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08 04 : Fri

>> Rally Against Hate
Clement | 09:33 PM PST | BE Y1U | guestbook
Today Diego, Dan, Kiet, Hide, Lee, and I went to the Rally Against Hate put on by the San Diego LGBT Community Center and San Diego Pride in response to the attack on six gay men happened last Sunday after the Pride festival. There were a lot of major political people there, and the rally was pretty nice I think. A way of saying that our community cares and we react when shit like this happens.

07 30 : Sun

>> SD Pride 2006
Clement | 02:27 PM PST | BE Y0U | guestbook
SD Pride is finally over. We had the second Pride Prep Party on Friday night to finish up some final preparations for the parade on Saturday. We got there at around 8:00 AM on Saturday to build the rainbow balloon arch. Too bad the helium tank that Diego donated only had enough helium to fill up a few balloons, and we didn't know until that morning, so our balloon arch wasn't really floating in the air but laying on top of the car, which worked out just fine really. Anyway, the parade was fun and we had a lot of out-of-town brothers there to support us. Honestly, I don't think it was as exciting as our last year's "car-wash" theme, but it was quite nice nonetheless. We didn't volunteer this year, so we got the rest of the day to just go to the festival and enjoy.

07 25 : Tue

>> National Convention at Seattle
Clement | 07:51 PM PST | BE Y0U | guestbook
I just got back from Seattle. We were there for almost a whole week for DLP's 17th National Convention. Last Wednesday morning, Alwyn gave Josh, Dan, and I a ride to the airport. Our flight left at 8:30 AM, so we all got to the airport at around 6:30 AM. We arrived at Seattle at around 10:30 AM, checked in at our hostel, and went straight to sightseeing the city. The convention was only from Friday to Sunday, but we decided since we're gonna spend a chunk of money on air fare and hotel, might as well go a couple days early so we could check out the city while we're there. We did lots of sightseeing the first couple days. It wasn't completely new to me since I've been to Seattle a couple times before while I was an exchange student in Washington State back in 2000.
Friday was check-in for the conference and also the a resolution meeting for all the delegates. Dan and I went to that while everyone else went shopping 'cause we're the elected delegates for our chapter. This year's convention was fun, and I really enjoyed the experience of being a delegate at the business meeting. I was an alternate last year and it's just different while you actually have a voice and be able to vote and make a different. The resolutions this year is not as exciting as last year though. However, there were definitely a few controversial ones. It's interesting how I noticed that chapters from different regions seem to share similar beliefs and ideas, while differ from chapters of other regions. Like us western region chapters seem to stick together against the central and eastern region chapters on a few of the resolutions.
So, the convention was officially over after the banquet on Sunday night. Our chapter got Chapter of the Year award in the western region, and since I helped design this year's convention t-shirt, I was thanked by the national secretary Russell during the award session. It was nice being recognized for your work, and it was really sweet of him to mention it. :)
Monday was our last day there. Since our flight didn't leave until 5 PM, I finally got a chance to shop for a little souvenir. We got back really late last night, and I didn't unpack until today.

06 27 : Tue

>> San Francisco Pride 2006
Clement | 06:31 PM PST | BE Y0U | guestbook
This past weekend, I went up to San Francisco for this year's SF Pride with Chris, Steven, and Adam. Chris is originally from Fremont, and his parents were out of town for summer vacation, so we stayed at his place the whole trip. We left last Thursday morning, drove all day, and didn't get to his house until really late. I drove part of the way on the way up. It was good practice for me, and I got to experience what it feels like to get tired of driving.
Friday was fun. We took the Bart to Berkeley and hung out there all day, mostly checked out the UC Berkeley campus and the downtown. That night we went to this Downelink pre-pride party. It wasn't that exciting, but it was fun to get out.
The next day we went to Castro and met up with Wilton, Dan, and some other friends from UCSD who also went up for Pride. There was this Pink Party at night there. It was basically a pre-pride block party. We first went to this house party near Castro and then went to a club before heading to the block party. The house party was fun, but the club was so crowded. The block party was amazing. There were tons of (gay) people packing several blocks of streets. It was certainly a scene.
Sunday morning was the parade and the festival. We were a bit late but caught the second half of the parade and went to the festival ground for the rest of the day. It was definitely a lot more impressive than the first San Diego Pride I went to last year.
We left around noon on Monday and got back to San Diego around 1 am in the morning.

