Lazy sundays.....

So on a lazy sunday like this with it raining outside there is only one thing to do. Watch many many episodes of How I Met Your Mother, and maybe study some of my GRE's.

But in the mean time this video of the VazquezSounds cover of Adele's Rolling in the Deep....is amazing. At such young ages the three Vazquez siblings almost catch you off guard with how amazing their cover truly is.

This is every project ever

So...i saw this on thedailywhat today. It describes all projects ever worker on. lol

5 Things of Positivity

So you can always be mad about things that don't go your way, but lately I have come to accept a different concept. My brother, studying social work at Columbia University, recently told me a piece of advice when I had become upset/angry. When things become hard, stop a moment and think of five positive outcomes of your upset. If you truly cannot think of 5 positive outcomes then you can be upset. If you can, then accept the positives and make the most of a bad situation.

With my left leg injury continuing into its 6th month, and basically ruining any chance of returning to running soon, I had become quite upset and angry. Angry that others disregard the ability to run, while i had to sit with mine with a somewhat unknown injury. But while in New York the other week and introduced to this new "5 Things of Positivity"

1) New Forms of exercise (biking, weights)
2) Save my knees/back/hips from years of running
3) Greater care of self/health
4) Yoga strengthening lessons
5) Motivation to run again

MW3...versus BF3

So...having blown about $134 on two video games so far both Modern Warfare 3 and Battlefield 3. There has been a constant argument over which is better. Ill give a slight review with an insight into the FPS franchise as a whole. The BF3 game I believe had some pretty solid graphics with the new Frostbite 2 engine. The PS3 having some slightly less graphic producing capability, but still it was quite smooth with as well impressive audio. I found as well that the story seemed a little slow...but at the same time I readable enjoyed it. The reason for its slower feeling was because in the last 4 years the gaming industry has been saturated with the Michael Bay type FPS as MW3, with unrealistic plot lines and over the top exaggerations on world wars but single character ambitions. Though the MW arena is fun, I often feel tired of facing enemies with unrealistic character ambitions. BF3 was quite refreshing with a sense back to basics and the thought that you may just be in a real conspiracy of some sort.

This is not to say I didn't enjoy MW3. I love the character development of MW3's Soap, and Price over the last three games, unlike BF3 which never truly allowed you to feel close enough to characters for you to actually care for their lively hood.

Overall Both games enjoyable with modern length campaigns, but the question still remains of when will the industry push the FPS into something fresh. Yes...we all love fighting the same enemy, in the same year, with the same tactics. But the saturation of the market in the last 5 years with repeat games has created somewhat of a stale feeling. I am hoping that with the current trend of Activision/Treyarch every other year that Treyarch will step up to the plate and reinvent the FPS trend.

Spiced Pumpkin Latte Recipe!

So the other day instead of going to Starbucks to get Pumpkin Lattes...I made them from scratch!

Now I won't take credit for it...no no. But here is the re-post from a fellow blogger..delicious! Thanks Lori Lange!

How to Make a Pumpkin Spice Latte | RecipeGirl.com

2005 YU55

So i am surfing the internet, doing my usual looking into space, and interesting facts when I come across NEO 2005 YU55. NEO; standing for Near Earth Object. I happen to be looking into the WISE outer orbital scanning satellite when I came across JPLs NEO up to date list. Asteroids from the 1800's all the way to the year 3000. When I see that on November 8th, 2011 NEO 2005 YU55 will come within 0.81 AUs of earth. Or around 200,000 miles. That may see like a great distance, but that is closer than the moon. Were talking 2.5 earths circumferences away. And at 1/4 a mile in diameter...I kinda stared at the screen for about 2 minutes grasping this. Then came a little more research and the realization that this thing was essentially on a different orbital plane than the earth/moon and was not even categorized as a level 1 threat. So be safe america...but keep your eyes open.

Hesher Movie Review

SO....Hesher. First off ill explain im not expert movie writer who writes about plot this and such. But all i have to say about this movie is...Hesher is right. If you lose your left nut...stop thinking about it and crying over it. So you lost your left nut. You still have your right nut and should cherish it that much more.

I very different movie filled with character development and and interesting storyline unlike any movie really your going to see in a while.

A seemingly enjoyable movie, which I would recommend for those who enjoy indi movies.

Grade: B

The goodness of dried red tomoatoes

So i am sitting here eating my spaghetti with meatballs, noodles, red/white sauce, spinach, and now realize how amazing adding dried red tomatoes makes the overall combination of the spaghetti. Its kinda a almost dried approcott taste to it if really taste it. Just my food for thought of the day!

