Tres punto Tres!

3.3 miles!

I think that's what we ran today! Today's directions were kind of confusing so I just followed people...and I think we took a longer route, but it's ok. It was a good run today and I'm happy because I'm not sore from Monday's run! Today was a flat route compared to Monday...which was super hilly. My iPod was running too and some songs I listened to were:

+I Belong to You (+ some french words) / Muse
+Alone / Sanctus Real [listened to it twice!]
+The Procession / The Dear Hunter
+Dear Ms.Leading / The Dear Hunter
+Resistance / Muse

I think there were more songs but I was too focused to pay attention... :)

Anywho. I sent in the design for the Women's ministry shirts and Johnny was more than happy to print them haha...how nice! I ALSO BOUGHT A NEW KLEEN KANTEEN. Same exact one that Celester got me for Christmas. Yesterday at work I bought chocolate covered marshmallow cake thingies for my co-workers and boss and I don't think they even cared for them so I started to eat some. >:(. I don't think they would have cared if I brought it in or not...SO I should have just kept them and ate them all...or given them to people back at church!

I'M EXCITED FOR SATURDAY!

Why?!

Because I get to be home! And...there's practice! And I have a semi-interview thing I guess...though that means I have to make a portfolio on my blogspot.....

OKAY! Enough for right now! Time to...watch Offive season 4! and finish my salad...

Urgle Gru

I'm eating honey bunches of oats in preparation for the day ahead and for jogging :)

I'm enjoying the coolness of this long awaited weather! Huzzah!

당신은 총 쇼에 표가 있는가?

Pyo inna yo chong sho?


Hehe. Not exactly the same sentence..but close to it.

Well, aside from that little number, I learned a great deal about Korea, its culture and history, which was an awesome experience. I'm thankful to God for this opportunity and especially to spend time with my Kuya :).

Dag. It's 341 already. I was uploading pics from the past week onto facebook...and even put a heading for each 200 hundred of them....

ALSO. I need to do some homework! I forgot I had a little written project due in Health class...shoot.

Anyway, I went to the Gathering tonight/last night and it was pretty cool because Jennifer led worship for the first time and I accompanied with the cajon. Wesley taught about John 15:14-17, which talked about loving one another, especially your enemies, and that while we are no longer servants, but friends to Jesus [we are still bondservants though] in that instead of being forced to serve God like that of a servant-master-relationship, we are willing and obedient in the same way Christ was. Being a friend of God is a big thing because it means a deeper, closer relationship with Him and that even though He already knows His plans for us and what we're thinking in our hearts, He still wants us to communicate to Him, just like in a normal relationship. Communication is important and keeps two persons connected! Wesley went deeper into it, but I just kind of...summarized. It was a great message though and I'm glad I was able to make it before I have to go back to work on Fridays :(.

And so, after that was time for fellowship and I was telling people how Korea was and some things that happened. We hung out for a while talking about concerts, bands [mostly Blink 182 and Weezer from Christian, and some Muse], The Office, The Apple Store opening today, Guitar Center, and gore-ish videos and crazy people.

shoot. I should sleep? Argh. I still have laundry and homework/studying. Blehhh. BUT ITS ALL GOOD BECAUSE KOREA WAS AWESOME!

Not sure when but

I shall say:

See you in two weeks!

Yeah, I don't know if our hotel will have Wi-Fi power, but hopefully it will. If not then...I will accumulate my adventures and type it on notepad until I can post it on this here blog.

:)

I think...

I almost sang myself to death whilst driving back to Murrieta from Fullerton on a Thursday night.

There are some songs where you just have to sing at the top of your lungs...and although I think my lungs suck, I did it anyway.

I surprised my parents by coming home a day earlier because I requested Friday off too...so that was cool. Had I NOT come home on Thursday night, I would have missed the ending to Mission to Mars with Gary Sinise AND the beginning of K-Pax with Kevin Spacey! AH! Good thing I made it just in time! :P

Anywho, tomorrow I'm going to try to get a haircut...get some snacks for the trip...and do laundry...and go to the Gathering.

YESSSH.

OH! Tonight's episode of The Office, season 6:

AWESOME et FUNNY :)

PARCORE!!

Yum Nums

I'm eating the best batch of Honey Bunches of Oats right now.

why?

Because it was a birthday gift! haha...it's been a while since my birthday, but I haven't opened it yet because I wanted to save it! :D It's still good. and yummy.

thanks guys!

Muse - Uprising

Muse - Uprising

the video...

:)

But.....

I think they have better ones still...

Ever had to break a rock all day, every day?

WITH CHAAAAINS ON YOUR LEGS?!

Here's the story:
Yesterday, I found Jomar's twin on my campus.
Today:
I found Jovic's LONG lost son, who is NOT Jomar.

Crazy.

Also..my COMM233 teacher is a cross between Phoebe from Friends and Kitty from Arrested Development...hopefully she isn't crazy.

