Job vs. Career

You know it's funny, I was under the impression that going to a UC would give me some kind of advantage in the job market, but as of right now I'm quickly learning the difference between a Job and a Career and I'm also learning about how inexperienced I am at both of those areas.

I've never had an official job in my entire life. My mom wouldn't let me. Not that I really objected because I never really spent a lot of money on things, but now that I want things that are a tad more expensive, it's taking a little more work and I don't mind, you know? Whatever, the goal is worth it.

But this process is like applying to college all over again. You send in the application trying to make yourself look as good as possible. Instead of doing essays, you go in for an interview trying to make yourself look as good as possible and God forbid it's a group interview. That's like trying to write your essay while reading the essays other people are submitting. Then you have to wait...again. and if they're like Kohls, they send you a letter via snail mail to say you're not what they're looking for.

Kohls, save yourself the paper. You could've just called me or emailed me. Seriously.

Anyhow, I guess this would be the difference between trying to get a job vs. a career. UC Irvine is not preparing me to get a job at target or kohls or something, they are preparing me to run a target or kohls or something...at least I think so. Otherwise my expectations for college have gone in the wrong direction.

Still, hearing someone say "You're not what we're looking for" is not fun. That goes for anything whether it's jobs or dating or interrogations (actually if they said that, while you're being interrogated that's probably a really good thing).

I almost wish they would just flat out say it rather than trying to fluff it up by saying "Oh we looked you over very carefully and had a lot of people apply" or follow it by saying "We keep your application on file in case you fill any thing we're looking for." Why say that? I'm still not getting the job, it's not making me feel better.

I'm still running out of time though. I'm not making any money right now which means my hopes to get a new camera are fading quickly and this summer will be somewhat of a waste.

Now it is clear why people STEAL. It is so much easier, way more fun and the pay off is way better. No one wants to apply for the job, then fake their way through an interview to get paid 8 dollars an hour! It's so much easier to walk into some place, point a gun at the cashier, grab the cash and head for Mexico. Lump sum baby!
But I, myself, would prefer heists over robbery. Some Ocean's 11/Italian job kind of stuff you know? So if you'd like to join me, let me know.

And don't take the above paragraph seriously.

In conclusion, my friends, rejection still sucks, even after college applications, the job application process is a real motivator to begin a life of crime, and I'm pretty close to whore-ing myself out to get money for my camera then kick it outta here and go back to school.

Oh and last night I watched the first Transformers and came to the conclusion that I liked the first one a hell of a lot more than Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.



Yeah I can do that. No big deal.





wildwombat

Facebook: The Movie

I've been seeing rumors floating around the internet about the production of a movie about Facebook or something like that.

Really? I can understand movies based off toys because you know those have characters, cool powers or weapons or stories behind them, but Facebook? That's a website and the only cool powers it has is knowing all the personal information about everyone in the world. Whoa...maybe the movie will be about the website become self-aware then black mailing all the users by showing their parents all the pictures of them partying and drinking. Then releasing the personal information to all the internet registered sex offenders!

But I still can't figure out what the movie would be about. Unless the directors and screen writers are extremely creative in making some story move along based on actions seen in facebook. New scenes are created when a user creates a new photo album. People become closer when they're tagged in photos together. Plot twists are introduced by new notifications?

Well, I just read that it's actually supposed to be based off some book about some young guy who suddenly comes into a lot of money and all the things that occur because of it. I don't know if that's true or not, but I guess whatever works.

I just don't think a movie based on a website will do very well. Maybe if they release prequels about Friendster, then Myspace. Or if they have the ULTIMATE WEBSITE FACEOFF: Myspace vs. Facebook vs. Twitter.

Although I think Myspace is actually dying because I saw that they began laying people off who were working on Myspace UK or something like that. Sorry, I'm rambling.

In conclusion, movies based around toys and books are more logical than trying to base a movie off a website.

Oh yeah, and Jimmy Fallon did play Tiger Woods at Wii golf...and WON! Pretty funny, but Tiger returned to play one more hole against Jimmy Fallon:







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Buffy vs. Twilight

I'll admit that I watched Buffy the Vampire Slayer in my young days.

