Last Post?

To Betty Wong.

Tumblr. Plzkthx. Shouldn’t be hard to find. Kthxbye.

DWuuu out.

Heh.

In my talk with Betty, she brought up an interesting subject. She mentioned how everyone has that someone that they can never really shrug off. The one person that you always wonder those what if’s. What if she liked me in return at some point? What if I did this instead of that? What if we got together? Yeah. Those what if’s. And then she asked if I had such a person. Without a second thought, I responded with an ‘of course.’ Because everyone has that special someone who occupies that lonely space in their hearts. The crush that never worked out. The unrequited affection. The painful yearning. Likewise I have such a person. With her ‘oh really’ smile, she asked who it was. I didn’t need to answer because she pretty much knew who it was. Sigh. But still. Those what if’s? They’ll never be answered. Forever questions they will be. And an honest thought from me: Given the chance to go back and be able to do things differently, I would. There’s one specific thing I wish I could have done differently. But this is not for myself, oh no. Not so that in anyway, said girl and I would get together or the like, but so that others, her included, would be happier. But enough with beating around the bush with no specific details. I might have blurted out too much already, in case somehow someway against all odds that all the wrong people come to the wrong conclusions. Sigh.

Puh Puh Puh

And I don’t know why I want to voice this out loud
It’s therapeutic somehow -The Wombats

Hello my loyal follower(s). Many things have happened these few weeks. Let me start with the most recent.

Puh Puh Puh Poker Face

Today was a rather eventful day. We balled it up in the morning. After that I got home and sat at the ol’ computer doing the usual. Facebook/games. I had time before going to Poker Night so I looked to see if anyone wanted to go get some drinks with me. Lo and behold, Betty Wong was on. I haven’t really talked to her since school ended so I asked her if she wanted to chat over boba. So we met at Quickly’s and caught up a little and reminisced. Hah. I miss the old days. But that’s a story for another blog some other day. It was nice seeing her, though. Even if she is rather odd sometimes, Betty’s cool.

Luck was not with me tonight. Even though I did make some rather dumb plays, Fortune was not smiling upon my hands. We had our poker night at Ricky’s house. Played one round before we went to KT cafe for food. The chicken steak with pork chop was alright. Service was rather mediocre, but the waitress seemed a little pissed off. Oh well. After said food break, we convened back at Ricky’s and played another 2 rounds. I don’t remember who, but someone decided to bring up scary stories and such. Things like Thomas from the Orphanage? Hitchhiker stories, some other scary shit. It didn’t help that there were strange noises and everyone decided to bust out their own scary stories, talking about what if’s. What if the lights flashed off and on and someone was suddenly missing? What if the same thing happened but there was someone extra? What if the group pic we took had an extra person? What if Thomas popped out of the closet? What if the Quarantine/Rec monster thing popped out of the attic. O_O. Didn’t help that people’s phones suddenly rang. God. Strange how a group of grown men are freaked out by mere ideas. Needless to say the drive home was rather speedy.

Puh Puh Puh Pants Party

So yeah, Jack’s Ice cream party. I wanted to help her out since this was “the first party she’s ever done.” So I volunteered to buy cookies and soda to go with the ice cream. Initially we were supposed to go shopping for everything at once, but her mom said she was going to buy the ice cream. The party was pretty fun. Not as many people as I thought would show up showed up. =/ But it was nice nonetheless. Got to see some people again which was nice. I was makeshift grill master, or rather the guy in charge of the burgers after Alex left. It was a short job since medium sirloin burgers were not that much in demand. After the grill, I joined a few people in Jack & Carol’s room to talk/play cards & other games. We were in there for quite a while. The other people that weren’t in the room went out for a lovely walk down the beach. I mean the sidewalk on Valley. Hmm. Yeah. Darren and David left at about 10 to go catch a movie. Most people were gone already. When everyone left I stayed a bit after to see if the Chuong’s needed help cleaning up or the like. But instead I ended up chatting with Mother Chuong, Jack, and Carol. It was interesting. Haha. Jack has such a close and interesting family. By 11, Mother Chuong needed to leave for work. As she walked out of the house, she told me that I needed to leave in 15 mins. Hah. I ended up staying there and talking with the two sisters until about 1:30. Gossip is my weakness. D= After that we did make a quick visit to the roof of the little mexican house of the Chuong Family. Pretty soon after the rooftop, I took my leave.

