2008 Autumn Roadtrip - Part VI

i just cried laughing, panda, oh my god. i feel for you, dude. my life is also terribly clumsy and embarrassing. just..not the same experiences. i went to a pagan festival a few weeks ago and became fairly desensitized to public nudity. have you ever seen a naked man chopping wood?
09-07-10

Cold Tokyo Days

ahhh panda i received your lovely new years card!! i totally made you a christmas card and never sent it..surprise. i really want to send you something i make in my ceramics class. i wonder how expensive it would be? i'm going to have to check that out. i'm working on the wheel this semester, which is something i hadn't done since high school so it is kinda rough. reminds me of the time you went somewhere and did that. i don't really remember much about that story at all except it happened :/ my memory is terrible..but anyway maybe i can send you a couple bowls because that is all i've been doing for the past two months. you could put some yummy food in them! i'm also taking an art welding class. pretty intense for an art class lol. welding is HARD and i knew that but it's one of those things you have to actually try in order to fully appreciate how much. anyway, thanks so much for the new years card it really brightened up my dreary february :) and i am totally buying all your excuses about the blog don't worry.
09-02-14

2008 Autumn Road Trip - Part I

ahhh i can't wait for those stories!! the pictures are beautiful...i am always jealous of your wonderful, exciting trips. someday..!
08-12-29

Showa Memorial Park

ohhh i have a ginko tree in my front yard and it's definitely my favorite. it snowed last night/today so now any fall prettiness is ruined. :/ thanks for the new wallpaper!
08-11-19

August Break

my parents used to take me and my brother to pirates games when we were young. it was awful! you're lucky you were in an indoor arena...imagine if it was open to sunlight and hot, sticky weather. and your parents wouldn't buy you a soda, cotton candy, or hot dog because they're like, $10 each and all your mom brought to sustain your hunger through the hours of sweltering torment were granola bars and bottled water. and you can't leave in the third inning because you're like, 11 years old. yeah, baseball sucks...but i feel bad because it was nice that they took us because i'm sure they thought we'd have more fun.

now, i can watch basketball easily. football...emm not so much it can't hold my attention. arena football is exciting, though. and anyway, i like watching the athletes..but i'm not a sports fan really. i don't have any favorite teams or follow anything that goes on in that world. i like going to live games a lot more than watching anything on tv.


i've been keeping up with your blog but i'm SO BAD with correspondence--even when it is just commenting. you know this about me, panda :( it's not one of my strong points..
08-09-04

My life at present

mannn. that does sound REAL rough. here i am, complaining about finals when i don't have shit else to do with my time. and i know what you're studying is ten times more difficult than what i'm dealing with right now. i know you got this :D smarty-pants panda!
08-04-29

What a panda eats

pandaaaa! you make me so hungry. that's fucking delicious! how i wish i had time and a kitchen. your pottery looks pretty solid to me. it looks better than anything i ever threw on the wheel..and i had hours of class time to figure it out. :P
08-04-15

Mashiko

"ah, that? yeah, that's just a little something I made with earth, water, and my two hands" and then they will swoon because they will know you are not only attuned to the vibes of the earth, but also artistic and domestically inclined, what with crafting a piece of household earthenware by hand, you rougish devil you!


hahahhah you are so silly!! using the wheel is soooo hard. i remember i took pottery in high school. it does look a lot easier than it is. i liked sculpting things better. like my totoro piggy bank!
08-03-18

Unnecessary Automation

panda, can i digg this?
08-02-27

Vainpanda

hahahahhah aw panda
08-02-27

Panda Strap

i didn't know your mom is so crafty! it's cute :)

p.s. i finally got your new years card a few days ago! mom sent me a picture of it..it looks amazing! i'm not going to get it until i go home next, though.

and it's my non-western world literature class in which i watched star trek. we were reading Gilgamesh and Picard tells the story in an episode where they meet the Tamarians. It also fit well in with the whole communication and understanding foreign cultures theme. i wish there was a whole class just about star trek :D oh man that would be awesome.
08-01-26

