The ever so famous Greg Young.
As he is the one that will guide you
through this convoluted mess.
Joke or Stupid Thought of the Day
Pictures From Various Locations
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The ever so famous Greg Young. As he is the one that will guide you through this convoluted mess. Joke or Stupid Thought of the Day Pictures From Various Locations |
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The
Tennessee Titans Premature Season - A very passive event indeed,
this
happening ended up setting up a lot of things to come. The Titans
were the favorite to go all the way in the NFL, but they lost their
first
playoff game, ending their season three weeks too early.
Therefore,
because they were not attempting murder on the football field anymore,
I was less interested in football, which caused some major emotional
openings
for me. First, during the Super Bowl party I held, I was able to
converse with friends and bring a group together; second, I was less
interested
in sports, and eventually TV (because the only TV I watched was
football);
and third, I was more interested to just "chill" with friends rather
than
wasting my time dealing with football. Essentially, the premature
season created a battered look at football, and opened up the
possibilities
of getting out of the house and doing stupid random things.
Last
Day of Freshman Year - Though this event is on the borderline of
the
first year of the website, I will still include it here. On this
day, I had finals for math, P.E, and Business. During math class,
Darren, John Cloud, Mohammed Salih, and I were talking about certain
people.
Darren guessed who I was talking about, which certainly satisfied some
later conversations, and guestbook signatures of this website. On
top of that, while I was in math, Johnny signed my yearbook, and said
"always
remember to visit the website," inferring his own. That was when
it came to me that maybe I could create a website that was
interesting.
Also, on a minor note, Darren and I could not tie a tie, so John taught
us. I still know how to tie one because of that, and yes, I am
grateful.
The rest of the school day was mediocre, though all my finals were
pretty
ridiculous.
Can
Mountain - The final standing structure of what we know as
Sophomore
year is also on the countdown. The monument, started during the
first
lunch of the year by John Cloud, Kyle, and I, was to be a continuation
of what they were doing last year, but could not finish because the
year
ended. A can would be put in John's locker everyday during lunch,
although by the first week, the rate had rose to two cans per
day.
Once Johnny left Mountain Pointe, Kyle and I took it upon ourselves to
complete the Mountain. This was one of the reasons that Kyle and
I still hung out during lunch for those days after John was not
there.
Once we did not have to complete the Mountain anymore, we almost
immediately
parted ways, never to really strengthen the friendship we had. On
another hand, while we were building the structure, we had to make our
way through the Junior locker areas, which allowed us to converse with
upperclassmen, or to get caught in the fire of arguments. If it
was
not for the Mountain, I would never have got to know John's subjects
and
I would not have got into mysterious arguments with them at random
times.
When the Mountain was complete, less trips were taken to the area, and
the Junior influence fell. It was complete on November 3, 2000,
and
finally locked open for its final stand on the last day of school, May
23, 2001.
TGI
Friday's Getaway After Registration - On a hot summer (no pun
intended)
day, John Cloud and I went to the school to rearrange our schedules,
because
the school did not give us the right classes and such. Once we
straightened
things out with the school, I was supposed to go to Vinay's house to
play
music. I told this to John, but we just randomly found ourselves
at Bank One Ballpark eating food at TGI Friday's. After eating
there,
we headed back to Vinay's where he dropped me off and I continued my
dad.
Though such a minor event, this is the first major event that ignited
spontaneity.
Though there are many more events that contribute to this idea, this
was
the first one that I was to enjoy, and the first one that I was totally
surprised. I did not even know what was going on until the
instant
he parked his car. It was such a perfect event of spontaneity,
and
definitely the single most important one of last summer, if not last
year.
Super
Bowl Party - On the weekend of the Hippos and Rhinos Scandal, I
hosted
a Super Bowl Party for friends to come and chill while they experienced
the greatest football game of the year. The surprise came with
the
cast of people that showed up for the party. Chris, someone I had
only been friends with for a matter of weeks; Darren, a once-enemy who
recently became my friend; Cassie, Darren's best friend at the time;
Mike,
a friend from years past, but someone I had not talked to for a while;
and Adam, a childhood friend from many years past. This was a
shock,
because the attendance of the get together would seem totally random
weeks
before the party. I was not friends, or good friends, with the
people
at party, except one of them. And because of that, it brought
together
a group of people. This event happened in the minuscule transfer
period between the first part and second part of the second
semester.
That is why a lot of what occurred that day is forgotten, but if this
party
never existed, I probably would not have become good friends with Mike
and Chris as quick as I did. Also, this was the last time Darren
and Cassie were considered one person, a very significant stage during
Sophomore year.
Community
Service Start - The first hours of community service was spent at
my
mother's work for this one man that was creating his own dice
game.
During these work hours Darren and I found out that working together
turns
out to be a mess. We had to do a bunch of mini-jobs for this guy
to help him market his new game that he was soon going to put out on
the
market. This was the first time I really had done any community
service,
and I found out that I liked to do work with my friends. It
turned
out to be a very favorable time, even though we were practically forced
to do it. With all this nonsense backed behind the service, the
time
did contribute to many situations later. Darren and I worked on
many
projects after this, and the time we had at my mom's work helped us
remember
how to have fun. On another hand, if we did not enjoy the time we
had there, we would have probably died by the time we finished our
service
at Centennial. The ten hours that we did there saved us a lot of
extra torture we could experienced at Centennial. We probably
would
have lost our life if we had to work at Centennial the extra hours. It
also had the potential to seep into our outside life, because it took
up
so much of our time.
