My first inclination is to complain, but I get views like this...
and sunsets like these...
so I really can't say anything. Except the mornings are particularly hard without coffee, myspace, or um...other self-indulgent activities.
Other random occurances in the past few days:
Size what?
I was hanging out with my nephews in the gym of a hotel their family was stayin at for teh weekend and they burned themselves out on the treadmills in like 5 minutes. So they sat there staring at my feet while I was on it and one of them says,
"you have big feet nelson! What size shoe are you?"
and before I could answer the other one chimed in with,
"I know! I know! Size FAT!"
Hoodrat?
Last wednesday, on valentine's day I went to meet two of my female cousins to give them their valentines. They decided we should meet at the Taco Bell/Pizza Hut by their school cuz they were hungry so I rolled out and arrived there first. I noticed that the girl working the counter at the Taco Bell was particularly cute. Black, short hair, cute face...I dont know, I just thougth she was attractive.
Anyway, when the girls got there they ordered their food and we sat outside and i mentioned the cute cashier to them. They both just kinda smiled and said "hey yeah, why don't you go talk to her...she's from woodbridge you know?" That kinda floored me. So, being valentine's day and all, I thought why not run some of my lamegame on this girl from the neighborhood?
I went back up and ordered something and brought up the fact that she was from hoodbridge (she laughed, so i think she got it) and got rushed out because of the growing line behind me that didn't care for my flirting. When I went back outside my cousins asked me what I thought, I told them "she was nice, still got the urban accent, and kinda a throaty voice". At that point they burst out laughing.
"what's so funny?"
"She's a lesbian, her military girlfriend also likes her throaty voice."
"oh."
I ran my useless valentine's game on a tacobell lesbian from woodbridge.
Davina
This past monday after the successful Apple interview I decided to celebrate by getting a cup of coffee (starbucks was the only thing open in the mall at that hour). When I was ordering the girl behind the counter asked said "ok Nelson, is there anything else I can get you?"
And I was a little taken back by that because i was paying cash so there's no way she should've known my name. So I gracefully said something along the lines of "whabaHUH?!"
She pointed out my customized (green crayola) nametag that i neglected to remove from my interview which I subsequently ripped off my shirt as quickly as possible. She laughed and said "that's ok, my name is DA-VEE-NAH so we're even."
This girl was flirting with me. Now that really doesn't happen too often so, in my mind, there were 2 ways to approach this particular situation:
1) Keep my mouth shut and my head down and complete our financial transaction as swiftly as possible....or
2) Say something cool
Because I am an idiot, I opted for coolness and in my best Bond said to her, "Better make that a double".
What's cool about that? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. What did it get me? A hyperactive tapping left foot that almost wore a size FAT hole through my cousins car that I happened to be driving that day.
Honolulu Hookah
This was a verrry good day.
All smiles aside though, this made me miss home and all my friends. I sat there on the balcony floor alone with a glass of red wine, smoking the shisha and looking through a little photo album nadiya made for me by candlelight. The only things missing were some rose pedals and a violin otherwise I would've had a full on pity party.
Ghost Ridden
$15 I'll always regret. I paid because my little cousin wanted to watch it. I kinda wish I brought my ipod in there with me so I could've listened to the first couple chapters of an audio book a former coworker gave me while watching nicholas cage's head burst into flames. I think it would've helped the movie along. In other news however...
Eva Mendes is ridiculously hot. There was a flashback sequence in the movie where it showed young Eva and she was insanely gorgeous too. I can't decide which one is hotter...
Pristigious disappointment
The Prestige. This came out right about the same time I left the country and by the time I got back it was already gone from theaters. I wanted to see it because it had the guy who brought life to Wolverine against the guy who brought life back to Batman showing down...as magicians. Magicians son!!!!! Throw in the already fairytail-ish Scarlett Johannsson (pictured below) along with the director of Batman Begins and there's no way to go wrong.
But I was wrong. They found a way. Indeed, even though this movie had everything and the proverbial bag of chips somehow there was still something missing. It wasn't even that the story was lackluster or that the acting was bad it just didn't...do it for me. And I realize that is not exactly proof positive of a bad movie. I'm not even sure I'm saying it's a bad movie, I guess I was just kinda disappointed. Like a kid waiting to unwrap that christmas present shaped like a bicycle and instead it turns out to be The Prestige.
I'm starting to think that I can't give a good movie review for anything I've seen lately, but I seriously believe the quality of films have taken some kind of nosedive in recent years. So what I'm saying is this isn't my fault. My commitment to the truth can't be denied.
And now, for an impromtu list of things that should be mine but aren't for some reason...
Everyone see that last one coming? I didn't *cough hopeless*
Moving on, this is quite possibly the longest and most pointless rant I've put in here so far. Certainly the most imagefilled, so hopefully it'll make for better viewing later on.
Also, I've given up myspace so this is all I got.
Love & Alohas kids!
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