tired

i hate long days and even longer nights.

so close...

well, it was horrible to watch the bruins lose two nights ago. it hurts, but the silver-lining is that the team will only get better next year. go bruins.

i got a lot of flack from the folks over at the 'bucks. painful.

a new song that i enjoy is by this group called neutral milk hotel. yeah, it's a very, very strange name for a group, but their song, "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea," is really good.

What a beautiful face
I have found in this place
That is circling all round the sun
What a beautiful dream
That could flash on the screen
In a blink of an eye and be gone from me
Soft and sweet
Let me hold it close and keep it here with me

And one day we will die
And our ashes will fly from the aeroplane over the sea
But for now we are young
Let us lay in the sun
And count every beautiful thing we can see
Love to be
In the arms of all I'm keeping here with me

What a curious life we have found here tonight
There is music that sounds from the streets.
There are lights in the clouds
Anna's ghost all around
Hear her voice as it's rolling and ringing through me
Soft and sweet
How the notes all bend and reach above the trees

Now how I remember you
How I would push my fingers through
Your mouth to make those muscles move
That made your voice so smooth and sweet
But now we keep where we don't know
All secrets sleep in winter clothes
With one you loved so long ago
Now he don't even know his name

What a beautiful face
I have found in this place
That is circling all round the sun
And when we meet on a cloud
I'll be laughing out loud
I'll be laughing with everyone I see
Can't believe how strange it is to be anything at all

i don't really know how anyone can transcribe for a living. it's insane. i'm working on a research study for one of my classes (ethnography) and i'm in the midst of transcribing my interviews. this has to be the most tedious work i've ever done in my life. and believe me, i've done a lot of tedious work in my life. the worst part is that you can't even listen to music at all and i can't work like that.

i woke up last night to my ceiling leaking, which isn't at all very nice. i remember thinking to myself, why is it that i feel like i'm getting water on my face? and of course, when i woke up, i realized that the drops of water dripping from my ceiling was actually hitting the night stand, which resulted with some of it splattering all over my face.

i think my apartment manager is not very effective in getting things fixed for our place. first, the window that was broken ever since we moved in (october) still isn't fixed. so i called him this morning and he said that he was going to come by at noon to fix it. that didn't happen. so yay for that.

to make the day even more spectacular than it was, when i went to do another interview, i was told that the instructor wasn't in and that all the students had left already. i guess it was good that i actually went and got some more transcribing done.

sometimes i wonder about graduate school.

one more game

wow, ucla bruins.

what can i say. one game away from a dozen basketball championships. what a great job they did tonight against a tough lsu team. great defensive display. tough. big baby played like he just had one. did you see how tired he was? and that's was in the early part of the first half.

nobody is greater then john wooden, but ben howland is coming really close to it. great job guys. sorry, i doubted you and having you lose in the finals against uconn (oops!). i hope i didn't jinx the team. *crossing my short, stubby fingers*

how is it possible for a coach to be that successful? honestly, three years after the lavin fiasco and we're one game from winning the national championship? hollins turning into a monster? the prince playing like he's an upperclassman? mata with his broken nose coming down with 8 boards in 17 mins?

for the first time in the tournament, i'm going to watch THE GAME live on monday. just like the 1995 championship game, when i was a freshman at ucla, i'm going to be watching it in westwood.

photo courtesy of cnnsi.

work buddies

these are some of the people i work with. the guy with the tie is pedro and he left us for a better job. well, one that has benefits.

from left: belem, eva, maggie, peter, yours truly, and maria (aka: sunrise).

i have to say, other than working at srlf, i haven't had so much fun at work, especially with this group of people.

peter and i would go down to the basement (where we keep a lot of supplies and old documents) and would play baseball with the christmas ornaments. it makes the ground really pretty.

in what has become a tradition, we would go every thursday to king taco after our supervisors leave and just chill afterwards. peter would swing by after he gets off from his job in the lbc and we would drive to kt, about a mile away, and grab food for everyone. ahhh, the good life.

one time, towards the end of february, we had a birthday/goodbye lunch at an italian restaurant in downtown, and peter and i just got hammered because we were allowed to drink. shots and beer. then we went back to work. needless to say, there wasn't very much work being done.

love see no colour

if i died now, i'd be a happy man.

it would suck though. and i'm sure deidra wouldn't be too happy about it. but my life would be complete.

there's this one song i have never been able to find. i've spent about 8 years or so wanting to hear the song again. it was played in the early 90's on kroq... when it was actually good. there's this one song i realky loved but never got the name of, never got the artist of. the only thing i remember about it was the following lines:

love won't see no colour
friendship is the same...
all that i ever got from you
was how to kneel and pray

i did searches, but nothing ever came up. i went as far as to email kroq about the song, but of course, i never heard back from them. elitist fucks.

so a few days ago, i was at work, bored. i saw that there was a new function from yahoo, a forum where you can ask people for information. i decided to give it a shot.

to my surprise, a couple of people answered me. one with the incorrect info. the other one sounded legit. the song could be from an obsure group called, the farm. so after searching amazon (both us and uk), tower records, virgin megastore, and barnes and noble websites, all of which didn't have any audio, i went on ebay.

i found several cds by the farm and decided to email one of the sellers if it was indeed my song. i gave him the lyrics that i knew and today i got the following reply:

Hi, that's the strangest request I've had so far; I'm listening to the song as I type; it is indeed the same song; nice song; grab it for a penny now!!!!

that's not even the best part. yesterday i was telling one of my friends from the bucks that there's this song i really wanted and since he's the self proclaimed computer master, he said he'd see if he can "find" it for me.

well today, he emailed me the song. and i'm listening to it. although i don't remember the song exactly, it is the song. i love it. the chorus rocks.

love ain't see no colour
friendship is the same
loving has no borders
hear the wiseman say

so just sit down and listen
to what i have to say
the only thing i ever got from you
is how to kneel and pray

on another happy note, sometime this year, i'm going to be a best man for one of my friends. i can't believe it, but i'm totally stoked. what an honor. i'm a little nervous, but i'm also very happy. it's going to be good. congrats!

last night, deidra forced me to go dancing with her at this club in alhambra. one of her classmates was having a birthday there. i haven't gone to a club in a long time, not that i used to go all the time. lines, loud music, people dancing. things i'm not too keen on.

after hanging out with her friends for a while, deidra wanted to go dancing. no thanks. so she and her friends went down and danced. after about 20 minutes, i couldn't stand watching her dance alone, without her man. so i decided if i look like a dumbass, i'll look like a dumbass with my baby. i went downstairs and started dancing with her. after about 20 minutes dancing to techno music, i said fuck this, and took her to a room in the back.

little did i know that they were playing 80's and 90's music in the back. we both agreed that this room was so much better, so we ended up staying in the back room for the rest of the night. a lot of smiths and morrissey. i was in dancing heaven. i actually had a great time.

when we left the club a little after 1am, we couldn't hear each other very well. we were on the street going, "what?" "what?" "did you say something?" to deidra's credit, she rewarded me really well when we got home. yeah, yeah!

today is the start of april and i'm going to be royally fucked this month. *sigh*