Moving On!

Hey guys and to my beloved readers:

I am announcing a move to bao’s blog, partly because it would be very erratic as to when I would blog. And, knowing that bao regularly blogs anyways (we usually operate on the same wavelength anywho), I have decided that I will just become a backwater, undercover writer for bao’s blog. Heck, who knows. Maybe if I’m lucky enough, Bao will change the title of the blog to Bao and Eddie’s Blog. But that would just mean more work for me, ahahaha.

The link for bao’s blog is here: aznbanhbao.wordpress.com

But you all already knew that didn’t you? I hope you do because I hope only my friends read this blog

Until next time!

-Eddie

First Day of Classes

Wow, this has been such an awesome week. So many things happened that it’s so hard to recount everything from memory. Well, I walked for half an hour to my first class today at 7 AM, strolling through 50 degrees of chilly wind to political science.

I just heard some police sirens outside of my dorm. I hope nothing serious happened.

Then I walked another 30 minutes back to class and I’m exhausted. I think I’m going to take a nap and I’m biking next time.

I’ll blog a bit more later, I have some homework to do.

Laters,

Eventless Drama

Imagine a world where…nothing happens. That’s the world I live in now. Surrounded by the joyful and wonderful activities of other people, stalking them through their blog and attempting to live my life through other people. There’s nothing more pathetic than that; rather, I can’t think of anything more pathetic at the moment.

As you all may or may not already know, I have stoppped blogging for an indefinite amount of time until today. I stopped, in part, due to severe laziness. The other reason is because I became disillusioned with the blogging phenomenon. I found that I didn’t want to blog about my day. I wanted to share the most intimate moments of my day and life with the people I know and love in person. In essence, that is the most stimulating and the most rewarding aspect of life; it makes the lonely nights shorter and the fun-packed days last all the longer. It leaves me exhausted and wanting more of the wonderful experience, like a drug that gives me a high all the time, every time.

I cannot imagine a world without my friends and family. Such a desolate world must never exist.

I found that I didn’t want to share tidbits of my life and pieces of information with my friends. They don’t deserve that. What about the friends that I don’t see regularly anymore? Teresa? Martin? Michelle? (Those who still blog despite my absence) Don’t they deserve the full extent of the experience of life? Vivir is the spanish word for “to live”. The word tells us (or rather it should) that we should enjoy life to the greatest extent. Life is a journey that must be experienced and consumed. If my blog is just to be a mere collection of my life experiences, then shouldn’t the readers enjoy my life and their lives with me?

It just seems too cruel to just give a part of the story or consume merely a piece of a meal when somebody is starving.

Then I realized that all of this deep, philosophical crap was just an excuse for me to not blog.

HELLO world! I’M BACK!

-Eddie

Orientation

I wish I could go to orientation RIGHT NOW. Christine and Marcus already went and I’m stuck here waiting until August 12th to go.

Why do they make all of the engineering kids wait until August to go to orientation? Every other college gets to go before us and I’m stuck here bored out of my mind waiting for something new and exciting to happen in my life.

Summer school for me is almost over and finals should be taking up space in my mind; but, I can only think about college and start my new life.

I’m so pathetic. I check my emails every day waiting for some kind of letter from the college to feed my insatiable curiosity. I want to know everything about the college and all of the activities to do while I’m there.

I only went to the college once a couple of days before the SIR deadline. The campus is-for lack of a better word-ridiculously large.

I’m going to have to cut this really short because I have customers in the store. I’ll elaborate on this more in a separate post.

-Eddie

Big Bang

The Big Bang Theory is a super awesome show. It’s ridiculously funny and I love the quirky nerds that are in the show.

I’m trying out this windows live writer program. It’s pretty cool, I can blog on wordpress without actually logging onto wordpress.

Awesomeness.

Eddie

Cynicisim

Honestly, the American public are idiots.

I was reading an article from The Washington Post about a phone interview with Obama. After reading the article, I proceeded down to the comments section where the people kept ranting about how very unspecific Obama was about health care.

Look, he provided plenty of information. There was a comment that complained about how Obama went on a giant rant about nothing, he wanted to know WHAT, HOW, WHERE, WHEN, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH.

It was clearly explained that Obama intended to raise revenue by increasing interest rates on treasury notes and by taxing the wealthy over a span of time. If you all honestly didn’t understand that, then you will never understand the nitty gritty details.

And honestly, if you all really wanted to know the details, go ask your representative and senators. Obama really doesn’t have the time to be going over the details of one piece of legislation. By the way, Obama also left the health care legislation details to be worked out by Congress, it’s no wonder he doesn’t know everything because the bill is constantly being modified.

Cynicism is all good and healthy for the soul, but you all have seriously misplaced it. Even my high school politics textbook claims that Americans are seriously misinformed and really don’t know anything about our government. I didn’t really believe it until now.

I’m so disgusted, go look up the facts before you rant on nothing.

-Still mad

New Computer

I’m burning a DVD, running a virus scan, typing up this blog, running microsoft word 2007, running aim, and downloading updates from windows and my computer hasn’t slowed down one bit.

In fact, it’s only used a third of its computing power.

That’s all you need to know about my computer. LOL.

Eddie :]

Funktastic Day!

Today was amazing. Even if you realize that your life sucks, spending time with your friends will change all of that. I’m really tired right now and I’ll summarize my day tomorrow or something like that.

I love my friends.

Eddie

My Long-Lost Cousin

Today, my cousin stopped by my store today to find his father. I had long forgotten how messed up my family is. I won’t go into the details, but my cousin was on a holy mission to find his father and punch him in the face.

It’s times like these that I realize my family is not the great generator of warm and comfort that it should be. It is cold and ruthless with my uncles vying for each other’s money to escape their own problems.

I have never talked about my family, except to a few close friends. But I think I will slowly tell their stories one by one. If I am to refer to them, I believe that they should at least have their stories told in the most objective and neutral way as possible.

Well, that’s not the point of today’s post.

My cousin had changed so much. He’s 20, turning 21 soon. He has a Cambodian girlfriend and they both have a kid that’s about 2 years old. He had grown much more width-wise when I last saw him and he grew out his beard. He was also very tan so he could pass off as a Latino if he wanted to.

During our conversation, he was struggling to speak Vietnamese and my aunt started cracking up when he couldn’t pronounce certain words correctly. She’s so messed up.

It was nice that he came by to visit even when our family has pretty much fallen apart. He asked my dad if he knew where his father was. To my relief, he replied that he didn’t know. I was slightly afraid that he was going to murder his father if he found out and we might see his body in a newspaper or something.

Whatever the case, it’s nice to catch up on old times. I’ll update on my life as soon as I can.

-Eddie

Farewell My Grandfather

It seems that today is the day that my family is going to bury my grandfather.

My only regret is that I will not see him before the burial. I can now only remember him through faded memories and forgotten pictures of a time long gone.

Damn it all, I have so many regrets. I hate myself for not being there for him.

Thank you Michelle for your kind words, I really appreciate them. Thank you everybody that has helped me through this difficult time.

I might update again today.

-Eddie