your daily awesome

Thought about the dearly departed blog, YourDailyAwesome, today and stopped by for a visit. Eug was having a bad day so to cheer him up I emailed him some excerpts from this excellent essay that we had found on the blog a while back. I’m going to copy the entire thing (which was originally taken from here: http://www.textfiles.com/uploads/koalas.txt) because it is just that good.



This essay was written by an 8th grader in Pittsburgh in the spring of
2004. The assignment was to pick an enangered species, and explain why
it's important to save it. The typos and formatting are preserved from
the original.

Richard XXXXXXXX Draft 2

I shouldn't do shit. I don't care about them they all
could die and it won't affect my life. I know a lot about them
but I don't need to think about them. They're just a waste of
time koalas are stupid they don't help me with shit so why
should I help them. If they all die there will be more room for
the panthers and all the other hard animals. Koalas are weak a
pit will get rid of their whole fucking family. That's why I
don't like koalas.
Koalas have sharp claws but they are weak. They all small
and fat and they be climing trees. I hope a storm just come
while theyjust chilling up in the tree thinking they is hard and
they're will all just fall off. They just break they neck and
shit. When they fall they claws are going to fall off and they
going to be crying like some little bitches.
Koalas aren't hard they some little bitches. They start
climbing up the tree soon as they see a deer from like 50feet
away. They stupid as hell they should put their brain in their
pouch and put the kid in they ten they're be able to think
better. They try to be in the fucking kangaroo family. They weak
as hell, talking bout they got a pouch a kangaroo so they their
cousins and shit. Kangaroo's have some big ass legs and whot do
a koala got? Some little ass legs, they tails is little and weak
as fuck kangaroo's got a big ass long tail that can kill a
fucking koala.
If a koala goes in the water it won't be able to breathe
with its little short ass. It'd fucking drown soon aas it take
one step into the water. While they at the river trying to get
something to drink a bear could just come to him and snatch its
ass up. It doesn't know protection because they don't have
protection. What they little ass going to do? It can't scratch
him. The bear will beat his fucking ass.
The important think about koalas is that just don't care
about tem and let them die by all the other animals in
Australia. They're not important just let nature do what it do
and kill them. Koalas do not have a place in this world there's
not enough room for all the bitches in this world. So let all
the koalas that's in the zoos and shit. Let them go and put them
back with their family. If you let them all go they won't
nothing except for that's what they was put in this world for.
Now you know why koalas aren't important. They have
nothing to do except for sitting around in the trees. It's like
they just was like they was sent have to die. Koalas don't do
nothing to help anybody. Thre would be just one more relative of
the kangaroo that will be six feet under. Now you know why
koalas are not important because there are dumb.

some recent pics

sorry, too lazy to rotate pics today...

angie in hong kong

the first night we met up with angie was great. han and angie came by our place. pak was already there. sam came back from beijing at just the right moment. we played a little wii, had a nice dinner and then randomly walked into a, normally very crowded bar, called soda and got the last table. then joan and jon came by, and then phoebe, henry and alex. it was a pretty effortless night. everyone got pretty drunk and had a lot of fun. then we went home, bought some candy and sushi chips (whatever that is) and played some more wii. and then...we watched 2 girls 1 cup. it was the second or third time for a few of us. but that doesn't matter. the reaction is always the same. though, pay careful attention to jon's face in the pics. he's pretty fascinated by it.












everyone, and obviously eug, was having fun...

then jon ordered shots...

here's ange pretending to drink the first shot, called "nothing," that jon ordered. of course with a name like that misunderstanding fer sure ensued, followed by a bit of hilarity as jon kept repeating "nothing" in a not very nice manner to the waitress. she ended up bringing him one beer and one shot. i'm not sure if the shots actually ended up being a "nothing." all shots pretty much taste the same if it isn't straight-up liquor.

and it got more fun!

thx jon!

sam posing next to a jumper that we saw hanging around in our hood.

we showed sam and pak where we tagged a few weeks back when lapchi came over. it's from a cut-out we made of max from where the wild things are. we targeted more than one location (within a 7 block radius of our hood). man, we are bad-asses. it's like free guerilla advertising for the spike jonze film adaptation. i should send him this picture. and maybe he'll contact me. maybe not.



pak got sam and eug addicted to this candy that he discovered here. i liked them but didn't really crave them like the guys did. sam bought out all the green-flavored (apple?) packs in the 7-eleven, including the few in the back that the lady offered to him. it was def. not the first time she'd seen us in there rummaging for candy.


this is the cut-out mouse we stole from the lobby of our building to switch with the cut-out santahead we stole weeks earlier and put on our door. we are bad-asses. a few days later eug and i put it back.





joan puts my origins clear improvement active charcoal mask on jon to help clear his pores. turns out sam and pak are fans of this mask and use it themselves. sam even offers a bit of advice: first, put a warm towel on your face to open up your pores.

it might have improved jon's skin...

but it didn't improve his game...lol...eug had a very specific bowling move that he performed with grace and style but i opted not to post evidence of it, as it is quite effeminate and would definitely garner many homosexual-related comments/put-downs from our buddies. the picture doesn't do it justice anyhow.






for those of you who don't think you can stomach 2girls1cup, as it is pretty vomit-inducing (i have yet to see anything beyond the first 10 secs and experienced some minor gagging), at least check out other ppl's reaction to it on youtube, esp. this one guy's poor grandma.
it's funneeee.