The next day, I hung out with Ricky. We went grocery shopping, sort of, to make dinner. No homo. His parents were “out of town,” and I wanted to cook up some steak. In the middle of watching The Shooter, Jack called me and said that Mother Chuong would like to invite me over for dinner/food. So I went over. I ended up having ice cream, talking with the buzzed Mother Chuong and her sister-in-law, “tutoring” Carol with logarthims, and messing with Jack. Apparantly Jack’s mom loves me because I talk to the family and I’m smart. Go figure. It was a nice evening though.

Hmm. It’s rather late. I’ve been up for a good 20 hours. Sleepy time. I shall continue this another time. Goodnight world.

Summer Update Numero Dos on Darwin Wu.

What has happened since my last post. Hmm. I don’t know. Let’s see. Chronological order to the best of my memories.

Harry Potter. The Half Blood Prince was alright. I’m still a fan of the books over the movies. Honestly, some things the directer interpreted was just retarded. Gah. And they take out the one major fighting scene. -_-

Emily. We had a surprise birthday/going away party for her. She thought it was awkward, but I hope that she genuinely felt happy. I gave her the tote bag that was supposed to be a late present for her last birthday. And I also made her a sun jar. There is a crescent moon with stars on one side of it. And a little message on the other side. “For Em, W/ <3, -DW” I hope she likes her little gifts. But I still feel like I should have written her a card. D= Well, the day after, I went with Jack on a late night escapade to visit Em. She was originally supposed to come with us to get slurpees, but ended up having a little movie night with some people. I’m sad that she’s leaving. Although not a very close friend, she could always make me smile. I’m going to miss her. I wish I talked to her more often.

Anyways. I got to see some people for the first time since Grad at the party. Namely Kerry, Thonga, and Jesse. Heh. And the late night slurpee run with Jack. After dropping by Em’s, we met up with Darren at 7-11, where we got slurpees and an assortment of cookies and candies. We chilled at Darren’s, which was across the street. Haha. Side note, vanilla ice cream + snickerdoodle cookies is bombbbb. I wish Emily could’ve came with us though. That way I could’ve talked to her a bit more before she left for New York and so I didn’t feel like 3rd wheel (and so those two could get a little one on one.)  Haha. If you’re reading this Jack, don’t hurt me!

And then, out of nowhere, Betty calls me up to ask where I lived. Turns out she was dropping by to pay me back the money I’ve spent helping her out with her parties. Hah. We made a little small talk and caught up a bit. Haven’t seen her since Grad either. So that was relatively nice to see her again.

I went to the El Monte Court with my dad so that he could pay his speeding ticket and sign up for traffic school. $202 for going 58 on a 45. $64 for traffic school. Moral of the story, don’t speed when the coppers are lurking. After that we headed to the hospital near there to get a discounted bill for his ER fees. What happened was that my dad had a shard of wood shoot into his eye. His eye was red and continually hurting for hours, so we took him to the ER. After almost 2 hours of sitting there, the doctor finally came to check on my dad. After a good few minutes of examining his eye, they decided to use a wood lamp. They touched the eye with a little piece of paper with some chemical or something on it. This made the tears a bright fluorescent green. They proceeded to shine some light that made the green glow brighter onto the eye. The diagnosis? A slight corneal abrasion, which was actually what I thought it was(scratch on the eye). Treatment? Rest. Nothing else. No antibacterial eye drops. Nothing. Guess how much the bill was? $1012. Yeah.. Imagine my reaction when I opened the letter. So onto what I was doing at the hospital after the Court. We went there to talk to some Medical worker there. I explained the situation and she said that she could write off everything buy $364. It’s not a grand, but it’s still a lot of money. D=

And after shelling out over $600 on dumb shit, we dropped by Longo since we were in the area. My dad ordered an exhaust tip for his Tacoma. It’s basically a shinier exhaust pipe. I picked it up the day after. After I balled with the guys. Oh and a note to everyone, the freeway entrance next to Longo is a trap. It’s the 10 east. Not west. True story.

Aaaand later that day, I was getting ready to go to Darren’s for a hangout time with the guys. At the same time, Angie called and told me to check my texts. Apparantly she was outside my house. =X I was like, the guys can wait. Haha. I went out with Angie to Quick’s and made some small talk and played with coins, dirtying up the table we were at. On the topic of small talk and conversations, I am a horrible small talker/conversationist. If you expect me to do all the talking in a conversation, awkward turtle. D= I’m much better at being a listener. I like to listen to what you have to say and then voice my opinion in it. I feel bad for being so boring though because Angie calls me to go out and talk, but all I do is make it semi awkward at times. =X But I’m glad that she thinks of me highly enough to want to hang out with me. Makes my day really.