Farmlife

i love farms! that guinea piggie is too cute! we used to have 5-6 of them at once. it was crazy! i miss them. :(
(ps i didn't get why you thought the picture was funny, so i watched the dramatic prairie dog video ahahahh. wait i'm going to go watch it again. and that reminds me, i spent around 3 hrs the other day watching videos of budgerigars/parakeets talking. the holidays are nice!)
i have a christmas card for you! is your address the same? i always get confused...
07-12-30

Fingerprinting

this makes me really sad about the world. i'm scared for you, panda.

i already finished my finals. i think i did really well! i would very much like a nengajyo :) i will send you some things, too. (i've just been so busy. i am always busy. but i am not doing anything for a month, so i should be able to get this one thing done.)
07-12-18

Post coming soon...

even though you are aren't excited about writing the entry, i am excited to read it! i want to be on the up&up.
07-11-16

Birthday Scarf Panda

ps i wanted you to know, last night i spent about an hour squished in the back of a jeep with some crazy jamaican queens talking about masturbating and getting head. i kinda wish i wasn't starting to understand what they're saying hahah.
07-09-17

Birthday Scarf Panda

i am SO sending you a birthday card. i'm going home this coming weekend so i'll be able to get your package together.
07-09-17

The Great Tohoku Road Trip - Part II

wait, so does she do some serious drugs? you never really said...lol. hahaha i think she seems hilarious. you guys have too much fun!
come on panda, didn't you see the traffic cone warning you about the change in terrain? they practically screamed a warning at you with that one. srsly. :P

you know i have these awesome jamaican roommates here. SO LOUD. can't understand shit they say either. it is funny, though. hopefully i will have some great stories for you.

i will work on your letter and package this week promise!
07-09-03

The Great Tohoku Road Trip - Interlude

i'm not studying japanese anymore. it was fun but i can't expect to get anywhere with it. i guess something happened to the foreign language prof here last year so the only class they offer is elementary spanish. which actually, i wanted to minor is spanish because that i am good at! i don't know what's happening with that now, though. :( wish i'd known before..

i didn't write the names on the door. all the doors on my half of the floor had the residents' names on them when we moved in. i assumed it's chinese..which i totally can't read.

i have never spent that much money on clothes at once!!! you are crazy.
07-09-01

That's why I jump...

i LOVE jumping pictures!!!!
07-08-27

The Great Tohoku Road Trip - Part I

hahaha oh no panda! i can't wait to find out what happens next!
07-08-20

The Great 2007 Tohoku Road Trip

can't wait!
i am working on making something for you, then i can send a letter and that and something else i picked up awhile ago. i'm sorry i'm like the WORST penpal ever. :( sooo bad
07-08-07

How Expedia.com made me hate Yoghurt

ohhhh i am so mad!!! seriously do something about this. that's fucking ridiculous.
07-07-27

Public Drunkenness at 50mm f1.8

sorry i read this forever ago and remembered i never commented! so what are you dreaming up next hm? maybe surviving mongolia is all you should focus on right now...:P otherwise you will never get to blog again and post drunken yeehaw pictures! you should call up jeff corwin and see if he wants to come along. (i would be sooooo jealous!!)
07-07-11

Mongolia Panda

i was telling one of my friends about this the other day...i don't remember why! i think 'cause we were watching the travel channel. you know, there used to be a sea world in ohio but then it got bought out by six flags and then cedar point bought them out. so its longggg gone :( i just want to go to sea world. but i mean, mongolia sounds exciting too!! :P no really it will be an exciting experience i bet and i can't wait to hear all aboout it!!
07-06-08

Lindsay, the Telemarket-stalker

oh my god, michael. hahhahha! something like that would NEVER happen to me. i am actually pretty bad about telling creepy strangers (or even people i know but don't like, for that matter) to get lost/shut up. bad as in, i am so good at it i'm actually a little rude. :P the situation is usually me standing up for one of my friends, though. it is kinda funny you are like that..just because i bet you fit in well with the culture. hahahhahahha man this story is fng great.
07-05-27

More Monorail Love

woahhh! no, he was in highschool too ahahha. i'm excited for your coming post! or poast
07-05-23

Crayon Post, the Time Lapse Video

it won't work for me either. i will figure it out later i am too tired/lazy right now ahaha. i like how you have a picture of people sitting at a table on your computer..sitting at a table. yeah i notice these things! hey is there anything else you'd like me to send over? i just have that one little surprise. just tell me i will do it!!
07-05-09

