Ok…so the other night, Mike and I were supposed to go out, but it started raining and Mike passed out in bed. So we didn’t. And I was bored. And I was missing my girlfriend. So I was being a dork and took some pictures of me in my ninja costume. I entitle this:

Getting Ready For Halloween

Haha. Ok So I’m a nerd. But yeah I had fun. Last night Mike and I finally went out. For some reason I’m getting really tired of the scene around here at IUP. It’s a whole combination of the fact that I miss Jennifer and that I’m just sick and tired of the lack of cultural things to do around here. I want ART! I want MUSICALS and PLAYS! Nope…none of that around here really. The only things like that we get around here are the occasional Michael Moore protests.

Speaking of which, I have to go home tomorrow night so I can wake up early Tuesday morning to vote, then drive back to IUP to produce this interview show for TV production. I have so much on my plate right now, it stinks. I have to work on Amy Hartman’s website design sometime too. Argh…so much. I’m kinda anxious for school to be over and I can just graduate already. But then again I’m not. Mixed emotions.

I have just concluded that the boy in The Grudge looks just like me when I was little.

I saw the movie tonight. It sucked by the way. Horrible plot. But some very creepy parts. Especially when the woman looks like a younger version of your mother! And the girl Karen looks like your girlfriend. Haha…

Can you please send in the Army men…

A seriously wounded 8-year-old boy calmly described his father’s deadly knife rampage during a call for help to 911. “My daddy killed me with a knife and I’m gone,” the boy told a dispatcher. “Can you please send the Army men or the ambulance?”

So I went to Michael Moore’s presentation today. When I first heard about it, I thought they were showing his controversial film. So I was walking around the HUB one day and I picked up 4 free tickets. Then I found out that Michael Moore was actually going to be there to talk about his film. Then like just today, I found out they weren’t showing his film at all and it was just going to be him speaking.

The crowd outside of the Field House.

So I went today, just because I wanted to hear what he had to say. Everyone I talked to didn’t really want to go, until there was this riot parade going down. Apparently, Boomerangs, the local bar around here announced that they were giving away free drafts for every ticket anyone gave to them. So there was this huge crowd marching from Boomerangs to protest…drunken protest. This was amusing to say the least.

The crowd inside.

Moore presenting. Yes…my camera sucks. And YES…that really is Moore.

The actual presentation itself had Michael Moore himself talking about issues concerning the election. He presented a few satirical commercials for the Republican party. Quite humorous. Here are just a few for sample:

Hair

Fish

Died

Now I just want to point out that I went to this presentation with an open mind, taking no sides. But this meeting was clearly a Bush-bashing (hey I like that term) presentation. Republican party members beware. Clearly though, Moore was asking for a deathwish. Here we are in a mostly Republican state Pennsylvania and we’ve got some pretty harsh attacks from Moore. A few crazy things worth noting:

-a good 10-15 people got kicked out by the Men in Black

-a war veteran being escorted out by security claimed that he would do physical harm to Moore

-Michael Moore prank called Boomerangs on someone’s cell phone and put it on speakerphone

-a neato thing happened when Moore gave out the phone number of some HMO Office Moore Awareness Helpline. Nearly everyone with their cell phone held it up and lit the whole place up…a la Verizon Wireless commercial style

-that phone number by the way is 212-573-1226…give them a call and say that Michael Moore is at their front doorstep and to call in reinforcements

-Michael Moore chose good old Indiana, Pennsylvania, out of all the cities he’s traveled to for his tour, as the city he would give out free copies of his newest book “Will They Ever Trust Us Again?”

-Michael Moore is really fat and should really check out another controversial documentary “Super Size Me”

-I hate politics

So yeah. Interesting day. I miss Jenny! Woo! This sucks…gaahhh…

Wow what a weekend. I went home on Friday to surprise my little sister Ariana for her 7th birthday party. I was so happy to see her. I didn’t realize it was a pool party though, so I couldn’t swim. Oh well no big deal. Anyway, I guess she has a boyfriend now. 7 years and a boyfriend already. I see that she takes after me. Haha. But this kid is really something. His name’s Bemmyr, pronounced Beemer. He just turned 8 two months ago…August 14 to be precise. The same day as MY birthday. Strange? Yeah. Well the kid is also Filipino just like me…and kinda even looks like me when I was his age. Ok but it gets better. He just moved here to the US when he was 7. That’s when I moved here! When I was 7!! And he also goes to Blackhawk Intermediate School where I went when I was younger! I swear this kid is like my clone. Creeeepy. A really cool kid though. Very smart. The night I left, he stayed the evening at our house because I guess his mother was at work. He picked up on how to play the violin pretty well too. Faster than my brother anyway.

I forgot to bring my camera. I wasn’t even thinking about it. So I don’t even have any pictures. That makes me sad. Argh…oh well. My sister got a cute turtle as a present from my grandparents. I wish I had taken a picture of the look on her face when she got it. So cute. I miss them already.

