Here’s a rude awakening. You go to the ATM, pull $100 and get this as your receipt… Crap. 4 Bucks???!!! Turns out 2 bills somehow both came exactly at the same time, and I have auto withdraw from my checking account. On top of that the 3 checks in my account didn’t clear yet. Damn out of state banks! So in the meantime, I’m one poor mofo until my checks clear. Can’t wait till 2002, when banks will have to clear settlements in 24 hours. =) But anyone out there wanna be my sugga momma until my check clears? LOL

Class today can be summed up by Mike’s complete apathy and nappy time…

He kinda looks like Tom Sawyer lounging there… Hmm. He looks the way I feel. I should just… ZZzzz…

Later that night went to CMS for karaoke nite with Charles. We met up with Caroline there, and all went to my place to chill until 1AM watching videos and checking out the view of the night skyline from my roofdeck.

But on the way there we saw this funny dumpster… Holy tolido batman! The dumpster-face has struck again!

Yesterday I got 2 Yankees tix for only $7 each! Anyhow it was Yanks vs. Boston Red Sox, and the first inning was intense. I took my friend Chihye with me, since she’s never seen a baseball game in her life (pretty sad for a native NY’er).

Anyhow, first inning, I got this nice picture:

Bases loaded first inning, Tino Martinez at bat just before he hit his grand slam off Red Sox pitcher Hideo Nomo in the first inning at Yankee Stadium.

Score after that…
Yankees: 4
Red Sox: 0

Heh. We got so bored at 8th inning, since the score was 6-0, that we left early. Pettite pretty much pitched the whole game, final score: 6-1.

News Flash: Kozmo.com to close its doors and liquidate.

As you know, I know the guy, and also know his 2 other aparment suite mates who live in this huge luxury 4 bedroom apt. (1 used for an office) with 3 full bathrooms, kitchen and full living room, dining area. I think the market price of the apartment would easily hit 2 million. We helped Joe Park in the beginning when he first started, back when he did the deliveries himself and slept in the office (too poor to have an apt)

Ryan sent me the email when I showed concern, asking “Hey man, now that Kozmo.com is going, Joe Parks stock options, stock and severance pay basically disappears off the face of the planet. What’s he going to do?”

Ryan wrote:
“joe knew days ago about the liquidation. he’s pretty
pissed right now. his future is completely uncertain.
that puts me and my brother in a tight spot..i have no
idea how joe is going to be able to afford rent?”

Owie… Another Silicon Alley pioneer bites the dust. Man, if you go to Clemintine now, the bar is so friggin empty. The walls talk of old dot commers who are gone with the dust of the past…

Damn greedy VC’s screwed up everything. They charged service fees in an attempt to boost revenue, but it was counter-productive. People wouldn’t order anymore.

VC= Vulture Capitalist… venture capitalist? I don’t think so!

WTF is wrong with them. The business model works, and was making money! They’re being Gordon Gecko from the movie, “Wall Street.”

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Last night was pretty wild. Well read back in my journal about John and Laura, where I coined the term “Cult of Laura.” Anyhow, the bet to get married is still on except the person who anulls the wedding first, must pay the other $1,000. Crazy eh? Anyhow, George, the head promoter of MAX (and the guy who I’m working for to promote Cheetah Fridays) managed to rent out the entire Scores Strip club up on 60th st and 2nd ave (under the Queensboro bridge). Funny thing… More girls showed up than the guys (or so it seemed). Good thing George hired male strippers to bring them in. LOL. After the male review was over in the other room, the girls came back into the main room where female strippers entertained the guests. I do have to say that the females seemed to be enjoying the scene more than the guys. Personally, the effect wore off pretty quickly. Too many naked women, then it just seems to be normal all the sudden. It’s like when you zone out background noise or get used to a smell when you’re there for awhile I guess.

I brought my very good friend Uma with me, esp. since it was one of her wishes and fantasies to go to a strip club with a bunch of guys (but all her guy friends are too chicken s**t for that). Also she needed some dearest cheering up since her asshole boyfriend dropped her like a rock in the most childish way, and completely blocked all communication. I told her bring no money… This is your cheer up night. Strange… She seemed to enjoy the place more than I did. She got god knows how many lapdances and serveral massages.

