wow...can we say...MIA?

i had a lesson in growing up. broke it off with someone. exchanged words. working full time. summer session.

ok...so this summer i've been working full time, and in turn i've decided that i'm gonna continue with fedex kinkos when i make my return home...so i need to start learning things in the production area of our store because most of hte job openings in southern california are for production operators/project coordinators. to add to this mix...one of my co-workers...he'll remain nameless has become one of the many objects of my affection. we work the same schdeule...and he's been extremely helpful in teaching me stuff...and i think that our personal relationship has grown quite a bit. aside from that...i've started to develop stronger feelings for him...no matter how hard i try i catch myself looking up at him...admiring him for being him. he is the epitome of who i want to be with...but i wouldn't want it to be him because he's too good a guy (does that make sense?). plus i wouldn't want to ruin anything w/ him.

i thought that i had completely destroyed everything with him this past week when i was gonna leave early...and he had been saying that he should go home early...well i said something smart-assy with my usual joking around charm...and he said something back....and it was passive aggressive. i heard that when he gets mad...he gets passive. so i knew that he was mad. it took some time but i eventually apologized if i had offended him...and the rest the of the time we did not speak at all....i wrote him a sincere apology...because he is a good guy...doesn't really deserve bs when he's been kind and generous. i really did feel like shit going home...because it was a tense situation and i hadn't received any feedback from him at all...which was frustrating me.

the next day....it was still tense. i mean usually when we're having little bitch fits (and i mean that in the most petty way...like calling him precious...then he crosses out precious to say MANLY) and these notes go back n forth and it's a silent understanding. but i didn't get anything back...so i was like wow...i must've fucked this up bad. but thankfully...the art of apology took it's course. i was on my lunch break when he came in and talked to me...and he in turn apologized to me because he was having a bad day and he felt that he took it all out on me...it was a sigh of relief...but honestly after he apologized...i couldn't help but smile because it showed his true character...that in times of regrettable actions he could own up to his mistakes and apologize. i think of him soo highly. i don't know if he thinks the same for me...i was touched when he thanked me for being the bigger person and apologizing first. but time will tell.

this is all for tonight.

i have not posted in a while. i dunno why i feel like i'm making a return to a high school reunion...but i don't know.

it's the end of the semester and i'm stressed as hell. i've started to obtain pregnancy tendencies due to my stress...but in the process of getting cravings...i've been supressing myself to only one meal a day...and no sleep. i've had one too many group projects this semester and i'm ready to drop. this whole week i've been at school 5 hours earlier...and spent countless hours in the computer labs...although i did discover our new mac lab which i'm grateful for :-D.

as the semester comes to an end...i've also been scrambling to find a place to live. i was almost sure that i would've had a place by now...however due to complications...it fell through and i'm searching once again. i've been alllllll over this damn island...i wish something perfect would come along already!

i was under the impression that i had a lot of classes left to take...but when i sat down and crunched in the numbers...i'm graduating...may 2008. that is such a scary thought because now begins the countdown to my days left on this rock. i'm not sure what i'll do in the future...honestly i'm not really set on journalism...but i do love publication design aspect, or web design. i'm gonna see if i can fit in some more multimedia classes for hte experience.

in may...i'll make one year at fedex kinkos...woot woot! therefore making me the most stable employee of the year because since i've been working there 11 people have left. we took a climate survey and one of the questions was...have you ever thought about seeking employment with another company...and honestly i haven't. i'm not sure about anybody else...but what's important to me is a staff that supports each other. at our store we all get along...we're all of different ages but that dynamic works. i'm eager to learn things beyond my job description. actually for the next couple sunday's i'm gonna feel like a supervisor because we got a new assistant manager who is new to the company so we have to teach him and show him how to do things. i forgot how that feels like...but i'm willing to help him out...and actually put my knowledge to the test.

my parents want me home already. a touching thought...but i don't know if i'm ready to go back. my dad promised a down payment on a car...but i'm wondering if i should just take that money and travel. there's been this itch lately to travel...and the tickets to the east coast will definitely be cheaper from california than from here. i never got to be a tourist when i was here...but i wouldn't mind being one somewhere over there. we'll see. the hawaii chapter seems to be coming to a close...one more year....one more year...

