Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Off to Orlando

To keep it short, I am writing the same txt that I wrote for Robin, which then I copied and pasted for Erinn cuz I don't want to typed it twice lol.

"Well the first part of the day was travelling time. I didn't get into Orlando until like 1730ish then we checked intro the hotel and like sat there for an hour lol. Looked around for tickets and stuff. Ate dinner and didn't get into Downtown Disney until like 2245. I think I shopped there for 90 minutes lol. Lastly I walked back to the hotel. Tired Now lol. How was ur day?

Sent from my iPhone" --Marshall, "Text to Robin" viewed June 30, 2009 (also in "Text to Erinn")

yes I quoted myself. my degree told me that I have to quote everything (except Wikipedia unless it's a non-science class) and source it!

so basically that's what happen most of the night.

Went back to the hotel and tried to get wifi... it is $9.99 for 24-hr. so that's like a ripoff... no free wi-fi in Orlando I guess?

Took a shower at like 0236 on 6_30_2009 and talked/texted my bff(s) from home.
Patrick decided to join the party on skype

Got my laptop back at like 0400 and just started this blog after getting it.
Now I'm just trying to go sleep but the snoring is not helping.

Ok Well good morning from Orlando/Lake Buena Vista

M-A-G

WDWR1 0446

**EDIT--PS: Erinn if you read this, have fun in Texas and "don't you (forget about me) [!!!!])

Monday, June 29, 2009

The Day That Never Ends

100110101100010011 ?

I have no idea what that means.
I forgot what the day was. I don't remember...
oh wait! T'was Sunday the 28th.

Did not sleep until like 0550 or something like that then got up by 0800 to be ready to leave by 0900. Who would've thunk it that we're not gonna leave until 1030???

anyways enough about the morning cuz it pretty much sucked. The picture taker doesn't know me and decided to cut me out from the picture. oh joy.

The day started when we went to (somewhere, I think I fell asleep on the way) and we climbed the Empire State Building. BTW, do not believe any of the tourist attraction guy cuz they are such LIARS (just like my friends whose names I won't mention); There was no 1-hr wait. So we went up to the 60th floor, moved around, got into a different box of transportation to go to the 80th floor, moved around some more and finally the last box was to go to the 86th floor (if I remember correctly).
**Oh wait, I lied, we went directly to the 80th floor then take it from there ;)

Pictures? I don't know how well they turned out. I'd have to say that there are a LOT of "restrooms" there's like one in every corner. I guess they're afraid if you want to be height-sick then you can just go whenever.

DUCK AND COVER! We were "attacked" by a monster! Well Idk if I should assign King Kong as a monster... He made his appearance on the xxTH floor and decided to eat us. We were running for our lives if it were not up to the "please follow the lines" rules.

Survival of the fittest! Yes we survived. Just a few bruises here and there but we're not dead like Michael Jackson or Billy Mays (RIP for them and the other lady). Ok maybe that was a bad joke but I'm not gonna delete the sentence(s).

The View From the Top? You just have to be there to see it. I could post pictures but it wouldn't be the same. bought some stuff, and that's all.

Little did we know, it was the gay pride parade today and basically the streets were blocked off... so yea, we waited there for maybe 30-45 minutes to see the parade. and no, I AM NOT GAY for those who wants to know.

We ate lunch at a chinnese restaurant but it was good. I thought that I'd lost my phone during that time but time will tell...

We went to the car and found it. phew. luckily it was just old phone. We went to Central Park but I did not take any pictures there nor did I even stepped foot on the park. @ this time, I needed to go to the bathroom badly since I wasn't smart enough to go at the restaurant. I went to this hotel and saw that there are no bathroom so I just told them "sorry wrong hotel" while I was looking at my phone acting like I was looking at the GPS system. Luckily, there was this little mall by the same hotel and I went there to go.

I so wanted to play the piano there.... I haven't touched or play any piano the day I left Medford :-/ Quite sad literally.

Anyways, went back to CP (Central Park not Central Point for this blog) and got tickets to go on the Downtown Tour. Funny thing was, the guy that was selling the tickets was the same guy that was with me in the bathroom (no we did not go together,we just met there).

