indian bear

(i started this one on saturday night. Pictures below)

Yes yes, the layout has changed again. added this new color to balance things out. though there was an over saturation of orange.

Anyway. ive got a story. Last night we took Moo out to eat at Friday’s. We got there and it was just me Moo n FoN for a while, and the waiter came asked for our drink orders, and freaked out when he found out he was only 15. Koshy n Lyrical came, shortly followed by the Puerto Rican (MNKY) n Disco. we got our food talked had some laughs. lotsa laughs.

Our table was situated near the Mens room. wasnt really a bother or anything. we were in our own lil corner. ppl came and went tot he bathroom, we didnt really notice them. One guy, an older oriental fellow, stands there, outside the mens room, just lookin at us, smiling, and starts shakin his leg. MNKY nods at him and he smiles and sits down next to Koshy! we were like “HUH?! who is this guy?” and the fun starts.

His name, was Tang. He’s a Vietnamese lawyer from California with his own practice, dealing with immigration stuff. He was married to a vietnamese girl, but divorced her, and is now with an indian girl from Guyana. At first we were weirded out, uncomfortable, but then we realized he may be a lil buzzed, but he’s harmless. He started off slowly in his vietnamese accent, “I lou indians. dont get me wong.” and he went on about how much he loves indian culture constantly reminding us “dont get me wong” and saying “i lou indians.”

At one point he asked where we were from. we told him that our families were form kerala, but that half of us were born here, the other half came when they were very young. He wasn’t sure where kerala was, so, david decided to describe kerala in relation to sri lanka and other places, and he was totally off. the 6 of us started laughin hysterically at his description and david and tang dint know what was goin on.

Tang continued repeating his life nad reiterating how much he “lou indians.” he began to speak of how beautiful indian women are and said some Bollywood actresses name. we dont watch much bollywood, so we were like uh…ok. Moo asked him questions, questions that had to be repeated several times along with other information. eventually Tang said, “ok, i have something to say, but no more quesions” we were dying!

our waiter, jeff came by to check up, and tang had just found out that it was Moo’s Birthday. he asked jeff, “can i get a cake for my friend here?” and we were all scared cuz he wasnt with us, and we didnt want to pay for a big cake, but we didnt say anything to be nice. Tang continued to speak and eventually, after saying thank you and leading us to believe he was leaving about 20 times, he got up and left to go meet more new people.

We told our waiter that he wasnt with us that he just came by, so dont get us that cake. and he told us that he had been hanging around there for bout 3 months and that all the waiters know him. We were all laughing havin a good time. then we thought, lets call tang back and get his picture! so they went to find him and call him back, but he was busy hugging everyone at the bar.

eventually he came back with his friend Joe. joes bout 35, white, from round here. Tang said, this is my brother joe, i hope he was just speakin figuratively. When Tang ‘n Joe came over they brought over jeff with a big ol� sundae. Tang paid for it, and he joined us with joe and we laughed and took some pictures. Joe told us how tang got the numbers from two indian girls at the bar the night before, and how shocked he was at the site of them at the bar. we talked, koshy traded cell numbers with tang, oh wait, he took tang’s cell number, and gave him MNKY’s!!! HAHA!

well the night ended, we ate all our food and paid and left. i feel bad, cuz the 15% gratuity was int here already, and i wanted to give him more so i put more in, but i messed up when i filled out the receipt, and when i checked my credit, it only took out the regular amount. if that makes sense, more power to you. then we all went home, after they checked out my Eagle Vision and my head unit. and i went home to thoor. i know, TMI =P

and for stickin through that entire entry, or just for scrolling down, here are some pics. (more at FoN’s site):

Moo trying to describe kerala’s location as Koshy watches

Lyrical actually ate all those Ribs!!

Koshy is caught off guard by MNKY

“I lou Indians. Don’t get me wong”

Koshy, Tang n MNKY

TANG!

5SSJDB 02-2004

I had an entry to put up. it was about friday night, but its a long one and im not done and i gotta get pics. PLUS, i jsut found out my dad’s friends wife died in India, and that he might go. If need be, i might go with him. then again, my passport is expired, so maybe i wont be able to go. i wouldn’t mind goin.

I am a lil pissed though, cuz pstr chack and pastr freddy came over to pray and whatnot. and my paretns didnt tell me anything about what was goin on. AND my mom called MY cell phone askin to speak to pstr chack while we were in church and i asked whats wrong, and she dint say anything. UGH! WHAT THE HECK! whatever

tomorow’s sunday. Finally, im runnin the board tomrow, which means everything will sound good! but its only for one week, so we’ll see. In a perfect world, everything wil sound better and everyone will be like “he should be the new audio coordinator.” but this isnt a perfect world is it? of course not.

MY FUTURE! yes, i’ve been thinkin about it again. what i thought was certain has become uncertain. pstr PB Thomas was here, and i was tellin him how im bout to get my diploma in audio engineering and i mgiht get a job wiht it in NY. i dint tell him about my college plans just then, and he was liek yea, you could come up ther and come to our churhc and stay with someone (not sure if he said stay with himn, i think he was tryin to step around that, its ok) which got me thinkin, y not?

