*sniff* *sniff*
my bro's blog is so sad
yeah, in know what you mean about mom pushing you to do things, but remeber the good stuff
"good times, good times"
like all our videos kuya willie? (everything will be overly explained for the other people reading this) I can remember the one when my TV show was how to properly iron your first communion veil. or my favorite of the newscast that got interrupted by an earthquake (only in california right?) how about the video project you did in eight grade , with edwin and emmanuel which made me forever remember that George Hamilton was shot by Aaron Burr (heehee, got milk?) in that famous battle. which in this case, the battle field was next to our pool, as boys II men began to play in the background.

How about walking over to Emmanuel's house every day after school and hanging out.

I loved the haunted houses that you guys made for all of my birthday parties, even if you did lock me and amanda in a bathroom for like an hour.

Night swimming!!!!

the barbie dreamhouse made of cardboard boxes that was so much better than anything you could buy in the store. Or the fact that the barbie "office" that I got for christmas quickly became the GI Joe base in the awsome battles in the TV room.

Growing up in a Mall, literally. I mean, yeah it sucked that we never saw the sun (maybe that's why I'm so pale?) but we were able to know the in's and outs of malls since we were little, being a few of the only people I know who can successfully enter a mall, get what is needed, and the leave without stopping anywhere else to "look". Plus remember playing the the back room (now that I think about it... that was really dangerous) but playing "Terror Mall" the one and only time Amanda came over, and how she and I were 60 floors apart because we jumped out of a falling elevator at different times although in reality we were about 2 feet apart.

they may have pit cousin against cousin, but I know the I was a key instrument in pitting aunt against aunt. So somethimes it didn't work (Auntie Bing) but between like Auntie Loly and Auntie Poychie, oh man... the movies we saw and the places we went.

Young Citizens- okay, auntie baby was the one to blame for the stupid name, but it was fun to sing. To actually perform (probably where I caught my bug) plus making other people happy. It just started to go bad when all the practices came up and they began to force us to sing other stuff, and I'm sorry... but the black hats that ate grace picked out fot the girls for the girls to wear, umm... I think I burned mine (hated it that bad)

Cuson Luoob- totally spelled that wrong. But the house that mom grew up in Santa Cruz, and all the ghost stories that you told me about it, and then the freaky chair that grabbed me (BTW for anyone who wants to hear that story... its better to hear it in person) and the sky lights that people peek in through.

family trips- usually a drag, but some cool moments. Like (of course I would mention it) the McDonalds that delievers!!! the Original Jollibee, Alien Encounter at DisneyWorld, The Amusement park Weekend with Auntie poychie and eveyone (when we stayed in the Disneyland Hotel, and then slept in the Van in Las Vegas), Midnight Buffets on the cruise, Hanama Bay In Hawaii, etc...

Family- someone once told me it was really cool that we actually hang out with our cousins. we fought and messed around when we were young, but we are friends. We are close enough to get annoyed with each other and treat eveyone like real siblings instead of extended families.

school- okay, I admit it... I was one scamming friends too. (well I hated elementary school,. so I'm not too sorry for it) It wasn't that we would steal money from our mom to buy the stuff, more like we would sell our lunches. You know, you have your sandwich, drink, and a snack (like cornnuts or something) so I would sell the cornnuts. Or M'n'M's , skittles, etc... Well buying Chewy chips ahoy and passing them off as home baked was a scam... but oh well.

how about our movie days- when you had your licence and mom and dad were both working. You would pick me up from school and we would head over to Norwalk 20 and one day I would buy the tickets and you would buy the popcorn and then the next day we switched.

Driving- how about rockin out in the car to Phantom, or anime music on the way home from Joseph's.

Swimming- playing marco polo, colored eggs, diving for clams with pearls in them, countless rafts and boats to go in the pool too.

holidays- when we were young, no one did holidays the way that we did. With Santa coming in to the house to pass out that HUGE pile of presents, or easter when the older cousins would hide the eggs for the younger. Birthdays with everyone there, and the rital of getting the red envelopes from Lola or one of the aunties.

