New Years Revelation

You know what? Not only did we make Contact, but I'm fed up with this shit.

Why make a huge hype over a "New Years Day"? Is it because Bono and his bandmates from Dublin made a song about it in the 1980s? Is it because those in the east coast would be "squares" if they didn't countdown the "times" that they endured the past 365 days of their life?

It's just basically a Hallmark holiday, or in this case, a "Rockin' Dick Clark" holiday.

To me, it's just another regular day, just like any other Thank-You-God-For-this- day. We wake up alive and go on with our normal day and do it again the next 23 hours, 6 days, 29, days, 364 days. A year is a unit of measurement. Hell if people are so amped up for this, why don't they drop the ball every morning in New York. It'll scare off the criminals and the drug dealers with the confetti and explosions on a day-to-day basis, reducing crime in the big apple. Oh wait, there's already something like that...the gavel and the opening bell at Wall Street.

I would've say this for any other year this past decade, but because how this year turned out with disastrous proportions, I'll play along for a bit.

First off in all seriousness, I would like to thank my LORD (there's a reason why its capitalized, read the King James Version) for keeping me alive up to my feet and putting me where I'm at right now. I was born a Christian and raised with Christian values, otherwise if I wasn't, then I wouldn't be writing this portion of the paragraph. Some people take what they were though and then double check as soon as they become a legal adult once they have they right to make their own decisions. Usually heavy work and school and peer pressure get in the way which makes the person drift away from their Spiritual Guidance, or just completely stopped attending church. I missed more days of church this second half of the decade than I ever had from the first half. I'll do my best to keep attending just for a relief of all the stuff from that particular week. I was gonna say it not gonna be easy, but it actually is. Just attend and that's it. No excuses.

I'm also gonna continue to not drink alcohol and not smoke cigarettes or cigars or use any substance and types of drugs. This past year, I've been viewed and labled by many authorities, including the California Highway Patrol and the security at Khloe Kardashian's and Lamar Odom's wedding, as a person who would partake in that sort of shit, even though I NEVER have done those things before in my life. I had to go to 4 different courthouses in Los Angeles county at least twice this year, something that I didn't see coming. This is gonna sound really childish but does anyone remember being in the D.A.R.E program back in grade school? Aside from the free T-shirts ( I had 5 of them) being in that program is like talking to that father from the post Baby Boom era who tell you what to do and he'll beat your ass with his belt or a broomstick if you disobeyed him by doing stuff that can and will harm your body. Let me put it in adult terms, Dazed and Confused, Half-Baked and Pineapple Express are JUST MOVIES. Its not real life.

I would like to thank my family for....just about everything. I'm very fortunate to still reside with both my parents at their houses while I turned 21 this year, cause most parents will throw their kids out once they become legal or the kids will throw themselves out. Plus I also thank God for surviving me through a year of having another woman living with my pops and I. She cost me my friendship with a friend of mine who's a model that I met when I was at Pierce. When my pops got remarried after Barack won the election, my frustration offended my friend, and that was the last time I saw her, and this was a year ago. You love to continue living your life, but you have to endure the pain that gets in the way at your own home, therefore, Pain is Love.

Finally I didn't plan on doing this, but I wanna give a large shoutout for those who made this treacherous year for myself as bright as the girl from Little Miss Sunshine (don't know why I just said that)

-Joseph Harris

-Frank

-Jeremy

-Joanna

-Tiffany

-Matt Sun

-Stephen

-the white family in West Hills that gave me 70 dollars and free pizza back in January to help move their stuff

-Laker fans

-Ceed Security Services (for the PayChex's)

-Erotica LA (yes I said it)

and the rest I can't think of right now.

In closing, I leave with a thought I made up for the 2010 that many people surely take for granted in the past.

"Don't let the New Year become great for 52 weeks. Make it great and look back at it 52 weeks later."

Thank you for your time. May God bless you throughout the rest of your lives, and have a great excellent unforgetful Twenty Ten.

My country 'tis of those

I haven't been there since 2003, and it looks like I wont be going there for a while. Plus my Passport expried

Add her to the list

November 10, 1977- December 20, 2009. 32 years old. Can't believe she's gone. Ashton had her before Demi

365 days difference

Sylmar Christmas social 2008

Sylmar Christmas social 2009

Same hairstyle, less breakouts, only difference is that one of me has a job. Damn, what a year. Thank you LORD

Next year its official

GQ is the new Maxim

Pricless plugs

We got United States citizens putting their lives on the line in the Middle East right now (shout out to all those with guts out there), we're still in a recession that's slowly....again, SLOWLY coming to an end, and we have thousands of people who are getting sick from the virus that's been occurring this past year. I already heard about him suspending his account (I'm not even gonna say what account he deleted), but this didn't really need to make the front page on CNN's website. This is something you'd find on E! News or 106 and Park (not trying to be stereotypical but I'm also dark skinned). Shit, this must be a bodacious hangover from finally splitting with America Online last week for Time Warner. Bottom line, I think he should be behind bars instead of going to every major network"Exclusive" (no pun intended) interview and apologizing in different ways. I mean, come on, THE GUY FUCKING SUCKER PUNCHED RIHANNA IN THE FACE, and I met both of them last year.