05 13 : Sat

>> Sun God Festival
Clement | 04:06 PM PST | BE Y1U | guestbook
Since I didn't really go to Sun God last year, and this being my last year at UCSD, I didn't want to miss this last chance. So, Friday night, Dan, Kiet, and I got drunk first at my apartment before heading out to school at around 9 PM. I don't even remember when was the last time I got drunk. We met up with Chris and a few other friends on campus and went to the concert. We got there just in time to see My Chemical Romance got on stage. I heard No Use For A Name was there earlier, but I totally missed them. They're one of my favorite bands. Honestly, we didn't really do much the whole night, but just being drunk and not having to think about all these stress and dramas in life was totally worth it.

04 01 : Sat

>> Dream Comes True?
Clement | 11:14 AM PST | BE Y3U | guestbook
Lately I've been feeling a little distant from Kiet, and as much as I would like to keep telling myself that perhaps I'm way too sensitive and it's just all in my head, it's obviously apparent that he has been trying to avoid me. And I, through my loneliness and sadness, has come to a realization. Ever since I met Kiet, and especially after we moved in together, I've been spending all my time and energy on him. What happened to the Clement who values all his friends and always enjoyed the company of others? Ever since I met Kiet, I've felt content. I've been neglecting all my other friends and missing out on all the bonding opportunities with others. So, I've decided to take the effort and initiative to hangout with my other friends more often, and it started with my little brother, Daniel. I invited him to hangout yesterday afternoon, and we watched Ice Age 2: The Meltdown, which we both enjoyed very much. Afterward we went to a tapioca cafe and talked about a lot of things. It was really nice, and he suggested I should really go out and catch up with everyone else; making up for all these time I've neglected them, not for them, but for myself.
I took his advice, and went clubbing in L.A. with Dan, Tri, Alwyn, and Josh last night, which by the way, turned out to be the best clubbing experience I ever had. For some reasons, finally getting away from Kiet made me feel relieved emotionally. Halfway through the night, while we were all dancing on the stage, this Asian guy who was dancing with a girl friend of his started dancing with Alwyn. Not long after, he slowly approached me and took off my shirt, and started dancing with me. I was so shocked and happy at that moment. I thought he was cute too, but knowing myself and how unconfident I'm, I would've never even considered anyone could possibly be interesed in me, especially in a club situation where there are plenty of way more attractive guys than me. In the past, the idea of dancing with other people totally scares me, but that night, my own bravery surprised me. Perhaps it was the loneliness, or was it my desperate attempt to let go of Kiet by looking for someone else? I'm not too sure, but we danced together topless for rest of the night. He didn't have his cellphone with him, so I got his number and took the initiative to text him on my way back down to San Diego. At the end of the night, all I know about him is that his name is Brandon and he is Vietnamese, but still it felt like a dream come true. For the first time in my life, I've found someone I'm interested who is also interested in me.

02 05 : Sun

>> Out of It
Clement | 02:53 AM PST | BE Y2U | guestbook
I should be looking forward to next week, but I'm not. With the amount of work I've on my plate, I don't think anyone can look forward to it. Usually I would want to write down all the stuff that I need to do, but I just can't bring myself to think about them right now. Yes, this is me; this is usually how I deal with my problems; avoiding them and running away from them until I can't anymore. I'm also a bit out of it lately, or perhaps just the last two days.
Shawn is finally back from his two-week trip to Toronto. So we went out for dinner Friday night. We went to this totally overpriced Italian restaurant in Little Italy, and he told me all about his trip - the good, and the bad. Afterward I went to the Albertson's nearby with Chris 'cause they were having a closing down sale. Everything was 10-50% off. Anyway, I spent more than $80 on grocery and some Crest® Whitestrips®. The last time I used those was like 2 years ago. It was time for me to get some again especially since they were 25% off. After we dropped off Chris' grocery at his place, we came back to my place and watched half of Formula 17. I said half 'cause Chris fell asleep halfway through the movie. But I was content nonetheless. I was so blue the whole day and craving for watching a cheesy romanic comedy with someone all day. I even downloaded Brokeback Mountain waiting for Kiet to come back from work so we could watch it, but having him told me that he was going on a date with someone to watch the same movie just didn't help my mood at all. So I was grateful that Chris was able to spend sometime with me.
Today the blue lingered. Having so much work to worry about obviously didn't help. Well, I basically done nothing productive but watched Oliver Twist, which is a great movie by the way. UCSD LGBTQIA's 11th annual drag show Divas in Denial XI was tonight. It was way better than last year's in my opinion. The only thing was it was suppose to be our pre-rush event for the frat but not that many brothers were there. So, that was that. I really need to get out of my blue soon 'cause this is really bugging me. I've so much I need to do and yet I don't find the motivation to do them because of my mood.

