2009 Texas Trip

This semester has to be the hardest semester of my entire life thus far. I’m truly grateful that my cousin from Texas, Marisa convinced me to visit her during my spring break because I really needed to unwind. So here’s the story of my life…

I arrived on Wednesday night and it was nothing but partying till I left. I arrived around dinner time and we ate at a sushi restaurant with a few friends of hers. I was super hungry so I ordered two specials, but the picture looked like it was a small serving. Before I knew it, half of the table was covered with just my order.

After dinner, we had a gathering at my cousin’s apartment. It was a nice way to kick off my spring break. The drink specials consisted of Wild Turkey, red wine, and Corona’s. I was surprised we actually drank every last drop by the end of the night. Here is a picture of me drinking wine out of a candle holder.



The next morning, I woke up with a major hangover. I supposed to take my cousin to work because I planned to do sightseeing around Dallas and I needed her car. My cousin actually took her car and let me sleep in. Thank God she did because my hangover was horrible. I would like to thank Marisa’s roommate, Emily for offering me a pillow to sleep on in the morning. Thursday evening, my cousin and I took it easy and watched a movie with her friend, Kita… I forgot to mention that Kita is one of the most beautiful girls I’ve met my entire life so I was a bit intimidated to talk to her.

After my cousin got of work on Friday, we headed to Austin to party up on 6th Street. The entire road trip to Austin, I sat by Kita!!! Unfortunately I didn’t talk to her much because she suffered from motion sickness so I let her rest. We arrived at the hotel before the rest of the group did, so we ate at the restaurant called Finn and Porter, a popular steak house. It was soooo expensive. Kita and I shared an 8 ounce steak, mash potatoes, a glass of white wine, and 1 Corona for $80.00. It was worth it because it was a really great steak. The face of Kita says it all…







The rest of the group arrived shortly after dinner. To save money in the bars, we threw a telly [hotel party]. I was surprised how much alcohol was bought. We had 2 handles of Jack Daniels, a handle Wild Turkey, Jagermeister, and many different kinds of beers.





Now the real partying starts… 6th Street. I felt bad that Marisa’s boyfriend, Clayton forgot his ID in Dallas, so he couldn’t party it up with us… I would like to tell you everything, but I frankly don’t remember it. Lucky I took pictures to help jog the memory.








I think it was Kita who suggested we should go swimming, so amazingly a few of us were able to get up at 7 AM to go swimming. When we walked out to the pool, it was foggy and raining. It didn’t stop us, and I’m glad we did that because it was fun.



Saturday’s plan was to go to San Antonio to see the Alamo. We were all tired, but we made it. I really wanted to talk to Kita more to know her better, but I was beat tired. Either way, we still had a great time.



I honestly wasn’t ready to leave Texas. If I could have, I would have stayed an extra week. I’m glad I went because now I’m not as stressed about school.

My View of San Francisco

Photo Bombing in the City

Last Sunday was one of the best days I had this year. My cousin from the Philippines is here for a short time, and I wanted to take her out. Like many of us in my family, she is really into photography, so her request for me was to go photo bombing in San Francisco. When I climbed into bed the night before, I turned on my TV to channel surf. On Comedy Central, one of my favorite movies was showing [Beerfest]. Before I knew it, I watched the entire movie and I noticed it was 2:30 in the morning. I set my alarm to wake me up at 4:30, so when the movie ended, I figured I should just stay awake.

I picked up my cousin at 6 AM so we can catch sunrise at the Golden Bridge. We just arrived on time, and hopefully she was able to take shots she will enjoy. We had 2 hours to kill before any businesses opened, so we decided to eat some breakfast at Lucky Chances. On the way to the Casino, I got pulled over because I didn’t see a stop sign. Even though it really sucks that I got a ticket, my cousin and I still laughed about it.




After breakfast, we picked some spots that are touristy. We went to Legion of Honor, Fisherman’s Warf, and Coit Tower. We definitely had a great time at the tower. When my cousin set up her camera on top of my car, a couple decided to stop right in front of the shot. What was extremely funny to both of us is that this couple could have stopped 2 feet left or right, and our picture would have turned out “perfect” but the question till this day is, “Why in front of us?” Well after all that laughing, we drew some attention to us.



Because of the attention we drew, a random guy came up to my cousin and I to ask us some questions. He claims he’s not from Earth, and wanted to understand what emotions humans feel, like love, hate, happiness, sadness, etc. I don’t believe he is an alien, but was doing a show because he was being videotaped and I signed a disclaimer after our conversation.


When I get a chance, I’ll post the pictures I took of last Sunday’s photo bombing. The pictures on this blog were provided by my cousin.

Worst Parking Job Ever

Check out this person trying to park the car. Seriously, it's not hard to park a small car into a big parking spot. Keep your eyes on the time. The best part is the end. Enjoy.

Parking Lot Disaster @ Yahoo! Video

Grand Canyon 2009 Video

Posting this video was a big hassle. This part of the blog will be my rant about Youtube/Warner Music Group (WMG). Since early 2009, Youtube has been deleting/suspending accounts, or removing the sound on videos. WMG claims that they have been losing business because people have been posting videos/songs of Warner artists. I can see why they are doing it because of those stupid idiots who just post music on Youtube so people can convert them into MP3s and put them on their players. For people like me, I like to use the music to make videos and post them on Youtube. I also lost my favorite artists who does covers of songs because of this change. Because of this situation, I had to create a new Youtube account just incase I get in trouble and they delete me. WMG needs to get their stick up their a** out and let the public post their videos on Youtube.

Well now that my rant is over, here is the video of my trip to the Grand Canyon. I had to use Megavideo because they haven't been affected by the WMG yet. I'll post the Youtube version and the Megavideo version just incase Youtube decides to delete my account.

I posted pictures on 2 previous blogs, but with a video, you can experience the trip in a different way. I was inspired by my cousin, Leah to edit my video the way I did. I hope you enjoy this video.

Click Here for Grand Canyon Blog 1
Click Here for Grand Canyon Blog 2


*Click on the video after you press play, and it will take you to the Youtube site

Doomsday

Doomsday is over! I just had my anatomy exam for unit 2, and I feel releaved it's over. I've been studying for this exam for two weeks, and I am burnt out. The question is, "Did I pass!?!" I feel that I did, but it's just a matter of what grade I earned. Hopefully I got an A on my exam and lab practical. I knew a lot of the material on the exam, but just a few that I was uncertain of... Only time will tell. I'm just glad that it's all over with =).

Anatomy

It's almost the end of unit 2 in my anatomy and physiology class, and I'm super stressing out. Let me know if you agree with me... Monday is my anatomy exam and it's on the skeletal and muscular system. Last week, I started memorzing 206 bones and the major landmarks (the skull alone has 100+ landmarks). This week, we learned the muscles of the human body, which we have to know about 50+ for the exam. Not only we have to know the name of it, but we have to know the origin from it starts and where it ends; also what each muscle does.... GGGRRRR!!!! Why can't we split the skeletal and musular system into two different exams? The whole day today, my fellow classmates where expressing how stupid it is to have both these systems in one exam. Do you agree?

On top of this hell week, I have a physiology exam the following day, and I haven't even started to study for that. I'm putting all my time in anatomy. The good news about next week beinging over is that I won't have two exams on the same week till finals.