Sofia’s Neighborhood

Nick Counter died a few days ago, he was the president of Alliance of Motion Pictures and Television Producers for 27 years. He was 69. You can read the entire article here. 2 years after the firing of Don Imus, he was using a racial slur and flip remarks of the Rutgers' women's basketball team.

I now live with my father and my brother (Christopher) since he moved me and my brother to his apartment in Scotland Gardens' apartement in the city of Orange -- 2 years from now from graduation, and after leaving Livingston home -- also my mother's passing, 14 years ago since she didn't treat me right for "playing video games during school nights" when I was 5, she locked me in my room for two hours, then got away, leaving my trusted father and my brother behind before her absence. I was discovering a 13-year-old Korean acoustic guitar player, named "Sungha Jung" on his official website, and his YouTube channel.

It's been 10 years of playing RollerCoaster Tycoon games with the irony of crashing roller coasters and rides. I had Locomotion three years ago, but it doesn't work anymore due to "abnormal program termination" message on my new computer for almost five months old. I know that violating social networking sites' policies and guidelines can ban a person's IP address permanently. So I have decided to move to Union County, I really can't continue living in Essex County because of "IP address issues". You can read about the Chuck Taylor incident here. I have two Japanese-inspired books that "Mr. Wielgus" from Scotch Plains gave me, as shown below.

Sadly, while uploading the photograph of the books, it just said the following: "An error occurred when uploading DSCN0177, We cannot accept this file," So I will upload it at a later time.

..and throw the damn ball to Austin!!

First off.. it's good to be back (blogging) after having virtually no free time during the month of October. And now that the big deadline has come and gone.. I have been "busy" doing nothing for the first week of November. So now that all is pretty much back to normal in my world.. How bout them Cowboys!!! Dallas goes into Philadelphia and wins by a score of 20-16, giving Dallas a 4 game wining streak and putting them on top of the NFC East. The play (and player) of the game comes from one Miles Austin who scored the wining touchdown with his one and only 44yrd catch. Good night.

Miles Austin

After a year and months of service at work , my dear mug finally resigned. I got this new mug last night. The cover was actually black and i switched it w/ another mug w/ a pink cover but w/ a different style.. ^0^ I like it cuz it's pink and cute design and Big one! ~ ♥♥

This is the old one, the handle was broken so i can't use it anymore.

It is well into November now and the cold weather reflects the date on the calendar. Last week's strange sunshine and strong showers, loud thunder and bright lightening have left Seattle, replaced with biting cold I am all too familiar with.

Luckily I did not have to spend last night alone.

I was invited to a few parties, all of which were dismissed by Ryu when he came to my house. He wanted to stay in. I didn't resist. We drank a little wine, I, a single glass slowly, he, a bit more. We spoke quite a lot, mostly I asked about him. I like how he answers my questions without hiding anything, without faltering to think. I like how he speaks about his family, not detached but with an adult appreciation.

I asked him if he liked hot chocolate. He said yes. I made two cups of cocoa for us. I think he was pleased. He told me, No girl has ever made anything for me, only my mother and my sister. Who would have thought such a simple thing would make him smile?

His older, only sister is an opera singer, and he told me that he respects her because she works so hard to forward her dream. Needless to say, opera singing isn't exactly the easiest career path to follow, much less in Japan, of all places. He told me that she hardly goes out and he thinks she has never had a regular boyfriend.

I told him I will be sad when he returns to Kyoto. He sympathised and said that he wanted to bring me with him and keep me at his house. I joked about how his traditional grandmother would react to the new foreign addition to the family. He laughed and said that she wasn't so bad, his cousin recently married a foreigner after all.

He told me that he wants to visit me. He told me that he thinks it is good that I want to study so much, that I want to go to New York. He thinks I should do what I want to do. I told him that I don't want to be lonely any more. I don't want to be alone like his big sister.

He told me that I won't be lonely. I asked him why he thought so. He said, because I am changing.

Love For Sale

It's that time of the year.

This year, Sesame Street turns 40. I have been watching this children's TV show called Sesame Street when I was seven. Maybe they want to put a timeline of Sesame Street. Also, the Amazon Conduit on Vox has been fixed, so I will be buying my own domain blog without having to surf the internet ever again. The use of cursing, that's not good, you can view this. I went to Sesame Place in 2000. I used to go on Vapor Trail, then Sky Splash, then the maze that have bugs and mosquitoes, then the Nets & Climbs that I was afraid of heights, etc.

On this Vox post, three Little Einsteins pack kicks in:

Disney Little Einsteins Fall 2008 DVD 3-Pack

Disney's Little Einsteins: June's New Shoes

Marcy Kelman

Disney's Little Einsteins: Farmer Annie's Garden

Susan Ring

I have so much to read and so little time... Books piling up for school and for my personal reading. I wish I could read faster.

I read a poem last night at Revolution Books, I really like being there. I love having a space downtown where I can escape the university environment I am beginning to hate. It's hard to imagine my goal of being in graduate school for several more years. I am very tired of the institution and the focus of it all, the goals of the university. I feel like it is turning most of the students into useless office workers that will be victim to the oppressive capitalist system. I want to escape it so badly, but each day it gets harder and harder to see beyond the dollar signs. A creative career is a terribly rare thing.

Sometimes I just want to shut myself up into my room and forget the rest of the world. Well, sometimes I do exactly that.

I promised I would spend next Tuesday night with someone who destroys me and drains me, so I am about to face a trying week. I am spending tonight with Ryu, looking forward to seeing him, but I have some things to do in the meantime. I am preparing myself, reading and getting ahead before Tuesday and the subsequent empty days it will cause.