TY to Hannah for updatign my xanga for me. 

I have been really lazy and quite frankly I think xangas are a thign of the past, and if you jsut got one, youre a little slow gettign on teh bandwagon, adn if you still have one and update it consistently, either you enjoy "xanga"ing or you jsut have way too much time/ youre weird, kind of redundant if you ask me. 

well, rightnow I should be writing a paper, but you know what instead I chose to be weird, I chose to enjoy xangaing.  so I decided to fill out this ridiculously logn survey jsut for "fun"

1. First Name?
Jon-athan

2. Were you named after anyone?
David's bud in the Bible

4. When did you last cry? 
when the mom BRONTASAUROUS (SP) died in land before time

7. What is your birth date?
what a waste of a question, what a waste of space.  ridiculous, ppl dont really care what your bday is.  its jsut a space filler in my opinion, but for the nosy few adn the few that want to get me somethign 2/28

8. What is your most embarrassing CD?
Im actaully am quite proud of my backstreet boy Millienium CD.  best cd ever in my opinion.  hits all the way through

9. If you were another person, would YOU be friends with you?
mmm, maybe, I annoy myself soemtiems

12. Do looks matter?
truthfully yes.  most ppl dont have crushes on "ugly" ppl but pretty ppl.  look doesnt matter when you get older tho cuz everyone eventaulyl becomes moldy and wrinkly

13. How do you release anger?
I listen to the walk to remember soundtrack and think it works well whiel you watch a sunset too. 

14. Where is your second home?
Hawaii, although I dont really like it in hawaii cuz its broign adn hot and theres only beach, but the beach gets borign when yure surrounded by it for your whoel life.

16. What was your favorite toy as a child?

17. What class in high school do you think was totally stupid?
All of them, especailly the APs cuz they didnt do jack diddly squat for college.  but if I had to narrow it down to one -- history.  its the past lets leave it at that

18. Do you have a journal?
No, but a diary yes.  just kidding.  xangas are kidn of liek ajournal, mine i skind of a biquaterly journal .  (meaning: i only write in it 2 tiems a season)

19. Do you use sarcasm a lot?
NO!

22. What are your nicknames?
Jon, JA of JAHANAKATA and debbie, Jonny, Mr. Tsai

23. Would you bungee jump?
why not?  seems fun

25. Do you think that you are strong?
not really.  Im kind of weakling.  my hand gets sore when I write too much.  if a girl or guy oinched me I think I would yell. 

30. What is your least favorite thing about yourself?
mm my ridiculously good looks.  it attracts too much attention

33. What color pants and shoes are you wearing?
Khaki of course. Im wearing sandals so N/A for shoe color

34. What are you listening to right now?
We Belong Together - Steven Curtis Chapman

35. Last thing you ate?
one white cheddar cheeze it and arrowhead water

38. Last person you talked to on the phone?
my voice mail box, last person I actaully talked to LI CHING TSAI

39. The first thing you notice about the opposite sex?
Probably that they are of the opposite sex.  but if we ignore that, The Way they dress, you can tell a lot form teh way a person dresses themselves, shoes- cute footware is always a plus. 

40. Do you like the person who sent this to you? 
thea sent this to me, proabbly a mass spam liek email to everyoen, but yeah I liek her cool girl. 

42. Favorite Drink?
Water with a lot of ice in a really big cup.  Diet coke.

43. Favorite Sport?
mario tennis, nba live 2003, basketball I suppose, but i would love to learn to golf.

49. Last Movie You Watched?
The Matrix (I still have to watch the other 2 Matrix Films...anyone have them and wanna watch?) haha.

58. Living Arrangements? 
John Muir, Tenaya D54 with Dukey 

59. What Books Are You Reading?
mmm, the muir reader.  JOsh Mcdowell - the new evidence that demands a verdict.

62. What Did You Watch Last night on TV?
Sportcenter

63. Favorite Smell?
my sweat- if I jsut took a shower my sweat smells liek OLAY soap yummy.  Good Asain Food.  Perfume wise- happy or simply white (very affordable)

65. Rolling Stones or Beatles?
Beatles, I really liek paul mcCartney adn michael Jackson's "say say say"

66. What's the furthest you've been from home?
Taiwan?  In my dreams outerspace, scratch that, heaven.

67. Do you have a special talent?
mmmm, beign ridiculously bored that I did this and noticed that the numberign of the questions were a little off. 

well Im done, I really need to strat on my paper, I really need to learn to type too.  its ridicualous how much typos I ahve in this entry.  but oh well.  Only weirdo read this far anyways.  and nwo that you see that Im calligna werido, you most liekyl wont leave a commetn, in fear that oyu will be deemed a werido.  But now Im workign reverse psychology on you adn you probably want to prove me wrong by leavigna message - therefore showing that even though I claim you are a werido you arent.

weirdoes.