As for the massages, ooh man. Seriously… George hired this independent massuse to come massage people for a mere $20. Good deal. Magic fingers. I didn’t think I needed one, but went for it anyway. I became butter in less than a second. Geez… didn’t realize I was so tense. As Uma said to the massuse, “He reeaaallly needed that!” LOL. I do have to say, those hands were magical and were 10X better than anything in the world. SERIOUSLY… I kid you not. Uma got several massages, she can testify that these massages are complete 10 minutes of Nirvana. =)

John, Steve, and George paid for lapdances for me as belated b-day presents. Actually those lapdances were more disney lapdances… LOL. Thanks Mayor Guiliani. >=O

After a few rounds of drinks with George and the crew, Laura started looking a bit nervous. She refused to drink or get a lapdance… =( It’s her party! arrgh.

Tonight is Sinthia’s party at Ryan and Kozmo.com boy’s (our good friend Joe Park)huuuuge apt. Hehe… Party on. I’m making up for a year of being a hermit. LOL. Hhahah… Sometime my ambitions consume me!

RCN is really pissing me off. Now they disconnected my phone. Ummm dude, my phone is on autopay to my creditcard, and with a 7,500 credit line, I don’t think I have it maxed out. Lol. I have this one credit card that I pay ALL my bills with, which I don’t use for anything else. Monthly expenses never reach 2k a month. They’re putting me on “priority” again to connect me at 9-11AM this morning. Geez.

Cult of Laura:
Well, Laura and John’s bachelor/bachelorette party is tonight. Uma will be my date. Anyhow she needs some cheering up. Uma’s bf is a big asshole and dropped her like a rock in a childish manner. Can I kick his ass Uma? PLEEEZE? I have a whole tank of CO2 and a box of paintballs left from last weekend. Muhahaha >=) Good old George, the guy I started doing club promoting for, rented out SCORES (hottest strip club in NY- made famous by wall st. sexually repressed investment bankers). Whoohoo. Oh yeah… 2nd floor is for women. That’s where the male strippers (that george hired), will be. Best of all, I get to cut the line and get comped. =D

Meanwhile I’m sad that I only have 4 weeks of undergrad school left. So much I wanted to do… =( *sniff* Sigh… se la vie.

Meanwhile girls have crushes on my friends, I’m not going to get into any relationships until after I start my job, and I really don’t want to play matchmaker now (which used to be my usual job). I just want to have fun with friends. Man I really wanna go to the galapagos. Go snorkelling too… hmmmmm… :-d… (drooling)

My apt needs to be cleaned. I should really let my friends back in my apt to chill after class. I’ve been a hermit lately and telling everyone NO! Heh… why the hell did I get the playstation 2 again? lol. one guy can’t play with 4 controllers at once.

My heart goes out to the following people:
- Liz: she’s living a tough hard life. I will always be your help when you’re in need.
- ChiHye: girl seems to need a pick-me-up lift up. You ok?
- Uma: her bf dropped her like a rock in an immature way
- Laura: why oh why are you doing this Vegas thing?!
- My Sis: having mega problems at school
- Myself: I’m feeling like a moron lately for growing up way too fast and not doing enough “fun” things… Shoot… I mustn’t wallow in regret…

“there’s more than us… theres more than this… forget regret, or life is yours to miss…” - RENT

I just went through Council Travel’s catalog. They got a 6 day trip to the Galapagos Islands via YACHT and Quito for 2 days… Only a mere $790. Not bad for a friggin 6 day trip to paradise! I wanna add 2 days for that for a trip to MacchuPichu in the Peruvian mountains though. Uma says she’s down for the trip, anyone else up for it? Email me! I wanna book within the next 2 weeks.

Yes I know that I still haven’t moved my b-day pics off the ofoto.com site. Yes I know that I didn’t post my paintball pics and wounds yet… Yes I know that Rahat is 2 whole versions ahead of me… =P Fear not. I’m working on it baby! At least I don’t have some scamming stalker on my case (props to MinJung for her dealings). 4 weeks until end of undergrad school for me… sigh… Real world. Ugh! Meanwhile, I’m getting sick of my banner up there. Time to make a new one and redesign the site to make it look better. I still like my DHTML menu though. =)