Late Update

I am no longer a resident in Westwood, Los Angeles, CA. 
No more Apartment 317 on Ohio Ave. 
No more late night runs to Yoshinoya. 
No more random kick backs.
No easy ride back from school.
No more walking to Westwood Village to grab some grub.

I am officially a student commuter from home.

I definitely miss the apartment environment. 
But...

No more empty fridge.
No more sharing rooms, bathrooms, parking spaces.
No more coin-operated laundry.
No more shuttle.
No loud lady across the apartment that yells at us for being loud at 9pm but talks mothereffing loud at 3pm on her phone on her balcony.
No more Yoshinoya-dependency.

Pros and cons.
Feels good to be home though.
La Familia es mi vida.

Shoes

 

These shoes.... Sigh.  A gift and a curse.

These Nike Huarache 09 in White/Red/Black were my first pair of legit basketball shoes... EVER!  Before these, I bought $60 basketball shoes from Famous Footwear.  Before that, I bought $50 all black Reeboks from FootLocker.  And before that, I played basketball in whatever shoes I owned - usually Adidas Superstars.  When I first wore these shoes, they felt like heaven - cushioned, light, comfortable.  I definitely like $110 were worth it.

Then I sprained my ankle.  After... 4 months of rocking the Huaraches, I landed on someone's ankle, heard a pop (that's how bad it was), ended up cracking my ankle bones (yup, that's how bad it was), and had to start wearing an ankle brace.  It was a freak accident, and I shouldn't blame the shoes, but I did.  LOL - I could've (and should've) bought the Kobe's.  Oh well.  Then the shoe started ripping because of the ankle brace.  The picture shows what it looks like right now.  It was about time to get rid of these cursed shoes...

 

And buy these beauties!!  

I was waiting for a while for Nike to release some cooler shoes.  At the time when my shoes started to rip, they had the Nike Hyperizes (which had the coolest commercial with Kevin Durant, Mo Williams, Iguadala, and DJ Quik) which I heard were not all that great.  Plus they were expensivo.  Ugh.  The other shoes that Nike released were the Nike Huaraches '10.  PSH - you think I'm going to fall for that again!?  Get outta here with that P.O.S. shoe!! 

Then, during the LA vs Boston Playoff series, I saw the shoes that Rondo was rocking.  It was the game where he started with white, changed to green, then back to white (or vice versa) in the same game.  They looked super cool, so I researched them, and they ended up being the NIke Hyperfuses.  Unfortunately, they were not available to the public at the time.  

Then I saw Kevin Durant rocking these at the FIBA World Championships, and instantly fell in love. 

Two days ago, Monday, I went to a Sport Chalet because I have a gift card for about $40 that would have helped purchase the shoes considerably, but they didn't have the colorway.  Today, I went to another Sport Chalet, and they also didn't have the colorway.  

So I just bought them online today.  Size 10, $87, coming in 6-8 days.

Yee boy.  I love them already!!

Random Things I've Learned This Summer

#2

All my life, I found that I was patient; I could wait and wait and wait for people and be barely peeved.  I always prided myself in having great patience - I hated showing misery or discomfort. However, this summer definitely tested my patience multiple times.  And...

I am not a patient person.

Random Things I've Learned This Summer

#1

Del Taco is bomb.
I've had it once in my life before, and I had it once this summer.
That first time must have been abnormally bad, because it was so delicious this summer.

You reign supreme, Del Taco.

Musica

Because J. Cole is so
ridonkulously good & jizz-tastically worth listening to.

Lumberjack

This is no where near as cool as my Jennifer Aniston encounter.
BUT!

I usually have crazy dreams when I wake up to turn off an alarm and then go back to sleep.  I think being in that state of half asleep/half awake subconsciously trips me out a lot more.

So I woke up at like 10am, turned off my alarm, and went back to sleep yesterday.  Then I woke up, got up, walked over to my closet, and put my black colored shorts.  But it was funny because I was trying to put my shorts on over my Morning Wood*.

