upgrade.

mastersamuel.tumblr.com

hmm could this be the death of mastersamuel.blogspot.com?

no sé.

i just had such a rich dream

so, sup.

okay after class today i was like "yo i need a nap" especially since i didn't get home from studio until 3:30. and this is what happened:

so my GSI (but i think they only call them that in Berkeley...you know, a T.A.) for my studio class was taking us on a field trip to look at these dolphins. and we went into this one man's backyard, which was set up like a shamu stadium...so legitimate. and then we entered this pool of water and out came these two dolphins. and they were so different. one was like furry and blue-grey and had a short nose and had the letter "C" carved into its side. and the other one was smaller and light grey and really rather forgettable. anyway, our class was talking and there was this one guy who's last name is "Wong," so i had always pronounced it as "wong." but everyone was giving me uneasy looks and i was like "heh?" and then finally this man who's family name is the subject was like "i'm sorry, please stop. my last name is not pronounced 'wong,' it's pronounced 'huh-win'" so i'm like 'ope. my bad' but he goes on to explain how it's highly offensive that i didn't know how to pronounce his last name because there are two different kind of Wongs in the world...those that pronounce it "wong"...and they the good ones. and the "huh-wins" who are like savage people who hop on clouds....

BIZARRRE!

bottom line, get some sleep.

and consider this strange story my attempt to re-enter to blogosphere.

OUTTIEZ.

i want to live in this:

troll chair:

apologies.

i be gone for so long! sorry, september was crazy...academically and otherwise. but just to remind you that i'm alive, here's a lil something something.

i recently started subscribing to a Word of the Day emailing list. which has been good because i remember zero of the words so far.

but perhaps i will remember today's word:

yes, titivate.

application time: let me titivate this weblog post by adding some photos of:

-this staged cliché photo of me on the cusp of inspiration

-this unstaged portrait of my beautiful cousin

outties. (hopefully not for long)

weird as f

lady gaga is a freaque.

weird things that occur in the above 4 minutes:

- lady gaga's back up dancer has a thong over his face. weird

- lady gaga hefts her left leg onto a piano. weird

- non-disabled girl in wheelchair is wheeled onstage, then off. weird

- lady gaga starts bleeding randomly. weird

- lady gaga sings really well. weird

vma's were crazy!

taylor swift, i believe in you. and i watched your music video. you're funny (but i think unintentionally) when you sing "i'm in the bleachers" and go all emo. holla!

carbon copies

kevin gillespie vs. yukon cornelius

enzymesssssss

do y'all remember enzyme dynamite?

yeah that was back in march two thousand and eight. 

dang son.

anyways, are you aware that enzyme dynamite is, yeah, actually a real person?

he has a banner on sfgate.com*

click: ENZYME DYNAMITE LIVES!

*true story: i checked sfgate dot com last night because there was a fat blackout in berkeley. 

i'm in apt. 304 trick!

were you aware that ABDC season IV started?

i kinda wasn't...

or i was but didn't watch. 

but...i did see this baby...and fell in love

starts at 1:12

dang that was good. 

SO i go onto itunes to look up LMFAO's Lalala...and what do i see?

so many versions of "I'm in _________ Trick"

cause i know on 94.9 they play "I'm in the Bay Trick"

but if i were in any of these other locales, i would be lucky enough to listen to:

"I'm in Corpus Trick"

"I'm in Grand Rapids Trick"

or my favorite

"I'm in Chattanooga Trick"

oh man. who knew there were such ballers in these locations.

high school musical kinda sorta

so yeah...it was sad being m.i.a. from berkeley while everyone was coming in.

but instead, i was sneak peaking at this bad boy:

i hope i'm allowed to say the following without getting busted (sup choir directors!) but i thought it was pretty funny....especially if you're into FOBs and the like. and i think the choir sounds grade-A...hitting those harmonies that i so enjoy. and they hath filmed a promotional vijjeo:

so this weekend i'll be back in SF to watch this baby (and i have a cameo...holla to the directors for the hook ups). ticket prices are free.99 so if you want to come, tell me! unless i don't know you (that means you, cyber world)...in that case, stay out my face.

tie-over

some photos

vacay!

waiola pog shave ice, originally uploaded by mastersamuel.

okay, i should probably focus more on being on vacation than being on the interweb....but having a camera is "fun like eff!"

and yeah this my flickr, dun hate.

it is time

peace out SF

hello hawaii

things to do this week:

