Monday, June 25, 2007
Saturday In Brooklyn
On 23rd of June Saturday. I decided to go visit Brooklyn's Coney Island boardwalk and the Mermaid Parade. I took bunch of pictures on the boardwalk since by Fall most of these relic structures and sites will be torn down and gone. Both side of the street on Surf Avenue were pack with people with police barricade. It was my first time checking out the Mermaid Parade and is also their 25th Anniversary. The parade start about 2 p.m, man was I in a surprise of life time. The theme of the parade are all Oceanic with female and male mermaids, pirates, beach goers, and swimmers etc. I just can't believe my eyes that I saw top less women marching on the parade. It was semi shocking yet fascinating. Bunch of photographers are taking pictures with their SLR cameras including me. There were some amazing and not so amazing costume and bunch of adorable children marching with their parents.
Thursday, June 14, 2007
My Life...
Next month from today. I will be quarter of century years old. Man. I am turning vintage! Just like my Chewie mug in my profile but five years younger. Since Star War Episode Four released in the theaters back in May 1977.
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
One Of Those Days In NYC... In Queens
On Monday June 11th mid afternoon as I step out of the podiatrists clinic. My right foot is still kinda numb and sore due to the soft cast I have to wear for the duration in May and June. The doctor recommend either go for physical therapy or just moving your joint on your right foot much as possible. So I decided to move it much as possible and if the pain still persist for a month I have to go back for another check up.
Afterward I decided to stop by my local CitiBank to deposit some money at 25-47 Parsons Blvd since is about few blocks away from my house. As I step out the bank and turned left corner toward my parking spot around 1450 hours or slight before. I heard a huge metallic clinking sound like the one when a huge truck makes when they drive through those steel plate that cover pot holes or ditches on the road. I got curious and turned around the corner, what I see is something unbelievable. Someone actually drove their car pass the curb and ran through Ridgewood bank.
Who ever drove their car had enter at least 6 to 10 feet into this bank (or office) from the angle where I was standing. I think a middle age man right next to me called the cop. There were some smoke and shatter glasses and bend aluminum framing from the windows and doors from the bank. Few minutes later I heard a scream coming from a woman in the store. About 5 to 10 minutes later NYPD's ESU, FDNY and some two ambulance arrived. At the time I heard there were one injured person from one of the fireman. I felt guilty and like a retard just be a bystander and watching this ordeal/carnage and left after they arrived. Below is the link that cover this incident at
http://www.wnbc.com/news/13482387/detail.html .
Similar incidents happen in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Bronx through out this year on the news. It make me wonder. Well. Glad it wasn't me that got hurt and I didn't parked my car around that area. It will be really something hit by a car in May and anther time in June. I wonder "what would be the chance of that?". That remind me I should go take EMT classes and become certified as an EMT at Laguardia Community College or some where else. The knowledge of that might come in handy someday at long as I don't get any lawsuits from the victims that I am trying to help.
Afterward I decided to stop by my local CitiBank to deposit some money at 25-47 Parsons Blvd since is about few blocks away from my house. As I step out the bank and turned left corner toward my parking spot around 1450 hours or slight before. I heard a huge metallic clinking sound like the one when a huge truck makes when they drive through those steel plate that cover pot holes or ditches on the road. I got curious and turned around the corner, what I see is something unbelievable. Someone actually drove their car pass the curb and ran through Ridgewood bank.
Who ever drove their car had enter at least 6 to 10 feet into this bank (or office) from the angle where I was standing. I think a middle age man right next to me called the cop. There were some smoke and shatter glasses and bend aluminum framing from the windows and doors from the bank. Few minutes later I heard a scream coming from a woman in the store. About 5 to 10 minutes later NYPD's ESU, FDNY and some two ambulance arrived. At the time I heard there were one injured person from one of the fireman. I felt guilty and like a retard just be a bystander and watching this ordeal/carnage and left after they arrived. Below is the link that cover this incident at
http://www.wnbc.com/news/13482387/detail.html .
Similar incidents happen in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Bronx through out this year on the news. It make me wonder. Well. Glad it wasn't me that got hurt and I didn't parked my car around that area. It will be really something hit by a car in May and anther time in June. I wonder "what would be the chance of that?". That remind me I should go take EMT classes and become certified as an EMT at Laguardia Community College or some where else. The knowledge of that might come in handy someday at long as I don't get any lawsuits from the victims that I am trying to help.
