Ross

oot and aboot

Mon, 03 Nov 2003 08:35:35 GMT

i hear the weather in bali is damn near awesome right now. So im leaving jakarta for a while folks. look for me in a couple days. my sister told me that bali doesnt have many internet cafe's but there are still some. she might be right. later!

bad luck

Wed, 29 Oct 2003 15:23:31 GMT

lightning hit my house and fried yet another modem. should be used to it now i guess. im using dialup now and its too expensive to chat, so email me if you want to talk. im looking forward to my upcoming flight atleast. hopefully ill have some emails right?

Wed, 15 Oct 2003 14:38:02 GMT

all things change...

purple koolaid is so damn good

Tue, 14 Oct 2003 13:52:48 GMT

well here i am again. back in jakarta. yuck. only a few short weeks until my triumphant return to the lands of sanity. believe me, i can hardly contain myself. singapore was so awesome. a break i probably needed, although when i think of how much work i missed i can only shudder. i lost out on like 1200 bones. oh well, life, it goes on. what makes sinapore so great? well, for one it aint jakarta. so clean. but anal too. i want everyone to know i chewed gum on the street during the day! yeah, maybe it was by mistake and only like one chew b4 i swalled but im still a rebel right? i rode the subway all over and walked until my legs fell off. i went the asian civilizations museam and modern art museum which was cool. but i was such a stinky bum. i only packed my backpack with a pair of jeans and two tshirts. so there i was stayin in this 5 star hotel business men all about (there was a lamborguini! out front) in my faded red secme shirt that i cut the sleeves off of. damn i was out of place. i bought a new cd player for damn cheap and some cds ive been meaning to buy.

review
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Dave Mathews - Some Devil : For his first solo album he sure did employ alot of musicians. of course tim reynolds was there, but so was 45+ other assorted musicians. frankly, im surprised he hasnt run out of music yet. no, im sure hell keep going until im in my fifties. the difference in this newest album is the subject matter. it is sarcastic and dark in places, but still clever and deep like the bands efforts. 11.3 of 14

Deftones - (self titled) : very awesome! ever since hearing minerva on the radio back in the states i have wanted to hear this album. it kicks ass but could you expect any less of chino, stephan, abe, chi and frank? 'needles and pins' (track 2) reminds me too much of their classic 'passenger' and is the only weak-point of the album. if you want heavy, here it is. 10 of 14

A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step : Album of the year! i heard mixed reviews from friends, but this album is awesome. It opens with 'the package' and a hypnotic bass riff complemented by keenans melodic crooning pulls you in from the start. the slammin guitars wake you from the reverie about halfway through the song and make you want to start breaking things. but dont get me wrong. this is a caccooning album. i cant wait to see where the musical transformation of keenan ends up. it is dedicated to (i assume) several deceased family members of the band and hold to the mourning theme throughout. my favorite song (currently) on the album is 'pet.' from this songs contrasting heavy guitars and comforting lyrics to the drug influenced 'the nurse who loved me' this album wins all across to the board. i could see myself grooving to thirteenth step in the car of relaxing to it as i get ready for bed. 14 of 14

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in a semi-related note i have looked further into final fantasy xi. i have decided now that, unlike b4, it might have some redeeming values. i have it currently ranked at 70% waste of my god-damned time. which means ill buy it and play it... and probably hate it too. but if for nothing else it will occupy me for the month and a half until final fantasy x-2 comes out. --oh, and the appearance of THAT game will insure no one will see me for about a month.

till next time

oot and aboot

Fri, 10 Oct 2003 03:02:50 GMT

well after some doubt yesterday i found myself, eventually, on an aircraft bound for singapore. its about 11am here. my second time in the world most clean orderly and expensive city. im switching to tourist mode and gonna hit the streets promptly. just wanted to let everyone know i didnt die or anything. see you in a couple days my friends.

