just came back from watching "21" with a bunch of mit peeps. there's something about watching a movie featuring mit nerdiness -- you find it all nostalgic when the camera pans over the dome or laughing hysterically at fake mit class names that are clearly just a random permutation of nerd words. "i have a paper due on tuesday in quantitative literacy." tee hee. "he aced combinational algorithm." hehehe. yup, it's not funny to anyone else but us dorks.
though i have to admit, our nerdiness is really wearing thin. instead of missing boston throughout the entire movie, we all came out of the theatre talking about our next vegas trip. and no, not to go count cards -- we just wanted to go hit the dance floor. unch unch unch (that's my clubby music sound and my dancing to it, please use your imagination). ooooh yeah.
what else. oh, i was thinking about how schools with names like xavier could never recruit asians to go there. it would be too hard for the parents to pronounce. yesterday, my mom came over in the middle of my watching the ucla-xavier game. she looks at the screen and says, "oooh, so is ucla doing well against...HA-vi-er?" i start laughing and say, "mom, it's xavier, not javier like a mexican name." she insisted that she had a student once who spelled his name xavier, but pronounced it javier. after a while, she said, "whatever, the team is losing anyway."
and today, i went home to say what's up to my papa. he says, "your team played well yesterday. they beat that....x-team." i tried to teach him how to pronounce xavier, but after three tongue twister tries, he said, "well, that's just stupid."
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Happy Easter and More
happy easter, jc! hope you all got lots of pastel-colored marshmellows to clog up the arteries. mmm.
so, per usual, my ncaa bracket blows. i had pitt in the final four and they lost yesterday. i should've known. i mean, their name is pitt! well, at least i have the bruins to cheer for...if they freakin stop giving me hard attacks with their close games.
on that note, every year i fill out the brackets like i know these schools. someone asked me the other day where davidson was located, and seriously, i don't know where most of these schools are! i googled a few -- of course, my a.d.d. kicked in and i stopped after these: 1. oral roberts - tulsa, oklahoma; 2. gonzaga - spokane, washington; 3. winthrop - rock hill, south carolina; 4. siena - loundonville, new york; 5. xavier - cincinati, ohio...
okay okay, i'm sorry if i'm supposed to know where these colleges are, but i'm an LA snob. you know, the people who ignore the existence of all life between the n-y-c and hollywood. rrrrr.
oh, so, more about my new work. the gig is in the video game industry. i haven't played a video game since super nintendo's mario kart, nba jam, and street fighter ii (i thought ryu was hot). i guess you can count puzzle fighter in college and the random dr. mario challenge with steph too, but as you can see, i avoid games. it's because i know myself too well -- once i start playing games, i'll never stop. it's like a weird mix of competitiveness and dorkiness that only happens with video games. i even deleted the freecell and minesweeper icons from my computer at one point. anyhoo, when the whole playstation, xbox, wii craze came about, my electronics-obsessed self looked the other way, "what guitar hero? what madden?"
as expected, it's not going so well for me. it's like a former alcoholic working as a bartender. a former fatty, working the donut shop cashier. seriously. it's only been two weeks, i'm about to go get myself few game consoles. sigh.
so, per usual, my ncaa bracket blows. i had pitt in the final four and they lost yesterday. i should've known. i mean, their name is pitt! well, at least i have the bruins to cheer for...if they freakin stop giving me hard attacks with their close games.
on that note, every year i fill out the brackets like i know these schools. someone asked me the other day where davidson was located, and seriously, i don't know where most of these schools are! i googled a few -- of course, my a.d.d. kicked in and i stopped after these: 1. oral roberts - tulsa, oklahoma; 2. gonzaga - spokane, washington; 3. winthrop - rock hill, south carolina; 4. siena - loundonville, new york; 5. xavier - cincinati, ohio...
okay okay, i'm sorry if i'm supposed to know where these colleges are, but i'm an LA snob. you know, the people who ignore the existence of all life between the n-y-c and hollywood. rrrrr.
oh, so, more about my new work. the gig is in the video game industry. i haven't played a video game since super nintendo's mario kart, nba jam, and street fighter ii (i thought ryu was hot). i guess you can count puzzle fighter in college and the random dr. mario challenge with steph too, but as you can see, i avoid games. it's because i know myself too well -- once i start playing games, i'll never stop. it's like a weird mix of competitiveness and dorkiness that only happens with video games. i even deleted the freecell and minesweeper icons from my computer at one point. anyhoo, when the whole playstation, xbox, wii craze came about, my electronics-obsessed self looked the other way, "what guitar hero? what madden?"
as expected, it's not going so well for me. it's like a former alcoholic working as a bartender. a former fatty, working the donut shop cashier. seriously. it's only been two weeks, i'm about to go get myself few game consoles. sigh.
Monday, March 17, 2008
Unretired and Babbling
so i did the unthinkable last week -- i started a new job. i'm a finance monkey at a local startup, and despite my daily longing for my "reretirement," the gig ain't so bad. but of course, as with any new thing in my life, it provides endless material for the blog. that is, if i wasn't so lazy to write in it!
so, on the first day, my boss and few co-workers told me that the company uses AIM and caught me totally off-guard by asking, "what's your screenname?" without thinking, i answered and made a fantastic first impression as a classy post-mba professional, "it's saujinator." who would've thunk that the screenname i chose at the ripe age of 18 would follow me for this long?
oh, this has nothing to do with anything, but why do people wave down from the overpasses above the freeway? i was driving through the 909 saturday morning and was perplexed as to how people think that is an accepted form of weekend entertainment. okay, fine! i admit, i kinda wanted to join them and look down at passing cars like i'm big g hovering over the world.
btw, aly asked me this last week and i forgot to confirm -- do directors say, "end scene!" or "and...scene!"? anyone?
okay, that was a useless used space in the virtual world. but give me a break, i'm working full time for the first time in like three years and my brain hurts.
so, on the first day, my boss and few co-workers told me that the company uses AIM and caught me totally off-guard by asking, "what's your screenname?" without thinking, i answered and made a fantastic first impression as a classy post-mba professional, "it's saujinator." who would've thunk that the screenname i chose at the ripe age of 18 would follow me for this long?
oh, this has nothing to do with anything, but why do people wave down from the overpasses above the freeway? i was driving through the 909 saturday morning and was perplexed as to how people think that is an accepted form of weekend entertainment. okay, fine! i admit, i kinda wanted to join them and look down at passing cars like i'm big g hovering over the world.
btw, aly asked me this last week and i forgot to confirm -- do directors say, "end scene!" or "and...scene!"? anyone?
okay, that was a useless used space in the virtual world. but give me a break, i'm working full time for the first time in like three years and my brain hurts.
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