This Brings back memories

Thanks MOM

Allergies have woken me up early for the past couple of day. Just took some Benadryl I should dose back to sleep in a sec. Perhaps I should thank my mom for these allergies since I know for a fact that they are hereditary, my dad does have them or my brother.

I can see the sun peeking in, looks like is going to be a great day. Wish sun was out everyday. My allergies wouldn’t act up if that was the case. I think I’m allergic to the morning mist, when temperatures are humid and cold. Usually between the spring months I get like this. I think it is becoming more evident now since I am getting older.

There is actually going to be some sun today for my swim, the last couple of times it has been cloudy and a little cold, which is fine except for when I get out of the pool. People probably think I’m crazy swimming in cold weather, but I don’t think you need good weather to do laps.

….I hope you made it there ok. Looks like I won’t be hearing from you until late June, I hope to have good news for you once you get here, things are starting to look promising.

I believe this day ended on a high note.

Current Mood: High spirit, homework wasn't due today, but I did finish it.

Work sucked, I was stuck doing tech work all day. Found out that they were working on a new product which they clearly didn’t include me.

Got a call back from one of the companies I interviewed for (second meeting usually means they are interested.) It is close to my parent’s house so I will gladly take the job since I would rather live around my family. Most likely rent a place with my brother and friends.

Law school is on hold for now since I do have to finish this quarter on a high note. I’ll resume my apps after graduation. Hard to do taking 16 units + senior project, which we clearly finished last week if I may add. The instructors were impressed with our performance at symposium.

Started swimming again, I’ve been swimming about 30 laps a day. I Don’t think that’s a good thing since I’ve been told that I’ve lost a lot of weight. I should probably eat more instead, hard to do with school and projects going on.

Alright I should probably get to bed, it’s late. I have a panel discussion about the Iraq war tomorrow. I’ll be speaking against it of course…. ok sleep time, till next time.

Lesson OnE

We do take the fun out of everything...

Disclaimer: I had nothing to do with this in any way or form; I just press the capture button on my phone. I did find it interesting as they were arguing theoretically their solution.

Engineers in Force

There is a lot of activity around the engineering building everyone is getting ready for symposium tomorrow. It looks like a gadget factory with different gismos and wasooes running around. We had ours ready about 30 minutes ago but for some reason it isn’t working anymore darn, I was looking forward to getting that much needed sleep, I guess next time. I escaped to the lab to take a quick break, finished the power point presentation along with the final drafts of the project. I’m exhausted; I’ve been eating crap food for the past two days. Getting up early again tomorrow for the presentation, I have my lines ready lets hope I don’t forget them. I hope all this goes back to normal by Friday night.

My sister called me today caught me by surprised since I wasn’t expecting the call. She just wanted to know how I was doing and how everything was going. I was glad to hear her voice, she asked me if I was going to go home for Memorial Day but I had no answer. I have finals coming up and a couple of papers to write don’t know if I will be able to go. I will try though I’m sure my nephews miss me.(who wouldn't right)

My batteries on my phone are drained, I was hoping I had enough to take a quick picture of our project but couldn’t. I’ll try to take some tomorrow during symposium, this is my last big project so I better take a lot of pictures. I hope to look back to this day with pride and with an added sense accomplishment.

Alright enough with my ramblings I better get back to work.

... Damn that sandwich down there looks mighty delicious right about now...

MLS Vs. Mr Sandwich

I created this yesterday during lunch time; yes it's a work of art. It deserves to be preserved, this was the best I can do. This encounter went as follows:

alright Mr. biggest/ gigantic/ enormous/ sandwich I ever seen meet your doom aagghhh……..hmmmm...

The sandwich didn't stand a chance. RIP

P.S. Note to self buy more tabasco sauce

I don’t know if this is a good thing or not….

Had an interview today, was one of the easiest one to date. Questions were too easy for an experience interviewee like myself. My eyes kept lighting up every time an easy question was asked, if only all interviews were this easy. I kept waiting for the specific technical question, to my advantage, it never arrived. I simply paused gave my smile and answered each question without any problem.

I’m sure this was one of the easiest one, the next ones shouldn’t be so. To my conclusion one has to give in I know it, the odds are for me I am bound to get a job, I know it.