Yeah. After that I met up with the guys at a Viet rice place for dinner. Oh my lord was I full. So fat. =X We then convened at Quick’s yet again. My third time that day. Hah. Ordered drinks and left to Darren’s. I mostly played Advanced! Chinese Chess with Frank. It’s our take on Chinese Chess. It’s basically whatever unit you eat, you can move that way with what you ate it with. For instance, you eat a horse with a car. Now your car can also move like a horse rather that the usual straight motion. The fun part? No limit to how many units’ movements you can “steal.” So if you were to have a car that can eat like a cannon and move like a horse and an elephant, good game. I think we played 7 games. Lol. It’s tough. For those who don’t understand Chinese Chess, allow me to explain via regular chess, which I’ve never played. Let’s say your pawn ate a horse, rook, and a bishop after a few turns. It can now eat and move in any way of those units. So your pawn can move like anywhere now. Yeah. Crazy shit. Anyways I must be boring the hell out of you.

Boarding! Oh my god. I set up an event on Facebook a good 3 days before to give people some time in advance. 4 people show up. The past times we went boarding, Kenny calls up people 2 hours before. We would get a good 7-8 people. -_- Lame. But it was all cool in the end. I drove everyone up to Madre St and California. The street was pretty dark, vegetation covered most of the lights. But oh my lord. It was amazing. Winding road. Nice pavement. Gradual downhill. We cruised down it at a good speed. 15 mph maybe? Something a bit faster than lazy cruising and how fast you can run if you were to jump off the board. Being how we were in the dark and how that none of us know the road, we were a bit scared near the end of the run. Madre intersects with Hungtington. We knew that. We were speeding up near the end. I was a little nervous. Especially since a car was coming from behind us. If anyone fell at that point the car would be there. And if we kept going at that speed, we would run into Hungtingon. Both spelling disaster. But to our good fortune, the slope evened out and we slowed down enough to a stop. And so we boarded back up. And went back down. It was extremely exhilarating. Going at that speed for a good few minutes with little effort at all. I am definately going back to that run another day. After a few exhausting runs around that area, we went to EE, the Japanese convenience store and bought ourselves some foreign drinks. Kenny ended up with green tea. Unsweetened asian green tea. Haha… And then we found out that BLac and David Dang were stranded at the mall with no way home. So we went to pick them up and shove them into the car. Hmm. I was a little nervous about 6 people in my car, but it was fine. I dropped everyone off and went home. And now here I am. Whew.

/endboringlifeofdwu

Do the Blogging

So. It’s been a while since I’ve blogged. Heh. So, school’s over. I miss a lot of people, but that can’t be helped. I’m glad that I’ve gotten the chance to still keep in touch and hang out with some of my friends. The ballers mainly. And the few here and there like Ngoc, Andrew, Donut, Steven, Thong, Jesse. Oh and Angie. Haha. I’m glad she enjoys my company enough to call me out to hang. And then there’s Jack whose house I’ve gone and crashed a few times. The Chuong family is so awesome. Mother Chuong gave me alcohol. =O But this is only a fraction of the people I want to see. Like Alex and his staves. And Kerry, my car buddy. And Betty, who still owes me big moneys. And Jenn, her royal buffness. And Robia, my prom date. And Berto, because I can talk to him about all sorts of stuff. And Eddie, because he’s hilarious. And Douglas, because, well, he’s Douglas. And Thomas, the weed guy. And all the other people whose names currently elude me. D= I hope to see everyone this summer. I still need to sign yearbooks and get mine signed by people! Gah.

Let’s see. What have I done over the summer. Grad night was at the beach, which was fun and a cheaper alternative to Disneyland. Umm. Oh yeah. We went bowling twice since we got out of school. The first day, we learned the technique of spinning the ball. We as in David, Ricky, and me. It was awesome. AWETHUM! The second time, Danny picked it up quickly. I think we’ll be going like every Sundays now. Maybe haha. It’s so fun. Hmm. We also had a barbeque Laker’s Finals day. Where we bought a good 70 dollars of meat and and condiments. For 6 people. Needless to say, we had chicken fajitas, Kalbi short ribs, and some sort of beef for lunch, linner, and dinner. And we still didn’t finish everything. Almost though. We’ve also had our 4 hour Pokemon Monopoly games, Stratego, Texas Hold ‘Em. Which reminds me. Someone owes me a McGangBang. In case anyone doesn’t know what this slightly offensive sounding thing is, it’s a McChicken covered with Big Mac sauce in between the patties of a Double Cheeseburger. =L Droolworthy. And I’ll let you figure out why it’s called what it’s called. Let’s see here. What else have I done over the summer, besides playing ball. Oh and side note. Headbands suck up all and I mean all the sweat above it. Awethum. We saw Transformers 2 in IMAX. Which blew my mind. The movie isn’t all that great, but it’s a welcome rush of action, Megan Fox, and corny comedy. Other than that, we ate. Alondra’s, B-Man’s, Islands, Top’s. Yeah. Nothing really exciting.

