So I finally have time to sit down and blog about the last few days starting with graduation…I guess the reason I’m actually gonna take the time to blog this is because, well, this is just a nice way to end the school year and so if I want to remember these last few days 20 years in the future I can just come back and read my blog…how useful…

Graduation was on the 29th..it’s such a weird feeling, saying that we’re graduated. The thought of being out of high school. It didn’t really hit me that I would be seeing AHS for the last time prolly until heather and I finally left from pro-grad…anyways, pre-graduation and getting to the Toyota center was quite a hassle….i had said my speech like 5 times already, and my throat was starting to get dry…I was thinking that it would be interesting if I suddenly lost my voice halfway on stage..lol…went backstage, chatted with sid, apoorva, punag for a while…hahaah they were all giving me funny suggestions like “u should introduce yourself as ‘the wang!’”….they even suggested that I say some I-could-really-care-less-about-you things to the leach, which were HILARIOUS…I love those goofballs…=P…the whole time I was mostly kinda pissed off about how leach wouldn’t let me say jace’s sal address..but whatever..THEY CAN’T STOP ME FROM POSTING IT ON MY BLOG. YEA…hahah…when we walked up on stage, it was the weirdest thing…cuz Britney and me were technically the first students to walk out, so ..iuno, just kinda weird…and then getting to actually face the entire student body from the stage…WOW….that was just a neat feeling, also kinda alienated too, cuz ur not with the rest of ur friends really…and the whole time I was still trying to figure out how to work parts of jace’s address in my speech as it was SUPPOSED to be without ticking off leach at the same time…so I ended up just introducing jace, giving regrets that he couldn’t be here, and then giving david rockett’s classic line “AUSTIN IS FOR HUSTLERS!”…hahhaah there ya go jace, ppl clapped for that ^_^...the rest of the speech went pretty well….i think I surprised myself and just about everyone else because I was talking so slow…not as if I had a choice, since the microphone just about echoed every word I said…but thanks yall, I’m sooo glad that everyone liked it!!!...punag and apoorva and a lot of other ppl, though, pointed out that it was directed towards like only the first three rows of ppl..HAHAHA….ok well they have a point there….i didn’t realize that when I was writing it tho….apoorva pointed out that probably about 5 ppl actually understood the assuming-the-horse-as-a-sphere joke, and that he was the only one who understood the ACDC one….NIIICE…I like that then…=P…did everyone like the “Watergate” and “re-election” thing??...haha that’s the one that I’m proud of…^_^…then britney gave some really nice prayers – good way to start and end the ceremony….the actual ceremony was pretty boring tho…my dad said that he fell asleep..

Afterwards it was off to simposio’s for the graduation banquet that the JBC (jirehh) fellowship had for sid and steve!!..seriously, JBC fellowship is like the BEST – awesome ppl, awesome discussion, and they actually do useful stuff….but it was a very nice dinner, jessie had josh and jon demonstrate to us the “correct” way of table manners..geez I never knew that when eating bread, u have to tear off bite-sized pieces and butter each piece before eating it….and steve and I had an interesting revelation: the food item “baby white lettuce soaked in white wine vinaigrette sauce” is apparently not the same as “pao4 tsai4”…..LOL, I swear that’s what it sounded like tho!!...we all ordered different entrees, sid and nathan ordered some kind of dish that sounded like it was gonna be some huge slab of veal…the main entrée comes and ..*drum roll*..it was five sand-dollar sized pieces of ravioli..HAHAHA….they were both starign at it for the longest time and nathan even asks the waiter “uh….is this all?”…yup, apparently it was….lol….good thing they had these refillable baskets of bread - all the guys were stuffing their faces with bread cuz they were so hungry from having tiny entrees (totally forgetting that they should eat bite sized pieces..tsk tsk….hehehe j/k j/k)…after dinner, they showed this slideshow of sid and steve growing up that cyndy, lyndy, and jackie had made…which turned out looking really really nice….all the little kid pics of sid and steve were soooo adorable….and omg, STEVE used to be THE CUTEST little kid I’ve ever seen…awwwwwww, and he’s still cute today =P =P….the funniest thing was seeing the contrast between them two as kids – in all the pics, steve had this serious, mature look, while sid always had this goofy grin on his face..yup I still remember those good ol’ days back at walker station when sid made us all call him “oreo”…^_^……ohh, and I’m glad that yall liked ur CDs!...gershwin and maná all the way!