This clip is overflowing with WIN.




or look at it here in a normal window:

http://jezebel.com/5298683/buffy-shuts-down-edward-cullen-in-the-best-clip-ever


Very well put together.






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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

So I saw Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen last night and here is my review. I'll try to make it as spoiler free as possible, but feel free to talk to me about it if you've already seen it because there's a lot I want to discuss that I have to leave out because it gives too much away.

Anyhow, I read an early review saying that the new movie was "almost too epic." And they were right on target. There was almost too much awesome stuff going on that it's hard to process at once. This movie Michael Day has created has raised the bar for action movies forever. Explosions, gun fights, giant robot battles, amazing CGI, chase scenes, and hot women.

First, don't expect this sequel to be like The Dark Knight or anything like that. This movie is nowhere near as thought provoking or as good. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen could almost standalone as a movie because it's an almost completely different storyline, just the characters are the same, which now that I think about it is what sequels are all about...but seriously there's no real continuing story connecting the two movies besides the giant robot war going on on Earth.

Second, there were multiple elements of this movie that I absolutely hated.
1) Sam's parents
They are extremely annoying and a sorry excuse for comic relief.
2) The new Transformers Skid and Mudflap
They are borderline offensive in their words and actions and they are the new Jar Jar Binks of the Transformers franchise.
3) There were tons of new Autobots and Decepticons
They are never given justice. They're never properly introduced, never shown clearly and never get real screen time.
4) Two words: Robot Junk
Seriously, Michael Bay, was that necessary to include? What do they even need them for? They don't procreate!
5) Too many excessive characters that don't add to the plot.
Michael Bay, you don't have to add useless characters that blabber on like cowardly idiots to make the protagonist look braver. They'll already look brave enough without the stupid side commentary about how they're screwed or how they're all gonna die or how they don't want to be a part of it.
6) Spoiler Territory
Some of the other things I hated move into spoiler territory.

Third, the soundtrack was pretty epic, but I don't really like when movies put in songs with lyrics in it because then it makes it seem too much like a crappy teenage angst tv show.

So overall I would say this about Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen:
Go see it just to see it because you know everyone is going to talk about it for a while. Expect to be entertained, this movie is not thought provoking nor does it have some deep underlying meaning. This movie is pure eye candy, so go see it.

Oh yeah and if you want to read the most negative review of Transformers, check out Roger Ebert's review. It completely shuts down this movie in every way, shape and form.

Link: http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090623/REVIEWS/906239997

I hope my review wasn't that harsh, but just know Roger Ebert prides himself on not liking mainstream movies...like at all.


Also: Super Saiyan Optimus
You'll know what that means when you see it.




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Wow

My mom always said famous people die in 3's. It's really chilling how coincidental it is given what has happened this last couple of weeks.

Ed McMahon
Farrah Fawcett
Michael Jackson

Three timeless icons. I mean especially Michael Jackson. I'd rank his death among Elvis in what he did to the music industry.

Quite a loss.




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College Stereotypes

Source: http://www.educationonline.net/10-stereotypes-in-college/


Found this on Digg, I don't really know who compiled this list, but I'm either going to the wrong college or the exact college I want to be at because I haven't met anyone that fits these stereotypes. I've met people that meet some of the criteria, but even then it's not even close.

I just found this funny. Maybe if all the drawings were more Asian, I'd be able to tell better if my college had these stereotypes :P

Maybe my readers that go to different colleges have run into these people above.

On a different note: I am completely split about this whole Confederations Cup thing going on. I consider myself a Spanish national team supporter so of course I was like WHAT THE HELL SPAIN?! You have Torres, Sergio Ramos, Carles Puyol, Xabi, and DAVID VILLA and you lost to the USA. You really underestimated them.

Now I love USA, but I just think we're completely outclassed when it comes to world soccer. We spend too much money supporting football and baseball I think because those are American sports. However, I'm glad to see a rise in soccer popularity here in the states and it's cool that this is the first time the US has gone to a confederation cup final...expect they might have to play against Brazil...