i'm on this mission. to solve honolulu's pedestrian fatality rate which has already surpassed last year's total for the year. i'm out to figure this out...here i come.

i've been able to selfishly indulge in this show:



and i have a major crush on the current 10th Doctor in this long running (26 seasons) british sci fi series:

DAVID TENNANT he is in the words of Kapio..."drop-dead-goreous-rape-me-now-HOT!" straight outta Scotland...mmm mmm good.




best episode of hotness: Doctor Who Season 2 Episode 3_School Reunion

something worth mentioning...

me:yo

christina: we're watching veronica mars
christina: ugh!!
me: and what happened to the captain (morgan)
christina: what the hell??
me: don't worry i'm willing to watch the first disc again
christina: so, i had my hands full with the two juice boxes, and the two liquor bottles, so I found a bag to put it all in to make it easier ot carry. As soon as I picked up the bag, it ripped and all the contents scattered over the floor. Unfortunately the casualty was the captains bottle. It turns out the marguarita mix bottle was a much thicker glass and it fell on top of the captain's bottle.... thus breaking it.

me: that's funny...
christina: no it sucks
christina: haha
christina: well yeah it does...
me: but the mexican survived
christina: HAHA
christina; okay
christina: when you put it that way
christina: haha
me: shows that puerto ricans ain't got nothing on us
christina: HAHA!!!!

interesting...but 18 hours?!?!?!?



Power outage necessary to save system, utility says
By Dave Segal
dsegal@starbulletin.com
Hawaiian Electric Co. officials told the Public Utilities Commission yesterday that the utility had to restore power gradually after Sunday's earthquakes to prevent extensive damage to the system, and that two Oahu units shut down by operators did not cause the islandwide blackout.

There has been a public outcry by state officials and customers to find out why it took nearly 19 hours for power to be restored for all but 2,200 of Hawaiian Electric's 291,000 customers on Oahu.

Half of the island's customers were without power for more than 14 hours.

Tom Joaquin, senior vice president of operations for Hawaiian Electric, told the state commission during a two-hour briefing yesterday that the only thing HECO would have done differently would be to try to improve its communication with the media and the public, an effort made difficult by intermittent and clogged phone service.

"Our whole goal in all of this restoration effort was to make sure we didn't damage any of our equipment, because we've seen it happen before where you damage the equipment where it's out for not 12 hours, but 12 days or 36 days," Joaquin said. "We plan accordingly and execute accordingly so we don't take unnecessary risks, and, fortunately, the proof is in the fact that today we don't have any problems in our units. So we feel very good about those very conservative decisions that we made."

Still, Hawaiian Electric said it wants to see if it could have done anything better and is hiring Idaho-based Power Engineers to help prepare a report to the utilities commission and the public by the end of the year. HECO also will hold a question-and-answer forum for the public at 2 p.m. Monday at the state Capitol. Customers seeking to file claims due to the power failure must call 543-4624 within 30 days of last Sunday.

The state commission is looking into the cause of the outage and whether fines or penalties should be levied against Hawaiian Electric. Joaquin apologized twice for the inconvenience but said HECO was justified in its actions.

"I know an eight-hour or 12-hour outage seems like a long time, but in comparison to a 12-day or 36-day outage in terms of cost, as well as anxiety, I think there's no comparison," he said.

Joaquin said that trying to strike a delicate balance between supply and demand necessitated bringing up the system slowly, and that it took 4 1/2 hours just to energize the power grid.

He said it took longer to power up on Oahu than other islands because Hawaiian Electric's system is more complex than its sister utilities, Hawaii Electric Light Co. and Maui Electric Co. HECO uses diesel generators to start larger steam- generating units that power up the grid -- a process that can take four to eight hours.

The Big Island, which took the brunt of the damage from the earthquakes, had an advantage in restoring electricity because it never lost all of its power. Still, 13 minutes after the earthquake, the Big Island lost most of its power except for 37 megawatts on the east side of the island.

HELCO President Warren Lee said the utility, which had to deal with road closures, restored power to 95 percent of its customers by noon and to everyone by 11 p.m.