Thursday, June 7, 2007
A Month Ago
Status
On 8th of May Tuesday, between 1400 to 1430 hours two hours after class I got hit by a car on the corner of Horace Harding Expy west bound and Kissena Blvd intersection in front of the Dunkin Donuts/Baskin-Robins about a block away from QC. I still can remember the incident semi vividly as I crossing the street and is totally unreal like a movie. The cars going west bound on Horace Harding Expy is still green light and they are about 300 ft away on my right. In my mind at the time is “Hey. They are about 300 ft away and it is impossible they will hit me! It is not like they are F1 race cars with nitrous turbo or rockets charge and could reach where I am within 10 seconds flat”.
So. I decided to jaywalk and I was the first one to cross with several students behind me still on the corner waiting for the red light to cross. As I crossed the street almost reaching Dunkin Donuts’s corner about 10 ft away, “wham” a white two door sedan making a right on Kissena hit me and I fly back about four to five feet (I am so glad I always wear a backpack with a water bottle on the outer bag if I didn’t I would have crack my head. I don’t know why the driver (that retard old geezer) gas up while making a right and saw me and hit me. Since usually and norm, you don’t gas up when making turns when there is pedestrians crossing even I don’t do that unless there is no pedestrians period.
As I lied on the ground for maybe 5 to 10 seconds and I got up. The driver came out of his car and yell at me about I wasn’t on the pedestrians as his only defense (I can’t recall what he said exactly but something like that) I might be few feet away from the pedestrians lane but it make no difference and he is wrong. I cursed him out for few minutes and telling him about how he ruined my day. I think there is about 20 odd students as witness and were waiting for the bus. Somehow I was frustrated and can’t make a real judgment at the time and decided to let him go. Even he offered me to call the cop and I declined. BIG MISTAKES OF MY LIFE! At the time I was completely incoherently able to make decision for my self due to shock. I let him go and he received the get out of jail card of his life. After this ordeal I received left torn calf muscle and all four fracture right toes knuckle beside the thumb toe which wasn’t diagnosis properly at New York Hospital of Queens until a week later at the podiatrists’ clinic. At the time I had a swollen right foot for two weeks or so though out May.
I am currently still healing from the wound with a soft cloth cast and I was walking with a huge limp but now it is slightly better. I just hope I won’t have any problems by October since I am running the Army Ten-Miler on October 7th down in D.C with couple of my friends who is in the Army National Guard. Plus my feet, calves and lungs are aching with desires to go back to running 4 to 6 miles again. I just want to get back to running/jogging!!! Stupid fractures on the foot and I wish you heal back fast and properly. They might be ending up with arthritis and most likely they will.
AAR (After-Action Review)
The reason I made a hasty decision on that day due to
I got a 2nd group short-film project that is due on the 17th and I am under tremendous pressure unlike the rest of my team mates. If I did go to the hospital right at the moment after it happen our 2nd short-film project would probably never get completed or off the ground since we are short of hands and I am the cinemaphotographer for the group.
Out of the 5 people within the group, I am the only guy working with 4 female that included Shannon, Miranda, Natalie, and Rita. Shannon received mononucleosis and Rita who give birth to a girl few months before received lupus and was in ICU for couples of week and was MIA completely unable to contacts with out reply period. Plus it is impossible to follow theirs schedule and I wanted to do it during the Spring brake in late April but none of them willing to do anything about it since most of them are free anyhow. So everything was delay for several weeks mostly due to Shannon since she is part of the cast in this short film. The film came out semi half ass work due to time constrains and partially I have to blame my self let this happen and we only have three/four people for the cast includes me. Plus I am the mostly the only one that handle the camera works through out the shooting process and most of the film editing. Somehow, I still feel my group let me down without helping me on the entire final cut process on the film. I am not trying to brag about it but it is the fact that I did and spent a lot of time on this short film.
One of my friends called me an idiot, typical Asian and should file the police report and make the claims. Probably I would end up with couple grand or even more in my bank account from this lawsuit and my medical fee would be cover by the old geezer’s insurance company. Thanks to Health Plus my medical treatment is cover by the state of New York/fed government. But I do feel guilty about that. Since is better let the old geezer’s insurance company pays and his insurance fee would go up. Perhaps his license would get suspended.
