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Sunday, 27 December 2009

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    Essentials of International Relations (Fourth Edition) (The Norton Series in World Politics)
    By Karen A. Mingst
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    Mistakes.

         It finally ended. I felt free within the world of stresses that bothered me for four straight months. I ran to the bus stop to miss the next bus. A man sat there while I looked at the schedule and talked with Hikari about the upcoming train that I need to take and her cute friend. A kind man sat there and then we caught eyes and made friendly acknoledgement of each other's existence. He would ask me about the bus and I helped him to direct which bus to take to go with BART since we were both heading there.

    "Oh yeah, I have to get therapy for my back."
    "What happened?"
    "I fell off a building."
    "What?! What were you doing?"
    "Something stupid I wasn't supposed to be doing."

         I approached sensitively about the situation and it was all because of alcohol. Through the crowded bus and the train we would talk of foreign things as I saved him a seat on the train. We would talk more and I'd teach him about the other traditions I've learned. Not a moment was left in silence and I thoroughly enjoyed my talk with him. As my station approached, he would show his hand, thanking me for the talk. His name was Jonathan. He was heading off to Fremont.

         I start to feel more and more at times how I have such novel-oriented dialogues in reality. I sat there thinking-- thinking about the hell of the previous week and the frantic disaster I fought so hard to avoid. I slowly became afraid of academic probation and my failing a class and my inability to push back certain plans. I was in mental pain and sleep deprivation for seven days of epic chaos never known to my body. Pulling two to three all-nighters and constantly fighting time everyday trying to master certain amounts of information in order to differentiate sufficient academic preparation and near disaster of academic probation.

         The train ride returning home on the day the madness ended was one of relaxation and pondering; in full accordance that everything will only get harder from here. The university, from what I've learned by reading constant discussions, is the best place to ready oneself for the harder dealings and tribulations ahead. After meeting Jonathon, I sat there on the empty train, forgetting that it was a Saturday. A man in front of changed his seat to one to the sections on the left side just a few seats behind me. I laid my left leg out across my two seats to rest. His hand motions over to my vision in order to get my attention, and started using sign language on me in the estranged voice that deaf people have when they try to speak, while signaling his own neck to imply my scarf.

    :"I... like... your... scarf."

         I took sign language two years ago and forgot almost all of it, so I couldn't remember how to express my gratitude. Instead, I just used what I knew how to say, which was "I forgot" and "I'm sorry." He would smirk while looking at something on his lap which seemed like his phone while repeating the signs I did. I looked out the window as time passed and then the strangest thing came from the man: he started speaking in a regular voice. I turned back shocked at how this was possible, only to find out he was just faking it. I was surprised, as he would start to tell me,

    "My brother is deaf so I have to learn. I'm sorry if that made me seem like an asshole."
    "Don't worry about it."

        We would be thrown into conversation as the train was stopped.

    "I hate Dublin/Pleasanton."
    "Why?"
    "Because it's a reminder that I had to earn things in my life.
    "It seems very full of house wives. I don't know-- I'm just stereotyping my own way. Cabbage pack kids?"
    "Oh no Thanks."

         His words seemed as if calm, comfortable with his fellow man and surroundings. We talked of Moraga, and everything else in between. As the train neared, I wore my Cal sweatshirt.

    "Oh you go to Cal."
    "Mhm."
    "Those are my initials."

         As the train came to a close, somehow we would start talking about money and his lost wallet came up.

    "So you got it back?"
    "Yeah I eventually did, but I can't say for sure the people who brought it were completely honest."
    "Why do you say that?"
    "All my cash was gone."
    "Were your cards fine?"
    "Oh yeah, they were."
    "How much did you have in there?"
    "Hm, just a hundred bucks."
    "That's a lot for me."
    "Hm, A hundred bucks for me now is just a regular run at the grocery store."

         I started to think how true it was, that the older we get the less we look at huge sums of money depending on our expenses. As we put our tickets through, we would shake hands goodbye and wish each other a righteous and merry Christmas in a world of non-stop continuation. His name was Cliff. As I walked to my car, I thought as to how everything is slowly turning into the way I want: a more novelesque way of living unmatched in usual lifestyle. Berkeley's better parts are helping me grow into the Cafe-Indie male focused on the finer, more lavish livings in life in the Bay. And I wouldn't trade for anything else in this country.

         Quite frankly, the Bay and from Virginia up to Boston are the highest indexed areas for quality of life. I live vicariously through words and language. As days tick along, I start to think about the streets of Tokyo, the homes of Toronto, the hills of Seoul, and the bustling underground of London. Along with these happenings come  encounters more or less unexpected. Some I will continue to share, and others will be tucked away never to be uttered by my mouth into your ears. I'm enjoying my independent life, and wouldn't trade it for anything else.

Monday, 21 December 2009

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    Breaking into Japanese Literature: Seven Modern Classics in Parallel Text
    By Giles Murray
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    One who's Adjacenct is Least Predictable

         I move like an entity in something not disclosed to my own senses. Sometimes I just sit there on the train just sitting and looking out into the world and wonder about the hundreds upon hundreds of people in car that move from one direction to the other. I then move to try and find an understanding in what I want, and somehow it turns out to be that I want to become destined for my own definition of greatness. I don't know how to get it, but I know eventually it'll happen. I, however, need to start waking up from this dream that I live everyday, and start applying it as natural tendency in reality.