Super 8 and vacation over :D

So last night i saw the movie Super 8...and it was...great. haha. The trailer is a little misleading in some areas, but the acting is superb and the storyline enjoyable. As long as you go in expecting nothing, you'll come out enjoying it for sure.



So today i also started my job at Edwards Lifesciences, and i like it lots there so far. More than a job...i think i am going to gain great work experience and the insight into how another engineering industry functions and how industry is different than school. EXCITED!!

The best of the best!

So i recently went to San Francisco, so i guess i just wanted to share a few of the best photos i took!!

D-Day....66 years later

On this day 66 years ago allied forces launched one of the most massive invasions onto an enemy force ever seen. It cause over 10,000 allied deaths in a matter of hours, but as well the beginning of the liberation of Europe from Nazi rule. In honor of those who gave there lives, those who left their families for battle fields on distant shores, and those who never received the recognition they deserved...

Thank you.

There is nothing I can do to express my gratitude for what you have allowed me to do in my current life and generation. A good childhood. College. No conscription. It is all thanks to you. No rationing. No occupation.

Here are some photos from LIFE magazine in color. Enjoy. And just remember to give a little thanks to all those who gave so much so we could enjoy just the little things in life we take for granted.



**The first one links to the rest.

Goupon...you are addicting you

So i just recently signed up to receive the e-mails from both groupon and socalliving. When I go on i see all these insane deals and i get all excited. For example...i saw this one where it was like.."Go to Colorado Resort for 2 Days!!" Only $240!! I was like shit...thats the best deal ever!! This is like the ultimate little discount store for deals on the internet...of which most i will say have nothing to do with me, my life style, and most time commitments that I have available. haha. Cause as soon as i got excited for the possibility of Colorado...i remembered. Plane ticket...$200-300, transportation, and the numerous other costs just to get there. Maybe one day, but for now ill stick with the groupon deal for "Laser Hair Removal" for only $540 dollars, you dig me? haha

This made me laugh of the day.

So you click on the link "ign.com" and expect what anyone going to that site expects, just some updates of your newest games, or in my case what the F*CK IS UBISOFT DOING WITH "Ghost Recon:Future Soldier" because they have delayed it for almost 1.5 years and i love that series. Serious right?

But case and point this is what i read first on the headlines and it made me laugh...



..its circled in the red and reads "The Reapers just bitch-slapped Commander Shepard. Time to slap back."

haha...so funny cause its suppose to be only the biggest war the universe has ever seen right? lol

But to leave you on a nicer note. Song of the day.



Artist: Eminem, Royce Da 5'9' and Bruno Mars
Song: Lighters

The bigger picture

So memorial day weekend wasn't filled with the many lame hours of homework like i thought i would...like the 4 previous years. This one rather was just about having a good time with friends, seeing their families, seeing friends not seen often, and hanging out with friends of my everyday. It was nice to see the plains of Fresno, the hills of SF, and the uncomfortable back seats of cars for what i swear was something of a day in total. (no joke, my but is permanently in a weird shape at the moment). But I do love that city, SF. Its so comfortable how the people are so happy, thats what i noticed. Im not much of a person to be around mass amounts of people, they make me unhappy sometimes cause of all the noise. Thats why i enjoy working out at the gym in the morning alone, one on one convos with friends, driving with no music on and the window down.
I think this trip kinda was challenged in my perspective by a lecture i had in senior design class today, our last bits of advice until we move on in life. We can be the status quo...get a job..buy a house...ect...or we can dream and do things. Live our dreams and not someone elses. Who will i be, well for the moment i accept someone elses dream as i enter the work force. But she was right (my professor), i want to dictate my terms. She told us..dont wait to long and get stuck in the rut, or youll never leave. So...i think ill vacation in work and no homework for like a year hopefully. But im determined to prepare for grad school, for something i can determine my path in life. Not just for another pay check.



Artist: Angus and Julia Stone
Song: Mango Tree

The best show ever perhaps?

So...if your a human being...with a brain...youll start to watch Arrested Development.

1) Its writing is superb
2) GOB (Gearge Bluth III) is the funniest, cheatingest sun of a dog ever
(But you secretly ever episode hope he does all the same)
3) It makes all other shows look pathetic
4) You wonder every episode how this show had such a short life

Watch it.
Learn from it.
Be a Bluth.



Artist: Trentmoller
Song: Miss You

My compliments...to the chef.

