I just lost my stain of thought

Who says nothing interesting ever happens in Temple City? Obviously, it isn’t true, but there isn’t a whole of interesting stuff to do there. Must not have been THAT exciting since I didn’t hear about this until now.

I am fail whale. Hear me roar.

This song has always been a fave of mine. If you aren’t willing to click the link, it’s Aaron Kwok’s “Love’s Call (ai de hu huan)” Such nice lyrics, very lovely story. What’s weird is the disparity between the connotations of the lyrics of the Mandarin version and the Cantonese version. I didn’t realize they were almost two completely different songs sharing the commonality of one thing: the call of love. The Mandarin version seems more mellow, a little less passionate, and I guess a bit more sorrowful, if that combo makes any sense. Maybe I’m just really bad at comprehension but that’s what I’m getting from it. One thing I love about this song is the melody. It’s sort of reminiscent of “Unchained Melody” but much more incomplete, especially at the beginning. You keep waiting for a certain note but it just doesn’t come and the music keeps going. There’s a name for that but I can’t remember it. The first thing that comes to my head when watching this specific video, though, is…Dang, those are some big arse phones! Seriously they’re like the size of house phones.

Just watched Better Off Dead by the way. Love John Cusack. Some of the things he says are just so great. I think they’re trying to turn Michael Cera into the next John Cusack. Has someone already made that connection? Just Googled it; yes, they have. But I think the two should be kept separate because Lloyd Dobler will never be replaced in my heart. He’s someone who is very awkward but has some really awesome quirks, whereas Michael Cera’s characters are quirky because they’re awkward. Big difference, I says.

Also watched the Hangover last week. Very hilarious. You’ve probably heard that plenty of times already.

By the way, UP was freaking awesome. I loved it so so so much and it made me cry. A lot. Like buckets. Pixar, you never disappoint.

In other news, I graduated the weekend before this past. ‘Twas fun. It was a bummer because I finally made a friend in my major and we were going to sit together and, of course, we were split into separate rows. I got yelled at by the person seating us because I tried to sit in the next row with my new pal. The keynote speaker at the college graduation was amazinggg. He didn’t take it super seriously because he was aware that the guitarist from Linkin Park was not exactly the face of the band and that he was sort of a last minute replacement. I thought it was perfect though. He made us laugh and that’s better than just throwing out some inspirational words you’ll forget within a few hours. He also sang us a snippet from Britney Spears’ “I’m Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman” to let us know it’s quite okay not to know where you stand in this world at the moment. Brad Delson. Yays.

In more other news, movin’ out of my apartment next week for good. Oh, 204, you were good to us.

The world is being tough cookies right now. There are bigger things going on than what’s going on with me. All I know is that after finals on Tuesday, I am going to start Undie Run a day early. Just kidding. What I will actually be doing is probably cleaning up my pig sty apartment. I’m ready for summer! So ready that I really don’t feel like studying for finals…but I must catch up on a whole quarter’s worth of stuff.

It is rumored that in 2012, all things electronic will be done away with and as much as I love mindlessly writing to no one about my days on this here planet and absorbing useless info from the internet, I am kind of looking forward to it so that all the idiots in this world who can’t fend for themselves will be done away with. Only the industrious and astute will persevere. It’ll be hard but I think Thomas and I are up to the challenge! I think many environmentalists will be the ones who get the last laugh because they have learned to use their resources wisely.

This song popped up recently on crappy radio and I like it! I’ve always liked the original but (almost) everything is always cooler acoustic!

It’s been tough times as the school year is coming to an end (and it’ll get even worse due to finals), but I’m just really glad I have wonderful people in my life to help me through it. I am especially grateful when I look at my pink man because, well, he’s pretty easy on the eyes. And I guess it helps that I like him a lot and he takes care of me, even when I’m gross and have itch attacks. And he makes my heart all melty and stuff. Teehee. I just want to be able to give to him what he’s given to me, especially because we’re both having a poopy time right now.

So, I came across this article today and I couldn’t help but get to thinking that the TV show Lost could very well be coming true. I’m not saying this is entertaining in any way, but it is a little more optimistic than what people are saying, don’t you think? Maybe I should write a song about it, like what Fastball did about that couple who disappeared for the song “They Way.” In fact, ever since I started thinking about this, that song has been stuck in my head.