I went to the price is right today, Feb 25th airing.  thats all.

hello all its been avvhile.  first let me explain some things.  throughout this entry youll see me using v's stuck together as a W and also sometimes i vvill use the @ as an a.  you may vvonder vvhy, ill tell you, my keyboard suddenly broke on me this last vveek and so vvhile i vvait to get a nevv one im stuck vvith using v's and the @ sign.  as for the many a's i have already typed, those are copy and pasted so this is pretty difficult to type as you can imagine.

anyvvays ppl vvanted me to update so ill do so right novv.  college has been pretty cool.  i vvas really vvorried i vvouldnt like it but i love it here, everyone here is really chill and really cool.  my suite mates (the guys vvho live in my little area vvith me) are all cool except for my room mate duke -- vvho is really annoying....jk. 

the food here sucks, but im getting used to it.  vnd novv tis really not all that bad.  classes are somevvhat dumb, they teach really easy stuff so its like a complete revievv of highschool.  i took my first midterm on tuesday on biopsychology it sounds hard but its bio for teh brain pretty much.  i think i passed...i hope. 

this mornign i missed math class b/c i vvas too tired to get out of bed.  the vvorst part of college is the super fast internet.  you get on and you cant stop playing games, dovvnloading stuff, surfing the vveb , and chattign.  so you end up staying up really late and then youre too tired to go tot class.  so you sleep in and then @ night you have so much energy so you stay up really late nd then you cant vvake up for classes. its a vicious cycle. 

i miss all you ppl in PV and hopefully i can get home soon to see you all itll be fun.  then again i do have a bunch load of midterms next vveek, vve'll see. 

vvell i hope all the ppl vvho keep tellign me to update are happy novv.  thats all for novv.  peace. 

Well all its been like a really long time since I last updated this.  And I think its a perfect time to do so. 

the last 5 days (actaully 5 days from yesterday but anyways Im confused)  have been awesome!

On sunday of last week Chris Choi, Whitney, Kristen, DAn, Dukey, Jenn Yao, Geoff, and me drove up to Truckee (close to tahoe).  We left at about 1:30 and got there a little past midnight.  I was in teh car with Whitney, Kristen, and CHoi we listened to music talked and even danced int he car.  The theme song of our car and team (team Jon? <-- and yes the team is called team Jon? with a question mark.) was men in Black, and bouncing off the ceiling, and the love actaully song.  After we got there we got settled and went to sleep eventaully.

On monday we went to the gym early in the morning and we worked out all hardcore.  I rode teh bicycle machine for 20 minutes and I lost only freaking 72 calories!?!  theres somethign wrong with that machine.  After we swam a little and played water football.  Choi was a monster (intercepted a lot)  I did too but wasnt as good as choi.  Dukey and dan and geoff and jenn evetaully beat us after I clobbered kristen on the head with my elbow.  after that we went to the supermarket that took forever to find and bought some food for the week we spent close to a $100 bucks.  That very good for 8 ppl for 4 days.  oh forgot we ate a place we ate burgers and stuff very expensive and not very good.  At night we ate pasta and played Texas.  It was intense but at the end I came out on top (no big surprise).

Tuesday was an OH BILLY DAY.  We all decided to go mountian biking.  we rode the bike/ski lift for like 10 mintues to get to the top of the mountain.  we went to see a lake and then went the wrong way and ended up biking about 22 miles (accoriding to the taxi driver) and ended up in tahoe on the otherside of the mountain.  We were all really tired and didnt want to bike the 20 odd miles back to the bike shop so we called a taxi (120 bucks with tip - 2 taxis one for the bikes one for the ppl) and we got back right when the bike shop closed.  We went to teh rec room and played fooze ball (jenn yao and I dominate! but jenn yao dominates me) we palyed ping pong and some arcades and pool.  We back and ate some salmon and corn (soooo good) good job jenn yao. we matched up our corn, which was fun.  Then we played Taboo.   Lots of good memories from that.

What do cows make?  Whitney: Moos
withdraw? the otherway around.... Jenn Yao: Draw with  (deposit is the right word)
What do ppl with atsma use?  Dukey: Breathalizers

many more chris worte them down.  Ill ask him later.

