me: i've seen a bunch of homeless ppl around davis
grace: oh
grace: i see a few here
me: there's a lotta ppl who go up to me and ask if i can spare some change
grace: but it's like they seem to disappear over night
me: heh
grace: it' slike the city takes them away cus they're taint'g la jolla er something
grace: la jolla = rich yuppies
me: heh
grace: u give em change?
me: sure, why not
me: sometimes a dollar if i'm extremely generous
me: once i even heard out one of them to see what his problem was
grace: oh yeah
grace: i've always wanted to sit down n talk to em
grace: but i don't seem them n e more
grace: oh there's this one guy in chinatown by my dentist office
grace: i saw him last yr
grace: n this yr again
grace: he always has a pet pigeon
me: i see
grace: this pigeon sits on his shoulder
grace: or around him
grace: n he feeds it n such
me: heh
grace: very strange eh
me: yea
me: most of the guys i've met usually have some hardships
me: one guy told me he had some shoulder pain or something
me: but then the cops took away his medication because his name rubbed off the prescription bottle
grace: =me: yea
grace: how he suppose to get his medicine?
me: shoot, i dunno
grace: SOMEONE HAS GOT TO GO N GET IT FOR HIM =(
grace: yeeea.. it's things like that .. that make me wonder why i'm doing cs and expecting to work at some office cubicle.. wen so many ppl out there need something/someone
me: it's true
me: not every job solves every problem in the world
me: and even when you've taken care of others, you still have yourself to feed
grace: yeaa
grace: duno wut i gonna do
grace: i feel like getting a teaching credential too. hehe
grace: but then.. i kinda wanna jus teach lil kids
grace: but then... i kinda wanna program..
grace: o boy. i guess i can teach programming to little kids?
grace: yeah
grace: someone's gotta support me if i ain't making money
me: yeap
me: funny thing; my sister in law also teaches 3rd graders
grace: she likes?
me: yea, i'd say
me: jerm's trying to go for teaching too
me: and while i'm not too sure, maybe laura's also considering teaching
grace: lol
grace: i'm thinking towards daycare too
me: i see

i've realized i've met a LOT of homeless ppl when i've gotten around davis counting this school year and last year. a lotta ppl just wandering around who ask me if i can spare some change. sometimes, if i'm generous, i give them a dollar, not just whatever coins i have in my pocket. i usually never refuse them.

long story short, because i don't feel like typing too much, i do it cause God commands me to. i say this, cause OF COURSE it's probable that a couple of those guys try to act poor to mooch off of others. but i'm less concerned about whether they are genuine, compared whether i AM genuine. whether i truly care for them. cause that's WHAT WOULD JESUS DO

and another thing; when you do encounter poor homeless men, and give them something, don't just give them something and shoo them away; ask them what their hardships are. ask them how their day went. i had one guy ask me for stuff.(i think i gave him a dollar) then he proceeded to tell me his hardship. i was touched. i truly felt like praying for the poor guy. so i am considering that whenever i meet ppl who ask me for change now; asking them how their day went. it's a start. to show i truly care, and am not just another person.

it's just one demonstration of the discipline of submission :D one more step to showing you truly love God.

you realize in the western conf of the nba a total power shift could occur to bring the power to... texas? imagine that kobe and shaq get traded to some texas teams; your future top western teams would include:
dallas: shaq, finley, dirk?
houston: tmac, yao
san antonio: kobe, duncan

now if this turns out to be the case, i like san antonio's chances. i still like houston cause of yao, but i'm still SLIGHTLY bitter that francis had to go; i think i like orlando more than the rockets now.

comment that summed up the nba 2k4 finals:
after anybody who thought that the detroit pistons couldn't recover from that wrenching defeat the other night(game 2), just take a look at the score
-al michaels, abc sports

Verizon Recalls Exploding Cell Phone Batteries

more bad news for you cell phone users... hey! not only can you lower your sperm count with these babies, but now you can permanently burn your crotch off with these technological beauties! but sorry, we'll have to charge you for roaming if you're crotch is on fire and you're forced to call the local police on a cell that's not in the designated area :D
(at&t users, rejoice that your crotch won't catch fire :D)

maria sharapova says she's not trying to become like anna kornakova, but she's into modelling as well :D lol... it's kinda funny watching her play tennis; she screams everytime she hits the ball; i might even stretch it and say she sometimes groans when she does.
to be honest, i think the rain delays and stuff totally changed the match between devenport and sharapova; wimbledon seriously needs to do something to get rid of the rain delays; i tried to audioblog an entry on this, but it looks like it'll take a while before it gets online. basically, tennis seems to be only one of the few sports which actually stops play due to a rain delay, and more specifically, wimbledon; most other sports just play through it. so either teach the players to do that, or install a retractable roof. because it is really annoying for the fans and the players.

(i'm back in cupertino for july btw)
(pps: audioblogger's cool, but it loads so slowly; i've already posted 3-4x since yesterday, and look; only 1 post so far)

Mail and Guardian Online: Cellphones cut sperm count, says report

we're doomed... forget viagra... we need something else...

then again, living in the city as opposed to the country probably also reduces your sperm count...

Martina loses in 2nd round

been keeping up w/wimbledon? martina is a FORTY-SEVEN year old female tennis vet, who played in wimbledon just cause she could... while she's not as agile as she used to be, it was fun to watch her exercise her experience over her opponents and take them down using brain over strength... sadly, you can only get so far...

venus is also out, due to a contraversial call... but serena's still in... when it comes to women's tennis though, i like jennifer capriati; excellant return, very good strokes. her defense against serves is very formidable.

on the men's side, a casual fan HAS to love andy roddick; prob my fave american tennis player. i just love watching him blow ppl apart with his aces; he wasn't as dominant as he was in the us open, concerning his aces, but hey, no 4 in the world doesn't count for nothing; uberdweeb, if you're reading this, roddick's 1st opponent at wimbledon was a taiwanese guy; wang something... don't worry, that kid's still young; got a while to go; i would've rooted for him, but cmon, it's roddick. roddick btw, got 18 aces against him. it's almost like a bday present!(i think wang was 18) i could go on and on about how good roddick's aces are... the really good ones are where the opponent doesn't even MOVE... the serves of those are hecka fast and hit RIGHT on the line that it's rediculous. you watch, and go, huh? roddick already won another game? the opponent didn't even move!

shaq going to dallas is kinda ok w/me... i hate dallas, but they aren't gaining anything TOO big, longterm that way. and shaq fits in with his defensive weaknesses :D the lakers won't be as strong... dallas would IMO be stronger though, with two good big men. that's assuming dallas is not dumb enough to dump dirk for shaq. i'd just like to see a year where the lakers lack kobe and shaq, or have kobe, but completely suck, but that clippers are contenders, or even where both teams suck... would like to see how socal ppl actually feel... i wondered why i've heard kobe possibly going to san ant a bit... is that one of his potential places he wants to go?

assuming dwight howard lives up to his promise, i could be liking the magic soon; got the core rockets group(francis!) and pretty much just subbed howard for yao... i just hope they emphasize the d. though you could say the trade was 50-50, i still disliked that they broke up the rockets; i love francis and yao.

how often have you fretted so much about what you were doing, have done, and were going to do that you could not go to sleep peaceably for a night? frustrating... i bet...