It’s every car owner’s worst nightmare… You take your car somewhere for a service. It could be a garage, valet, service shop, body shop, audio shop, etc. You fear that someone there will joy ride your car… What if someone did? Well here’s a true story of someone that this did, and how they caught them.

I originally saw this thread on Club RSX’s forums. I couldn’t believe what I was reading as the story unfolded. Essentially, the original story and post is from a Mustang enthusiast site.

Here, a Ford SVT technician brags about some “dumb woman” brought in a brand new limited edition 2003 Ford Mustang Cobra for service, and how he abused it buy flooring the pedal, drivng 140mph on the roads. What’s even crazier, is that his profile shows where’s he’s from, and the PERSONALIZED license plate number of the car.

Turns out, the “dumb woman” is the wife of a well known moderator of another mustang site. Soon enough this guy looses his job the same day, and the dealership is in deep poo-poo about the entire situation, as they’re talking about getting lawyers involved for compensation.

This guy gets dumbass of the year award. This post was made today and has in excess of 180,000 views in less than 3 hours. He’s outta the job, and busted for what he did. This post has gone to nearly every car website/forum on the internet, and everyone is talking about it. It’s nice to see someone get busted for pulling shit like this…

I got a call from my mother tonight regarding the CAT scans. The CAT scans revealed that the cancer didn’t spread to the vital organs (thank God), however, the tests on the lymph nodes still need to be done. That will happen next week on Tuesday where my mother will have a mastectomy (removal of the breasts). If the lymph nodes show that the cancer has spread, then she will probably have to undergo chemotherapy. However, it’s still promising in that if it didn’t spread to the lymph nodes, then just the masectomy will be all that’s needed. I pray that the latter is the case. In any event, seems like I already have the help of friends who have connections with Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center already offering help. This is great - amazing how help arrives when you need it most. I just hope it doesn’t go to that level though, because then I have to try to convince my mother to go to Sloan-Ket.

My aunt is coming down this weekend to help my mom out, so she’ll have company during surgery. Unfortunately, I have a conference I’m bound to on the day of the surgery, but I’m gonna try to go visit my mother after it’s done. I’m going to visit my mom after work on Thursday to spend some time with her before she goes to surgery.

My mom inquired on that I seemed to be taking this a lot calmer than I did the first time I heard it. I told her how Caroline, who’s been through a very similar situation with her family, calmed me down, and was telling me more about Cancer and things like that. Basically, giving me the facts and calming me down before I completely freak out and go nutso. I’m really appreciative that she’s here to help me through all this…

Anyhow, as for the court case in Poughkeepsie, basically I had all the paperwork to show that this case should be dismissed in that it didn’t meet prima facie. I managed to find the cop outside the courtroom prior to the trial, and talked to him. We discussed the situation, and I showed him my documentation. After him checking the original ticket, he thinks that he may have transposed the numbers since the plate #’s don’t match the car type. So he went to the prosecutor and had the case dismissed before it even went to trial… Whoohoo! It’s good to do some legal homework before going in to court. Prima Facie clause rocks!

September 24, 2002. It’s 3:35PM, and I just got a call from my dad. My mom had a lump growing in her chest that doubled in size in the last month, so the doctor was going to skip biopsy and just remove it anyways, and then test it. Today they removed it, and the test confirmed that it was cancer. Now they’re doing further tests and CAT scans to see if it spread. I’m hoping it didn’t. FUUUUUCK I dunno what to do… Worst part is that I can’t even go check up on her becuause I have a court date in upstate NY for that case where somone stole my old plates from my old car and racked up some heavy parking fines. Fuuuuuck - this ain’t a good week. I’m really close to my mom, so this shit is driving me nuts… Arrrgh… (#@%*$&%)!*)*(@!!! I don’t want to lose my mom. She means so much to me.

UPDATE: Talked with my mom today. The cancer has definitely spread, and they scheduled an emergency surgery to remove the breasts completely on Tuesday. The cancer was indeed malignant, but they don’t know to what extent, how far, or how quick it spread. They did full CAT scans today and tested they lymph gland to check (usual procedure). We’re still awaiting tests.

