start off one way and end
up the opposite. For some reason I ended up being a popular kid in high school.
I look back in disgust at the way I treated girls. Just like my father. One good girl wasn't
enough. After hurting a few very nice girls, who didn't deserve to be treated that way, I realized
how awful I had become. I guess in a way i'm lucky. Some people never wake up.

So I go through my highshool years and my early twenties living like a fool.
I should have went straight to college. Instead i worried about meeting new women and being a famous
musician. Never my mind on what i was doing (thanks Yoda). Now I'm paying the price.

Its a tough pill to swallow. I have some kind of self destructive state of mind. Whenever things get tough
I want to take drastic actions. And most (all) of the time, these actions are the wrong choices.
I spoke to my father the other day and he straight out told me "don't go making any hasty decisions".
Man, he knows me. So right now, I keep thinking "how can i finish school? I can barely support myself!".
My mind keeps racing, trying to think of was to make money. I need to quit this shit and grit my teeth and
finish school, before i really get too old.

I guess i wrote this for myself. I don't want to keep thinking of my past failures. I've written them down now.
I've got to let them be what they are, in the past. Right now i'm alive and feeding myself. Thats enough.
For now.

I went to the video store yesterday and the guy who works there said "hey, we got this dvd in (darkness) wanna rent it?"
I had heard nothing but bad things about this movie but I rented it anyways.

As soon as the movie starts i noticed that the writers and directors were spanish. This gave me hope
that the movie would be good since i like lots of spanish and italian horror.

This movie did not dissapoint me! it was very much in the italian and spanish tradition of films like
della more della muerte and the beyond (minus the graphic violence)

I'm not saying that this movie is the greatest thing since sliced bread (or pocky for men)
but its refreshing to see this style of horror movie compared to all of the copycat
japanese remakes and plain bad horror movies we have here.

After watching it, i looked for reviews on the internet. it was hard to find even one positive
review of this film. I can understand why many americans may not like this film.

Anna Paquin is the only semi big star in the movie and the ending is very un american style.
The thing I like about latin horror is the feeling of dread they give you. This movie has no real
violent scenes but instead builds up on the dread as it rolls along.

Give it a shot if you can rent it on the cheap and don't expect too much and you may
just enjoy it.

Man things are hard right now. A brief run down:

For certain reasons, I don't have a car. I gave it to someone who really needed it.
Now I need to get another one.

My aunt has cancer and I'm going to try and do my job out of Stockton as much as
Possible so I can be with her

Sometimes I wonder how it would feel to be successful. I mean, like a successful director or
Song writer. I know how it feels to NOT be one, and it sucks. No matter what I do at work, writing music
and making movies are all I think about. It’s like torture.

Because I’m in a financial bind, I took up a second job. Someone recommended me
to help film some instructional videos. The people involved know nothing about
editing or directing.

So I start working on this (on the weekends) and they start filming, saying their lines for
the camera. I almost choked. Who in the hell wrote their lines???? They sounded so unnatural.
They saw a concerned look on my face and asked me what was wrong. I told them that I thought the
dialog sounded strange. They asked me what I suggested. I rewrote some of the dialog for them.

I guess that was the wrong thing to do. Because I got a call telling me that they were getting someone
else to do my job. I should have kept my mouth shut but you should have heard them!

I think what they had done was write what they wanted to say, paying special attention to grammar and whatnot. While this all looks good on paper, it doesn't sound right when you say it. I guess they didn't agree with my opinion.

For not keeping my mouth shut I get no extra money. Oh well, things will get better. Just gotta give it time

The other day I come home from work and what do I see in front of our door? laying on the floor....
A single Cheese Nip. We live upstairs and to the side, It would be hard for someone to drop a
cheese nip on the way to their apartment. I asked my roomate if he was eating cheese nips,
he said he hadn't ate a nip in years.

What a mystery. Who was this? What did they want? I think it may be the manager although i have no proof.
We caught him in our apartment before. On that day i had come home and wasn't able to get in the apartment
because the bottom lock on the door was locked. We NEVER lock that because i don't have a key.
When we questioned the manager, he acted suprised and said that he had to go in and inspect something and
that he was going to tell us.

Well, last night I bought a box of cheese nips. I'm gonna leave a question mark formed out of nips
in front of the manager's door. We'll see what happens.

In other news, i feel great (besides having an eyelid infection). I've been a veggie for going on
five months and I've been walking everyday for a few months now. The walking really relaxes me.
And i need it with the horrible customers I have at work. PEOPLE...there are accent reduction
classes out there! Please, i realize that you are trying but you are making my life a firey hell
by speaking too fast with an accent that makes it sound like you're not even speaking english!!!!!

So anyways, on the walks, its me and my ipod shuffle... oh how i love you my ipod shuffle. Here are my
recommended walking tracks (in order to help you relax):

Bobby Caldwell "what you wont do for love"
Etta James "at last"
Nat King Cole "Quizas, quizas, quizas"
Patsy Cline "Crazy"
Dinah Washington "what a difference a day made"
and lots of Ray Charles


See ya soon

Man, I've got much hard work and plenty of scrimping to do if I'm gonna be
Living good next year. Gotta do it though. Of course things get in the way.
I have to help some family out. Thats cutting into the money i was gonna
use to finish school. Oh well, I can finish later this year or next year.