Update on senior project: We are currently troubleshooting the PCB there seem to be some problem with the power being fed to the different ICs. It needs to be done by Friday since that’s when we will be presenting it to the industry along with the entire faculty. Not looking forward to it since I’m going to probably have to rehearse the presentation to avoid any slip ups.

Week 8 and 3 more weeks to graduation, yes it is almost over. Once I’m finally done with this degree I am going to concentrate more on law school, yes the calm before the storm, I just hope I get in. Ok, back to work.

Dear Diary

I haven't been completely honest with you I know. People have stumbled onto you and have found out that I write in here. I've made a couple of mistakes and revealed my true identity hence affecting the content in here. I don't know how I can fix this because this is the place where I let it all out and express my ramblings and relieve myself of the demons that surround my inner thoughts.

This dairy isn’t for documenting the long journey to law school, heck I don’t even know if I will be accepted. I know it says so in the title but I wrote it thinking about law school second and thinking about my troubled mind first. I don’t know if I can fix the damage that I’ve caused since I can’t take back what I’ve done but I will try.

By the way I don’t think I got the job; it’s been three days and no call back. I put my heart out on that last one. I’m not angry I’m sad, I know that nothing in this life comes easy, and everything I’ve achieved I’ve worked for but I was just thinking that perhaps I was able to get a break on this one. My time will come I know, there is nothing stronger then my will and nobody can weaken it.

Not going home until after finals, it’s ok since I’ve been calling my family. Alright enough about this, time to get some sleep, till next time.

GO Clippers!

Lakers got stomped yesterday; it sucks because I was really looking forward to a Lakers Clippers series. I guess maybe next time, luckily both LA teams made the play-off so I get to choose the other LA team now.

I’ve been studying for my interview tomorrow, there is too much to study so I don’t know what else I can do, if I only knew what will be asked, I’ve just been studying the basics and reading up my old text books. I’ve learned from once of my acquaintance, yes he isn’t a friend, that he had interviewed for the same job about 3 weeks ago, I asked him to tell me what did they go over in the interviews, he isn’t telling me. I think it is really, and please excuse my language, FUCKED UP that he doesn’t want to tell me what was the interview about. If I had gone to an interview and someone else was interviewing for the same position later I would tell them everything. There is a reason for them interviewing more people for the position it is very evident that he didn’t do well.

There is only one opening and it has already been 3 weeks since you had the interview and no call back. Just admit it you suck you don’t know shit. I’ll call you back later on today to ask you again, believe me I can act like I like you, I’ve learned.

It clearly doesn’t matter because whether I know what is going to be asked or not I will definitely do better then him since I can safely say that I know more then him. In my major everyone knows everyone, I can clearly say where I would be ranked on the class scale if asked, and I am not speaking about the official class ranking since grades do not matter when it comes down to actually understanding and knowing the material in the long run.

I just hope I get the job it will relive me from so much stress. Alright back to the books

I went to School

A lot of demonstrations going on today through out LA, I couldn’t miss school since I had a midterm review on one class and I had an actually midterm on one of my other classes, but I did skip my 4:30 class. I only skipped it because I was tired and hungry.

I don't think boycotting universities is a good idea. First of all it isn't free, we’ve paid our fees and the checks have been cleared, second of all class will still go on whether we are there or not. My professor would still lecture if there were only 5 people in a class or perhaps even two.

My roommate and I were discussing the issues and we arrived to a solution to this whole ordeal, this conclusion does not make all the immigrants criminals and it also does not grant citizenships to the 12 million immigrants in the whole country. The issue isn’t just black or white; the answer isn’t yes or no. There is more to it then just that, it would take some time to come up with the right solution and a lot of factors need to be taken into consideration but a solution definitely can be reached.

Maybe the legislation needs hire people like us to solve some of their problems... speaking of getting hire, my interview tomorrow was canceled, yeah disappointing. The HR person reviewed my qualifications and basically told me that I did not qualify for the position. I was devastated to hear that since I was working hard to prepare for this interview, I had it all plan out I would have done well.

Nonetheless I won’t let this bring me down, I’ll keep my head up and look for the next interview, someone is bound to hire, and that I promise.