Post 29/100 Halloween in the Past Pics

Halloween 2009

 I was the guy from the Hangover. I had a hangover the next day.

Halloween 2010

I was Russell from the movie Up.

Post 28/100 Halloween in the past

Today I have to double post because of my miss over the weekend. I would have blog but I was somewhere I couldn't access the internet. So, will tell you of my Halloweens of the past.

When I was a kid, I was Dracula for almost 6 years. My mom bought me a Dracu la costume that was a couple sizes big. So I could wear for numerous years.

I loved Halloween. FREE CANDY. When were young, we use to get up all the candy and at the end of the night. We get all of our candy and play poker with it.

I love Halloween.

Post 27/100 Misc

Post 26/100 Halloween @ office

We had a contest for our office. The Dead file and some guy who dressed like a fat Green Latern won. I got third.
Guess Why I am so happy??

Post 25/100 All Apologies

Its pretty hard to say I am sorry. What I realized over the past years, is that you should just come out and say it. We all know it sucks admitting your wrong. No one likes to be wrong. But I realized that most times in my life I am wrong. I might not admit it that second, but I am willing to tell you I've made a mistake.

Sometimes I feel like a professional apologizer like Larry David. But it is appropriate to admit when you are sorry for hurting peoples feelings. You might think its stupid and they are too sensitive, but you save a lot of grief that way. You also repair your relationship with that person. But when you apologize you have to let them vent or yell at you. It kinda comes with the territory. Yeah, it makes you feel like a bitch, but in reality your being a bigger person.

There was a guy who asked, "When was the last time you apologized?" He thought that if you haven't apologized to someone in a long time than there is something wrong. We go through out our lives doing bad/stupid things. If we haven't said sorry in a while, its probably pride messing with us.

But if I think I am right, I will fight with you. I think I have been getting better with my stubbornness. But I will fight you.

Post 24/100 Baseball

Since the World Series is happening, let me tell you why I love baseball.

I love the crack of the bat. When that ball hits that bat perfectly, it is awesome. You know right away that it is gone.

I love the anticipation of the at bats. Sure some people might say its slow, but you wait and it builds. Its kinda like a movie. If its a full count, two men on base. You wait with eagerness and excitement. Your heart starts pounding. Your antsy. Sweat starts to form with nervousness. Then the climax hits. Either a out or a hit. So exciting.

I love the unpredicatability of it. Suddenly a person can become a goat to a hero in two moments.

Plays  and moments that define careers. Jeter's jumping throw, Hamel's amazing world series, Schilling and the bloody sock, The Black Beard. Aaron Freaking Boone. The Idiots. The Rally Monkey,

I love the strategy. The lefty, righty matchup. Pinch runner. Moving your defenders in or out or over. Bull pen use. Using your pitchers on 3 days. Moving a runner over. Hit and runs. Pinch batters. All That stuff. I love it.

i love questioning the coach. Everybody has an opinion on why they didnt take a pitcher out. "Why?" is always the great question.

I hope people enjoy the Series. I pray the Phillies will make it next year. My heart still aches this season. Its like the 2002 Eagles all over again.

Post 23/100 How I discovered Biggie

I tell you a story  how I came across the Notorious BIG. When I was 11, I went to my uncles house. He and his wife had a small 1 bedroom apartment. I remember going through his CD collection. Found some interesting stuff like Boyz II Men, Usher (his first album when Usher was a kid), Kenny G and Biggie. I looked at the CD. I remember talking about him and he hadn't died yet. I ask my uncle where he got this from. He told me the mail man had accidently delivered it to his house with a bunch of other CDs. I asked him if I could have it and he said yes. From there I listened to that CD non stop. Walking to school. Walking around the town. It became my CD that defined some of my childhood.

Post 22/100 Sexy Siri

As the world knows, the Iphone 4s has come out. It has a feature called Siri. Already people are raving about it. Basically, it says a lot of stuff. One thing I have been hearing is that men have been loving Siri more. They love just talking to it. Some say it responds better than a woman. Basically, the phone will actually listen to you. I think some men are going to fall in love with this thing.