Wednesday: we watched a lot of friends and by the time we left the cabin it was past lunch time.  We went and ate out with our free coupons.  I got ice cream with pizza.  We went to the rec room again and I swam and did some weights as with everyone else.  We played some tennis.  (geoff and I lost to dukey and chris I think I forget it was close tho it went into a tie breaker) We went home ate hotdogs and crispy hamburgers (thanks to chris hahahhahaha).  We stole all the condomints (no not condoms dukey).  Very good.  After we played texas again this time everyone was more serious.  We all had cool names (me: Nilknarf, Choi: the checker, Geoff: Jenny/chris choi, Jenn Yao: hotstuff, Kristen: the quaker/penster, dukey: the fob, Daniel: the flamer/rapist, Whitney: dub C) daniel lost very early on and chris lost soon after after his 3 queens (pocket Q) lost to Geoffs 3 kings (pocket K).  So intense.  Then geoff lost and then whitney lost.  So it was down to Hotsutff, The Quaker, THe Fob and me.  Weplayed a long time and then Hotstuff lost.  After a long time then The Quaker lost.  The it was down to nilknarf and the fob after battling to about 3, Teh fob finally lost.  it was liek world series action.  So intense.  So fun.  No actaul money was gambled. 

Thursday we all woke up early and packed up adn then we shoped at the store with our 25 dollar coupons.  we all bought matching visors.  Then we left.  We stopped in SF to eat.  We ate at bubba gump we spent more money on one meal than the rest of the week.  We walked around and went into a hat shop where we tried on all these funny hats and took lots of picture.  Someone will upload them soon hopefully and then I can give you guys a link.  then we went to this make a movie place where we made a magic carpet ride movie it was fun.  when we were leavign the ppl asked if we were part of a tour or soemthign and I told them we were a band.  Our name NORTHSTAR. 

the rest of the day we were a band.  Im the hot stud and lead man, jenn and kristen are the keyboarders, geoff and whit are the guiatrist, Dukey and dan are backup singers, and chirs is our dancer.  ppl waved at us on the street when we were in teh car and we told everyone our cd comes out in October on the 12th to be specific. 

We then palyed switch cars in teh middle of the road because traffic was so bad.  We eventaully switch cars copmpletely.  then switch back it was fun.  We drove all the way back stopped for gas once, then sopped in UCLA to try get food at in n out but it was closed at 1 and then we went to dennys ate a quck meal and then we all went home. 

thats pretty much it.  that was the week in retrospect.  SO FUN!  lots of memories. 

peace out

[edit] now that I have been reminded and have thought about it more I have come to the conclusion that we did not play poker on monday night instead we played poker on sunday night and we played monopoly on monday night.  We had four teams and jon and geoff were the best we stayed a live for so long with jsut the railroads while everyone else had all these monopolies.  We rocked.  Then we lost (more like we gave up) we just couldnt give away our 50 dollar bills.  We had all of them except for 1 that jenn yao wouldnt give us.  What a butt! 

also billy can be spelled many ways.  If you want to be retarded you can spell it billi.  If youre a feminist you can spell it billie and if youre macho liek me its billy.  mmmhmmm

NORTHSTAR CD IS COMING OUT IN OCTOBER -- the 12th to be specific.  GET IT.  WE MAY BE PERFORMING AT CHOI'S MAYBE.  

CD INFO COMING SOON STAY TUNE. 

****************************************************************

thanks to chris choi for this info on our band.

check out our album titled "Oh, Billie" by our band...NORTHSTAR!!!

jonathan tsai - "nilknarf" - lead vocals
daniel c kim - "the flamer" - backup vocals
duke chao - "the fob" - backup vocals
geoff hsu - "chris choi" - guitar
whitney chen - "dub-c" - guitar
jennifer yao - "hot stuff" - keyboard
kristen young - "the quaker" - keyboard
the real chris choi - "the checker" - dancer/rapper

Track 01 - "Oh, Billie"
Track 02 - "Poker Nite"
Track 03 - "I'd Like to Make a Drawwith"
Track 04 - "Breathalizer"
Track 05 - "It's Awesome Glue"
Track 06 - "Cows Give Moo's"
Track 07 - "Speakerphone...on celephone?!"
Track 08 - "Yo...we team jonathan?"
Track 09 - "Pool Football"
Track 10 - "Friends Marathon"
Track 11 - "22 Miles"
Track 12 - "No You Hang Up"
Track 13 - "Monoporee:Jail is Safe"
Track 14 - "Pasta, Salmon, Hot Dogs, and Burgers"
Track 15 - "Calm Down!"
Track 16 - "Muhammed vs. Billie and Nebukadnezar"
Track 17 - "The Ping Pong Song"
Track 18 - "Chinese Fire Drill in San Francisco"
Track 19 - "Magic Carpet Ride"
Track 20 - "3:30"