Whew. I got WAY to much sleep on vacation. I wasnt tired last night until 3 AM (hehe, <3 that song) and when I fell asleep it felt like I didnt at all because a moment later my clock rung (@ 6 AM) and I woke up.. not tired or anything! So there's the cure for the sleep deprived: a trip to the sierras.

Errr. I came up with a cutesy little idea to help document this summer, which has been by far the best and most eventful of my high school career. I want to commemorate the events that particularly stick out in my mind that happened this summer, and list the people involved who made the events so great. So here it is, in order by time:
-A trip to JR Lunesco's place in Walnut with Tyler Hayes and from there to Frank and Sons and then to get lunch/boba at puente hills mall.
-A secret adventure (my parents still dont know about this one, and would shit a brick if they ever figured out) involving me driving over to Long Beach to pick up Calvin Ardi and Alex Lee so we could go order dinner in the blackpeople-filled slums. We also watched pulp fiction and I enjoyed an hour and a half long trip home over various freeways to loud techno at 12 AM
-A movie outing with Frank Chen, Natty Dang, Steve Xiang and a couple of others after a week of internship.
-A roadtrip to the beach, then to Rolling Heights, then to Chino Hills, then back to my place with Tyler Hayes, finishing in an outing at my local cyber cafe with him, Tyler Olson, and one of his friends.
-An absolutely fabulous (and expensive) night spent mostly at Puente Hills eating at the expensive japanese buffet Todai with.. Calvin Ardi, Justin Sunu, Derek Lock, Frank Chen, Jon Liu, Huong ???, Krista ???, Margie ???, and a couple of others. Ended at Huntington beach somehow, on a really nice afternoon. Would have been really romantic.. hehe.
-A blossoming friendship with Diane Abapo which led us to explore Northern OC for an afternoon.
-A meaningful lunch with Calvin Ardi in Walnut at some really good indonesian food (gave me a new respect for peanut butter!)
-A beach outing with Tyler Hayes and a couple of out-of-state friends which highlighted in the 2 hours spent looking for a parking place, only an hour spent on the beach, and an hour more spent sipping boba from a tapioca express with a hot hot hot chick workin the counter. Also played with airsoft guns and watched Saving Private Ryan that night.
-An afternoon spent driving around passing out brochures for a concert with Natty Dang.
-An awesome getogether with Calvin Ardi, Jo Lee, Sam Cho, and Dmitriy Filchenko which involved CSUF and the mall essentially.
-A birthday party held for Natty Dang which reminded me of my love for dancing and allowed me to meet old friend Ravi Trivedi and make friends with Joel Agalsoft and Rohan ???.
-A beach outing after Orientation where I got to know a bunch of people, put simply enough.
And while this is mostly a listing for myself, I feel it appropriate to post it in my journal and thank each person who's name was mentioned a thousand thanks for making my life during summer bearable.

I'm now back at school, and as I expected I'm forced into a bunch of new climates. The only really hard class is AP Biology, which will hopefullly be fun because of the people in the class and the teacher. Other than that I find myself once again learning how to make friend because I know practically noone in any of my classes.

Despite all that, when I swaggered home I realized that I feel strangely at peace with the world. It's treating me good right now, and I got no beef with it. Before I go I feel I must state for my subscribers that an entry will not be existent tommorow due to an extremely busy schedule.

Write to you all Saturday (still need to think of something crazy to do over the weekend. going with Tyler and posse to see Resident Evil II but I want to do more! beach anyone?),
luv.james