Well, at about 1:30 AM last week, I was trying to go to sleep after playing a hard but fulfilling game of League of Legends. But much to my furor, I found that I couldn't go to sleep at all. But since I'm not a complete nerd who studies whenever he's not asleep, I decided to just lie on my bed and listen to my mp3 player and the radio until I could go to sleep.
I had recently downloaded a audiobook of the Terry Pratchett's "Going Postal" from his Discworld Series for fun. For those of you who never read any of the discworld series, it is a fucking great series that parodies almost every fanasy/sci-fi genre book. I really got into listening to the book when I realized something; I'm not asleep.
The book was too fucking interesting to fall asleep on because I kept on wondering what would happen next! Enraged, I immediately turned off my mp3 player and proceeded to simply lie on my bed again. But after an indeterminate amount of time, I realized that I was bored now, and decided to listen to the NPR on the radio.
Then I BEGAN TO HEAR SOME SHIT ABOUT SOME GUY SELLING TRUFFLES! THIS IS WHAT THE AMERICAN LATE NIGHT RADIO HAS COME TO, I thought, and just started flipping through all the channels on the radio. And you know what? I realized something; I still wasn't fucking asleep.
At this point, I needed to go wee-wee and I checked the time on my phone just to see how much longer I had until the buses would come. It was already 3'o clock and I only had about three and a half hours to sleep. Now I know some people at TJ only sleeps like 40 min each day and probably thinks I'm a pussy right now as they're reading this blog. But screw you people, I'm actually a human being and need decent amount of time to function properly in everyday life.
So I just decided to give up on sleeping and just study math until the buses would come and you know what happened?
I feel asleep in about 10 min.
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Rant: Of Colleges
"Well shit."
Now it is the time to prepare for early actions/decisions and im already running into some problems. My biggest weakness is that my GPA is trash, so I will be using the secret technique of "Apply everywhere and you'll at least get into some place". I got so many essays and shits to write now, and must get 2400 on SAT if I am to get into a college with "Asian seal of Approval".
Wish me luck people. Will update my escapades.
That was my first thought when I realized that I would need to apply to colleges at long last. When I was little, I thought colleges were some mystic and fantastic place that only ficitonal beings called "High Schoolers" could go to. But 5 years ago, I saw my sister applying to colleges, I realized that fantasy was much closer to reality than I realized. I saw my sister's rejections and acceptions from colleges and I must now take up the mantle in the Choi family, the mantle of "OH SHIT COLLEGES APPS WTF AM I GONNA DO? IM SO SCREWED FOR LIFE I WILL PROABALY END UP A HOBO" mantle that is!
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| A mantle. Tad less impressive than I thought. |
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| The head of the Asian Association for Approving Asiatic Academies. AAAAA for Short. |
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Rant: On Squidward and Plankton (An analysis by John Choi)
Sorry guys. I haven't updated this blog in a long time. If anyone still reads the stuff I post on this website, I have been busy for a while, so please excuse my awful behavior. To the rest that don't care, I'm back so read my stuff. So over the last few weeks, I've been mainly been studying, going to workshop thingy, and been watching stupid videos. Among the stupid videos I have watched are some old episodes and clips of Spongebob.
I bloody loved that show when I was in Korea as a kid. It was called "Spongey Spongey Sponge-Song" in Korean. So when I first came to Amerca, I was confused to learn that Sponge-Song's name was actaully Spongebob. This greatly angered me and drove me to learn English quickly. Ever since that time, I have never trusted English translators and have never relied on them. So anyway, I love the humor and the ingenuity behind every episode of Spongebob I watched as a kid. (Note the word 'kid'. Spongebob has severely deteriorated gradually over time, and its just a pile of junk at this point in Nickelodeon. I actually, kind of pissed with America tv programming in general at this pint in time.) But the two characters I was interested and felth sympathy for the most was Squidward Tentacles and Sheldon J. Plankton.
