Contacts

I got contacts on Friday, and yesterday was my first full day with contacts. A couple of thoughts:

1) How do I get those goddamn scars off the bridge of my nose? I've tried rubbing the dead skin out, and it's fading, but it's still annoying. I figured that 9 years of damage (wow I've had glasses for almost half of my life...) would be difficult to negate anyways...

2) For the past 9 years, when I've taken my glasses off, it meant I was going to sleep. So naturally, when my glasses are off, I'm just more tired. Plus, I think my eyes aren't used to the strain of having to look at the sun directly and whatnot, so it makes my eyes even more tired. I wonder how long it's going to take for my eyes to get used to the contacts...

3) It takes a very clean, organized person to maintain a pair of contact lenses. I wonder if I'll be that way with my hard lenses during my 2-week hard stint (I intend to use soft lenses whenever I need them, and glasses otherwise). Actually, scratch that, I know I'm going to mess up at some point, I'm just curious about when it'll be.

Cheers

My reason.

I was doing fine in school in first year, and I was doing okay for the first bit of second year. However, I lost all motivation to succeed in October 2010, when I received a co-op job offer. My peers told me that as soon as I got this job, my life was set, and I could coast through the rest of my courses, as long as I got a 75 average. It didn't matter anymore if I got 70's or 90's, because all I had to do was perform adequately at work, and I'd receive a return offer for the rest of my co-op terms and after I graduate.

So I settled for mediocrity. And there I was 7 months later with a 50 on my transcript, and still lacking real motivation to succeed. I'm not sure why I'm doing what I'm doing, nor am I sure whether I really enjoy my job right now. All I know is that something's wrong with me, and I'm not the keen, eager-to-learn student I was in first year.

That was until this afternoon. I've been thinking about my future for the past couple of months now, and I realized how quickly I ended up in the job I currently hold. I still wonder why I chose the profession I did, and to be honest, I can't really provide myself with a sufficient explanation anymore.

I went for coffee with my mentor today, one of the people I have the most respect for out of everyone I know, and someone who I find has quite similar views and perspectives as I do. He asked me where I wanted to be at 35. For a split second, I was stumped, unsure how to approach his question. I regained my composure after thinking for a bit, and told him my answer. As I was telling him, I instantly realized that it was virtually unattainable in the path I'm currently on, and needless to say, he told me I have to do something else to accomplish my long-term goals.

Anyways, I'm happy to say I have finally found a reason to wake up in the morning. I have a very clear idea of what I want to do with my life. I have more motivation than ever before to work hard and persevere, as irritating as statistics and business law may be. And I know that this time around, I'm doing exactly what I need to do to achieve my wildest dreams.

Here I stand today, one step closer to ruling the world.

Cars, Guns, and Explosions

I watched Fast 5 last night with a couple of friends.

Needless to say, there were a lot of cars, guns, and explosions. And hot women too.

When we got back home, the girls asked us about the movie. We told them it was awesome (and it was), and when they asked us why, we weren't really sure how to answer. Our feeble attempt at explaining it to them led to an interesting discussion about chick flicks, but I won't go into that.

Anyways, it got me thinking about why I love action movies. As long as it has some recognizable plotline, I will always love a movie filled with cars, violence, hot chicks, and explosions, and I've realized why. (Sorry Michael Bay, that means Transformers 2 sucked even based on my weak standards)

Guys like fantasizing about stuff they wish they could do. Typically, this entails a lot of illegal activity, like stealing police cars, taking part in fast-paced street races and car chases. Often, it also entails doing very unrealistic tasks like defeating the rulers of the black market, pulling off amazing car stunts, and blowing shit up in the process.

For me in particular, it's not even the explosions that draw me to action movies. As soon as things start to liven up, I get this HUGE adrenaline rush, that just continues until the end of the movie. That's why every time I watch a Fast movie, I feel like trying to drift with my Chevy Cobalt, and everytime I watch a Transporter movie, I consider leading an underground life as a trafficker of items. Hell, as a kid, I did research about how to become a CIA agent after watching Agent Cody Banks, so I've been doing this for a while.

Anyways, hopefully my future ramblings are more relevant than this one.

Let's get this started again.

I decided to start blogging again. I figured it would be fun, and I also realized how neat it is to read some of my older blogs and laugh at how silly or interesting some of my ideas were at the time.

It's slightly funny that I thought LeBron was going to the Knicks back in July, and now 9 months later, he's playing for Miami (alongside Bosh and Wade) in the Eastern Conference Finals against the Bulls, another one of the teams I thought he was likely to join.

I still wish he stayed with Cleveland, they have some young pieces that are now starting to blossom, and maybe LeBron could have helped facilitate that. Anyways, he didn't, so no point in thinking too much about it. GO BULLS!!!

Anyways, I'll probably be posting at lot here, hopefully daily even. And it'll be about a whole bunch of random topics, depending on what's important to me at the time. So enjoy!