01 22 : Sun

>> Surprise Party
Clement | 10:25 PM PST | BE Y0U | guestbook
Tomorrow is Hide's birthday, so last Friday we threw him a surprise party at our apartment. It was Kiet's idea, and I was responsible for somehow bringing Hide to our apartment Friday night without him getting suspicious. So, I asked him to go shopping with me at the North County mall in Escondido. We spent so much time there, and while the time came for us to head back to the apartment, I had to come up with some excuse to get Hide to go ('cause we all know, when Hide goes shopping, it's not that easy to get him to leave unless he bought the whole mall with him...) Anyway, I managed to get him back to the apartment an hour later than the original planned time. He totally didn't see it coming. The party theme was Japan, so Kiet made all these origami and hung them all over the apartment for decoration, and some people were wearing Japanese clothing, etc.
I got a surprise that night too... well, I don't really want to go into details about it. Let's just say that what happened that night makes me re-evaluate what I really want. And yes, sex is really overrated.

01 15 : Sun

>> Really Short and Reddish Brown
Clement | 03:37 PM PST | BE Y2U | guestbook
Friday night we went out to dinner with a whole bunch of people for Phil's birthday. We went to this Korean restaurant that was definitely over-charged. Then we went to Boomers! for miniature golf. It was my first time going to Boomers! and my first time playing miniature golf. Afterward we went back to Phil's place and drink and play games 'til really late.
Yesterday I went shopping with Hideki but I didn't buy much. Last night Kiet helped me cut my hair and Hideki dyed it for me. Now I've this really short, reddish brown haircut. I'm really happy with it. There were so many times in the past when I went to get a haircut at barber shops and they never cut it how I wanted. This time Kiet totally listened to me and cut it exactly how I want it. I shall post some pictures up once I've them cropped and resized.

11 10 : Thu

>> 22nd Birthday
Clement | 03:11 AM PST | BE Y5U | guestbook
So, Friday night my friends threw me my first surprise birthday party. I was kind of suspecting something was going on, since Kiet and Shawn aren't the greatest secret keepers, and they were the ones planning the party. But I was still surprised nonetheless since my 22nd birthday was actually on Saturday, and the party was on Friday night. So, Shawn took me out to dinner Friday night saying it was for my birthday, while Kiet was home getting everything ready. It was an Apple themed party and everyone contributed too. Alwyn bought the customized birthday cake; Mike bought Apple juice and pie; Daniel bought drinks; Phil cooked the food; Chris provided all the Apple posters and decorations; Frank bought the balloons; Jen and Shawn Ta drove all the way down from L.A., etc. Another thing that I was surprised about was the amount of people at the party. I didn't realize how many people I actually know. I'm truly grateful how much effort, money, and energy they put into the party. I had a blast that night. We played Truth or Dare, and there were some great moments to be remembered.
This coming weekend I'll be going up to Oakland for a national LGBT conference put on by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. I'm leaving with Will and Peper on Thursday night and we won't be back until probably late Sunday night. The Resource Center paid for the registration and hotel, so technically I'm going as a staff representing the LGBT Resource Center. To be honest, I'm not too looking forward to it. My co-workers are nice and great to work with, but I don't know about spending a whole weekend with them. Besides, I'll be missing out on the pledge carwash this Sunday, and now I need to put off finishing my new layout until later. Oh well, I guess it will be another experience for me.

10 30 : Sun

>> Horny or Lonely?
Clement | 03:42 AM PST | BE Y4U | guestbook
Last night we all went out to the Haunted Trail. It was my first time and I had a great time. It was awesome seeing all our brothers together having a great time.
Daniel and I went out for lunch this afternoon. I'm really happy I get him as a little brother. We talked about a lot of things and he started our interview. He's a great guy and I really look forward to seeing him cross-over as a brother.
Yesterday afternoon Hide and Daniel went to get customes for the Halloween party tonight. Originally I didn't want to go 'cause Kiet said he wasn't going. I was so stupid. I really need to get over Kiet. I've been missing out on a lot simply because of my feeling for him, and besides, this is my life and I really need to move on. Hide convinced me and I got a pirate custome. I'm really glad I went to the party tonight too. I had a great time hanging out with everyone. I got a ride home with Justin, Chris, and Phil. Talked with Phil the whole way back about a lot of things. I got a little surprise when Justin dropped me off. I don't know if I really like him or if I was just way too flattered when he told me I'm cute since I have such low self-esteem. But either way at least I really think that he's cute too. We kissed... but nothing more. I was either feeling horny or lonely, I really really wanted him to come up; a little hook-up could be nice you know, but I stopped myself from going further. Do I regret? Perhaps a little. Let's just say I'm way too inexperienced that I'm afraid I would get hurt. But I guess taking it slow can be a good thing. We'll see how it goes.

