Sunday, March 27, 2011

Sentences Excluding Letters 'A', 'E', and 'F'

I sent the following text message to several people:

"Please write me a complete sentence that does not contain the letters 'A', 'E', or 'F'."

Their responses are as follows:
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Scott Erickson: "I cry mightily to God."
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Tracy Hales: "How is... You could do it..."
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Christy Hales: "Mom is hot."
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Jolie Hales: "Scurry to buy pills now or you will trip down hills."
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Hailey Achter: "Why is my cool pink spotted pig digging by my couch's ugly brown cushion with such vigor?"
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Brian Hales: "I will try to list words to construct such things."
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Buddy Lindsey:  Monopolistic but curious, Jody Smith took two million dogs to curl up in Lincoln County's only pound"
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Ryan McDonald:  "I found this rhino, sitting in your hut, it's so cool."
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Dallin Hales:  "Your butt is hott."
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Kurt Christensen:  "Ok this is not cool"
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Me:  "All I know is Kurt sings good songs on numb butts."
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I think it's funny how Dallin and I mentioned something to do with butts, and both Dallin and Christy talked about something being hot. 

I had no purpose to doing this.

The heart of Winter semester

        Wow, this semester is pretty typical.  High stress, good test scores, bad test scores, dating, awesome roommates, American Idol (my roommates and I are following very closely), cold weather with occasional days of total awesome weather, can't complain.  I haven't posted for a while, so this post will contain much joy.


I saw this poster hanging around various locations on campus.  I think it's hilarious.
I always wanted to get a picture of me doing this.  Finally one late night I asked Nozomi to take the picture.  It was quite popular on facebook.

This was taken the following night in the library.  Just trying to find joy in the journey.  Life is great ya know.

        This is an interesting story.  I was in Kaysville headed West on 200 N.  I came to the Main St intersection and wanted to turn left (South).  There was a car in front of me and they must have been dealing with children in the car or something.  The light turned green for us to go, in fact, the light was indeed the much loved green arrow.  The car in front of me sat there.  Five seconds passed by and they still didn't move.  Then they ever so slowly began to pull out into the intersection and turn left.  I followed closely in fear that the light would turn red.  While I was in the middle of the intersection the light then turned yellow, yet the car was still going about 5 mph.  I was annoyed and went around the car on the right side into the other lane.  This maneuver is illegal, but seriously.  I then sped up in order to pass this annoying driver, but while doing so they pushed the nos button and jetted forward with great propulsion.  I gave up and then slowed back down and continued to drive at normal speed.  Then I saw the lights.  Behind me that whole time was an undercover cop driving a Cadillac Escalade.  Fun! 

        He came to my window.  Knowing I had broken the law I had no argument.   He seemed angry and my guess was expecting me to retaliate.  I didn't, I kept calm knowing it's the only way to get out of this, though I was still annoyed at the driver.  Anyways, the cop listed the above pictured violations I made, but he also told me that it is illegal to be in the intersection if the light is green UNLESS it is clear to go.  I remember learning in High School that two cars could be in the intersection to turn left if the light is green and I mentioned this calmly to the officer.  He told me that isn't true.  I then assured the officer that specifically remember my teacher telling my driver's ed class this.  He again said this is wrong.  Then I mentioned that the green light back there was indeed an arrow and therefor even if what he said was true that I wasn't at fault in this aspect, however I knew there was plenty he could get me on, so I was calm and was quick to admit my stupid driving.  The officer went to his car to do whatever police officers do when they go to their car.  I don't know, but I'm guess this officer either realized or quickly looked up the whole law about cars being in the intersection and realized that I was right about it, also, the light back there was an arrow so such a false law didn't even matter.  He came back to the car and gave me all of the warnings you can see above.  He said that my calmness and patients is what got me off.  I was so grateful. 

    The officer was a nice guy, but he needs to learn the law a bit better.  I told my Mom this story and she emailed the State to inquire about the two-car-in-the-intersection rule.  I was right.
My roommates and Kurt.  It was a weekend and we had nothing to do, so we went to Wal - Mart.  While there we decided we would buy a drink for another person.  Preston bought me a Sobe, Kurt bought Preston orange juice, Dalton bought Kurt some juice, and I bought Dalton carbonated water.  Dalton hated his drink.