Thu, 02 Oct 2003 13:35:39 GMT

I don't mean to sound arrogant or contemptuous. I walk the streets of Jakarta, made numb long ago, seeing, but not taking in to account what i see. How lucky we are to have won the gene pool lottery. How lucky we are to be who and where we are, to have the opportunities and life we do. I shudder to think I could have be one of the laborers in the street. Their lot isn't much better than the serfs' of feudal Europe; they will work their entire life, or until they are no longer abole to toil in the sun twelve hours a day, and barely make enough to put food on the table. When too old they will depend on another to feed, clothe and house them or they will beg. Suicide is not an uncommon decision for the elderly, keeping them from being a burden on the generation they have sired. Entire extended families live under the same roof, pooling all money that doesn't go to food, to provide the most basic of shelters. I am personally aquanted with a person who shares a room much smaller than you would think possible with sixteen others. If there are labor laws in this country, they are ignored. Many children work beside their elders when school is too expensive. Beggars, missing various limbs from unsafe and unregulated industrial factories, wonder these dirty streets in rags. I am sorrowed to acknowledge the fact that of the hundreds of millions of dollars our country gives indonesia each year in aid only a percentage of it reaches the masses who need it the most. The rest lines the pockets of various officials down the line of command. Yes, corruption is surely a problem here. To become a police officer you must bribe a chief an amount even i would have trouble amassing and pay a monthly 'due' to your supervisor. Not surprisingly, the police officers line the streets taking bribes of their own (from traffic offenders) to fun their job. But most disturbing of all is when i realize that indonesia is not the worst off of all the countries in the world. Yes, we are lucky.

yeah, i dont usually do this but...

Sun, 28 Sep 2003 12:33:25 GMT

i found two good quizes some here they are:

You are a Gunner! Just like Yuna, you have a sense
of justice, are somewhat sensitive and care for
those who you love most.

What Final Fantasy X2 Dress Sphere suits you?
brought to you by Quizilla

You're Mat Cauthon! You're the trickster of the Two
Rivers group, no doubt about that! You also
have the memories of many dead men in your
head. Taveren and one Rand and Perrins best
friend, youre one of the best characters you
can get!

Which Wheel Of Time character are you? RESULTS MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS
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GAHH

Wed, 24 Sep 2003 13:51:47 GMT

damn im bored. im always bored. i should do somthing to reduce that boredom. like, be unbored. yeah, thats what i need. i was watching fight club earlier. i should get into bare-knuckled boxing. that couldnt possibly be boring. yeah, now there is an idea. i could even bet on my opponent and make some serious cash! yeah. i could be rich. i knew being a wus would pay off sometime. anybody out there wanna just beat the crap outta each other?

Tribute
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Who remembers the Genesis? everybody better! not like it was that long ago. it emerged in 1989 as i remember it, and was extremely popular. well... amoungst my nerdy crowd atleast. the genesis gave birth to SEGA's loveable image; sonic. blue and attitude! oh yeah. but this here isnt a tribute to the well known sonic, its a tribute to a game that maybe went unnoticed by the masses, but a game well worth the countless hours i put into it. well...not as worth it as ffx, or x2 is sure to be, but still not a complete waste. that game was Shining Force II. it was an rpg...sorta...it was a stategy game...sorta. it had the classic plot of a reluctant hero rescuing the princess and banishing the evil in one fell swoop. ah, what can u expect from 16bit cartridges. but it rocked! i have included a link to the hard to find rom here. and here is a link to zophars domain. download 'kega'. it even works for xp, give it a shot.

so today was fun

Wed, 17 Sep 2003 16:50:57 GMT

i decided i needed a haircut today. in retrospect, i should have decided otherwise, but then this wouldnt be much of a story. so my driver puts me off in front of the building, its tall, red-marbled, somewhat fancy-ten years ago. its a little rundown these days. but i go in anyways. next to the elevator is a tarneshed brass plaque telling me to go to the 3rd floor for the barber. i get in the coffin-like elevator, and my next sign to tell me to get the hell out before its too late is the nausiating smell of dried urine. somthing everyone likes to get a whiff of it the morn, right? they wave right in, and before i know obsequious smiles and gestures herd me into a pleather barber chair in horrible disrepair. he doesnt spray the wet botel at my head. he doesnt stop to ask what i want, not that he speaks english, but im confident i can get the point accorss...nono, he just turns on the buzzer and grabs an obviously not sterile comp out of his pocket. i shudder to think of how many other people's head that has been through before it was last disinfected. so he goes to buzzing. chunks of hair fly in all directions, im on edge. its not long before my barber proves to me that he does in fact know some english, or maybe some phrases are universal... he says "oops" quite softly, but i hear it. i resist turning around in dismay, i could make his'oops' worse. i just wince. its not long before he stops and looks at me and starts chattering. it takes me a while but i eventually gather he is trying to convince me of the wisdom in going for a shorter look. do i have any choice? so i leave this place with something akin to the do the marines wear. im sure they will get a good laugh at me tomorrow. needless to say, i wont be going there again.

