ladies and gentlemen.  leona chan aka ACK has officially moved in.  at this moment she is updating her xanga at 8.05 am while one of her roommates is snoring quietly and the other searches on her computer for classes.

westminster is gorgeous.  the people are friendly and the weather isn't too shabby... it's not like a move 25-minutes away would shock me out of my system.  last night i went "exploring" with a bunch of cv-highers and jackie (my korean roommate looking for classes).  we went in a fat group equal to any posse found on telegraph.  we went straight to the asian ghetto on durant and hit up the 59 cent boba.  it was cold.  the weather and the boba. 

this week shall be full of free stuff and...well more free stuff. saturday is red t-shirt trade off day.  get a free cal shirt in exchange.  je l'aime beaucoup. 

i'm eating cereal.  out of a plastic bowl i pilfered from a guy down the hall. the bowl and the cereal are from costco.  im not using an utensil.  this breakfast experience in and of itself is purely college-like.  im sure i'll get tired of it in 2 days.  but let me enjoy in peace, thank you very much.

for all those concerned about recent um...automotive events.  you guys are wonderful.  i'm ok. my car is ok.  she's (my victim) is ok. her car...isn't ok.  my insurance shall not be ok.  but hey. that's what insurance is for.  college is good in many ways. one being...i won't need a car or insurance.  thank God everyone is ok and that...my parents were super understanding.

ok. back to my cereal.  stay tuned for more...adventures of ack!

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so im alive and shaking in my sandals.  the first thing i did after i got home and calling my insurance carrier was to eat a jumbo size mango.  i suppose being suddenly conscious of life makes one ravenous.  or.. that's just me...

cbm both college and high school camps were truly amazing in that neither were what i expected.  they both surpassed my expectations by far.  the people i've hung out and met and reminisced with.  the places i've gone to see.  just everything at this point in overwhelming.

ok. so maybe updating on one's xanga after a car accident isnt the brightest thing to do.  all the juicy secrets and inner angst surfaces up.  just kidding! well.. at least about the secrets and angst.

at this moment, my whole summer was revisited during the 1 hour i waited in the parking lot for the police to come.  the woman who i rear-ended and got to know, had quite a story.  after roundly cussing me out for the first few minutes, she ended up telling me her life story.  she's a vet tech with a fiance of 5 years.  money's tight. (ironically, her bumper sticker said "hit me! i need the money!" i took her word for it.)  mr. fiance's mother and grandmother died within the past 6 months.  she's realizing that life is not everything she dreamed it to be.  she's only 21.  the one thing she said that made an impression on me (besides all the combos of 4-letter words) was: "someone's looking out for us.  this happened for a reason".  anyhow. bubba jr. is A-OK.  three cheers for wondrously made camrys!

well. thats my rather biased shaky version of my day.  but yes.  in that 1 hour, i relived 2.5 months of stuff.  mind you, it wasn't just "stuff", but ...meaningful...things. 

on to movie reviews:  watched garden state.  brilliantly done.  however. it made me feel all emo inside.

                                hotel rwanda.  almost like a african schindler's list.  except for the lack of color device.  it was quite jolt watching that at 7 in the morning.  there were clearly a lot of guilt-tripping aimed at the western countries for the lack of response to the genocide.  i dont blame them.

ok.  enough postage.  i need to nap and eat some animal crackers.  cheers.

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yoinked from mr robbie's xanga.  i call it "s'more impalation of doom"! mmph. 

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my obligatory bi-monthly post. 

urghhh. so oakley now owns my soul.  or at least the part of my brain that serves to store short term info.  romeo 2's = $438 for black iridium polarized, $90 for non-polarized gascans, $115 for iridium half-jackets.  and the list goes on.  i did make top seller for a bit at the height of my sales associate hype.  but yes.  i just realized how many old white men want to look younger.  women use makeup to look/feel younger.  men...well... those who have cash go for the oakley.  i hope i shall never resort to reclaiming my youth via overpriced eyewear.

anyhow. for the part that counts.   climbing at ironworks with yip alice and feucht.  man.  that niner was massacre!   cbm college retreat was an uber blessing.  no curfew.  staying up all night trying to beat lawrence in speed. hallucinating and seeing killer rabbits in the wall.  swinging by a rope into a creek.  blazing s'mores.  awesome people.  glorious beach.  a musical speaker. and the list never ends. 

mmmm baby.  so tired.  cant believe my summer is trickling away so swiftly.  i rather enjoyed it this year.  i still need to learn how to drive stick seeing as how i have racing shoes that will never used otherwise.  anyone wanna teach me?

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