The Purple Tux
With just enough education to perform.Wednesday, November 27, 2002
"The novelist with Christian concerns will find in modern life distortions which are repugnant to him, and his problem will be to make these appear as distortions to an audience which is used to seeing them as natural." -Flannery O'Connor
Good quote.
Sunday, November 24, 2002
Okay, I finally set up a haloscan.com account, so anyone who comes to this site can post crud up. I guess it looks a little sloppy, but in case you're confused, click on the link that says "Comment (x)" that is beneath BENEATH the time of the post. Thanks, and try to keep it clean, peace out.
Man, for over a week or so, something has been screwy with my computer or internet connection. For some reason, I would keep getting error messages whenever I wanted to post something here. Heck, I even got error messages when I wanted to post on shoryuken! But today I was able to post on srk.com again, so I'm assuming that I can post on this as well. And if I'm wrong, well, it won't matter because then you wouldn't be able to read this. Then again, I wonder just who does read this stuff. I update pretty infrequently and I never did set up that little service to allow any readers to post comments. Maybe I should do that.
CRAP, I just checked about what assignments I have to do, and I have an 8-10 page paper due on Dec. 2 and a 4-5 page paper due on Dec. 3. That sucks!!!
Finally watched Bowling For Columbine last night. Michael Moore is top tier. He's good at making documentary style films that educate and entertain at the same time. Plus, he has skills at tracking famous people down and making them squirm on camera, or appear to be jerks. I bet most famous people are jerks anyway. Except for Jesus. He's pretty famous, but I doubt He was a jerk. I bet He was cool.
Ninjas are cool, too. Man, if only I had ninja powers!! I would give anything to have real ultimate power! Can you imagine having the ability to flip out all the time and killing fools!
I am a mammal.
Phew, for a minute there, I lost myself.
Wednesday, November 13, 2002
I am getting jacked by math.
Basically, I'm like an innocent little kid who goes into a candy store and comes out with a big round juicy red lollipop. Math is like the bully who hides behind a dumpster, then bumrushes my blind side right as a peel off the wrapper, and takes my lollipop.
I don't know why I am doing so bad in math. Okay, actually I'm probably doing so bad because I'm not putting enough work and effort into it. But I just don't have any motivation for the stinkin' class. I have plenty of time, I suppose, to go to office hours or tutoring or the calculus room to help me out in the homework and stuff. But I don't go. I think it's because all my life, I have never relied on going out of my way to learn something. Basically, for all of my classes in my life up until Math 16A, I was pretty much able to figure things out without going any extra miles. It's just not my nature to step out and go out of my way, I guess. I feel like a disgrace to all Asians, getting beat up by Math 16A for the SECOND time. I feel like a disgrace to all Lowellites. However, even these shames are not enough to drive me to go to extra lengths. What's my motivation?
Tuesday, November 05, 2002
This past weekend was Fall Getaway 2002. For some reason I still don't understand, I was the emcee for the weekend. Pretty weird, huh? I was way more nervous than I thought I would be. I guess it's just been too long since the old Forensics days. Well, I guess after the first night I wasn't too nervous, but dude, when I was nervous, I was shaking all over the place and doing all sorts of dumb crap. Most people gave me encouraging feedback and said I made them smile a couple of times over the weekend; but then again, it was a Christian retreat and you know, Christians wouldn't say anything harsh to me even if I did an awful job. It's like, ya know, they'd be all like, "Oh! WONDERFUL job! Jesus loves you!" even if I sucked. Oh well. Good times. I promoted some realultimatepower.net (still one of the greatest all-time websites) and basically acted like a doofus up in front of everyone.
Bob Francis, who's a national director at Campus Crusade, spoke on the book of Romans. I think most of his messages were pretty basic, but he approached the topics from some good angles, and he had some awesome stories from his own life. I'm still pretty juiced up from the weekend, man, I feel pumped. Saturday night we had some quality men's time. I think walking up the mountain and the change in elevation really gave us all gas because dudes were farting all over the place! It's like when you pick Sentinel and keep making him fly/unfly and the color of his flames keep changing colors, that's how fast our farts were launched, it was pretty awesome. Maybe next time we'll play swords.
Sunday, November 03, 2002
"You have no choice of subject matter. You write what's in your heart and on your mind--unless of course it's crap, in which case it means you've thought about it too much." -Bono
"The past is only an arrangement of photons receding at light speed." -Janice Em, Robotech: The Sentinels
