It's been so long since I've posted anything, xanga is threatening to cancel my account if I don't use it! LOL!  Well then I guess I better write something before they boot me like they booted Goggles for being a Dog (Remember that one time when Goggles and Emi saved Blackthorn from burning down to the ground?) That was awesome!!!

Well I know that nobody really reads this except for Jah and she only reads it when there are pictures... so I thought I would just give you a brief update of what life has been like for me. I've just been working, "on the regular". And watching Flavor of Love, "also on the regular". I have been following my SD teams, "not as much on the regular" but that is because I've been doing a lot of homework. Which is probably why Xanga wants to kick me off. I'm going to graduate in March!! Woo hoo!!

Me and my BFF Mark have reunited... and it feels so good. When I decided I wanted to move out of Irvine I thought every single day, I can't wait until my lease ends so I can just finally get out of here!! Towards the end I was sad and I thought that being out of the area wouldn't really make me that happy. Now that I am in long beach, i realize how much happier I am. Isn't that vierd?? I think I belong somewhere with a little more hustle and bustle... Goggles on the other hand hates it!!

Here is a beautiful poem by one of my favorite poets: E.E. Cummings.

[somewhere i have never travelled]

somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond
any experience,your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near

your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully,mysteriously) her first rose

or if your wish be to close me,i and
my life will shut very beautifully, suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility: whose texture
compels me with the color of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody,not even the rain, has such small hands

Enjoy Puerto Rico

On our Way to Puerto Rico

After a ten hour flight, we were completely spent!!

San Juan....

This is the first restaurant we ate at in San Juan

Street in San Juan

Cayaman Caves and Rincon

Creatures from Animal Planet in Puerto Rico

A family of endangered Bronzed Snails

The Trolley is safe.

According to Frommers, we would be taken down to the Cayaman Caves on a "modern" trolley (I think it had a john deer engine).

Cayaman Caves

The caves are scary!!

But also really awesome!

But also scary and slippery. I think jay slipped at least 8 times. At least!

Price of Gas in Puerto Rico

These little crabs were ALL over the beach in Rincon.

Our first beach in Rincon

Sunset

Isn't it beautiful??

This was our lucky night! My superb espanol got us some "Diegos"!! La Creeeeepy!

Beligerance.

On our Way to Ponce...

Another creature of the wild...

Shopping in Ponce

From our resort in Fajardo

Culebra Island

The Dock at Culebra Island

Us at our Beach Villa: La Casa Pana

Scooter Rental from Juan Carlos

Empenadas are Empenadillas!!

La Playa Flamenco

You could stand in water up to your chest and still see your toes.

The coral looked just like Mark's Fish Tank

The Playa Soni

Turtles perched on this beach at night to lay their eggs

What are these dudes doing?

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Okay everyone hurry and do something funn!! Sugi... what are you doing with that stick??!

Jay's Dinner. Poor guy!

And at night we get bored

So we ride around the tiny Island with only 3 streets

Good Bye Puerto Rico!

Today is Tuesday and I'm at work but my mind is in a million different places. I keep thinking about this past weekend and how AWESOME it was!!! I had to call in sick yesterday just to recover. So I got to go to the Angels and Airwaves concert TWICE. And I liked it each time (Thank you markie). Not only that but I got to go to Giant and that was the best show I have been to in a long time! If you wanted to go but didn't... you should have... because anyone who went will tell you how much you missed out!! I can't even explain what it was like on the streets of downtown L.A. It was total greatness. I forget how much I love house music. I know that SOME people think that I'm a total house head but my core roots are in the punk/indie/rock avenue of music. But everytime I go to a really good house show, I remember how much I love it. I even got Farina's autograph!!

Have you ever been to a concert and the music moves you in such a way that you can literally feel it inside your body? It feels heavy inside but it floats around waiting for a place to rest and it always ends up in your throat... and for me... that means tears. I'm a crier. When the music gets to me like that... I record that moment mentally so I won't forget it. I think I had that about 4 times this weekend. I had to take a step back and look outside of myself and take it in because it was that amazing. It's not only the music... it's everything. And that is what music is about. It's about the bands, the dj, the venue, the people, the drugs, the dancing, the $15 parking and $12 water bottles, the goddam guitar riff that blows the speakers or the moment when the dj is about to drop the beat and everyone goes crazy because it feels that good. It's about those moments... so Rock on.

I can't wait to show you pictures from Giant... back to work...

I noticed that Mark did not post his pictures from his bday. And I have a million to post but... here goes:

El Destinacion muy romantico

Dave's Pubcrawl

Miguel Miggs

Scruffy at the Beach

(Goggles was so cute. He dug a HUGE hole in the sand and after he was done... he sat in it!! Everytime he wanted to chill he went back to his hole!)

Markie's 24th Extravaganza!

To be continued... I'm lazy!

August 8 - Puerto Rico.

Update:  So this is my life. Ho, Hum...

I've been very reflective lately in regards to my life and where it's going. The other day I was talking to my BFF Mark and he said something that really stuck (actually mark's mom said this), "The best time in your life is right after college when you have money and you're free and young and still surrounded by your friends". Isn't that awesome? I'm in the best time of my life!!!

With this in mind, I've been completely living life by the seat of my pants. Wanna go to costa rica? Let me get my passport together! Wanna spend a bagillion dollars on clothing, food, liquor, drugs, and shows? More than happy to oblige thank you! Hey Sugi, you wanna move outta here? Awesome! How about Europe... let's move there!! Done, and done.

I write this because I had a moment last night and I wanted to share. I was listening to a new "HOT SHIT CD mix 2" that I made and it has Oasis Wonderwall on it. I included this song for two reasons: 1) Listened to the song in Kris's car on the way to Ken Oak and had an epiphany about why we are the hippies of our generation. We are care-free, politically conscious, pot lovin, music fanatics whose pursuit of happiness entails love, art, and freedom... 2) While listening to the song we remembered the night at sharkeez (which was a blur so I had to verify that it was the Wonderwall song).

Sometimes in life you have these moments of Sublime. Sublime can be defined as "of high spiritual, moral, or intellectual worth; not to be exceeded". My moments of sublime are easily detected. It happens when I'm driving in my car, windows down on a beautiful day (or night) with a great song playing and I take a deep breath, feeling completely connected and think to myself, "I don't even know what's going to happen today. The possibilities are endless...Maybe today will be the day I'll fall in love or maybe I'll crawl into bed early and have the best sleep ever. Maybe it'll all end tomorrow and then what will I do? Either way... I'm young and life is so good. I'm thankful. And in this moment, I am happy."

This Wonderwall song was playing in my car last night while I was driving home from San Diego and I remembered this night where me, Mark, Kris, and Mark's two cousins went to Sharkeez and we were driving home with Oasis on. And in that moment, we were ALL singing the words of the song. Totally drunk and god knows what and having the time of our lives singing our hearts out to this incredible song! Is that not a moment of Sublime? I thought to myself, that night and that moment is one of the times of my life that I won't ever forget. Not where we were or what we were doing... but that feeling of greatness. And right after I thought that, I saw a shooting star over my head. I wished that I'd live a happy life. I didn't wish for wealth, love, or longevity. Happy. That's all I wanted.

Take it all away tomorrow: my life, my money, my degrees, my car, my clothes... and what is it that I'll want back? I'll want those moments again. I want sublime... and this is my life: Ho, Hum...