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Friday, September 27, 2002
my first time doing this! lets see how it works out. :D friday five: 1. what are your favorite ways to relax and unwind? i think it would have to be just lounging and listening to music. preferrably classical or jazz. there is just something about not doing anything, not sleeping, not completely awake, and being lost in smooth melodies. 2. what do you do the moment you get home from school/work/errands? i go to the mailbox and pick up the mail. sometimes when there is no mail for me to pick up... i get really sad. :( getting the mail makes my day. haha. i believe it is the surprise... first of all, whether you get any mail at all. then whether any of the mail is for you. and lastly... simply having something waiting for you when you get home. :D 3. what are your favorite aromatherapeutic smells? i don't know about 'aromatherapeutic'... as in making you feel better? um vicks vapour rub? *shrug* eh... therapeutic aside... i've been "conditioned" into liking juniper breeze from bath and body works. that's what you get when its your girlfriend's smell. 4. do you feel more relaxed with a group of friends or hanging out by yourself? i would say with certain friends, i would be more relaxed with than others. but generally speaking, i'm usually more hyper/talkative/retarded/loud and therefore not relaxed when with a group of friends, and more relaxed chillin' by meself. 5. what is something that you feel is relaxing but most other people don't? cleaning. yes, a very un-guy thing to say. but for me its very therapeutic... and then i'm even more relaxed after everything is cleaned. or maybe i'm just tired. (: but yeah... the cleaning rarely happens. random facts from the week: - i found a job i'm gonna apply to - spoke to caleb for the first time in a long time on AIM (he's in china!) - there are actually some people who think i'm cool (wah-seh!) - i was late to work twice this week *gasp* - i'm so old and... and and... and... OLD. that's it for today! i'm so looking forward to the weekend! byes! xxx Wednesday, September 25, 2002 well... its that time of the month again. no no! my friend mary isn't visiting! shoot. lol. but... it IS another month, and another anniversary for linda and i. we have now been together for 9 months! *gasp* that's the time it takes for a baybee BAYBEH to be conceived and born! crazy! it shore is... mmm hmmm. we were talking last night and i was like, "dang! i've known you for such a long time!" haha - when in actuality it has only been a little more than 2 years. it hasn't been that long... but i suppose the better you know a person the longer it seems, eh? i've never had a girlfriend before. i never really got into the 'dating scene', as they call it. sure i had my crushes here and there, but none of them materialized. i've been single for 21 years... searching, waiting, longing for that one person to share everything with - my trust, my hopes, my dreams. friends never saw me with a girlfriend... yet now it seems so natural. i hate to admit it... but my days and moods are affected by her. but i let them be affected... i don't care. i like how her hands fit perfectly into mine. i like standing there, holding her... looking into the mirror together and seeing this beautiful, exuberant, silly, life-loving, happy, content, white-teethed couple. i like the way her head fits into the nook of my shoulder. i like her smell. i like the uncertainty our future holds... because without uncertainty, there wouldn't be certainty. i like being her boyfriend. i love this girl. after all these years... i'm finally in love. xxx Sunday, September 22, 2002 fabulous... simply ghetto fabulous. xxx Friday, September 20, 2002 DANGIT! i got my first speeding ticket EVER today. was going 90 on the 134 fwy. cop wrote me up for 80+. *(&^@#*(&^)@*#&_%(*^@#(^% oh well... praise God in all circumstances right? and of course... there's a first for everything... xxx Thursday, September 19, 2002 ok... so this is a sad story, but hilarious at the same time. you'll probably think i'm a jerk after reading it... but *meh*. hear me out. so on tuesday... i'm coming back to work from my lunch break, and after exiting the freeway i come to a stop at the stop light. there were cars already stopped there... so being on my bike... i make my way inbetween the cars up to the front. so the light turns green. usually i'm the first one into the intersection... no hesitation. but for some odd reason i hesitated. the car on my left took off. then suddenly this old guy on one of those old people's cart (like the one that old lady was on in dumb&dumber when she robs jim carey) shoots out into the pedestrian cross walk. now, mind you... for me the light is green... for this speeding old geezer it was red. so i'm like *whew* i'm glad i didn't go... or i would've hit him. so i'm slowly pulling away and i'm still watching this guy... and i see the car next to me pull out a little. the old man swerves, but the woman in the car is looking towards the right and doesn't see him! *nudge*... the cart tips and he's on the ground. "Oh CRAP!" was what i was thinking as i was pulling away. but looking back... it was so freakin' hilarious. hahahahahahahaha :-D xxx Monday, September 16, 2002 people call me sappy. you think i'm sappy? you THINK i'm sappy?! I'M NOT SAPPY! i just love my girlfriend. :D *sigh* she's so dreamy.... la la la! xxx Friday, September 13, 2002 whoo hoo! i got this live webcam thing set up! so if you ever want to see what i'm doing... just IM me! i'll hook you up with a good show! mwaha. things are good. the usual. not much more to elaborate on... thus is the working life. if you see me, don't ask me how work is, cuz your answer will just be "good" and i'll change the subject. been having some good talks with people lately. yesterday - grabbed some rubio's with addison and then hung out at his pad. talked a bunch about his relationship with his family, hs