1. chill with my family

2. tan my feet

3. gain 8 pounds

4. name my dslr (or is that a ladies-only type of thing)

5. show love

whirlywinds

7.31 - kcdc ends

8.1 - clean up kcdc site

8.2-8.8 - camp

8.9-8.16 - hawaii

8.26 - school starts

8.29 - youth musical

9.6 - john legend

where i been at?!? my bad, world. many things to talk about, not enough time! 

prophecy time!

flo-rida   she's going crazy

this is a jam, friends!

encouragement

and just who is this encouraging fellow, EJCballer4?

well, he is self-described as:

I'm a straight baller and ladies get at me!!

i'm going to assume that's an accurate description.

anyway, just a lil glimpse of kindness amidst these trying times. why so trying? sensazn haters... but i guess the bigger question is: why are we even talking about sensazn still...haha

aite, outties

what the what? or... ¿que el que?

shakira - she wolf?

sounds more like an urban outfitters soundtrack, not my dear colombian lady friend singer chick

lessons learned....

....from the midnight showing of harry potter and the half-blood prince

1. i can't understand english accents all too well

2. the actor that plays professor snape is a carbon copy of my 6th grade spanish teacher, Ms. Rooney (yeah, "Miss" as in lady-gendered teacher)

3. albus dumbledore's death has been added to my top three most dramatic deaths in a (child's) movie. in that list,

a. the death of Mufasa, 'the lion king'

b. the death of Artax the horse, 'the neverending story' (as you may remember from 11.18.07's post: "peace out, artax. stay strong")

and now,

c. the death of albus percival wulfric brian dumbledore, 'hp6'

EDIT

4. icees are delicious and texturally smooth

neat-o!

THIS link from yahoo is the most ridiculous thing i've ever read

first, there's this ridiculous picture in the article that was probably taken in 1956

and then these "cool" tips:

Dance around while getting dressed: Turn up the radio or listen to upbeat music on your iPod (if you can) while doing all your morning rituals—an hour of hip shakin’ can burn about 55 calories.

first of all, what does "listen to upbeat music on your iPod (if you can)" even mean...i was previously unaware that some people are only able to listen to non-upbeat (downbeat...?) music.

and "an hour of hip shakin' can burn about 55 calories"....i have never heard of anyone who takes an hour to get dressed in the morning. but maybe listening to upbeat (not downbeat) makes the whole process of getting dressed so enjoyable you can't help but spend an hour "shakin' your hips"

bottom line: you're weird, yahoo article!

(yeah i realize that article was probably for women....deal with it)

a lil' ill

sup people. 

my bad for being absent, and i'm kinda embarrassed that i'm breaking the blogging fast with the following post, but i can deal.

via uncrate,

this ruehl cardigan...

dang looks classy

as it should, for $118. that's straight up ridiculousness. 

that is all.

other than that, i've been with mild sickness for the past three weeks. like phlegmy times 24/7. i don't think i've ever experienced this before...sick enough to feel sick but still healthy enough to function. does that make sense? hopefully.

kcdc's going well. going by pretty fast...half over already! technically, i am contractually obligated to not post photos of the kids or of leaders, so i will not. apologies to all you stalkers out there

and finally, today is july 12, 2009.

a month ago i was...doing nothing

in a month i will be...in hawaii! holla!

interactions

c: "but Horseman likes every movie"

s: "yeah, and you don't like any movie...like i can't believe you fell asleep in Tropic Thunder"

c: "hmm...yeah"

h: "i dunno, _____.....you liked The Proposal"

interesting...

peace and love. apologies.

i gotta feeling...

unicorn tattoos...it's definitely the new "it" thing.

 just ask "Shannon Renee":

personal fav:

i'm so tired that my eyes burn constantly!

the jonathan legend experience

(if that's what it's called)

holla...seeing john legend september 6th! in berksturbia!

let's document johnny's various personas:

classy can i

nasty can i

weirdo can he not

blogging dry spell

my b!