Plankton is a character who I believe to be incredibly complex and deep and only possibly surpassed by Plankton. As shown by the episode "Friend or Foe" of the Spongebob Squarepants, Plankton has had a terrible and traumatic childhood. He was bullied by his friend because he was a 'nerd' and lived in a poor family. Furthermore, he was raised in a single parent home by his dad. His mom had obviously had run away from the family due to its rampant poverty that plagued it. In fact, his entire family tree is shown to be full of rednecks and the mentally retarded. His only friend was Eugene Crabs, who would later become his arch-enemy, and even this friendship would fall apart after sometime. When someone has gone through this kind of childhood, it's not surprising that he would become a wreck and be unable to properly function in society. Although Plankton did go to college is shown to have superb engineering and computer skills, he is unable to hold down any job long enough due to his inferiority complex. He is unable to work under other and is forced to create his own squalid business of "Chum bucket". And because Plankton believes that he himself will fail to create anything, he thinks that he must steal from others in order to make something of his life, and to prove that Plankton is not like his countless relatives who fail to leave any mark on society. I think what Plankton wants is to be truly be accepted as a contributing and invaluable member of society who is accepted by others. But due to his traumatic life, he is unable to keep up any long term relations with another being, and creates an artificial intelligence named "Karen" as his robotic life. Sickened by such perverse behavior, others are drawn away even further from Plankton, and Plankton draws further back into his shell. What truly makes me sad about Plankton is that he has the potential to do so much, but chooses to believe that he doesn't, and believes that he is at the bottom of the society, even though he longs to be more. None will help him, and everyone treats him as a scum of the ocean. WHAT TRULY ANGERS ME IS THE PHYSICAL ABUSE THAT PLANKTON SUFFERS FROM CRABS. Whenever Plankton tries to steal from his former friend, Crabs always uses him superior strength in order to beat him down. I think to beat up a former friend, when he just wants to be accepted by you, is the worst atrocity that a sentient being can do.
Squidward Tentacles is the "Straight Man" of the show. "Straight Man" doesn't mean that he's hetreosexual, but that he is the only sane character in the show. If one watches Spongebob long enough, it is clear that Bikini Bottom is actually a representation of madness, with Spongebob as its personification. I actually think that the motif of the Spongebob Squarepants show is One mans struggle to live in a world of madness and stupidity. It is often shown that all Squidward wants are peace from Spongebob and an ordinary life. But his wishes are never granted. Rather, he is often forced into Spongebob's high-jinks, and forced to partake in madness. WHY CAN'T SPONGEBOB JUST LEAVE SQUIDWARD ALONE? YOU MONSTER!!! Squidward is the representation of the auidence within the show, and through him , we can truly see the madness behind the jaundiced square. In my opinion, the sadness episode of the series is the magic conch shell episode, where Squidward accepts the rule of the plastic conch shell toy, when he realizes that he is the only one who doesn't follow its every command. He has learned to accept madness. It shows the futility to stay sane in an insane world. But what is interesting is that in a way, Squidward may be the only insane character in the show. If the world you live in is insane, don't you become insane by being sane? For the insane is only a world used to describe the minority. Whatever may be the case, it was always saddening to watch Squidwards struggles against tides of madness in Spongebob Squarepants.
Anyway, the people at nickelodeon put a lot of effort to making Spongebob the masterpiece it was back in the days. I only hope they can do it again.
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I bloody loved that show when I was in Korea as a kid. It was called "Spongey Spongey Sponge-Song" in Korean. So when I first came to Amerca, I was confused to learn that Sponge-Song's name was actaully Spongebob. This greatly angered me and drove me to learn English quickly. Ever since that time, I have never trusted English translators and have never relied on them. So anyway, I love the humor and the ingenuity behind every episode of Spongebob I watched as a kid. (Note the word 'kid'. Spongebob has severely deteriorated gradually over time, and its just a pile of junk at this point in Nickelodeon. I actually, kind of pissed with America tv programming in general at this pint in time.) But the two characters I was interested and felth sympathy for the most was Squidward Tentacles and Sheldon J. Plankton.