Creater of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg came and talked to BYU students.  I sat with my Chinese friends :)
Mark Zuckerberg

Scott and I usually eat at the Blue Line Deli in the Tanner building on campus after our class which is held on Mondays and Wednesdays.  We ran into Lucia this day which was awesome.

My job gets me doing various jobs.  The people in the picture are all over certain parts of the world like Japan, China, South America, Africa, European countries, etc.  While I am the BYU China facilitator, we occasionally get asked to do odd jobs like serve Gelato to guests from Italy.  I have never had a better tasting frozen treat before in my life!!!  We ate waaay too much and completely spoiled our dinners.
This was the first day of the semester where the weather was amazing.  I decided to study outside.  While doing so random friends would come up and have small talk with me.  I was fortunate enough to have both Nozomi and Kurt walk by.  I consider these two some of the best friends I have ever had.
This picture was taken when I was sitting the the spot shown in the picture above.  It was such a beautiful day and I thought I would take a picture of this building at BYU known as the JFSB.

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Jaewon Song

I'm sitting in my physics class right now, it seems like the class to casually surf the web in.  Anyways, this is Jaewon Song.  Few of my friends probably know he exists, yet I consider him one of my really good friends.  He is one of my all-time favorite people I've met here at school.  He is from South Korea and has one of the funnest personalities ever!  We both eat at the BYU Cannon Center (way nice cafeteria) which is where we got to know each other.  He served in California Spanish speaking, which I think is funny because he was born and raised in Korea.

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Homeless College Student

Well, as a result of several events, I have decided to move out in the middle of the semester.  Why you may ask?  The main reason is to move in with (or near to) my buddy Kurt who is awesome as. 


I'm going to be living in Kurt's front room until the guy who's contracts I am buying moves out sometime later this week.  I have already sold my contract which was a miracle in itself.  Oh, living with white people is going to be different, but awesome none the less.

Saturday, January 29, 2011

Chinese New Year

I had the fun opportunity to sing a solo to a popular Chinese pop song (周杰伦 - 不能说的秘密)at the BYU Chinese New Year celebration. I had laryngitis, so it was a bit interesting. During the last verse I just belted my lungs out and pretty much screamed; it was definitely entertaining.
I forgot the lyrics a few times because I started learning the song a few days ago. At one point when I forgot the words I sang, "我不知道歌词", which means "I don't know the words". They laughed at that.


Half way through the song my buddy 胡宇 (Hoo Yoo) ran up on stage and gave me balloons LOL!! Into the mic I was like, "Wah, Hoo Yoo, 我爱你! ( I love you)". It was fun.

I saw a lot of friends there that I haven't hung with for a while.

Lucia!
Ma Xiyue!  A great friend and accompanist :)

Kurt is a friend from high school. He is one of the "Davis Sophomore" friends I had during my senior year in High School. We hang together everyday which is totally awesome. Love Kurt.

Some of my Chinese bros, or 哥们儿 rather.

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Student Life: Surviving Monotony

School is crazy, I can't complain. I enjoy learning, though I wish I could do so with a little more time. I find myself sometimes studying just so I can get a good score on the test. I blame the system, but I'm grateful to take part in it.

Waiting for my buddy Ryan King and his band to come out.

Kexin Ma got baptized!  She is a freshman from China.  I tend to know a lot of the Chinese on campus.

Waiting for Kexin's baptism to start!

I went to Zupas with Scott and Nozomi because I got some gift cards from my awesome mom for Christmas to there.  After we sat we noticed two girls looking for a place to sit, but everywhere was full.  I half jokingly told Scott to ask them to sit with us.  Scott is awesome.  He went and invited them to sit with us.  We talked well over an hour and got their numbers. 

Lucia is amazing.  I can't see how one couldn't love her.  I'm with her a lot.  We took this picture because we liked the sky.

Here we are at the Utah Valley University Asian New Year celebration.  I participated in a game on stage where they asked us questions about China.  I won a gift card that can be used in the UVU food court.  I later gave it to my roommate who goes to school there.