Damn. There goes 2004. To be quite honest, I'm happy this year is through. It had its moments of ups, downs, lefts, and rights. If we were to put a rating on this whole entire year, on a scale of 1-10, i'd give it a 7. I'm going to roughly list what happened to me in 2004 in (almost) chronological order.

-Spring 2004 Semester @ Palomar-

Math: D (hated this class)
Psychology: B
Art: B
Econ: C

- American Street Dance w/ Angie Bunch @ Mesa College w/ Joey & Melvin
- Helping out with Eastlake's errbands

-Lost my grandpa to cancer (you will be missed Papa Joe.)

-Trips up to Riverside to visit Hope
-Spending time with Hope
-Any chances of anything more than a friendship dissolved by Hope (and to think i was a Hopeless Romantic? How ironic.)

-depression kicks in for a bit

-Summer kicks off-

-mad beach days with Team Gooch
-lots of kick backs with people
-Summer semi-fling with Steph
-Summer semi-fling with Steph deteriorates

-turned the useless age of 19

-Comic Con w/ Tristan & Ray (Too bad i didn't have a job yet...I would've bought myself more stuff)

-Ray leaves for the Navy

-Numerous game nights, boba runs, & JCVD nights with Tristan, Jer, Justin, Ellis, JT, Al, and the gizzang a.k.a. Genshiken

-crazy ass farmer tan
-banzai bleached hair
-start collection of Japanese street fashion mags

-The Hives concert w/ Pam (not sure when this happened so i'll put it here)
-HIM concert w/ Ellis (happened in Oct.)

-Fall Semester @ Palomar- (This is probably the string of positivity that occured in 2004)

-Speech w/ Iris & being Palomar buddies with Iris (we pretty much ran Palomar community college. She made the Fall semester 300% more enjoyable then it would have been if i was solo)

-Cinema w/ O-side peeps (gave me the chance to become much closer with the O-side heads + Matt Reyes)
-cinema also opened my eyes to how shitty hollywood films are these days and urged me to pursue more independent films and foreign films as well.
-rush of asian romantic comedies (my collection is still growing)

-San Diego Asian Film Festival (Fucking awesome dude.)

-JAM CONTROL (good shit hamie.)

-Grades breakdown-

-Speech: B
-Cinema: C
-History: C
-Philosophy: C

-Fall 2004 was probably my most lax semester so far. It was worth it though. Studying just aint my kinda thang.

-Crossing paths with Gorgeous Girl about 15 times during the whole semester
-running into Gorgeous Girl @ Margarita rocks and accidentally hitting her on the side of her head with my sparratic dance moves
-conjouring up the fact that she was a lesbian so that I didn't feel so bad that she didn't acknowledge me when I was dancing with her

-Landing a job @ Deer Canyon ESS (I love my job and it enables me to buy fun and useless items.)
-1st day of work~ I find out that my co-worker, Maricel wears the same body lotion/spray as Hope which brings a rush of nostalgia whenever I smell it, but I got over it.
-Good times building relationships with the kids
-James "Jimmy" Chai Lee is my Home-E 4 Life

-Halloween as Pai Mei & Tokyo Trendy + Wiley's crazy ass house party with the whole world.

-Start hanging out with Rona & Team Sephora a lot more

-Establish an interesting friendship with xJewls

-The mexican introduces Halo 2 to me and i'm hooked
-Touch base with Joe Kraft and catch up
-Thanksgiving with the fam and Halo 2 + good food

-Christmas in San Francisco (fun times with the fam and lots of spending in Downtown Frisco)

-Ideas conjoured up in 2004-

-Tokyo trip 2005/Study abroad in Tokyo after Palomar
-Transferring to Cal Poly Pomona after Palomar majoring in International Business
-Brilliant Industries
-Dennis & Mark's business venture/entrepreneur project
-The Riff Raffs/Rabscallions Band creation

Which roughly leads me to today. If I left something out, I apologize...it's about 3:10 in the AM right now, so it's kinda hard to think about other stuff that happened.

Happy New Year's everybody.

-Mark Ino

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