06.07.08 - 06.07.09

it's hard to believe it's been one year already...crazy sauce!

and now you can blink on command, what a doozy, RKJ

such fortunution!

i'm pretty sure i've told a lot of people, but the other day i got to see Wicked again!

i was with nina that day and earlier we tried to go to the Academy of Sciences using my dad's membership card. but it took me a while to decide whether or not to say i was Randall (and when they would ask for my ID i'd say i left it at home) or if i should tell the truth (overrated) and say i'm randall's son. so i chose The Truth and basically lady denied entrance. rude beezy. why she gotta do her job like that. so feeling unlucky, we went to do other touristy things. like ghiradelli square. and city hall (which has legitimate bathrooms). and then at 5:30 we went to the orpheum to enter the wicked drawing. 

so you write your name on a sheet of paper, and you put it into this uhh...raffle machine? so we crumpled our papers and then flattened them to give them more bulk and dropped them in. and i turn around and who do i see? cindy chan and jeannie sun of cornerstone trinity baptist church! so i yell kinda loudly "JEANNIE SUN!" and good times ensue...for example, there was one man who just straight up lied down on the floor and took a nap. so we made fun of him. 

then they called my name! i was quite surprised. so we all yelled pretty loud. then i got my tickets. but jeannie and cindy didn't get called...which was sad. i was looking forward to seeing it with them. but they went "clubbin" instead, so they had a nice night too. haha

so our seats were for row C seats 5 and 7, and that was the second row (even though it was "C") on the left. and yeah, it was limited view, but i think the only things you couldn't see were the things that happened deeper on the stage. i think i liked this performance of Wicked the best because i think i have appreciation for detail (in costumes and facial expressions) and kinda behind-the-scenes things. so it was cool because we got to see the performers up close (we waved at them whenever they came to our side of the stage...but in a subtle way) and our angle also let us see into the wings. which i REALLY liked. i think it's pretty cool thinking about uhh theater magic and how the props glide in and out as if on they own! and you could see characters skip off stage in character until they know they're not visible then they walk and look tired. and the Roadies (? or stage hands?) they get into it too...one of them was dancing to the music in the most not-cool way. sigh...if i wasn't doing kcdc i'd apply to be a Roady. 

it was a good day. 

and in Wicked they speak in this really weird language that i really like...i'm going to try to copy it. for example, fortunution = fortune. 

it's gonna be hezza wonderiffic. 

disturbia

the following is a real-life occurrence that is completely non-fictional. i also realize that it is a rant about a burrito joint, but i can deal with such (and so should you):

the day is: june 2, 2009

the time is: approx 4:15 in the afternoon

the weather is: sunny with patchy clouds, moderate temperature

the location is: Chipotle at westlake shopping centah, daly city

my people, i am in the mood for some chipotle! if i was at berkeley i would've just gone to telegraph and gotten a nice lil burrito bowl and a free drank! but back home i had to drive to the closest chipotle at westlake...it's kinda new. my mom also wanted a burrito bowl so when i got to the counter, i say:

"hi i'd like two burrito bowls"

then the chipotle man says:

"alright, for here or to go?"

"to go"

"okay. what kind of beans?"

"oh no beans in one of them and black beans in the other"

"okay. oh, excuse me John can we get more rice. yeah, more rice...rice... yeha okay so what kind of meat can i get for you"

"um carne asada in the bowl with the beans and chicken in the other"

and then homey proceeds to put chicken in both of them...but i let it slide cause i felt bad and he'd have to start assembling the beaned burrito bowl all over again

"alright and what else do you want in them?"

"uhh in the one with the beans can i get tomato salsa, corn salsa, sour cream, lettuce, cheese, guac. and the same thing in the other one except no sour cream"

"okay...so you wanted hot sauce in the second one?"

"oh no.....i meant no sour cream"

"okay. and it was steak in both of these, yah?"

"oh no, they're actually both chicken"

so he puts the foil lid on them and writes a big S on both of them...and i'm confused and didn't want to correct him cause what if in chipotle language, "S" means "chicken?"...you never know.

so the cashier says:

"alright two steak bowls to go?"

"oh actually they're chicken"

"oh really? how comes it says S"

"yeah i don't really know...i just told that man that they were chicken. you can ask him if you want"

"oh no. fine by me...as long as you aren't lying to me, then everything's cool"

"yeah i'm not lying"

"alright! have a grand day then"

but i could see through his falsitudes! homeboy thought i was lying!

alright, bottom lines: i was having communication issues. i prefer berkeley chipotle over westlake chipotle. i feel the need to express myself through childish rants via weblog.

and such is my life thus far this summer

haha just kidding, life is good. i gave myself a haircut today so i might be lookin kinda funky for a few weeks...i can't really tell if my hair is even or not. 

fill up my cup...mazal tov!

it is the summertime! 

