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Halloween.

A crazy holiday, especially here in SF. I remember the year that I went to the Castro on Halloween. There were thousands of people packed onto Market/Castro. It was just crazy!@!

This year I went with some friends to a Tribeca/Beyond event at Rouge. And I had to dress in the season so I could fit in. And I must say this is one of my best costumes since 1994 when I was a book.

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Girls really liked my outfit! in fact some would try to grab my inflated ass or rub their faces into my inflated chest! A few of them even took pictures with me cuz my outfit was so wacky.

But best of all, they all wanted to dance with the inflated witch!

Do you use it? I find it funny to see all my friends' sites on Friendster. Some of them are doing it just to connect with friends. Some of them are taking a serious effort to find Ms. Right. I find those people most HILARIOUS!!!!!

C'mon! In real life, you guys don't look "Cool"! Why do you post pictures of yourselves, trying to make yourselves look "cool". Man, I laugh at those pictures more than the others.

I don't even think my picture looks cool. In fact it's my passport picture.


Kinda geeky picture. No style, no life to it. The best pic I've seen that shows personality, flair and chutzpah is from my buddy DY. And it's evident in the fact that he's beating G(Q)W in the number of friends he's got connected on Friendster.


Actually I was surprised to learn that Dlu has even more than G(Q)W.




Dlu is like an American Express Card, you know he'll be accepted anywhere from East Coast to West.

Anyways, what the heck are people doing on Friendster? I think it's a waste of time just to network with people I already have on Instant Messenger. I have AIM and YIM and even ICQ! I don't need to use friendster to get in touch with most people I know. In fact, I don't even go out of my way to sign on everyone that I know.

If anything, I challenge people to start trying to meet a potential date through their friends. Heck, isnt' that what Friendster was made for in the first place? If you're just gonna connect to people u know already, it's a waste of time. Friendster isn't about just connecting with the most people in general, it's about getting the most dates through friends or friends of friends or friends of friends of friends. And in a few months, it's not going to be free anymore. So who wants to pay just to stay in touch with people they know already. That's a waste of money. See the article on Yahoo.

C'mon, Friendster should be used for what it was made for. Get a Date!

Food or Flesh? You Decide

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Are you Metrosexual?

I am not metrosexual! I am straight! I'm all about football, sexy girls, and pants!

What is a metrosexual? Metrosexuals basically do anything that a gay guy does, but they are not necessarily gay.

Maybe you should take a quiz to figure out if you are metrosexual, gay or straight:

Here's some articles about "coming out" as a metrosexual.

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http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2002/07/22/metrosexual/

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/07/15/uttm/main563242.shtml

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When guys use the response "Kekekeke" or "Hehehehe", they sound awfully girlish... if not gay!

FOBBY GRAMMAR!!! PLEEEEEEEEAZE!!!!!

It really grates my ears whenever I hear an Asian American, who has grown up in the US, frequently use bad grammar. They sound really fobby even though they were educated in the US K-12 and even college! There's no excuse to sound fobby if you ARE NOT a FOB!!!

Even worse, it's more common in San Francisco than in LA.

Here's a few examples:

"I has to go baffroom" should be "I have to use the bathroom"

"She and I has the same shoes" should be "She and I have the same shoes"

I can not stand bad grammar!

Lately I've had to tolerate listening to people who use the words "minus" and "plus" as verbs!

Here's a prime example of bad grammar:

"Jack minused the numbers"

The word "minus" is not a verb. It can be used as a preposition or an adjective. What does that mean to those who are grammatically handicapped??

"Minus" means "without". Here's an example of bad grammar using the word "without" instead of "minus"

"Jack withouted the numbers"

Can anyone "without" numbers? NO NO NO!!!!! WITHOUT is not an action! WITHOUT is not a verb!

A correct use of the word "minus" would be the following:

"Five minus two is equal to Five without Two"

This problem recurs when some idiots use the word "plus" as a verb. For example:

Jack "plussed" the numbers

NO, NO, NO! Jack "added" the numbers! A synonym to "plus" is "with". For example:

"Five plus two is equal to Five with two"

So, from now on, DO NOT use "minus" or "plus" as verbs unless you are just plain stupid!

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"So Much...."

"So Much" is "SO" frequently used incorrectly "That" it needs to be corrected!

If you ever hear someone use the phrase "so much" make sure they use it correctly!

WRONG: I think their grammar is crappy "so much so that" it smells bad

RIGHT: I think their grammar is "so crappy that" it smells bad.

CAN'T YOU SEE the REPETITIVENESS of using the phrase "SO MUCH SO THAT"????

If not, I think you should go back to grade school!!!

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Do you ever watch TV News?


