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Name: Henley
Birthday: 6/1/1987
Gender: Male
Interests: God, Church, Computer Software & Hardware..
Read Import Magazines..
Modifying Cars..
Try to go to most of Car Shows..
Photography..
PC Games..
Basketball, Tennis, Weights, and Volleyball
Expertise: Computer..
Modifying Cars..
Getting girls phone number haha...JK
PC Games...
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Occupation: Student
Industry: Education/Research
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AIM:  inertia draft
MSN: inertial.drift
ICQ:  223347541
Member Since:
3/2/2003
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| Of course living here in Southern California, I have no choice but to talk about the recent 5.4 magnitude earthquake that was struck in Chino Hills spreading as far as San Diego and Las Vegas. What the f**k is there to talk about? It's an earthquake. We're behind the San Andreas fault line. What do you expect living in earthquake prone state? It's like people becomes all shock and devastated after a tornado/hurricane blew their house away when they live in tornado/hurricane alley. Where's the shocking news from that?
On that day when the earthquake happened, I was cycling down with friends to Seal Beach along the San Gabriel river bike path and we never felt anything beside that we were riding at a pretty fast speed. When we made a pit stop at Wal-Mart at Long Beach, customers were all out running saying an earthquake had just struck and we look at each other laughing. We went in and saw all the glass/containers dropped and spilled around the floor. The smell of mix relish/mustard/ketchup had made us hungry. Like every Wal-Mart, there HAS to be a McDonald inside, which was right long the entrance. We snacked and left heading down to Seal Beach. Upon arriving, we started to smell that salty ocean sea coming. The river was moving backwards inside forward. The seagulls were flying, cranes were drinking from the river, and cyclist were all around getting a workout and enjoying the weather.
Taking a rest while sleeping on the beach, we slept for a good hour before leaving again getting back up north to Alhambra. The bike path trial was very bad. Cracks and bumps were found ever 5-10 feet. Under tunnels were so dark that we actually had close encounters of hitting other bikers going into that dark tunnel or pedestrians running on that bike path. The beating sun killed us, which explains the nasty sun burn. Despite being burn, the seriousness was very low. Cramps and muscle strain had got me on the thigh and knee area. Along with that 73 mile ride to and back from Seal Beach we rode a little over a mile to Hometown Buffet which we snacked on as hungry guys. To top off we had to ride back from Rosemead to Alhambra which took another good 45 minutes or 6 miles.
The end of the day, Bengay, nice shower, and bed was all our best friend as we crashed and didn't wake up until almost 1pm.
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| SummerIt's been a while has it. Time flies. Of course I want to congratulate on those who graduated, I wish you all the best in your future endeavors.
Already my 3rd year of college is done. How unclear my road and path is going to be for me. Do I want to move up to the Bay Area in hopes of shooting a job at a tech company? Where will my degree take me? Will I have to go and get my masters and hopefully just get an edge on the other population out there fighting for that spot? Don't get me wrong, I'm happy I made it this far. Whoever thought someone like me would succeed in living the American dream of the rights to an education. My aunt told me I'm shooting too high to begin with. Told me that I need to let go a bit of my academic realm and enjoy the social side. Yet it's easy to say than done since I'm not the typical Asian who can crack open the book in the very end and cram passing the exam with flying colors.
Summer is here, the season and time to where people enjoy the sunny weather, particularly here in Southern California by coasting out toward the seas. Course I'm not a beach fan so that doesn't include me. Rest assure I decided to kill my summer time by taking 2 sessions of summer courses here at Irvine. Might as well aim to finish school early by a quarter and work during those free time. So far this 1st session of summer isn't bad. Just took my midterm for the class. Professor is very cool. Not a great teacher in explanations. Very broad in his lecture. Sort of like a stubborn giving directions a bit. Haha. Although the TA is smoking hot. Sort of tries to pull off that Victoria Beckham hairstyle look. Haha.
Same as before life is boring. Love life doesn't exist. Only love I get is from my bicycle where it takes me to a different world and enjoying myself and the scene as I bike. Although my friends and I crashed on 4th of July going to Almansor Park enjoying the firework show. Biked on that day and sadly it sucked. It was darn hot.Chilled majority of the day at Hometown Buffet eating, drinking and chatting. Haha. Pretty boring. Spend good 6 hours in there. But at least we got the AC.