We were supposed to meet back to church for fellowship, but it was almost 9:30 by then and sid and I had to be back at Austin for pro-grad between 10 -midnight….ravi took a bunch of us from sid’s house to starbucks, where dori had an awesome cookie cake that temporarily stained my teeth red. beautiful. Rawr….lol…pro-grad started off kinda slow….but got progressively better and better…the cool moonwalk stuff in the gym was the BEST!!...we watched danny and justin butcher each other in the moonwalk jousting thing, and then raced each other in the bungee cord thingy…maaan that thing can BURN if ur not careful…I liked the huge obstacle course moonwalk the best….u had to first crawl thru a tunnel, dive under something else, then climb up this moonwalk rock-climbing thing, and then finally slide down…SOOO much fun!!..two ppl could race each other at a time, and it started getting crazy…I raced justin, which was a bad idea, since justin is like 2 feet taller than I am and could climb at like crazy speeds…got a caricature done which turned out pretty good and actually looks like me…then finally found heather and we tried to do karaoke..HAHA…and then TRICYCLES!!!...THAT was balla…heather kept laughing because I couldn’t’ figure out how to steer it at first and kept running into walls literally about every 5 feet….and then I kept running over ppl’s feet in the casino area….o_O…maan it was hard navigating thru the crowd…especially since jace jumped on the back!!..but at least I could still pedal. Then troy jumped on……………..LOL….but it was hilarious seeing all the tall ppl trying to ride on the bicycles, cuz they got all cramped up…

The hypnotist was the best part of the night!!!....sid tried to get hypnotized but for some reason it didn’t work on him…his IQ must be too high or something….but the hypnotist was making everyone do all these CRAZY hilarious things….colin chapman (not lupold), dutka, ryan morrow, and travis springer were the BEST….the hypnotist made colin think that the microphone stand was a hot chick and even made me French the freakin mike stand!..ewwww…and he hypnotized ryan and this other kid so that every time he said the word “hypnosis”, they would think that their shirts were on backwards and had to start turning it around….LOL he said the word “hypnosis” like ten times…my favorite part was the music part….he put on ballet music and hypnotized travis, dutka, and this other kid to think that they were prima donnas..OMG…watching those guys do pirouettes and trying to be graceful by doing leaps across the stage made me laugh sooo hard…and he hypnotizd ryan so that every time he heard rock music, he started dancing like ELVIS!!!!....hahaahaha ohhh maan I so wish that I had a video camera with me…

That was it for pro-grad….Sunday was mostly bleh, I got about four hours of sleep, then went to thida’s graduation party…there were lots of neat ppl there. – punag, jace (he shaved his head!!..it looks nice actually), apoo, lauren, lizz, amanda, sarah, justin, danny, and I think some ppl may have come later….had to leave early, but had a great time while I was there…the elliptical machine, etc…maan I wish I could have stayed longer, but my family was going to eat at this Italian place called “buca di beppo” with the CCE teachers from ascension…rite, like I’m gonna have anything to do there, but I went along anyways…the food was pretty good , even tho I got ridiculously stuffed with that plus the yummy thai food that thida had at her party….there was no one there my age… I ended up talking to peter (one of grace’s sons) the entire time…so that made it interesting at least, since he was an interesting person to talk to..lol…and he has curly hair..woot, how cool is that… it was a weird restaurant tho…they had random pictures everywhere, of religious figures to scantily clad figure, they got it all…I went into the bathroom and there were pictures of nude women everywhere…rite, like I’m gonna want to see pics of nude women..o_O…and then peter told me that in the guy’s restroom there were pics of ppl peeing….wtf..??...hahah like I said, it was a weird restaurant….


Alrite….so I think that was everything, I hope I didn’t leave anything out!!...if yall have any pics, please send me some!!!!...the rest of the week, I’ll be chillin and trying to study pre-cal (mostly trig UGH) cuz I gotta get all my MIT stuff out of the way before I leave for rice…I move in next Sunday…..Saturday will be hectic tho….there’s fellowship in the evening (we’re painting, I think….?) so I’m not sure if I’ll be able to make it to kelley’s graduation dinner (sooo sorrie Kelley!!!...=(…i’ll still get u a present, nevertheless)…and then apparently neerav has something that lasts until 1 am Sunday..? iuno, lemme know whatever’s going on!...thanks everyone for such a great time!!..^_^