Hello friens!

Hey guys! Or the 1< people who read my blog < 6 ! Haha, its a equation..get it? No? Bahhhh, its okay. Well nothing much has happened in the last week cause no homework yet tho. Other then that i have tried to keep myself buisy since this year some of my roomies are more occipied with things and i now find myself alone in the apartment. So i have joined a group to teach incoming international students english, mentoring program for engineering freshman, and possibly the Eng club on campus. Also been thinking about joining a robotics club on saturdays for a airplane project...but they meet in the morning....right? haha. Other then that halloween haunt coming up soon, and who knows wat will come my way. I'm young and eager to see the world but not ready to grow up. So bring the future on, i can run with the punches and only make this world a better place with my engineering skills one day.

So it begins...

So i have finally gotten back to school yesterday. Haven't had much time to sleep, or time to myself because of work. The other night i had to work 8pm-1am at the ARC late night. It was good to see all my old co-workers again, but then again there were like a shiz load i didn't know cause they are all newbs. Kinda sad how at the end of every year i have to watch 1/3 of the ARC staff fade away and and new crew comes in to replace them. It usually is a little harder for me to get used to the new staff cause im used to the old people, who aren't ever going to return. On a funnier side the other night i was where one of my favorite pairs of jeans and while i was often bending down to count the nummber of push ups people were doing i must have at one point in time ripped a hole the size of my fist near the back pocket. Didn't realize it till the end of the night right before i left cause i friend ask what was with my jeans. Talk about embarrasing!! Just another little funny random story to go into "Craig's Funny Stories of Life" belt. :)

That feeling

So for all of my life I have been what i consider a part of a "unit". Since the day i was born i have had my twin by my side. Always there. We are what i consider the closest bond two people can have. We know each others thoughts, emotions, reactions, and abilities. I have never had to really rely on anyone else because my other half has always been there. That is why i can honestly say I have never really known what it feels like to be a singular person. I have always been a unit and not an individual. Even when going over seas we went to the same country and lived only 2 floors from one another.
In these last two weeks though i think i have gotten my first taste of what it feels like to possibly be an only child/individual. My bro has been away for basically two weeks so i have not been able to hang out with him cause he has been working at his job at UCI. This is the first time i have realized that i am having a hard time thinking of what to do with all my free time without my brother. Each day i wake up and i can't for the life of me figure out what i should do with myself. I even ended up going to see a movie by myself cause i just was bored to death. So far all i have really done is exercise, watch movies, play games, and sleep in. Haha, doesn't sound bad right? Well after 10 straight days of that i am just itching to get a textbook in front of my face to keep me buisy.
In conclusion. I now think that children/independent individuals have it tougher than me. I have had it good for so long, not really having to try too hard to make friends or keep relationships cause i have had a perfect friendship with me at all times. Little bit of a reality check for the double trouble in life this week.

The Future Part 1

So with all my free time I have had some time to think about what I would like to see in my lifesome day. This is part one of two. Part one will be what i would like to experience, and Part 2 will be what i would like to see. (see is the reference to not visual) So here we go.

1) One of these days i would like to see the Northern Lights. While in Norway and Sweden i was hoping to see this marvel but to no adoo it was raining and cloudy about 99% of the time. If there is one thing that amazes me more than anything it is outer space and all her secrets. One day i hope to return to the North to see one of the greatest light shows on earth.

2) Shuttle Launch; Hopefully in the next year I can make my way down to Florida to witness one its final launches. Every person has there calling of something they believe they must see, the shuttle is mine. I consider this one of mans finest engineering endevers. A million parts are moving at once, some of the smartest computers are firing off millions of impulses to all sorts of components and at the same time men are defying gravity, the one constant trying to keep humans on the ground.

3) Alaska; this i consider to be one of the finaly pieces of America to be untouched and left to the way mother nature had intended. No malls, parking lots, and freaking walled in neighborhoods. Just the good old pines, wildlife, and free flowing rivers. If you have ever seen the stars in the woods on a clear night, you would realize why this place might be a special place.

4)Halley's Comet: I missed it the last time it came around earth...mainly cause it passed by 2 years before i was born but thats NO EXCUSE! I just hope that this is something i can hopefully see before i pass away because i would like to have seen an object that people have seen since 240 BC.

5) Fjords of Norway: I got close to seeing these, but it was too far and too expensive. These are valleys cut into parts of Norway by glaciers of phenomenal size. Whole valleys with enormous rivers exist now where the glaciers pushed rock/dirt out of the way over thousands of years. I saw pictures...green..flowers..and pure beauty.

6) Great Barrier Reef: I would like to see this oceanantic marvel that has somehow escaped mans endevour to destroy everything not developed by him. It is slowly being affected by human interference, but hopefully it will survive so our children and then theirs will have the ability to enjoy such marvels as I.

See wat you may of the World

So I have finally got home from my study abroad trip, and after being up for 24 hours for my long flights, i am finally starting to get back into the swing of things. This blog though is not about my trip rather it is about a though i have been thinking of. So at my dinner table, in the car, and just at random times my family loves to talk to one another. About anything. The one thing I have recently talked about an which has made me a little aggravated is over the distance in wealth in the US. I am not rich, and i never will be. I don't expect to ever in my life. But for the life of me i do not understand why people with wealth do not help those without. I see people sitting upon billions of dollars in wealth and they do nothing to help their fellow man. The homeless need shelter, with 9% unemployment people need food and clothes, and adolescents in foster care need someone to look up to. I know everyone doesn't have the money to help support these. But to see all this money not being used to building facilites which may only cost in the millions and help thousands of individuals is beyond my vary being of thought. I am not trying to sound like a winy little kid about our system. I just don't see how our government can spend on pig-barrel projects and the rich on million dollar house expansions when their fellow man our losing faith in life itself. What can one do when all you have is the power of words and volunteer but have no power to change the world?