links
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check out my original dj mix. still my best

another day, another irrefragable circumlocution

Sun, 14 Sep 2003 12:29:48 GMT

yeah so my weekend was super. ever hear the expression 'as much fun as watching paint dry?' well, i get to live those little wisdoms sometimes. lucky me. yeah so johnny cash and john ritter died the other day. a personal obituary : johnny cash was most recently known for his unmerciful butchering of a Nine Inch Nails song; hurt. john ritter got some putey in the 70s and 80s ( remember 3's company), which is more than i can say for myself, so hell be missed.

on a happy note i have decided to do look into the movie-making industry for a living. i guess the first time i really thought about it was my digital art class in my 10th year of schooling. we had an assignment: to make a movie by assembling clips and to represent something in a 5 min collection of those clips. then at the end say what it was and we could all guess and whatnot... kinda gay sounding i guess. but i enjoyed it! now that i think about it, that whole class was me and joe goofin off and playing bomberman to death. ha! that reminds me. hey joe, you still have ur movie? remember that little end piece i did for it? the title? hahah. but back to the point -- and more recently ben told me of a very lucrative way of gettin in, ya know gettin my name in one of those stars? aparently they would pay me $5000 for just a couple mins of being on the camera. sounds good to me-- so ive decided to become a S T U N T C O C K</b>. so best of luck to me.

links
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this has to be the funnies and most random thing i have seen in quite a while

in a superior dimension christopher walken is running for governer -- wisdom

Tue, 09 Sep 2003 13:45:41 GMT

im bored...

links
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The Grim Reaper Show
The Sequel

LINKS!

Sun, 07 Sep 2003 11:57:11 GMT

seriously funny shit
oooh baby!

options

Sat, 06 Sep 2003 12:44:28 GMT

yeah so, heres the plan peoples. i forgot that i dont talk to everyone online, SOME people *cough* doug *cough* i never see. but alls forgiven. live and let live sommore, right? ill be coming home peeps. Nov 28th my plane arrives at 2333 on UA flight 977 from washington dulles airport. see allaya soon i hope ;)

so invariably i have been thinking up all sorts of possibilities on what to do once i get back. i have a feelin ill be couch hoppin for a while, but that gest old. everyone needs a place to hang their hat. but, to afford that ill need a job. ill need a job to buy a vehicle to. damn, but livin is expensive. theres always telemarketing, but i dont know about that... joe pointed out it would be kinda depressin to be hung up on and lied to all day. hes got a point. so where does that leave me? retail i guess. i hate retail. any suggestions would be grand. (come on joe, a perfect opportunity for you here, dont let me down.)

frustration in the pm

Thu, 04 Sep 2003 13:12:57 GMT

yeah so last nite both joe and i were quite bored and online with nothing to do. after a grand total of 43 seconds all manner of intelligent conversation ceased to exist (yeah ur right it never got beyond dick and fart jokes, but what else is there???). so after a disapointing dump (for both of us i believe), i came back online and searched google for somthing interesting. i found it alright!!! well, atleast i thought i did. i found out about a flash cartoon called cornholio that features some chic (aparently) doin all sort of funny shit...yep, DOIN literally. the funny shit include : Mr. T (HAHAHA) gary Coleman (HAHAHAHA) the Simpsons (choke gasp) and others. if you know me this is my ultimate idea of humor/porn. yeah so i clicked...and it was a broken link. of course. my life sucks. i spent the next 2 hours scowering the internet for refernces and links. its quite popular. but sadly must have gone under not too long ago... my search was fruitles.... but eventually Vicki came on and my night, ur morning, brightened.

alright there lj frequenters...

Sun, 31 Aug 2003 14:37:47 GMT

yeah so im coming back. thanks to jeff for reminding me i need a place to live. so can everyone in o-town please gimme a hollar? id like to know whos couchs are gonna be available in mid to late november and id also like to know when ur guys' leases are up. whos interested in livin in a house? i am so id need some peeps to commit to it too. my storage unit is paid for until april 1 so id need a permanent place to live by ...whatever month is before april.. whos gonna be avail?! huh, huh? oh, and i prob wont wanna live in uhouse again bc i said that sucked eggs b4 jefro got robbed...hope none of ur stuff didnt get nabbed stevo. see ya soon *

thoughts...