If I were some of my friends with bad temper, they would probably end up punching the old geezer several times and go far as grabbing his neck and jam it between the car and its car door several times in front of his wife. Since his wife was on the passenger side when it happens and probably they were arguing or talking that result of hitting me. Perhaps is just a fantasy of mine since I would never or wanted to do such a thing to another human being plus I would get arrested. Maybe only exclusively to rapist, child molesters and mass killers which they truly deserved it by nature. It remind me of the ending scene of Korean movie Lady Vengeance directed by Chan Wook Park what the parents did to the child sadist also Hard Candy directed by David Slade by manipulated someone to kill them self. (Reminder - get both of them on DVDs in my DVDs collections when I get the extra cash)
Lessons I Learned From This Ordeal
Somehow writing this make me feel like a bitch complaining and whining about life. But it slightly makes me feel better. “You Learn” in life like the Alanis Morissette song. If I had a time machine I should have called my mom and asked her what to do on that moment instead of calling her 10 minutes later after it happens. Maybe because I feel completely unreal at the time and moment in life it just happens to me. The possibility and result could be endless. Oh well. Injustice and unfairness is everywhere and I slip my chance and sucked up the pain and drive on. FIDO! (Forget It & Drives On) I guess I am a fool and too nice to peruse this.
One true lesson I learned beside this ordeal is “You can’t relies on anybody (your fellow men or women) but your self maybe in the military your battle buddies where your life depends on it“ Also due to military hierarchy and I love that system and I won’t abuse it. Perhaps only your closest friends could be reliable sometimes and most of the times. Maybe I already know all of this already and all of us are selfish in many way. Could it perhaps maybe we are New Yorkers and also due to the media desensitized our feeling toward one another. If I were living in a small town it might be a different story etc. Life moves on… I just hate small cuts, wounds and pains since they hurt the deepest.
On 8th of May Tuesday, between 1400 to 1430 hours two hours after class I got hit by a car on the corner of Horace Harding Expy west bound and Kissena Blvd intersection in front of the Dunkin Donuts/Baskin-Robins about a block away from QC. I still can remember the incident semi vividly as I crossing the street and is totally unreal like a movie. The cars going west bound on Horace Harding Expy is still green light and they are about 300 ft away on my right. In my mind at the time is “Hey. They are about 300 ft away and it is impossible they will hit me! It is not like they are F1 race cars with nitrous turbo or rockets charge and could reach where I am within 10 seconds flat”.
So. I decided to jaywalk and I was the first one to cross with several students behind me still on the corner waiting for the red light to cross. As I crossed the street almost reaching Dunkin Donuts’s corner about 10 ft away, “wham” a white two door sedan making a right on Kissena hit me and I fly back about four to five feet (I am so glad I always wear a backpack with a water bottle on the outer bag if I didn’t I would have crack my head. I don’t know why the driver (that retard old geezer) gas up while making a right and saw me and hit me. Since usually and norm, you don’t gas up when making turns when there is pedestrians crossing even I don’t do that unless there is no pedestrians period.
As I lied on the ground for maybe 5 to 10 seconds and I got up. The driver came out of his car and yell at me about I wasn’t on the pedestrians as his only defense (I can’t recall what he said exactly but something like that) I might be few feet away from the pedestrians lane but it make no difference and he is wrong. I cursed him out for few minutes and telling him about how he ruined my day. I think there is about 20 odd students as witness and were waiting for the bus. Somehow I was frustrated and can’t make a real judgment at the time and decided to let him go. Even he offered me to call the cop and I declined. BIG MISTAKES OF MY LIFE! At the time I was completely incoherently able to make decision for my self due to shock. I let him go and he received the get out of jail card of his life. After this ordeal I received left torn calf muscle and all four fracture right toes knuckle beside the thumb toe which wasn’t diagnosis properly at New York Hospital of Queens until a week later at the podiatrists’ clinic. At the time I had a swollen right foot for two weeks or so though out May.
I am currently still healing from the wound with a soft cloth cast and I was walking with a huge limp but now it is slightly better. I just hope I won’t have any problems by October since I am running the Army Ten-Miler on October 7th down in D.C with couple of my friends who is in the Army National Guard. Plus my feet, calves and lungs are aching with desires to go back to running 4 to 6 miles again. I just want to get back to running/jogging!!! Stupid fractures on the foot and I wish you heal back fast and properly. They might be ending up with arthritis and most likely they will.
AAR (After-Action Review)
The reason I made a hasty decision on that day due to
I got a 2nd group short-film project that is due on the 17th and I am under tremendous pressure unlike the rest of my team mates. If I did go to the hospital right at the moment after it happen our 2nd short-film project would probably never get completed or off the ground since we are short of hands and I am the cinemaphotographer for the group.