Staying on the topic of entertainment before I finish, the fourth season of Keeping Up with the Kardashians premiered this past Sunday night. I thought that shit was gonna premiere in March 2010 like before, but this episode lasted an hour, whereas the wedding special (that I almost got into) last month was a freaking 2 hour movie. I might appear in like 2 episode this season cause the many times that I met Kim Kardashian recently, there's always a camera crew around her and her family. By the way her sister Kourtney gave birth to a young boy today. All I can say to her is this is what you get for turning 30. Kiss the clubbing goodbye and welcome to the rest of your life, and a second potential spinoff in the future

Seoul food

So last Wednesday, I went to Manna Korean Barbeque in Olympic Blvd in Los Angeles for my old friend Candace's birthday. I've known her and her family for my church since 2003. That place is just less than a mile from my cousin's house, and I stopped over at his place to put on my suit and tie to look casual for the party. When I got there, you're supposed to have the valet park your car for you. It like that with almost every restaurant in L.A., but the best part was that it cost only $1.50 for the whole night, not hourly.

An hour later she came with her boyfriend, who I also knew, and some of their co-workers. We got to our table and it had a grill in the center to cook the beef on it. This place is an "All-you-can-eat" restauraunt. I originally wanted to be there to take pictures, see Candace and her friends and drink a soda because I've never tried Korean food before, but I then decided to give it a shot and after that, I WAS HOOKED! They had all kinds of beef there, and they're so damn good. This will probably be the only spot that I'll go to if I want Korean food.

Afterwards, they started playing some Asian dance song, and out of nowhere, one of the dudes that works there came to this our table with two bottles of Andre Champagne, pops the bottles and HE SPRAYS IT ALL OVER CANDACE! They did it because it was of course, her birthday. They also did it to some other girl who also had her birthday. Other than that, I had a great time, everything went well. Major THANKS to Candace and Adam for inviting me. Plus a shout out to Manna Korean Barbeque and their valet dude who I tipped 3 extra dollars to.

DEY CAN'T BE BEET!

Here's a monolouge of some observations from this past week.


The New England Patriots got over exposed at the Superdome. I thought that the 4th and 2 situation at Indianapolis was were it got them, but New Orleans took over the whole damn game. Bill Belichick is now suspect in his coaching decisions, especially removing Tom Brady, Randy Moss and Wes Welker with 5:38 left in the game. Next thing coach Belichick will do is revamp his entire special teams and call audibles during Field Goals and Point After Touchdowns.


So Tiger Woods crashes his Cadillac Escalade into his neighbors tree in the middle of the night and his wife had to use his golf clubs to break the glass of the windows to rescue her husband. Then Tiger get fined $700 for running over a fire hydrant and reckless driving by the Florida Highway Patrol. $700 is pocket change to Tiger Woods. That's obvoiusly nothing to the the richest sports athlete in the world. Just pay the fucking fine and by a new Cadillac and act as if this shit never happened, right. Well, the voicemail heard around the world made his life make a huge 180 a few days later. Again this is Tiger Woods. He can see any woman he wants, even if he's married, he'll probably find a way to leave Kobe Bryant a voicemail asking for advice.




Still on the topic of sports, Allen Iverson returned to the Philadephia Sixers after "retiring" a few weeks ago. There's a reason why I put quotation marks on the word "retiring". To question the "Answer", why? Ask Brett Favre, or Floyd Mayweather, or Ric Flair. A couple of months ago, Jerry Seinfeld said that back in the 90's, when you retire from television, sports or whatever profession you've persued for a long time, you're done FOR GOOD. I can agree to that, but the other side of this is that these people have so much unconditional passion for what they persued in and they dontwant to let it go from their lives. I don't blacme Iverson that much for his decision to return to Philidelphia. They feel like they want to continued doing what they love doing until the can't mentally do it, not because you finish once you turn 65 and live off on Social Security. But if he never left the team, then he could've gotten the Sixers at least two NBA finals victories.







Speaking of Seinfeld, Comcast is planning on buying NBC for $37 Billion. I hope they play vintage Tonight Show with Jay Leno episodes from the 1990's on the E! instead of movies and usless episodes of the E! True Hollywood Stories about rappers wives and rockers wives, except Shannon Tweed and Valarie Bertinelli. Plus Access Hollywood and E! News will form a HUGE "celebrity kiss-ass" conglomerte that will probably dominate Entertainment Tonight and TMZ on TV

Now, we're already in the month of December, the last month of the year, the last year of the decade. Back when I was in grade school, I always looked forward to this month cause that the only time when I could get anything I want "for free". Now the joy of this holiday frenzy had grew out on me. Every time I think of this month, the big corporations and the Target suits up in Minneapolis will be sitting back in their hammocks watching money grow and grow from the Friday after Thanksgiving, to Cyber Monday to Christmas Eve. But come December 26, karma is gonna be yuletide bitch when 60 percent of women will return stuff that "people that the knew" gave to them, which is why in Canada its called Boxing day. By the way, my mom and my little sister have their birthdays on that day.

I think after New Years day, I might be done shopping at Best Buy. During Black Friday, me, my father and his wife had to drive to 3 different Best Buys to look for a particular Home theater system we wanted, unfortunatley those bastards don't have it in stock of out every name brand home theater stereos in the world. But we ended up getting the last few at the SonyStyle in Topanga.

In closing, I'd have to say that I'm gonna have trouble watching TMZ on TV, which is a really funny ass newsmagazine show that shits on celebrity, and I managed to appear candidly on about two or three episodes from my paparazzi days. Reason why I say that is because one of the people there on the show, this Armenian chick with the thick rimmed glasses who appears briefly, is just TOO attractive for some reason. Anna Kachikyan is her name. She's too fine as hell, especially the clothes she wears during this winter season. Maxim better get at her before they fall off like FHM and Stuff magazine did.

Can't believe I went through this post without mentioning Taylor Swift and the Microsoft Store. Weird.