Maui Electric Co., like HECO on Oahu, faced an islandwide blackout. But its smaller power system, which uses smaller diesel generator units, was able to begin feeding power into the grid much more quickly than on Oahu and was back to full power by 3:30 p.m. HECO, on the other hand, needed until 1:55 a.m. Monday to get all its customers on line except the 2,200 in pocket areas who had individual problems at their sites.

When the initial 6.7-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of the Big Island at 7:07 a.m. Sunday, it took just 34 seconds for the shock waves to reach Oahu. Buildings -- and the power units -- shook for 15 seconds, and within 19 minutes the island was in a blackout.

Shortly after the earthquake struck, smaller Hawaiian Electric units in Kahe and Honolulu were shut down by operators after they received warnings that indicated their units potentially faced severe damage. But Joaquin said the system stabilized after that and would have remained operational had not earthquake-related problems caused two larger Kahe units to shut down automatically.

HECO, which repeatedly has said it needs more capacity to meet energy demands, wants to build a 110-megawatt generating unit at Campbell Industrial Park to be put in service by mid-2009.

It also is seeking an additional 138-kilovolt transmission line to transmit power from the new unit and existing generating units at Campbell Industrial Park to the Oahu electric grid. Hawaiian Electric filed an application with the Public Utilities Commission in 2005 for an approval of funds for construction, and a final environmental impact statement was published in July of this year. The commission is reviewing the application.

Preliminary costs for the new generating unit and transmission line, as well as related improvements, are estimated at $137 million.

HECO officials said yesterday that until it gets the next unit in line, it would be difficult to restore power any faster than it did Sunday. The new unit could save several hours in the first phase of a power restoration by bringing an initial increment of electricity on line faster. Still, the total time it would take to restore power to customers would depend on system conditions.

Q&A
HECO officials held an informal briefing yesterday before the state Public Utilities Commission to discuss Sunday's power outages:
Why did it take so long for the power to be restored on Oahu?

Hawaiian Electric Co. was concerned about balancing power generation with the electrical demand by customers. If HECO had allowed supply and demand to become unbalanced, it could have resulted in longer outages either due to having to restart the restoration system or by damaging equipment.

Can it happen again?

Yes. A HECO official says one could spend billions of dollars trying to build a system to avoid a similar blackout, but there still would not be any guarantee.

Would the 110-megawatt turbine generating unit that HECO is seeking PUC approval to build at Campbell Industrial Park have sped up the power restoration process?

It could save several hours in the first phase of the restoration by bringing an initial increment of power online faster. But the total time it takes to restore power to customers really depends on what the system conditions are in each specific outage.

yesterday's earthquake. i'm from california and like we have earthquakes all the time...but i didn't even know that hawaii could have them too which was completely unexpected. but you know...i woke up at about 7 am when the first one hit...and like i couldn't believe it...i thought it was something else that was going on the island...so i conversed with my roommates and like i went online to find out information but the only activity was showing on the big island...didn't think anything of it...so like i was searching all the news sites for information...but nothing had emerged. felt a third shake right when i was getting somewhere the power went out which turned off all the wireless networks in the area. this surprised me...becuase the power of eliminated distance since we're all connected...i was able to call my mom in california and have her search for information to see what was going on in the islands. she came through...i guess Hawaii finally made national news with a damn earthquake. but yeah she was able to tell me that there was a earthquake and it was on the big island...by that time all three of us were on the phone with our parents...and they were telling us that it might last a week with the power outage. but it didn't last that long. we just got in the car and went to the store...there were lines everywhere and some places were open i guess selling the food they cooked for breakfast n stuff. we gathered at stephanie's apartment and played board games...conserving our cell phone batteries. it was good times...i realized that chips and triscuits won't fill you up...it sucked not having power...chanel was having trouble at first grasping hte concept wanting to go to the movies n shit...haha. but yeah we were ok...we had each other...but by the time the power came on...we were effn tired. we walked in the darkness with a flashlight...i've never seen so many people out...i was surprised that people were walking at night in pitch black than on a normal night where there's lights n everything around. go figure. but yeah...everything is ok...we have to go back to school today...boo. but yeah...here's the article in today's advertiser.


honolulu advertiser monday october 16, 2006

by dan nakasako

A 6.6-magnitude earthquake centered on the Kona side of the Big Island — the largest to rattle the Islands in 23 years — and a 5.8-magnitude quake that followed disrupted air traffic on all major islands yesterday, sent boulders crashing onto Big Island highways and knocked out power throughout most of the state.