Strangly, my mom is taking it quite well. My Dad took it the hardest, and he’s having a hard time dealing with his emotions… I’m taking it pretty badly too, but am still somewhat in denial/pure shock and confusion stage. Fortunately, Caroline went through the same thing with her mom a year back, and came over to calm me down a bit, reassured me, and basically prevented me from freaking out. Strange how life and God always seem to bring me help at the right times when I need it most.

Anyhow, the doctor said that if the test show that the cancer has spread, that he won’t do any more surgery to remove it. Meaning that the only option left is kemotherapy, which I’m not sure if she’ll do or not.

If my mom is gonna get any help, it’s gonna be the best damn help out there, and not some dinky local hospital. My friend Jill from back in High School now works at Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in NYC, and she said that she had a few contacts since she works in radiology and oncology. I’m sorta confused on what to do, but if she’s gonna get help, I want it to be the best. I’m not about to lose my mom without a fight!!

I had an interesting conversation with Caroline who was talking to me about her friend Frank who was looking at my website. Essentially, since he knows Nina, he wanted to read my post on getting Nina drunk Anyhow, he goes looking around at other pics on my website and commented to Caroline about my car and equated that to a value to her. Interesting… (press more to read on)
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Yeah, I know its been awhile since I posted. The past weekend has been craaaazy. My cousin, aunt, and uncle were in town from Korea to finalize their naturalization. So I had to stay this weekend to entertain them as well as be the chauffer back and fourth from NYC and my parents house.

To make matters worse, my mom downloaded some virus that waxed the computer. Guess who had to reformat the whole harddrive, recover the data, and reinstall every friggin application known to man? Took me the whole weekend. On a good note, I was nicely rewarded with a new Philips DVD+R/RW drive. Whoohoo make my own DVD’s!

As for 9/11, it came and gone. Actually, I was getting quite annoyed that I stop posting my blog for awhile since I know I’d go nuts slamming the media, which at this point has infuriated me beyond comprehension. Other shit: These letters from Salon.com piss me off regarding 9/11. Damn ignorant people. The media is just as bad though. I would’ve posted something reaaaaaly nasty about the media if I blogged during that time and that probably wouldn’t be a good idea.

With 9/11 coming close, I decided to add back my old posts from my blog back in version 4.0 You can see the posts HERE

I stumbled on a whole cache of 9/11 videos from searches on google, and now that I’ve watched them I can’t friggin sleep. I’m still debating to post the videos up here. I guess if enough people send me emails to post them up, then I will.

Anyways, the thing about 9/11 that hits home, is that the fact that it personally took 2 friends of mine away as well as a few businsses contacts that I had made over the years.

On top of that, there was a damn good chance that I was to be in Tower 2 above the 90th floor working there, had it not been a decision that I made nearly a year prior. You see, back when I was accepting job proposals between Johnson & Johnson (my current employer) and one for a very prestigious financial research group in the WTC. The thing is, the circumstances that I got the J&J job was almost like fate - the doors opened, planets lined up, etc. I don’t want to post the whole story here, but believe me, every person I tell the story to thinks its almost divine intervention. Anyhows, I got this weird feeling in my stomach every time I thought about NOT taking the J&J job. It’s like I knew that something bad would happen if I didn’t take it.

Then bang… September 11th hit, literally… Had I taken the other job, I’d be in an office above the 90th floor of Tower 2, still alive, but helpless to escape. Had I taken that job, I’d have to accept the fate along with the 3,500 people that perished in those towers, that I had to accept the fact that I would die there and then.

At that moment I was at a conference in NJ for work, and saw the TV. My heart dropped and in that instant I thanked God for his good grace for steering me away. I then called my mom who was frantic. Why? At 8:35 she dicided not to go to a conference at the WTC. 10 minutes later she looked out her office window to see the towers flaming and later watched them from her window as they collapsed before here very eyes.