08 13 : Sat

>> Take a Break from San Diego
Clement | 12:22 PM PST | BE Y7U | guestbook
Yesterday after work I went tabling with Shaun, Anthony, and Laura for the Resource Center and QPOC at the Summer Bridge Student Organizations Fair. It was exciting seeing some new faces coming in UCSD this Fall. Hopefully they'll be active once they're here 'cause help is much needed in many queer organizations here on campus, especially after Anthony mentioned he would like to see QPOC bring back the high school conference this year. If we were to organize a conference with our lack of experience, we need as much help as we can get.
Anyway, didn't really do much last night; spent most of the night packing and getting ready for Boston. Our flights leave tonight at around 7pm. I said flights instead of flight because we're flying out on different airplanes. In fact, I'll be all by myself until we get to Boston. It's not a big deal though. I've flown internationally all the way back to Hong Kong all by myself before, flying across the country doesn't worry me. Shawn wants to have dim sum this afternoon before we leave, and there are a couple errands I hope to get done before we go, like depositing my check so I've money for the trip, and getting a bigger memory card for my digital camera. I don't think the 32MB memory card that came with my camera will be enough for this one week trip. And since I don't know when I'll get the chance to go to the east coast again, I want to capture as much as I can. To be honest, I'm really looking forward to this trip, not just because it's Boston, but also because I can finally take a break from my work, from my feeling for Kiet, from San Diego...
Wish me a safe flight. I'll have my PowerBook with me, so hopefully I'll be able to keep you guys up to date with my journey. Bye for now.

08 09 : Tue

>> Never Gone
Clement | 11:25 PM PST | BE Y2U | guestbook
Sorry I haven't updated for more than a month. There were so many things happened this past month. With the new job at LGBT Resource Center on campus, going to Denver for the National Convention for the fraternity, organizing and signing up our chapter at the San Diego Pride parade, and all those apartment moving and drama... All these things in life just kept me busy from the web. Especially now my job is basically making the website and all the publicity graphics for the Resoure Center, I just don't want to look at the computer screen anymore once I'm home. But I just can't bring myself to abandon my site like this. I've always come back everytime, and this time is no different. However, I've no interest in recapping everything that happened in this past month. Let's just start all over again, right here and right now, and hopefully this time I'll find the commitment to continue the journal.

02 21 : Mon

>> Western Regional Conference
Clement | 07:36 PM PST | BE Y10U | guestbook
Last week was hectic. No, this time I really mean it. My two mid-term went okay. For my History of Art and Technology mid-term, I got a 29/30. But I think I totally fucked up my Musical Acoustics one. I was supposed to register for my Spring classes last week as well. So I went and talked to an advisor to make sure I'll be taking all the right classes, only to find that one of the classes I'm supposed to take next quarter has been cancelled. Because of that, it totally messed up my class sequence and I might have to stay for two extra quarters due to the way the classes are lined up. That would suck big time, you know. Just because of one class, I need to stay for two extra quarters? I don't know if I can even do that. I'm going to try to talk to the faculty advisor and explain to him my situation and such. But if it doesn't work out, I'll just have to stay for two more quarters and perhaps take up a minor or something. At least I can say I've tried. We'll see how that works out.
This weekend I went to the 16th Annual Western Regional LGBTQIA College Conference at UC Davis. It was an awesome experience especially since it's the first LGBTQI conference I've ever been to. I've learned a great deal in that 2 days. They performed the play The Laramie Project on Friday night and it was very powerful. Very different from the HBO version but powerful in its own way nonetheless. This conference really motivated me to be more active and involved in the LGBTQI movement. The dance on Saturday night was great. I haven't had so much fun in a long time, not to mention I got sandwiched. A lot has happened this weekend but I don't feel like going into details about all of them, and sometimes there're just something you can't really describe or explain easily. Let just say that I've found a certain feelings I'd lost and forgotten...