Plankton is a character who I believe to be incredibly complex and deep and only possibly surpassed by Plankton. As shown by the episode "Friend or Foe" of the Spongebob Squarepants, Plankton has had a terrible and traumatic childhood. He was bullied by his friend because he was a 'nerd' and lived in a poor family. Furthermore, he was raised in a single parent home by his dad. His mom had obviously had run away from the family due to its rampant poverty that plagued it. In fact, his entire family tree is shown to be full of rednecks and the mentally retarded. His only friend was Eugene Crabs, who would later become his arch-enemy, and even this friendship would fall apart after sometime. When someone has gone through this kind of childhood, it's not surprising that he would become a wreck and be unable to properly function in society. Although Plankton did go to college is shown to have superb engineering and computer skills, he is unable to hold down any job long enough due to his inferiority complex. He is unable to work under other and is forced to create his own squalid business of "Chum bucket". And because Plankton believes that he himself will fail to create anything, he thinks that he must steal from others in order to make something of his life, and to prove that Plankton is not like his countless relatives who fail to leave any mark on society. I think what Plankton wants is to be truly be accepted as a contributing and invaluable member of society who is accepted by others. But due to his traumatic life, he is unable to keep up any long term relations with another being, and creates an artificial intelligence named "Karen" as his robotic life. Sickened by such perverse behavior, others are drawn away even further from Plankton, and Plankton draws further back into his shell. What truly makes me sad about Plankton is that he has the potential to do so much, but chooses to believe that he doesn't, and believes that he is at the bottom of the society, even though he longs to be more. None will help him, and everyone treats him as a scum of the ocean. WHAT TRULY ANGERS ME IS THE PHYSICAL ABUSE THAT PLANKTON SUFFERS FROM CRABS. Whenever Plankton tries to steal from his former friend, Crabs always uses him superior strength in order to beat him down. I think to beat up a former friend, when he just wants to be accepted by you, is the worst atrocity that a sentient being can do.
Squidward Tentacles is the "Straight Man" of the show. "Straight Man" doesn't mean that he's hetreosexual, but that he is the only sane character in the show. If one watches Spongebob long enough, it is clear that Bikini Bottom is actually a representation of madness, with Spongebob as its personification. I actually think that the motif of the Spongebob Squarepants show is One mans struggle to live in a world of madness and stupidity. It is often shown that all Squidward wants are peace from Spongebob and an ordinary life. But his wishes are never granted. Rather, he is often forced into Spongebob's high-jinks, and forced to partake in madness. WHY CAN'T SPONGEBOB JUST LEAVE SQUIDWARD ALONE? YOU MONSTER!!! Squidward is the representation of the auidence within the show, and through him , we can truly see the madness behind the jaundiced square. In my opinion, the sadness episode of the series is the magic conch shell episode, where Squidward accepts the rule of the plastic conch shell toy, when he realizes that he is the only one who doesn't follow its every command. He has learned to accept madness. It shows the futility to stay sane in an insane world. But what is interesting is that in a way, Squidward may be the only insane character in the show. If the world you live in is insane, don't you become insane by being sane? For the insane is only a world used to describe the minority. Whatever may be the case, it was always saddening to watch Squidwards struggles against tides of madness in Spongebob Squarepants.
Anyway, the people at nickelodeon put a lot of effort to making Spongebob the masterpiece it was back in the days. I only hope they can do it again.
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Sunday, July 24, 2011
Rant: Point Lookout - Part 2
So after having terrible time fishing, I went back to the Choi Basecamp and ate some croissants with my cousins. That was one of the truly fine moments of that trip. But when I was done om nom noming the food, my mom recommended that we swim in the 'beach' that was nearby. Seeing how we had nothing else to do, we reluctantly agreed to go. But when we got to the 'beach', nature decided the F us over again.
The water was green and full of minorities. That's the first impression I got when I saw the beach. Me and my crew were dismayed at the sight. The beach was full of large pebbles and the water looked like something out of a 70's horror movie. Just as a suspected, when I first stepped on to the beach, hell awaited me. The rocks on the beach were BLOODY sharp and hot as hell. I was literally screaming and swearing until I saw my baby cousin who was 8 not complaining at all. Embarrassed, I quickly forced myself to shut my mouth, the pain continued to assault my nerves anyway.
When I finally got in the water, IT WAS AS COLD AS DRY ICE STUCK INSIDE MY PANTS. The water absolutely frigid and filled with disgusting materials that humanity has not yet invented a name for. I can almost swear that there was some kind of new lifeform being created in that biosphere. I really didn't want to get in the water to begin with, but I thought that coming all the way to point lookout and not even dipping myself in the water would be wasting money. My Asian cheapness F-ed me over again that day....