i ended school maybe two weeks ago actually...it's been quite productive so far! let us see. i: moved out of the dorms, hung out in cupertino, CA, saw Wicked, went on a retreat with IV in Challenge, CA (at some bougie campgrounds that had their very own blob, zipline, kayaks, and see-through shower doors), and i have yet to clean my room/finish moving back in. 

so that brings me to my Summer List, which i've never had before!

o. rent from netflix and watch such great movies like: recess, the power rangers movie, the first season of pokemon, finding neverland, i am sam, zoolander, and maybe some other things

1. keep a journal...doodling things, talking to jesus, writing down thoughts

2. become better friends with my dog (maybe i'll teach her a trick...like to blink on command)

3. pull the 6-foot dandelion weeds in my backyard. holla

4. go work out or do something active each day

5. choreograph something

6. learn how to use my family's DVR

7. win the wicked front-row lottery

8. go to pinkberry

9. learn to give myself a haircut

10. go karaoking

11. read 'omnivore's dilemma' and finish 'crazy love' (i aim high)

12. learn to cook for next year...aye aye aye

and now some more longer-goal dreams

1. learn to harmonize

2. learn to isolate my eyebrows and do the wave with them

3. meet someone and talk to them in an accent and convince them i'm from some foreign land

4. learn to speak cantonese...aye

it's kinda a boring, weird list. that's why i made it different colors, to create the illusion that it was exciting. sorry for deceiveries

def not as adventurous as, say, Carl Frederickson or Katie's Wonderful Summer Indeed (shoutout whatcha know about that katherine!)

alright i don't know what to leave you with...lemme see here.

here's a cool song that i enjoy:

black eyed peas - alive

my small group... u1uKnow (my own personal catchphrase that i don't think will ever catch on)

oh and lookie! this is a picture of me taken exactly 1 year ago, on June 1, 2008.

it's me, two bags of multi-colored pasta, and some steam!

and some tasty-looking gelato!

go and be merry, fools!

gasp!

can't shut UP

bigger than the (this?) world

from our good friend JT's demo

(which was my january jam)

and check out them lyrics:

I think my heart might explode

Cause now I feel the weight

of your love on me now

From my head down to my toes

cause I can't handle nothin' else

I'm starring at the mirror at these clothes

That is funny, they mean about as much as yesterday

Something is calling me home, me home

I can hear your voice and I'm not afraid

Now I know I'm just a girl

Trying to make my way through this life

Now I feel bigger than the world

With your hand in mine

dang. with minor tweaking this could def be a praise song

it's a little bit of "now i've found/the greatest love of all is mine" in the first stanza plus a tad of Matthew 6 do-not-worry-etcetera in the second stanza plus some girl bizznass in the third one. haha

anyway, today was Day One, yah...?

so my first day of self revolution consisted of waking up late, going to eat dim sum in chinatown with josh,austin,judy,christina a-mill, and then going to The Pot's hot pot place with my parents. it was radical.

so yeah...God works in his own time.

for now, i'll just pray. and convince myself that most songs can be altered to be sung to Jesus

i'm trying to figure out what it means to deny myself.

i sense change looming on the horizon. scary slash exciting

but oh boy, jesus, i am ready to fall

today is Day One.

haters and lovers.

as you can imagine, there are plenty of haters in the world.

for example, a few youtube comments we receive:

a trend i notice is that the haters have pretty bad grammar slash they do not make sense.

and a lover:

and some more lovers:

so that's my bible study small group...mad-dawg love shout out to y'all

i guess this post is a little late, since i started a draft of it last friday but never finished it until now.

but lemme give you a timeline of last week.

on thursday was our last bible study so we were gonna grill some grade A+ steaks at matt's house and have a feast. but the day before i got an email from abba modern. because the seniors of abba modern were gonna perform at friday's large group (since it was like a senior send-off), and they wanted to incorporate the non-senior IV members into the dance too (so that it'd be like "we are the next generation" kinda deal)...that's complicated. but anyway, the practice was gonna be on thursday but that was the same night as bible study celebration extravaganza! but they said abba modern practice would only take an hour, so i left bible study early. but instead of taking one hour, it took four. and time really just went by fast and before you know it it was midnight and i was feeling pretty guilty for ditching bible study...so i called matt and he said they saved me food and that if i was hungry i should come back. so i thought it'd just be me and him eating some food, but it turns out my entire small group still waited up and was chillin at matt's apartment still. and they played vijjeo games while i ate the food, which was still good even though the steaks weren't fresh off the girl (don't worry matthew, even though you don't read this weblog). and it was a pretty fun time. especially christina, who was running on like 2 hours of sleep, who played a pretty weird game of nba 2k9, but was funny. and then amber had some ridiculous "push ups"....but end of story is, i felt mad, unexpected love right then and there.

i luhhh you small group

romans 12:10

be devoted to one another in brotherly love. honor one another above yourselves.

so since then, i've been thinking a lot about how to show love...brotherly/sisterly love. which has been timely in light of all these feelings of community that have been arising.

