went to a relatively upscale club in beverly hills. my frenz and i got all dressed up...(there were about 20 of us in the VIP room..)..it was fun. i wore my favorite suit. it's weird how differently people will treat you when you are dressed nicely. i don't know if i like that or not.
anyway, i got drunk, and now i'm hung over and i have a paper to write.
good nite.

it's funny how inspiration can just hit you all of the sudden.
i was reading this page and the writer was talking about an experience she had with a homeless man.
anyway that got me thinking. has anyone else noticed that people can be so indifferent toward homeless people? does that strike anyone else as strange?
i was standing outside a market once, smoking. there was this homeless guy kickin it outside, askin for change. now, i'm po'. but i'm also rich. I have never worried about money in the survival sense. but i am often without extra money to spend on myself. as such, a lot of times i don't have money to give to homeless people. instead, i try to give them cigarettes and some warm thoughts. anyway. as I was standing outside this market, watching this homeless guy, I also watched people's reactions to him. ALL the adults gave him dirty looks, or no looks at all. none of them gave him money, cigarettes, or warm thoughts. about 5 young (under 30) people passed by. each one smiled, gave him some change, or gave him a cigarette. sadly, I wasn't surprised by this chain of events. i've heard all the "excuses"..."you're just throwing away your money" "he/she is gonna buy alcohol or drugs with that" "what is that gonna solve?" "they don't deserve hand outs if they are in the situation that they're in"...etc etc. etc.
i realize that homelessness and poverty in LA and in the US is a huge problem. I realize that it is not a problem which can be solved with pocket change, cigarettes, or warm thoughts. but i've always looked at it this way. does ANYBODY deserve to be homeless? to suffer the way that these people must? I realize that my spare change is not going to buy them a better quality of life. I realize that they might drink, smoke, or misuse my help in any variety of ways. but say that they don't. say that my 36 cents, will help them buy a hot meal, or some cardboard to sleep on. say that my telling them to "take care of yourself...." or "i hope you feel better soon..." makes their day somehow. if i can make this person's day better in anyway...who am I to keep that from them? Finally, and most importantly, when did these people lose the right to be treated with respect or dignity? what makes any of us that much better than them? To me that is the bottom line. these people are human, and deserve to be treated as such. finally, why does it seem most of the time that the majority of the people who give these people respect, dignity, change, cigarettes, or warm thoughts, are young? i really don't have an answer to this question...and it's something that kinda boggles my mind.
anyway if you are still reading at this point..i give you mad props for hanging in there through my twisted reasoning and convoluted thinking.
other misc. rants:
1) i got a SPEEDING TICKET :(
2) school SUCKS.
3) i lack motivation.
4) my site is ugly. someone wanna donate some desigin sk33lz? :)

questions? comments? points of clarification? email me. my gsunoo@leap.org acct is back up. *yaY*

everybody go visit my friend/co-worker jenny's new page. it's funky phresh =).

so after reading this article i think i know where my long lost apple iic might be =).

so now i have my very own Amazon.com: Wish List =) go buy me something!
hmm something has been bothering me lately. as soon as i figure out what it is...i wll write a rant =).

okay so i've been goin a little crazy with the updating...
but y'all NEED to check this link out.
as wes said.."it's like jet li...in stick figure theater."
okay that is all....for now.
*pOoF*

"This hour in history needs a dedicated circle of transformed nonconformists. Dangerous passions of pride, hatred and selfishness are enthroned in our lives; truth lies prostrate on the rugged hills of nameless Calvaries. The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority." -Martin Luther King Jr.
It would be hard to state the importance of activism and non-conformity (is that a word) any better than Dr. King himself.
mental note: read more of this man's work.

so ernie summed up PERFECTLY why i hate cats.
read all about it here.

hmm....so i found this site today.
now is this an old site that came before asianave.com ? or
did they jus bite asianave's st33z?
or are they both designed by the same person?
regardless...there is a lack of originality here somewhere.
blackplanet.com *doeS* have 2.5 million members....compared to asianave's measly 1.5....
hrMm...verrrrrrry interesting.

today's bit o' humor (courtesy of jaret =) )
ebonics word of the day: omelette
used in a sentence:
I should pop yo ass fo what you jus did, but
omelette dis one slide.

i should teach a class in procrastination.
i have a 12 page paper due in less than 24 hrs. i've written about 2sentences and done none of the background reading.
my dsl connection went down yesterday, and here i am updating over a 56K modem.
okay.
enough is enough.
back to work.
(i'll be back with a better update uhh...soon.)
ps. I also plan on getting 8 hrs of sleep, starting in about 2 hrs. so i will have to crank out this paper in about 11 hours.
scary.
*mission impossible theme starts playing in the background*

kristy is dope.

u know what i just realized i really hate?
people who claim that they are into "being asian american..." or "studying asian american stuff" just because it sounds cool.
i guess i don't like ppl who perpetrate about bein "down for the cause" but are really doin jus that..perpetratin.
but then i wonder if i'm guilty of the same?
oh well..more on this later.

i was going to write an entry, but i'm too tired now. I guess that's the problem with writing at night.
went bowling today...scored a 75. it sucked..i was 2nd to last out of like 10 people. ah well..i guess things could be worse :p
my car is making a funny noise :(. i tried to change my oil, but couldn't :(. but believe it or not..it was actually a good day...i just like to complain.
anybody want to join my focus group which is going to study the issues facing APA Senior Citizens? It's going to be held on April 16th, at 12 pm in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles.
email me for more info.
okay that's it...sleep time. good night.