So after being contaminated by the eldritch waters of Point Lookout, we had to go to the 'Showering Facility' they had there. The place was rather run down, but looked functional from the outside, I had hoped that I could shower decently. But when I first got inside, me and my cousins discovered that there were only 2 showerheads out of 10 that were working, and that the showerheads only dispensed cold water as well. The latter fact was found out to my own surprise when I got in the shower. Actually, all three of my cousins had to shower under one showerhead because there were rotund hispanic males right next to us. And let me tell you, not that I'm a racist or anything, but it does not feel good when a large tatooed old man is right next you scrubbing his bollocks.
After that, the extended family had a decent Asian dinner, during while we were being feasted upon by voracious flies that inhabit the underworld that is Point Lookout, and we went out separate ways to go home. Let me tell you, this trip was definitely memorable, but not that fun. Next time, I demand I go to a place where my health isn't under immediate threat, for example, a pro starcraft match in Korea.
The water was green and full of minorities. That's the first impression I got when I saw the beach. Me and my crew were dismayed at the sight. The beach was full of large pebbles and the water looked like something out of a 70's horror movie. Just as a suspected, when I first stepped on to the beach, hell awaited me. The rocks on the beach were BLOODY sharp and hot as hell. I was literally screaming and swearing until I saw my baby cousin who was 8 not complaining at all. Embarrassed, I quickly forced myself to shut my mouth, the pain continued to assault my nerves anyway.
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| Just about how I felt inside. |
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| Asians are like this, only they look like Asians. |
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| It can be rather detrimental to your health... |
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Sunday, July 10, 2011
Rant: Point Lookout - Part 1
Over the last two days, my extended family residing in Northern Virginia went to the Point Lookout Park. I had been hoping for a little bit of fun for a LOONG time so I was really excited when I first heard the news. I had never been down there before, but according to what I heard from the good people of Bethesda studios and what they told me in Fallout 3, I was bound to have tons of fun at Point Lookout. They told me "Point Lookout opens up a massive new area of the Wasteland – a, dark, murky swampland along the coast of Maryland. So hop on the ferry to the seaside town of Point Lookout, for the most mysterious and open-ended Fallout 3 DLC adventure yet." There were gonna be hillbilly mutants and creepy stuff galore at the park, and the entire Choi clan would have tons of fun slaughtering them! I was, of course, sorely disappointed in the end.
It began 7 am in the morning yesterday. I woke up and brushed my teeth and got all Asian for the trip. Soon, my uncle's family came to our house and we were gonna head off. (My aunt's family left by themselves) We all got into a minivan and had fun driving to Point Lookout. While we were on the way, we shared many stories and I learned about how Russians love eating Korean food and that the Russian Mafia can be bribed with Korean food when necessary. THIS IS VITAL INFORMATION! If you are ever cornered by Russians, offer them Korean food and they will be so grateful they will spare your life. Well, as we got closer and closer to Point Lookout, I was beginning to get a little worried. The scenery was far too green to contain any mutants and nothing felt creepy. In fact, I felt that we were actually going to a normal park and that everyone had lied to me...
We got to the park and I was shocked! IT WAS NORMAL! THE ONLY THING IT WAS FILLED WITH WAS WITH WAS NORMAL PEOPLE! I was so shocked that I actually forgot to complain to my family about the trip. Soon, my aunt's family came and we were having not so fun time eating Asian food in the park. Then my uncle told me that we were gonna go fishing, and that it was gonna be fun! Well, whenever your uncle tells you something will be fun, you just know it's gonna end up with someone having to go to the hospital...
Fishing was bad... We fished jack squat while the black people right next to us were fishing them up like crazy. I don't know how, but all the fish just avoided us. MAYBE THEY WERE RACISTS! Well anyway, me and my cousin did have a crab cage and fished up some crabs so that was nice. We actually made some Crab Soup in out house today and they are ok. But you know what else we got? SUNBURNS! AGHHHH It hurts like bloody heck! While we were fishing and crabbing, the suns friggin shanked us in the back! I never knew that suns could be such a backstabbin' bastards! One moment, it's giving you solar power, the other moment, it burns you to crisp!
