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Name: Brian
Location: California, United States
Birthday: 7/16/1986
Gender: Male


Interests: basketball, violin, pool, reading, hiking, lakers, memorizing, puzzles, walking aimlessly for hours just to see where i end up
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Tuesday, August 02, 2005

since my last post, i've moved into a new apartment, gotten my own car (yay!), learned how to pay rent and shop for groceries and cook three meals a day and all that other stuff old ppl do...

omg am i finally becoming a mature adult?!

hahaha yeah right.

my lovely new apartment...complete with a 6-foot basketball hoop in the living room! (and chemistry on the white board...hmm how did it get there??)



slam dunk contest everyday...ivan managed to dunk with his feet, a feat that no one has been able to match

so yeah ivan hu is one of my three roommates...the other two are perry and paul...here's the four of us at yosemite. what are we doing? i have no idea...



more pics of my new home...our dinner table! crazy food every night...



uh yeah thats jasper with the weird face...he's gonna go back to taiwan with ken chu in two weeks so you'll probably meet him...have fun haha

more weird ppl...see im actually the most normal one out of all of them!



oh and this was just too cool i gotta post it....



a rainbow halo right in the middle of the sky! otherwise known as a sundog. anyone know how this craziness is formed?

while we're at it...one more rainbow: at vernal falls in yosemite



pretty? not as pretty as these guys. theyre doing a shampoo commercial...



haha just kidding. we're gross -___- but not as gross as david kim...shampoo commercial #2:



wow u can see the water flying off his head...hahaha

aghh where are those normal pictures...? ok i found a few...





and finally...to finish this totally random and incoherent entry...



Wednesday, June 08, 2005

yesterday i realized i was gonna be in taiwan for only 8 more days (where did all those other days go?!) and i still hadn't been to half the places i wanted to visit...

so today i decided to take drastic measures...i walked from tas to 101 and walked by all those places! tas to chien-tan, across the river, to v-mix, hsin hsin, breeze, sogo, tonlin, alley 216, city hall, and finally taipei 101! man...i havent felt so accomplished in a very long time...which kinda shows how sad my life has been lately since i didnt really accomplish anything...after i got to 101 i just took the mrt right back to tien mu haha. 3 hours 50 minutes walking one way, 30 minutes mrt the other way



so i find it fun to walk alone for hours and hours...dunno whats wrong with me. seems like im some kind of troubled loner...good thing im playing ball with other ppl tomorrow, hopefully...

hmm the rest of the night didnt quite turn out as planned haha. didnt know deciding on a restaurant and watching a movie could be so hard. its ok elby and ricky this operation was just practice for the real thing...i failed too as food coordinator...but next time dx wont leave his cell phone at home and we'll all get it right. then we'll be unstoppable! the US better watch out! muahaha

man...i was so sure about my summer plans but now i wish i could stay here longer...what was i thinking going back to berkeley so soon? sucks how im gonna leave before so many ppl even get back...

hmph will chang stole my pic of dx...that jacker...but heres some more hahaha i saw them do this trick on tv! but we got some trick shot pro's right here in a-one (that shot by dx below actually went in...)



Sunday, April 10, 2005

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yay i'm an uncle! welcome to the world my beautiful niece audrey!! im so happy and relieved and excited...gonna go visit them in a few weeks!
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yay its spring...the sun's out...daylights are one hour longer...just one more 10-page paper on the philippine-american war and then im free until finals! then its back to taiwan!

except for this 10-page paper...which isnt that bad anyway...i love my history class right now...we're reading such amazing books...everyone should read "THE GOOD WAR" by studs terkel...history actually seems relevant...which i definitely cannot say for chem...o-chem is getting more ridiculous every day...completely irrelevant to life as far as i can see

im thinking about majoring in history and doing pre-med on the side...or maybe no pre-med at all? nahhh i dunno what kinda job i could get with a history major.

been in berkeley for almost four semesters now and still loving it...but sometimes feel like i just gotta get away...so...spontaneous trip to yosemite with my sister and james!




man we used to do the most random things before she went off to college 9 years ago...but now that we live pretty close together again im so happy that we can do stuff like this again...like...rockets/warriors game!

someone wanna explain why there is a picture of yao ming on a warriors ad?!?!



btw the warriors are CRAZY right now...gonna go watch the laker/warriors game with my sister, james, and katrina and her friends next monday!

anyway yosemite was crazy...2 days of hiking in the rain...then in snow...then rain again...until we were completely soaked and stumbing around in slush...but we hiked into some pretty amazing views so it was all worth it...







mannn the snow was a freaking blizzard on the last day! ok maybe not...but for someone who doesnt remember the last time he saw snow...this was quite an experience...

also saw this interesting looking rock....



left yosemite in the morning...the next day i was in sunny LA! visited timmy and stanley...went to koreatown with their friends



then went to ucla again with jasper, brian, and joanna....three very childish ppl as u can see...



wait...what conference?



at some random ucla corner waiting for brian's dad...waiting...waiting...ok i seriously do not see how anyone could say me and brian look alike...




ANNOUNCEMENT

- Bears for UNICEF!
- 5K Run/Walk on Sunday, April 17!
- Great prizes - mp3 players, movie passes, cal gear!
- All proceeds go directly to UNICEF to aid refugees in the humanitarian crisis in Darfur, Sudan, where over 215,000 have been killed over the last two years, and 35,000 are dying each month.
- So please come run and make a difference, save some lives!
- Sign up at UNICEF table anyday on Sproul Plaza, or day of the race at 9 AM at Sather Gate. Fee is $15 (this is the donation)



Saturday, March 12, 2005

happy birthday perry torng!

midnight....got the bday off to the right start with a nice little dogpile on my bed



then dinner at outback steakhouse!

HAHAHA the classic perry look



ken chu treating the DI-LO right



no perry NO! stop eating!



and J. chou...the guy who ordered a SALAD...rubbing his stomach while ander looks on with disgust



then mr paul baul im delivers the line of the night....abe: here i have a $40...paul: wow u have a 40 dollar bill?! hahaha paul's trying to defend himself



then the next day, birthday party #2!

check out this awesome cake...



eating his own head...



hahaha...nice...



man i have a lot of things to look forward to...warriors-rockets game on monday, yosemite trip next friday-sunday with my sister, then LA for a week to visit my other sister! whos gonna be in LA?


Saturday, February 19, 2005

whoever said berkeley was ugly was walking around with his eyes closed. luckily i have opened my eyes and come to appreciate the beauty of my new home. i certainly have a lot to be grateful for...not just scenery but thats all i got pics of...

views of the bay from my room and from the Big C:  6 PM, 4 PM, 1 AM



random trips to the Big C and Pier 39:



view from perry and pauls room:



so life trudges on...day after day...an endless cycle of work and fun, loneliness and laughter...a constant search for something to look forward to. but i can live with that...the search itself is oddly satisfying

have a nice presidents day weekend everyone

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went to the 五月天 concert in san jose tonight...it was pretty fun! ive never seen so many taiwanese ppl in one place outside of taiwan in my life...there are so many of us! for those three hours...i felt like i was back in taiwan again...felt great

ooh 梁靜茹 showed up too...but she only sang one song! cant believe she flew all the way to LA and then san jose just to sing one song...

some pics...






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