So we went on the tour bus. Went to Times Square (again). As if it not for me, I think the people that were with me would be lost considering we had to switch bus and they were like "why? we have good seats!" and I was like "(well I'm leaving...bye)". LoL. but yea, Lucky for them, I was there and was paying attention ;-p

so we went around downtown with some detour due to the gay pride parade taking parts of the streets. NO MSG for us, Madison Square Garden that is!

yada yada yada, etc etc etc.

We got off at Rockerfeller Plaza and yup, that was the end of the ride for us.

We stopped at a rest stop, got food-ish and went home. I slept most of the way back. so here I am, finishing my blog.

I wish I could stop here and finish the blog but I'm not even close on being done.
Packed my stuff, clothes, souvenirs, etc, phone chargers, etc and ate Indomie at 3 in the morning!

Then I had to look for hotel rooms in Orlando and it took forever to get one. I tried to call Disney's but their operating hours sucked so I called Hotels.com. Yes you saw that correctly, I called a website. I was lazy to do the computer stuff so I just called them to make things easier.

Had some problems with the transaction so I had to use my own credit card. Oh boy, that was a lot of money; hopefully I won't go over my limit.

I'm skipping the boring parts I guess but that was the jizz of the day/night/day.

I'll try and get some shut eye before leaving considering it is now 0732.

See ya in Orlando!

--Wish you were here! -- *M

NYC(2)-MD

Sunday, June 28, 2009

I did not sign up for this...

Ugh. Stupid. F*ck. @$$.

Ok that's enough for one blog.

Well if you read my previous blog, I stayed up until like whenever I posted it and fell asleep. Got 2 hours of sleep (if even). So then I woke up and we went around DC once again.... (already not following schedule. sigh).

Took pictures (again), at least we went to the Washington Monument this time around and took some close up pictures of it. I think I have been dropped into a tribe of non-digital camera picture taker considering they can't work my camera very well (same ref to Josh's blog about us having cool cameras and people can't work it).

So we got into the van after the rounds of pictures @ WM and Capitol Hill. Stopped at a rest stop to use the bathroom. THEN stopped within like 5 minutes to get popeye's. WHY couldn't we go to the bathroom at Popeye's in the first place... oy.

Finally we ended up on the real free/high-way and continue on to NYC. Lucky for me, I slept, maybe, 75% on the way there. After arriving, we got into the boat/ferry/water transportation from NY to Liberty Island! In short, we met Lady Liberty that was given by France to the US. (yea we're lame and had to get everything given to us that's cool.. lol jk, but tell me if u find one that's cool not given to us).

My FRUSTRATION: their camera sucks against sun so they wanted me to take pictures using my camera for some of the time. I took their pictures and they can't take my pictures, i.e. they started walking to the other part of the island after I'm done taking their pictures. They tried to be nice by "do you not want your pictures taken?" I was like... ehhhh. do you even know how to take one? but I didn't say it.

They already messed up MY picture by not taking the angle of the light with the settings. End result: their pictures? good. my pictures? dark and ugly (oh and they complained that my picture is ugly). So basically almost all of their pictures from my camera is like good and mine is not unless I told them how to do it correctly. sigh.

I'm not complaining about not having pictures but at least treat me like I'm a person that also want my pictures taken (I'm just saying in this regard since their servant has like 3x as much pictures taken of her today than I have on the entire trip [maybe I'm just exaggerating on the number but it's close enough]).

So today I took like 471 pictures and if I'm lucky, 20 of them will have me on it. If not, then Idk what to say about it anymore. I'm thinking that I should get an EHD (external hard drive for you non-geek lol) so that I can store pictures that is not of me and pictures that I took for my enjoyment.

So I think after going to Liberty Island, we went to ground zero or WTC remembrance block. Not to be disrespectful, but the sunlight was not that great when we were there to take pictures.

Then we went to eat lunch, err dinner at some Thai Restaurant. was pretty good, lots of food and good break from sitting in the car... stuffed.

