JONIZZLE

WOOT WOOT! so im back from ITASA2003@Columbia University in NYC. fosho kiddies, it was pimp. so lets see, my last entry was in the morning after about 5 hours of sleep. so yea that was friday. after i blogged got ready and went out, bought maself a Barnard hoodie and a Columbia tshirt. they is niiiice. im wearing both of them today. the columbia shirt is really soft. haha yes. feels so goooood on my skin. went back to marges and hung out, whilst other tafers left roger and i....::evil eye::.....but yes. met margarets friend smalrus, introduced him to bubble tea, and etc. john d came, as did mengson, and michelle...basically a lot of people that afternoon, and then we went to dinner. we all split up and went to various places with groups, i was with roger, john d, alex, tim, paul, andrea (who was the only girl A LOT of the time...) and some other guys. it was goood. mmmmmm...gyros........yes. after that was the opening ceremonies. more people came, i counted 26 tafers present that i knew of, at least 30 regualr tafers were there...and then after adding in those 1-year 2-year tafers back in the day, that made a good 40 TAFers. awesome! so after ceremonies, went back to marges. man it was tough though, coordinating something for like 20 of us was sucky and frustrating. we ended up hanging out at columbia and such, and it was fine enough. it doesnt matter where you are, but its who youre with that really matters right? right. and so hanging out with everyone is GOOD. and we did it. yaaay. stayed up long into the night playing cards and talking at alex's dorm/suite with andrea, jeff, z, mengson, and his friend from duke. it was good times man. taf is so good. tafers at itasa is so good when all is going...so good. same energy at taf can be felt. see! it only matters who you are with! no one needs to go to some crazy parties.

saturday. workshops. learned stretches in the wushu workshop from alex, these will help in goaltending. other workshops, asian americans in film was cool, and uh yea. bernice was there! haha yeeeess, she did a workshop. yea, that reminds me, tafers are way too clique-y at itasa. haha. WAY TOO CLIQUEY. yea its bad. but so good at the same time. haha yea...i mean taf love rules. lunch was served, and all tafers pretty much sat together. AND THEY SERVED APPLE CIDRA!!! haha poor howa, no apple cidra. but actually it wasnt as good, i guess it loses some flava while being shipped over here from taiwan...hehe. went to the banquet after everything, good food, oh and they had the taiwanese rapper with his Taiwan Song as a guest. hahaha, oh man. jeff roger alex and i think z went up right away to watch in front of the stage, you know be cool and crazy, and it was just them. oh wait karen too. but yea, then i went up, and we were still the only ones standin and cheering. haha it was so much fun, we coulnt hear the guy well or understand him, but we were going CRAZY just for the fun of being crazy and over-excited. then other people came up along with a bunch more tafers, cheering in front of the stage, we got handshakes from the performes, it was F-ING AWESOME...ahhahahahahaa. and TAFERS LED THE WAY! hahaha. oh man, there was this girl rapper too and all of us guys tried really really hard for her to come and touch our hands, haha. so funny man. soooo funny. pure 100% taf fun right there. oh oh oh yea. yea words really cant express what im trying to convey, but yea...hah.

after banquet we helped clean, got autographs from the rappers, and pictures with the girl, haha. i went to daves to pack up, headed over to marges, then we all went to the club. man the club was weird. haha. NYC clubs not like stl clubs. too many f-ing strobe lights. and yea. it was really weird. i little part of me died then, but it shouldnt have. sadness. thats all i will say. sat down with linn, yea didnt do much at the club. but linn is cool. yaaay for linn. yes. we left at 4am, then went through times square. yaaaay! man its really bright there, its really cool to see and walk through, i wish i could have spent more time there. headed back uptown, and went to the seinfeld restaurant. got food there. hehe the inside looks nothing like it does in the show. food was ok. meh. yea...went back to marges and we all hung out in the lobby before we had to leave. hugs hugs, goodbyes goodbyes. tear.

so itasa2003 is over. it was great. i love taf and everything about it. like us taf guys, were so non-like, homophobic around each other. we can put our heads and sleep on a shoulder and not feel odd. i cant do that here at home, with other friends. our walls are totally broken down at taf, wait no no, not at taf, but with tafers. its amazing. simply amazing is all i can say. i want to try to everyday, be the person i am while im around tafers. i want to be like that year round, 24/7, no matter who i am with or where i am. hmm, you know if i accomplish that, it kinda sounds like a accomplish the taf mission statement and vision. impact mankind in unique and compassionate ways. thats all i gotta do. it sounds so easy, but can i do it? gotta love. thats all you gotta do. love love love. unconditionaly. can i do it? i hope. i hope it will be accepted, i hope walls will be broken down here with friends, i hope no one cares if we look stupid or look cool, i hope i dont care if i look stupid or cool. i love you guys. hahahahahahaha. that was so corny. haha. but yea for real, love. i sound redundant. i should go out and try to do what i want to do. all of you tafers reading this, try it to. some of you i think are already doing it. be who you are around tafers all the time.

yea.