Dance
Dance Revolution - This simple arcade game turned out to be a very
large time consumer during the past year. It started with
Darren's
obsession with the game, and later fused out to pretty much everyone
else
we knew. There was a point when he would waste all his money on
that
game, and there was also a time when we would go to Gameworks regularly
to play it. Once Darren bought it for his Playstation, the fad
died
out. When I look at the game, it did not really trigger anything;
it could have been deleted from the year and pretty much nothing would
have changed. The only thing that is looked at when discussing
the
most influential events is that it became a lifestyle. We played
it so much that if it were deleted, that whole section of our life
would
have been also. I could not imagine a year without DDR because it
was experienced way too much. This can create a controversy, I
suppose,
on this list, but it deserves to be here. It ran our life for a
short
period of time.
The
Week I Was Dead - Merely hours after I created my webpage, I fell
into
a deep sickness that paralyzed me for a week. I caught this
disease
from Vinay, who came to my house days before and was totally out of
having
any fun, because he was suffering. I did not realize that the
sickness
was really serious until I reached a temperature of 103 (which almost
sent
me to goose land) and I could not do anything but eat or sleep.
Slowly
though, I recovered, and it was a relief to be able to do the things I
wanted to do. During the week, I only really lived to do one
thing:
update the joke page. Even though no one visited the site, I
still
wanted to update the page because it had just started. There were
many more pages left to be complete, but I had to postpone that.
I was too sick to accomplish everything. And still, because of
that
week, I have not completed my page. I have been lazy ever since
that
week, and there still lies sections of the website that are yet to be
seen
finished. If I was never sick, my utter devotion to the new page
would have kicked in and the site would be done. But, hey, it is
not, and because the other sections are not complete, the joke page has
taken over the website. So, really, if I was never sick, there
probably
would not be much spotlight on the joke page, because there would be so
many other sections to the webpage. Oh well, I wonder if I will
ever
finish those pages in the future.
First
Half Day of Sophomore Year - This occurrence, which happened on
the
infamous September 13, marked the first time Darren ever came to my
house.
But on top of that, it really was a unity that occurred between Darren,
John, Greg, Kyle, and I. At first, it was just planned that we
would
go to Baja Fresh and fill our stomachs, but the four skaters and I
decided
to play some football and then return to my house to just chill.
At my house, we watched the Chronicles of Raccoon Man and then just
messed
around with the various fun things in my house. This was one of
the
first times Darren shared the same laughs as I, which happened when we
all weighed ourselves. Darren clocked in at 170 with his shoes
on,
but then 171 with them off. Soon after that, everyone departed
from
my residence to continue life. This event was one of the odd
events
during the year, because the five of us only hung out once more in our
lifetime. Even though we did not do many hangouts after this, it
is a quite significant event. This was the first time Darren
visited
my house, and really the first time we spent after school time doing
random
things together. And on top of that, I showed him the Chronicles,
which ultimately inspired the Buddha video we would make later in the
year
and all the hidden jokes attached to it. Hmm, but wait, this
happened
on September 13?
Rage
Against the Machine Frontman Zack de la Rocha Leaves the Band - October
18, the day that will live in infamy, for me at least. It was a
Wednesday,
and I got back from school around 3:00. The first thing I did,
naturally,
was get on the Internet to chat with friends. A distant online
friend,
Nik Cifuentes, known for his dishonest bootlegging business, IMed
me.
I barely ever talked to this chap, so I had this feeling it was going
to
be bad news. His first IM was "did you hear about zack?"
The
rest were not important other than the link he sent me that would take
me to the press release. I knew it had to be bad, but I did not
know
to what extent, It was flowing through my blood that Zack might
have
died, in which case, Rage Against the Machine would be over. When
I saw the words come up on the screen, the title of the press release
showed
the same words as the title of this event. I stared at them for a
while until I knew what had happened. Rage Against the Machine
had
broken up. I quickly called my friend Adam and told him the news,
in which he decided to not believe me. I do not blame him, I
would
not have believed myself either. We turned on MTV and they were
announcing
it there. I never really thought that this kind of news would
come
anytime soon. But in a few minutes, I hung up on Adam and
swallowed
the news. I could not believe what had happened that day.
This
event ranks moderately high just because Rage Against the Machine has
been
the greatest influence on me musically, politically, and emotionally
than
any other things in the past five years of my life. Though it
almost
sounds pathetic, they have changed me to who I am now. Seeing
myself
without them in my life reverts me to a very, very dull person. I
know people that cannot even think of me without mentioning Rage
Against
the Machine. This is why this event is as high as it is.
The
event has so much potential to change things gradually in the future,
as
the band has done in the past. They cannot make anything new, and
hence, I cannot change more than I already have from them. It
also
signified the end of an era. May the Rage Era rest in peace.