TV News anchors, reporters, and producers are constantly using fragments in their copy. If you ever watch the news, you'll hear the anchor or reporter read a script that says something grammatically incorrect, like this:

"A blazing fire in the East Bay. That tops our news"

or

"Children in a runaway school bus! That and more at 11"

or

"Computers turning into dating machines."

Do you ever notice that they are not using verbs? Hmmm, that makes these statements just fragments!
And the worst part of it all is that news people pride themselves on writing scripts that are supposedly colloquial. That means that their writing is supposed to sound similar to the way we talk in everyday life.

I don't speak in fragments!!!!!!

Do you want me to write in fragments from now on? Here's what it would sound like:

Me: What up?
You: Work hard at office
Me: What work?
You: Office work for business.
Me: Business days stretching schedules

Does it sound CAVEMAN or GHETTO?

UGHHHHHH BAD GRAMMAR!

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Are you in the mood?

For love? Eh...not really.

This is Valentine's week. I could never be further from celebrating this commercial holiday than now. In fact, to anti-celebrate this holiday that makes single people feel like crap, I will post some hilarious stuff about dating. Women always talk smack how guys use cheezy pickup lines that guys use in futile attempts to get their digits. Well, women are not entirely innocent of cheezy lines. The following are the worst replies that girls say to a guy who asks them out on a date:

1. "I'm not in the mood"

2. "Oh, I just forgot, I'm helping my friend study for the GRE"

3. "I've gotta wash my hair"

4. "I've got to watch the President's State of the Union Address"

5. "I've got a headache"

6. "It's that time of the month"

7. "I'd rather be alone"

8. "What? You're talking to me?"

9. "I can't miss my Ally McBeal reruns"

10. "Can I bring a friend?"

Ugh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The end is very very near
I never thought I would come to this point in my time at Lumps. But I feel that 2003 is my final year in Lumps. Jerry Wong once said that Lumps is a transitional fellowship and everyone will move on from it. I didn't really understand what he meant back in 1999. I really cherished the idea of permanence and long term friendship.

But looking back on the past 4 years, I've come to realize that Jerry was very prophetic in his words. Some of my closer(est) friends are now gone. They've either gone off to another city for school or work. JimmyQ took off in the fall of 2000 for Harvard. It was a major change for the fellowship because he was one of the founders and one of the leaders in 98 and 99. Then Michelle and Dan got married in July of 01. Michelle was one of my closer friends at Lumps. In fact probably my closest friend in 99 and 00. We would chat on IM all the time. She was really a great friend whom I trusted and felt welcomed by. It's just not the same for a guy girl friendship when one of them gets married. In fact, it'll never be the same. I never had any feelings or anything like that. But we were really good buddies. And she really made me feel like I belonged to the fellowship.

Over the past two years, the departures have ocurred like a huge tidal wave. I probably can't name all of them because so many have taken place. But here are some of them that have really affected me. Ken Mori slowly stopped coming to the fellowship. He eventually moved back to P-town at the end of 2001. CLau graduated from UCSF and moved on to more schooling at UNC. My good friend Jess moved on from SF to my other alma mater Harvard. EChang moved back down to SoCal because her job was too boring in SF. ChanHo graduated from UoP and now works full time in the SoBay. GDubb is in SoCal exploring the world of design in Pas.

New people have come to lumps over the years. But it's a little different. New people have no regard for who is "in" or "veteran". In many ways, I feel like I have fallen to the way side, to the "periphery" of lumps. In fact. I feel like I am forgotten, ignored or just exlcuded from many events. I'm not sure if it's because GW left my name off of the roster that he produced in the summer. Could it be that simple? Doubtful.

But over the course of the past year and a half, I commonly find out about social events after they occur. The current crowd at lumps is not into using lumps talk to invite everyone, even though they end up inviting a significant portion of the fellowship. To me this is ludicrous. What's the point of doing things so "hush hush" that only 20% of the fellowship will find out about the event after it occurs?

I'm also saddened that I'm now part of the out crowd as opposed to the in crowd. Whether it's birthday evites, social life on friday nights, clubbing, ski trips, fantasy sports leagues or anything like that, I'm feeling left out. To make things worse, I no longer believe people when I ask them what they're doing for the weekend. Whenever I hear "dunno" or "nothin", it really means "I'm doing something with other people and I'm keeping it on the hush hush".

Basically, I feel like people would put more energy into keeping a secret or just lying in my face. Why do they spend so much energy to be exclusive? What does it take to be "in"? Why can't people just be honest? It's so high-school-ish to do this "hush hush," down-low, lying, "whisperer" (to quote Pastor Jeff) crap!

Especially amongst Christian friends, I find it repulsive to be cliquey, exclusive or just to lie to people. Christians should be different from the secular world, especially in their friendships. Friendships should not be just the same as the secular world. I always think of a few passages when I think of the level to which Christians should be inclusive.