02 14 : Mon

>> Queer Kiss-In 2005
Clement | 10:20 PM PST | BE Y9U | guestbook
This past weekend was all about Delta Lambda Phi. Friday night was our last rush event; Saturday night was an invite-only dinner/get-together; and Sunday was our Induction day. I can't believe I'm officially pledging a fraternity. Like during the whole rushing period I was just taking it easy and just wanted to hang out and meet people. But on the Induction day and especially after the Induction ceremony, I was very uneasy with my decision. I just felt like it was wrong and this is just not me. Like I didn't really know if I wanted to join or not. I mean, the brothers are cool people and I like them and such. I just don't really have a big motivation to join, but there isn't really much of an opposition either. So I came home and talked to my roommates for a bit, and we figured I might as well go and experience what it is like to be in a fraternity. Nothing is wrong with that, plus it's not like I'm in already. I still need to go through the whole 10-week pledge period.
Anyway, Sunday night after the Induction I went on campus and helped out with the last-minute preparation for the Kiss-In. We made a few sets of buttons and some posters and such. Kiss-In is basically an event QPOC hold every year on Valentine's Day to try to bring awareness of the queer community in this hetero-dominant culture and holiday. The idea originated from the Sit-in protests by African Americans during the Civil Rights Movement. The Kiss-In is a public display of queer affection, where queer couples kiss, embrace, or even just hold hands, to show the campus that queer people do exist on this campus and that we are also part of it.
This morning I got to school at around 10am, and helped setting up all the tables and posters (with queer people kissing on them) on Library Walk (the central part of campus), and I was there the entire time except for lunch. We sold almost all of our T-shirts. We have them in two colors: red and pink. It was awesome seeing people walking around wearing a T-shirt with my design on it. We sold a lot of buttons too, and we also had a George W. Bush carboard stand-up there, and we put a rainbow-colored scraf over its neck and taped a speaking-bubble with "I Love Them Homos! Yee-Haw!" to its mouth, and let people take pictures with it. It was fun to see people's reactions when they walked by us. A lot of people were shocked to see two same-sex people kissing in public; some are very supportive and a few reacted negatively. It was definitely way more successful than last year according to some old members. I'll definitely put up some pictures once I've the time.
I've been busy helping out with all these events that I didn't even have time to study for my two mid-terms coming up this week. I've one for the History of Art and Technology tomorrow night and another one for Musical Acoustic on Thursday morning. I'm so worried about them and I probably won't have the time to post until after Thursday. We'll see how they go. Wish me luck!

02 10 : Thu

>> T-Shirt & Botton Designs
Clement | 11:50 PM PST | BE Y5U | guestbook
This week was a bit more hectic than I originally thought it would be. On top of all the readings and homework for classes, I also needed to design the T-shirts and buttons for QPOC and the Day of Silence committee. It was so hectic that I skipped a lecture for the first time this quarter.
Anyway, I bought in a few T-shirt designs I've come up with to the Day of Silence committee meeting on Wednesday, but they wanted a few changes here and there. My designs are not confirmed yet, and they might end up not using my designs at all. We'll see how it goes. I just don't want to put in all these time and effort and have them ended up being wasted. I've also designed some buttons and logos for QPOC mainly for the up-coming event on Monday called Kiss-In. It is basically an idea originated from the sit-ins during the Civil Right Movement. But instead of sitting at restuarants, people from the LGBTQI community will be kissing on Library Walk (the central area of our campus) to bring up people's awareness of the queer community. We picked next Monday (Valentine's Day) for the event mainly because we want people to know and be more inclusive of the queer community in this very hetero-themed holiday. I gave them my button and logo designs, and apparently they like the logo so much that they decided to make T-shirts out of it. However, we can only afford to print one color on the T-shirt, which limited the possibility of the design to a certain extent. I'll need to make adjustment accordingly and get it done by Saturday morning in order for the T-shirts to be made in time for Monday. Perhaps I'll post up the designs once I get them all done and confirmed.
Tonight there was a "work-party" going on to get ready and prepare for the Kiss-In but I couldn't make it because there was also a rush event going on for the DLP fraternity. Rush events continue on this week. Tuesday night we had a Chinese Lunar New Year dinner and gathering at one of the active brothers' house. Then tonight we went to Fashion Valley (a mall nearby this area) for dinner and watched Boogeyman. Man, that was one bad movie; kind of lame and cliched. I was really disappointed 'cause the trailer seems pretty good.
After about a week of rushing, so far I like the brothers and rushees. They are all very nice and fun people; some have great personality and some are good-looking, but I only like them as friends 'cause they're not really my type. Except there is this one guy called Dante from SDSU that I think is kind of cute, but he is not really rushing plus he has a boyfriend already, so that doesn't count. Honestly, throughout this whole rush process, my perspective of the fratenity has definitely changed; before, the idea of joining a fraternity had never crossed my mind and now I'm even considering pledging, but we'll see how it goes.