I had to meet up with Mike Saturday night at a party at Chris’ because we were just going to sleep over there and then drive straight to school. So my dad dropped me off and I hop out of the car. The house is like a good 50 yards away from the car and yet I could smell weed coming from the house and the crowd in the back yard. I’m like…great, and there’s my dad. Anyway, he left and I really didn’t want to be at the party in the first place. I passed out on Chris’ couch. Jenny called me though and I got to talk to her before I went to sleep. We had such a great conversation too. But my phone freaking died. So I threw it in the freezer in hopes the battery would last just a few seconds so I could call her. Didn’t work though.

I’ve been applying for work all the way out in California. The more I do stuff like that the more I think about all the crap that I’ve been working on for grad school. I went to apply for my GRE’s today but the place is booked until December! Talk about cutting it close. Sheesh. I’m making the phone call either tomorrow or the day after to book a spot in December.

I had more to say…a lot more actually. I can’t really remember anymore though. I need to go back and recollect my thoughts again.

*Sigh*

This is just one of those days where I miss Jenny more than usual. Mondays are like that…

I really suck. I haven’t updated my journal in so long. It used to be that I’d have an update up at least once a day or every other day. Now I’m lucky if i can get one in once a week.

Anyway this is my second day with hardly any sleep. I must’ve got a total of 2 or 3 hours of sleep these past 2 days. I’m so freaking exhausted. Last night I kept getting muscle spasms in my legs, probably from dance. And not only so, I’d get nightmares during those muscle spasms and they’re like so scary…like something’s happening to my legs. Ewww. Geez. A contributing factor, I’m sure, is the fact that in 2 months, I will be flung into the real world and I have to get my butt ready…like NOW.

Last night I did some more job hunting and applied for a job with Apple Computers as a production artist. The job description fit me to a T so I thought I’d apply. It’s in Santa Clara in California, a little closer to Jenny…so that’s good. In fact all the jobs I’ve been looking for have been in California…I haven’t really been looking in NYC anymore. Sheesh. I think it’s a combination of the fact that I want to be closer to Jenny and also that it’s so freaking intimidating having to pay so much money for just rent alone and the fact that I just might not survive. At least in California, I’m relatively close to Los Angeles where I can still audition for TV and films. I found this really great job at USC, though, as a production lab assistant. If I could get that, I could develop a good rapport with the faculty, thus increasing my chances at graduate school there.

Assignments for class are starting to pick up (and pile up) now, so things are getting a lot busier for me. There’s just so much on my mind like developing my portfolio for not only work but also graduate school. I’m like struggling to make stuff and pulling stuff together. Secondly, I’m so POOR!!! Ahh…it’s so sad. I have to take my GRE’s and I can’t even afford them. I have like hundreds and hundreds of dollars in checks that people owe me, so I’m waiting for those to come in so I can pay the bills. Grrrr…I hate money.

I woke up at 9:30 this morning to go to work and I completely forgot the fact that Bill took the week off this week. So no one was in the studio. Silly me. Where’s my mind? I’m gonna surprise my little sister and show up at her birthday party this weekend. She’s turning 7. She’s called me twice about it now, and I kept telling her that I might not be able to make it because of Nutcracker rehearsals. So now I feel better that I can actually make it. Haha…she keeps saying that the next time I’m home, she wants me to watch this Barbie Nutcracker movie with her and point out which mouse I am. Cute!

More and more, I just can’t wait for this semester to be over so I can graduate. I just want to get a good job so I know I’m financially secure. I want to move closer to the one I love. I just want this whole transition phase in my life to end so I can focus on other things in my life. Like changing the world. Haha. I miss Jenny so much. I just December would come here now.

I’m telling you…this Christmas will be the happiest one EVER! So much is going on.

Can you believe it’s been a week since I flew to Vegas to see Jenny? It’s incredible how time flies. The idea of laying next to her is still fresh in my mind and its lingering is making me miss her even more.

I must be in a writing mood today because I just got finished writing her an insanely long email about…nothing, really. But that’s me. Asian randomness. So here’s the scoop on what’s been happening. Over dinner on our last night together, Jenny and I were talking about how I’ll be able to see her again. And Jenny, being as brilliant as she is, thought up of the idea of asking her mom to get a plane ticket for me to come over during Christmas. Genius! So I didn’t really find out until I got back into Pittsburgh that her mother said YES to the whole idea. Can you believe that? My mom MIGHT do something like that for me if she were ever capable of doing something like that, but no way in the world is she capable. So here we are waiting for December to come just so we can see each other again, and not only so, but I get to meet the parents. Lovely. That’s the best part though. It’s strange how everything seems to be falling into place for the both of us. We were definitely meant for each other.

So yeah, it’s quite obvious that I’m helplessly in love. I’ve had crushes and infatuations before, and every girl makes you feel different, but there’s only that one time where you feel: Wow. She’s the one.

*cough* Anyways, how about some pictures from Vegas?

The Bellagio water show. Gotta love Frank Sinatra!

Click here for a video

Yes. The truth is out. I am a pimp. Haha.

Aw…what a star!