Tormenting your little sister- you have to admit to that. Pulling out swords, taking my stuff and making me buy it back, but hey, I found ways to defend myself (maybe a little bit too well). Those violent tendencies are probably from you guys (since I know that Kuya Raymond is reading this too). Plus bringing me to meet people you met online, and all I did was eat fries and stare at the walls.
but I need to get back to work now

remeber *good times*good times* or else none of us will survive...

hey Everyone- enjoy the VERY long *Nsync Blog?
here is a brand new one for you: especially all the Northern Cali people. I noticed that the way we speak changes over time. As we learn more and as the times change. Whether it be accents, or just the language in general. For example, when I first met Dan he is the one who knew I was from So Cal becuase I said "the" in front of the freeway names. Meaning when I was giving him directions to (umm... lets say IHOP) I said take THE 113.. blah blah blah." Hella and other slang I picked up from living in Davis for two years.

therefore, while flipping through the August edition of YM this article (more like a blurb) caught my attention:

"How do you spell 'hella'?
And what in the hella does it mean? Juniors at California's Berkeley High School recently answered that very question. They complied a slang dictionary [BORING content removed] Here, some highlights from the original collection:
Blown up (blone up) v., to get paged excessively.
"Ten people have paged her in five minutes; she's getting blown up."
Cheese (cheez) v. (pres. participle: cheesin') , to smile.
"Emilia must have finally hooked up; look how she's cheesin'."
Flossy (FLOSS-ee) adj.: cool, clean, excellent.
"That's a flossy-ass car."
Hella (HEL-ah) adv., extremely, in large quantity.
"There's hella candy in the cabinet."
Kinder bat (KIN-dur bat) n., a person new to the Goth scene.
"I'm seeing a lot of new Kinder bats at the Rocky Horror Picture Show"
Thrillin' (TRIL-in) v. , a combination of trippin' and chillin'.
"My friends and I were just thrillin' last night"
Womp (wahmp) v. , to be negative, sometimes to smell bad.
"This sucks; this really womps."
-Sara Lyle"

yeah... so ummm... what do you guys think? Since the re-blogger site has moved and I don't know where to, my nifty comment thingie for me.
But I really want to know, so either sign the guest book and comment (PLEASE) or you can e-mail me at the_ger_in_booger@hotmail.com. Thanks !!!

W00 H00
this is updated
Blogger was being a dork for a while and wouldn't allow me to publish.... but look now
enjoy the read
more updates coming soon!!!

CAUTION LONG BLOG AHEAD

ah finally,
after spending three and a half hours in a storage room, moving charts form one place to another, I get a chance to get to the back computer and blog. Sorry to everyone who have been checking up to see my side of the concert and junk and everything going on in the crazy mixed up life of mine... but here goes

you can call me a teeny bopper - right booger?- I mean, of the group of us that went to the concert... I am actually still a teen, ok... I won't be one in two and a half months, but 19 still counts (hee hee, barely legal) (did I just say that?) and so it begins
My *Nsync experience

concerts in general have never been high on my list. The only one I ever went to before this was Summer Jam like in 94 or something and was stuck in the extreme nosebleeders. It was Montel Jordan, TLC and Boys II Men. There was no where to sit, no chairs, no tv screens, no anything, and TLC didn't even show up... it was right around the time that they filed for Chapter 11. Performances were great, but the whole experince not so cool. Well when the opportunity came up for me to get tickets the in N*Sync concert, I was a little wary. But since I know that Christina can get killer seats and I really love them, I decided to go. (Side note: while in most things booger and I agree, there is one thing that we don't... boy bands . We have the ultimate rivalry between N*Sync (me) and BSB (her) but we don't let it stop our fun!)
The Weekend