Today I heard my mom’s take on ghosts and it actually made me feel so much more at ease. I have always had a huge fear of ghosts ever since I was little because I used to watch those scary shows with my brother late at night that are like true stories about ghost encounters and stuff. I was told that my cousin went to a temple to get his fortune read and he was told that he was being followed by a ghost, a possible link to why his family has had such bad luck, which prompted his entire family to move to a different house because they were scared it was this guy who used to live there who had committed suicide (not in that house, though). His younger brother was also told once upon a time that he was being followed around by my paternal grandmother. All of this was totally creeping me out, but then my mom was saying how it wasn’t really that big of a deal because all you have to do is burn some money for them and offer them food and ask nicely that they take it and enjoy it and leave you alone. Seriously, nothing can scare my momma. But on top of that, she was very skeptical because she thinks my cousin is probably just trying to find someone else to blame so it wasn’t so creepy to her.

Anyway, on a totally unrelated aside, the video for this website totally made me cry. Just overturn Prop 8 already. It’s so unfair to rob someone of their right to express love for another human being. Plus, it causes traffic when they protest, so letting them have what they want would really be a positive thing for everyone else.

A bit of an exaggeration, but today I had to walk from my work all the way to my apartment which took me about an hour. Where I usually get on the bus is where bus driver’s switch off so I asked a bus driver where I could get on the bus back to UCLA. He told me no buses would be going to UCLA because the president’s there. He proceeded to tell me I had a very good excuse for not going to class. Apparently all the people at that bus stop had been dropped off there by a bus driver and he just took off in another direction. Sucko. So I just started walking because there was nothing else I could do. At one point I was walking with this man who told me that the president wasn’t even there and that he was just flying over but they had to clear out the area he was flying over, I guess. I don’t really know but it totally sucked and I didn’t bother going to class because I was late and my feet hurt because today I just happened to have no socks on in my sneakers because I stupidly locked Tom’s door behind me before I remembered to put on socks.

All I know is that this has been a terrible week for traffic on top of LA’s usual traffic. Monday was the L.A. Marathon, Tuesday the Prop 8 protests and today this, all of which were not broadcasted very well to the public. Then again, what do I know? I don’t watch TV anymore, nor do I listen to the radio so maybe this is my fault. Tomorrow, I’m sure there will be a herd of elephants on the loose to cause another unsuspected L.A.-wide traffic jam. It’s times like these that I wish Ciao Ciao would just love me and let me ride without dying out. I have had it for a month now and am still not allowed to ride to my apartment on it!

By the way, I was in the middle of the protesting yesterday. It was quite a shock because I had fallen asleep on the bus and woke up to a sea of people outside the windows in WeHo. Later at night it kind of sucked because Tom and I got stuck in traffic because the police had barricades all over and Tom’s apartment was in the middle of it. Impatience took over and some illegal maneuvers were made and we finally made it home. There was so many helicopters in the sky it was like we were in the middle of a prison break! I wanted to ride Ciao Ciao over (that is, if it could make it that far) to the epicenter of excitement but we soon realized how scary and crazy everyone was driving and decided against it. I feel like traffic makes people feel like caged animals and when they are finally free they tend to run wild, another reason I do not want to drive a car.

By the way, Ciao Ciao has a new friend I like to call Garelli-felli, otherwise known as G. Pictures to be posted when we have some! Tom just got it Monday and it is super cool looking! !

Ciao Ciao has been back from the shop as of Thursday last week. Tom fell in love with the shop, by the way. I think he wants to marry the guys who run it. I have yet to visit, but it sounds really cool. It’s a motorcyle shop called Choke in Silver Lake, which has been highly recommended by pretty much everyone Tom talked to about getting Ciao Ciao ready to go. So if you have any moped needs, you should definitely go there and see if they let you shoot their potato gun (I am just going by what the boyfriend told me about the place). I have ridden my bikie a couple times since it’s been back. It’s running really smooth and vroomy. I am so excited! Every time I wait for a bus now, I just think about how much more awesome it would be to be cruising on my orange moped. And I gotta thank my Blankey for taking care of him. He reads it bedtime stories and sings it to sleep and everything.

So all my gear is being shipped right now. Just ordered it all last week! Blankey got me a helmet that is pretty much exactly what I wanted (not posting any pics because I want it to be a surprise). Also got myself a jacket so I stay in one piece and some glovies! Yay!