But oh no! This was far from the end of my troubles! What fate had in stores for me next would have almost driven me insane if it wasn't for the fact that I was already crazed from the sunburns...
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| I thought this was what I would be doing. |
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| I don't see any super mutants here... |
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| Dat Uncle. |
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| Apollo: His treachery knows no bounds |
TBC in Part 2...
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Saturday, June 18, 2011
Rant: Avatar the Movie
----------THIS POST CONTAINS SPOILERS OF AVATAR (2009)----------
I first watched James Cameron's Avatar with my older sister in the winter of 2009. I've heard that it was a really good movie, and after shopping at Costco with my family(One of my favorite pastimes of all time), we went to watched the movie. Before I watched this movie, I had prevented myself from learning ANYTHING about this movie because I did not desire any spoilers, and only knew there were blue people in the movie. When finished watching the movie, I was seething in rage. I was fairly impressed with the movie and it was fun to watch, but the story pissed me off big time for some reason. I felt like the humans should have totally won in the movie.
I found the aliens movie (the Na'vis i think) extremely annoying, much like the Na'vi in Legend of Zelda, and only desired their death and destruction throughout the entire movie. When they were being slaughtered in that one part of the movie where the army guy uses helicopters much like the banshees from Starcraft 2, I was almost pissing myself with glee. Those blue cat people had dared to scar a man's face, and now they were gonna PAY!
Except there was this retard cripple, named Jake Sulley, aka Arnold Benedict of Space. After being sent to the blue people to negotiate, he was infected by the blue people hippism. Oh yeah, that was another reason why I wanted all Na'vi to die. They were all hippies. Anyway, after having raping some horses/dragons and having intense hair sex with the blue people, Jake was eager to betray his race. (If you don't get what I'm saying watch the moive. CLOSELY. Blue people use the USB hair to connect with horses when they ride them in order to link their minds or something. They also connect their USB with EACH OTHER when they do it! So, basically, blue people are all rapists who deserve to go to prison for fornicating with animals and making them their slaves)
I was REALLY pissed at Jake for abandoning his race. HE FUCKING MURDERS PEOPLE IN THE MOVIE!(who look quite similar to marines for SC) And destroys goliaths!(I dont think thats what the robots in the movie are called, but they look like goliaths from SC, so I'm calling them that) HOW DARE HE DO ZAT! I was crying at that part of the movie when humans were being killed...
So near the end of the movie, there's duel between the Army dude(Who I think is called Captain Quiddich) and Arnold Benedict of Space. The army dude asks Arnold "How does it feel to betray your entire race?" and Arnold hisses at the man, which is both disrespectful to one's elders and is a traditional blue people action during combat. This shows that Jake Sulley is no longer human and is pretty much a hippie at this point; a sad end to any man, even a traitor. A part that infuriated me EVEN MORE was when Quiddich was about to kill Sulley(becayse he's not a hippie, thus better), this female hippy that Jake has had USB sex with comes out of nowhere and FUCKING SNIPES QUIDDICH! TREACHERY! She clearly did not respect a man's fight and killed him in the coward's way. WHATS EVEN WORSE is that after killing Quiddicgh, she simply hisses at him, and doesn't say a cool line like "Boom! HEADSHOT!" or "Thanks for standing still Wanker!" or "DOMINATED!" Clearly the writers were drunk when writing this part of the movie.
So at the end, the hippies sadly win and kick everyone off the hippy planet, thus making many men unemployed, ruining business, and causing a major recession on Earth. They are truly heartless bastards. And the blue people are like "hooray!" At that part of the movie, i was thinking "Oh, just wait til Avatar 2 Motherfuckers!"
See humans will always have two traits no matter what. They will be greedy, and they will ALWAYS WANT REVENGE! When Custer was defeated at Little Big Horn, did USA just say "Oh shit! Let's not attack any more" No, they sent even more soldiers and virtually wiped out Indians. Sad business, but its human nature. So, what would humans do in real life in such situations? They will come back and either wipe the hippies out in a storm of lead, nuke the hell of them from orbit(since all they want is some minerals, not people), or give them something like the black death, which the hippies have zero protection against. So anyway, I was so pissed off at the end of the movie. Hippies should have just gotten out of the human's way like good children and be integrated into the human community, after stop being hippies of course.