        I was on Skype, talking to random people from Asia and England. Conversations embedded in single-serving condition, going into an infinity of mystery, with no goal and then a goal within a world of vast bigness, overwhelming the senses. She spoke to me and had very good English skills outside of her Mandarin, and had a very opposing personality. I relished in the contrast and the mysterious feeling of becoming disconnected within the next minute, that we would separate back into our own world.

         I would just sit there sometimes, imagining as people text me, mention their good words where the gossip of my flaws lie. It is not a mere speculation of my own criticism, but just a curiosity of where and when people are when they're talking of you, of where and what people's homes are like as they're talking to you. I would sit there constantly of people who have moved along in chapter sections of happenstance movement, and what they're doing at the moment of my sudden remembrance of them.  I don't know what to draw out of pandora box discoveries and outlying tendencies of new lifestyles and exploration. It is two in the morning and I have started my independence. Good night.

Sunday, 29 November 2009

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    Random Album Title
    By Deadmau5
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    更多的事情。

         My mind boggles my essence. I pray for everything to work in unison. I'm still in the middle of this difficult transition and dawning upon my moving out. I've waited two years for this and my mind takes a good look at everything around it. Simplicity takes its own lead in my circus of a life.

         In the midst of all the worlds I imagine, one came into a true happenstance. Through funny, tempting drug temptations and cozy repose we would drive to the different neighborhoods on the other side of the bay. I still wish I remembered the street as we came across a mass of rocks and cliffs. As the sun approached its decent we climbed our way like true indie-style American suburban kids up to the top and saw the city, the bridge, and everything magestic in between in front of our sights. I became dazed with the future and its bigger comings. I came to a simplistic realization of the university I always wanted to go to was truly my university at that present moment, and that of wishes of supremacy and euphoria was at my hand. I ask for something more, in terms of lifestyle, in terms of thought pattern that I wish to change into; this change should be instantaneous.

         This change is an understanding of fundamental existences, that I have no reason to be thinking too much, to be within deep introversion, to be in all flawed states at any given time on any given day. We looked on to the lights and the buildings. I know that by the time I turn twenty-five that this change will occur and that life will make much more sense, but as I opened the drawer and saw my photo from sophomore year of high school thought of how much I've changed. I promise, with every mental fiber of my physical and mental composition, that I will staunch in the face of preservation of certain foundations, and I will be heading towards greatness. I have never steered from this pursuit of greatness and I will see it in my hand, but greatness itself is a gradual process with multiple realities that need to be fulfilled in different lifestyles: pertaining to relationships, professionalism, knowledge, application, and not limited to communication and beyond. As I open myself to the beings that be that shape the smells, ideas, and mysticism that I surround as I watched the San Francisco skyline I continued onto my daydreaming and my reality's pursuit.

Saturday, 07 November 2009

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    Feels
    By Animal Collective
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    Dangers all around

         I wanted new shoes, and an urge for drinking came upon me and my friend. Time and time again when I drink during dinner, I take pride in drinking my grape wine I have in front of me. My senses among food and conversation light up and everything scary, sadistic, pessimistic, and ethically questionable in the world leave my senses. The more knowledge I gather the more I start to gather that constrains and other inhibitions, both economical and mental amongst the cavernous minds of most that walk, are what are catapulting me into correct situations as others dip and watch. I dream of various things, and sometimes I will dwell on these thoughts on the train as cars upon cars pass.


         The whiskey that I got for my birthday was gathering itself on the shelf. I remember through the nights I scavenged, or tried to scavenge the alcohol selection that remained among me: Jager, Coors, Svedka, Rum, Bourbon; they all wanted to overwhelm my senses and affectionate situation of touch among the sexes, heightening my senses and eavesdropping on all the insanity I wanted to involve myself in, for hope of some kind of clarity within myself. He would come over and I'd sneak the two bottles of whiskey into his trunk after making the decision to go to Payless.



         We hit the road towards the mall and hit a red light. On the opposite road, two cars wanted to go through the intersection to turn onto the cross street to our right. An Acura was in front of a monster truck-like Ford F-150 pickup truck. He would say sarcastically,"that's not close at all" in response to how the truck was so close to the Acura's bumper that we thought they were connected. The Acura goes into the left lane, and my friend would look back onto the road to pay attention to driving. My senses dived into skepticism.

         In a fury as I watched the two cars, the truck rams into the Acura on purpose with an intent to smash. My eyes grow in shock and I point for him to look and as he was willingly just as shocked. We followed. The Acura was highly damaged. They turned right into the residential neighborhood and pulled over. We parked the car in the middle of the intersection and watched the swears and the like take off. A big-buffed short stereotypical redneck steps out of the truck while a longer blond guy from the Acura go off. We choose to stay out of it and watch. Soon after I'd call the police and meet the police for the third time within those two weeks.