Times Square here we come! so I took a nap on the way there so i have no idea where we were when we arrived... I don't feel like typing the whole evening so in short, they went shopping, I got lost and had to find the other group and then I just took off with one of the auntie and take pictures ourselves (she's one of the nicer one, FYI or at least that talks to me [does not mean that the others are bad/mean to me!]). So pictures of Times Square. I had some good traffic shots that I have to watermark first so people don't steal my work (yes thank you Arnie Abrams for telling me that) lol (that was for you Erinn!).

so in the end we went around the Square, which does not seem like a square to me.
it's like an oval and they made it look like a square so people can take pictures without being run over by crazy drivers! hah!

Um, then that's it... I guess. The night's event was pretty hilarious after that cuz I called some people back home/Oregon:

uh hum. first I called Erinn the .... and she hung up on me cuz she was watching a movie
Patrick called me back after 3 hours of standby
Robin didn't txt me back, gosh Robin
Kenna also didn't txt me back but I heard she was at a party
Patrick lied again for calling back
Erinn was drunk dialing and reached me in error (ok maybe that was a false assumption)
Devynne did not want to talk to me... gosh thanks a lot.
Patrick then Skyped me "yo"

From this morning:
I turned off my iPhone so I could listen to music on the way from Maryland/DC to NYC (well it was in airplane mode)
Once I arrived at the "Popeye's" pit stop, I disabled airplane mode and got like a gazillion texts from Robin, Erinn, Josh, and Patrick (Patrick cheated and txt me on my other number cuz he was on FB)
Robin wrote me (or herself) a song! It made my day considering I was sitting in a car all day... *I still thinks that my song is better than hers :-P
Erinn basically told me that I'm stupid in one of her text
Patrick is being ridiculous just as before
Josh's tweets sucked lol. (he didn't tweet while visiting Crater Lake)

Currently:
I'm supposed to be sleeping, and up in like 3-4 hours, which is plenty enough sleep/time for me.
I'm somewhat talking on skype with Patrick
and people are waking up to go to work....

Well that is NYC for you. I think I'll fit in nicely here

Good morning from NYC! and good night to you in Oregon.

/\/\@G NYC_1 6_27-28_2009 0514

Saturday, June 27, 2009

Staying up late and talking on the phone (el presidente)

Well. Today was like one of the worst and best day yet. First of all, I woke up at 9, went back to sleep then woke up at 11. Everybody was gone (not really, I just wanted to add a dramatic effect...). Anyways, so Idc if I didn't go to the airport to get the other 5 people from the 75-90 minute drive to the airport and then back (so that's like 3 hours in a car that I didn't want to spend lol)

Ate Brunch or whatever u want to call a meal at 1130. Took another nap for the same equivalent of 6 songs on my iPhone. I called an old friend to get another old friend's cell number... Talk about going back to the past! We talked for about 15 minutes just to catch up and stuff and see whether or not we could meet up at NYC or something. To my surprise, he's expecting a baby! (no Josh, I'm not going to correct that sentence... lol) Sadly, a drive to Rhode Island from Maryland/Washington DC is about 9 hours... I don't expect to meet up with an old friend this time around :/

Next up was Obama's gift. Yes you read it correctly, OBAMA as in the President of the United States of America. I have proofs/pictures about the present but I will not be posting them up. If you want to see it, you have to talk to me and I'll show it to you from my iPhone.

I forgot where we went... oh right, we went to drop off the host to her work, then we went somewhere in DC, buy some stuff and stuff. They are a loud group of people... The store associate felt my pain. I think we spent about 2 hours for this trip. Then we went back to pick up the host from her work and stayed there for about 30 minutes. Took pictures and stuff, again, there are barely any pictures of me on this trip so far... (sigh)

I forgot where we went next, but at 1900 we were supposed to meet the ambassador of Indonesia in the USA (he's basically the president in the US). We went to the restaurant (insert name here), which is a Brazilian restaurant that served good food. From what I heard, it was the most expensive restaurant?

So after 3 hrs and 30 mins of eating and talking and eating and talking and eating and talking and then cake and talking.... we took pictures, or should I say "I" took pictures for them and have no pictures of myself with the ambassador. I did not sign up to be the "photographer" thank you very much.

Anyways, i think I took better pictures than them imo and idc if they read it.%T
we "almost" walked Pennsylvania Ave all over again but luckily we didn't.. I took better pictures than yesterday and yea... Maybe I should add a link to the album?