By 10 p.m., a slight majority of Hawaiian Electric Co. Inc.'s 291,000 customers — 157,000 — had power restored.

But Honolulu Board of Water Supply officials urged their customers to continue conserving water through this morning to ease the burden on the electricity-reliant system.

All of Maui's power customers had service restored by last night. Some 99 percent of the Big Island had service returned by 9 p.m., according to HECO, citing Big Island power officials. Kaua'i lost power temporarily, but service was fully restored last night, Kaua'i police said.

Until 6:15 p.m., Honolulu International Airport survived on emergency generator power.

Several flights out of Maui, the Big Island and O'ahu were disrupted or canceled. Thousands of passengers stood in long lines because some security checkpoints lacked power and Ho-nolulu International Airport's agricultural inspection system suddenly had to rely on dogs.

Electrically powered jetways could not be used in Honolulu, so passengers had to climb up stairs to board their flights.

Although visitors and residents on all islands were shaken or awakened by the 7:07 a.m. temblor and the second quake, there were no fatalities.

The most serious injury was a broken arm on the Big Island, Gov. Linda Lingle said. Big Island officials said a survey of emergency rooms showed 25 people suffered minor injuries.

This morning, several Big Island public, private and charter schools will be closed. State Department of Education officials said public school teachers and administrators have to report for inspections and cleanup, although students are off.

No other islands' public schools are scheduled to be closed. University of Hawai'i at Manoa spokesman Jim Manke said classes would be held today if electricity was up.

STEADY SHUDDER

The first quake hit at 7:07 a.m. and was felt as a steady, rumbling shudder that shook houses, cracked buildings, swayed high-rises and knocked artwork from their walls and sent countless chachkas crashing to the ground.

It was located 24 miles below Kiholo Bay on the Big Island, according to the U.S. Geological Survey Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, and was triggered by tectonic movement, not volcanic activity.

A second quake, of 5.8-magnitude, hit just seven minutes later. It was located 13 miles northwest of Kawaihae.

Beginning at 10:30 a.m., a series of 55 aftershocks followed, said Jim Kauaihikaua, scientist in charge of the U.S. Geological Survey Hawaiian Volcano Observatory.

The largest aftershock struck at 10:35 a.m. and had a magnitude of 4.2. It was located west-northwest of Kawaihae, Kauaihikaua said.

Despite all of the seismic activity, there was no threat of a tsunami.

Sarah Lee of Kailua, Kona, was at church at 7:07 a.m. when "everything started shaking and the road outside was rolling a bit," she wrote to honoluluadvertiser.com.

Driving home, Lee saw "plenty of knocked-over rock walls as well as an old coffee shack that was tipped over on the side of the hill."

Jacob Ellis of Mililani woke yesterday to find everything shaking.

"My mom had taken out a bunch of food and started throwing it all on the grill and we all ended up having a really interesting breakfast," Ellis wrote. "I've never seen anything like it before. People who were driving were really careful and let everyone have their turn. It was nice seeing everyone in our community showing so much aloha."

A QUIET SUNDAY

Ke'aka'okalani J. Garay, a CT scan technologist, was working at The Queen's Medical Center when he felt a "completely odd" rumble that quickly caused the department to shake "vigorously and uncontrollable."

"I called my dad in Texas to tell him I loved him," Garay said. "We now sit here and pray that our services will not be needed."

Hundreds of Hawai'i families experienced something extraordinarily unusual yesterday: a quiet Sunday with conversation, board games and no television or Internet use.

Waynette Tsubota of Kahalu'u and her family usually spend their fall Sundays watching football.

Instead, three generations had an impromptu barbecue yesterday in the carport, watching cars drive by on Kamehameha Highway.

Tsubota considered the day a blessing.

"We got to spend time together in the garage with no TV distractions, with the family sharing things," Tsubota said. "This is the closest we've been in a long time."

