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.

Where had the time gone?

WHOA! Two months without blogging? Damn. Lessssssss do this!

Birthday month was good, but went by sooo fast! My actual birthday was pretty cool. Had dinner at Sonoma Chicken Coop again with the bitches. Some people didn't come and I was fairly disappointed, yet so thankful for everyone that did come through. We drank up at my house and played zoo and king's cup. That was the best part of the whole night! The next day, I went out with my sister and ran errands with her. I also had to be her fuckin' driver! I had to pick her ass up from her apartment, which is in Sunnyvale, then drive her to her friend's party in South Side. I went back to my house to chill, then to pick up and drop off Anthony at Jacky's. Then next thing I knew, I had to pick up my sister and drop her back off to her place around 11:30p. By the time it was midnight, I was on 280 driving back to Jacky's. When I got there, she told me to get water for some reason. I went into the kitchen, lights off and all, to find mah niggas singing happy birthday to me, holding a DELICIOUSASS 1,000-calorie cheesecake :] What a great way to start the night, which was immediately followed by beer pong, of course, zoo, and king's cup! My actual birthday sucked haha, enough said.

March went by like a d'zayum blur! Jessica's birthday was hella random! Classes that were hours felt like mere minutes. Online midterms came up so fast. WHOA! Other things include BEER PONG haha, volleyball, Tha Fiends in Santa Cruz, Alice in Wonderland in 3-D, new friends, first time at IHOP, Kathleen's house two days in a row, my sister leaving for a month to the Philippines, and winter finals!

Today is the last day of my spring break, and I have to say that it was pretty chill. I slept in until 4, which was good and bad. Next thing I knew, another 24 hours have gone by. Here's a recap:
Friday: I just chilled with Jacky and we went to Target, d'zuhhh! Then we ate at Eastlake. The Marvin of '05 was our busboy haha!
Saturday: Beach! Since it was the only sunny day my entire break! :[ Major cockfest, but it was sooo relaxing and nice. Later that night, me, Jacky, and Jackie went to Johnny's birthday party. It was CRACKIN'! Met a lot of new, fun people. HELLA FUN.
Sunday: chilled at home.
Monday: We ate at Applebee's for Adrian's birthday and spent the night at his sister's house. Once again HELLA FUN AND CRACKIN'! Met a few more good, fun people! The night was spelled H-E-N-N-E-S-S-Y haha. "It tastes like water" mhmmm.
Tuesday: chilled at home all day.
Wednesday: Me, Christena, and Sasha ate at the Olive Garden where JR works and GRUBBED haha. After, we went back to my house to watch the Hangover.
Thursday: Me, Sasha, and JR visited Christena at Jamba Juice. Then we headed over to MVP for some batting. OMG My fuckin' back is still aching from the batting FUCK! haha. Later that night, I played beer pong at Anthony's. GOOD NIGHT. My record was 8-1. Best record of my entire beer pong career haha. And to imagine, when I first started playing, I lost my first 5 games! I came along way and now I'm not a stupid grasshoppa ^__^ GOOD NIGHT.
Friday: chilled at home all night and pulled an all-nighter until 1pm Saturday after.
Saturday: Went to sleep at 1pm, woke up at 7, chilled, and played beer pong at Anthony's. GOOOOD ASSS NIGHT! Seriously the highlight of my break. We met Jacky's cousins who SHE JUST MET THAT DAY at her other cousin's wedding: Lance, Sean, and Jaron. Even though they may be from Oxnard in SoCal and the 808, it felt like we all got each other on the quick. There was no awkwardness with them which was surprising since it usually happens when you first meet new people. Damn, if they only lived here, we'd have way more people to drink with, even if it may be the ultimate cockfest haha. We ended the night by eating at Denny's and didn't realize how fuckin' loud we were up in that bitch!
Today: chilled and ate Chinese food all day haha!


There's a quick recap for y'all. Hopefully, I won't wait another 2 months for another post. I hope there will be way more things to blog about!

