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Wednesday, April 30, 2003
whoo hoo! i won $22 last night! YES! last night was poker night at the 'just fold you idiot casino' (my apt.). i live with 3 guys that are still in school at ucla, so time is basically still dictated by their quarter system. anyways... last quarter we played poker almost every wed. night. this quarter, henry, the casino 'owner' has been muy busy so we hadn't gotten around to playing until last night. since it had been such a long while... the buy-in was $10, up from the usual $5, and it was a winner takes all pot. anyways... i was pretty much throwing my money away until the last 45 mins. i won one big hand and pretty much most of the ones after that. the last game was texas hold em - if you don't know how this game is played, you're intially delt 2 card, then a round of betting, then the dealer puts out 3 cards in the middle, another round of betting, then 1 card, a round of betting, another card, and then the final round of betting. so basically you make your best 5 card hand from 7 cards. i got delt a pair of kings. :D then the dealer put out an ace and two lower cards. nothing much there. then the dealer delt another ace. wow... i have 2 pair. so since it was the last game, everyone placed their max bets. last card that was flipped.......... a king. full house baybee! i beat out 3 aces for the win. the pot would've been more... but we decided before hand winner would buy pizza, which had already been ordered mid-game. :\ all good! so it looks like i will be going to the CLASS track school next friday! awesome! i'm picking up my new tires today, probably signing up today as well, and i've already planned the trip out with a couple of other guys that will be going. exciting times i tell ya! all thanks to a certain someone (you know who you are!) that read my april 18th post and decided to give me a belated b-day present. :D :D :D work is still boring! but pastor erwin encouraged me this past sunday with his message of searching for our destiny. that God is teaching me something in this job... i just need to look for it. that as long as i am walking with Him, i can do whatever i want, and he will direct my path based on the decisions that i do make. so the 4 simple questions God asks us (kind of flipped around... from us asking him) in terms of our destiny is: where are you? what are you doing here? what do you choose your future to be? and... what are you waiting for? if you're searching and seeking for your destiny, for who you are meant to be... which i know we all are... really ask and reflect on these 4 questions. *thumbs up* xxx Thursday, April 24, 2003 DANGIT! the bathroom here at work always pisses me off! haha... that's kind of funny... i just realized what i typed. anyways... i go to take a dumperoo, right? and you know how there are those seat covers? almost everytime... when i put one on the seat and go abouut pullling the good old boxers down... they slip, or get towed down by that one cut out section that is in the water. GAH! so i'm always standing there half nekkid and i have to put another one back on and sit down as quickly as possible! >-:-( and i always forget about those darn seat covers the next time i go poo! argh... Dx xxx this week has gone by fast. every thursday there is farmers market down in westwood... and there's this yummy korean bbq place. linda and i got some last thursday... and its already thursday again! wow! it seems just yesterday i was chomping down on sweet smelling galbi. mmmmmm... :D so obviously i'm talking about food... but food seems to be the theme of my life lately. haha. linda and i have been eating out A LOT. yummy, delish food too. i want to save money - for car, house, bigger toys, etc. but when it comes to food... i just can't deny myself of it... and we end up splurging. so we eat a good meal... but we planned on going to the gym later that night. yet because of how full we are from the good eats... we end up wavering in our decision to go or not. i have finally come to grasp the couple-eating-gaining-weight-together syndrome! it almost happened last night too! *gasp* we were just gonna sit on our fat butts, groaning about our full stomachs and watch the batchelor. we were even gonne dub this week "fat week"! haha. well thank goodness for some discipline... we dragged ourselves to the gym. i'm still hating work. everything can really suck because of one thing... ya know? but i know lately i've been letting it affect too much. i need to still do my job... because here is where God has placed me for now. and until i figure out what i want to do, or God provides another opportunity... i should make the best of it. right? anyone hiring out there? (: caleb is coming back from china tomorrow. i'm excited! i asked him to