The quake hit just a month after a military truck crashed into the 'Aiea Overpass of the H-1 Freeway, turning nearly the entire island of O'ahu into rush-hour gridlock for hours.

CAUGHT UNPREPARED

Yesterday's event also shook thousands of Hawai'i residents into the realization that they had not prepared for a major earthquake and could not properly feed their families without electricity.

Just moments after the quake, hundreds of customers began lining up outside O'ahu supermarkets waiting for workers to escort them inside by the light of only a flashlight.

Some stores, such as the Safeway at Aikahi Park Shopping Center, accepted only cash and rang up purchases with paper and pen.

Stores shelves on all major islands were quickly emptied of items such as ice and batteries.

Yesterday's quakes knocked out power on parts of the Big Island, Maui and all of O'ahu.

Unlike the older, diesel-based generators on the Neighbor Islands, O'ahu's more modern, complicated turbine-driven system took much longer to come back on line, leaving drivers to navigate busy intersections without traffic signals or street lights.

O'ahu's power grid failed when the earthquakes knocked out generators at HECO's Downtown and Kahe power plants.

The downed generators triggered an imbalance in the system, prompting HECO's computer system to shut down the entire system to avoid permanent damage and cause a more prolonged power failure, HECO officials said.

After HECO restarted its Waiau power plant, residents and businesses regained service in parts of Pearl City, 'Aiea, Waikele, Waipahu, Mililani Mauka, the Honolulu Airport area, Makalapa, Kunia, Wai'anae and Nanakuli.

Just over an hour after the first quake hit, half of the Honolulu Fire Department's nearly 50 companies were out on power-outage calls by 8:30 a.m.

Most of the calls were for people stuck in elevators, said Fire Capt. Frank Johnson.

NO ESTIMATED DAMAGE

Federal and state officials had no damage assessment yesterday and will send out teams today, Lingle said.

State officials will seek an emergency declaration that would lead to federal reimbursement of state costs, as well as a major disaster declaration to cover major repairs.

Before yesterday, the last large quake to strike the Islands was the 6.7-magnitude Ka'oiki quake that hit the Big Island on Nov. 16, 1983.

O'ahu's rain-slicked roadways were unusually light as people heeded warnings by city and state officials to stay home. Some drivers obediently treated blank traffic signals as four-way stops, while others barreled through or skidded to stops.

Honolulu Police Chief Boisse Correa said police doubled the manpower at all major intersections to direct traffic on O'ahu, and more officers were brought in last night.

At least one accident — at Kapi'olani Boulevard and Ward Avenue — was blamed on the absence of a working traffic signal, according to the Honolulu Police Department.

While drivers, for the most part, stayed off O'ahu's roads and highways, thousands of people ignored pleas from government and telephone officials and could not stay away from their cell phones.

Their cell calls — and KSSK Radio — provided the main communication links for most of the day.

The Big Island took the brunt of the structural damage, and 3,000 patients had to be evacuated from Kona Community Hospital. The hospital expects to be out of commission for two days.

Lingle was in her hotel room at the Mauna Lani Resort yesterday when the quake hit.

Lingle later surveyed the Big Island in a Drug Enforcement Agency six-passenger helicopter from which she saw rocks and earth falling into Kealakekua Bay near the Captain Cook monument and witnessed the evacuation of Kona Community Hospital.

On O'ahu, the loss of electricity caused an estimated 15,500 gallons of partially treated sewage to spill into Lake Wilson when the ultraviolet disinfecting unit at the Wahiawa Wastewater Treatment Plant lost power, according to the city's Department of Environmental Services.

Before emergency generators could kick in at the Sand Island Wastewater Treatment Plant, a "clarifier" overflowed and spilled an estimated 1,200 gallons of partially treated wastewater within the plant.

