“The Feelgood Drag”

Friday, March 12th, 2010

I’ve always liked that title. It explains quite a number of things. Unfortunately I have to quote it, seeing as a band has already coined that one of their singles. For those who don’t quite understand what I mean, I’ll provide a link here to the song. Now I understand that rock might not be everyone’s forte, so this isn’t where I preach how great of a song it is, it’s optional to actually listen to it.

Spare me the lectures about how smoking kills and actually affects health. I’m 23 and I probably know more than most 40 year olds from New Jersey. (Not much though, many people confuse the fact that I’m well spoken because I’m well read and well written as a sign of intellectual advancement. I disagree with this greatly.) My choice of poison, either Marlboro Reds or if I felt as if I needed some fiberglass in my diet, then some Parliament menthols. There’s good addiction, there’s bad addiction, and then there are addictions that made me tear your skin off if you go without it for one day. This just happens to fall into that last lovely category. People have asked me many times what there is in a cigarette that makes me so addicted to them. Personally I’ve never liked the taste, never liked how the stench stuck to my body and my clothes, and have always hated the fact that I have to hide them somewhere in this house when I return home because living under the same room as a first generation Chinese son who smokes would shame the family name forever. Most of the fun lies therein when I actually light the stoge. The flicking of the BIC lighter along with the sudden burst of methane (I think it’s methane?) and a spark from the built in flint that creates the flames of oblivion in my left hand as long as my thumb is still on the gas release button. The feeling of slowly raising my left hand to the cigarette that’s already in my mouth, and listening to it crackle as it lights the tip. Probably the crackling of minutes being drained from my life every time the flame flickers, and that’s the bittersweet beauty to it all. That first drag. The feelgood drag. The one where it stings on the way down, yet a few seconds in, your body feels like it’s sinking from the inside out. Smoking is incredibly bad. I would suggest against starting it, but I’m not a saint, and if you have the willpower to quit, then definitely quit. It’ll add minutes to your life and save you tons of money, especially if you live in NYC. My relationship with smoking is like something along the lines of a bad girlfriend. Always making that attempt to leave, but getting suckered back because I need the release so bad. Of course, I haven’t had a girlfriend in years, so I guess this is what passes by the time.

Another random thought

Monday, April 20th, 2009

So I was randomly browsing music on Youtube while playing ladder because all the stuff I have is boring, and I came across this little gem.
I hope you guys can appreciate the song for how well it’s done with the bassline and such instead of flame me about anime girls.
Regardless, I lost to an elf who just killed everything at my expansion with one hero and 2 archers. But at least after finding this song, I didn’t rage quite as [...]

Music is the best

Sunday, April 12th, 2009

So I haven’t been able to really think of something to write, I’ve been having many issues in real life at the moment trying to figure out what usefulness people grant me besides sorrow. No I don’t necessarily hate people or anything, I’m just jaded about my whole existence sometimes because nothing is fresh anymore. It’s lacking a whole pizazz effect, with that being said, I was just listening to a song by Mest, and the lyrics hit a soft [...]

Needs moar practice

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

After reading a recent entry posted by none other than the grandmaster of writing himself( Marvin ), it’s come to my attention that my writing is..for a lack of better words…completely garbage. I say this simply because I’ve been spending more time posting ridiculous entries of games that probably no one cares about, and videos of Korean popstars who up until this day still boggle me with how to pronounce the R’s and L’s. Granted I probably have only [...]

Pink is awesome

Saturday, March 14th, 2009

Pink hair on Hyori is so win.

Sleep is for the weak

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

When watching one of the best matches I’ve seen recently, sleep definitely comes secondary.
Enjoy this top Protoss vs top Zerg episode. If anyone can translate for me it would be even better.

I envy these Starcraft players being able to make it big doing something they love. For the people who aren’t into the gaming scene, here’s a video from Bisu ( one of the players in the above video ) in first person view. Note : This video is [...]

Blizzard’s new ladder season

Sunday, March 8th, 2009

So as it’s been posted at www.battle.net, they’re planning to reset the Warcraft 3 ladder season, with the top competitors from each realm being allowed to compete for a Starcraft 2 beta CD key. And what better practice, than to play against Chinese and Korean players in their home realm (with 300 or higher ping might I add ).
I took the liberty to record some of the games that I played. Now before anyone starts to mass flame me, I’ll [...]

Memories

Sunday, March 1st, 2009

They say to write your dreams down because you’ll forget a few minutes after waking up, because the mind will eventually erase them as the day goes on.
I woke up at 9:56 AM today from dreaming of my grandfather teaching me how to ride my bike for the first time, and I was 10 years old again, then he took me to the pizzeria four blocks away.
When I came to my senses after I completely had woken up, my pillow [...]

Oh yeah, where have I heard this one before?

Friday, February 27th, 2009

I’m wrong, you’re right, it’s never the other way around.
Same at home, same in school, same in the digital world of hedonism.
In case any more people want to tell me some more details that they’re right about, feel free to do so, I’m a Czar of Wrong originating from the Land of Incorrect.
No I don’t have self esteem issues, just because my existence is miserable doesn’t necessarily mean no one is jovial.
I’m jaded about everything, including everyone I know, [...]

Being angry isn’t always refreshing.

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

Writing legal memorandums that require reading 72 pages of crap just to sum up an answer as simple as yes/no makes me rage.
Losing to an orc who knows how to pick blademaster with a record of 97-91 and doesn’t speak a word of English makes me rage some more.

I live by the ‘Procrastinator’s Creed’

Sunday, February 22nd, 2009

It’s 11:31 PM, and I sit here on my chair wondering what the flying heck I am doing on my blog, with 3 textbooks open to the side all pointing to different aspects of law, a powerpoint that’s 3/4th’s done, and a paper that I have yet to even start, talking about the medical regime and how they handle the AIDS patient’s privacy rights. My eyes burn with the fury of a thousand Mesopotamian dieties, and the carpal tunnel syndrome [...]