The night before (since I am pretty sure that if you know me, you know how I tell stoies... can you hear it?)
After falling asleep on a plane and having some adventures in switiching phones with at the cingular store, and getting my all-time favorite food (The Costco Hot Dog) (cheap and delicious) My brother and I head home and wait for James to return from Sac so that we can all go watch Legally Blonde. I re-experince my room, even with all the stuff my brother uses it for while I am away, and set to record the Rugrats aniversary special. Finally James decides to meet us at the movie theatre for the 9:55 show, and we (now, me, Kuya Willie, and Dave) still in the apartment watching Life is Beautiful (sniff) and head over to the theater. Great Movie... but I won't ruin it for you.
The next morning (continuing on with stuff having nothing to do with the concert)
Waking up in my bed (man I miss my full bed) and heading down to Oakland to pick up Milly, the driving around SF to find the Dim Sum place... with a little car trouble along the way. But Dim sum was so much fun! Well I ate a bunch of food that I still don't know what it was, and got to hang out with people I haven't seen in a while, like Booger, Andy, Steve, Kevin, etc... plus my Big Bro ^4 Jason. Who couldn't believe that I actually flew up from LA to see the N*Sync concert. Then post- dim sum we walked 13 blocks to get Bolba, the mix-up in the shop, and then walking 15 blocks to the car. Thanks to Royce who drove us downtown, where we met up with Kalaine, then walked another couple blocks to go shopping in the city. We went shopping in the HUGE make-up store, where I became Christina's and Milly's human barbie doll and let them put whatever make-up they wanted on me as Kalaine said "being naturally dramatic or dramatically natural" well, we next we went to the Fossil shop, where Milly got a watch and Christina got a new wallet, then got on a bus, got back to the car, and then headed to Oakland. On the way we stopped off at Jack London Square to go to Nations- a burger place- which was horribly under construction, and then finally headed to the Concert.
At the concert:
parking was fairly easy, except absurdly expensive ($15) and then we walked to get the tickets from the will-call booth. Finding that we got in the wrong line, we went and got in the right one and got out tickets. We were seated on the field, which we knew would be close to the stage. I but a program since there is no line at the merchandising booth, and I knew that there would be one later, and we go find our seats. We were so close... well at least to me we were.. Eden's crush was on (ahem... the group that I should be in, hee hee) I call my cousin and leave a message on his voice mail so that he could hear them..but it was too loud.
Well some guy named Dante Thomas comes on, umm... sorta boring, left to get some food while he was singing. (he wasn;t even singing his own songs) but there was a cute asian dancer guy with him. After him was Samantha Mumba, as she was cool, but I was kinda tired of waiting and getting bored.
Then they started the countdown!!! 30 minutes!!! were they crazy? we had been sitting here for hours and there was still 30 minutes to go. They showed some cute commercial with the guys, but too much Verizon stuff. Finally the concert starts....
they guys emege from this pyrmid thingie in the middle of the field and start by singing dirty pop. I'm excited, everyone's excited, the 12 -year olds- are going crazy. (hee hee) and they ar running up and down the aisle-way and I am so excited. There is no way for me to tell you play-by-play what happened at the concert. But I screamed my head off and had so much fun. Yeah booger may say the BSB concert was better , I wouldn't know.. I didn't see it. But since I could actually see their faces and everything that they were doing... it was awesome. To see them so close, and have them wave or wink (Joey) at me was the greatest. Plus I made a friend with an incoming freshman at UCD who was also at the concert. They used ALOT of special effects, but what I tough was cool was the blending of the old songs along with with new. They used the video screens alot, and in one song even the live film looked like an old silent movie, like the theme of the song. Mechanical bulls, video games, Big Patrick from FAO, lasers shows, and (as only the MVPs could do) links to A Phi O. By the way Justin, JC, and Joey are ALL in Close, while Lance and Chris are in a mix between Loose and Close. Tight family has the female dancers. (this was based on the colors they wear in the show. Although at one point Chris could be in Tight) Hee hee. so much fun I'm still so happy talking about it. I'm gonna go buy the CD (yes, I still don't have it- I'm not THAT much of a teeny bopper) But I don't normally buy CDs... I just make them.
Well they end the concert with Bye Bye Bye of course and doing a little magic by diappearing off the stage.
To get home we got lost a couple times... getting out of the arena, and on the way back, but its all good.
Thanks to everyone who made this past weekend so special. I loved it!!!

dang nabit!!!!!!!!!
I had this totally awesome blog about being up north this weekend, and when I tried to post it... I lost it.
grrrr... I'll update soon, when i get home... need to work now

oh But I did get the guestbook and mood setter working!!!
sign it please

lunch update to booger: had a subway meatball sub- 6' on wheat

anyway
to those of you who may not remember- and being that like only 2 people ever read this (waves to Kevin and Christina)


HAPPY BIRTHDAY KALEN!!!!!!!!

hope you're having fun
and remeber I'm not turning 21 till NEXT year, so I am the one who is a lot younger that you!