I'm studying programming on my own. I want to get into game development.
Not PS2 or Xbox stuff, simple games like flash games or online simple stuff.
I figure this is a good way to make use of my skills. I just need to learn programming.
I can do the art and the sound. I'm trying to figure out if I should learn C++ or flash.
There are some engines out there that let you use C++ to do your programming. I don't want
to have to build parts of the engine myself, thats why i'm leaning towards flash,
but of course flash is limited. What do you think? Flash or C++ ???

I bought a flash programming book, but it was over my head. I need to find a
beginners book and start from there if i'm gonna go the flash route. And the nice thing
about flash is that there is plenty of jobs for it. I just don't know.

I bought the old seventies movie "assault on precinct 13". I loved this movie
when i was a kid. It still rocks. I hadn't seen it since in played in theaters
years ago and ya know what? This is a better zombie movie than resident evil 1
and resident evil apacolypse combined! and there are NO zombies in the movie!!!!

In other zombie related news, i bought resident evil 4 a few weeks ago. I spent the whole weekend
doing nothing but playing this game. its now my fav game of all time, hands down. even
if you're not a fan, try this one out.

anyways, i hope next year i'll have my own place and be cooking dinner for my friends
on the weekends. peace yall

Happy 2005. I was gonna post something else but this news story caught my attention: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=1&u=/ap/20050113/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_iraq_weapons

It basically says that the US has given up searching for WMDs. BECAUSE THERE NEVER WERE ANY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The white house says this:

"Based on what we know today, the president would have taken the same action because this is about protecting the American people," said Press Secretary Scott McClellan.

What!?!? You now know that there are no WMDs and that your intelligence was wrong and you would still go to war??? Is that protecting us? Tell that to the dead soldiers and Iraqis you jack asses.

God I fucking hate this shit. Why do we have to have people like this in office??? I dont even believe they really won the election

http://www.freepress.org/images/departments/Congressional.pdf

I really hope all of this blows up in you know whos face. Iraq is a mess, there are no WMDs and there is so much proof of fraud in the elections. The lies may catch up to you!!!!

Someone please tell me things will change.

Louie

:

Hello,
I'm starting the new year early. I'm trying to make this a transitional year.
Where I do things that will put me where I want to be in 2006.
One of those things lead to a bunch of old photos. I'm gonna LJ cut this so people don't have
to view the photos but i ask you to try and do a similar post. I think its great fun to look back at people
when they were younger. For those of you who don't know me, what you will see is old photos (funny clothing
and hairstyles)of me dating from the early seventies until now. If you do something like this, why not let me know?
Even if i don't know you?? Anyways, here we go:

( Click here to go back in time )

I saw The Incredibles today. Its really good. Thats all I'll say about that. Then walked next door and saw the new chucky movie. Jennifer Tilly. I'll watch anything with her in it. She is a very under rated actress.

I rented the Dawn of the Dead remake yesterday. I thought it was very good. It was scarey and had decent actors in it. I don't know if they had to call it "dawn of the dead" though. It would have been a good zombie movie if it was stand alone. If you compare it to the original it is missing one big thing (for me). The original intro in the apartment complex. That scene blew my mind when I was a kid. It really set everything up and let you know that the situation was no joke. It also added more depth to the story. The occupants of the apartment complex were throwing the freshly dead bodies of their family down in the basement through a trash chute, rather than kill them. It was out of respect. You knew how hard it was for people dealing with their family members turning into zombies. Some people had trouble believing that the loved ones were creatures, of course that disbelief usually killed them.

Some people hate how some new zombie movies (this remake included) have fast moving zombies. I gotta tell ya, I thought it was effective in this movie. It made things seem much more dangerous. In the original, you could run past zombies and even smack them in the head or trip them, they were very slow. What got you in trouble was when you were surrounded.

Also, the original dawn of the dead took place after night of the living dead. People in the "dead" trilogy never got a good handle on what caused people to rise from the dead but if i remember correctly, it had to do with a meteor crashing into the earth and radiation. They did say in the remake that some people thought it was a space virus, so i guess they kind of covered that.

Some interesting things: They sheriff who on TV was talking about twitchers. That was the great make up artist Tom Savini who did the make up on the original movie. Hes also sometimes an actor (sex machine from dawn to dusk). The black man talking about religious stuff on TV was the main character from the original.

The DVD had some really great extras. My fav was a homevideo from the character Andy. Who was in the building across the street. In the movie you only saw him from far away (the opposite roof top). This video was made by him while all of this was happening. What a great idea! it was very interesting. I wanna see more stuff like this. And did anyone notice during some of the televised press stuff (extra on the DVD) that the asian women's name was Dana Sterling???? Funny.


Anyways, I've been watching way too many movies. I've been doing it as a break from the heavy duty studying I'm doing right now. Gotta learn Maya. Talk to ya laters.