So... I had to sit in a car again for who knows how long... txting Robin, Erinn and Kenna along the way cuz they're my only friends... and arrived home.

I did not have my laptop for the first 150 minutes because someone borrowed my laptop so I just txt on my iPhone with Ashley, Erinn and Robin (oh and Patrick but he doesn't count, lol jk)

Erinn confused the heck out of me so I called her and had her explain to me what she was talking about on her texts.after that Erinn decided to hung up to me for personal reasons... lol.so I gave Patrick a call (back) since I ignored both his calls when i was talking to Erinn... Got Patrick in trouble with "mom" cuz he's Patrick, enough said.

so then i decided to call my BFF Robin and unfortunately she was going to the bathroom so she hung up on me :/
Luckily, she called back!! (for once). and got her in trouble with gma. I think i got like 3 people in trouble today within the past hour talking on the phone. In all this while, I told Patrick to call me back because i was talking to my BFF at the moment. Well after the gma problem went away, my BFF decided to call me back cuz we had some interesting txt convo and I missed her voice and everybody else in OREGON.

I forgot what we talked about but we did talked about colors... lol, don't bring about colors to Robin anymore!! Idk why but she likes to text while talking on the phone. What's weirder is that she txt to the same person she's talking to on the phone as well!!!

I asked her if she's txting and she said no or said an excuse to cover up.
she's the worse liar ever but yet she's my bff... :-)"

So yea, it was a fun night! I talked to old BFF and new BFF and I'm sure that I'll talk to them still until the end of time unless they get mad at me for some apparent reason(s)....

I'm tired and should get some like song-writing time before taking a shower. Leaving for NYC at about 0700 EST

I'm sure I missed some parts in this blog but it's because I'm tired and don't care about you or it was not as important as the stuff I wrote... oh yea, Josh is in my "hometown" and is taking over the place for me. Thanks Josh! Have fun taking pictures tomorrow

Well I'm burnt. I need to have a stop codon happening soon if not, I will go "crazy" according to Robin.

STOP CODON
M_A_G DC3 0532

Friday, June 26, 2009

Untitled

D.C. White House. Etc. Walked the entire Pennsylvania ave from the White House to Capitol Hill.

Oh went to Montgomery mall before hand. Didn't buy anything yet. Waiting for NY and DisneyWorld.

Wi-fi still sucks but I did get like 30 minutes on my laptop. This is the second blog written from my iPhone 3G S. Sigh.

I miss my friends (including Josh, even though he likes to make fun of me). Erinn, Robin, Kenna, Sam, etc and the rest back home.

** MAG **

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Goodbye West Coast. Hello East Coast

I am blogging over my iPhone 3G S cuz the connection sucks. Or that the host has fallen asleep and failed to give me their password... Argh. Luckily I have the 3G network. Slow but working! Lol.

Basically I left San Fran. Took a 5 hr nap err I mean flight. The movie was the confession of a shopaholic or something like that. Arrived safely at IAD. Took a 90 minute drive to the house I'm staying at. We ate indonesian food and indomie lol.

It is now 0443 and I should go to sleep.

TTFN MAG DC1 0449

PS: Josh's blog about transformers sucked.

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Day 3, SF, and .... Transformer 2?

well I checked earlier and blogspot didn't work so I didn't blog.
Now it worked but it's 0440 so I'm like :/

I have to check out, leave, ride the shuttle and do the shuffle. then wait for the plane to pick us up and fly us to DC unless to keep me sane or unless I get insane (I don't think that rhymes pretty well but it's 0442 now)

ok I'll continue this while waiting on the airport or something

BYL MAG 6_23_2009 SFD3/4 0443

PS: if you read this before I finish the full version, I did almost die again... first a car almost hit our car (totally their fault), and second, I almost fell off the cliff trying to take a picture that didn't turn out very good)
omgosh it's almost 0500.. I have to go to sleep now... 0447

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Day 2 and Life...

Wow. To be written soon... Resuming work at 2:55 AM
Where was I? Well obviously I took the time to read Josh's blog first before writing my own blog (so Josh doesn't cry: http://nasigosong.blogspot.com/ )

well and now it's like 3:24 cuz I was still booking the flights to Orlando, Floridaaaa...

