I feel amaaaziiiiing!

What a weekend! I love weekends like this one when I'm actually looking forward to something each day. Let's recap!

Thursday was overall a great day. A bunch of us went to the beach, in all its 70 degree and slightly breezy glory. It started off cloudy, but they quickly went away, leaving a pleasant sun. While the weather was crackin', my fuckin' stomach wasn't. OMG but two shits in a public restroom later, I was back to my bitchass self haha!

As you can see, guess who was the sexiest! haha this was taken right after I released my demons in the surprisingly clean bathroom at Seabright. Everyone's in it, except for Rosemary who took the picture on her Droid the size of a fuckin' window. But anyway, later that day, we had a baby bbq at Anthony's, while keeping an eye on the Perseid meteor shower going on. I saw a helllza buhhright one and that's all I needed. It shot across the entire sky and lit my face up. It was so bright, I thought I was dying or some shit. Ok, well not that bright but yeah, whatever. We tried going to a much secluded part of San Jose, but it was a total fail. The city is just tooo bright.

I think Friday was an even better day! Scott, Adrian, and I took BART to San Francisco in tha MORN to check out the Black Scale sample sale.

We were helllla expecting clothes to be only $10-$15, but NO! The shirts were still original price with a slight sale. Yeah it was a sample sale, but not a CHEAP CLOTHES sale haha. I still ended up getting a maroon shirt with some funky Sanskrit-inpsired letters, and a black shirt with a Shiva statue on the front. Too bad it came down to $60! Again, whatever. On the way back to BART, I noticed the bubble walls going down the escalators.

They might appear as bubble wrap that never pops, but there is some artsy, architectural aspect to them. NEAT TEHEHE.OH! And I saw this black guy sitting by us who looked like the love child of T-PAIN and MIDGET MAC hahaha!!!!!!!


FUCKING KUHHHRAZZYYY, huh! And guess what, he was counting his money the whole time on the ride. How swagga masta' of him! But anyway, later that night, we all drank up at Josh's. That was the night I fell in love with Knockout and became a king of Relay. HMMMM.

Saturday was much more... interesting. Adrian, Jacky, Anthony, and I went to Ness's birthday party in Daly City. It was pretty cool. We left undefeated at beer pong and that's all that matters haha. But on the real, I did not notice how many people were there. It was probably because of the draaanks and brownie ;]. But anywho, we left too early because of some drama! But whatever, what do you expect.

So that was my weekend. I hope next week will be just as eventful as this one, both postively and negatively. I just need to get out of the house and enjoy my summer until school starts! holla!


with feelings of satisfaction,
Ricardo Juni

YES

I saw my manong again today. You know, Jo Koy. He performed at SJ Improv this weekend, and let me just say this: He doesn't disappoint!

I went with Anne Chan, Lynn, and Rae and this is how close we were! We were close enough to see the hair on his chest, but far enough to not be his next victim. We definitely had great seats, but the service wasn't that great. The lady was slow with our orders, but DAYUMMM I wasn't carded! So it was all good. Oh by the way, the fat chick wasn't taking a picture of me haha.

But anyway, Josep was amaaaaziiiing!!! He delivered another hard-hitting, energetic performance and talked about what an asshole his son could be, how Indian music isn't the best music to make love to, and how his mom got her own radio station in Las Vegas. Check her out at w....w....w..... hahaha! Thai Rivera opened up and he was helllla hilarious! His set should've been longer. Also, Passion made a guest performance. We found out that he's been working with Robin Thicke and Justin Beiber to name a few! Damn, he's on the come UP and hellla representing the talent from The Bay. Good shit forreal!

All in all, it was one of the highlights of my summer so far! I think this year's performance was better than last! I didn't take a picture with him this time, but I'm planning to in December when... HE PERFORMS A SPECIAL FOR COMEDY CENTRAL IN SAN FRANCISCO! Yes, he's gonna have ANOTHER one here in The Bay and everyone who signs up on the email list gets to pre-order their tickets before the general public. You already know I'm theerreeeee!



with much love for my manong,
Ricardo Koy Barcelona Juni

To Those

Here's the first entry of "Ricardo Rants."

1. Tumblr destroyed blogging. I'm not a fan of it. It's the next Facebook and everyone has one only because it seems like the cool thing to have. Yeah, I have a Facebook too, but it's honestly a great way to stay connected with people. But anyway, I look through a few Tumblr blogs here and there and realize that much of the content lack in depth. People just post stupid pictures and/or videos without much commentary, if any. We're all literate, right? Hopefully I hear a "yes." People let the pictures do the talking, but we lose who the blogger is; he loses his voice and replaces it with someone else's. No wonder why so many people can't write a fuckin' essay. So many can't put their thoughts into complete sentences; they don't put down their opinions or views and essentially only repeat things. And then I get bored and die.