Panda and the Eau de Gooch

ahahhaha crayons!! my favorite was the shores of innocence..hahah you crack me up michael panda! :3
07-05-03

Dining Table, what what!

sunflowers! aw that's a cute little table by the window :3
i have finals next week so after that i will have the time to write your letter. actually i am working on chem lab homework right now (can't you tell? lol)
07-04-25

Applepanda - The Switch

ohhh i hope it settles down it's just excited to have a new daddy! like that little puppy?

that is a good song, btw. and i'm suppppper super excited to see some totoro!
07-04-13

Boots and Letter Campaign

OH WAIT
There was a story i wanted to tell you...

and that is, today, this kid told me how once when he was 14, he masturbated to Peggy on King of the Hill. he was watching the show and he saw her curves and his hand just went down there, as he explained it. YEAH. i told him i had to use the bathroom and left.

( http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d5/Peggy.jpg/180px-Peggy.jpg )
07-04-03

Boots and Letter Campaign

ohh i am completed! :D yayy
07-04-03

Panda vs. The Bathtub

hahahahhaha OH NO!
you crack me up so much work for a bubble bath! i bet your water was even cold by the time you were done :P oh panda
07-03-25

Setsubun - the face smashing festival

hahahhha

i loooove the sumo costumes! you could never get an american manly man to wear that shit. :3
07-02-21

A Panda in London (France Pt. II)

ahhh man i would be screwed my brain totally shuts down under pressure. i can usually think of food, though. yesterday i ate chocolate pudding and miracle whip with lucky charms and a cherry on top! it was yummyyy :3

ps that is a LOT of ties. did you buy any??
07-02-07

France Adventure Pt. I

that is crazy! i'm glad they let you back into japan. otherwise you could've been like that guy in that movie...uhh...where that guy gets stuck in an airport..oh! this kid sitting beside me (i'm in class) just told me it's called the Terminal and the actor is Tom Hanks. I've never actually seen it but I saw all the previews and stuff. He doesn't have money for food (sound familiar?) so he runs around and collects empty carts and turns them in so he gets the quarters back. hahah i just imagined you doing that and it was funny. i'm excited to read about the rest of your trip! the skies in your pictures look beautiful!
07-01-26

Narita-san Temple

michael panda! i just made you the CUTEST thing ever. my mom got me a hot glue gun for christmas (weird?)and i wanted to try it out..so i made you something and it's amazing and i can't wait to send it to you. and i mean it, i really am sending this! :[

salut!! bon voyage à Paris!! beaucoup de photos sil vous plait!! :3
07-01-08

Thundar Dolphan!

hahaha man i love roller coasters. actually i hate them 'cause i'm a pussy lol. they make me sick anymore, unfortunately. :(
but yeah, that sounds like a lot more fun than looking at dying leaves!

i don't remember if i ever commented on your last entry with your bike being stolen...but yeah that effing sucks. has your boss said anything to you about it?


ps i wrote a xanga entry that unfortunately, only you are going to get. i learned the sentence in class the other day and i thought it was funny.
06-11-17

Sky Worship

o0o0o i love doing this kind of thing!
i've been up the st louis arch, cn tower in toronto (world's tallest), and the empire state building.

the st louis arch was the scariest cause you had to ride in this teeny-tiny little elevator shaped like an egg and somehow three people were supposed to fit...i got kinda freaked out by that but it was really neat once we got up there.


i've been so busy lately...school and work are kicking my ass. this coming saturday i'm working a triple shift. that is sweet.
06-10-09

Nice n Easy Sign Language

hahahahahahah
amazing.
06-09-22

Leaving on a jet plane...

i hope you have a wonderful trip!
06-07-31

Sky Monkah!

omg when i saw that first picture of monkah flying through the air, i thought he was flying out past the railing and i actually got really nervous. ahhh nevermind, i feel like that EVERY time i look at it. i don't know, i'm in a weird mood ahahaha.