So basically I would have loved to see a Spain/Brazil final, but I'll have to hope for a USA/Brazil final. I can't imagine a Span/Brazil fight for THIRD PLACE!!!



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Strap on your lol-er skates

I guess Jimmy Fallon's show is doing pretty well. I haven't really seen it, but this clip is pretty funny, though I may have done the games in the opposite order as the John Gosselin game concept is hilarious.

EDIT: Oh yeah apparently he also challenged Tiger Woods to a game of golf...on the Wii. Yeah I'm gonna watch that for sure because it sounds awesome.



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All I wanted to know Vol II

All I wanted to know this time was that I could still drop in and bottom turn...AND that all those times at the gym actually doing weight training paid off.

It did. I loved every second of it. The sun even came out for a bit.

Pretty good way to make up for a semi-rough start to summer.


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You're selling what?

So apparently some kid in the UK is selling his father's ashes on Ebay because he abandoned him as a child along with promising a house to the woman of which he left his wife for and this is his form of revenge. Would that be considered a fail or a win?

Fail because I doubt someone is actually going to buy the ashes...that'd just be weird. Also because the kid thinks this is some kind of revenge. I don't really know the hardships that come along with abandonment except that it must be difficult and it's probably natural for people to harbor angry feelings, but this might be a little over the top.

Win because he'll make money if someone actually buys the ashes, but as I said before...that'd just be weird. What exactly will you do with someone else's ashes? Although wouldn't it be funny if his Mom bought the ashes from him?

Either way, this doesn't quite seem like the best form to take your revenge. Once again I don't know much about abandonment issues, but maybe an alternative route would be to promise yourself to not become your father? I'm just saying.



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Lucky

this guy is in every sense of the word.




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Baby Steps

I was told by a friend to break the news about my major choice to do it in baby steps.

I took her advice by telling my mom I was leaning towards journalism, maybe sports journalism. She took it well then suggested I could be a writer for a show like Colbert Report because of my sense of humor.

It's going better than I expected. Maybe she's coming around.

Thanks for the talk last night.

Oh by the way, in regards to the earlier entry about video chatting:




That's how we do.



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Don't Read This

You don't really need to know about my problems.

Stay positive because I have a feeling the next couple of days will be a bit difficult.

Grades were semi decent minus Anthro which I should have take Pass/No Pass. My quarter GPA was alright, but my overall GPA is still shit.

Then I have to suck it up and tell my mom about my major aspirations of Literary Journalism.

Then I have to actually get a call back from Kohls so I can get a job this summer to get money for a new camera.

and my summer is only a week old. SICK!




wildwombat

Texting Champ

15-Year-Old Texting Champ Wins $50,000

Take a moment to read that headline over carefully...

Read it one more time and realize that all those words should never be used in one sentence.

Anyway apparently some girl from Iowa had to go to a tie breaker to against some 14 year old and had to type:"Zippity Dooo Dahh Zippity Ayy...MY oh MY, what a wonderful day! Plenty of sunshine Comin' my way....Zippitty Do Dah Zippity Aay! WondeRful Feeling Wonderful day!"

I'll admit that that is pretty difficult to text and I'm surprised they actually made them spell out actual words rather then a ton of abbreviations.

Normally I would take this moment to make fun of this girl, but I really can't because she is 50,000 dollars richer than me. I just shudder to think about what that 15 year old girl is going to do with it.

I see Jonas Brothers tickets, posters, bags, and shirts...the horror!

The only joke I can come up with is this:
How to gain Eternal Glory


Roger Federer: 14 Grand Slam Titles, ties the world record for number of titles


Brazilian National Soccer Team: 5 World Cup titles, most titles of any other country, the only team to have played in EVERY world cup, features players such as: Kaka, Robinho, and Ronaldinho


Kate Moore: some girl who can text a line from a Disney song really fast and wins 50K for it

In conclusion, you could spend your entire life training, conditioning and competing fighting through the blood, sweat and tears to bring eternal glory or you could spend your entire life glued to your cell phone fighting through carpal tunnel.