come down and stay with me a week or two... but i don't know if it'll actually happen. i miss that guy. its always fun when he's around cuz then i have a bball and workout buddy. mom is kind of too much - she wanted nia to be sure to wear a face mask when she goes to pick him up from the airport. sheesh... talk about paranoid about SARS. c'mon! we haven't had a single death in the US... yet. xxx Friday, April 18, 2003 went to the DMV this morning. i HATE that place! can you say long lines galore?! but today i liked it. :D can you say a-p-p-o-i-n-t-m-e-n-t? *grin* yeah... so instead of waiting 1-2 hours for a simple 5 min. process... i waited 30 mins! errr... wait... they still wasted 25 mins. of my life! oh well... i had to get a new license cuz my last one got stolen. well... not really stolen. i checked out a ball with it... and then i forgot that i checked a ball out, left, someone took my ball, and somehow the ucla rec center lost my license. man... i'm itching to go to the track. anyone want to pony up $250 for me to go? my birthday was like 2 weeks ago... if you didn't get me anything you can pool together and make me a happy man! haha. jk. there is one on the 9th of may... i'm considering it... but i'll have to see if i have money. cuz on top of the $250... i need to get new tires (which i have already ordered since mine are wearing out), gas and hotel costs. what i'm looking forward to this weekend: ordering new gloves, frame slider for my bike. riding tomorrow. getting good sleep. and by good sleep i mean the type where you aren't woken up by your alarm or any noise... you don't have to get up and pee in the middle of the night... and you just automatically awake. those are the most refreshing nights of sleep EVAR! your body just wakes up cuz its battery got charged to full... know what i mean? xD and finally, easter... the celebration of Christ's resurrection - Jesus being the only reason why we are... the only reason that i hope in... xxx Thursday, April 17, 2003 a funny incident at ralph's yesterday. so i finishing checking out and the checker asks me, "do you need help out with that." the bagger then looks at the checker funny and says, "he's pretty built, more built than i am, i think he'll be ok." hahahaha. i'm built! yei yei! :P oooooorrr they were checking me out... :\ whichever way you want to look at it. xxx gah! i'm tired. :( *sigh*... just 2 more days in the week. i don't get it. i don't understand how los angeles freeways work. i can get up and leave the house at the same time... but traffic conditions are NEVER the same. for example, today... i did not have to stop even once! =-O other days... its bumper to bumper traffic ALL the way to work. well... it also depends on if i'm driving or riding my motorcycle. i don't like riding to work anymore. too much hassle... too cold. i want to drive... but at the same time i don't want to drive my POC car. i want a new one! WAH! >:-( xxx Wednesday, April 16, 2003 recently i've wished that i had a lot of money. the first cars i would buy would be an infiniti G35 and then a mercedes benz E class or CLK. yeah... i hate the fact that money has become such an important issue... but i guess it was bound to happen. i wouldn't say that its greed... just wishful thinking. and its not like that i'm always in need of things... i have everything i need... its just human nature to want. i just saw this accord commercial last night... so i want one of those too. *sigh* here's a good article on how they went about creating it. no cg either! wow! i need a haircut... xxx Tuesday, April 15, 2003 whoo hoo! thanks for all the comments! now i know that there are exactly 10 people that frequent my page. hehe. (: hmmm... i don't write or post up enough good stuff to warrant comments. i suppose my life just isn't as interesting as others. well... it probably is, i just don't know how to share it properly! :D i want to put up more pictures... and i have a bunch to put up... but i'm waiting to get my digital camera back. it had some mechanical defects so i sent it back. hopefully they don't say i did anything to cause it to go to poop, and send me a new one. weekend was fun and very eventful. slept in a little bit on saturday. as eugene had already posted... got to have a good lunch and chat with him. then him, jimmy and i watched the 1:40 showing of 'better luck tomorrow'. it was a little disturbing... but at the same time not. its funny... because i think a lot of times i feel like all those guys in the movie. i want to be a rebel... to say 'screw this' to who i'm "supposed" to be - good older son, does well in school, goes to church on sunday, etc. i know it is only God's blessing and faithfulness in my life that has kept me from slipping that far. anyways... i look forward to the next time we all get to