Okay...random title. But while im sitting here deciding what to take to the laundry before i hit the gym (what a douche line right? lol) I realized how much i do enjoy blogging. But more....that no one reads this. haha. Well except for a someone in Tehachipi and another in Walnut up north who both know who you are. lol. (anime festival in 36 days girl) xD I will keep on writing if you like it or not, cause i enjoy it. It stimulates the mind and my appetite for the eggo waffle i just forgot i cooked 15 minutes ago and which is most likely cold now. Thanks alot blogger.com for making my eggo cold.

Sexyyynesss....

So im in the parking lot of a Ralphs...holding onto a case of Blue Moon summer addition. Which might i add was bought only because when i saw it it looked so tasty with its advertisement of "Pale Moon", "Blue Moon", and "Blue Moon: Summer Ale". I was just like...man those look tasty. Soo...walking through the parking lot again..and i see this sexy thing in red....a sexy Honda CR-Z that is. HAHAHAHA. Man..i nearly dropped my my shizz on the over the ground when my jaw dropped. haha. Might i add the sun was setting at the same time. Perfect.

Heres a photo of this beauty.






And a song to listen to while admiring.



Artist: The Weeknd
Song:Rolling Stone

Funny shirts of the day

So while hanging out with friends today, they pointed out the following shirts to me..

Coffe Highs and Disney Yeahs

So today was quite the fun day. Well for one i slept horrible. I did something to my back at work the other day so that combined with my ever increasing old bed i woke up about 6 times last night. So when i woke up this morning i just felt shizzy at best. So it started off with Karen and me getting bfast at McDonalds cause i have never actually had an egg Mc'Muffin before. I wont lie, it wasn't half bad. haha. Then we ran over to the Its a Grind and i got myself an ice coffee to pump myself up just a tad. Went to go pick up the ever illusive Lenna Stites and were on our way to go ride the Star Tours at Dland.
Coffee highs are awesome. Its like when you ingest like a huge amount of coffee at once and then you get a caffine buzz all the sudden. And man, when we parked i realized i would get anymore for a while so i drank like 1/4 of it and once we started walking i felt lightheaded, but good. haha.
Met sir Arod at the park, was suppose to park in the same lot as him but while on the freeway i was just chatting and blew by the exit i was suppose to get off and just stated "wooooppppsss..." haha.
Star Tours was pretty cool, i won't give out its secrets but there was one ending where Arod was sitting next to me and he heard me say slowly during a scene.."shhhhiiittttt..." Haha. I like it, plus during the waiting time the little robots keep you company enough the time passes by super fast.
Now...its time for stupid essay. Time to finish this once and for all.



Artist: Kid Cudi
Song: Whatever You Want

MW3=WW3 ?

Soooo...if you have been paying attention to the gaming news then you saw the MW3 trailer which came out today. Now im a fan of the MW series...but this one just seems unoriginal kind of. I mean it seems kinda cool, but it doesn't even look like they even tried to upgrade the engine on the thing. They may have tweaked it but so far i am unimpressed. BF3 comes out the same time and is using the brand new Frostbite 2.0 engine and that beast looks gorgeous. I mean you can see freakin dust in the game play trailers and the human movements are so fluid. MW3 i think should have waited another year to get there stuff together. Cause from what i have seen so far. They are goin to get beat. And there goin to get beat bad. (based solely on the ingame trailers so far..opinion may change at later date. But probably not. xp)

School talk

So i have this 8am class which is actually a really cool class cause i learn a lot and i really respect my professor. But as i am standing in line for coffee...cause 8am class is way early, i notice she is standing in front of me and she starts to talk to me and says..."ahh...yes...coffee is necessary for class this early." She then says she hates how it is so early and had originally been planned for 10am and shes glad our last lecture is next tuesday!! haha. I knew i loved her! Finally. I meet a professor i totally agree with. So i actually paid my 2 bucks and walked away smiling like a stupid idiot. lol

Speaking of coffee...


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Fail

So the whole rapture thing suppose to happen today i really thought was a load of shit, but it provide for some funny stuff in the last few days on the daily what. Everything from rocket packs to fly to heaven, to people on craigs list willing to pick up your stuff if they were left behind. haha. But by far...this video is my favorite. haha

good music for a failed rapture

Well since im clearly still alive...time to go out and celebrate tonight! Clearly some music to start the beat for tonight going..

Stressed...

When i am stressed. I close my eyes. Sit still. And listen to pieces of music like this. All my worries disappear after its over. All of them.



(i may have already posted this but i dont care. Its beautiful.)

Eat

Do not try to wait 6 hours to eat after your stomach says its hungry cause you are lazy. I feel sick right now cause i was so hungry and when i ate felt like throwing up. Uhhhh......(my tummy hurts..)

