Affirmative Action

conversation with kelly:

"I wonder if he's dating anyone...nah, probably not, he's too shy"
"but maybe its a factor that helps him be more attractive, its kinda like affirmative action you know...for people who don't have game"
"yea..."
"well depends on what type of ass he likes"

Going to the Gym with Anna

Must document this before I forget...

"I usually do cardio for about 15 mins before I do anything else" - Me
"whats cardio?" - Anna

As we are running to our car, we pass two guys. One of them goes "oh, yea thats a good pace..."
"Your moms a good pace" - Anna

"I'm going to run, meet you back in 10 mins"
1 min later, she reappears
"Hey I thought you were running , what happen?" - me
"I didnt know how to turn on the machine =["- anna
"HAHAHAHHA"-ME

"so do you feel sore yet? You're suppose to feel it" me
"no, just constipated"-anna

The Apologetic Women

I have a very disdain perception of the apologetics women. Maybe you are one but don't even know it yet because you have been socialized to think this way all your life.

I have a friend who is to me, the paradigmatic meek apologeticist, she is capable of apologizing to herself outloud while speaking to someone else. This meek tendency is not only a marked trait of women, its especially true in Asian women. How do I know this?

Because I do it myself all the time.

My Dad's Protégé

I just realized how much I resemble my dad.
We both like to rock vests...

Happy birthday dad, he turns 54 today.

Black President

I have never felt so patriotic in my life and I find it humoring that my pinnacle of patriotism occurred while chugging beer in close proximity to a diverse group of cal students at bears liar. Around 8pm Tuesday night, it became official that the next four years America will be led by Obama. Honestly, even as an American born citizen, I was never too compelled to cheer on USA (not even in the Olympics or in any other occasions) because of the skepticism that I feel is well justified.

So this must of been the feeling people felt when the Berlin wall was torn down, except this was the wall that was dividing our united states between democrats and republicans. There was an air of not mere pride for the United states this early Tuesday, but justifiable pride because we have finally began to bridge the long gap of differences between all people, democrats, republicans, white, black, Asian, Hispanic, pink, orange, etc.

I certainly had my doubts the day of the election. I did not predict, unlike many of the people I spoke to that this election would be a decisive victory for Obama. It must be a certain alignment of the stars that caused the perfect circumstance for such a unique and nontraditional figure such as Obama to intervene successfully. The economy is at it's worse, jobs are being lost, the war needs to be ended, and Bush has the worst ratings ever in the history of America. In no way do I doubt Obama's capabilities, but I believe there is a lot of work to be done. Our monumental issues will take a lot more than one man to accomplish but I am glad that we have appointed someone like Obama.

Not only is there a lot of problems that will remain in Obama's administration, our citizens have just passed a stark violation of equality rights in my eyes, proposition 8. As a disclaimer, I think I understand both sides of the issue correctly and sincerely. However, what I propose is that we ought to start looking at this issue as a power and equality issue of society, rather than a moral issue based on personal beliefs. With that in mind, there is much to be done for the next 4 years and I am curious to see how the stars will realign.