There was something on my mind but I forgot what it was. So yeah. Oooh. I remember now. Summer projects. I finished the building of my Dancer. It’s a longboard. 55 inches of wood. Haha. That’s dirtyyyy. It’s clear coated with 2 coats as of now. Jesse’s going to draw something up on the bottom. I think it’s DK related. By the way. DK is fking awesome. I challenge anyone in Super Smash Bros. Original. I’ll smash you with DK. But yeah. After Jesse’s done. I might add a little extra something depending on how it looks. And then I’ll add another few coats of gloss and then wet sand it for a really nice finish. The griptape design I’m thinking of is to use shoeprints and arrows sort of like dance steps. It’ll be dope. Another thing I’m working on is a Sun Jar. It’s basically a mason jar with frosted glass that uses a solar panel on top to store power into the batteries. Which then, as it gets dark, turns on the LED light thanks to the light sensor on top. The frosted glass will give the light a soft glow. Jenn showed me this from Urban Outfitters. It was pretty much 50-60 dollars with shipping. It looked very nice but the price was outrageous. Then I offered to build her one or a few. Depending on how many she wants. **Long Instructions You Might Want To Skip Alert** It’s fairly simple. You take a solar light. The cheap ones from Home Depot. You take your time and extract the solar panel with a utility knife and some determination. They like to smother it with this rubber sealant that’s a bitch to remove. And you cut out the battery holder thing so it’s nice and compact. I had to use a Dremel to cut the plastic. Then you find a jar with a sealing lid that will fit the panel. Remove the lid and spray the jar thoroughly with glass frosting spray. You can also use stencils to put in designs and/or letters for a message. Let that dry and glue the battery holder tot he solar panel. And then glue the solar panel to the lid with a clear silicon glue. Close the lid to make sure everything fits snugly inside the jar. Let that set and then you’ll be ready to store some sunlight.**End Of Long Instructions** We’ll see how those come out. I need something else to make.

I don’t know the point of this post anymore. I guess it’s just a little update on the boring life of Darwin Wu. Heh.

Birthday?

My neighbors were just singing happy birthday. Very loudly. Which reminds me, mine is next week. I dunno what I want to do… Bunch of people are going on tour. I don’t know if I want another lame party at my house, or to just have a nice night out with friends, or what ever. It’s just my birthday…. Sigh.

Tomorrow.

Well, it’s 11 right now. I should be sleeping. Got to wake up in 5 hours to get everything to school and do a bit of practice with Andrew before we leave for Long Beach. This is my last competition. It’s bittersweet really. I was just looking at all the medals from the past. 6 years of competing and now its the last one. I better do well. I need to do well. My single 1st place State medal is looking pretty lonely over there. I don’t care if Troy is usually the winning Nationals team. I’m going to smash them.

Cookies!

I hope she likes them.

We shall see.

Hmm

So, Prom’s coming up. Hmmm indeed. I want to go just because its prom and its my senior year. And David should be going, and Danny too, and hopefully Ricky. Dammit, they better be going. You too Shohei. Imma slap you. So then, I’m not sure on who to ask. There are two people who have popped up but I don’t know. And then there’s the how. Hmmmm. Time’s ticking. A little over a week to decide.

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FUCKING SHIT. FUCK. Fuck fuck fuck. Goddamn.

The results of the competition makes me so mad. I want to blame certain people just to make it easier, but I can’t. The only person I can blame is myself. I haven’t helped out as much as I could have. I should’ve studied more of physics. I could’ve helped Ricky more with everything. A little studying, and maybe I could’ve remembered the formulas for spring constants. Maybe something about breadboards and circuits. Maybe something about electromagnetism. Even if I did save one event from total failure, it doesn’t help the fact that we got 6th place. We tied with San Marino, but they got 5th because they had one more 1st place than us. 4 less points and we would have been 3rd. It was that close. The scoring system is one point for each place you get for each event. 1st place = 1 point. Last place = 33 points. 23 events total. 1st place had 100 points. 2nd had 127. Not surprising, because North Hollywood and Arcadia have well established funds and teams. 3rd place had 231 points. 4th had 232. 5th and we had 234 points. What makes me mad is that there were the events that scored in the 20th and one places, that shouldn’t have. Maybe the people in those events didn’t put in the work or maybe the test was whack. It’s unacceptable.

April 18th.

State competition.

We need to redeem ourselves.

I need to redeem myself.