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I first watched James Cameron's Avatar with my older sister in the winter of 2009. I've heard that it was a really good movie, and after shopping at Costco with my family(One of my favorite pastimes of all time), we went to watched the movie. Before I watched this movie, I had prevented myself from learning ANYTHING about this movie because I did not desire any spoilers, and only knew there were blue people in the movie. When finished watching the movie, I was seething in rage. I was fairly impressed with the movie and it was fun to watch, but the story pissed me off big time for some reason. I felt like the humans should have totally won in the movie.
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| RAGE!!!!!!! |
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| Captain Qudditch or soemthing. The hero of the movie |
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| I'm doin' it bitches! |
I was REALLY pissed at Jake for abandoning his race. HE FUCKING MURDERS PEOPLE IN THE MOVIE!(who look quite similar to marines for SC) And destroys goliaths!(I dont think thats what the robots in the movie are called, but they look like goliaths from SC, so I'm calling them that) HOW DARE HE DO ZAT! I was crying at that part of the movie when humans were being killed...
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| The most badass unit in Starcraft.. Wait! I mean Avatar! |
So near the end of the movie, there's duel between the Army dude(Who I think is called Captain Quiddich) and Arnold Benedict of Space. The army dude asks Arnold "How does it feel to betray your entire race?" and Arnold hisses at the man, which is both disrespectful to one's elders and is a traditional blue people action during combat. This shows that Jake Sulley is no longer human and is pretty much a hippie at this point; a sad end to any man, even a traitor. A part that infuriated me EVEN MORE was when Quiddich was about to kill Sulley(becayse he's not a hippie, thus better), this female hippy that Jake has had USB sex with comes out of nowhere and FUCKING SNIPES QUIDDICH! TREACHERY! She clearly did not respect a man's fight and killed him in the coward's way. WHATS EVEN WORSE is that after killing Quiddicgh, she simply hisses at him, and doesn't say a cool line like "Boom! HEADSHOT!" or "Thanks for standing still Wanker!" or "DOMINATED!" Clearly the writers were drunk when writing this part of the movie.
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| How the scene should have been |
See humans will always have two traits no matter what. They will be greedy, and they will ALWAYS WANT REVENGE! When Custer was defeated at Little Big Horn, did USA just say "Oh shit! Let's not attack any more" No, they sent even more soldiers and virtually wiped out Indians. Sad business, but its human nature. So, what would humans do in real life in such situations? They will come back and either wipe the hippies out in a storm of lead, nuke the hell of them from orbit(since all they want is some minerals, not people), or give them something like the black death, which the hippies have zero protection against. So anyway, I was so pissed off at the end of the movie. Hippies should have just gotten out of the human's way like good children and be integrated into the human community, after stop being hippies of course.
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| GAME OVER YA HIPPIES! |
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Monday, June 13, 2011
Rant: The Real John Choi
Who is the Real John Choi?
Is it me?
Is it you?
For some reasons, Seniors seem to be caught up in this "Real John Choi" pandemic. Everyone calls me the 'Real John Choi' It's rather amusing and hurtful at the same time.
Well, all I know is that Brett McLean Started this...
I'M OUT FOR YOUR BLOOD!!
Besides this tiny phenomena, there's not much else to write about at the moment. I happen to be a very busy person. Just watchin' some animes and reading Japanese light novels. those are some good stuff people! I suggest you try them over the summer.
Is it me?
Is it you?
For some reasons, Seniors seem to be caught up in this "Real John Choi" pandemic. Everyone calls me the 'Real John Choi' It's rather amusing and hurtful at the same time.
Well, all I know is that Brett McLean Started this...
I'M OUT FOR YOUR BLOOD!!
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| NOTHING CAN SLOW THE BLOODSEEKER! |
One more topic, the PROM. I heard people say that it was fun, but it seems to be overpriced. Far too much. What I'm asking is, WHO is the man/woman behind the scene who gets all the money from all of the overpriced school events? WHO is profiting from our economic ruin? WHO is the puppetmaster of TJHSST? Well my followers, I intend to find out exactly who it is. Join me next time, where I write about a FICTIONAL DAYDREAM in which I confront the true MASTERMIND of the TJHSST!
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