월요일 아침: i noticed that 2day's the 1st day'f skool 4 the kids that live in my neighbourhood. i woke up late 2day n' missed may's 600a turbo kick box (tkb) class @ the sunnyvale, east arques 24 hour fitness. totally missed it... un4tunately, i'm not likely to get much exercise this wk. this is indeed a scary, scary wk. &nbps; i have sooo many commitments @ werk n' in my non.werk life. august's ending this wk, n' it sure feels like it, eh? "back to skool"'s definitely the theme 4 2day. then 'gain, ain't this sooo much harder than skool?! :-/ sometimes when i c these kids walkin, bikin', n' skateboardin' to skool; i wish i were 'gain as young as they r... i.e., isn't life so carefree @ that age? no mortgage, no rent, no bills... u just have 1 job in life: to study n' get good grades. the rest'f ur time can be spent doing fun, fun, fun things. *shrug* however, i know adolescence's stressful, n' there's definitely 'least 1 thing i don't miss 'bout it; n' that's the awkwardness'f that age, the "tryin' to fit in." i vaguely 'member what torture 'twas in middle skool to try to win popularity. maybe i stressed more 'bout this stuff when i was @ that age cos i didn't understand the love'f god n' thus my true place in the universe, u know? *shrug* however, obviously the 4ces'f peer pressure r strong, strong, strong @ that age. last nite, in preparation 4 next sun's (sunday's) wedding reception in berkeley, i pur¢ha$ed the dean martin track "you're nobody till somebody loves you." from "all of mp3." sure, it's a cute li'l ditty 4 a cocktail hr. however, think a li'l 'bout that title. yah, when u'r in ur adolescence n' teenage yrs, that really feels like the truth'f the world: u'r nobody till somebody loves u. d'u 'member how badly u wanted to get into ur 1st relationship when u were @ that age? n' 'twasn't even necessarily cos u found some1 u liked but that u just felt this need to be in some "romantik" relationship. i dunno... but 'least 4 me, skool? skool was frickin' easy. i could breeze thru that stuff. hwoever, my goal @ that age was to win popularity n' somehow leverage off that to win my 1st gf. no, it's not that i didn't have standards or nething... it's just that, yah, i really viewed getting a gf to be like a "holy grail quest." really; i guess i was smart as a kid... but i was a fat, chubby, zitty, brace.faced, awkward, awkward kid in middle skool. what did i need to do to be kewl??? did i need to wear bugle boy (i almost sed "bugle bear" 4 some reason) cargo pants? did i need to wear turtleneck shirts? did i need to roll up my pants a certain way? did i need to ride a skateboard? did i need to be able to name off top 40 song titles on demand or 'least be able to name to the top 10 songs'f the wk? didn't i need to be able to make my classmates laff? in my adolescence, in the mid.1980s... yah, like in 5th thru 7th grade, surf n' skate culture was totally in, n' the kewl kids skateboarded. that caught my eye. i got really interested in skateboarding. by the time i really got into skateboarding, like by 8th grade, 'lot'f the "cool" boys got out'f skateboarding n' started getting into basketball. me? i knew basketball was not gonna be my thing, n' i stuck w/ skateboarding... i just plain liked the aktivity n' the culture 'round it. it fit me better.
[later] 밤 1004p: i'm home now. during my lunchbrk @ lunch, i ran all over the place! i went to the verizon store @ the mercado in the heart'f silikon valley. i showed them how my fon runs out'f batteries reqlly quickly. they told me to come back w/ all the packaging n' included accessories n' return it. i went home, quickly made a ham sandwich on that very natural, healthy bread i bought from trader joe's last wk. i also grabbed a pluot. i grabbed the packaging 4 my chocolate fon. i rushed by the office to pick up my receipt that i left there in my bag. then i rushed back to the verizon store. rt b4 i got there, i realised that i didn't have the charger w/ me! ugh! i started defeatingly driving back to my office. on the way, i decided to swing by sports basement to buy a new pair'f shoelaces 4 my world industries skate shoes. u c, i ollied thru my left shoelace... i.e. when 1 ollies, he/she drags his/her front foot up, 'cross the skateboard deck's griptape. i 'pparently dragged that overly lengthy lace 2 much, n' i wore it out. on sat, @ copleand in valley fair, i saw some somewhat suitable grey shoe lace 4 $1.49, but it wasn't the tube kind'f lace. 'twas the flat kind'f lace. i passed on'em. 2day, @ sports basement, i found a pair'f new balance laces that were tubulr n' had some weird bumpy shape to them 4 $1.50. i went 'head n' bought'em. &nbps; i'm not sure'f that bumpy shape makes'em feminine or sumpthin' tho'. *shrug* well, i used my 10% 24 hour fitness di$¢ount. neway, i bought my laces n' returned to the office 4 a very bizzy afternoon.
after werk, i returned to the verizon store to succesfully exchange my fon. i had a long wait in line tho'. well, i have a new fon. my dad n' i'd planned to meet up 2nite, so i called him. i couldn't reach him, so i went to browse thru tj maxx. i saw a few somewhat nice things like various dc shoes or split t.shirts, but eh... i don't need stuff like that, rt? it's ok. neway, we should patronise ross more than tj maxx cos their respektive politcal praktices, huh? well, my dad called me back, n' i made plans w/ him to meet @ 만두강 칼국수 mandoorang kalgooksoo (dumplings & nooldes). i drove home, picked up sooni, n' drove there. i should've walked. i got there b4 my dad n' walked sooni 'round, while waiting. then i went in. the 아줌마 ajoomma n' dude werking there weren't the usual werkers, so i left sooni outside. later, when the usual 아줌마 ajoomma arrived, i think she wanted to bring sooni inside; but she didn't say it, so i left her outside. the usual 아줌마 ajoomma knows me as a regular. the "substitute" 아줌마 ajoomma didn't, so... yah, i felt better when the usual 아줌마 ajoomma came. even tho' i spoke to the "substitute" 아줌마 ajoomma in korean, she spoke in english. i dunno if that's cos my dad spoke english or... c... i'm wondering if the korean chamber'f commerce has told korean biznesses to speak more english now in order to gain more support 4 the koreatown proposal. whadya think? like, consider this: let's say the city allow us to have an official koreatown under the condition that all signs'll be in english n' that all biznesses'll speak english. imagine that! that'd be a tradeoff, eh? neway, i had this bogo (buy 1, get 1 free) dumpling ¢oupon. i thought 'bout saving it 4 'nother time, but i think when i go w/ a big group from taekwondo, we usually get free 만두 mandoo neway... so a bogo ¢oupon'd be almost like an insult to them @ that pt, rt? @ 1st, i meant to order 4 us 1 well.being 칼국수, 1 얼큰이 수제비 uhlkeuni soojeibi, 1 김치 만두 gimchi mandoo, n' 1 소고기 만두. yah, it cmed like 'lot, but i thought it'd be a good variety. well, in the end they left off the well.being 칼국수 kalgooksoo, n' that was a good thing. we had a great dinner w/o it. then i drove home. i really should've walked there.