Love Notes

Click image to enlarge. How many times I got to tell ya!




Thanks to my friend Jeff for showing me these.

Nasser Reviews: TROPIC THUNDER Get Some

"Tropic Thunder Get Some" is a fast moving, gun-toting comedy flick starring Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr., and Tom Cruise. The movie is pretty straight forward, and doesn't require too much thinking. I would describe TTGS as a mix between "Rundown" and "Rambo", only funnier. I don't want to ruin the movie experience with spoilers, so I won't write about the plot. The basic idea the director probably had was to throw a group of comedy actors into the jungle and let them interact with each other. The characters were pretty interesting, and they really held the movie together. Jack Black's portrayal of a drug addict was great, and Downey's fake black persona was quite humorous. In my opinion, Jack Black was the funniest actor in the movie, and was lucky enough to get the best lines and scenes. I wouldn't categorize this film as simply a comedy. The action scenes and gun fights are very well executed and rival many other action movies out now. When the actors aren't joking around and delivering funny lines, they're shooting at enemies, jumping out of flying helicopters, killing pandas, and dodging missiles. Therefore, I'd label this as an action-comedy. Ben Stiller's deadpan style is the same as it is in other movies he's put out, such as "Zoolander" and "Starsky & Hutch". If you've seen those, you know what's in store. Tom Cruise had a great role in the movie as well, although I don't want to reveal which disguised role he plays. I didn't even know he was in the movie until the ending credits started appearing. Some of the characters could have been more developed and interesting, especially the two young guys in the squad. I didn't get to see them in any funny scenes, which is most likely due to poor writing by the movie's makers. All in all, "Tropic Thunder Get Some" is a good summer flick that's worth going out and watching. Just don't expect too much.



Movie Score: 4 grenades out of 5.

I haven't pooped in 24 hours

What can I say? I got skills.

Pho King Noodle

We've made a plan for the future. Darren and I are going to start up a noodle shop called Pho King Noodle. We will specialize in making the best Pho King Noodle in the world, with a Japanese and Pakistani twist. We are also thinking of adding a number at the end of the title so it has a sort of zap to it. Maybe like "Pho King Noodle #663". More information to come soon. Stay tuned, geezers.

A Brand New World

So yesterday I did a lot of stuff. I called up my colleague Darren to see if he wanted to khang out. He replied affirmative and we headed over to the bank to deposit two checks I had from school and work. Then we went to San Jose's hottest mall, Oakridge. I had some moneys on me so I bought a pair of Onitsuka Tigers with Darren's kick a-word discount at Journey's. Thanks. The shoes came with two different colors of laces: blue and white. Darren is a lacemaster, so he put the white laces on the right shoe, and blue on the left. They look trendy, I may say. I also purchased a green and white polo at Zumiez. It looks pretty dope. Anywho, here's a pic I found online of teh shoez:

After all that, we picked up Quynh. Her dad is allergic to grass. We went to the Cheese Steak Shop and I ordered the Zesty Veggie delight, but it was too much for me so I bagged it up to go. It could probably feed a whole African village. So yeah thats pretty much it. Nerrad and I danced to some indian music in the car, it was pretty cool. Later on at night Darren and myself headed over to my personal trainer Milad's house to work out our hot bods. Kewl, huh. I felt like I entered a brand new world yesterday.

Check out this optical illusion (Click to enlarge image, dogg)

Spider Extermination

Last night (Sunday Night) was pretty fun after work. Fermin, Daniel, Kim Long T. Nguyen, Darren, and I went around the neighborhood burning and exterminating pesky pests and creepy creatures. Using nothing more than a cell phone light, our brain power and a handful of fireworks, we managed to rid the nearby elementary school of its black widow spider epidemic. It felt good knowing that we might have saved an innocent child's life from the deadly grasp of these arachnid hoodlums. After killing vast scores of spiders and cock-a-roaches, we returned to civilization and karaoked the night away. Darren and I sang MGMT's "Time To Pretend" to Kim Long T. Nguyen's ladyfriend on the phone. It was a very special song and I hope she enjoyed the vocal delivery and meaning. We finished the night off by recording some funny voicemail away messages for ourselves with the help of Cool Edit Pro 2.0. The messages came out really really dang good. If you know Darren or myself, give us a call and hope we don't answer the phone.

Laterzz

Rafting Photograms + Hella Plagiarism

Below are the photograms from the rafting trip we had last week (I'm the good looking fellow in the yellow safety hat). These pictures were taken from some imaging company, and the greedy fools tried charging us $50 dollars for all the pics on a CD. We didn't pay. Don't ask how I got them.
















I was also going to write a really in-depth report of the trip, but my friend Andrew Fujishin beat me to it. Therefore, I'm just going to copy paste his blog entry. Don't worry though, I have it all cited in MLA format.

