North by Northeast Pt. 1

Little Jack.

Feeling: Tired stuffed good
Current Love: Lights and Music - Cut Copy

Road Trip! I officially left West Lala Saturday morning to visit my new home in the great New England country side.
I had work on Friday, and after my parents and I went to our neighbor's dinner party. They got kind of drunk, so I had to drive myself back to the apt. I called X to watch a movie, but we ended up going to a party at Willowbrook that my roommate invited me to. It was kind of what I expected, but wasn't awful. We left around 1 or so and got cigars at CVS, smoked it in the Ufarms park, and went back to his house and played Resistance till 3. We took sake shots whenever someone died, and I was doing pretty good at not dying. Though the game was harder than I remembered. I wanted to play more, but I figured I should get some sleep, considering I was suppose to pick up my parents at 6 (they stayed at my neighbor's). So I went to my apt and took a nap before getting my parents in the morning and hitting the road.
I ended up driving for the first 6 hours. It wasn't bad and the time went by pretty past listening to music, although we did have to make 3 unplanned stops because my dad had to pee...

Austintown, OH

My shift in driving ended in a pizza joint called Wedgewood Pizza. Apparently my dad claims it's "one of the best pizza places in America" from his research on the internets. My dad ordered a pizza sandwich, a seafood pizza, and an "Original Everything" pizza, house special.
It was a lot of pizza.
I only ended up eating one original and a sandwich. I swear the sandwich pizza weighed 5 lbs.



a) Pizza joint's huge open kitchen and ovens. b) The order. c) Seafood pizza: shrimp, imitation crab, clam. d) Sandwich pizza: ham, sausage, green peppers, mushroom. e) Original pizza: olive, peperoni slices and sticks, sausage, mushroom. f) Lovely couch and the one I slept on in our room. g) The humongous king size bed. h) Pretty side table lamp shade with dry flowers in the paper. i) Dinner appetizer: crab cake. j) Pre-entree: Italian ice. k) Twist on the fortune cookie: fried wontons.

Bloomsburg, PA

My dad drove for the next 3 or so hours and reached our stop for the day, a cute bed and breakfast named The Inn at Turkey Hill. There's a very British country style to it. It's the first time we've really stayed at a B&B, so I was excited, especially about dinner as dad had claimed they have a great restaurant.
Before dinner, I took a dip in the 2 person jacuzzi, and it was very relaxing and refreshing. We went to dinner at 7:30, and it was pretty good. Although we did have to wait for 30 mins or so for our entree, because the kitchen was busy. I had roasted duck with mashed potatoes. Mm.

After dinner, I borrowed a movie from the front desk and watched it while my parents went to sleep. The movie was "Identity", and it had an interesting concept, I just wish the ending wasn't so bad. I passed out around midnight and slept for a good 8 hours.

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Day 2 - Saturday


Did I just get Rick Roll'd by a sushi menu?

It was kind of hard waking up, because I haven't slept for so long. We got breakfast at the inn, and I had eggs and bacon. The weird thing was, I had a dream the night before about grilling two pieces of bacon. :shrug:
We hit the road afterward and drove through the rest of Pennsylvania, stopped in New York for lunch at a Japanese restaurant (kind of meh), and finally hitting home sweet home Connecticut.

Glastonbury, CT
For tonight, we're staying at Homewood Suites by Hilton in the greater Hartford area. The closing date for our new home is tomorrow, so we technically are homeless at the moment. The hotel room has a really cute kitchen and stove top; made me want to cook something.
For dinner, who pigged out at the Chower Pot. I haven't had a big appetite these days, probably because I've been eating 3 meals a day while I'm use to one over the summer. Anyway, this place specialized in lobster and ribs, and it was pretty good food, I just wished I was more hungry.

I've been just hanging out at the hotel after dinner, now blogging and watching a South Park episode on a parody of Jenkem. I'm pretty tired, so gonna sleep soon. Tomorrow I'll get to see our new house for the first time. I haven't even seen pictures, so it should be exciting. w00t.


1) Izumi Sushi and Habachi in NY. 2) Huge prison on the border of CT. 3) 2 dozen of clams and 1 dozen of oyster at Chowder Pot. 4) Stuffed lobster!

Doctor's out, let's party

Last week the crew went down to Bloomington for Sean's party. It's my 2nd time there, and I actually got out to see the town a little and shopped at Urban Outfitters.

I'm too lazy to write all about it, so a picture book will do.


There were a lot going on in town that day like this bike race. Others included the Taste of Bloomington and some carnival.


Since we got to the party around 9, it was still kind of slow, so I went with Kaveh to his friend's shoot. Here they're setting up the bonfire scene.


We got cast as extras in the living room party scene.


"Act natural and party." I was drinking my Sparks.


Bffs dress alike. We got back to the party around 11.


Unfortunately the party got busted around midnight, because someone was peeing outside and the neighbors called the cops. Most people went to the bars, and I hung out with Jason and Leslie. I sat on the roof for awhile, and this was the view from there. Not too scenic unfortunately.


I was just about to pass out when everyone came back around 3. Things got kind of ridiculous. A lot of drunk dancing, warm wiener slapping (the edible kind), cake fighting, and ice tossing.


