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I don’t care what people think who don’t give a crap about sports in Seattle or the Sonics - Having been a fan since 1995 I am still pissed off about the whole Sonics situation. And why the hell it took so long for politicians in this city to realize that yes, having an NBA team in Seattle actually does bring a lot of money in. But most of all I hate Clay Bennett for planning to steal our team all along and David Stern for being an A-hole about the whole thing. I like how during the NBA draft last week he didn’t say Seattle when he referred to the Sonics. He just called them “the Sonics” when at the podium announcing their draft picks rather than the standard script where you say the full team name. *#$( THAT!

Bleh, sorry. I had to rant.

I think they’ve created so much bitterness in this city in will take a lot of calming down and PR work to make people warm up to the idea of getting another team. The potential teams who may be looking for new homes are: New Orleans Hornets, Memphis Grizzlies, Sacramento Kings, Milwaukee Bucks and Atlanta Hawks. Personally, I’d like the Hornet or the Grizzlies (of course they would be renamed to Sonics) - because of the players. The thing that sucks most about losing the Sonics even though we get to keep the name and logo and history etc is that we are losing the PLAYERS!! Durant, Green, Westbrook - all high draft picks and now gone to waste. It made me sick hearing Clay calling them “our” players on the news last night after the decision.

up on flickr

I’ve also started a one-pic-a-day upload from my phone which is displayed on the front page of my website. Wherever I happen to be that day

Crap…this blog is so behind! I feel bad. But you guys can read my facebook to find out daily updates of course - I promise I will definitely be posting once I get to New Haven this fall. There’s just so much going on until then. I will update a little here on what I’ve been doing.

I’ve been attending a lot of BEAN and NAAAP events. Of course since I’m leaving in August I handed off the Eastside social officer to my friend Bernice The position was fun while it lasted - though it was getting tough towards the end to find good places to have a social on the Eastside that can accomodate large groups. Seattle just has so many more choices and I don’t really go to bars on the Eastside. Any way, attendance was good though and I had fun doing it. I’d like to get an officer position in NAAAP, but of course not until I come back after grad school. I want to do more community service. Been doing a lot of community service projects for both BEAN and NAAAP and those are always the most fun events in my opinion. 1) it’s social and you get to meet people 2) you’re doing something productive 3) it doesn’t involve alcohol like everything else seems to do. Overall I have met a lot of new people in both organizations - it’s been cool!

Preparing for a few trips coming up. Two are mini trips that Tom and I are going on. Next weekend we’re going to Oregon. We’ll be going to Cannon Beach for one night and then to Portland to visit and stay with friends. Then in July we are going to try and make it down to Santa Cruz to see Jenn and Tristan. Hopefully hit up the San Jose bon odori as well which I heard is bomb. The August 1st I leave for China!!! OMG I’m so excited!!

I have been watching a lot of the Olympic trials on TV which is exciting and getting me pumped up. I don’t know that I’ll get tickets to any event as it’ll be really expensive and hard to get but we’ll see. Either way it I just plan to hang around the Olympic village and just be there amongst the mayhem that is Beijing 2008. It’s going to be sweet, I’m going to take lots of pictures and post them. And most of all I’m going to EAT. YAY!! Asian food is the best. I’ll be staying with my Auntie in an apartment in the middle of Beijing. We may go to Dalian or Shanghai if we can get round trip train tickets. Getting back into Beijing during the games is going to suck but oh well. Then after Beijing is Hawaii!!!! Need sun.

I got a blackberry for work! They gave me a phone so I can call into meetings and stuff from the east coast. Work is going well…I have been at Boeing 3 years now and I still like it. I am not sure what the future has in store for me post-grad school but I have a ton of ideas flying around inside my head - including the idea of living and working abroad. But who knows!

The surprise party for my mom’s 60th and parents’ 30th wedding anniversary went over really well!! It was perfect - my mom had no idea and pretty much everyone showed up. The venue was great and everything was perfect. We had it at Cutters on Saturday. Plus we got this awesome white chooclate strawberry cake from Simply Desserts in Fremont which was the shitz. Yay! My mom was so shocked and happy.

So my wireless certificate class finished up today…it was kind of a joke. Very high level and nothing terribly interesting…but I guess I’m glad it wasn’t too intense cause I’ve been so busy with random other things I don’t know how much time I would have to devote to it. I was thinking about taking a business class this summer but I think I will not do that since I’m going on vacation in August and would probably miss the final…so instead I’ve decided I’m going to take the GMAT for the hell of it. UW offers a Technology MBA that I’m thinking about doing once I complete my masters. I don’t know if I will but I figured, hey, why not take the test any way. Then I can apply if I want.

Man I’m getting the travel bug again and I want to go somewhere I love traveling, it’s sweeeet. Can’t wait til August when I head to China and then Hawaii!!

My friend’s Jill and Ruben are moving to Sydney Australia so Tom and I are planning to go visit them either next summer or the summer after. I’ve been wanting to go to Australia - it sounds sweet.

It’s BBQ season! So far I have been to one - and I’ve got another tomorrow. Love it. Jessie and Arpi are in town from grad school so we are hanging out this weekend too

I’ve been going to a lot of BEAN and NAAAP events which has been a lot of fun to say the least. I’ve met so many new people in this last year. It’s too bad I’ll be leaving all this behind - but I won’t be gone for long! And I’ll be back next summer too. I’m going to try and find a similar organization if I can at Yale. We’ll see.

Not that there’s anything to digg on my site but maybe one day when I come up with a really really good post it will be dugg

Upgraded the blog to Wordpress 2.5.1…going to try some new stuff or plug-ins when i get the chance.

a chat session on Google Reader:

Mike: “From your 35 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 10,690 items, starred 3 items, shared 571 items, and emailed 44 items.”
too many =(

Mike: haha

OK so apparently T-Mobile changed the price of their “Total Internet and Hotspot” add-on last September and failed to tell me…! I just found it online today when I was surfing around looking for info on blackberrys. They didn’t automatically changed it to the cheaper version or notify me. >:-| Is that how you treat a loyal customer?!! Damnit. I’ve had them for 7 years. Argh…oh well. Everything else has worked great, but still. I also found someone else online complaining about the same thing they just found out last month. So we were paying $30 instead of $20 cause they lowered the price.

Notice the bottom two check-boxes. They’re for the same thing but different prices!

I’ve found an apartment in New Haven! It is part of the off-campus university property. Only about a block from the edge of campus on the South West side near a lot of shops and stuff. Yay! I got a studio unit because I figure I won’t have much of anything to put in there. My plan is to try and get all my crap from IKEA in New Haven and keep it to a bare minimum. A sofa-bed, a computer desk and chair, a coffee table/table to eat on and probably a carpet (I got hardwood floors). Oh and a shelf or two and storage bins. That should be all I need. I want to get a TV tuner for my laptop cause I’m not going to bother shipping a TV over there - it would probably cost as much as the TV itself. I probably need a microwave…crap and then I have to buy stuff to eat on and cook with.