With a new quarter, new events and friends await. My schedule sucks but I need to make the best out of it. It's crazy to think how by the end of this quarter, I will hear by all the colleges I applied to and know where I will be going in the fall of this year. Pretty big quarter for me! Oh, and I'm gonna be painting ALL THE TIME so I will hopefully post up some new art shtufffff.




with hopes of becoming a more frequent blogger,
Ricardo Juni

Stress, Pride, and Relaxation

Haha, so I guess I already broke my New Year's Resolution. Oh well, let's move on.

January was full of stress, forreal. All my focus was on my supplemental applications for UCLA and Cal. I got through them all, but of course I lagged and waited until the last milliseconds. With that said, I consequently fell behind in school. I'm behind in the reading for journalism, in the art projects for Arts4B, and have missed 2 days worth of class. But now, my grind is turned back on and stress has been lifted off my shoulders. However, with all the frustration and exhaustion, I was able to produce a portfolio I'm actually proud of.

Let's start with this one.
I call this one "Abduction of the Peace." I asked my oil painting teacher about possible drawings to put in my portfolio, and he strongly recommended me to put in 3 figure drawings. Then I thought back to all the times I spent in figure drawing in animation class during my high school career. My animation teacher always emphasized the importance of knowing how to draw the most basic things, including hands and feet. He once told my class that every great artist, no matter what medium he or she uses, must know how to draw figures, humans, animals, etc. I can try to go all crazy on ya ass about the title, but basically, the left hand used to be holding a peace sign before being frightened by the dominant right hand, which symbolizes every enemy to peace and tranquility.

Here's another one.
I forgot what I named this one. I think it was "Reflection, Health, and Clarity." I thought about myself and what I need all the time, much like everyone else. Reflection is necessary for anyone to become a better person. Reflection helps us stay away from the stubborn monster and keep us sane. When it comes to health, I really need to change my diet. But food is sooooo good. I live gluttony everyday, damnit. The orange, a powerful healer in itself, symbolizes the changes we all need in order for success, both mentally and physically. With all of us being Recessionistas, as Wendy Williams calls the people of this time, we are drenched with so much stress, frustration, and confusion that we become lost in ourselves. We must find a sense of clarity and cleanse ourselves. We have to take a step back, look at what we have in our hands, and cut back.

Ok, now this one.
I honestly forgot the title to this one. So I'm just gonna call it "Jacky's Hair" for now. Simple, Jacky is known for her damn mane of a weave. Her hair is like all the tangles and knots we survive and overcome everyday. That sounded hella dramatic, but yeah. More frustration in an already Hellish time we live in.

These are only 3 of the 8 I had to draw. I'm really proud of them, no doubt. If anyone actually reads this, let me know what yo think. I'd love some feedback since no one but my mom and grandparents saw me draw them.

OH YEAH, BIRTHDAY MONTH. Enough said.


with my fuckin' ass relaxing and lounging on my couch listening to some Kings of Leon,
Ricardo Juni

1.5.4

I can't believe it.

My meteorology class is going to be easy. Too easy. Check this out. My professor curves every test to 80%, so your score will always go up. The entire course is descriptive, which makes me almost orgasm because there are no equations or math involved. He has study notes and summaries online, so you can just print them out, bring to class, and add to what you already have. He also has practice tests online, and some of the practice questions show up on the actual test! Aww shitt, I just wet myself.

My journalism class is so fun. We did a little icebreak where we had to find people that had a favorite tv show, read the newspaper, etc. and it was surprising to me how social and talkative people were. Everyone was so nice and walked around smiling; it made me want to talk even more. Usually, people just hand me their paper and I write down my name under a category, but this time around, I actually met people and had conversations with them. After, we went over the syllabus. One of the class requirements is to keep a blogger! Deck asked the class if anyone blogged, so I raised my hand, finding out I was the only one and shit. What the fuck! But yeah, we're suppose to blog about our relations to all types of medias, so that'll be pretty cool.

Overall, today was good. I think I just fell in love with winter quarter. The classes are way easier, however I have a feeling I will be too grateful and not take my classes so seriously. I just have to remind myself my goal for this quarter, and that is to get STRAIGHT A's.

with much appreciation,
Ricardo Juni

1.4.3

First of all, lemme say Happy Birthday to THEE Indian Princess, Puneet Karen Pataria haha.

