I think that a cynic isn't necessarily someone who believes the worst in everything, just someone who believes the absolute best in everything and knows it can never be possible.

Christmas Stuffs

Duuuuuuude. Crazy Christmas this year. Yesterday I went to help out at the zoo which was surprisingly more full than I thought it would be. I did most of the regular stuff, but it went a lot faster since there was the keeper, me and the volunteer who normally works saturday. Near the end of the day I went by the otter enclosure to go pull some grass for the deer and that was hilarious because the poor otters thought that I was there to do something for them so they were all excited and kept following me and looking up at me where ever I went LoL. It was beautiful weather, like 68 or so, and there were quite a few families out.

Last night we did the whole big meal and opening gifts thing. I am not cut out to work with kids. But we had roast beef, ham, lots of sides and stuff. Then my uncle tried to fix our TiVo how it's supposed to be hooked up :\ I'm not a techie person so much, so I was just watching, and then we went to open gifts. Awesome gifts :) and a lot of fun, good stuff all over. We have these christmas type bells that hang on our stairs and my cousin found them and went like totally nuts. Again, I'm not cut out to work with kids.

We watched our claymation christmas and then everyone left, nothing excessively eventful LoL. I had to go to sleep after that cause then I had to get up early today too.

So today I went to the zoo also, sadly today did not have a good of weather as yesterday and it was raining/drizzling most of the day. But that's okay, I didn't get too wet. Everything else was like a regular routine, and I finished a bit early so he was going to let me go early, but as I was washing out the buckets, another keeper came in the kithen and asked if anyone wanted to go on a Bison Run, and I was almost done with the buckets and was like yeah do you need help? Omg, it was so much fun. So we got in the back of this flatbed truck and there are like 14-15 of these giant grey plastic trashcan bins filled about halfway or a quarter so filled with produce and breads and we rode on the back of the truck up through the back of the zoo to get to bison and antelope enclosure, that was insanely fun because it's so hilly getting up there it was like a rollercoaster ride LOL. The two ladies I was with were really cool too. But so we get to the top and then you take a bin and the dump the food over the side of the truck, and then he drives a bit more and you pour the food out etc..and then all of the bison and antelope come :) It was soooooooooo cool. Definitely something different to do on christmas :)

And tomorrow I'm meeting up with all of my friends to exchange gifts, hopefully they'll all likes the ones I got them, this year was a rush year :( ugh. no thyyyyyyme! So I'm stoked yay!

Kelly Clarkson Concert

oh. my. god. that was great. I loved it. It was so awesome! :D Her opening act was actually pretty good and at the very least, entertaining. When he played the guitar, he'd do this one leg hop/skip thing, and it kinda looked like a retarded dog takin' a whiz, but it was so hilarious :) They (The Graham Colton Band) played a 40 minute set and yeah they were good, then there was a 20 minute intermission and then Kelly Clarkson came out.

It was definitely a low scale production, no huge flashy entrance, the lights went out and then she came out singing, and there was no huge screen, but we were actually close enough that we could kinda see her, but those screens are usually more seizure inducing than practical anyways. No distracting backup dancers, just her voice and the music. and it was so awesome. She sang a hits off of both albums, and she also did a few songs not on any album, a version on Annie Lennox's song, "Why" it was kinda acoustic, very basic and of course sounded absolutely wonderful (She said it was actually cut from the previous shows for awhile but since this was the last one on the tour, then they added it back in). She also sang a really new song, that'll probably be on the third album, performed for the first time that night [I think it was called] "For all I Know" and it was her and a guitar, and it was such a beautiful song. Ah, she also did Beautiful Disaster accapella I'm glad she performed that song, it's one of my favorites. It was just a really amazing concert, she is such a true singer, she entertains and she's got talent. I'm glad it was at the San Jose Arena since that's smaller than the Coluseum or SBC park or something, it was slightly more intimate, and better sounding. If she comes around again, I'd definitely go.

Today I went shopping with some friends from school to San Francisco and the weather totally sucked butt and the stupid stores didn't realize it wasn't cold outside, just wet, so dude, everywhere we went it was like 90 friggin degrees and I was like melting, it was lame. but the shopping was fun :D We ate at Lois's diner (I think that was the name...gah too lazy to check) and it was a 50's style diner and stuff, it was pretty good, I had chicken since I had a burger last night LoL. Then we went to H&M it was my first time there....like 90% of the stuff I wouldn't wear..it just not me. BUT dude. There were these pants, O.M.G. I loved them. I just I loved them, they are like the perfect pants if I were to design a pair of pants, all except for two things, the button is on the the right and the hole was on the right and the button was on the left that threw me off, an also the zipper is on the left side...which was random. but other than that, they're cargo pants, and they're not jr. sized and they're not too low and they have nice wide belt loops and the bottom are bungies and not ties and in the pant leg you can hide the bungie if you want. and omg. I love these pants. LoL
We also went to urban outfitters and.....a bunch of other stores in the san francisco shopping centre, I bought a gift, and just had a fun time with friends.
Gooood Times to be had.