I want to create a program. Sexy Siri, I should patent this, will be just like Siri but say risque things. It will also show porn and things of that nature.  Think about it. People marry pillows these days. Why not phones?



This is why our society is stupid.

post 21/100 Goals

Things I want to do before the year ends:

Wake up earlier!!!

Worker harder and longer hours!!

Pray and read the Bible More!!

Eat Less!!!

Work out More!!!

Maybe more me time!!

Maybe not say eh anymore!!

Get excited!!

Get Hallelujah night costume!!

Get a mixer and start learning!!

keep on practicing the salsa and go to a club

Go on a date

Post 20/100 Best Thing I never had

There are two songs in my head right now "Best Thing I never had" by Beyonce and "Nigg@s in Paris" by Kanye and Jay-z.

Post 19/100 Man-food Tour

Yesterday, I helped a friend move a couple of things. Another friend also came to help. My friend told us he would buy us dinner. We didn't know what to eat. We were driving around going to the Vortex, one of the best burger places in Atlanta. We passed a place called Woody's (which is a gay bar in Philly and had to go inside, but thats a story for another time). Woody's is known to have one of the best cheese steaks in Atlanta. My friend said he wanted to try it. We kept driving and he had an ingenious idea of a food tour. The food had to come out relatively fast and cheap. We were going to pick five places. Why five places? Because 5 just sounded like a good number.

Woody's: As soon as we get to the counter, I could tell the guy was from Philly. I said where he was from. He said South Philly. I told I was also from Philly. Then, I proceed to order a Cheese Steak, but I told him to cut it into 3. I think I lost what ever credibility I had. The cheese steak was Ok. The bread wasn't all that. On to the next one.



Leroy's Chicken- It is not Lee Roys, but La Roys like "the Roys" in French. Its outside eating only. I got to tell you, it is great. Top 5 on my list of fried chicken. It was really crispy on the outside, but not too much batter. Really hot on the inside. We had a leg each and biscuit. The biscuit was too thick for me (Yeah, Yeah thats what she said) and a little mealy. 

HD-1- It is a new hot dog place created by Top Chef Richard Blais. First thing I noticed was the door. Freaking huge. Yokozuna could fit easily thru that door. We ordered a Lobster Roll, East Bound and Down dog and a Pastrami Dog with Waffle Fries. First off, I gots to tell you that the Waffle Fries were awesome . They had a teriyaki kind of sauce on them. The Lobster roll was meh. There was no hot dog in the roll. Oh yeah the rolls were pretty good. All of them were toasted. Eastbound was BBQ with some pulled pork on it. It was awesome. Pastrami tasted like pastrami stuffed into some casing. You know what . It was delicious. Wash it all down with a Mexican Coke and it was all good.

OMG Taco- We went and thought it closed at 12. They changed the hours to 11. They had a cool counter. They made it look like a food truck.

Little 5 Pizza- Had to pick a 4th. It was ok. One of the guys ordered a Sicilian. It was not.

Vortex little 5- The anchor of our marathon. We were full by this time. We ordered the Elvis burger and fried Zucchinis. They put Peanut Butter and Fried Bananas on their burger. It was great. Great last place to go. Side Note: Great music. This one girl sitting behind us was spitting some of the rhymes to this song. I was really attracted to her after that.

We were "so full" (my friend loves saying this). Satisfied at our impromptu quest. This is one of the reasons I love being single, young and free.

Post 18/100 Fine

I was watching this movie 50/50. He kept telling people he was fine when he was not. Why the hell do we do that? Is it because of our pride? We don't want people feeling pity for us? Are we scared to let people in and tell them the truth? Its hard telling people what really affecting us. I feel like sometimes I have to smile even when I don't want to. But soemtimes life is a bitch and we should tell people.

I thought this was pretty funny.