here is something funny!
today at work, this guy came in to buy a couple of painfully tacky hawaiian shirts for himself and some girl (she wasn't with him) for a luau or other party of the sort, and he needed me to help him to find a shirt for this girl because he even knew that they were all ugly, it was just a matter of picking out one that wasn't so bad. but yeah, so i helped him with that and i guess he ended up getting a large kid's size, which was my recommendation, and while i was checking him out at the register, he got this odd kind of look on his face and said to me, "this is probably a weird question for me to ask you and i apologize, but how old are you?" right away i knew this wasn't good at all, but i still had a desperate hope that the girl he was buying the shirt for was his girlfriend, or wife, even better! so i told him, "im 18...why?" and gave him a really suspicious/cautious/abouttobefreakedout look. he thought about it a few seconds and then was like, "well...i was just wanting to know if i should feel bad or not.." AHHHHHNONONONOON i just stood there, mid-bagging his shirts, and just stared at him with the most horrified look ever. "uh...oh...um...ew..god" he immediately started apologizing, "i know i know that's really creepy, i'm sorry....i mean, i'm not that much older than you" YEAH HE WAS THINKING ABOUT HOW HE WANTED TO FUCK ME, THAT CREEP. i should've told him i was 15, god. but yeah, so he felt really stupid as well he should. you just don't do that to a complete stranger, especially some poor girl who's just doing her damn job. geeze, it's either creeps like that or crazy evangelists giving my flyers about how i'm going to hell(http://lizb.textamerica.com/?r=4418551). but i guess...it keeps work interesting at least? what is your new job, anyway?
06-07-09

From the mouths of babes...

Hahahha oh man! I love it when you post this kind of stuff.
06-06-22

Mornings...

okay so I have absolutely nothing to do all this week and I'm going to finally, finally finish sending those cd's and shit. I was away at the beach all last week...and before that I had graduation and finals and choir and all that bullshit and I'm really sorry. :[ BUT your letter will be really exciting because I have good stories! But yeah, I'm sorry I'm lazy and procrastinate and just suck in general.
06-06-06

Sunny Road Trip!

YES! I got it fridayyy. :D
I'm working on a letter and then I will send it out this weekend I think.

PS why didnt you go to the dinosaur museum?!?!
06-05-10

Rocking out...

Hahahha man listening to that toooootally made my day. Well, like a week ago. IM SORRY IM SO LAZY AHHH!
I will send out your cds like..this week I swear. I swear!!!!!!!!!!!!! :X
06-05-02

Sun and Rain...

I love picture updates!

The story behind that potato...

I was at a friends' house, and I found a sack of potatoes setting beside the microwave. I took that potato out and held it in my arms and sat down and cried. I cried because it was the cutest thing I'd ever seen in my entire life and I just couldn't handle it. One of my friends walked in on me in that mess and took that photo. It was a...mildly embarrassing experience.

I don't know, I'm crazy sometimes!

PS I have the cds burned, I just need to finish a few things up and I'll be done!
06-03-29

Asbestos breathing Panda

Oh and that abestos shit is scary! I'm glad you finally convinced somebody to do something about it.
06-03-22

Asbestos breathing Panda

I'm sorry, I'm wayyyyyyy behind on comments hahah.

--I'm working on your cds this very moment, btw--

The reason why I called myself stupid and a pussy is just because I was pissed for not taking advantage of a very good opportunity. I don't take regret well, lol. It's cool now, though.

I'm actually not taking my whole future plans thing all that seriously. I'm moving out (when I find a roommate) and staying here in town to go to a local branch of West Virginia University--it pretty much sucks. They have an open-door policy, hahah. But then next year I may head up to WVU and finish up there. I don't know. This first year I'm just going to get my required courses out of the way before I decide for sure what I want to do. Basically, I'm doing the easiest thing besides just not going to school.

I'm not really all too worried about getting a really good job or making a lot of money or anything like that. Just as long as I'm happy and get to experience a lot of cool things and don't have to deal with too much bullshit, that's pretty much all I want out of life. So I totally get what you're saying about arbitrary deadlines and real life and the proverbial "to-do" list. Honestly, if I end up living in a crappy apartment with an okay job and nothing much else to show of life, shit, as long as I still have amazing friends and am having fun otherwise, I'm totally cool with that.