02 07 : Mon

>> Rush Events and Drag Show
Clement | 02:58 PM PST | BE Y9U | guestbook
This weekend was packed with rush events. Friday night we went to this San Diego State LGBT bonfire. Met a few people there and got to know the brothers a bit more. Afterward we went to Hillcrest for some food and didn't get back until 1-ish in the morning.
Saturday afternoon we went to Dave & Buster's. I had like over 1700 tickets from before when Jen and I went there over the winter break. I finally got a mug for 200 and now I still have over 1500 tickets left. Then we ate at In-N-Out and headed to the 10th annual Divas in Denial Drag Show held on campus by the LGBTQIA. We had a few performers from our school and some from the San Diego Kind's Club. Tons of drag queens and kings; it was a blast. Afterward we went to one of the brothers' dorm room and watched The Forgotten and stayed there until 4am. It was fun though. I haven't had small get-together like this for a long while.
Sunday was a relaxing day. Didn't wake up until 2 in the afternoon. Watched Super Bowl XXXIX. It was an okay game; wasn't the most exciting game I've seen. It would be if the Eagles came back at the end and tied the game. The commercials this year weren't that funny either; definitely not as good as previous years in my opinion. After the Super Bowl, Kyle and I watched The Animatrix, The Matrix Reloaded, and The Matrix Revolutions in a row. I hadn't seen The Animatrix before and I had only seen the last two installments of the trilogy once in theater, so I didn't really understand the trilogy as a whole that well before. But last night Kyle and I totally figured out the whole thing. It was awesome. We ended up staying up until 3am.
If you guys haven't noticed yet, I've created some webbands for Open-Mind. webbands are like wristbands but for websites. Just go check out Open-Mind for more information. Besides that, I haven't really done anything else remotely productive this weekend. I still need to work on the T-shirt designs for the Day of Silence committee, the button and poster designs for QPOC and the up-coming event, Kiss-In. On top of that, I still need to finish the take-home essay question for my Formation of Modern Art mid-term, and all those weekly readings for various classes. God helps me...

11 22 : Mon

>> Students of Color Conference
Clement | 01:12 PM PST | BE Y11U | guestbook
The Students of Color Conference was awesome! We got to UCLA at around 8am on Saturday morning, registered and had breakfast. The whole conference basically divided into 5 workshop sessions and a few caucuses. Two main caucuses I attended were Students of Color: Asian and Pacific Islander and Queer People of Color. They were very powerful and informational. I became alot more aware of the problems students of color are facing everyday. One of the workshops I attended also covered the whole situation on the war in Iraq and gave me a more thorough background and idea on the issue. Coming Out as Queer Students of Color on Compus was another workshop I went to. There was a queer student killed himself in UCLA just two days before the conference, so that was the focus of our discussion in that workshop.
Me and Dan had dinner with Rigo, who is a principle member of QPOC and also one of the two students organize our school to attend the conference. He is very active in various student organizations, and I was surprised to find out that he was also a transfer student just like me. In a sense, he is very inspirational, and hopefully someday I'll be as active as he is.
Saturday was a full day; the last session didn't finish until around 9pm. That night me and a few friends who were also there with QPOC went to Rage, a gay club in West Hollywood, which is the gay area in Los Angeles. Anyway, it was my first time going to a gay club and it was mad fun. We didn't get back until 2 o'clock in the morning. At first I was a bit upset I couldn't go to the LGBTQIA Homocoming dance this Saturday night because of the conference, but going to a real gay club is just that much better, so I've no regret!
There were only two sessions on Sunday, and we left L.A. at around 3pm and got back to San Diego at 5pm. Overall this conference and the weekend was a great experience and I'm glad I went, and I would definitely try to go to more conferences from now on.

10 25 : Mon

>> San Diego Asian Film Festival
Clement | 01:25 AM PST | BE Y16U | guestbook
Sorry for not posting for a few days. I've been addicted to eBay these past few days. Well, it all began last Thursday, when I suddenly got the urge to get an iBook. Well, the laptop I've now is almost 3 year old and I kind of want to get a new computer. And since I'm gonna be doing alot of design and media work for school, and all my TAs have Mac laptops, I thought I might as well get a Mac instead of a PC. So I started looking online for more information, and at first I thought I would get an iBook 'cause they're cheaper in general, but then I've decided I want a PowerBook instead 'cause that would probably last me longer before I'll have to upgrade again. So, that's why I've been on eBay these past few days trying to get a decent one with a lower price. Currently I'm debating over should I get a latest G4 model with over 1Ghz CPU for around $1300 or an older model with only a G4 876MHz CPU for around $900. I want to get a newer model because it has a better upgrade capability and it probably won't be outdated too soon, but then again it's a $400 difference. I'm having a really hard time deciding, so throw in your 2 cents and let me know what you think.
Anyway, this weekend passed by without getting much done. Have been getting quite a bit of sleep though, which is a good thing since I defintiely needed it. Friday I took a 4 hour nap, so I stayed up 'til 4am watching Halloween with Kyle. He needs to write a paper on it for his film class and didn't want to watch it by himself 'cause according to him it was really scary. And since I hadn't seen it before, I watched it with him. It was alright; a pretty good movie considering how old it's, and kinda scary as well. We're planning on watching the 2nd one this coming weekend, we'll see. I went to the 5th San Diego Asian Film Festival this Saturday night with Dan, and we watched Queer Shorts: Unzipped, which is a collection of short LGBT-related films. They were really throught-provoking and brought up a lot of issues relating to queer Asians, who are the double minorities in this predominantly white culture and society.
Yesterday I made this Straylight Run wallpaper for Kyle 'cause he's like in love with the band (especially the girl in it) now; he has been listening to their new CD like non-stop these past weeks. He asked if I could make him a wallpaper 'cause he couldn't find any good one on the internet, so this is what I came up with. I haven't made wallpaper for so long but he likes it alot so I'm glad. I've also re-opened the layout archive, so go check out my past layouts if you're interested. Anyway, it's getting late so I better go to bed now; got lots of schoolwork to catch up with tomorrow.