Strangely, what lasts most in my mind is not the incident itself, but how that incident brought about the worst in our own people. I listened on the EMS radio for first aid calls, so that I could help if needed be since I’m certified. A lot of thsee calls were about Indian, Pakistani, Middle Eastern, people who were getting beat up by mobs of people who were taking out their anger on them. It was insane to hear some of the stuff that was going on. The worst was of an Indian woman who was beat up by 3 white males in the basement bathroom of a restaurant in Union Square. I couldn’t believe the atrocities our own people could be capable of. Maybe that’s exactly what the terrorists wanted… To bring about the worst in us. Sun Tzu, Art of War: “It is easier to destroy the enemy from within.”

Why is there so much hate in this world? I can understant some resentment, but I simply can’t understand such deep-rooted hate that one would uslessly throw away one’s own life just to piss someone off, knowing that the impact you would create for your “cause” would be marginal, if any at all…

On a completely opposite note, last night I picked up Caroline from La Guardia Airport. Good thing there too, since JFK had to be evacuated around the same time due to some security breach. I’ve known Caroline for quite some time now, and even though we’ve only been going out for about a month, we’ve spent over 2 years together, hanging out, having long talks on the phone, and enjoying each other’s friendship. During this time, as each day went by, I liked her more and more. And the reason I was never able to get over her, was for one reason… I loved her. I loved her in every way possible, to the point that her happiness is all that mattered. And now we’re together, in an almost movie-like classic scenario of friends who become a couple. Everything is simply blissful, and it happened naturally, the way it should happen. So last night, I told her:

“Caroline I want to tell you something…” (I pause and hesitate here, debating if I should tell her) “Listen… I just want you to know…” (I hesitate again, wondering how she’ll take it) “I just wanted to say, that I love you. I’ve loved you for a long time, and just wanted to tell you that.”

(I’ve been dying to say this for such a long time - keeping it bottled up in me for months, where at that time we were just “friends” and it nearly killed me to keep it all bottled up. This is why I always watched out for her when we went out anywhere. This is why I’d scare off the skeezy boys that try to touch her. This is why I make sure she’s comfortable wherever she goes. This is why I always look out for her.)

She replies, “I love you too.” We both smile in each other’s arms. I say, “All the flowers in the world couldn’t express how much I love you. And even though they may die and wilt (she has a reputation for killing plants - so sorta a double pun), I just want you to know that my love for you is forever everlasting.”

So there you have it. I have found TRUE love. Love the way it was meant to be, the way it should be - just let it happen naturally. Love is great, love is good, love is ten times better than good food. And some of you punks my poke fun of me for being a cheezeball, but I can picture you when YOU find the right one. You too will become a romantic cheezeball… Mark my words…

Two days prior to the actual attack on 9/11/01, I had a dream of the twin towers, however they were like models or something. The walls were thin as a dollhouse, and there was a gaping hole though both of them, so that you could see little dollhouse office furniture inside. No fire or smoke just singed edges and splintered wood walls. I brushed off the dream since it just seemed so random and absurd. Then September 11th happened. It was then that I realized that my dream was some sort of twisted prophecy of some kind. Ironically, that weekend I was planning to go to the WTC observatory at night to try to snap some night shots of the entire city. But due to that dream, I decided not to.

Last night I had a weird ass dream. I’m standing on the ground, and looking and rows and rows on flags from all over the world, and some flat tall building. There are little yellow cabs ramming themselves into this building and blowing themselves up. People are running all over the place. I stand there helpless, unable to move as my feet have been swallowed up by the earth. I strain to move, as I see a yellow taxi barrelling down at me. I wake up the instant that the taxi hits me. I get up to brush my teeth and turn on the TV. The traffic report is on ABC News, and they’re talking about how they’re towing cars in the 40’s streets on the east side and how the UN will meet this week. The image comes up of the UN building from the exact point of view of my dream. Looks at the row of flags flying, then zooms on the flat building itself. Strange. I hope it’s a bullshit dream. This terrorist bullshit is starting to really ***** annoy me. You take any more of my friends away from me, and I’m gonna do something about it. You touch my family or anyone I love, I’ll personally hunt you down. Even if it means enlisting to find you. Mark my words.