Ahhh..Autumn :)

I think autumn has taken over as my favorite season. At school at least, I haven't given it much thought before, but there's not many trees, around where I've lived or lived in (i.e. the city in general and school and stuff) but at Chabot there are a ton of trees and this fall, as trees usually do, their leaves have been falling, now sometimes they're a nuicance with the leaves making their way into your trunk. But there is just this unadulterated joy (I get at least) in jumping in the dry leaf piles that just gather around the parking lot and school. A great part of that joy comes from the fact that I don't have to rake up any of those leaves :) At school they have a bunch of different type of trees there and some of them turn red/orange and others turn BRIGHT yellow, there are these ginko trees around school and before their leaves fall of they turn this amazing stunningly bright nearly glowing yellow and it's so beautiful. Also there was this nice breeze blowing today and the leaves were just kind of flying off of the trees. It was really a nice sight, and with that I think that Autumn, at least at Chabot, has taken over my favorite season.

Random Time-taker-upper

LoL this is a fun website, you can type stuff and it'll be spelled out in those blue plastic milk carts. but then again I'm easily entertained :D
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Christmas Cynic

Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer
had a very shiny nose,
and if you ever saw it
you would even say it glows.
All of the other reindeer
used to laugh and call him names.
They never let poor Rudolph
join in any reindeer games.
Then one foggy Christmas Eve,

Santa came to say:
"Rudolph with your nose so bright
won't you guide my sleigh tonight?"
Then how the reindeer loved him
as they shouted out with glee, "Yippee!"
"Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer
you'll go down in history."

Well Rudolph he didn't go for that.
He said "I see through your silly games,"
How could you look me in the face
when only yesterday you called me names?
Well all of the other reindeers man,
well they sure did feel ashamed,
"Rudolph you know we're sorry,
we're truly gonna try to change"
(additional lyrics by Jack Johnson)

Now, I'm not a big fan of Jack Johnson, but I gotta say big kudos to him cause...damn. this is quite the good song. I never thought it was right that the other reindeers were teasing him and then suddenly, oh just cause they need him now they were nice to him. That's ultra lame, they're totally just using him! He shoulda said, "well you should have thought of that before you called me names....turds..." and walked away. Or he coulda taped flash lights to their noses and made them walk around like idiots. But he was a morally right reindeer, so he did the right thing, but those others were so superficial (like middle schoolers), only nice when they need you and insulting those who aren't the same...oh how many of those "reindeers" are out there...Quite actually now thinking about it, it teaches such a horrible lesson, that if you're a freak and no one needs you, you're just a huge freak, but if the in-crowd needs you, suddenly you're unique and special. "you'll go down in history" ....as the sucker who gave into the popular crowd...

So there's my rant for the day, I think this version should be taught in schools and sung in Christmas concerts, it'd give them something else to think about.

Here's just a fun new carol :D from Ben Folds :)
Bizarre Christmas Incident
Ho ho ho!

Play it Grandpa.
(Yeah, play it!)
Let's tell them a little story
about what happened this Christmas.
(Yeah, tell them!)

Christmas Eve
I didn't get much sleep
I kept hearing things,
heavy breathing from the chimney...
who could it be?

(I'll tell you what it was...)
(What happened then, Ben?)
(Yeah, what happened?)
Well, I went back to sleep...
(You went back to sleep?!)
(S@#$!)
Tired man, went back to sleep.

and in the morning
I couldn't believe my eyes
a whale of a corpse with a long, white beard
was dangling over the fire

(ha ha ha!)

oh, Santa, he's a big, fat f*&%
went down the chimney, got his fat ass stuck
oh, honey call the lawyers fast,
'cause Mrs. Claus is gonna sue my ass
hey, hey, hey!
(hey!)

Okay Grandpa, step up.
Sing in this thing right here.
Tell them what you saw,
tell them what you saw, Grandpa!

I gotta tell you folks
he wasn't wearing no clothes
(No clothes?!)
he must have rubbed a whole gallon of Crisco
from his back, down to his toes

while I was talking to the cops outside,
the dog was lickin' Crisco off of his thighs
they hauled him away in a double-wide
what a sad, sad way to die

Santa, he's a big, fat f*&%
went down the chimney, got his fat ass stuck
oh, honey call the lawyers fast,
Mrs. Claus is gonna sue our ass

Physics today was awesome :)

Today's physics was awesome...mostly cause it wasn't really physics. LOL It was our instructor's birthday today and so we decided to have a party, I thought it was just going to be one of those soda/cupcake/chips things...but it was actually a good full blown out party. People brought in, carrots, celery, cookies, samosa, this other Indian food..i'm not sure what it was called, but it was good :), someone else made this rice dish and chicken, all really tasty :) there was also the regular, chips, crackers and soda :) Cake wise, someone brought in a gelatin cake it was like jello, really cool LOL it looked soooooo pretty, when the pictures get up i'll post some hopefully. And then some cakes from an asian supermarket the "cheesecake" it was all so good :) So there was a ton of food, someone else brought in balloons and my teacher has this really good sound system, so he brought that in and plugged it into someone's mp3 player and we had music blastin' too. LoL one of the must more "funner" days in physics :) all was good today even though it was a monday :)

Greatest Commercial EVER.

Dude too bad it won't be showing up here on American TV...but if you've got quicktime you MUST see this commercial it's frickin awesome.

BRAVIA Commercial
It takes a little while to load, but ....it's just that damn great.

there's extra clippits about how they made it and all here too
Extra snippits :D

so friggin awesome.

Likes/Dislikes

Likes:
People with Scottish accents
Popping bubble wrap
Rocking out to songs in my car

Dislikes:
People who sway and or jerk themselves while playing the piano
Dog-eared pages in a book
The sticky residue left by stickers that were pulled off

(this is for you Maria :D )