10 03 : Sun

>> LGBTQIA Non-Sexist Dance
Clement | 08:15 PM PST | BE Y9U | guestbook
So yesterday afternoon I went shopping with Dan. He picked me up at around 4:30pm. He was supposed to shop for a pair of running shoes, but we couldn't find one so ya. I spent a $100 at Abercrombie though. I got a zip-up sweatshirt for $50, a polo-shirt for $20, and a long-sleeves shirt for $25. I mean, I really liked the zip-up sweatshirt and the long-sleeves shirt, and the polo was on sale, so I guess it was worth...
We had dinner at Carl's Jr, and headed over to school at around 10pm. The LGBTQIA Non-Sexist Dance started at 9pm, but we didn't wanna be those losers that got there real early. Anyway, the dance was fun. There were ALOT more people that I've expected, which is good 'cause there were alot more hot/cute guys. Even though the dance was hosted on campus by the UCSD LGBTQIA, there were alot of people from the San Diego area attended. I danced with Dan and Michael the whole night. And you know what? I got hit on during the dance!! Well, not long after we first started, there was this black guy started lap-dancing with me, but the thing was I've no fuckin' idea how to dance with him, so like after a couple of minutes the guy just left. What a bummer!! Oh well, he's not my type anyway... The dance was pretty wild. There were a few shirtless guys, and I saw quite a few guys making out on the dance floor. It was quite a scene, but it was depressing at the same time though, like you see all these couples and other guys hooking up, and then you start thinking about being single sucks!! Raf was there too, he was dancing by himself at first, and I was kinda tempted to ask him to dance with us... but then of course, being the shy, lack of self confidence, low self-esteem guy I'm, I didn't... and then a bit later I saw him dancing with this guy called Wil I met from the LGBTQIA meetings. Then I kinda hated myself for not asking earlier... oh well... For some reasons, I wished Jen was there though. The dance ended at 1am. When we were walking out of the dance, people were handing out condoms and I got a pack too. There were like 4 flavored condoms and a pack of lubricant. The ones I got were banana flavor, but I wish I could trade in for a strawberry-flavored pack. Dan took me home after the dance, but I didn't go to bed until 5am this morning though... I just didn't feel like sleeping. I don't know, I guess I was in my down mood or something.
I woke up at 12:30pm this morning (or should I say this afternoon?) and I did my laundry. Didn't really do anything else. I've lots of schoolwork I need to do though... like I've my first Intro to 2D Art-Making assignment due Tuesday, and a short response paper which I suppose to post online due mid-night Monday for Intro to Media. Well, I better get started with my homework, at least that will keep me occupied from thinking about stupid things.

