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Thursday, 17 April 2008

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Saturday, 17 June 2006

"Welcome" to the neighborhood

So I'm moved into my new neighborhood in East Oakland called Oakpark..close to foothill, international and fruitvale.

I was welcomed into the neighborhood when i was moving my boxes from the car to the basement of the house. As i was doing so, an African American lady of about 30 or so walks up to me and asks if I could spare 50 cents so she can call her son and tell him that she is running late. i give her a dollar.

She thanks me and as she walks by me she brushes my shoulder with her hand and says "God Bless you". I return the God Bless you and she then asks me another question...

"Are you single?"

I awkwardly reply a "yes?"

"Oh, where do you live"

(About to point at a house down the street to where i was standing, I stop myself) "...right over...waiit.. why do you want to know?"

(i actually forget what she said after that, since i was kind of flustered)

Tuesday, 30 May 2006

Ode to Manhouse!

Oh manhouse, how i will miss theee.....
the many events of stupidity that doth has brought upon us
Joy, jumping, wrestling, and yelling, those are the fruits of your labor!
Games of Risk, nights of poker, movies of netflix, barbecues galore..
Raucous laughter filling our bellies, as we gorge the food upon the table,
5 people in the kitchen, yet never any leftovers...the tupperware feels neglected.
Socks in the living room, cups on people's desks, bowls in the basement, me on the couch.
Shooting b-b's at bottles in the backyard, Arrowing skewers at apples
Fire in the oven, broken couch in the backyard, backed-up septic tank...
tears of joy, laughing until pain, jokes abundant...
Oh how i will miss you, oh great manhouse....

and the people too!

Manhouse (June 2004- June 2006) IT was good knowing you!

Sunday, 21 May 2006

Graduated...almost..

wooohoo.. going through the throng of events of graduation.. yet i have one more class to take.

Ochem for the summer

Friday, 14 April 2006

ANTI-TECH

Hey everyone, it's been a long time coming since my last entry. I noticed i have been chiming in less. I have decided that xangas and blogs are not the way i like to communicate. At least not any more. Its frustrating when i try to tell someone a story or want to share something, and someone reacts by saying.. oh yeah i read it on your xanga before you are even able to chime in.

By reading other xangas and blogs people make themselves feel like they are getting to know people and keeping in touch, when it is very much on the surface if you do that. Granted it is good to follow what's going on with people of your past, but whatever happened to the written letter, the phone call, or even an email.

We've moved on from that to AIM.. to xangas..to blogs..to facebook..to myspace(EEWWW). Now we consider "poking" contacting someone. We try to convey messages and communicate through "walls" And I do understand that people use blogs and xangas and these tools for a variety of reasons and uses and not all of them are ill-advised attempts at "keeping in touch".

I feel as technology gets faster and faster and more convenient, the lazier we get in building community. How many of you have decided not to contact someone, only because they were not on AIM. Serious.

I'd rather be purposeful in builiding friendships and relationships instead of happenchance. I admit i do like the ability to share pictures and stories and thoughts. All those things are good and i admit i enjoy them, but we can not abuse it and use it to replace old-school communication. Let's not get lazy.

Come on now, who wants to stand with me and boycott technology!!!!

I realize i am ranting and that is only because i am stalling myself and taking a break from the term paper that is due in the morning (T-7 hours).

hahaa.. that was fun.