friends, guy/girl relationships, and simple mysteries of God. haha - simple mysteries... kind of contradicting eh? *shrug* oh well. :D i'm glad daveydave is up here in alhambra as well. since we've come closer proximity-wise... we've also talked a lot more, and found more time to hang out with each other. God provided a good brother just in the right time of need - i'm sure that goes both ways. (: i'm silly glad that its friday. looking forward to a restful weekend... hopefully one that includes much joy and laughter! xxx Tuesday, September 10, 2002 augh. i'm so bored and frustrated with life right now. its not that things aren't good... its just so hum-drum... so consistent... so boring in a sense. i dunno. i just need some excitement in my life. the big thing for me right now is that i want to be married, i want to have a family, and i want to have kids. in the back of my mind these three things will be the things i look forward to after work... these things will somehow 'satisfy' me. of course... only God can satisfy my deepest desires... but to me these are the things i believe will fill the core of my "human contentment". i know now is not the time... and so, i will be patient in that. this is truly the point in my life where i'm asking, "is this all there is to life?" not in a depressed-i-want-to-commit-suicide kind of way... but just the self-introspective-look-into-my-life kind of deal. i think a lot of this has to do with my job. its a good job. i'm so thankful and blessed to have it. yet it doesn't challenge me. i don't look forward to coming in. i do what i have to do and then try to get out as soon as possible. perhaps its the lack of fellow-aged co-workers. perhaps i'm not making the effort to get to know the people that are here? but heck... most of them are 27 and older, have families to go home to, and just old enough so that our interests do not coincide. this thing is such a dilemma... because to basically survive in this world, you need money, and to get money, you need a job. i would look for another job... but its so stable here. am i willing to give up this financial security to pursue the things i love? then the question becomes, what are the things i love? i don't know. i'm not sure how to go about figuring that out either. argh!! *pulls hair out* i wish i was still in school... simply having things i "need to do" laid out in front of me. its funny how that is... how i am... how i'm the type of person who prefers to just follow a pre-set path. not to say that i'm one to get run over by others or what pre-set paths they have for me. i just find comfort in knowing what i have to do, then go about doing it. i miss my homies too. pete-dawg and e-double-g. we pretty much haven't hung out much since our high school days, yet those two guys are the ones i find most comfort and joy in. we're much alike in our ideals and wants and desires... yet so different in our interests, activities, and funky ways. i wish we could all live together... that would be such a blast. i do have some good buddies around... but its different when they're living elsewhere... having their own jobs, studies to do. *sigh* yes, i guess i just miss college life. or maybe not seeing lindie for 2 weeks has something to do with this. *shrug* i suppose the things i'm looking forward to right now are (ordered by date): dinner with addison thursday, lunch with yvonne sat., bonfire with mike lum & co. sat. night, lindie finishing her RA training, going up north for zoe's 1st birthday, the holidays (thanksgiving, christmas), then hawaii in december. i'll look forward to next year's stuff next year. xxx Friday, September 06, 2002 here are the links as promised! wayne and eugene pic news article xxx sorry i haven't updated in such a long time. life has been the same old same old. work, working out, meeting up with homies for meals, romans bible study, hanging out in westwood, etc. its been good. and i've been happy, so what more is there to ask for? went down to san diego last weekend... ate lots of yummy food, didn't get enough sleep, watched a lot of movies, and spent much quality time getting to know linda's family. :D shazaam! the weather was scorchin' last weekend and earlier this week... but thank goodness it has since cooled down. got an oil change done today. but you know how it is... whenever you go into a car/mechanic shop... there's ALWAYS (guaranteed) some other things that need to be fixed. those other things included flushing my transmission oil, changing my air filter, cleaning my fuel injection, finding out i have a bunch of oil leaks, and being footed with a $100 bill. sucks a fat one man. i hate how these things just pop up and eat away what money i have in my wallet. *sigh* oh well... all thanks go to God for providing for me in the first place right? right. heading down to san diego again. linda's parents love me so much they wanted to see me again this weekend........... riiiiight. actually going down to pick lin up. she's been home all this week. last week of her summer before she starts RA training, and before school starts on the 26th. looking forward to some more good food, little sleep, and lots of movies. hah! :-P oh! saw a familiar face down in san diego last weekend. wayne chiang. mr. yo-momma's-an-astronaut. old friend from the high school days. it was crazy. just hearing what he's been up to these past couple of years and getting the 411 on the lives of other fellow gunn high school alumnus. this guy used to be a pro-gamer! he dedicated one of his games to eugene from SES (this all girls korean pop group FYI) as well... made some pretty big news i think. i'll post the picture and maybe an article later. have a good weekend everyone. (: have i told you, lately... xxx |
 name: joshua chiu age: 28 birthdate: march 26, 1979 height: 6 feet weight: 172.5 lbs. location: san diego, ca loves: God, family, kids, motorcycles, sports, music, deep-meaningful relationships, competition over video games, food - any and all |