Fri, 29 Aug 2003 13:51:18 GMT

so lately i have been thinking about gettin rid of my car when i get back to the states, which will be november for those of you i havnt told yet. yippee right? i cant really get rid of my car because its in my moms name for insurance purposes... so that leaves me high and dry... so i started lookin at autotrader.com for some deals on cars, and i found some, but only on cars more ancient than mine...which isnt a comforting thought... i put alot of money in that damn car, im not gonna do that again. and then i remembered my old friend weibo 'jeff' jager, possibly the only other person i have ever met who goes by their middle name and not their first... see what he did when he returned to canada was buy a motorcycle. a real old one if i remember right an 84 honda nighthawk. prob paid about US$ 2000 for it too if i did my research right. well i found a 98 honda shadow 650cc for $2200! which is a helluva deal. its in conyers ga, a suburb of atlanta. i thought, that would be okay, get a ride to go see my sis and buy a cycle, perfect right? wrong. id need insurance duh. and my mom would never help me there if i was to get a motorcycle, her brother was nearly killed in one years back. a drunk hit him with a mac truck. needless to say he has quite a few permanent injuries from that. well, if i know my parents there will be no support of me gettin a bike, even if it means i dont have a vehicle at all. so i was feeling pretty dejected, imagining public transpot in my near future when i searched google for some quotes. progressive's quote was $126 every 12 months. i almost fell out of my chair. my god. transport i can afford! now i just need to be able to get a bike i like, hopefully like the one in conyers, and convince my parents to go along with it... or i could always not tell them...

a sad subject

Wed, 06 Aug 2003 15:06:08 GMT

we had a friend over for dinner tonight. the GM of the JW Marriott. i felt so bad for him. hes so crushed... i never even thought much about the horror of the situation beyond the deaths. i think it might go deeper than i can even imagine. one of my friends, a driver for the embassy. was telling me a bout some of his taxi driver friends... 3 out of the four that were out front of the marriott died. painfully. i asked my dad if what i knew was not to be discussed, he said no. so the details of the bombing. the suicide bomber was doing in for JI ( i wont even attempt to spell what it stands for ). he came up the circular ramp of the marriott and went around in a couple times, perhaps to steady himself, it must be quite hard to commit to dying... but eventually he pulled up his beatup old kijang ( thats a toyota suv/van) behind a line of silverbird taxis and it blew up.

thats all for now

peace

Sun, 03 Aug 2003 15:24:48 GMT

i wish all the people i love and miss were happier. you dont really apreciate somthing til its gone they say. i just want you all to know that i apreciate you, all of you, even if i never told you before.

be good to each other. becasue in the end its all we really have.

jakarta

Thu, 17 Jul 2003 13:54:24 GMT

so here i am. again. not sure how happy i am about that. mixed at best.

im glad everyone i know is a severe night owl, i get to chat here and then with em. i might just start this bologna up again... who knows. today i had my interview... not too sure how it went... i sure hope i impressed everyone present at my trial. i start my escort work tomorrow... so ill finally get some money for a mobile phone....which reminds me: i wonder where that last sears check went to? i got another typhoid vaccine today, damn but those make my arm sore.

i want to thank everybody for making my year in orlando so great, you guys rule. especially vicki. i love you. you make life worth it. cheer up, stay busy, and listen to your mom. a special shoutout goes to jeff. around 5pm he'll wake up, hair all crazy, in a staind wife beater and cook up a hotpocket. i wish i was there kiddo, i know wed play some chess. thanks for being such a great roommate and a better friend. if you see doug, tell him to keep it real. and tell stevo to smoke himself stupid. heh. give ben a big hug for me. i owe you dinner big guy!

i know ill be back soon, and matt already promised me a welcome back party.

rock on

im dirty

Fri, 25 Apr 2003 02:20:52 GMT

I scored
44½%
on the classic 400 Point Purity Test!

Take the test here!

The Pepsi Challenge

Wed, 12 Mar 2003 04:59:56 GMT

Alright here it is, a personal challenge to all you live journal users out there who may run accross my page ( i can already tell this wont be a large number). If you are readign this you * have * to reply. I'm serious, this is an opinion post, give me yours.

