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May 18th, 2010
05:16 am - ~I don't really use LJ anymore. Lame.
The run down:
-I finish my thesis animation and it went up on the big screen for two showings. They messed up the sound, but the audience still loved it. I didn't win anything, but I'm hoping to still work on my piece to make it better for other competitions.
-I graduated at Radio City Music Hall (no Rocketts) and don't have to do anymore school forever ever. Unless I wants to become a teacher and get my Masters
-I'm gonna break up with my bf. It's not working out, but it was good while it lasted. Hopefully, the next one will be better in bed.
-Got connections to various jobs including Robot Chicken, Modeler for sculpting, and various commercials.
It's been a few days since I graduated and I'm catching up with old friends. But I'm also bored, working wise, so I've been working on my art.
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February 16th, 2010
10:45 pm - ~...I've never been so happy. (Part Two)
Despite a minor mix up in trying to find each other at Penn Station, we were on our way to get something to eat. I'm a cheap asshole, so I didn't want my first date to be at an expensive restaurant.lol I took him to a chinese buffet in Timesquare, just so we can eat to get our money's worth. And I wanted food right away too. Afterwards, we took a long walk all the way to ground zero and then to my dorm. I offered if he wanted to play with my Wii (Golly, I never heard that one before. lol) He just wanted to watch and I started killing zombies. Then he put his arm around me. Thank god too, cause I didn't know how to make a first move on a guy. Maybe playing video games was the right move after all. hahaha...I'm such a nerd.
We got hungry and so he took me to his dorm at NJIT. He then started to cook me dinner and he wanted to name the dish after me. I was like...WTF?! XD That's so awesome. It a weird role reversal when someone's taking care of me. It's usually the other way around. But I offered to cook the steak while he did the rest. Good food was good, especially what he made. It's just his suit mates were supposed to leave on the weekend and they were still around. I guess he wanted me. XD
He took me to a common room on the top floor that no one went to. We just sat there and talked for about five hours. In between chats, he would lie down on me or try to cuddle. It was weird, since he wasn't a chick. But I'm sure he's likes to be touched in the same places. So I held him in my arms, just to keep him warm. Not to sound fast, but I started to feel something for him and I said, "Heh, for some reason, I want to kiss you." He responded by saying, "Go ahead. See what happens." So I did. Wow... that moment still hasn't hit me. It's just, I've never had a real kiss before. (excluding elementary school) What's also magical was that it was after 12am, so not only did I get my first real kiss, but on Valentine's day as well.
Keeping this short and censored, we made out. lol And I probably don't need a part three, cause I can't censor that much. XD When we woke up, we made each other a Valentine's day card. And I got to use my origami skills. lol That's pretty much it. But wow, it's like just a regular dude that I hang out with at school or home, but now I'm dating him. XD weird, but I'm so so happy.
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08:57 am - ~...I've never been so happy. (Part One)
I don't really use LJ anymore, but I figured with the recent events, that I should put down my thoughts. I decided to give up on women and try going for men, I couldn't help but feel like I've been doing the wrong thing this whole time. As suggested from a friend, I created a Match.com account to see who was out there. Unfortunately, there's not much I could do without a subscription, all I could do was give a little wink ;) to the person I was interested in. I also had to say I was pretty pessimistic about using a website to find someone. However, what happened after that, completely changed my mind.
I winked at a guy named Dominic, who was 19 and lived in Newark, NJ. So if I wanted to visit him, it was a short train ride away. Moments later, he winked back. That was when I decided to get a subscription. (Pft, paying $40 just to get someone's number. >_>) The moment I get a month's subscription, Dominic's month was up. I was like...FUCK! I couldn't get his number, email, or any other way of reaching him. I think he was interested in me too, but he wasn't allowed to update his profile that contained his name or anything. What he did do was coded his words and I was able to understand it. It said to find him in facebook and gave me his name without saying so point blank.
