Our Backpacking Trips

okay so this is my last qtr EVER at cow cal poly. i should be enjoying it and not hating it. every morning going to school is like pulling teeth. i wake up just in time to make it to class. with enough buffer time for me to drag my feet as i walk from the parking lot to the classroom. it shouldnt be like this!!! this is my last qtr, i should be enjoying it. taking a last sniff of my 8 – minus 3- year college education here. after all, i am taking all GE classes. before this qtr started, i thought it was gonna be a piece of cake. taking all these mickey mouse classes… but i have absolutely NO INTEREST at all in these subjects, so my attention span is nonexistent. time slows to a crawl in class and i’m pretty much miserable. i dont care about dance, i dont care about california geography, and i dont care about oceanography. dont get me wrong, i love marine life and whatever goes on in the oceans… but THAT IS NOT WHAT WE ARE LEARNING IN OCEANOGRAPHY!! we’re learning about plate tectonics and continental drift and some other bs that i totally dont give a shit about. i thought these classes were gonna be FUN. but everything being taught is so basic that they cant get into all the fun and interesting stuff yet. its all “foundation” information… information that bores me to tears.

enough complaining though. i think i will start paying attention in class and leave my starcraft cd at home. i might as well enjoy learning about all this stuff i will never ever use once i walk out the door in june BUT i should make the best of it. after all… it is my last qtr.

i found you a girlfriend. *wink*

oh.. and please keep both hands on the keyboard.

“…everywhere like such as.” – is not a complete sentence.

side note: the “asian countries” dont need your help hon.

LOLz

well… i paid a visit to the pomona animal shelter after class today. there were SO MANY homeless dogs, cats, and one goat. the dogs are so unhappy, seeing them depressed makes me depressed. i wish i can take ALL OF THEM home with me. at least i wasnt the only person looking to adopt, there were other families too. i think a yellow lab was successfully adopted today… good for him!!! i took some pictures with my camera phone… because i couldnt help it. as miserable as the dogs look…. they’re still adorable as heck! when they see me, their eyes light up and their tails wag, and i’m just going around saying “hai” to everyone.

this little guy is like 4 weeks old

i really really really liked this guy. he’s about the size of kala and bailey. he’s not a “toy”. he’s got really messy hair and he’s really in need of a home.

MUGEN!!! a 5 month old rottweiler. he reminds me of my mugen

*sigh*

how silly of that little dog. he SAT ON TOP OF ANOTHER DOG for the longest time.

when i still had mugen… i could tell he’s a happy one. kala and bailey are happy ones. you can tell by the look in their eyes. but these dogs…. these homeless dogs… *sigh* they’re so sad.

Last week I was at gym at night. I was exercising by myself, peacefully; then a buff guy came to me, I could tell he is a gym trainer and was coming to me, I was like shit, don’t come! don’t come! then he was there and started talking. “Oh you did this wrong, you did that wrong, why don’t you come have a seat with me let me help you with a plan.. blah blah..” I was like fuck! I am the guy hardly to say no, so we set up an appointment. Of course I ditched that appointment later on, now it’s freaking hard for me to go back to that gym. I don’t want to see his face again, so awkward. That’s why I didn’t want him to walk to me at first place.

He did helped me though. Now I am all trying to avoid him, so I don’t go to gym at night anymore, I am all getting up 5 in the morning to go to morning session, when nobody is there but old people. But guess what, today I was there, there was this old man came to me “young man, you don’t need assist when doing pull ups? let me show you how to do this, i mean i am 70 year old i can do pull ups with out assist” fuck! can people just leave me alone in the gym? how embarrassing, I wish i have a small gym in my garage now.

i made an impulse buy yesterday. i mean normally this wouldnt have been an impulsive buy if i wasnt borke i had a job but i seriously couldnt pass up this deal. i bought my very own backpacking tent! even though our crew doesnt lack on the tents or anything but i’ve been wanting my very own dome forever. so this is what i got: the north face tephra 22

its 4 lbs and 11 oz. thats pretty light!! its for 2 ppl and i’m loving the 2 pole design. on top of everything its free standing. i got it off of steepandcheap - one deal at a time, until it sells out. i got it for $75 bucks… plus $10 for shipping because SAC never offers free shipping. which is still a pretty good deal in my opinion. now i have my very own tent!!

i still havent found the footprint for this tent yet. the model i purchased is 2007’s model, from information that i’ve gathered on other websites i’ve learned that the new footprint (2008 model) for the tephra doesnt fit the old model (2007’s, my model) due to a redesign. i cant find the 2007 tephra footprint anywhere!!! augh. so this is a problem… HALP!

it looks like there is a HUGE waiting list for Killer/Emo. i called the pasadena shelter and the lady told me the “waiting list” for #A228663 (his id number) is full and she is not taking down any more names. i am so disappointed =(

tomorrow after class i plan on stopping by the pomona shelter. i googled it and its only 2 miles away from school. so i’ll swing by and see if have any potential candidates.