Post 17/100 dumb and dumber

As a society, we are becoming dumber and dumber in some ways. It seems like we cannot remember anything anymore. A coworker of mine had his contacts wiped out. He said he couldn't even call his home phone. He had to call HR to get his number, but he still remembered his grandfathers number from 30 years ago. Pretty Ridiculous. I had at least ten numbers memorized before. I only have three numbers memorized. My credit card number, cell phone and mom cell. Yeah I know credit card number sounds weird.

I talked to a teacher the other day and she says that they do not teach the kids to memorize anything. Its all trying to figure things out. It sounds weird to me. Are we taking steps backwards with all of this technology? Is our ADHD society causing us to be dumber? Is our education system failing our future?

I don't know. I probably won't remember have the stuff I'm writing anyways.

Post 16/100 Trying to get back what you lost

When I was five years old, I loved the teenage mutant ninja turtles. They were my favorite. My friends and I would play a character and such. My favorite toys were my Ninja turtle toys. One day my friend broke my ninja turtle. I was sadden by my loss. My mom took me to a store, kinda like Walmart it was called Care Fore. I went to the Toy department and stole the exact same toy. Someone already took it out of the packaging soI thought I could just take it. I walked by the security guard shaken in my boots. I got in the car thinking I got away with my first heist. My mom found the toy and smack the crap out of me. I always felt guilty about that Raphael toy I stole.

We do that in life all the time. We try to get something back that we already lost. Sometimes its our youth. You see those old people still in the club. Its like hey your old you should be on the next stuff. We try to play sports and things like we are stil 18 then we pull our back.

Sometimes we try to make up for lost time, money and so on. We should just realize that somethings are lost and never could be made up. We can't live our lives regretting everything.

Post 15/100 Weird Dreams

I have had several weird dreams this weekend. I haven't been dreaming in a while too. I wonder what they mean. Probably non sense.

The first dream I had a couple nights ago. I was basically in Zombie land. I had several friends with me. The only way you could kill the zombies was slicing their throasts. I kinda went on an adventure, but I got several people killed. I don't know why the hell I would be dreaming of something horrific like this. Its weird.

Dream #2- Lasst night I had a dream . I was in this dingy place and found two people murdered. They blamed me and I blamed this monkey. More like a gorilla. I went to my mom's house and was preparing to kill this gorilla. I prepared traps and all these things. I went and I knew he was there. He was stalking me. I got my gun and went outside. I told my mom to give me some back up. I finally see the monkey. Then, I black out. I wake up and find that my mom has killed the gorilla. Shot it in the head and its heart was bleeding on the floor. She told me to get a garbage bag and help her clean the body up.


Weird Dreams.

Post 14/100 Friends

It is funny who God puts into your life. Especially friends and the people I choose to put into my adopted family. Friends really do come and go. Of course, they are always your friends and you care deeply about them. But our relationships evolve as we evolve. Sometimes you don't need some people in your life like you did in the past. Some friends go and move. Some friends get lovers or spouses. They don't have as much time for you. We feel neglected or used many times. Truthfully we use each other. When we are in a certain position or time in our life. We need different people. Some people we never even thought would be in our lives come in. Some people we thought would never leave us, have to leave us. I love my friends now. Some of my relationships now will change probably next year. That is just life. God puts people into our lives for some reason. But the reality is that we need to just love the time we spend with these people and not be disappointed if our relationships change.

Post 13/100 Dolphin Sex

This is how you know people are more weird than you.

http://gawker.com/5843358/

Really???/disgusting, but I couldn't stop reading. Also very hilarious.

Post 12/100 Sample Size

I was watching Moneyball yesterday and there was a line " The sample size is to small. We should be 7 games back by the allstar break." It got me wondering. Do I ever wait for the sample size to be bigger to make judgements? Its always awesome when the sample size does get bigger. You get to the "allstar break" and your like "I really like this person". "This person is not who I thought they were" 

Most of the time we rush to judgement. We are human. But are we people who like to give the benefit of doubt? I think I am. But I do rush to judgement and am wrong many times. Probably most times.

Post 11/100 Cars

I've never really was a big car guy. In the office today, we were talking about cars. Some guy was talking about his Porshe Cayman Colbolt only 217 were made that year. My first car was my baby.