I'm not trying to sound all snobbish or superior, I'm just putting down MY OWN opinions; therefore, I can write an essay. Whoops, logical fallacy!



2. Alcohol never has to be the enemy. I'm tired of people who have become so fuckin' uptight about drinking, even though they've been waaayyy more fucked up than me before. If people knew how to handle their liquor, maybe we would have less people complaining. We wouldn't have any problems. I'm not trying to peer pressure others into drinking, but they should expect to drink or just go along with whatever is happening, rather than isolating themselves in their Fruit Ninja world. Please, you're not better than me or anyone else because you're (now) above the influence. Alcohol shouldn't be the reason for damaged friendships. Beer and good company keep the party going, not a tantalizing game of Words with Friends.



3. Breh and it's many dumb variations are soooo stupid, plain and simple. I'm now down with that. It sounds retarded, like you have a speech impediment or something. I'm not worried much about it because remember folks, it's only a fad, and like rubberbanding your jeans, it too will be part of what made our generation so gullable and dimwitted.

Monotone

It's 5 o'clock Friday morning and I'm still up. My dad is talking to my mom in the Philippines. Scott's stubbornly sleeping in the living room while I'm in my parents' room feeling much more cool.

There are two weeks left of school and I really wish they would go by faster. But wait, what the hell am I talking about. These PAST two weeks went by like a fuckin' cheetah chasing after a sickly gazelle. Or some shit that goes on in crazyass Africa. I've been a bad boy. I haven't been going to class and using the death of my uncle as an excuse. I don't know what's going on, but my mentality is slipping drier than my elbows. I'm swamped with overdue assignments, and I can only blame my fatass. And to think I'm leaving De Anza with the mindset I left high school - apathetic and downright lazy. I can't do this at Davis.

However, I feel like everything will fall into place. I don't really think I will be penalized as much; half my teachers are really chill this quarter, while the other half are pretty fair and understanding. I seriously just need to lock myself in my room, whoops I mean living room and get to work. BUT. It's hard trying to focus when 5 other people are walking about back and forth through the rooms. That's why I love working at night. Everyone is asleep and I have the kitchen and living room all to myself. The night is my freedom.

But yeah. That's how I'm feeling right now. I think the next blog will be just a bunch of random rants and annoyance lately. I gotta keep a list of it; they keep slipping in and out of my mind. It's soo stupid.


with seven more days at De Anza (omg really? wtf!),
Ricardo Juni

Pre-Summer

This past weekend was spelled B-U-D-L-I-G-H-T. It's hella funny to think that from Thursday to Saturday, we drank over 120 beers! Just with like 7 people too! And then we're gonna do it all over this week, haha. My apologies to my liver :[

But to be honest, I am getting a little sick of it. I love playing beer pong, but damn, beer is getting to me and the rest of my body, especially my stomach and soon-to-be-permanent double chin. I need to just cut back on alcoholic all together, but it's hard because that's what jumps off the get togethers! I feel like we sort of depend on beer too much; without it, we don't have much else to do. Most of us are pretty frugal with our spendings, only putting in dollas for either alcohol or food, and thass forreal!

With that being said, I have recently been looking up concerts and free events that we could do during the weekend. So far, I got Chelsea Handler, Chelsea Lately in LA, and Summerthing in Golden Gate Park.

Earlier today, I saw the commercial for Music in the Park, which I hella want to go to as much as possible this year. Whatever type of music it is, from ethnic to Latin to Jazz, I'm down to go. What could be better than sitting down in beautiful Downtown San Jose with palm trees in the air, the busy sense of cars and people walking around, and FREE MUSIC? I can't think of anything... OH YEAH, doing all of the above without sweating :]] Thanks be to God Almighty for my Axe stick!

3 1/2 more weeks left of school, 9 days to be more specific.




with much calmness amidst loads of assignments due soon,
Ricardo Juni

with myself

About the same time a year ago, I was pretty sure wha I wanted to do with the rest of my life. i was going to be an architect, and one day pursuit my personal dream of being a fahion designer, just like Laura from Project Runway. Now, I'm finishing up my second year at De Anza and will soon be an Aggie over at UC CowTown. My life is going in the right direction and everyone's congratulating me, but I don't completely know what I'm going to do now. Yeah, I'm majoring in Art Studio, but I still don't have a clear idea of what to do with it. I know I want to get my Master's and try to get into Cal or UCLA once again. There are so many things I could do with this degree, but damn, sooo many possibilities!

Another thing that has been on my mind is, what I think, the lack of actual artwork I'm producing. Some of my friends are cranking out work and selling them! I only have the stuff that I've done in class; no leisurely items whatsoever. This summer, I'm going to just isolate myself in my damn hotass garage and let my creative juices flow until I hit a drought. Whether it's just drawings, collages, oil paintings, something is coming out of the garage. I just really want to get some money for my work!

with much on my mind,
Ricardo Juni

Just a mere test.