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| Things get by pretty slow when you have nothing to do. Having to cram all my lectures/discussions/labs in 3 days of out the 5 day school week was pretty lazy and dumb idea considering I do absolutely nothing on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday but studying and around my apartment. How unproductive. Haha. Except for the reading part, that's a must to pass. Not looking into this quarter much considering my large amount of reading for 2 classes. I like the classes but the amount of reading per week the professor assign is nuts. Averaging 70 pages a week blows. Haha.
But during the week of boredom I realized one thing. I realized how hard it is to maintain friends with people you don't see because of distances. After graduating middle school I never spoke or saw those people again. Same for high school. Sometimes I would see them over at Facebook or MySpace but that really isn't my way of meeting people or interacting. I met one of my middle school friend last 2 years ago in a very unpleasant event, but I won't go much into details about that.
I look at my messenger list and I have 100+ people, but I talk to no more than the usual 5 people. We as humans tend to socialize with people who we normally associate with within a distance. We all have our own paths, choices and decisions. We all have our own schedule and are busy. Trying to maintain that friendship is much more harder than it is. Have to make plans that would fit under everyone's schedule. Got to plan out something that everyone would enjoy and not be left out.
It's a system where I see that as you get older, there are more paths for you to take but leading you to distance from one another. I can say that I haven't seen any of my past childhood friends for a long time now. It's been a good year and half now. Even messaging to one another is rare now. It's very sad how people as human being try to accomplish our own goals and achievements but leaving the past behind.
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| Time FliesTime really is against you as you age. What feels like long duration of time for a year to pass back as a kid, is like a blink of an eye as you get older. Another school year is almost over and I was thinking about how fast it flew by. What my father told me when I was young makes sense to me now, "Wasted time can never be given back, use it wisely." Come to think of it, I really don't think I've used my time wisely in my past. If I made my effort more and took my schooling more serious back in my middle/high school I probably would of been at my first pick university, but I didn't. Truly a self disappointment, I have no one to blame but myself.
As I age, I notice my hours of playing video games has decline dramatically. I wish I had more of a self control as I do now back in high school. What a difference it could of made for me. All them Starcraft, Diablo 2, and Counter-Strike playing hours could of gone something useful. Read, study. I really wish I could of change back time. Opportunity wasted many times for me. Everything slipped right out. Left with nothing but the small mere achievement I have made for myself. Nothing.
They say mankind learns its mistake from the past hoping to never repeat itself. I can say that I'm one of the few who has. My attitude toward school is completely different. I enjoy doing the reading and work. I enjoy doing it regardless the amount I have to put in it. I'm glad I'm here. I'm glad I'm able to pick myself up from being nothing to a mere somebody in this spot of the world. I am damn well glad that I can say this and hope to spread my story giving hope to those who live in a tough world. I'm thankful that I can get here. I sympathize those who can't. Anyone can achieve it IF you're willing to put the work in it.
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| Winter FinalsIt's the end of the spring quarter here. Some of us might have already taking some of our finals previous week and is left with few more this week. I hope those who study do well on the exams. Those who didn't study don't cry about not getting the grade you wanted.
Really the one thing I learn throughout my time under the University of California education system is read and take exams. You read you pass. Whoop dii doo. This whole UC thing is such over-hyped. Ain't no difference any other damn school. Just prestigious names really do rock people's mind huh? The UC school isn't as what you are told or at least heard from others. People here are just as ignorant and stuck up in the ass like everywhere else. These people here complain about their long class hours and bitch about the professor being boring. They believe that their time is more important than to stay in class and hopefully learn something out of it. People be completely zoning out of the classroom and be damn Myspace(ing) and Facebook(ing). Really that shit is annoying. It isn't a distraction to me because I can give a fuck about their grades. But just the lack of respect for these scholarly people is ridiculous. People be leaving lectures when it's no longer than a little over 1 hour. Give me a break. I'd thought people here would be more goal-minded and mind-oriented but I guess not. They are same bunch of idiots as local community college students.
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