I had better update this before Booger gets bored up in Davis.
just so you know
1)booger, I AM eating lunch right now... relatively healthy chicken strips (be proud!)
2) as my best friends parents.. they are doing okay, I say them at church yesterday, and while her dad looked okay, her mom looked
like death warmed over... but the thing that I am sick of is the "gossips" which are the moms of my friends since elementary school
(including my own mom) are all trying to make her dad sound like the bad guys. Like everything that happened is his fault. Plus
it sort of pisses them off that MY dad and I are treating it like we should be- concerned for the welfare of our friends, but generally
staying out of their business. HAHAHA I love driving them nuts
3) Good Luck to Dan who is on his way to Europe tonight!!!
4) Expo was so COOL. Well the Lady Marmalade Boy skit was a little bit unexpected, but being on security definitly had some of its perks for me. Now many of you may not get this since there aren't that many people who watch anime as avidly as I do who also read this, when I was on security, I got to be a personal bodyguard to Kikuko Inoue-san during masquerade (she does the voice of Belldandy for AMG, and a whole bunch of other people I don;t know right now), I bought a movie poster for $25 then more than tripled its value when I got the character designer of the movie to sign it (the AMG movie) I also got the character designer for Sakura Taisen to sign the back of my badge, plus I got to be on Watase Yu's video camera when I was in costume, and got to escort her to her hotel room (Watase-san is the creator of Fushigi Yuugi and Ayashi No Ceres). My highlight was when Inoue-san said that she actually liked my costume (which I put on becuase I flipped a coin) waai waai!!!

lets see other things about expo- most of the disgruntled attendees didn't come to me. I think that I looked too pathetic that they felt sorry for me. One day, on a dare, a co-staffer and I started working in out PJ's.(quote me to everyone who asked "I'm just kickin' it in my jammies today" and everyone thought the penguins (for thouse of you who MIGHT know... it was a blue spagetti sting tank top and matching pajama pants with penguins all over them) and everyone told me different things about the penguins, they were Totoros or PataPataPeppy or whatever) (Hey Kevin, 12,000 people say me in them, and you haven't yet, j/k luv ya man) and it was so sweet becuase people said they would remember me from previous years (they may have been hitting on me... not quite sure) But this one lady that I DID remember from previous years told me "oh sweetie, they look like they dragged you out of bed this morning [looks at my clothes] MY GOD that DID drag you out of bed this morning" and then she gives me a hug. So alot of the really nice people talked to me, I think it is becuase I talked to them, I didn't just yell out orders on how we were going to work a line, and I was too tired to be fustrated with any of them, plus they could tell that I was honestly doing my best to help them. PLUS according to one guy I was the cute staffer with the pretty smile *blush* When he told be that I turned as red as my vest.

Expo was cool, got to hang out with my best guy friend Rick, for like five minute increments at a time and I kept missing him at the dance. I bought the poster, a Ken-ohki to match my ryo-ohki, and the Magic Knight Rayearth DVD box set 1, and the Robotech box set (yes baby! from way back in the mid- 80's its here). The pajama thing was cool , and I will always remember the look on edwards face when I changed from my costume and he came up to me... took a double take as to this cosplayer in a red vest, and said "Sam, I barely recognized you" and A-ron called me Angela? (whats up with that) There was when Janice pointed out to me that a guy was cute and when I turned to look I see it's Rick, or during closing ceremoines and Rick was told that he looked like Jason Scott Lee (Mowglie from Jungle book) yet another time by another stranger. Expo was cool, the security services staff was cool, and in my 120 hour day with naps in-between, we bonded a lot . Like E.G. telling me the words to the MASH song... OMG they are so sad. but anyways, I'm better get back to work... people are starting to look at me

talk to you soon

plus SPECIAL BONUS
a BLOG ABOUT THE N*SYNC CELEBRITY CONCERT
after I go this weekend!!!! SOOOOO EXCITED

just wanted to say
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BOOGER!!!!

what color desk chair do you want?