(damn it, still can’t load picture. I think something wrong with my Windows PC? I was able to load pix on my Safari)

Anywy, I think there is a slight chance I might stay here in LA… Sharon can’t decide. She want to open so bad, but like everyone is against her, so she doesn’t have the fund to open? Anyway, still not sure.. but if I really going to stay, we’re going to have a blast of summer fun. Right now I am already thinking of Apr 25th weekend Death Valley, May 23rd weekend Zion Narrows, and San Jacinto Peak over night trip again in between, then Aug 7 HCSC yay~ let’s do this. I am going to update my iCal when I get back home and sync it to this calender here.

One last thing since you guys like to use strike that much, let me just try one.

so i was browsing through the pasadena scpa humane society website last night. EVERYONE knows i want a pet: a dog, a cat, a wabbit, an elephant, a polar bear… ect, the list goes on. i had my sights set on this foster homed dog named napoleon, but when i looked him up again on the petco adoption website he was already unlisted. so i’m assuming he found a home already, the first time i saw him was last summer, so its almost been a year. i’m not going to contribute to the “puppy mills” that feeds into the local pet shops. those mills are HORRIBLE. yesterday after class, me and my headed over to home depot to buy a washer (since ours is completely dead). we were stopped at a red light when this little dog started to cross the road. he was in the middle of crossing the road when the light turned green. he was right in front of the mini van next to my car, the stupid bitch mini van honked at the little dog THEN RAN HIM OVER. oh my fucking god, i started yelling in my car and scared the living daylights outta my dad, he thought a person got ran over but didnt see anyone around. after the mini van went over the dog, the dog wasnt dead… he was alive!! his front legs were injured and couldnt get up. so he was stuck in the intersection unable to get to the side walk. i told my dad to stop the car so i can rescue the dog!! but he said i’m crazy, i’m gonna get hit by a car in the process of rescuing an injured dog. this happened on hacienda bl right before the 60e fwy entrance around 2pm in the afternoon, so there are a lot of cars. this incident left me so sad and depressed, poor dog. after we bought the washer… on the way back home, as we passed where the accident happened… i see a lifeless body. at least the poor dog isnt suffering. later that night… i went to the gym, same direction, same street. i see the lifeless body. but it doesnt look like a body anymore, it looks like a mass of bloody fur. this morning on the way to school… it was just a mass of smashed fur on the road. what makes all this even worse, is that i saw a collar on the little dog… HE WAS ONCE SOMEONES PET! *sigh*

i’ve always wanted to adopt a dog… always. so last night as i was browsing through listings of adoptable dogs, i found him:

 ISNT HE THE NERDIEST DOG EVA?!i want to save him from the doggie death chamber. i want to give him a home. i want to love him. i want to take him on jogs around my neighborhood. i want to take him camping and backpacking. i want to watch tv with him on my lap. i want to feed him doggie tweats. i want to snuggle with him. i want to smell him. i want to teach him how to “shake”, “sit”, and “stay”. i want to take him to petco/petsmart and other pet friendly places. i want him to become friends with bailey and kala. i want to sleep with him sleeping on the foot of my bed. i want to come home after a long day of work and have him greet me at the door. i want him to be my little doggie friend. i want to give him a permanent loving home.

anyways… i showed my dad this picture and he agrees that this is a cute dog. i jotted down his doggie id number and the pasadena scpa number and i’m planning on giving them a call once i get out of this class. i dont think my dad wants a dog right now right now, since our yard is not ready and he is not a fan of small dogs. my dad only likes monster cow-dogs. dont get me wrong… i like monster cow-dogs too. but i am totally in love with Killer or Emo (the possible names i will name him). if i dont get this dog my dad will never get the yard ready, so i think if i bring the dog home this weekend it’ll be like a little push for my dad to get going on the yard revamp. besides… how can you get pissed at a dog like Killer (or Emo).