This Oriental Chicken salad is sweet...because of the tangerine slices and the sesame sauce dressing thing...but other than that, it's a pretty good salad. I only got this one because chicken caesar was gone. I really need to do real grocery shopping so I stop spending money on one-time meals!!! GAHHHH! Buut, I'll do that after the Kolea Trip!

Hmm...am I allowed to make my own designs for bands? I'm not making them for profit...but I hope I don't get jailed by the thought police...or regular police for that matter.

Anywhose, this is in progress too. There's something missing.....either that or it just sucks haha.

P.S. Health & Nutrition class can be scary to the unhealthy & unnutritioned hehe...but it's also very interesting! :D Time to re-evaluate so as to avoid Diabetes! *pumps fist into the air*

AWW! SCREWGUUUN!!

THE SALES CALL!!! *frantically revs into a U-turn*
-Dwight from The Initiation episode.

So. My Comm233 teacher [Mass Communication in Modern Society] decides to move the test from this Thursday to NEXT Tuesday, which I will be missing. But thankfully, she drops a missed/lowest exam....it's just that until the next exam, I'll be "failing" haha...TIS ALL GOOD. My Chem111 teacher is UBER nice though because he's going to let me make up the quiz when I get back AND he offered to ask someone to contact me with review notes and stuff...even though I can do it....but no other teacher has done that yet I don't think. AND then my CPRL335 teacher is nice too, but I haven't heard from him yet with stuff.

*phew* I went to my joggin class this morning...and I think listening to my iPod helps me run. Of course my playlist was Muse + The Dear Hunter. We did about 2.5mi today and I think I did it in
like 25-30 minutes...so I guess that's good. *shrug*

Gosh it took me forever to link a picture to a message on facebook. They're dumb with adding photos.

welllll...I'm going to take a shower and maybe do homework :)

En Progressivo

okay. I'm reluctant to give this as the design for the retreat...maybe because it can be used for other cool shirts....but...alas. It's still in progress...

I'm looking for a different silhouette of a woman...buuut other than that....

:V

:)

Nice.

Muse Shirts

Okay. So for some reason, their new album is inspiring me to make shirt designs. And no, I will not sell them because that's illegal...but its for personal use! :) I have some pretty cool designs drawn in my notebook...and I shall transfer said designs onto my laptop.

I got off work at 8..and I drove to Panera Bread and got food to go :) yummy. And now the Office season 3 is playing on my media direct player.

yum yum.

I know, I know

I've been rambling about the new Resistance album...but dude.

Exogenesis, I, II, and III are eerily spine chilling songs of epic genius-masterpiece proportions....that are in the 3/8 measure, hehe. Those are the only full songs that are in three, not counting Unnatural Selection's middle part, which goes into three also. Crazy. AND MK Ultra is awesome when he starts singing and repeating "They're breaking through:.... :D.

Okay! Enough of that!
This morning, I woke up late and missed my Jogging class :(. Now i'll be docked off half a letter grade because I'm only allowed to miss two classes, which will be used for Korea. Oh well...it's okay. That class isn't hard anyway so I won't be failing it. I made my list of things to bring for Korea! I don't know if my Mom and I can share ONE luggage suitcase.....we'll see.

I've been pretty lazy buying groceries so I've kind of been buying my food...like salads and sammiches and such...but maybe I should go to the store today...I need milk.

Well...I'm going to eat my lunch for today:
Chicken Caesat Sandwich
French Onion Sun Chips (Pam??)
Strawberry Banana Nake Juice

Goodbye!

Chocolate Covered Pretzels

are delicious!

I was searching for Muse's performance at the VMAs and failed. Though instead, I watched the tribute to Michael Jackson where Janet Jackson appeared on stage and did her part for the scream video....it was AWESOME and it was pretty chilling...in a sad way. I also watched the clip when Kanye interrupted Taylor Swift's acceptance speech for Best Female Video or something and he took the mic from her, and said that Beyonce had the best video........crazy.

Anyway...I've been listening to Muse's new album. Enough said.

This weekend was pretty cool! My friends are funny.

Okay, time for homework! T-Minus 6 days until South Kolea!

Musical Treats

And by musical treats, I mean:

Musical Treats.

Today was practice for tomorrow's service...and the people for this sunday included:

Jovic
Jomar
Ej
Jennifer
Rochelle
Ray

It was a good time of worship and fellowship :)
Also. After we were done and people left, EJ taught me how to play some songs on the bass! It was humonga dunga cool! Speaking of bass, when we finished the song set and practiced some of the songs again, we switched instruments haha.....let's see...I think it was:

Jomar = acoustic, EJ=electric guitar
EJ=drums, me = acoustic guitar, Jomar=bass
Jomar=drums, me=bass, EJ=acoustic

it was fun. and also funny at times. And thennn, when it was just me, ej, and jomar, we played some old songs we used to cover like:

coffee - copeland
dance dance - fallout boy
supermassive blackhole & a little of Uprising -muse [well, just me and jomar....Christiann where are youuu?? :P]

and we also played Hosanna, but super all-out AND Jomar played the crazy solo first AND played the cool solo after....it was cool to my ears. and my soul.