Hey everyone,
sorry that I have been offline for a while, since last wednesday I have been at the Long Beach convention center working on Anime Expo 2001, in which there were over 12,000 attendees. Insane, ne? after hearing Japanese for the past week, I really want to learn it... so I think that may be my summer project,. to attempt to learn Japanese. Also as a early birthday present to myself and since I did so much walking during the con (like at least 6 miles a day for 5 days) I'm going to keep walking and working out so that hopefully by October I can be happy with the way I look for once in my life

although anime expo was fun, I have a lot of stuff to deal with right now and so I'll tell you guys about it later.
you see I can home exhausted very late friday night after some bad news on the last day of the con, only to come home to more bad news
since none of you will know who I'm talking about, I'll say it and still be vague about it
I have a best friend who I have grown up with since I was six. We have done so much together, we would live at each others houses for months at a time and always be there for each other. I even got her to waltz at my party when she refuses to dance anywhere else. She was even the first person I let dye my hair. And although in high school we didn't hang out as much and once we went to college we hardly ever talk, we are still there for each other. We get to see each other on vacations and just still keep in touch.
Now with friends like that, their family is yours and your family is theirs. I know that her parents treat me like a daughter and my parents treat her like one too.Her brothers make fun of me just as much as my brothers make fun of me. So something happened in her family while I was gone.

Her parents may be splitting up.

right now, her dad is staying at a friends house, and I really don't know whats going on. I mean, I want to be there for her (and I need to get her new phone number from her mom) but since it actually isn't my family its not my place to step in. I'm just need to make sure she is okay. So if I don't blog for a while... sorry, just some bad stuff is going on right now

I'm sitting at work right now... not really supposed to be doing this, but I just don't really care right now.
I think that my insomnia may have something to do with being with my family, becuase I could handle it when I was up in Davis,
when I would only be up till 4 a couple of nights out of the month, and now, in the one week I have been home... I have been up everynight till at least 2, to wake up at 6am to go to work. if I did this in davis, my body would be so exhausted that I would plop down onto my bed at midnight and wake up the next morning, but now if I don't get myself up I can sleep till like 4 in the afternoon. (but since I don't go to bed till like 5, its really not all that much sleep) now a tiny rant about my house
1) I can't sleep in my bedroom becuase it is too hot
2) my room is too hot becuase I can't open the window
3) I can't open the window becuause there is no screen and bugs will fly in
4a) I have no screen becuase no one has replaced it since I asked them to 2 years ago
4b) bugs fly in my room becuase the house is so messy that it attracts them
therefore (hee hee, can you imagine that little dot triangle symbol from math?) I sleep on the couch, and in this position of sleeping on the couch every night, I get owken up by the dog running in and out, and when I take a day off, my mother wakes me up before SHE goes to work and gives me a list of errands to do. then i go back to sleep, to hear the doggie (as much as I love him- the little old puppy who is losing his hair) barking at everyone taking morning walks and then my brother wakes up (and yes, I know you read this) to wake me up so that we can eat. Now for those of you who know my lifestyle in Davis, you know that I usually eat what could constitute as one meal a day- usually meaning that I had two full meals in front of me at one time, but Kevin or Alan got half of it- and since I have been on this "diet" for the past 9 months, my body is quite used to it. Now for people to wake me up, believe you- me (where the hell did that expression come from) I can be soooooo utterly cranky, and if someone is bugging me to eat, when I am not hungry, and very tired, Sam is not a happy camper (or if I'm really tired I just don't realize where I am- like when we went to visit the Glas Kat =) )
I just need sleep
maybe some nice sleeping pills
but now I need to go back to work (booo!!)
and then I have rehearsal tonight (hee hee -tell you about that later)