hang out again. after movie... kalon, a buddy of mine called me up for a ride. we spent pretty much the next 3-4 hours carving up the malibu mountains. i lowsided (bike slid out from under me) last thursday... causing some cosmetic damage to my bike and rashing up my leathers a little... so the first half of the ride i was pretty scared and apprehensive. but we made a stop at the rock store and kalon gave me some pointers on body position, where my knees need to jut up into the gas tank, how because of my tall/lean frame i need to sit back a little more on the seat, etc. it was a blast after that! the bike just felt so much more stable and i actually seemed to know what i was doing! (: after some serious riding... we stopped at coffee bean and had a long talk. its funny how there are such good people as kalon... not too different from me if you were to observe action, the way he treats others, etc. yet, the biggest difference is who and what we live for. i really like that guy... hope to become better friends and be a good witness for Christ. sunday was just church and a birthday dinner at night. MAN - i REALLY enjoy mosaic with each sunday that i go. pastor erwin preached on colossians 3:5-17... rules for holy living... and it was definitely applicable and relevant to my life right now. i think because of recent events, i've somewhat strayed from trying to live a life holy and pleasing to Him. yes... i think i want to try again... xxx Tuesday, April 08, 2003 no one ever leaves me any comments. that makes me sad... :( xxx Monday, April 07, 2003 well its been a while since i last wrote. but this weekend was too good of a weekend to not write about. friday: i head out to the santa ana main office... the office i usually support on thursdays, but i didn't go on thursday, so friday it was. i get on the 405 south right off of wilshire... and in less than 2.5 miles i get pulled over by our lovely CHP. he said i was going approx. 80. so i got cited for exceeding the max. speed of 65 mph. planning on fighting it... we'll see what happens. then at night we had a huge potluck... man... it was soooo good. spam masubi... udon with shrimp/chicken... friend shrimp... buffalo wings... garlic bread... warm apple pie with ice cream... lemon chicken... man, my stomach is rumbling as i type. :\ saturday: got up a little earlier than i wanted to. eh... 8:45 isn't too bad. met up with some socalsportbikes guys at the chevron on the corner of PCH and sunset. we hit up some nice twisties... stunt road/piyuma/muholland/rock store. the weather was great! tho maybe a little windy. i was having an 'off-day' the first half of the day. i wasn't looking through the turns far enough... keeping my head/chin high enough. i went wide on a couple right handers (gotta work on those)... as well as grazing a side rail at low speed. man... that was scary! it was a hairpin left hander... i made it through the first part of the turn ok... then it straightened out a little... then WHAM left a LOT more. it was the second part of the left that got me... i target fixated on the rail and then gently got love-tapped by it. good thing my exhaust was ok. i just have a nice little battle scar on my right lower fairing. all good! i made it out in one piece! praise God! the highlight of the ride was i got my left knee down! came home... crashed for a couple of hours. then went to see miss saigon at the pasadena civic center. saw it my first time during spring break in new york... but i didn't remember it much. so it was hard to compare as to which one was the better production. it was a nice night out nonetheless... i feel all cultured now. (: sunday: i forgot about daylight savings time, but i got an aptly timed reminder just a little after i fell asleep. :D but because i was fiddling with my alarm clock half coherently... i pushed the hour button for the alarm an hour forward as well. so i woke up at 10:15 and made it to church about 15 mins. late. :( its ok. at least i woke up! had lunch at hurry curry with a bunch of old sders. nyein, margaret, eugene, jimmy, jenny hu, and jane. it was fun! especially when we went next door to relaxation/cafe paradise where this hot girl worked. as jimmy put it, "today is a good boba day." it turned out to be a good curry day too... haha, since she somehow came into the restaurant while we were eating. afterwards... we drove like an hour to drop nyein off in the boonies... then kicked it at jimmy's place a bit. i really enjoyed my time with him. the last time i saw him was graduation last june. we hung out and chatted for a bit... then went out to the driving range to smack some balls. dude... i'm pretty good with the driver. i just need to get my technique down... who wants to go to the driving ranges?! 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 |