Work, work, work!

by Gilbert on August 9, 2007

Wow these past two weeks I have been working non-stop! I've been working with my dad, and we run around most of the time all over the bay area. We have 3 big projects that need to be completed as soon as possible. We got one school that opens next week, and we need to run a ton of wire and get someone who does fire alarms. The "head hancho", who is normally a contractor (but not this time -_-) is putting a ton of pressure on us.

Now for the good news! I am in debt up to my ears, but this next check should be HUGE. Hopefully I can pay my cousin Juan, the company, and my CC. So far I've gotten a ton of overtime, not to mention so work that I'm getting paid from last pay check. So hopefully I can get out of the red. I've been using wesabe.com to keep track of my spending. I like it because you can set goals and asociate tags with them. For example, I'll tag all my visits to taco bell as fast food, and I'll create a goal that says "buy less fastfood" and tie the fastfood tag to it. So then it shows me charts of how much I've been spending, and let me know if I'm on track.

So now I need to jump in bed because I have to wake up at 6 am. Till next blog!

P.S. Hi Leslee! (One of the few readers of my blogs =P)

JC Customs & Mr. T’s Car Audio

by Gilbert on July 30, 2007

Finally got a simple template going for JC Customs. Wanted to go with something simple. Now we just need to fill it with content. Pictures are coming soon of the shop and previous work. On a personal note, the JC Customs shop has just been remodeled and it looks awesome! Before we would joke around about how crummy it looked, not anymore! This business is going places!

Mr. T’s Car Audio, also in the same shop of JC Customs, has contracted an e-commerce site. Hopefully this will lead to more company growth, and the expansion of Mr. Vu’s clientele list.

Thank you to all those who have been patient these past couple of weeks. My schedule has been extremely hectic, and I should be able to catch up in a few days.

But I Did Stay in a Holiday Inn

by Gilbert on July 25, 2007

    So today I had to stop by Orchard Supply to return some stuff my dad bought. Me and my cousin Juan also needed to buy a new faucet to replace our damaged one at home. So we stood around waiting for the horrible service that is OSH. While waiting this guy walks by putting tags all over the place. So I assume he works there. We wait and wait. And then he walks by again and we ask him a question. And he tells us what we needed to know, but to top it off he says, "I don't even work…. But I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night." I was laughing so hard. I didn't stop laughing for a good 5-10 minutes. For those who have no clue what I'm talking about, here is one of the Holiday Inn commercials.

So thats my random story of the day!

Summer! And Chicago!

by Gilbert on July 2, 2007

    So my Fall quarter ended last Friday! I'm hoping for all A's this quarter. I think I did much better than last quarter. I didn't drop any classes and I read… well most of my books. This quarter I took Philosophy 30, Sociology 5, and Human 10. The only class I'm worried about is Philosophy.

    Last week me and Jessica returned from Chicago! My cousin Juan and his wife Evelyn were married on Friday the 22nd. Me and Jessica left Tuesday night from Oakland and got there Wednesday morning. We left with some of my family. It was really fun! I got to see the Chicago architecture, but I missed out on the double-decker bus and the boat ride =\ I'll probably post some pictures to my flickr account, so click on the button to the right on the sidebar to see them!

    So now I need to find a job so I can make some money to pay Juan for the plane tickets and to fund me and Jessica's 3 year anniversary this month ;)  

The Sixth Sun

by Gilbert on June 8, 2007

    I just saw a film called The Sixth Sun: Mayan Uprising in Chiapas by Saul Landau. It's mostly on the Zapatistas, but it also covers NAFTA, Emilio Zapata, and Liberation Theology. The movie is a great view of what has happened to Mexico after NAFTA. A once thriving Mexican economy destroyed by Free Trade. 

    The Films Description:

Before dawn on New Year's Day, 1994, armed Mayan Indians in the Mexican
state of Chiapas declared war on the government, seizing eight towns
and sending shock waves through Mexico's political establishment.
Calling themselves the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, these
crudely armed peasants set in motion events that ripped away a modern
face of prosperity and stability to reveal "the other Mexico." Visually
interweaving the Mayan past and the Mexican Revolution with
contemporary reality, this documentary portrays an epic confrontation
pitting impoverished peasants against large landowners and government
forces in Mexico's poorest state. The video features interviews with
Subcommandante Marcos, the ski-masked "poet-warrior," as well as with
others in the Zapatista movement. Other protagonists include Bishop
Samuel Ruiz, Mexico's outspoken defender of indigeneous rights;
peasants on estates they have occupied; angry ranchers forced from
their land; conservative Catholics who charge the Bishop with inciting
revolution; government officials and army officers; and the notorious
guardias blancas, the landowners' private armies. 

    I highly recommend this movie… but it's impossible to find. I have a copy of it, and am willing to lend it out.