Current Song of the moment: "Beating Hearts Baby" by Head Automatica
Hey mad props to you if you've ever heard of this band. They are not that well known and kinda hav the punk-indie-rock feel to them. I would post up the real music vid. but it's super weird and i like the way the actual soundtrack sounds than the actual music vid. haha.
In all honesty, I could do better in school. I know i can. But seriously, what pisses me off is that ignorant job hiring ppl put so much emphasis on gpa. Honestly, look at the skills and quality of the person more than GPA! I am doing well in school, im maintaing above a 3.0 I know i could do better, but I don't really want to try that hard to be honest. lol I'd rather enjoy the college life while maintaining the balanced life of friends, life, family, professionalism, and career path/job.
I heard that to make yourself competitive; you need at least a 3.7 to stand out above the rest of the competition. My question is; why not go the easier route(in my opinion of course) and just have a lower gpa but do other stuff that helps you become more competitive like internships, jobs, being on board for clubs. etc. I guess it's not for some ppl ya know? My advice is just choose one route or the other. Book worm or lower gpa and lots of extra-curricular activities. And if you can somehow accomplish both feats, well my friend i tip my hat off to you.(if i was wearing one that is.)
anyway, enuf about that. back to the main issue. I have not been feeling motivated to do hw lately. I'm not normally one to wait till the last minute to do hw and get on stuff. but i guess my body is still telling me that it's on summer time. lol I think this could be that i'm not use to the adjustment of having work, Liwanag, friends, family, and schoolwork all being juggled yet. (how about throwing another ball in there? could i still juggle it all? hahah maybe... for a GF i think i'd be willing to try! : P) i think i got the senor-itis flu. and Im not even a SENIOR yet! eff. lol
I think it might be due to the fact that i am too pre-occupied with other fun stuff i can be doing and improving like: my longboarding skills, Liwanag stuff, SSARC efficiency, family hang outs, building closer ties with GOOD friends, GOD, etc. I always see so much room for improvement, scratch improvement, "growth" in my life. I guess im that type of person that just wants to improve things and makes things better. and my mind is always thinking of how to make random aspects of my life better. I just want to do it all and accomplish it all, but i can't neglect one aspect such as schoolwork. just because it's boring doens't mean i can't push it aside. i needa stay focused. I've never been so unmotivated before and unfocused. haha. oh well.
Oh wellz, i'll manage somehow. I am kinda excited yet been postponing my fiction writing class. I didn't want to start writing a short story yet. I'll get on it tomorrow. lol ask you can see, im just trying to occupy my time and not clean my room or do laundry and am blogging and facebooking. lol. My Econ 122A class, econometrics, supposedly one of the hardest classes offered at UCI is going okay actually. It's tough, but nothing i can't take if i just study hard enuf. I think im getting cuz my TA is freaking bomb. she's so good at teaching the material. mad props to her. I'd rather hear her teach than the professor. haha. and surprisingly, my econ 100C intermediate macroeconomics class sux. I don't like how the professor teaches. We don't deal with numbers really. it's hella conceptual and if we deal with equations, they're all just a bunch of letters with derivations and shizz. put sum daym numbers up there! crap man. lol i was more of a microeconomist than a macroeconomist. heheh
Today i was down with spontaneity. i was chillin with Ray and walking with him to his car and then i ran into Nilo who wanted to ride my longboard. I kiked it at his pad and loosened my trucks a bit. (speaking of which, i need to purchase a skate unit. haha) I can now carve a lot better! man... i love my longboard even more now. rofl. so nilo and i were just cruising and we see my other acquaintance friend brittany Yung. She has a flexdex too and recognizes me. she tags along and we all go cruising around dartmouth and then campus. It was a lotta fun cruising with them on campus. we bombed sum hills(the not tooo steep and too scary ones. lol) So then we met up with Anna Kwon too! we ran into her after getting Wahoo's. It's like today, God told me to strengthen my relationships with my acquaintance friends. haha man today was a good day and so much fun. Just cruising around was so tite! hahah. So she was locked outta her car and we just went to APS, and waited for the guy to come to Jimmy her car. in the mean time, we went garaging! daym man.... going down those steep slopes and carving it out and turning it down the parking garage was soooo exhilarating and sooo sick at the same time. man.... so much fun! it makes me want to buy elbow pads and a helmet and try to learn how to properly carve and turn sharper and get low on my board.... lol sounds crzy intense or wut? hahha. and in retrospect, Nilo and i got shown up. all the girls were much braver than us going down the hills and more ballzy and went faster while Nilo and i were laggin it in the bak trying to keep up. lol kinda funny yet embarassing. heheh. guess we're not as pro as them. give me some time to get good and then i'll be able to keep up with those girls. hahaha.
And just to leave a final thought... I thought this was pretty cool.
I came downstairs this morning when i awoke and saw tito Homer who just came back from early morn. tennis.
tito: hey Ace! how're you doing? How's school?
me: everything's good tito, schools okay and Liwanag seems to be going well. I also like my job.
tito: you have a job now? where do you work at?
me: at the SSARC, the social science academic research center. we help out with resume critques, grad school apps, internship finding and landing, professionalism, My main job title is training and development, very similar to human resources where i make sure the ssarc is run efficiently and there is effective communication with the staff. etc.
tito: wow ace! that's awesome! I'm really happy for you. sounds like things are going great for you right now in your life.
me: yeah... I kinda like where my life's leading me right now *big smile*
tito: now, the only thing you're missing is a girlfriend! *tito lols*
Me: ahaha.... iono about that yet tito... maybe... maybe...
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Ace out: 9:30 pm
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