Creating life

So i have always wanted to do things. Enrich my life. And now that school is winding down...i am really excited ill have the opportunity to finally accomplish that. Learning to play the piano. I really want to do this. Already picked out a keyboard from Casio i really like and have gotten some piano tips from friends (thanks Tiffies!! and Sista Melissa!) and i hope to be playing songs soonn. I want to create my own creations. Haha, not like babies. but robots. I found a cheap robotic arm with programing which i am going to buy and take it apart to reverse engineer it before going about and building my own. Should be fun!! I ultimately want it to be able to sense objects around it and interpret pressure differences when handling materials. Future looking good so far.

And life goes on. :)

Last Night

Last night was a good night. Just friends at D&B's. It just felt good to have a drink, go play some skee ball (in which i had 250, but then got beat twice with Clements 270 and 290) and some Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. Just some good laughing and yelling at the machine as we saw our million theoretical dollars drop down to 8. haha. Friends i don't see often (Karen) and friends i see daily to friends i only see once a week on bowling night.

Freakin skee ball. What an addicting game. So hard to get over 300 pts. grrr.

Get away

I kinda feel stressed out. I want to just get away for a little while and chill ax. Not really do anything. Know what i mean? Once my job this summer is done i think it will be great relief to visit my bro in new york for a week or two to see the city and visit DC. I understand he'll be at school, i just want to be the graduate without a plan for a little while. Ya know? (p.s. eric if you read this no worries, i won't bug you out there, i just need a floor to sleep on. lol)

To keep

This one. This one is mine.


But for the music of the day anyway...





Song: Black Sheep
Band: Clash at Demonhead (originally by Metric)

If you know

If you know anything about me there is one thing that can take my breathe away its something like this.

The Mountain from Terje Sorgjerd on Vimeo.

I know there is so much more potential out there then here. Just looking at what may gleam amongst the starts while i sit here is the most disappointing feeling ever. What are we missing out on?

I took a trip to the Griffith Observatory a few months ago, and I can't remember the last time i was that excited. Read about the planets, see the starts, read all the specs, and then to sit by a metal statue of my theoretical hero Einstein.

So much potential in the stars. Its so much bigger than the "human race." Yet its still sooo very far away.

Be wat it is

So graduation is 7 weeks away. Man. Time to leave this school for sure and start a little bit of my life. Know what i mean. I like school, and one day in 2-3 years ill go back most definitely to get my master's degree. But for now I want to be able to on saturday and sunday not have to worry about tests or homework.

I want to be able to take classes at night or on the weekend to enrich my life. Enjoy my life. Thats my goal.






Artist:Joywave
Song:Betelgeuse

The death of beauty

So this article was written some 4 years ago. But it is about how a world famous violin player anonymously played in a washington D.C. subway to see if ordinary people recognized beauty and superb quality music for the Washington Post.

I originally thought this article was going to be boring and one of those that would take forever to read. But once I began to read the article, it swiftly went by and caused only a sense of sadness over how people do not take a moment out of their day to enjoy the world around them, and merely focus on the challenges ahead.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/04/AR2007040401721.html

As quoted in the article from a homeless man...

"What is this life if, full of care,

We have no time to stand and stare."

-- from "Leisure," by W.H. Davies

Freakin PI Day!!!

So i know we all woke up this morning and said this out loud..."Oh crap!! I have a History 70a Revolutions Final at 10:30am!!"....okay...well maybe I did. BUT...after that we all said "Oh my!! Its freakin PI Day!! 3.14!!! Heck ya!!" Right?? Don't lie. It was on everyones mind this morning.

You know what this means for muah? Right? Even though i am studying for a final that is at 8am Wed...I have to go buy a pie later. Its like a requirement this one day of the year. And guess what? You'll all be jealous tomorrow when I upload the picture of the pie tomorrow. Will it be Oreo pie again? Perhaps my favorite this year..French Apple....OoOoO....



Artist: Ne-Yo
Song: Over My Head

**I love R&B..so soothing...no cussing.

Panic of the heart

So i feel like its come back. From the depth. I was perfect and fine. Last quarter before I could feel it falling apart cause you weren't here. I could feel the feelings slowly edging away, i could feel us actually being on separate continents. I was perfect for the last 2 months (60 days). But i can feel it coming back. You asked me the other day how I am doing...and I don't know. I told you okay, but I don't know. I can feel it leaving slowly. I can feel the distance. How will we be in 90 days? I don't know. I heard this song last night and it made me think of us. I think this song actually made me feel the distance even more. I could feel the emotions of the characters while i watched them sing this song. Though they had different reasons, these lyrics are how i kinda feel.