         Fuck you, fuck this, fuck that was constantly heard. We stayed in the shadows at an angle not feasible. I talked with the operator trying to get the license plate number of the individual but we were too far off. The truck starts to leave and it looks like there was paper exchanged. I told the operator so as we then decided to move in on the Acura. He immediately thanked us and I handed the operator to him. As we waited in the middle of the street for the police to come, the side of the car was completely black and rammed in. The fucker in the truck was out of his mind. The guy's name was Jeff. The more we talked to him in the calm we started to realize that the trucker was tailgating him and he moves to the side. Fingers are exchanged and as Jeff turns, the crazy trucker decided to retaliate by actual assault with a deadly weapon. I was amazed that I witnessed such with my own eyes.

         Jeff's family friend came with his car from down the street. He was a middle-aged man with a regular build. Kind and informative, saying "you should never let the guy leave, because if he's drunk and leaves, then you've lost him." One of my family's former employees was walking her dog as we were talking. I would soon realize that Jeff and our former employee were related, that he was our former employees son's teammate on the golf team. I was amazed again by how small a world it was. The cop from my former high school came and he sat there talking with Jeff while we stood off to the side. Mother and her two kids from a house across the street would see the damage to the vehicle and come out.

         The cute kids with their caps would ask question after question and I laughed. The officer took our statements and with every character on the scene I took in stride of their words, the temporary, self-serving memories of their presence. I took a kind of stride in the kind of fun this all entailed. We would be told that we'd get calls from insurance companies and with our bourbon still in the drunk we took off to the mall. I bought my shoes and we immediately went back home to where we would stash everything while Xavier was watching television in the other room. The house quiet and everyone out and about we brought people over and they poured in one by one. We'd sit to television and alcohol while tempting Mahdi to drink.

         After an intense trip of road rage and assault and shoe shining scavenger hunting, I poured the vodka into a mug as everyone else childishly pressured one another to drink. The orange juice in the other mug, I took a self-righteous, individualized gulp of my own desire. The strength showed smoothness, and I drank that tonic piece of melted gold artistically. I slowly poured the second. Waited ten minutes to let the mellow poison sink in, then taking in another gulp. The girls were forcing him to drink the sugarcane wine, and everyone lived within this annoying nagging, including myself, for half an hour to an hour. Soon they would leave. The night wore down as our things to do became limited. He would drive me home and I was thankful for him. Driving through the empty suburban homes transcended my own perception of what I see is called home. I then compare it to the paradise that is Berkeley, and the world that I've always imagined myself to be immersed in as something real of cafe ambiance and well-dressed individuals from diverse backgrounds, all bright and truthful towards the future.

         I think the future was going to get me into this university anyway. The day in high school when I asked the career center lady to hand me the informational brochure for Berkeley and how I heard the wow within adjacent people's breathing. In the end, I found a way to get in, and I still can't believe how I'm here despite all odds and akk decisions made. With all the changes that have come inside of me, another major change has come within my change in loving alcohol and business proposals, along with media and political analysis and language assessment. I plan to make myself one hell of a entrepreneurial lawyer. The night ended correctly, as I choose it too.

         In the end, Jeff's insurance agent would call and I condemned the truck driver with perfect detail. The words from the agent saying that he "has no choice but to put the truck driver at fault" brought me a great satisfaction that the cocksucker is going to be getting what's coming to him, although both the agent and I were still shocked as to how he wasn't arrested for battery. I would get a call from the truck driver's provider but I didn't answer. Being a justified jerk is a euphoric role to be in, as the world plays into your conforming palms and the like, the satisfaction destroys any restraint to do something this sweet as revenge, even though it wasn't directly upon me. I hope he's still getting fucked. I had a stellar night. Workload's piling on me. Good night.

Sunday, 01 November 2009

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    Modal Soul
    By Nujabes
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    Insanity's Welcome.

    Ecstasy's intervention causes the stories of one's life to become solidified in a form of retrospective unity of grace. So far I've learned that my simultaneous joy of solitude and extroversion is something individualizing. Simplified methods of looking at the world in the moment causes this ecstasy. Rooms flash; people move in pixels; all are open; music encompasses, including the magnitude of language. Words move freely from my fingers and I have no idea why. I feel as if I've been going through an interventional finding of sorts. Mystery somewhat helps.

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  • I feel like a true Indie artist for some reason, relishing in all this autumn/winter literature extravaganza and urban settings.
  • The feeling couldn't be any stronger on such a quiet rainy night within this apartment: I want to love.
  • The people I've talked with and met from Xanga have truly affected me positively and I need to start talking to them again.

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    Hey man! It's me. Juyong! I didn't see the all of the information like picture or some movies~ in your blog. I came here to see them~ and post a comment for you. now I am posting a comment to make sure of I visited!!!! Well 잠 잘자고 밥 잘먹고 공부 잘하고!!!
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    Yeah my friends here are really supportive of me leaving... but I haven't told my parents yet.. *sighs*How've you been Rahee?!
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    I know what you mean Rahee... This chatboard feature is so awesome. By the way, I'm disabling the commenting function on my site for awhile... Read my entry for details, so I guess I will use this chatboard thingy even MORE. lol.