1999 Toyota Camry. Blue. Beautiful. The front seat had a problem. It would collapse all of the sudden. It had a couple of dings in it also. It was a used so it had some cigerette burns and it wasn't the cleanest car. It was the car I drove around in Highschool and college. I always had stuff in the trunk. I was a commuter in college so I had to be prepared. Took many naps and even slept over night a couple of times in it. It was always reliable. It was my baby.

Post 10/100 Smart-ass Phone

I hate the smart phones, but I love them too. It has many good things. But really isn't most of those good things really bad. I kinda hate that someone can reach me all the time. People who know me, know that I am not good with my phone. I don't really answer my phone. I make butt dials all the time. SIDE NOTE: I don't carry my phone in my back pocket. Why is it called a butt dial. Its really in my front pocket. Shouldn't it be called a crotch dial. Maybe a prick dial or cock dial. Sounds disgusting I am sorry. The point is I am really terrible with my phone.

I think the invention of the smart phone has really hindered our society. Yes, work might get done quicker. But then you are carrying work everywhere with you. It wears you down. You think about work constantly. It makes you stressed and stress leads to sickness and death. People got work done before smart phones.

Games are cool. Chatting is cool. Being able to check scores for sports and weather are cool. But we have become a society that is glued to our phones. If you hang out with people, somebody is gonna be on their phone. It has made out society into non-social people. Socially retarded I call it. I might not be PC but thats not me. Easy Access to anything mgiht make us easily more stupid to everything also. We need to know everything NOW. Instead of thinking about things we rush to judgements.

People don't know how to talk to each other now. People can't confront anyone face to face. Kids are bullying on twitter(how gay does that sound). I saw a bunch of kids huddled in front of an Ipad. They don't even talk to each other. They just look at one person playing.

What happened to boredom. Out of Boredom, creativity explodes. I remember coming up with games because we were bored.( Knee Football)

I believe this is also causing the collapse of Men, as in males, these days. Ill probably talk about that later. The wussification of America.

I can't even stay focused on one sentance of writing because this society has made me ADHD.

The phone is a great thing but also a shitty thing.

OK I gonna go get my Samsung Galaxy S 2 Now.

Post 9/100 The Office

My office is pretty laid back. For the msot part, I like the people in my office. I would say we kinda all get a long. There is always drama though. I have been here for about a year. I think theres about 50 people in this office. I think about 10 or so people have hooked up. Always a recipe for disaster. I will be sharing about the stories in the next couple of weeks.

Story 1: I had this person, lets call her Kim, on my team. Kim was a very sweet woman. Probably upper 30s heavy set sweet voice. She did not really say too much in the office. I would talk to her every once in a while. She was a lesbian. Not that anyone cared and I divulge this information because it is part of the story. On my team there were about 5 people including the team leader. One team mate loves to gossip and talk, lets call him Bill. Nice guy but really not the best moral compass in the world.

One day after a long weekend, Bill comes up to me. He say"hey panda come here", which is quite normal because he likes to gossip. I get over there and says I need to hear this voice mail. I hear it and its Kim. She is obviously drunk. She is cursing up a storm. She left about 4 different voice mails all of her talking belligerently. She even threatens to mess him up and says she knows where he lives.

So Bill starts telling me the whole story. Kim gets kicked out of her girlfriends house because the girlfriend says that she is an alcoholic. She meets Bill at some bar. She tells him that she needs somewhere to stay at least for that day. He lets her come over. He goes to his room to sleep and says next day. he finds beer bottles all over the ground and table. He also finds her panties in his room later. Later when he was dropping Kim off, she was telling him that she would do sexual acts for him.

So Bill goes to HR and reports her. They send her to rehab and from then on she disappeared.

Post 8/100 Great Mustaches Ever!!!

Went to a wedding this weekend and saw some old family pictures of the bride. The father of the bride had this awesome mustache. I was wondering about the best mustaches ever.

