I’m back!

(Belated) Happy New Year! I’ve been back in LA, getting swamped by school work and not keeping my new years resolution to … PLAY … MORE … GOLF. This will change, starting today. But first, updates! I enjoy taking pics and took a bunch over break. I do, however, royally suck and a lot of them came out blurry! CRAP! But there were a few that came out okay, and I thought I’d give my update in images (with captions). Enjoy!

Hello, Manila!
break was filled with family, lots of laughs and good eats.

totally enjoyed hanging out with my older brother, Mark…

… apparently, so did my mom!

And as I mentioned, good eats!
A sampling — Chilean Sea Bass …

and Seafood something (the name escapes me). Yum!

but all good things come to an end, and I came home after my 3 week break.

since then, I’ve been studying …
oh, and playing a ton of videogames …

… on my new Vizio 42″ LCD TV!

props to G$ for convincing me that bigger IS better and for approving the 42″ size for our future bedroom!

In addition to my latest splurge, I’ve bought 2 pairs of rockin’ shoes. But I’ll save that for the next post. Have a good weekend!

borat, the disappointment

Walking around the UCLA campus, I felt like I was missing out. Borat had infiltrated my fantasy league, my friends’ email signatures, and everyone’s hallway conversations. People loved this movie and have been quoting it left and right (myself included) — I had to see it.

Last night, Gloria and I decided to see what all the hype was all about. One and a half hours later, I was wishing I had spent my 11 bucks (11 freakin bucks) elsewhere.

Can you please pass me the crack that everyone is smoking? That movie sucked donkey-nuts. While it did have its outrageous moments, and while I did laugh at some points, that was an utter waste of time. I don’t even know if i’d Netflix it. Some of the laughs were unadulterated, but everything else was forced. The film just tried too hard and it dragged.

I was hoping it would be the second coming of Napoleon Dynamite and though I may be caught saying “I liiiike, nice to meet”, or talking about “romantic explosion on the stomach”, I’m not a fan.

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In other news, I watched the 2 hour series premiere of Daybreak tonight. Seems cool, and great concept for a movie — think: frequency and memento. I’ll be interested to see how they stretch this out over 11 weeks, but I’m into it for now. More about my TV addiction in another post.