Advertiser staff writers Eloise Aguiar, William Cole, Rick Daysog, Derek DePledge, Mike Gordon, Mike Leidemann and Christie Wilson contributed to this report.
Reach Dan Nakaso at dnakaso@honoluluadvertiser.com.

this week has been a total drag. i haven't talked to this one person in a while...and it's starting to irritate me that they haven't responded back. i guess on this friday i was hurt for the first time by this person. i called up my friend to see if he was up...but he had to work early so i let him go back to sleep. i just need a guy to talk to...i'm sad.

so yeah i found out that i'm the president of the club this year...and finally i get to boss around people...haha jk. but what was weird was that billy of all people was trying to start up something with the club because he thought we were dead since most of our members graduated in the spring. he's active in the United Samoan Organization and hardly ever came to a club meeting when i was still at school during fall semester. he claimed to have tried to get a hold of people...but like why wouldn't he get a hold of any of us to figure something out instead of assuming that our club was unorganized...like he wanted to be president...but when we saw him this morning...he was gonna head the table...yet he had nothing but our banner. what the fuck is that?!?!?! well we set him straight and apparently it was a burden off his shoulders...but i was a little upset at him assuming we were dead. yeah right. i mean we got so many new people to sign up for the club and like by 11:00 we had already signed up like 20 people. plus we talked to everyone to let them know what we're all about. we might not have a strong base to build off of but melanie and i are determined to make somehing of the club. everyone that signed up was interested...and we made it a point to talk to each and every person. so it's up to us to make it work.

work yesterday...ugh. it's gonna be interesting working with carolyn. plus we're the only two people working on friday nights...fuck. fridays are unpredictable...sometimes it's really really really slow...and sometimes we get the stragglers who have emergency documents that need to be printed. some lady was using machines to print out 500 6pg documents and she started that at like 7...and we close at 9. blah. then it didn't help that we had a store meeting so like they kept pressuring me n carolyn to hurry up with our drawers...but they were there to see the chaos that was still in our store when we were closing. i don't think anybody did meter reads...ehh it was a mess. but whatever.

i'm tired. and i have soooooooooooo much homework. so i better get started.

so someone is trying to take my presidency...reminds me back in 8th grade when i represented my history class as the queen of the roman empire for the renaissance faire. sigh. found out that i'm a credit short of being a junior...lol. fuck that...i took a semester off and i'm on track bitches! it's ok..well i'll prolly update later. got some things to talk about.

there's so much i want to say...i need an outlet. for once...could someone say yes?

this made me laugh...in class...subjecting me to weird stares. 

OC Weekly's Ask a Mexican by Gustavo Arellano

Okay, so I got it that the World Cup is a huge deal and everyone gets excited—and so I also get why whenever anyone hits a goal, the announcer drags out the “¡¡¡¡¡Goooooolllllll!!!!!” part for, like, five minutes. But what’s with ALL the drama? Because it never stops. Why do ALL Mexican radio and television announcers make even the simplest phrases like “five minutes” (“ciiiiinnnnncooooo minuuuuutooooossss”) sound like they’re announcing the end of the world?

i have the stomach flu. grrr.

Hello to all of our fans and friends, Derek here. We are writing to inform all of you of a tragic loss that has happened to Suburban Legends a little over 2 hours ago at 4:30am.

We were stationed on a day off from our tour at our family friend's house in St. Louis. We all went to sleep and were woken by Phil who was on the phone with his girlfriend, and caught a glimpse of our van (paked out front) on fire.

We all rushed outside and put the flames out with a hose and the fire department arrived shortly after to help extinquish what was left of the fire.

So far the facts are still unclear and an investigation is happening right now.

Our van is toast, the whole front was engulfed in flames and it seems that it could have been broken into (smashed window) and our cash money from shows was stolen from our brief case and from our money bag. Nothing makes sense right now.

We are uncertain of what delays we will face because of this horrible event and of what upcoming shows we will or will not be able to attend. Please keep us in your prayers as this problem is solved and we get our answers to this terrible event. We will update as soon as we have more information.