BUT, more on that later

okay, bottom lines:

• i like 'love'
• be wary of youtube commenters, whether they be haters or lovers
• if you're gonna be a hater, make sure you are gramatically correct. otherwise i become he who hates on you (sike).

olliviare yeah!

chapter III:

come visit us! apt. 304

we'll have snacks and open doors

gregoire danielcita

part II in a series of my future roommates. 

observe:

save me.

it is written.

i want to write something here but i just don't know what exactly...i've kinda left it blank for the past hour. so it'll come eventually

physiognomy

at psych discussion this week we talked about facial expression and emotion.

observe:

i'd say he's slightly confused, maybe a bit angered, and probably sad on the inside.

cheer up, bud.

the end. 

danielle jay: this is for you

this is the fool i'll be rooming with next year

don't mistake my expression as amusement, it's of bewilderment slash embarrassment

here's an excerpt of one of our heart-to-hearts:

and another:

maybe only i find it funny.

in uzzer news:

today i was walking to class and i was walking behind this kid with a bloody nose.

how do i know? perhaps because he plugged it up with tissue...but in a very not-discrete manner. half of the tissue was billowing all up in his face...kinda like this:

waddup tani. 

anyway, i laughed in my head and heart. but God is just, for during class i started feeling a trickle from my right nostril...and i'm like "aye aye aye imma hafta up and leave this lecture hall cupping my nose as it drip drops bloody ploppets"

but that didn't happen because it was just plain ol' snot.

the end! i don't think this counts as a weblog post cause it sucked

gimme gimme more

i'm on a boat:

...and you can be too

this is so ridiculous! haha.

that being said, i'm gonna start saving pennies

encore

one year ago:

The KanCert

when i get lazy, i re-direct you to weblog postings of the past...when i had time to pour out my soul

soon i will return...with stories from the two thousand and ninth year of our lord

sensaznal surprises!

happy easter!

and MasterGregory pointed out to me, that a vijjeo that is very near and dear to my heart is listed as a Related to Video to Sensazn Insomnia... (check bottom right corner)

correct! it's Money Money Korean!

aw sep sep!

If U Seek (s)Am(m)y

i just wanted an excuse to use that...

i'm studying. peace out friends!

(j)mac & please

the above title was a play on 'mac and cheese' with 'j.mac and please'

witty!

jesse mccartney - crash and burn

my life: LV volume

LV

that's right, this is all about louis vuitton, friends!

siked you out the highest level, sucka!

it's about Las Vegas! cause i went there! recently!

so...for the last bit of spring break i went to vegaritas with my familia cause a certain someone done turned 21. 

so here we is on the aeroplane. we flew virgin america for the first time...i liked it! they have clubbin mood lights and play lounge music!

that is douglas before two random girls sat next to him and started clappin along to the beats.

then we arrive at the hotel lobby. and take a forced picture in front of this golden statue with gilded woman's frontal parts (sorry, RKJ)

oh! i didn't include it and i'm too lazy to add it, but then this random guy with an accordion came over to serenade douglas.

then eating stop #1, this legit restaurant in the middle of the venetian casino called Noodle Asia. so random. but so delizzious. i had these spicy beef soup noodle that burned my lips like crazy but i could not resist that brothy magic.

then we got some gelato up in there! i feel bad for the untouched flavors

then we took tourist photos in front of random waterfalls

and found T.I.

went to the buffet @ the Wynn. which was my favorite eating spot...especially because no one's there to judge me and my 8 plates.

like Crossroads...but kinda a lot more better

and i gained some pounds!

this was unfortunate

douglas played some slots and it knew his name

first, this discotheque is playing some natasha bedingfield song, then doug goes and peeks in in between the horizontal slats of the glass. then he asks to take a picture with the name of the bar.....   .... . . . . . . .  . . .   .  .  .     .

so i do the same thing with a liberty torch on the wall

me and my child:

judgements are not tolerated, friends.

then we saw wayne brady! he's funny

and although that's us in front of a picture of The Wayne, we actually saw his show. 

it was good.

peace.