I shall continue this later...

In short...

Day 2: slept at whatever time I wrote on the first blog, ate breakfast in/around China Town, went to a restaurant supply store (waiting time), ate at Thai Cafe again for lunch... got dropped off at the "Square" and was all alone in the city :o
got lost. rode the cable car (reminded me of The Fray's song Over My Head [Cable Car] but it's not the same thing.. lol). Almost fell out and got hit by a car, stopped at Starbuck's, bought some stuff, rode the boat (her name was Harbor Princess! but then I almost died again and became shark food), took pictures, ate some mini donuts, went to the Aquarium of the Bay, took pictures, recorded a video and scrapped my knee, took pictures of the sunset.... Walked and almost get lost going to In-N-Out/Hooters (were next to each other), then rode a taxi to the hotel room cuz I was exhausted from walking alllllllll dayyyyyy.

EDIT: I have taken 806 pictures... 0410*

Now it's like 3:50 in the AM and finishing this thing... CNN Live had said "Good Morning Houston" and "Good Morning New Orleans" and I am just now going to sleep....
oh wait, I'm gonna play Baseball Superstars 2009 on my iPhone 3G S first (maybe)

Btw, I am getting the posters and postcard style ad for TOMFEST 2009 in Camas, Wa....
spread the word! *hopefully I'll get the stuff soon so I could post them =]



TTFN 6_22_2009 SFD2 0401

Monday, June 22, 2009

I gave in...

so here I am...
I didn't know what was a good or bad name for blogs and in the end, I ended up with I gave in.. not knowing that one is for my "blog" names and the other one for my title...

anyways this was not the point on why I wanted to make a blog. I've been wanting to make/write one for such a long time.

Josh gave in to blogging so I was like "if he makes one, then I can make one" and here I am.

For those that knows me or those that been hanging out with me this past week: yes, I got an iPhone 3G S and it's awesome; Yes, I've been tweeting like crazy (currently I have 38 updates, following 6 people and have 10 followers and that's more or less a 26-hour time period); Yes, I am not in Medford/CP for a time that I don't even know of when I'll be back...

I don't know what I'll write about this first blog but I should make it worthwhile reading or something.

Currently, I am in San Francisco with a few family friends just hanging out (and eating a lot... my tweets gone crazy). I had like 30 minutes of sleep (why did I get 30 mins of sleep? I will not disclosed what happened in this blog unless you talk to me about it) after packing, eating breakfast and then wait for my ride to come at 9, one hour late than the scheduled time.

So in fairness, my sleep deprived body decided that it's a good idea to sleep on the way down to SF. Wrong. Wait, right! No, it's still wrong... My back hurts, my neck hurts, I can't sleep now that it's 1:45 in the morning.

After the bad, there's the good. Though I slept for 75% of the time driving down here, I had some fun afterwards. We went to eat at a Thai restaurant, the name is escaping from me at the moment. Then we went to Lombard street and Pier 39, taking lots of pictures.

--For the record, I did lay down on Lombard street to take a few shots using my camera and my iPhone 3G S... Yes, people were looking at me weird/funny because I was laying down in the middle of the street taking a picture uphill.

For dinner, we went to Borobudur, an Indonesian restaurant... oh how I missed Indonesian food..... *imagine Homer Simpson's drooling over food*

And the last stop of the "night" was Golden Gate Bridge! One word: FREEZING. But beautiful nonetheless. Wear layers if you decide to go to GGB in the middle of the night even during the summer! Overall, I took 346 pictures, which only like 20 of them are pictures of me.

If you think, the story ends there, then you're wrong buddy. Anyways, the day began at 0000 00:01 (that is 1 second into the 22nd). Yada-yada, went around the blocks like ten times, then got back in the hotel at around 0045 hour. And here I am, in the hotel room, can't sleep and writing a blog.

Pictures are to be up soon (maybe.....). In the meantime, maybe you can help me with something. I am trying to be back something "tiny and unique" that should "be able to fit in [my] hand. [...] at least be able to grasp with one hand"

TTFN

MAG 6_22_2009 SF