I know I told you i was 100% okay with you going and staying longer. But the days you made those decisions, a little bit of us i felt vanished. 1 years gone. I just am afraid im building my life around something that may one day not be there.




Landslide: Glee
Heather,Naya And Gwyneth

Be more

I feel that this is my moment in life to explore. TO be more than i am now and take the risks in 5 maybe 10 years I can't cause I might be married...I might have a kid...I might not be alive. Do you ever feel it? That calling...to do stuff you have never done or dont know how to do...throw the towel in to say...F'it, Im goin to become more than this.





La Roux-BullerProof (Nacey Remix)

June 28th 2011

This ladies and gentleman...is a date I have pressed into my brain. Its a special day to me, cause its the last day that my imagination can see imagination at its true potential. I am pondering at this moment what to do. This is an important day because it is the last day the Space Shuttle will ever take off from this Earth. Atlantis. The last of its kinda. I need to see it. Where most people think, okay. I think...how do i get there. I need to see this. I need to say...i saw man kinds greatest engineering feet. I saw its last hurray. I saw its ending.




AWOLNATION-Sail

tumbler

tmblr...thats the name of the other webpage i have i haven't written on in like a year. haha

Laughing needs to write more

Wait...that title didn't make sense. So i was looking over some of my past blogs and I now realize why i like writing them. Its actually not for you. (oops, haha). Otherwise I would post it on an open forum like ...shoot whats that other one i have. Can't remember the name right now. But i was looking at the articles from 2009 and realized how much i had forgotten about Europe...about senior year. Little things. And the only reason i remember is because of this blog. (sad...i know. happens when you have the memory of a ant). So to 2011. I will beat 2010's 80 entries. So heres to the 9 i have so far! And the 73+ to come!!

Craigsters (class 2011')

ahhhh,......

I feel really sick. My throat is pretty swollen and sometimes my spit gets stuck in mt throat. My face is a little swollen too. This sucks bawws

Hair

I kinda want to shave the sides of my head like to 1mm and do a real fawk hawk. But i know its super unprofessional most likely to walk into my internship with a fawk hawk. dam. That sucks. I guess ill just stick with my minor fo-hawk for now.

25th Anniversary of Challenger

I was not born yet on the morning of January 28th 1986. But as i watched the recording of the first loss of a launch vehicle in US history..i felt the pain of loss. The loss of confidence, astronauts, and invincibility. Always we shot for the stars and expecting the best. Watching the video set me back down to the human level. We are all human. As i read on geekologie today and described by the blogger who was 4 years old at the time; We live, we die, we learn.

We heart goes out to the crew of STS-51-L and their families.

To Lose

It is only when we have everything
we become disillusioned
carelessly thinking our world so high
that we become so confident that we can lose everything.
Only then do we realize
what loneliness truly is

I just..

Hate waiting. I just want things to be normal. Too much to ask for? It always feels like you start to lose it little by little....until...theres nothing left

As I Watched the World Go By....

So i actually have a poem in the works for this one..thought of it while i was eating lunch in the park. Been a long week, so i decided to go sit in Aldrich park and have some lunch in the sun. So i relaxed for like some 30 minutes by myself and just enjoyed the scenery. Thats when i saw it. I had been staring at a tree in the distance for a little while, just admiring its beauty and how quite it seemed. It was then i saw a leaf fall from the tip top of its branches. I watched it float slowly all the way to the ground.

I realized that i was probably the only person in the whole world who saw it. Not a significant event per-say to some, but to me the end of the circle of its life and the beginning of another. I had just sat there and watched some of the world go by. Thats when i realized that it is not often i get to see the world go by, but rather the world watches me. Constantly ignoring it and living my own life, never really stopping to admire the beauty around me.

So as i sat and watched the world go by i realized that its about the moments in life that matter the most. I often watch the lives of others go by, its those experiences we miss out on that are important. What have i missed in the last year while i sit around at UCI...watching others worlds pass right by? I feel like sometimes i am waiting too much as i watch opportunities and people pass me by. Too patient as i wait for things that may never be.

So i finished my lunch, looked one last time and walked to go do hmwk as i stopped watching and start traveling in the world that moves on by.

My only regret..

...is that i will not be alive in 3 generations to see the stars and what explorations we humans will have ventured amongst the universe.

To save the world...

...if there is one thing i would stand by for the rest of my life..its to save the world...