So now, im thinkin, go to NY, work at a recording studio, maybe make conncetions or even, hopefully, find some ppl to form my perfect band. Berklee’s outa the picture, almsot, cuz i dont think id make it in. iunno, maybe im jsut scared. but NY is DEFINITLY where i want to end up, berklee or not.

and while im workin a the recording studio, perhaps i can go to college there, get my degree, and iunno…

its too late, i cant think straight.

i jsut realiezed something…cant say because of what i jsut realized. yes, i speak in strange riddles, that aren’t really riddles. neway, gnight

alright, now my Xanga skin, matches my IndianBear.com blog layout. My tagboard works on IB.com, but not on xanga, least not yet. I’m gonna dive into the script and fiddle wiht it until it works on both. For now, Flooble is on both pages, AND the tagboard is up on IB.com.

It’s PAYDAY! whoo hoo!

last night, LATE last ngiht i discovered something that may turn this day into a glorious day. we’ll see how it goes. but i was so xcited/nervous/anxious that i went to bed late and got up early. me ‘n nicole were just makin music playin away. she’s been good so far.

i tried to isntall a new window motor in our 2000 Toyota Sienna. we realized that the motor we had (remanufactured from Cardone) didnt seem to ahve the right connections, but the motor itself was the same. and in order to replace the motor, we ahve to remove the welded door? i think.

Todays is Moo’s Birthday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

im done. im gone here i go

hmm, im not satisfied with my skills in webdesign. So, today, after buying some stuff for someone’s birthday , i went to Barnes & Nobles and bought 2 books. PHP for the world wide web and PERL and CGI for the world wide web. both from Peachpit press.

they look good, decent. its all visual, all the codes are shown in the book. good thing then is that you don’t neccasarily need a server to use the book, you can see how it all works and whatnot, BUT no software which means you cant try anything hands on really. i’m not too worried since i have a server and all this script i can look through.

speaking of which, just to show how much of a mad man…er…bear i really am, i printed out about 100-200 pages of code today. all of them from the MT library. this wonderful free tool is what will teach me the most about scripting on Unix servers using PERL and PHP and other components. yes, rosy, i know, not everyone knows what those technical terms mean, but at least you do. =P

Below im gonna talk about The Passion of the Christ the new mel gibson film thats so controversial apparently. if you havent seen it skip over it. if you ahve seen it, or jsut dont care what i ahve to say about it, higlight the following paragraph

The Passion was alright, not as moving as i thought it would be. basically cuz i know the story and have seen other Jesus films, the Kaleo Jesus play, and read “The Book” aka, the Bible. but it was very well directed and scripted. i liked how they had Satan depicted, not as a horned devil, but as human, sinister looking, but human. and overall it wasnt anit-semetic, although there may have been a few things he could have done to make it seem less like it was, but very true to The Word.

well, that’s all i got for now. tired day. truck day tomorow.

man! all i wanted was a tagboard. thats all. i dint want to keep the flooble chatterbox, cuz i wanted a customizable one of my own. so, i was copyin the tagboard intot he MT Index template and it got al kidns of screwy. i was editting and editting and dint notice that i had copied the tag code OVER the index template. IT WAS ALL GONE!

i had to make a blank blog with a template so i could get all the perl references in, and then make the tables, and links, but not to much work becuase, most of the layout was on the stylesheet file. THANK GOODNESS!

now, incase of future emergencies, im saving a backup copy on my hard drive of the Template source. WHEW! disaster averted!

So the tagboard is up, and im gonna make some changes and layout fixes but im just glad everything seems to be working.

it appears that no one can finish the video department as fast as Dora. Today was another truck day, and this time frank did video, still went past 10, but not as bad as it was the last few times.

mm, ate too much. we had lunch paid for us today. had a chicken cheese steak and plain pizza. and there a new candy endcap. IT�S SO PURTY! we finally have real candy! but we dont get a discount on it which sux. there�s bubbilicious, bazooka, slim jims, beef jerky, gummy worms, and TONS of other goodies. no PEZ, which upsets dora.

i think im gonna call the In A Fix crew from TLC to do our basement. hmm, possibilities. watchin all those remodeling/decorating shows makes me want to redo my room, BIG TIME. maybe with orange and blue. chalkboard paint? mm, the possibilities. gotta watch it more so i can get more ideas

im gonna add more pages. alias, RR/RW, iunno what else yet

Finally, after two weeks of setting up, i have something to show. Got my own blog on my own site, via Movable Type. I’m still adding stuff and changing layouts.

Don’t worry guys, IndianBear.com version 3.0, wiht all your pictures and my files and whatnot is still up. You just have to look carefully on the opening page.

I still wanna keep my xanga, jsut cuz im addicted, so until i can edit the scripts properly to send an e-mail, im gonna just copy and paste into xanga.

I know, “LOSER!”.

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