Hey guyz, UT is awesome.

So one day I went to the basement to do laundry. I was just sitting there, trying to pass the time by browsing the web on my laptop, when this guy enters with an electric wheel chair. Weird sight. Not the electric wheel chair, but everything else: surf board shop bumper sticker, his UT football jersey, his overall appearance did not seem right. He went over to the dryers, and opened few in hopes of finding his clothes. He uttered a couple cuss words, and was sitting there in a state of hopelessness. I went over to see what was wrong, opening each dryer in continuous failure. He then told me his story, and he wouldn't let me interrupt him in anyway. He's a senior, a mechanical engineering major. Hes got through all the chem, physics, and calculus classes; all of the hardest courses at UT. He played football in high school. Last semester he went to a party, got wasted and fell down 4 flights of stairs. His whole body is partially paralyzed, now he can barely speak correctly.

Well what lesson do I learn from this? To not party? To not drink? No. It was what he said next.

"We all just have to keep on fighting, no matter what challenges we face, regardless of what obstacles block our path."

He then yelled enthusiastically, "30 more hours! GO HORNS!"

Turns out, his girlfriend picked up his clothes for him.

Yeah... so again, college is ownage.

More on that later.

graduation!

wahahaha... I don't know which party to go to..............  meh.

Maybe I should just kick back with some of the buds :D.

6 Days until graduation...

High school is over... but do I feel different? How is today any different than any other birthday, any other May 31st?

Even though I don't feel any sense of transcendence, I know that I'm different, so very very different.

But, a few days ago I received a package in the mail, and on the envelope... there were many drawings of pokemon... haha.

At first I thought, "who is this from? From a camper? What?"

But, then it hit me... it's from myself, 7 long years ago.


 

I haven't changed much... haha.

Dear Self,
When you read this letter you will have graduated from high school. I wrote this letter to remind you about 5th grade at West U.

Your best friends now are Laurence Nguyen, Charlie Crosson, Scott Johnstone, Sam Pollok, Max Kudisch, Sangwoo Park, and Fletcher Wiggen.

The trends this year are scooters, The Sims, slip on shoes, and video games. I now really like Pokemon, legos, beckett and pojo magazines, almost anything related to Gundam and Street Fighter, Marvel vs. Capcom 2, and video games. My hobbies now are table tennis, making Gundam models, reading magazines, chess, computers, pokemon cards, and downloading free roms from the internet, hanging out with friends, browsing the internet, and making up video games. Now when I grow up I want to design and make my own video games. Now my favorite music bands are Dave Matthews Band, The Barenaked Ladies, Smash Mouth, and The Beetles. My favorite TV shows now are The Screen Savers, The Simpsons, Extended Play, Pokemon, and Gundam Wing. My favorite restaurant is To Dai because it serves my favorite type of food, Japanese food. Now I have 2 pet dogs Chess and Summer (I hope their still alive when you read this letter).
Now I hope to go to Rice or Stanford for college and get a PH.D. in computer science. Well that kind of wraps it up. I hope I will still like most of these things and still have my old friends and have many new friends.

P.S. I included some photos.

Name: Patrick Lu
Age: 11
Best friend's name? Laurence, Sam, Scotty, Sangwoo, Charlie
Favorite color? Blue Green
Favorite book? Phantom Tollbooth
Favorite pizza topping? Olives
Favorite TV show? The Simpsons and Extended play
Favorite animal? Panda
Favorite subject in school? Math
Favorite game? pokemon and all street fighter related games
Favorite ice cream flavor? Chocolate Moose
Favorite song? tripping billies
Dream job? Video game designer
Favorite candy? Godiva chocolate
Favorite Holiday? Christmas
Favorite cartoon character? Homer Simpson
Favorite thing to do on the weekends? Play video games.

I still love olives on my pizza. I watch tivo'd episodes of the Simpsons everyday during dinner. I just beat pokemon diamond 2 days ago. My desktop wallpaper is from street fighter. My favorite class at Bellaire is Calculus BC. I have the very same Dave Matthew's Band, Smash Mouth, and Barenaked ladies cd's in my car. I'm doing Computer Science at UT. We're going to Todai for our table tennis club banquet. Wow. WOW. WOW.........

Where has the time gone....?

There are times when you just have to stop... and take a look at where you're at.

The past 2 days were pretty bad for me, just 1 "bad luck" event after another.

Ex. i reach into my bag, and i come out with melted chocolate all over my hand -_-.... ewww. It seems my espresso chocolates that i brought for my AP's came out of the ziplock bag... and melted all over the inside of my backpack.

haha...

Well, AP's have been going pretty alright, I don't really expect to get any 5's but I'm pretty sure that I passed everyone so far. I just have to study for micro / macro now. Then after that I get my new laptop, and its smooth sailing from there.

Mrs. Tsai has been kinda riding us kinda hard... in my opinion. I mean, I need a 63 to get exempt. I'm pretty sure I have something above that.

Here's a sleeping cat.

Neko that is always sleeping on my porch or driveway

Among other things... I've been thinking.

Do I really have to try (emphasis on try) to be friends with someone? Shouldn't friends just do stuff together naturally?

Just another reason why I gotta get out of here...

Totally let my group down, I hate that feeling, so very, very much.

Friday already? Yay!

I need to take more pics.

" 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. " - John Keats

Haha, even though I could care less about english, some poems do bring up some great themes.

Whats on the menu for today?

study for cal ap
swimming
chinese hw
sleep