I have always wanted a mustache. Like Tom Sellack (See Below)

Magnum PI


Rollie Fingers



Alex Trabek



Daniel Day-Lewis



Colornel Sanders



Jason Lee



Shaft



Geraldo



Dali


Asian Man (May not be Asian)

Post 7/100 When is old too old?

Two years ago, I had this stupid thing. I shouldn't date a woman if they were more than 4 years older or more than 4 years younger. You know what? I was stupid and wrong. Of course, I don't think I can be a woman so much older than me. I think its all about life stage. What stage of our lives we are in? Why should I limit myself to a person in come age. Forget that.

Ok. I do have some limit. I think if she is more than 10 years. So she has to be younger than 40. I don't think thats out of bounds in any way. How young? I just want this girl to be working at least an year. A person that understands the real world. A girl who kinda hates her job or know what it feels like to be in that position. I just want someone that is able to understand me right now.

Favorite new artist right now is Kendrick Lamar from the west coast.
Love his flow and lyrics.

Post 6/100 Hype

Hype. Our society is a hype driven society. The stock market does goes up or down because of hype. Sports teams are expected to do well because of hype. Movies are many times over hyped. In this facebook and twitter world, it seems like hype is everything.

Exit through the Gift Shop is a terrific movie about hype and how just many people are willing to buy into the hype of something. Many of us have become robots. We think this is cool or this is good because society tells us so. Our opinions are dying.

My Phillies lost yesterday. This team was suppose to win it all this year and they failed. Most things don't live up to the hype; dates, movies, events etc. The thing is when something does live up to the hype it is so special and awesome. Those are the moments in life that make life worth living.

Post 5/100 When work goes to ....

I walk into the office this morning and I find out from my manager that couple of my loans have gone to shit. There are all these problems that I don't really want to handle. I guess I don't really like confrontation. I'm not scared of it, but I rather not tell someone that the money they invested into their home is actually down the toliet.

I am a loan officer. I have been for about a year. The thing that I can tell you about this job is that it makes you want to drink. Actually, we have many people who were or currently are alcoholics. What do I do? Good question. I get people a loan they are qualified for depending on their income, debt and credit scores. There are many pitfalls to this job. An underwriter can kill your loan becasue they don't like something about it. We complain, but most of the time she is a bitch and will offer the same reasons. Appraisers tell us the value of a home. They can kill the loan becasue the hosue doe not have enough value. We can complain if the value comes in short, but like I said if they are jerks they don't have to consider anything. Clients can kill your loan becasue they are too slow ie giving you documents and not telling you pertainant information or they do dumb stuff like buy a new car, quit their job etc,

Then you also have to deal with rates. Rates are like the stock market they go up and down all the time. You have to time it right. Many people will just lie to a person and offer something that is not there. I don't like to do that. My favorite quote someone used was,"Hope is not an investment strategy." Everyone thinks they know all about it. They try to tell me stuff they read off the internet. I ask them what they do for a living. Doctor, Lawyer, baker, software engineer. I don't tell you how to do your job or even act like I know what is going on except for lawyer because I see a lot of Law and Order.

Well, I have to make this call now.

But today is Friday and after a few hours I don't have to worry about work until Monday.

Post 4/100 Cultural Icons

I'm sure everyone knows that Steve Jobs died yesterday. Death of a Cultural icon. Yes, he was a genius but did he personally touch my life? No.

I don't understand why we get so riled up for the passing of these icons. I just think it is kind of childish. I love Amy Winehouse's music. It was sad to see her pass, but will I make a memorial for her. No.

All of those things seem very childish to me. I'm probably wrong and maybe I don't have a heart blah blah blah.

People did this person really affect my life. No. Its cool that computers are around, but I'm sure if he didn't do it somebody would have.

We make these people into our idols and they are just the same as all of us. It is sad that people die, but learn from them or appreciate what they have made and move on.