White boys tuffing the azn.


Everyone went to bed around 6, minus Erica who passed out after the bars. Good morning!

End of the semester evaluation

School = done. It's been a week since finals week, and I have been enjoying it even though I feel very unproductive. The resulting labor of my last semester as a sophomore didn't look so great in letter form, but it was what I expected, and no surprises this time.

ME200 Thermodynamics
Overall, I liked the materials covered by thermo, because it was very analytical and involved mostly math. I wish I wasn't stuck with such a shitty professor, because I really think I could've gotten an A in the class otherwise. The final was my last one, and I totally raped it, so it left me with a damn good "I'm done" feeling.
The tutorial/help room helped greatly for me to not fail the exams. I went in every Thursday after my ECE lab around 2 and sat in there finishing my thermo homework till about 5 or 6. Kevin is the TA around that time, so it made things less boring.

ME273 Dynamics
Dynamics started out alright, when we were doing kinematics, but it kind of went downhill after kinetics started. I don't know why, but I just wasn't so interested and ended up skipping out on a lot of lectures. The final for this class was the one I was concerned about the most. Overall, I didn't think I had a grasp of the basic concepts and didn't know how to do a lot of the homeworks. Nonetheless, the final was reasonable but took a lot of brain juice out of me. I'd like to think I got a pretty solid B on it.

My favorite part of the class was that we had a course blog which posted homework helps, solution videos, exam prep, etc. The solution videos definitely saved my ass on tests since I didn't goto a lot of the lectures and really had no idea what was going on. I think it's great that classes are pushing for the "HigherEd2.0", because it really utilizes the advancement of web2.0 with education.

EPICS201 Engineering Program in Community Service: Habitat for Humanity
I was looking forward to this class, because of all the great things I've heard about it. Oh boy.
Things started out great. We took a trip at the beginning of the semester down to Atlanta to visit the HFH international headquarters and discuss projects with the personnels. I was really intrigued by my subteam's project "Biotown", which involved building/designing a green HFH home in Reynolds, IN. Unfortunately, things weren't so great, mostly because my project leader sucked. I don't want to bitch about it, but we didn't make much progress in one semester. Let's just say I'm glad this class was over. It definitely was aaaaalot more work than I had expected/wanted to the point where I seriously consider dropping it, because much of it was documentation/presentation/technical crap.
I think I may join EPICS again in the future, but maybe I'll be more careful about my team selection.

ECE201 Linear Circuit Analysis
It was only towards the end of the semester that I started liking ECE, probably because the material was more mathematical with 2nd order RLC circuit analysis, phaser response, and frequency dependence. I wish I had learned the basic materials better, because it really hurt me on the exams and finals. I probably should've taken the initiative to use the tutorial room early on. I liked my professor in the sense that he was really nice, but I didn't think he was very organized in his teaching.

ECE207 Electronic Measurement Lab
After 15 three-hour labs, I can say I'm pretty good at using ammeters, oscilloscopes, and voltmeters, and building basic circuits. The lab was fun at times and tedious at others with the lab reports. My partner was dumb, and I pretty much did everything during each lab. I was pretty happy about getting an A in the class, because I failed my first practical. Fortunately I did decent on the 8 page formal report and aced the 2nd practical. w00t.
I'm not gonna lie and say I like building circuits and playing with different component and instruments; all that technical stuff. But I don't think it's enough for me to want to be an ECE major or take another lab. From what I've heard, ECE gets to be a bitch that make people want to kill themselves.

COM144 Fundamental Communications
Finally, the dreaded but required COM class. Though easy, it was still a pain. Fortunately my teacher was pretty good, and my class wasn't retarded. Our final speech was a good project, and I hate group projects. Somehow I got delegated as the leader and had to guide everyone.
What I'm most disappointed about the class is that the sole reason I received a B was because I missed one too many classes. I have COM 3 times a week at 8:30 in the morning. I had my circumstances for not going to class, and I only have myself to blame.

CGT163 Graphic Communication in Manufacturing
I almost forgot about this class, probably because it's pretty worthless. Sure I learned how to model in CATIA, but I could've done that on my own in a few weeks. It's hard to describe what kind of character professor Miller is, but I wasn't a huge fan of him. Lectures were worthless, and I fell asleep.. a lot. I can talk more about this class, but I really don't want to, so that's the end of that.

I'm Feeling Yummie Head to Toe

Feeling: lazy
Current Love: HEARTSREVOLUTION - Switchblade (L.A. Riots remix)

Congratulations to me. This will be my first post on Bazzooka network and I'm happy to inform you of my first (as of April 27th) remix. I've worked with Ableton on and off for a year, first starting with Lainii last summer. Since then, the progression has gone solo and was solidified on February 2nd for Ribbon 2.0's first dance party. See 1 and 2. Apart from this party, there has been a number of scattered gatherings which I've donned parts of my Djing skills. The plans for next year are ambitious yet I hope Ribbon 2.0 can fill the void of dancing in Lafayette.


Enjoy my remix. Feedback is always appreciated.
Dj mHo - I touch myself at Night