So we finally made contact. Talked for a while on msn and decided on a hangout (date) in NYC. Through the convos alone, it felt like we had almost everything in common, down to the very last bit of detail. A lot happened, so I'm going to have to split this up into three parts. Let's just say this was my first true Valentine's day. +)
Holy crap, fuck girls. Why didn't I do this before? lulz
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December 21st, 2009
12:00 am - ~It's been one long year.
It was one year ago today since my grandmother passed away. Since then I've been working on my senior thesis project for her. I'm telling the story of what she went through during the Japanese evacuation during WWII. Several sites already are littered with pics and videos of my work.
The hardest thing about this project is not just remembering my grandmother literally every single day, but I also have to retell one of our family's most devastating story in history. I still haven't told anyone at my school that she died. I always felt like I would ball like a baby if I did. So it'll be an extra surprise when my piece will be premiered on the big screen.
I've worked so hard, making as many clay figures as I can. I know you died a year ago today, but I still can't bury you until I get this thesis project done. When it's finished, I can finally rest and move on. I miss you so so much.
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October 28th, 2009
12:33 pm - ~Got an art blog setup for myself
I was going to use this place for my art blog, but I wanted to keep my personal life separate from my professional art career. Since businesses and my fellow students will be looking at the site, I'll be able to better organize my art, instead of "Oh man, today sucked" and then showing my art on the same site.
http://oldfriend86.blogspot.com/
I've also lost enough weight for my pants to just fall off as I walk.
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October 10th, 2009
10:53 pm - ~I almost blew up my father's car. No joke...
My older brother, younger sister and I went to the Rutgers football game. We had a good hour and a half before the kick off, so we decided to tailgate and cook some food. When the game was about to start, the BBQ was still warm. We left it outside of the car to cool off. After a good two hours or so, we decided to leave the game early. Came back and the grill was still kinda warm. I don't know why, but there were no bins set up to put used charcoal in. So the plan was, we would put the warm coals into a thick trash bag, place it in the trunk of our father's car and drive around the stadium parking lot to find a charcoal bin. But we were too focused on getting the GPS started for our trip back home, that we forgot.
NOT ONLY THAT, but we decided to hangout at a near by mall (again still forgetting that the charcoal was still in the trunk). Tons of water was used to put out the charcoal, as well as stirring it around, we were pretty sure that did the trick. As if I need to go on with the story, but anyways: I think an hour or so went by and we decided to leave to go get something to eat.
Leaving the mall, the windows on our father's car were really foggy. I just figured that it's kinda humid outside, but out of all the other cars in the parking lot, only our car was doing it. Then I smelled the smoke and was like, OH SHI!!!! We opened the trunk and a huge puff of smoke flowed out. I was scared it would cause attention to our stupidity. Luckily I think because of the lack of oxygen, there was no fire. The bag was singeing various clothes and garbage that was back there. So nothing SO bad happened, but the fact that stuff was still burnt makes it a big deal. But it's not burning my father's clothes that bothered me, it was the lighter fluid we used for the BBQ that scared the shit out of me. That stuff was sitting right next to the bag of charcoal.
This whole time, I'm just thinking how lucky we were. All night long my mind was filled with "What if's". What if the fluid exploded and blew up my father's car? What's he going to say about the heavy burnt smell in the car? So much bad could've happened, but it didn't. Maybe it was good Karma? At the mall, a woman dropped her credit card and no one else seemed to have noticed it but myself. If I hadn't spotted the card and given it back to her, she would've had a bad day herself. If I didn't belief in the idea of Karma before, I totally do now.
I 'was' on a diet, but I'm kinda pigging out at the moment. We're celebrating for not blowing up my dad's car. XD
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October 2nd, 2009
11:29 am - ~So how's life, Jason?
Bad newz first, cause that's always fun:
I came back from MetroCAF, a computer art competition here in the city. And well...our school was stomped for the 2009 submissions. >_> That was last year's submissions though, they're just replaying them today. Dude, my thesis, as well as the rest of our class better step it up if we want to beat out all the other schools for the 2010 competition. I'm going to be so anal about getting my animation done, and be proud of it.
And poor Chicago for being eliminated from the Olympics bidding.