Post 3/100 Unexpected Heroes

The Phillies are in the playoffs. Tied at 0-0 in the bottom of the 7th. The manager from the other team intentionally walks a man to make sure Ben Francisco is going to bat. Who is Ben Franciso? Well, he is a journey man player. He has been with several teams. He hasn't hit a home run in 4 1/2 months. Play and simple he is not that good. Decent player but not the person you dream of being in that spot. With 2 people on base, he hits a 3 run game winning home run. One of the most unlikely heroes. As Phillies' fans will remember Matt Stairs also a journey man hit a home run two years ago to win the game.

I love sports because it reflects life in many ways. Unlikely heroes appear in our lives as well. People who are in your lives for an instant but leave a deep impression in your lives. We live our lives and many times we think that we do not do anything major because we don't see the lasting affects. We choose not to talk to this man or do something for somebody, when maybe our words make an huge impression on them.

I guess for me. My unlikely hero was this man in the neighborhood. My mom had a store in a bad neighborhood. North Philly in the Huntington park area. I was about 6 years old. Sitting at the counter and the lunch rush had come and gone. A kid about 16-18 come in . I look at him. He was huge. Tall, lean and lanky. Nobody was around. I think my mom was in the back cleaning up. He goes over the counter and steals a box of 3 Musketeer bars and Carton of Newports. He runs out. About 20 minutes later, I see a man coming into our store. A grizzly, old black man comes in. He is just holding a bunch of candy bars and a gun in his waist.Like a Ghetto Cowboy.

I guess that was the moment I had faith in people. I never really lost that faith. Sure, I'm cynical alot.But every time I think about that moment it makes me think of the kindness of people. Maybe God put them there to watch over you. I believe people will rally around others and help, but heroes are not just people who rescue you.

 They maybe that person who gives you a word of encouragement, a conversation to spark your imagination, a person who keeps your sanity intact or a mentor.

Unlikely heroes come out of every place, we just have to recognize when they are there.

Post 2/100: Interracial dating

Interracial dating. I'm for it. I really am. I love a variety of women. But being an Asian man, it seems like Asian women are dating more outside the race than Asian men. It kinda screws up the ratios.

In my family, its been quite the opposite. My three older cousins who grew up in America have married outside the Korean race. Two of the women they married were white. I feel like so many Asian women are dating outside of the race compared to the Asian Men. When I see an Asian guy dating a non Asian, I kinda feel proud. If they walk by me, I usually give them a look of approval. Well its more like a nod. They usually understand and nod back. Funny how that whole system works as well.

My Favorite Interracial couples:

Bruce Lee/ Linda Lee
Robin Thicke/Paula Patton
Seal/ Heidi Klum
Nicolas Cage/ Alice Kim
Halle Berry/ Whoever she is with at that time

Post 1/100:Things that Bother me Pt 2

I thought I would begin this process with something light hearted. I'm excited to begin this 100 days of blogging.

I get bothered by many things. I'm a little Woody Allen in those terms.

Things that bother me:

When I'm in the bathroom and take a 2, I hear another person leaving the bathroom without the water running. I know someone hasn't washed their hands. It kinda freaks me out the whole day.

Your eating something in a bag or container and the person who eats it before you leaves like the tiniest portion still there or jsut leaves the box with nothing in it.

i go into my work's kitchen/breakroom area and they don't shut the microwave oven door. Come on Son!!! Just shut it. It takes minimal effort.

People who have their bluetooth thing in their ear, but they still talk putting the reciever to their other ear.

I have a boss and he gets close to my ear to say things. It feels weird like hes gonna kiss my ear lob. He always tells me to lower my voice, when im not really talking about anything.

Person with the loud ringtone and isn't there to pick up the phone.I feel like grabbing their phone and throwing in the ocean.

Person who looks at their bright ass phone in the movie theather. "Your blinding me with your light"

Twitter

People who get angry at other people because of twitter/facebook. #Imsobitter

Gay people who are overly gay.

My slow internet!!

100 Posts in a 100 days!

I haven't posted in a while, but I am determined to do this. A friend of mine has chosen to do 92 things in 92 days. He has inspired me to blog more.

I will probably move to Wordpress during this 100 day thing.

It starts tomorrow!!! Ajja Ajja!!