i can make it through the rain

The rain absolutely killed the spirit of UCB day. I got up way early at 9:30, got to BART a quarter after 10, and made my way to Berkeley. As expected it was packed, with everyone and their mom sportin' some kind of UCB propaganda. Right after getting to campus, we went to popular asian hangout and ate some Korean food. Pretty good stuff. After lunch everybody split their own ways to divulge into one's self interests. Of course I had no interests there, so I tagged along with someoen to the film department's presentation where we saw some student made movies. Some are quite impressive. We made half a lap around campus, strolling by the tower, schools of law, and business, and HAAS pavilion, where there was a women's water polo game against Stanford. Of course UCB lost. Go Cardinal. By the time we got out of there and met at that big gate, my pants were literally drenched. Too bad I forgot to take a picture. I felt so retarded.

Erik, Francis, and I made our way to Shattuck (sp?) Theatre, and caught a 2:35 showing of Better Luck Tomorrow. As we walked in, someone was on stage speaking. After asking around, I believe that the speaker was the movie's director, Justin Lin. Anyways we finally found seating in the mezzanine. The theatre screen is quite small, but the theatre itself is pretty nice. I do think, however, that Chabot Theatre is a tad better, haha. It's weird seeing John Cho (most famously known as being the milf hunter in the American Pie movies), act a serious, non-comedy role. Also, the one and only female character wasn't so attractive. To me, anyways.

So yeah the movie. While I enjoyed it, I found it a tad far fetched. Knowing Chinese people, a lot of things didn't weren't plausible. This comes with the very simple explanation that the decisions made and actions taken wouldn't be successfully thought out and executed, like how it was in the movie. In reality, the people who were smart enough to pull these things off wouldn't have the guts for it, and conversely, the people who would have the guts aren't smart enough to think everything out. Since the movie did pan out the way it did, I will say that the consequences from each decision and the resulting issues did seem logical. Nonetheless, the way the characters did things was interesting. I couldn't help but think "damn, it'd be awesome if high school was like that." To basically just own everything has to be apealing.

I guess the underlying theme of the movie was to address the "stress", "pressure", and general "issues" that Chinese kids have to deal with. I especially like the line how having 4.0 gpa's was their ticket to doing whatever they wanted; it was their shield. As long as they kept the high grades and sat scores, nobody would care, which, I think to some degree is true. I do know some kids do do things they did in the movie, like drugs and stealing and alcohol, but hey, everyone's gotta get thru life somehow, right? You know me, I'm not going to say anyone's "bad" just because they do those things. I wont understand what the point of one of the character's losing their virginity to a hooker in Las Vegas. I mean, damn, when the time comes, you "give" it to that special someone. In my opinion, he got robbed. Despite what Willy says, I'm not going down that path.

Another interesting thing is that everytime characters talked to one another, they always seemed to ask each other "oh where you going to college?" and "what are you majoring in?" Haha, they got that part down, alright. I hate the stereotype that exists. You know what, though? I hate even more how it's lived up to. A thing to note: everytime someone did something that was hard or they didn't like, they always said "but it looks good on the college application." Don't argue. Just read, nod or shake your head, and move on. Now get back to studying.

"She deserves something better."
-"Yeah, she probably does."

By now the rain subsided to normal levels. Went to Nick's house after getting home from Berkeley. Got the CB picture. Wholy moley, I'm fat now. Weather needs to dry up so I can hit the courts more often. To semi borrow a line, keep on arfin'. Wore my lucky boxers, too. Needless to say, no luck came my way.l One, two, strike three. They're out.

Since I'm so stupid, while eating lunch I bit myself again almost in the exact same spot. It was almost done healing, too. Now it's gonna hurt again like a mofo. Freakin' boo.

[18:46] like a football team, my girl's got a tight end

[23:34] ever---: how come i'm not roaring

[00:45] a: haha
[00:46] a: ill get a gf if you get a gf jerry
[00:46] a: lol
[00:46] b: you better not say that
[00:46] b: you'll be alone for a long time
[00:46] a: hahah
[00:46] me: wth
[00:46] me: are you thnking
[00:46] me: you're gonna be done way before i get started...
Hahahahaahhahahaaaahahahaha. Jerry you pathetic loser you.