The challenge: Find somthing that will scare me

That probably doesnt sound too hard, but i cant think of a single thing. Heights dont bother me at all, and neither do bugs or public speaking. Try your fears out on me...

Oh, and if there is any mention of a bottle of Olve Oil, i'll disregard that. we all know its scary, lets find somthing else.

heh

Wed, 12 Mar 2003 00:06:14 GMT

i like jeff's nutts, they're salty ; )

good news

Thu, 27 Feb 2003 06:06:11 GMT

So, here i am yet again mighty journal. tonight was a good night, i must say. I ditched my engineering lecture, it was so funny. i just went in for les than 5 minutes and clicked in and then left, i swear carl is a genius...lol, or not. but sometimes his cracked out head has a good thought or two. then i sat around for a while, eating and stuff. i had a great talk with my mom, almost a whole hour. i found out how my family is doing, aparently my older sister is sick of everyones shit and is just gonna leave. i guess i wish her the best. my younger sister is still really depressed. i hope we dont go to war with iraq... then she has to stay here...and at this point i think she will go crazy... how would u like to be away from home and your friends (and father) for 5 months going on 6!? i pity her. but other than that all is well. then we went to bens where i had a couple brews before going bowling. good wholesome fun, i say. jeff actually beat me one game. power to him. go ahead congrat him, he earned it...he caught me at a time when i wasnt bowling so great. then i came home and BANGED my head in my door. damn thing was locked. Mark (my suitemate) locked it since he has drums and amps in the hallway...i dont blam him, but still my head..owwWWwwwW. OH!!! i almost forgot the good news i was gonan write about! somebody special is gonna come to o-town this weekend... and this 'special person' is..... :: druuuuuuuumroll :: VICKI. yay! im happy. i was worried before, but now im happy. ben rules, by the way. thats about it for tonight. good one, eh?

LINKS!!
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Coolest Squirrel EVER
Coolest Dude EVER
Props if u can even sit through the end of this one
Asian Culture?

lol. good ones i say. u'll need flash or it wont work

enjoy

u..up..upda..updae..update? whats that?

Mon, 24 Feb 2003 07:32:02 GMT

whoa. time will fly if your me...i guess. its been a while ( aaron lewis starts to sing in the back. his fans tie fred durst and gag him... the crowd cheers....lol) since i updated this thing, eh? lots happened...most of which i can't remember. but i blame that on the drugs my parents did in the 70's. so lets just fast forward a while to this past weekend, which RULED by the way. i went south to see vix and crew, did i say it rocked? if you want an ENTIRE account WITH ALL the STUPID POINTLESS details you should check out joe's journal here. check out the "24" entry... can anyone say waste of fricken time? i mean seriously, anyone but [name has been censored to protect the innocent] coulda jacked off 3 times! yeah! no really! i saw my <3 for pretty much the entire time, so thats cool. joe got stabbed, the guy who did it was assured perhaps a little more than was necessary that the dots were indeed up to par. he was flattered. i met this dude junior. ::shrug:: looked like that other guy from the other place that time....yeah, generic. didnt say much. and other peeps that steph and vicki know. teej had to miss out, but we got him back, him and his little dog too. heh. leaving sucked though, almost as much as the pointless trip to sawgrass. but i saw matt chalich, an old friend who has been lost for some time...aparently someone gave him a new home in gainesville,but he hates it. who can blame him? its pretty much sucks for a very few people up there...you know who you are. :: glare::

*Warning*
thinking too hard about what this next quote says
may infact kill you by means of your head exploding.

so here it is late sunday night with a new week ahead of me. as i peer into the unknown depths in front of me i say, "If it wasn't for that horse i never would have spent that year in college."

yeah. enough said. night folks!

ps. hows the new pic, anne?!

Thu, 13 Feb 2003 04:13:53 GMT

so here i am, takin a break from studing calc (which S U C K S btw). i just wanted to say that jamie is one of the sweetest people out there. nothing but nice, she is. if i didnt have proof of it on my journal, i would say she isnt capable of being mean. Your beautiful jamie, keep at it. my fingers are crossed for your dog, hope all goes well.

You are going to be nothing but missed this weekend, mabye you could come up another.