You decide.



Why am I going to college if all I have to do is get really fast at texting?



wildwombat

Distraction

I have found that I miss my friends the most during late nights. I guess I never realized how nice it was to walk down the hall to see my friends until now when the only noise in my house is my music and my typing.

But now there's no one to talk to really and I think it's mainly that I let it get to me. I dwell too much on how much I miss them, which makes me upset. I just need to be better distracted I guess so I don't think about it or something.

I video chatted with one of my friends last night for almost 3 hours and I enjoyed it a lot. I think that's one of the major advantages my generation has. The fact that it is so easy to keep in contact with someone because of myspace, facebook or video chatting rather than having to email them or call them on the phone. Who knows, maybe that will make our generation more tightly knit than past generations just due to the sheer amounts of instant communication.

We'll see in about 3 years when everyone graduates and goes off to start their lives.




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Sunday Night

It's currently Sunday night/Monday morning and I feel like I should be back in UCI. I must still be in denial because I haven't really unpacked (but that just might be laziness).

The initial leaving hit me really hard...in all honesty harder than I thought it would. But the fact that it's over has yet to set in and I'm preparing for it.

I never realized how much interaction occurred at UCI, and now that it's all over I've realized how much of a difference it made. Small things.

I woke up yesterday and I didn't have to ask anyone if they already ate.
I didn't gather other people to go eat.
I didn't eat with 5 or 6 other people.
I couldn't wander the halls to find people to talk to.
I didn't see 4 or 5 libraries showing up on my iTunes.

I drove to my friend's house today to see a lot of my old high school friends which was great. I loved seeing them again, but (please don't take this the wrong way) it just seemed...routine. I liked the familiarity of the house. I liked the familiarity of the people. I liked the familiarity of what we did. I liked the familiarity of the humor. It reminded me that I was actually home.

But as I drove home, my mind wandered back to UCI. Somehow we had all functioned well even though we were all dysfunctional...and I loved it. I loved it because it was different from home and I think that's a very good thing. Senior year I couldn't imagine moving 10 miles away from my family and my friends. So instead I moved 100 and oddly enough wasn't scared. I found my niche.

Comfort zones are funny things. I think everyone has a different way of signaling they're comfortable around others. For me, you know I'm comfortable around you when certain things occur:
I make more jokes...and they slowly become more and more risque.
I dance.
I sing. (that includes Rock Band and in general)
I take pictures of you.
I do my signature move of waving my hand in front of my face.
Lastly, I have no problem crying in front of you.

It's an extremely powerful thing to gather your friends in one room one last time...and it's dead silent. No one made a joke. No one asked what they were doing tomorrow. Just silence. It tore me apart. It absolutely tore me apart. I can't remember a time when I cried in front of my friends at home, but nothing could stop me from crying when I left UCI (except for a few unwanted comments). And when I arrived at home, it was even worse. My friend told me in the beginning of the year that I would eventually realize that I was no longer a resident in my home, that I was just a visitor and that it would hit me and I would start crying. But I never did. I never felt homesick while I was at UCI. It happened the other way, in fact. I sat in my bed in my room I've lived in all my life...and felt like I didn't belong there. I belonged in room 202C in Ondas.

I'd give anything to spend more time there, but I wouldn't trade anything to not be able to see what will happen next September when we're all together once more.






They say that time flies when you're having fun. You guys somehow made my first year seem endless, go by in the blink of an eye and everything in between.

I love you all more than you will ever know.


wildwombat

Move out

A year ago I would have given anything to spend one more year, one more week, one more night with my friends before moving away to college. And as of 20 minutes ago, I find myself feeling the exact same way.

I can't type much right now. My mind is all over the place. I can't really focus.

It must mean something good when you actually say you don't want summer to come.
It must mean something good when you can comfortably cry in front of your friends.

I'll try to write again later. It's a little bit too hard right now.



wildwomabt

Broken Sprinkler

Couple of broken sprinklers outside Ondas doing their own impression of Old Faithful.