Yeah I know that I haven’t posted anything in awhile. I’ve been busy. First of all, last Friday, I was parked on the side of the parking lot 15 feet outside of my office when some dumb fucking cabbie hit me going reverse!! He didn’t even look, even after I gave him a warning honk. What a jerk! Also my uncle, his wife, and their youngest daughter are in town, since there’s getting naturalized. Also if you haven’t noticed, I also wrote a new script that puts a random thumbnail of a pic in my gallery. Kinda neat. Got inspiration from Bertie who has a more complex version of a random picture script. The thumbnails are kinda blurry because they’re auto-generated using a unix engine and not a proper program like Adobe since I like them to be generated automatically without intervention. It’s good stuff, although it comes out blurry. Need to make it friendly for rare modem users… Heh.

I finally got to spend time with my angel. She took me to a new secret spot with a great view down near Stuyvesant Park.

We had a nice quiet time there just being together and talking while relaxing, enjoynig the view. I’m so glad that she’s in my life.

Saw this on Sarah’s Blog so I decided to do the same with my answers.

Full Name: Edmund Song
Birthday: 3/23
Zodiac Sign: Aries
What Time Is It: 1:10AM
Are You Sensitive: Yes in every way…
Person Who Last…
– Called You? Caroline
– Slept In Your Bed? Me
– Saw You Cry? My sister
– Made You Cry? My dad
– Shared a Drink With? Caroline
– Went to the Movies With? Uma
– Went to the Mall with? I live in manhattan… Malls are so jersey!
– Yelled At You? Caroline (in a jokingly way)
– Sent You An Email? My church

Have You Ever…
– Said “I Love You” and Meant It? No, I don’t play that bullshit head games…
– Been to NY? Duh?! I live here!!
– Been to Florida? Born there and visited there
– California? Yes
– Hawaii? Yes
– Mexico? No, but want to sometime soon
– China? Nope, but want to
– Canada? Many times
– Had a Dream About Something Really Crazy, Then It Happens the Next Day? Yes (9/11/01)
Wished You Were the Opposite Sex? never, girls have a damn hard life… Being a guy is so much easier
Had An Imaginary Friend? WTF, no.
Been sarcastic? Ya think?!!
What Time Is It Now? 1:15AM

Favorites
Apples or Bananas? Bananas
Blue or Red? blue
Backstreet Boys or N*Sync? the hell is this…
Wal*Mart or Target? Do they even have them in the tristate?
Spring or Fall? Fall - whip out the nice clothes!

What Are You Going to Do After You Finish This? Sleep
What Was the Last Meal You Ate? Togane tang in KTown
High School or College? Graduated
Are You Bored? Depends… are you stupid? j/k
How Many of Your Buddies Are Online? 52 (and its friggin 1:20AM!!)
Last Movie You Saw? The Bourne Identity
Last Noise You Heard? Nelly’s - It’s getting hot in here…
Last Smell You Sniffed? The smell of korean barbecue on my shirt

who…
Laughs the Weirdest? only me
Who Have You Known the Longest? My mom
Loudest? Meredith (Uma’s friend)
Is the Quietest? Jane Chuang (from high school)
Who Is The Funniest? Kathleen Corrigan (from highschool)
Who Is the Moodiest? Uma
Who Do You Usually Go To About All Your Problems? Uma
Name Your Best Bud of All Time? Caroline!

Last Time You Went Out of State? Everyday to work
Lucky Number? 3
What Book Are You Reading Now? Me read books… what you smoking?
Nicknames? Muevelo
Hair Color? black
Height? 5′8″
Pets? Cat at my parents house
Siblings? 1 sis
Been So Drunk You Blacked Out? 19th birthday party - passed out at a korean club! (thanks to the Yangbok and Yonkon brothers)
Taken Any Illegal Substances? Hells no
Wanted to Hook Up With a Friend? hehehe… look at my current situation…
Cried During a Movie? Yeah, but don’t tell anyone or I’ll kick your arse and make you cry!

Favorites
Shampoo? Only Neutrogena, a Johnson & Johnson company…
Soap? Neutrogena, heh (get the pattern now?)
Colors? black, grey, blue, auburn, brown, olive
Cologne? Gergio Armani - Aqua di Gio
Flower? Orchids and Roses
Food? korean japanese indian chinese viet
Disney Character? Tigger