Good newz:
I'm becoming more social (for some reason) and I'm starting to get connections out there in the city. I've always been average, but this might be the first year I get straight A's. XD But not to jinx it, so I'll be hoping to get straight B's as usual.
And I'll be attending Game Live NYC. It starts October 25th at the Beacon Theater. It's cheap tickets for a kick ass show.
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September 22nd, 2009
09:28 pm - ~Man, just when I was getting things together...
My councilor for class scheduling contacted me late July to inform me that I hadn't taken a required literature class in order to graduate. I requested for one of my elective classes to be dropped so I can have the required class and still only be 15 credits for the semester.
This entire time, I thought the class was "dropped" until I noticed that I have 18 credits on my schedule. It's $895 for every extra credit. Being an extra 3 credits, that makes the total $2,685 for having the extra class. I didn't even attend the class for the first two weeks. When talking to student accounts about the confusion, they said because it's three weeks into the semester, I'm only entitled to 50% of that money. WTF?!
This is a class I thought was canceled. So tomorrow I'm going to fight it again, because if I don't, I'm only going to get $1,342.50 of the $2,685. This is totally my councilor's fault for not dropping the class when I told her so, but again, we'll see what happens tomorrow.
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September 7th, 2009
12:32 am - ~So being here for a full day...
Moving in this building was the smoothest ordeal I have ever done. Hell, I should've brought MORE stuff. So my worries were moot. My room IS the size of what I had during sophomore year. The doors have card readers and no swiping. Just simply place the card in from of the knob and boom, you're in. I unpacked all of the illegal items I brought including: Slow cooker, hot plate, extra extension cords, toaster oven, basically everything I had before. And to my surprise, there is free transportation for us students. I guess a last minute setup.
I had a very good sleep, until the fire alarm went off. It was 6 am and to be very honest, I went back to sleep. It doesn't matter which building I'm in, after four years, you kinda figure when you're really in trouble. If there's no fury of knocks on the door and people shouting; then it's all good.
Sleeping for another two hours, I went to use the bathroom. Of course, it's only AFTER I use the bathroom that the toilet decides to break...sinks and showers too. After talking to my RA, she explained there was a flood in the basement. I guess since this is a new building, they never had so many people testing the plumbing.
Happily, the plumbing worked after a few hours, but another problem occurred. I've never had a problem where I only had hot water. Usually hot water is missing, especially in the winter, but not cold water. There's no way you can stand in the shower for even a second without burning yourself. Other than that, the bathroom situation is cool, except my bathroom mate forgot to unlock my bathroom door. PLEASE get in the habit of doing that. >_>;
My mate is really cool and we both like to cook and explore the city. I didn't get the chance to hang out with him yet, but hopefully soon. My bathroom door is alway unlocked, so technically he can come in at anytime. But even if he does steal something, it won't be hard to figure out who.
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September 5th, 2009
04:45 am - ~Moving in
I told myself that I wasn't going to bring a lot and here I am again, bringing practically everything that I have. From the pics, the dorm doesn't even look that big. I'm still bitchy that I paid $13,000 for the place and to be so far away from classes, but that's what I get for waiting till the last minute to sign up for rooms.
It would've been a good idea to come into contact with my bathroom mate, at least then we could've talked about who would bring what for the bathroom. Hopefully we'll get along, even if it's just the bathroom we'll be sharing. And how that hell is that going to work? Two single rooms share one bathroom; so are the doors unlocked at all times or do they lock only from the inside? What if his guests decide to come into my room? I guess I'll see for myself when I move in, which is about three hours from now. And yeah, I can't sleep. >_>
I'll take pics and hopefully I'll be able to fit all of my crap in the room.
P.S. Oh God, I searched Facebook to see what my bathroom mate looks like. He seems...fun. Huge fan of playing loud heavy metal music, party animal/drink till he pukes, and a possible rapist. He's a big guy, despite me being slightly older than him. I'm glad it's only the bathroom I'm sharing. Anyone see Full Metal Jacket? He looks like the big guy that went crazy and killed the drill Sargent in the bathroom scene before killing himself.
And all of the sudden, the Odd Couple theme struck me in the head. XD
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