* For the immature/female readers, Morning Wood is a perfectly normal occurrence.  This is from Wikipedia:
"In some males, erection can occur spontaneously at any time of day, and is known as nocturnal penile tumescence when occurring during REM sleep.  All men... experience this phenomenon, usually three to five times during the night."  Morning Wood happens when males just happen to wake up during one of those three to five occurrences.

Anyway, so I was trying to put my shorts over my M.W. but I found it quite difficult.  But I also found it amusing so I was kinda laughing and smiling.

Then I REALLY woke up, was in a good mood for some reason, and saw a nice M.W. under the blanket.  I thought that was weird.

The end!

Afternoon Nap

Before I forget, I wanted to post about my dream.
I knocked out around 11am and had the trippiest dream.

I was at a Subway, but it looked pretty high class.  It was a fundraiser for some school.

The school seemed kinda rich (nice private school) so the people there seemed to be semi to quite powerful people in LA.  I was supposed to support my friends' siblings or something (the two people I distinctly remember are Minjae and Kenneth).  Like I said before, the Subway seemed high class, so after I got in line to tell them what I wanted in my sandwich, they said they would deliver it to me and handed me a number.  The Subway seriously looked like this inside.

I was alone because Chris and I were supposed to go together but he ditched me, so I was waiting for Kenneth to show up. I tried to act as casual as possible because I was alone.  I sat down alone at a table for 4 near a window and looked to the door waiting for somebody I knew to show up.

As I was waiting there, people started whispering as if a celebrity walked into the room.  I looked around and before I knew it some beautiful white lady actress sits down right in front of me with a napkin full of maraschino cherries.

I am totally flaking on her name right now, but she was someone I recognized and she was a lot better looking in real life.  Anyway, I could tell she was pretty buzzed as she munched on her cherries, and I tried being nice, so I leaned over and said, "You're pretty buzzed, huh?"  She just laughed and we talked for a short time.

Then Jennifer Aniston came and sat down next to the mystery actress because I guess they knew each other.

 

So I went from being totally alone to having two celebrity actresses sit at my table.  And Jennifer Aniston looked GOOD.  Much much better looking in person than on TV/movies.  She, mystery lady, and I just started talking and everything was super chill and fun.  No awkwardness and they were both cool.

Then in my dream, everything got fast forwarded, and Kenneth was at the table now with 2 other dudes: one was Gerard Butler and the other was some actor (don't really remember but like a Hugh Jackman type of actor).   But Butler for sure, probably because of this stupid movie.

We were all hanging out with a few drinks having a good time.

Then we left and we were all hanging out outside.  In my dream, I remember Gerard Butler was really funny and his accent was crazy and sounded like a crazy pirate or something.



When we went outside, Butler and my friend Kenneth were laughing about stupid stuff and chatting it up like long lost college frat bros.  I don't know where the mystery actress lady went, but I was sitting at a bus stop bench (with Kenneth and Gerard nearby) with Jennifer Aniston.  I was kinda worried for her because she was pretty drunk.  I was trying to make sure she didn't do anything too crazy but I knew that she was super famous and that she could probably do whatever the hell she wanted.

All of a sudden she started walking around and while Ken and Gerard were still talking, I just followed her so she wouldn't get lost.  I followed her into some weird antique/toy store or something.

But there was a huge train set, like the trains at malls but slightly smaller.  The train would have been a tight squeeze for any adult but barely able to fit a toddler or small child.  Then because Aniston was drunk, she freaking squeezed herself into the front part of the train (the head car? whatever it's called) and started crawling through the compartments and towards the caboose.  So I tried following her and went head first into the fake train thing.  I got up to my waist but got stuck, with my head hitting the bottom of the head car and my legs hanging out of the window.  Kinda like Alice in this picture:

I remember thinking how ridiculous this was and wondering what the hell Jennifer Aniston was doing.  Then the head car thing I was in started tilting because of my weight.  It was like a toy train set so having me hanging there unbalanced it and it started to fall.

And right as I was about to hit the ground, I woke up.  Just like Inception.

I tried sleeping again to continue the dream, and I got one last glimpse of Jennifer Aniston, and then fully awoke.

Bye Jennifer.

Sigh, that was one crazy adventure.

Selfishness

I want to listen to every kind of music in the world.
Greedy ears.

Life's a grind.