Well I'm going to finish up burning these cds and putting them together and stuff. I WILL GET THIS DONE EVENTUALLY--I SWEAR! :[
Have a wonderful week! (I'm on spring break, yeahhh!)
06-03-22

Kyoto Road Trip

Hahaha these are some of your best pictures ever.
You always have the best trips and I'm jealous!

Okay, so I've made the cd cases...mostly. And I have all the songs picked out, I just have to actually burn the cds. Then I need to write commentaries and all that. I WILL HAVE THIS DONE SOON, I SWEAR! :[
I haven't done any of my school work yet either, actually. What have I been doing then, you ask?
Fuck if I know.
Seriously, as soon as I get free time it just seems to fly by and I don't get anything done!
This weekend I will finish it, I promise!
06-03-02

Don't Speak

I emailed you back!
06-02-03

Mochi made with sweat (and other stuff)

......................................................................................................................................he definitely deserved it.

Hey I'm sorry I haven't replied to your email yet. I've been too busy working and sneaking into my house at 4 in the morning.

(Real life sneaking. Real life like, my parents have a dog and sometimes it wakes up when I come home and also sometimes they leave their door open and its less than ten feet away from mine and we have creaky wooden stairs. Last night it took me seriously 45 minutes to get from the basement up to my room on the second floor. Fifteen of which were spent frozen outside my bedroom door when the dog woke up and came over and was checking to see who I was and I was so terrified it would growl or bark or who knows what. But I made it!)

But um, yeah. So I am going to email you back as soon as I possibly can!
06-01-23

Let them eat cake (and die...)

WOW.
I actually don't even have words for this.
But that's okay because apparantly the only word you had is "fuck" hahahah.
Seriously, though. That sucks a lot. I don't think I could even handle it. I would probably just explode. Your insurance guy sounds really cool, though.

OH and I would love to trade mixed cd's with you! I was secretly hoping you'd want to, lol. I'm really excited! Email me so we can trade addresses and whatever.


PS This is completely irrelevant to anything, but its a funny story and I want to brag about it. (That and I wont be updating about it or anything, It would be weird since it involves one of my friends and I don't know how he feels about people knowing about it. So please don't say anything the next time you comment on my journal. Basically, this is top secret! :P) Okay, so...I have a hickie on my bottom lip. Like, my lip is just black. It was swollen, but that went down. It looks like I've either been punched in the mouth or been eating a lot of licorice. But yeah, I thought it was funny because I've never heard of that happening before.
06-01-16

Paper chase...?

Hahah oh Michael, you're just that gangster, huh?

Oh and thanks for wishing me luck. I will need it!
06-01-12

Bumper Cars

Ahhh man that's ridiculous. $200-$300 to wipe off some paint? That will take five seconds to do. I've never been in an accident before, but I'm sure that once I start driving on my own that will change. I'm not a very attentive driver...haha. I'm easily distracted and just plain don't pay attention sometimes. :[

Oh, and yes, I did schedule my hair appointment...but nobody reminded me! Not one person! What friends I have. :P
05-12-30

The Cliffs of Death

Goooosh I'm sorry, I read this forever ago and kept forgetting that I never commented haha.

I would have turned back as soon as I realized what was going on. I'm such a baby, though. It might be fun to like, park and...hike up there hahah. It does look really beautiful. Hey, if nothing else, it made for an exciting story!
05-12-02

Autumn Thursday

Oh my gosh I love fall SO MUCH! It's absolutely my favorite season. I like the coziness the best, I think.
Hey I bet they don't bake pumpkin pie over there, do they?
05-11-15

Emergency Button...

Hahahaha! All that just for pizza.

That sort of reminds me of when I was at the beach and my friends and I ordered a pizza and the delivery guy...actually I don't know what his problem was...but he kept calling us in our hotel room and saying we weren't there and that he'd been up there like five times--but we never left our room! So he said he'd come up ONE MORE TIME and we waited outside the room for like, ever, and he never came. srdkjhgsdjfg! We had to call the restaurant back and have them send another delivery person and they were all mean to us like it was OUR fault. So I guess my point is..well..nevermind I don't really have a point except that at least Kita wasn't a liar!
05-09-30

Turning 26...

Happy Birthday!!!!!!! :D

I agree with "you should keep travelling". A lot of people don't get the chance to do that--you're really lucky--take advantage of it!