Anyway, I learned such listed songs on the bass today!
-Wonderful Maker
-Consuming Fire [kind of]
-Hosanna
-Came to My Rescue [in its entirety :D]

Onto more musical treats:
Before leaving to eat dinner with the parentals, I was practicing what I learned on the bass on my mom's guitar...and then I mosey'd onto playing a Hillsong song called "None but Jesus". DUDE. That song is so great...I love it. Anyway, I was playing along with the track and chords on my laptop and my mom came in and started singing with me too and then I was helping her play it on the guitar ! It was nice.

On the way to Shakeys to celebrate my dad's birthday [tomorrow]...I was listening to my iPod with my playlist of The Dear Hunter + Muse [selected songs though for both], and I think I can play the drums to City of Delusion. That song is quite possibly one of my favorite Muse songs and I have yet to try to play it on a real set :(.

And then, upon returning home, what is this I see?! A package? But of what?? **opens**
The Resistance! CD/DVD! I loaded it on my itunes and listend to the album...which is very cool in a very diferent way haha...but cool nevertheless (but a short album I think...) Anyway, I watched the DVD, all 44 minutes of it [sad that it wasn't longer] and I was amazed at the footage of the making of the album...it was cool and funny. That Matt Bellamy is a goofus.

Okay~ I think this post is long enough......hehe....and so my musical treat adventure ends.
I shall play on the guitar once more before the night closes.

tandobude

haha. yeah, I'm alone today.

I'm working on a mini-flyer for revo because uncle ren asked me to...so they can pass it out at the student ventures......oh yeah, I'm also working on a work order (on the side). Do not be fooled, I AM a hard worker...but I don't have any other work orders, my boss is gone for the day, and my co-workers are also incognito...so I have the place to myself. :(

It's difficult because I don't have anyone to cover for me when I have to go to the bathroom.........I don't have to go NOW...but soon....

Anyway...I better do work now.

Twenty Minutes In

I must want to go home pretty bad if I'm only 20 minutes into work and already slacking off...I never have the mindset to work on most days....maybe it's because of my co-workers? hmm.

Anyway. Today's work day had a bad start and my boss had the "mean mode" on, but as I got more busy with customers and didn't have time for comments to sink in, it got a little better. One customer (who was a filipina) was very nice and good to work with and we spent a while figuring out prices for banner paper. I was happy in doing so because it gave me an excuse... :). So, after that rough patch, my boss was nicer and work was sort of fun! :P kind of. to an extent.

I don't know...sometimes it can be pretty discouraging to work here...so I always think to myself, is this how work is really supposed to be or is it because of the people who work in it? I dunno. Sometimes I just gotta punch it out!! Hehe...maybe not 'punch'...but more like "pray it out".

I've been typing this in pieces because of work....it's already 6pm and I started this post at 220! Oh well. I just want to go home. Maybe this saturday I can relax a bit and then celebrate my Dad's beeday on sunday! woot. must get card. I can't get lavishfull gifts anymore...so cards will do! And maybe an occasional printed shirt :)

OKAY! back to work! til later!

-Nik a loot.

Tuesday is Labor Day

because I actually have to do work on Tuesdays. Thus, the labor...

This weekend was pretty cool:
Friday: I was late....but I went to the gathering after being absent for a couple weeks; good night.
Saturday: Practice, and then went to a birthday party for a little boy from church whom I didn't know...and was unaware of said party. Lots of church people were there though....anyway, it had a fondue fountain and a yummy fresh fruit strudel :)
Sunday: Church, Juice It Up, Temec Library, Cheap Theaters with Night at the Museum 2, hung out at the Celestino abode and watched Terminator 2 and Fight Club
Monday: Haha..watched Hanna Montana at the same house...but only after spending a large amount of time getting food...it was fun :).

Buut, from the overall span of the long weekend, I only managed to do my jogging homework..which was to find out my target heart rate...and that took no effort at all haha....oh and I also managed to type out the heading to my paper that has yet to be completed.

anyway...I need to take a shower para mi next class at 1130.

til later~

OH MAH GROODNESS

I work the closing shift at work on Thursdays (and tuesdays) . Boss man is gone, so it's just me and my coworker Diane. Nearing the time of closure, down the hall was a small event for new students...but some lady walked in and told us we could eat the free food too! SOOO:

FREE personal pizza, brownie and neopolitan iced cream!!! AND Muse's new single "Uprising" is playing on the internet radio! The only thing that can make this better: Rainn Wilson, walking in with a bo staff in one hand and tickets to a Muse concert in the other....

Haha, silly me! That would never happen!! This work order has been under my arm as I type...and It's been sitting here for a while now while I did...non-work related stuff. *shifty eyes* I'm here ALL day tomorrow anyway, so it'll get done eventually.....

man that ice cream and brownie beneath it was yummyyy to the MAXOSITY!

Final note: I want to go back to murrieta.

HUZZAH and GOOD NIGHT!

*back to work*