Thankyou for your support,

Suburban Legends



people are such assholes. SL is such a great group of guys...i can't even believe someone would want to rob them or set their van on fire. it's terrible.

so on thursday there was a triple murder at one of my favorite lookouts, tantalus. it has breathtaking views of diamondhead, downtown honolulu, waikiki, manoa...everything. but i can't seem to shake off this breaking news story because it leaves a bitter after taste. let me give you a little backgroud on this story...then i'll show you the story which came out today which made me cry hysterically both on the bus and to my mom on the phone.

so a man took a taxi up to tantalus...basically it's this one road that takes you through makiki heights and it's breathtakingly beautiful. soooo gorgeous...that i love going up there just to get away from the hustle n bustle of town. the street that takes you all the way around the mountain is called round top drive. the houses are huge...privacy is acquired...and serenity is achieved. there is only one road that takes you through the 5 mil drive around tantalus/makiki heights. at night it's dimly lit but it's a favorite make out spot...or a racer's drift fantasy. but anyways...it's a place full of mystery but full of unforeseen danger. and on thursday evening...it was deadly. as i said a man took a taxi up to tantalus lookout...when they reached the destination the man tried to rob the taxi driver, Manh Nguyen, but he ended up shooting him. then...there was a couple up there too...and he tried to rob Colleen and Jason Takamuri in their Corolla...but he shot both of them too. Jason ended up dying at Queen's Medical Center. The suspect took the taxi down round top drive and ended up at a house where he tied up all 3 residents at gunpoint and took their jaguar and continued driving down the mtn. he was eventually caught at a police check point at the bottom of the road.

for the record...i normally wouldn't put this kinda post up...but since it was rejected...and really i wanna put this out there...because i'm concerned...and i want other people's opinion on the subject.

i'm unmotivated. i had a dream last night that while i was contemplating going to school or not...i toldmy mom that i wanted to come home...but instead all my mom's brothers and sisters came to visit me. that was a great dream.

i received a package today from home. and my digital cameras were in there. i knew that the SD card contained pics of my grandpa's house n colocho's grave...but i never cried so hard after looking at those pics. i wish i was home...i miss familarity.

britney spears speaks out a dateline exclusive.

i'm here to analyze this intriguing interview that matt lauer did with britney spears last night on dateline. now...britney spears was a former mousketeer, beauty queen, and dancer from the small town of kentwood, la. in the beginning days of her career...she came off as the bubbly, always smiling, all american pop star. she could do no wrong...she had top charting pop hits like baby one more time, sometimes, oops i did it again...and so on. what happened. she was the envy of every teen girl's desire...she was that role model. she publicly stated that she was going to be a virgin til she was married (public relations mistake). well obviously we know that she was in a serious relationship with nsync's justin timberlake. that relationship was america's equvilent to england's david beckham and posh spice. at this point in her career...she was shedding off her clothes...her songs were getting more provacative. parents began to question the appropriateness of her image for their teenage daughters. it was the cover of rolling stone in which i believe turned her career into high gear. there is nothing a little sex can't sell to make someone into a mega pop star. after the break up with justin....it just went downhill...everything...

to me britney was a classic beauty during the time when she was with timberlake. she was well polished. even if she was advised heavily by the people she was working with...they were doing a great job at keeping her looking great. but you look at pictures of her now...and compare them to back then...and i wonder what the fuck happened. throughout the entire dateline interview...i couldn't help myself but be severely disappointed with her appearance. it's true that after having a baby...some mothers lose themselves...but as a public figure...she looked toooooo average. is that even possible? it's like when whitney houston was showed being sooo uncharacteristically her in israel...you thought she lost it...and even with her husband's show being bobby brown...it doesn't help her image in being a polished rnb powerhouse. she's just as crazy as that damn video you saw. she's a train wreck...and i think britney can take a few notes on how not to be from whitney. (it's such a shame). but seriously back to the topic...britney was wearing a tunic type tank top that practically had her titties exposed. her unmatching pink bra was showing the entire time. she was wearing a mini skirt...and some ultra disgusting wedges. they looked like the kind you can get at wal-mart as the sale item of the week. not that there's anything wrong with wal-mart...but i'm just saying...she was tore up. her hair was uncombed. and please please please tell me why she was chewing gum...what is that shit...it's unacceptable. watching this shit makes me want to go into public relations and slap the fuckin shit out of her. she has soooo much money...and she's been in soo many media controversies...that you'd think that she would want to fix her public image...but she contines to feed the media with curiosity. yes britney...we know that you're pregnant again...but just because you used to wear a extra small in juniors clothes does not mean you can up it to a size Large. it's just not right. and there are hella maternity clothes that would make her look waaaay cute. but no...

ok...well i have class so i have to continue this a little later.

post to come....britney spears on dateline.