But then again, heart shaped cabbages sound AMAZING!
05-09-19

Panda Tripping in Tokyo...

Wow...so...yeah I don't even know about the muscle guys. That's just too much! Hahahha.

I loved all the pictures. The pandas are so cute!

Oh, and about that video, that was actually taken at an Alcoholics Anonymous dance party. No kidding. Me and a couple of my friends walked in off the street and got down with these old (some were older than my parents) people. The video is horrible, I'm so disappointed. But it was an amazing time hahaha.

So! What's next in the life of panda?
05-09-10

Pandas at play...

That looks like so much fun!! Have fun out of town with Monkah :)
05-08-31

Monkah's latest Tokyo Trip

Well I'm glad to hear that someone at least appreciates my moblog! I don't think anybody else looks at it. :( Oh well, it's more for me anyway. I'm too lazy to ever write about the things I do, so at least this way I can look back and (almost) remember stuff.

Monkah is very lucky! He gets to have more adventures than I do. I need to devise a way to fit into pockets. O.O
05-08-22

Trying hard...

These sorts of incidents are always interesting to hear about. Except they always make me angry! But I guess..at least you got your car? :/

When you said, "..the main source of this so called 'emasculation' is not white males but white females" the first thing I imagined was white girls and asian girls...but then I realized you probably meant asian guys and white girls? That was a disappointment, I'll admit. :P

I went to the beach this past week (I actually just got back tonight) and got the opportunity to go to starbucks a couple times. Maybe I first should have mentioned that we only have half a starbucks in my city?..which both sucks and is weird..anyway, because of that you're pretty much the only person I can associate with starbucks since you talk about it all the time! So yeah, I thought of you when I got my super-yummy green tea frappuccino :P

Take care until the next post!
05-08-01

The Prearranged Marriage Slip Up

Hahah that's a great story. I bet her dad will think it's pretty funny :P (Not as funny as if she had actually accepted..now THAT would have been awkward.)

Oh, you asked If I had a larger copy of that panda picture. I do! It's here: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/abrilliantdisguise/OH__PAULA_by_havesomehats.jpg
(I got it from www.havesomehats.com by the way)

I'm excited for your next update!
05-07-21

A Day in the Life of Panda - Part II

I enjoyed it! You should do another entry like this sometime.
05-07-11

A Day in the Life of Panda - Part I

You mean plain yogurt? I love that stuff! I add grapenuts and frozen blueberries and then smother it all in whipped cream. It's amazing!
05-07-06

Panda fails his driving test...

Oh man...I have to take my driving test in November. I kind of wish I'd taken care of it two years ago and gotten it out of the way already. I'm pretty nervous about the infamous parallel parking test. Ahhhh! But I guess at least I don't have to worry about which side of the road to drive on ;) :P

Sooo Rachel Yamagata's pretty cool. I love that song.
05-06-20

Tokyo

Ahh I'm excited for this update!
05-06-17

Graffiti Bench...

Hahaha that's awkward.
05-05-20

Whole lotta xenophobia going on.

Heyyy michaelpanda!

I'm sorry, I have to admit that I keep forgetting your blog isn't on xanga anymore. I need to do some back-reading. hehe.

Your entries may be really long and hard to read at times, but I still like them a lot. :P Especially the footnotes! All that extra stuff makes it that more interesting.

As for me, I've actually been told by my english teachers that I'm too concise. Hahah.

Oh yeah, I don't update my livejournal anymore. I'm back to xanga.

Take care, and I hope you find yourself able to enjoy summer! It's my personal favorite of the seasons.
05-05-13

Ouch...

Aw, I hope your arm feels better!
I read Pooky's entry and it was certainly amusing. I can't wait to read your entry about it, haha.

Oh, another thing: I scrolled down and read her previous entry (nice baking, btw) and I've never heard cupcakes called fairy cakes before..I like that name better!
05-04-11

Spring Break

Oh, the train situation will only make things more interesting ;) haha. I hope you guys have a good time!
05-03-27

Variegated...?

Hahah your entries are always so amusing. You must really have a lot of free time at work, lol. Personally, I rarely bother reading the descriptions..I just look at the pictures. :P
05-03-16