To be or not to be...

Tuesday brought another loss for team Ice Water, just when we had gotten on a two game winning streak.  It sucked... We were better than the other team, we just didn't show it.  Jesse, Stephen, Allyson, and Andrew went to the game, however, which was really really cool.  We went to In-N-Out afterwards, where I learned that 5-hour energy, a basketball game, a burger, and a strawberry shake just don't mix well.  More on 5-hour energy later.  That Tuesday night was the first all nighter I have ever pulled in my entire life!!!  I've been close, but I usually either fall asleep doing what I'm doing, or I decide to nap for half an hour.  'Twas all for a stupid powerpoint presentation and a test the next day at 8AM.

Wednesday.  I aced the exam, slept for half an hour in my 9:15 class, and then slept another half hour afterwards on one of the tables outside of Panda Express.  It was weird though, I dreamt while I slept.  

Usually you sleep in class and it doesn't mean anything, but I knocked out and woke up thinking I had been in my bed all along.  After presenting in class and finishing up at 4 or so, I went back to my dorm and got the true sleep I needed.  Andrew woke me up just in time to leave for a night out at UCLA.  My, what a night it was.   I met a bunch of the Glen A. WIlson High School people, who were so much fun to be around.  *sigh*, a co-ed high school would have been so much more fun.  Candace was excellent with her violin; I've never seen an orchestra like that! We walked around meeting up with more people, finally got (free) food (I hadn't eaten since after my exam!), and Stephen and I got to witness a mini-reunion!  

After being around UCLA like that, and after a good talk with Kathleen when I got back, I finally knew for sure what I wanted to do.  I have decided that I'm going to do what ever it takes to transfer.  I was unsure for the longest time, thinking that it'd be such a hassle, and that maybe it's just an illusion, maybe the grass is just greener on the other side.  But after that night, I knew that Cal Poly just hasn't been a good fit for me.  Hence, a knew segment to my blog: Reasons I Should Transfer!  There's honestly no single reason, it's all just a cluster of ideas that took two quarters to get to me.

Reason #19 Why I Should Transfer

Cal Poly's supposed to be one of the top architecture schools in California, yet the buildings are built by the engineers!

Stephen and I discussed this while we were at UCLA.  Their lighting, walkways, and just overall buildings' structural shapes and designs are just so nice.  Cal Poly's buildings are straightforward bricks and cubes.  It's definitely a low reason on the list, one that anyone could easily get over, but hey, it's still a reason.

Thursday night, Stephen, Allyson, Andrew, and I finally satisfied the Pho craving they've been having for months, haha.  We were supposed to get some Tuesday, AND Wednesday too, but it didn't work out.  Ahh, that was good.

Friday and Saturday, I went home, but came back Saturday night to get geared up for finals.  That Saturday night, Jesse, Stephen and I hung out in his room, until we got hungry at about 2 in the morning.  We looked up 24 hour food places around the area, and found that there are none besides Alberto's, but we were getting tired of them.  We decided to try this place called "Tacos Jalisco's", which was ranked as the number one restaurant in all of Pomona.  So Jesse drove, or rather, weaved through lanes, until we got there.  It was in one of thee SHADIEST places in Pomona, and the whole restaurant was packed (this is at 3 in the morning, mind you).  OMG it was sooo good though.  Definitely some of the best Mexican food I've ever had.

Sunday, we spent all day "studying" in our room, until we realized none of us had gotten much done, well, other than...

hehehe...We went to eat Sam Woo chinese food that night, and we also got some interesting buy-one-get-one boba that tasted more like tea than milk tea.  STUDY STUDY STUDY!

Monday, after getting my final over with, I slept.  Woke up for more studying after dinner.  Library, free hot chocolate at the BSC after midnight (from a very flirtatious-with-me girl, and a guy hitting on Allyson), long boarding, throwing a "ball" at Stephen, studying in Allyon's dorm.  We had a very interesting talk that night about how none of us can picture each other getting married in like 5-10 years.  It's gonna happen though (right?).  Crazy.  Stephen really said what had been in the back of my mind for a while now.  Think about this: at 18 years of age, the relationships you have now could actually be with the one you marry....seriously, we're getting up there in age, people.  We're actually old enough!

5-HOUR ENERGY, AKA THE ELIXIR OF LIFE, is bad for you.  Contrary to whatever people may tell you, it's bad for you.  I can't exactly explain why, but it just is.  Sure, there's no sugar, no jitters, no crash, and it really does work, but there's something about it that just chemically screws you up.  It's just unusual for your body.

I used it to stay up to study for finals, and it's just a weird feeling.  I tried to go to sleep at about 4:30am Sunday night, and it almost felt like I didn't sleep at all; I just closed my eyes for a long time.  I had the same feeling Monday night when I tried sleeping at 4 and "waking" at 5:30.  Man, finals sucked.  I'm pretty sure I did well, but iono. That 7AM final on Tuesday was brutal.  Needless to say, I went back to sleep, and actually slept from 9 to 4.  

That Tuesday, I bumped into/had a chance to have a good talk with Pia!!! Great to see you again, girl!  That night Team Ice Water had another game... I have to say that that was one of thee most frustrating basketball games I've ever played in.  Not only did I (over-dramatically) hurt my right ankle AGAIN, but I felt disrespected.  Our team as a whole just didn't work hard enough, either.... I felt my ankle pop, man. It wasn't just the muscle this time, it didn't feel like a normal roll.  I'm pretty sure the bone popped out or was on its way to pop out.  I freaked out!  It still hurts a bit, but I'll be fine... The high top shoes/ankle brace saved me.

So now I'm on Spring Break!!! I'm so glad I'm back to my normal sleeping habits.  My nocturnal ways were just not working for my body.  The possibilities of break excite me!  I'll let you guys know!

Ahh, such a great week.  Thanks in most part to ANDREW, JESSE, STEPHEN, AND ALLYSON!!! 

and... hehe, thanks to Michael Baluyot for Photoshop!

And of course, how could I forget the wonderful Leah Apelar for our first-of-many long talks.  Thanks so much for listening!  I'll always be here for you.  We and our Lonely Hearts Club Band, haha, we'll get through this.

Quote(s) of the Day (Week):

"To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia--to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess."  ~H.L. Mencken

haha, I heard it from Mel and liked it so much that I wrote it down in my notebook before falling asleep in front of Panda.

"If love had a texture, it would be Boba."    ~Stephen Rivas

SO true, just think about it.  A deceptively hard exterior, but a soft, sweet core.  Mushy and chewy, but fun to be around anyway.  Not to mention it can survive in almost any rough liquids. :)

"Don't make her wait for you, even if you know she would"   ~The away message of this girl who had a crush on me my sophomore year...while she was a senior... 

I find it most interesting that we can literally take decades of schooling, learning both physical and mental processes that are so easy to forget if they're not practiced.  But in matters of learning from relationships, there are things you will never forget...

Damn, this is what I get for not updating this throughout the week... One long post again... and they're not as thoughtful as I'd like them to be... more of, what I've done lately.  I'll work on this, I promise.

THANKS TO Chris Medina, Allyson Yee, and Leah Apelar, the unseen followers of my blog!!!