Out of the 5 people within the group, I am the only guy working with 4 female that included Shannon, Miranda, Natalie, and Rita. Shannon received mononucleosis and Rita who give birth to a girl few months before received lupus and was in ICU for couples of week and was MIA completely unable to contacts with out reply period. Plus it is impossible to follow theirs schedule and I wanted to do it during the Spring brake in late April but none of them willing to do anything about it since most of them are free anyhow. So everything was delay for several weeks mostly due to Shannon since she is part of the cast in this short film. The film came out semi half ass work due to time constrains and partially I have to blame my self let this happen and we only have three/four people for the cast includes me. Plus I am the mostly the only one that handle the camera works through out the shooting process and most of the film editing. Somehow, I still feel my group let me down without helping me on the entire final cut process on the film. I am not trying to brag about it but it is the fact that I did and spent a lot of time on this short film.
One of my friends called me an idiot, typical Asian and should file the police report and make the claims. Probably I would end up with couple grand or even more in my bank account from this lawsuit and my medical fee would be cover by the old geezer’s insurance company. Thanks to Health Plus my medical treatment is cover by the state of New York/fed government. But I do feel guilty about that. Since is better let the old geezer’s insurance company pays and his insurance fee would go up. Perhaps his license would get suspended.
If I were some of my friends with bad temper, they would probably end up punching the old geezer several times and go far as grabbing his neck and jam it between the car and its car door several times in front of his wife. Since his wife was on the passenger side when it happens and probably they were arguing or talking that result of hitting me. Perhaps is just a fantasy of mine since I would never or wanted to do such a thing to another human being plus I would get arrested. Maybe only exclusively to rapist, child molesters and mass killers which they truly deserved it by nature. It remind me of the ending scene of Korean movie Lady Vengeance directed by Chan Wook Park what the parents did to the child sadist also Hard Candy directed by David Slade by manipulated someone to kill them self. (Reminder - get both of them on DVDs in my DVDs collections when I get the extra cash)
Lessons I Learned From This Ordeal
Somehow writing this make me feel like a bitch complaining and whining about life. But it slightly makes me feel better. “You Learn” in life like the Alanis Morissette song. If I had a time machine I should have called my mom and asked her what to do on that moment instead of calling her 10 minutes later after it happens. Maybe because I feel completely unreal at the time and moment in life it just happens to me. The possibility and result could be endless. Oh well. Injustice and unfairness is everywhere and I slip my chance and sucked up the pain and drive on. FIDO! (Forget It & Drives On) I guess I am a fool and too nice to peruse this.
One true lesson I learned beside this ordeal is “You can’t relies on anybody (your fellow men or women) but your self maybe in the military your battle buddies where your life depends on it“ Also due to military hierarchy and I love that system and I won’t abuse it. Perhaps only your closest friends could be reliable sometimes and most of the times. Maybe I already know all of this already and all of us are selfish in many way. Could it perhaps maybe we are New Yorkers and also due to the media desensitized our feeling toward one another. If I were living in a small town it might be a different story etc. Life moves on… I just hate small cuts, wounds and pains since they hurt the deepest.
Friday, June 1, 2007
Two Years From Now...
Lets see...
In two years from now as of today, I should be graduated from QC and received my B.A in Media Studies and Political Science already. The graduation would most likely be on 31st of May. Hopefully I will be contracted with the Army with a slot through OCS and get my commission as a 2nd lieutenant by the end of 2009 in the Active Army. If it happens Army Airborne, Air Assault and Ranger School here I come!!! I pray to be branch infantry but beggar can't be chooser. If it turned to one of those broken dreams. I will be ending up roaming around NYC desperately looking for a real job in the real world with my useless degrees or move to Seattle area and be miserable. Where else could I get a starting salary of $4K a month after tax beside the U.S Army as a 2nd lieutenant?
In two years from now as of today, I should be graduated from QC and received my B.A in Media Studies and Political Science already. The graduation would most likely be on 31st of May. Hopefully I will be contracted with the Army with a slot through OCS and get my commission as a 2nd lieutenant by the end of 2009 in the Active Army. If it happens Army Airborne, Air Assault and Ranger School here I come!!! I pray to be branch infantry but beggar can't be chooser. If it turned to one of those broken dreams. I will be ending up roaming around NYC desperately looking for a real job in the real world with my useless degrees or move to Seattle area and be miserable. Where else could I get a starting salary of $4K a month after tax beside the U.S Army as a 2nd lieutenant?
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