Sometime I really underestimate the quality of pictures my little camera produces.
:)


wildwombat

Summer is Go.

Sorry I haven't posted anything lately, but it was finals so give me a break. I'm trying really hard this quarter to get my GPA up to my standards because it's been shit lately.

But I finished today, a day earlier than I expected which was a pleasant surprise. But I'm moving out today, well in a sense that I'm taking all my stuff home but I'm not checking out of Ondas yet because I'm not finished here yet.




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Tell me, darling, do you wish we'd fall in love?

I can't stop listening to this song.
Thanks, ELu.







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It might sound boring

Last night I saw the movie Up.

First, I have to give my review of it. It was probably the best movie I've seen this year. I didn't quite know what to expect, but the creative minds at Disney and Pixar have a way of taking some ridiculous premise and making it into something great. It was a lot of fun to watch. But it was a serious emotional rollercoaster. I told my friends it was more of an emotional rollercoaster than high school...and that's saying a lot. I found myself on the verge of crying out of sadness and laughter multiple times and those are signs of a quality movie, but again would you expect anything less from a Disney/Pixar movie?

Anyway this entry is mostly about something that was said in the movie. The little boy, Russell (who I just found out was Asian American, awesome!), describes how his father is really busy, but he remembers vividly how they would go get ice cream and sit on the curb. "I would count the blue cars and he would count the red ones. And who ever got the most...won...I like that curb...It might sound boring, but it's what I remember the most."
Something like that. That line was one of the instances where I was about to cry out of sadness.

The line seemed to hit harder because by this time next week, I will be back home for the summer. It's kind of a hard concept to grasp right now, but I guess it's a sign that something went right when I tell people confidently: I don't want to leave.

Russell speaks the truth. I can't remember perfectly everything I've done with my friends, but I do remember times when we would just sit and talk. I like those days...

I didn't really expect to feel this sad about moving out from the dorms, I felt like this when I move away from home, but this is...just unexpected. Sometimes I feel like I'm still getting adjusted to UCI, then I see my friends and I'll feel like I've been here for years. I'm still making new friends too so I've really had to make these last weeks count. I know everyone is going to "stay in contact" and there are so many ways to keep in touch these days, but everyone is still going to be doing their own things making it harder to stay in touch. It was so easy to just walk down the hall and see your friends greeting you with a smile. And it was so easy to know there was always someone there to laugh with or cry with or just be around. When I go home, it won't be that easy.

I was told before I left that even though you feel really close to your friends in high school, the friends you make in college are the ones who really will be around you for the rest of your life. Don't get me wrong, there are some people from my high school I plan to stay friends with forever, but now that I think about this year, it really makes more sense. I see these people when I wake up. I see these people when I go to class. I see these people when I eat. I see these people at night. I see these people before I go to sleep. I see these people anytime I want. I see these people when I don't expect it.

So Russell, I remember those days of going to Jillian and Vivian's room. We would sit on their beds or on the floor and just talk. Allen would get made fun of. Jillian would make a funny face. And I would always regret leaving to go to sleep...it might sound boring, but I'll remember it the most...I like those days...




wildwombat

Nice

I did get too hasty.

I am currently regretting a lot of the decisions I've been making.

Don't tell me to live without regrets or that things will get better or there's some reason behind it.

It's too hard to agree when the alternatives are so glaringly apparent.

Shit.





wildwombat

Let's not get hasty

I'm trying not to get ahead of myself, but Summer 2009 is looking epic.

I'll just list a couple things:

Comic Con 2009
Warped Tour 2009
Blink-182 with Weezer
Transformers 2
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
Surfing
New Camera? If I get a job.

I'm trying to get these finals over with so I can get this summer started.


But don't think for a moment that I want to leave Irvine in the dust. I'm going to make these last days count. And trust me, this entire year I've been formulating the outline for a giant entry about my first year in college that probably will take a couple entries to complete.



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I'm in HR

Last night I found out I was voted Hopeless Romantic by my hall.

I'd be pissed if I didn't think it was true :)

Spot on, Ondas. Sincerely.




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