No really…I’m really NOT a pimp.

Jenny looking up at the lights on the Strip. This should be in a magazine or something!

More lights!

And video

Jenny, Sarah, and I at a party in Vegas.

Me and Jenny!

Aww..I can’t wait till December!

Where do I begin? I’m so scatterbrained right now I can hardly think straight. I can’t believe this weekend went by so quickly. I’m in Houston right now and they’re about to board us soon. I’ve already left Vegas! Aww

Jenny and I went to dinner at Red Robins last night. We were talking about how I had to leave and when I’d be able to see her again. Hopefully sometime during Christmas. *Crosses fingers* We had free movie tickets so afterwards, so we went with her roommates to see Shark Tale at the theater. And then after that, The Blue Man Group at the Luxor! Oh man! I can’t even describe what that was like. It was simply brilliant! I don’t even know how to go about describing it, it’s just something you’d have to see for yourself. Just a lot of great music and visuals.

We came back home and I had to start packing. Soooo sad. Nobody’s EVER made me cry over me having to leave them before, but Jenny did. Like I’m sitting here right now and it’s just horrible not having her beside me and holding my hand. I was on the plane leaving Vegas and it didn’t really hit me until I was in the air and I saw that I was leaving everything behind. Then I got tears in my eyes and started thinking about how badly that sucked! The passengers next to me probably thought I was psycho or suicidal.

*SIGH*

I don’t want to go back home and back to the cold and stupid classes. I’ve fallen in love with Vegas…and more importantly I’ve fallen in love with Jenny.

Aw…so right now at this very moment, I’m laying next to my sweetheart and soul mate. I got here in Vegas around Thursday afternoon. The plane ride sucked mind you. It’s so hard to sleep on planes. Blah! Anyway I got off and was heading toward baggage claim. Jenny’s on the phone with me, and then my cell phone’s batter dies! I’m coming down the escalator and I’m like, oh crap. She could be anywhere! And then there she was. We drove to her apartment which is like a mansion compared to our dorms and apartments back home….compared to a lot of places I’ve stayed actually. Joelle and Nicole are so awesome too. Joelle’s Filipino like me so we talk about how we’re so annoyed with our culture sometimes. Haha. I gave Jenny her late birthday present. It’s a soft little teddy bear and around its neck I put a necklace with a horseshoe around it. Because Jenny’s the luckiest girl in the world. Ever.

That night we checked out the strip and the water display at the Bellagio among many other sites. It’s so creepy seeing all these people every other block trying to hand you escort service flyers. Vegas: the home of legal prostitution. Gotta love it. I was walking around so dizzy from the jet lag and from general exhaustion. By the time I got back home, I passed out…in Jenny’s arms.

Yesterday Jenny and I spent most of the day here at the apartment. Joelle and Nicole were at their classes or whatever. Later on me and Joelle went to get some liquor for later that night. And after that we all went to get her tongue pierced. Eww. I could never do that. She’s got some balls. Then we went to the strip or old Las Vegas or whatever it’s called. I’m such a Vegas newbie. But anyway we went to see this light show…this huge lighted ceiling spanning at least a football field. It was so beautiful. I wanted to say that I at least gambled in Vegas, so Nicole and I both blew $5 on the slots. Yayyyy! I got raped by the Vegas gambling craze. Oh well!

We all came home later that night and went to this guy’s party. It was so strange. A lot of the people there I only knew from pictures I’ve seen that Jenny sent me. But EVERYONE there knew me! I was like wow what the heck. So it’s apparent that Jenny’s been talking me up. Awww. Haha. And I thought I had to work at making friends with everyone. Sheesh! This has got to be one of the best weekends in my life. Ever.

I’m so in love and so happy. I don’t want to leave this place.

And then he thought to himself: “She’s got to be the one.”

It’s 2:52AM and my flight doesn’t leave until 6:25AM. So I’m sitting at the check in station waiting for things to open up so I can check my bags and stuff. So here I am! Can you believe it? Off on this incredible journey to see Jenny. Who would’ve thought that after 8 years, our childhood dreams would finally come true.

I didn’t get much sleep last night so I’m pretty tired as it is. I had to wake up at 8AM to dance with Nego Gato, too, so I’m pretty sore as well. Then I had classes and danced all day. Fun stuff. But how could I think about classwork when all that was on my mind was Jenny. And she told me she had the same problem too. I can’t believe this day’s finally come. I think it’s still a shock to both of us. 3 hours is going to be a looong wait. So close, Howie, so close.

Adam was nice enough to go home early for the week and he told me he’d drop me off at the airport. But first, he took me and Chris out to Humphrey’s, one of the clubs around here before we went. It was pretty beat though. Although I did run into my friend Dave Capo. I haven’t seen that guy in like 4 years. We used to work together at Superstar Video, back when it was called that. Then we went out to Eat N Park and now here I am waiting to get on my plane. 3 more hours. Ahhh! I remember when I was still counting the months! Now it’s finally here.

I can’t wait to hold Jenny in my arms.

3 more hours until I’m off.