Proverbs 18:24 "A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother."

Proverbs 17:17 "A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity"

I Corinthians 12:12-26: "12 For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. 13 For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body--Jews or Greeks, slaves or free--and all were made to drink of one Spirit. 14 For the body does not consist of one member but of many. 15 If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body," that would not make it any less a part of the body. 16 And if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body," that would not make it any less a part of the body. 17 If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell? 18 But as it is, God arranged the organs in the body, each one of them, as he chose. 19 If all were a single organ, where would the body be? 20 As it is, there are many parts, yet one body. 21 The eye cannot say to the hand, "I have no need of you," nor again the head to the feet, "I have no need of you." 22 On the contrary, the parts of the body which seem to be weaker are indispensable, 23 and those parts of the body which we think less honorable we invest with the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty, 24 which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving the greater honor to the inferior part, 25 that there may be no discord in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another. 26 If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together. 27 Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it."

Acts 2:41-47 "41 So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls. 42 And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers. 43 And fear came upon every soul; and many wonders and signs were done through the apostles. 44 And all who believed were together and had all things in common; 45 and they sold their possessions and goods and distributed them to all, as any had need. 46 And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they partook of food with glad and generous hearts, 47 praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved."

I'm sick of it. Thank God I attended the Real World fellowship of Abundant Life in Palo Alto. If I didn't go there tonight, I would have prolly found out about yet another lumps social gig that I was not invited to; and I would have prolly been really sad.

One friend of mine in Korea (a former lumper) said I should just move on and just maintain the friendships that I did establish, outside of the fellowship. And for those who just turned out to be acquaintances, just let them be.
1. dinner/clubbing on 1/24/03 2. SWong's birthday 1/20/03 3. DShinn's ski trip 1/18/03 4. MChung's ski trip 1/??/03 5. JHuey's bday/clubbing 6. Millbrae's bday 7. Millbrae's fantasy bball league

If I won powerball...

I would be different from most lottery winners. Recently, I heard about some guy in West Viriginia who won the $314 milliion jackpot. Honorable as he is, he did donate a significant amount of money to three churches. I respect that and I would do that too. In fact I would single-handedly pay off the new building for SCBC. (I noticed that SCBC is a little behind on the commitments and the collection of donatioins for it's buildings). I would also donate several million to the church I attended while I was an undergrad, (University Presbyterian). I would also fund my friends who are full time missionaries at various campus ministries and in other countries. I would provide enough for these full time missionaries to live in a comfortable lifestyle. Often they receive only enough to pay rent and feed themselves.

Oh yeah, I speaking of generosity, I've always wanted to donate to my alma mater. But wait, which one would I give to? Most people would think I would give money to the big name school, the one with the prestige behind it. I did get my master's from Hahhhh-vahhhhd. NO! NO! NO! I will not give one cent to HaaAAH-VaaaHHHHD! I would give a few million to UCLA...as long as they name some building (at least better than a bathroom!) after me....

Harvard NO!

Yes! Go Bruins!

What else would I do with the money? Well, if I took the lump sum of the $314M in present value, it would be something like $115M. then after taxes, I'd be left with about $50M. Okay, so I'd be left with about as much as a Shaq makes after you add up his salary and advertisements. So what would I do with it?

1. Buy a houseMy house must have 1) a dance floor with a bomb-ass speaker system, 2) an indoor basketball court, 3) a tennis court, 4) a movie theater with surround sound, 5) a game room

2. Buy a TV station in a small market

3. Buy a stick shift... and not care that I don't know how to drive manual!

4. Buy stocks, bonds, and other investments just to diversify my money

5. Buy my professional level video camera (DVCpro) and editing suite

6. Throw a big phat party in my new house with my "get jiggy" dance floor



Okay, Okay, Okay...... All these material things have their temporary value....

But the thing that I want to do more than anything is hold a press conference. That usually happens, whether I initiate or the lottery does it. Anyways, I would bring every rejection letter that I ever received from employers and schools and read the names of every person who ever rejected me for an opportunity.

Then I would say "In Yo Face!!!!! You're still workin'. And I never have to work again!!!!!"

Next, I would read off all of the names of girls who never gave me a chance or never considered me "worthy" for their standards.
And I would say "You're NOT WORTHY!!@!@!@! You're NOT WORTHY!@!@!@!!@@!"

Lastly, I would buy every company that canned me. I would sign the employees who tormented me to contracts. The contracts would entail that they are unable to work for any competitors for a whole year if they are fired for any reason. I would force them to sign it. And immediately, I would fire them.

Ahhhhhh, that would be the sweetest thing to do if I had $314 million dollars.

That's all for now.