10 02 : Sat

>> San Diego Film Festival
Clement | 04:28 PM PST | BE Y5U | guestbook
I only had an Intro to Computing in the Arts discussion session in the morning yesterday, so I was done with class by noon. I bought a pack of 50 DVD-Rs for $20 at the vender fair on campus. I had to take the bus home yesterday 'cause Jen left for home right after her class for the weekend, and Kyle was gonna stay at the school after his class to play some basketball. The bus ride wasn't that bad; it was only like 40 mins long, but the walk from the bus-stop to my apartment was pretty bad. It was almost another 40 mins. Luckily I had my iPod with me.
When I was home I kinda went through the stuff I got from the Q-Camp, and I saw that there's this San Diego Film Festival going on, and that there're 3 independent gay films featuring in the festival. One of them, called Sugar was playing last night at an independent film theater in downtown San Diego, so I called up Dan to see if he wanna go. Well, he was free last night, so I ordered the tickets online. He came pick me up and we drove to the Old Town trolley station, and took the trolley to downtown 'cause we didn't wanna deal with the traffic and finding parking in the city. The movie wasn't until 7:45pm but we got to downtown an hour early to pick up our tickets. I bought an issue of XY magazine and then we went to get pizza for dinner before the movie.
The film was okay... totally not what I've expected. There were LOTS of people there; like the entire theater was packed, mostly with gay couples. It was nice seeing that many gay couples though 'cause it kinda shows that gay people DO have a future.
Anyway, after the movie, we head back to my place, and I lend Dan some of my gay movies and documentaries 'cause Sugar was the gay film he has seen and it wasn't that good really, so I want him to watch the good stuff!! We talked for a while too about all kinds of stuff from tricky interview questions to my website experience. I feel bad for him though 'cause I talked alot and I was like the one who talked most of the time, but ya.
There is this LGBTQIA Non-Sexist Dance going on on campus tonight. They've two of these dances a quarter, and according to what I heard, they're supposely the best dances on campus! So, of course I'll have to go check it out. This late afternoon Dan and I are gonna go do some shopping, and then we're gonna go get dinner before the dance. This is gonna be the first gay dance I've ever been to too, so I'm really excited and of course... nervous.

09 06 : Mon

>> Airman Basic Gig
Clement | 01:42 PM PST | BE Y3U | guestbook
Saturday late afternoon I went to a movie with Vicky, Tomo, and Stan (my friends from Cabrillo). We watched Napoleon Dynamite, and it was so funny. Weird, yes, but funny!! I don't get why it's only showing in selected theaters. We got out of the movies at around 7pm, and I knew I should've left at that time 'cause I was suppose to go to Vladi and his roommates' first football game of the season. But I didn't, instead, I went to Vicky's house with Tomo and watched a Hong Kong movie, The Eye 2. I haven't seen the first one yet, but I guess they aren't really connected in any way. It was pretty scary though. So I ended up not getting back until 10pm, and I missed the whole football game. Oh well, they lost 24-49 that night anyway, so it's not like I missed a big game or anything. I would just get pissed if I go.
Yesterday Vladi took me to the storage, so I could organize my stuff a little bit. Yesterday night Stephen and I went to Monterey for a gig. Airman Basic was playing at the Blue Fin Cafe there last night. It was an awesome show. They all played really well, especially Rafael's guitar skill. They just rocks my socks! They took some pictures of the band last night too, so hopefully they'll be able to send me some to put on the website or something later. We'll see.

04 21 : Wed

>> Day of Silence '04
Clement | 12:55 AM PST | BE Y6U | guestbook

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04 18 : Sun

>> Sea Otter Classic
Clement | 01:59 AM PST | BE Y14U | guestbook
Thanks so much for everyone's comments and advices on my last entry. I really appreciate them and I'm glad that there are actually people out there who support me. Thanks a lot, guys & girls!!
Anyway, last several days were alright. Thursday and Friday I didn't do much; just stayed at home watching some old DVDs with Vladi, and rewrote my last paper. Yes, I actually did some schoolwork. Then this morning (or yesterday morning if you prefer, since it's past midnight already) Beth called me and woke me up at 9am. We had planned to go to this huge bicycle event called Sea Otter Classic down in Monterey. There were so many people, and we saw a lot of professional, sponsored bikers. There were regular racing as well as people doing jumps and tricks and stuff. One of the highlights was this biker who rode his bike off this 50 feet jump off. It was just crazy and mad awesome, not to mention that there were a lot of hot bikers. We stayed until 2:30pm then headed back to Santa Clara with Beth. I basically just hung out and chilled at her apartment. Then tonight we went and watched The Girl Next Door. It was really different than what I thought it would be, but it was pretty good nonetheless.
You know what, there's one thing though. This past several days I've been thinking about Steven alot. I just couldn't take him off my mind. I tried to keep myself busy, but whatever I do, my mind just drift back to him... I hope that Monday will come sooner. Anyway, here's a special pluggage to everyone who has given me advices regarding Steven: Cezanne, Mike, Cathy, Lei, Thiri, and especially to Dave. Well, I'm gonna go watch Kill Bill Vol.1 on DVD with my roommates right now, later guys.
[ADDED 03:07PM] Last night me and my roommates all fell sleep about halfway through the movie, so we woke up and finish the second half this afternoon. In fact, I just finished watching it. I mean, the movie is different than most major Hollywood movies nowadays and it's pretty cool I must say. But I really don't get what is the big deal about it? Why is everyone talking about it and such? To me, it's a good movie and I like it, but it's definitely not on my top-ten list.

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