"Rafting with Matthew, Nasser, Daniel, and Joey on August 14th down Middle Fork American River, a class III-IV river *(popped our rafting cherry).
The night before we camped out and set up our weird looking tents... pix up later, it was hilarious because our tents were crooked compared to everyone elses, and we had a 'mini' one man tent which was set up by just throwing it in the air, lol. Our tent making skills took about 1 hr.. and it still looked like crap ahaha.We were 'newbs' so for dinner Nasser wanted to heat up his soup, so we walked to the store nearby and tried to buy something to eat at the restaurant. This weird looking lady came out and blocked the door really fast. Nasser was like "can we use your microwave?" lol and she seemed really.. eager to shoo us off (also w/ an inside joke). So she pointed us to a shop down the road, which was named "Deli, Liquor, and Lotto"
Matthew and I decide to buy a pizza, (what noobs we are buying this food.) So the guy is like "YOU ROOKIES, WHERES YOUR MAMA?!"
"YOU POOR LITTLE BABIES DON'T KNOW HOW TO CAMP OR WHAT? NEED MOMMA TO COOK SOMETHING?!" ...something to that effect, and hes like, "You can't microwave that pizza, what do you think this is, a deli??!?!" This was the main joke of the night because it was in fact, a deli. Also Nasser dubbed him the "contradicting man" because we are shopping at his store, giving him business, and he treats us like that, also the deli joke. lmaooooo
We didn't want to talk back to this man, because we had a feeling he had a shotgun under his table, he was one of those guys, ya know? lol so he proceeds to tell us the 'exact time' we should microwave our other stuff, and Nasser decides to microwave his noodles. He said, where you gonna get water from?? We are like uhhh we bought some... lol man this was the funniest thing of the trip, you need to be there to understand our jokes for that night. So we ended up returning the pizza, and Matt and I just decided to buy Lunchables and a sandwich. LOL. We were also joking because we were the only 'minorities' on the camp, and that the microwave lady singled us out (another inside joke lol). We swam in their little pool afterwards, having a little trouble because most of us haven't been in a pool in a long time. We had a few races and felt like idiots trying to be "Michael Phelps" and doing "reverse turns" under the water, which ended in utter FAILURE Towards 8:00 PM ish, some filipinos arrived next to us, and we were like, hey, brown people! (inside joke, no harm meant lol :)
but yeah, those filipinos and our group stayed up way past the 'quiet time' which was 10PM, and were probably too noisy until 12AM. I couldn't sleep for 3 hours because of the snoring. In the middle of the night, I heard a loud cat followed by some smell later on in the morning (skunk). Nasser's ringtone was hilarious. It was "Who Let The Dogs Out" which rang at 6:30, when NO ONE was awake. Middle Fork bus was leaving at 7:30 AM sharp. That probably woke up the whole camp, lol. WELL on with the trip..
Our guide Jeff was fantastic...the scenery was beautiful
The trip started off really crazy because "Good Morning" was the first rapid which was super cold and fast (below 50 degree water)... Later
we saw a few people downstream who caught a few large trout, some "Jesus birds" because they walk on water, and a few other crazy things, such as water snakes, and baby turtles. We even stopped to pick some berries fresh off the vine. Another cool little event was the 'surfing' part of the trip which is where the water meets downstream and upstream.
There was a rapid on the trip in which one of the boats got stuck (after the portage falls) because they didn't veer to the left, and went on the harder right path with a jagged rock.
We had to use our teamwork (15+) people to pull the boat out. Kendra was the guide of that boat. The other guides seemed awesome too. Jose? I believe was his name, was a really laid back and FUN guide. He splashed water all over our boat and we had a water fight.
One person fell out of our boat at the last rapid called "Cannonball"
It was a crazy rapid which was totally unexpected. This class III-IV rapid was pretty easy for us beginners....
overall an awesome experience, which we will do again!"

Works Cited:

Fujishin, Andrew. "Middle Fork American River w/ pix in album." MySpace.com Blogs. 15 Aug. 2008. 18 Aug. 2008

I am quite exhilarated.

I am going camping and rafting for the next two days. I am quite exhilarated. I feel a jubilant sense of adrenaline and excitement. My endorphins are releasing at an alarming rate, and my mind is filled with emotions of great happiness and glee. I will post an internet journal entry when I return from my adventures.

White Man's Dance

Yesterday at work, my friend Joey Weed taught me a funky new dance move. I can't really explain it in words, so my diagrams will do the talking. Check it out:




It looks a lot better in person. I can't wait to try this one out on the dance floor. I know it's going to be a hit.

Blog Attempt Failed

Okay, this is my first blog post so I'm really nervous. I don't really know what I'm getting myself into, so I hope this goes alright. Damn, I'm really nervous. I'm sweating all over my keyboard. Sorry, I can't do this.