Today was the first day of winter quarter, and I gotta say, it didn't feel any special. I was only excited to see if I knew anyone in my classes, but to my surprise, I didn't. Well technically, I knew some people because they were in my previous classes, but I never really introduced myself and had conversations with them. I hope that I befriend many this quarter! It'll only make time fly by.

After napping for 2 hours in my car, I finally met up with my bitch, Christle, and we went to Wingstop with Anne Chan to feast. It was soooo good finally hanging out with the both of them at the same time. I've only hung out with one at a time prior to today, so it made me sooo happy. We're helllza fun don't play please! haha. Then, being total fuckin' fatasses, we wanted to go eat AGAIN at Boiling Crab, but FUCK, too many damn Asians taking up all the tables. I bet half of them were Nguyens while the other half were the Asians that had to change their last names during times of war. Kinda fucked, but probably true tehehe. So we were like, fuck it, let's go Wednesday, and we parted. Then, Christle and me went to Safeway to get some shieet for her momma. Let's just say car rides are hellla kuhhraazzy with that bitch. Love her!

I went home, napped, and then picked up Puneet and Angela for dinner at Cheesecake Factory. Ate some goodass food mmmm. Damn, I'm about to eat the leftovers right now! SHIEET. As usual, we looked at each other, talked shit about our waitress (yuck to her!), and talked about everything. We saw Tina working and just had to talk to Ms. America's Next Top Model, dzuuuhhh! After we said toodles, we drove back to the east side and sat in my car infront of my house about Puneet's escapades. It was a very good chill session :]

One more thing. I was looking around and noticed the username for a certain person's tumblr. Let me ask this: If hype kills, shouldn't you be dead already?


with an overall feeling of satisfaction,
Ricardo Juni

1.3.2

School is in about 10 hours, believe it or not. I will be returning to 12 weeks of all-nighters, sleep deprivation, 4 hr. naps, and pseudo-intellects. I know damn well that procrastination will be here too, with it's devilish smirk and influence heavily on my mind. But hey, with everyone making resolutions and changing themselves for the better, I think I can try and reduce the amount of laziness. One of the only good things about school is the potential to meet people. It's always exciting to see who's in my classes, and if I will actually know anyone. But whatever, let's hope for a smooth start.

Anyway, I went to Alyssa, Ngoc, Steph, and Alexis' birthday party last night at Alyssa's dad's house. It was pretty crackin' until some stupid putas tried to start some shit. Let's just say Steph took one for the team. You go bitch, you fuckin' go! haha. We all drank up, laughed, kissed, high-fived, and hugged each other every other sentence. Some of us got too crazy, but we had each other's back like a damn family. You already know! The cops came around 1, told us to simply quiet down, but never left the fuckin' block. Cops were posted on either ends of the street, and aggressively staked out like vultures for any potential drunk drivers. We had some problems getting out, but luckily Roscoe and his crew came back to the house as sober as could be and drove my car hollller! All in all, it was a good night and a fabulous way to end my break.

with my backpack prepped and outfit picked out for tomorrow,
Ricardo Juni

1.2.1

So I decided to blog every single day this year. Well, except for yesterday tehehe. It'll be about anything and everything. Even on the days where I just sit on my idle flabbyass, I'll write something. Quotes, insight, agendas, y todos homes! Let's see how far I get.

Let's start with this: my dad hates my grandparents. I never really told anyone because it should just be a family affair, but sometimes I need to write my frustrations down. He finds any excuse to either blame my grandparents or talk shit about them under his breath. He's so stubborn and stupid sometimes that every time it happens, I just yell out "I don't give a fuck!" and continue on with my activities. He needs to stop being such a hater and ignore them. Every little thing my grandparents do upsets him. Just earlier, Scott came home, opened the front door, and hit the door of the closet my grandpa was using. There was a giant boom and sounded like someone got hurt. My dad, who was in the other room, assumed Scott got hurt and basically blamed my grandpa for USING THE CLOSET. What the fuck. If anything, Scott should be the dumbass, opening the door as if he was running from the cops or something. Even without any bleeding, my dad continued to assume that there was internal bleeding and talked more shit about my grandpa. "He has no brains." Stuuuuupid. Shit like this makes me soooo glad that I am not as narrow-minded and STUPID as the generations before me.

with much parental angst,
Ricardo Juni