Dreaming With Dan

[ Friday, November 01, 2002 ]

 
BALL.....
Well tomorrow is the damn ball.... lucky me.... I also have a FULL uniform inspection tomorrow. Damnit.... u ppl have n e idea how much shiet marines have!? OMG so many damn uniforms. We have to have so many undershirts is while and green, so many white undies and socks. God... well I'll tell u all about the ball when i get back home tomorrow night.
daniel [11:00 PM]

[ Thursday, October 31, 2002 ]

 
End result of my essay....
Past Present Future

"He who controls the radius of knowledge, controls the circumference of your actions", I heard this quote by Louis Farrakhan while attending my friend's lectures at University of California, Irvine (UCI) for African American studies. This quote would be the basis of how I became inspired to reach for a wider range of goals in my life. After graduating high school, I went straight into the United States Marine Corps Reserves, holding the mentality that it will build the foundation to gather knowledge and to control my action. The Marines did exactly what I expected; they taught me sharpness, time management, and team dynamics. I learned how to be both a leader and a follower. Along with classes from Cal Poly and Pasadena City College (PCC) I found a link to the business academia. These factors have allowed me to do what Louis Farrakhan stated control my actions with my knowledge and pursue a major in Business.

I attended Cal Poly Pomona the same time I joined the Marine Corps with no real insights, study skills nor leadership skills. I was unprepared for college life, after coming out from Marine basic training as a private and into the reserves; I was excited about going to college and have fun. As a private I was a follower, I had to listen to what my Corporals and Sergeants said. At that time they were my leaders and my mentors. They taught me how to do my job effectively and what it takes to become a leader. As a new college student, I was not used to the freedom that was given to me with this new role compared to high school. I was more interested in socializing and as a result I ended up at Pasadena City College (PCC), since then I have been striving to return to a four-year university. I have now changed my perspective of college and worked much harder to get better grades in my courses. In the last two years, I watched many of my close friends graduate from four-year universities and start rewarding careers, and the only thing in my mind is that I should be with them. Now I am determined like never before to prove that I too will be the student walking and getting my diploma. I learned that past mistakes can affect ones future because I spent about a year and a half of retaking the courses I failed at Cal Poly and some extra classes to speed up my college progression. Now I have conquered those failures and with much more understanding of college. When my counselor, at PCC, informed me that I completed the IGETC courses for the UC system I felt so motivated and now I am extremely close to transferring.

Currently, my goal now is to attend UCR and get into the business department. My experience with this field is limited, I worked as a data entry clerk for a major bank, in high school, and understand how banks handle deposits and do overseas transfers. In the past year I ran a small part time internet business. This business basically taught me that I need to learn how the market works, how to operate my financial books properly, proper legal procurers to run the business and much more. As far as the military goes, it has been a little over four years since I first joined and I have gained valuable experience. I am now a Corporal in the Corps and that means more responsibility and dedication. This rank is the starting rank of leadership positions and now I know how to deal with other people’s personal problems and how it affects the work place. I learned how to organize the employees, how to properly manage my resources and time. When I was on recruiting duty, for one year, I had to use many of these skills on a daily basis. I had to learn how to talk to people and how to understand what people wanted and why. When I had multiple appointments with students that were interested in joining, I needed to learn how to time mange all my appointments properly, how to use the marines that were working for me in an effective way. If they do not know how to do something teach them if time permits otherwise send another marine. With these new insights I can bring valuable experience to the work place in the future.

I know my experience is very limited and hardly even scratched the surface of my future plans. This is why I want to attend UCR, to get the better education and to learn all I can in this field. There are some Professors at PCC that teaches in the UC system and that just makes me want to go in that much more. Since withdrawing from Cal Poly Pomona, my determination to work hard and succeed brings me extremely close my goal of attending a four-year university again. Once more, “He who controls the radius of knowledge, controls the circumference of your actions,” therefore I am trying to further my education so that I can expand my circumference of movement in my future.

daniel [7:35 PM]

 
UC Application.....
I owe all of you that helped me with my UC application dinner or something! Andrew, Annie, Hsing, JJ, Heidi, Steve and Paul. I know it was really last minute and shiet but you all turned a piece of shiet into a decent paper. There was a lot of things for me to say in a short ass paper and so I know i summerized a lot on the 1st draft. I just hope everything works out for me for a damn change. My 1st draft a lot of you said I was being to negative and shiet. I dunno.... I was just trying to fact relality and how I hav tired to overcome it. Some of ya even said i need more self confidence! lol i dont think i do though.

JJ.....
Im soooooooooooo sorry I forgot to mention ur name. I know it was u that helped me when i got wasted at tahoe, I'll never forget that gal. I prob forgot a few other ppls too. Just let me know ppls and I added urs on JJ so ya. SOrry
daniel [3:41 AM]

[ Monday, October 28, 2002 ]

 
OK NEW COMMENTING SYSTEM!!!!!
Do not click on Comment n e more.... the new commenting system is Called "shout out" so click on that to leave comments... in 2 weeks all old posts will be gone unless the one I was using unfks itself.
daniel [11:19 PM]

 
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It was brought to my attention a few weeks ago that my site is starting to get visitors that I dont' even know, don't know very well and even ppl that I do know well but I didn't think they knew the link to the site. Esp. from girls that some of u all are seeing! Turns out that they are using my site to get the 411 on u fools. Sorry man but imma still post what i post so if u r gonna lie about where u r u better let me know in advance so I'll watch what I say and what pics I put up. Damn man... dreaming with dan should just be called gossip with Dan. LOL oh well's. BTW..... I WILL NEVER TAKE DOWN A POST so don't even bother askin', I'll always change it if I was arong about something but never take it down. Also I know my comment thingy goes down a lot, sorry about that but this is the only comment service I know of. If you know of a better one let me know.
daniel [5:22 AM]

 
My WEEKEND.....
Well this was a pretty basic weekend with one extra twist. I went to my friend Corporal So's party, he is getting outta the marines corps on friday. He did his 4 yrs of active duty. He worked in the tool room at the squadron, he's a pretty kewl guy and always there to talk to me when I was having problems at work. He'll be missed but he's off to bigger and better things than the Corps. I can't wait till I get outta the Corps. JUNE 14th, 2004.... cant wait. The party on the other hand was so so.... too many hoochie lookin' gals there. I mean... their tits were about to fall out and their asses too. But n e ways.... I went out to eat dinner with Joe, Rob and Eugene on sunday, I havent seen them for a while so it was kewl. Now I just gotta get ready for this comming weekend. Next Sat. is my units Marine Corps. Ball, I still gotta get my Blues ready and get my stripe (4 yr service stripe) put onto it. Damn..... I can't belive I have been in this shiet for over 4 yrs already, where has the time gone? I still remember us Scott K., Kevin K., Blaise, Joe, Robert, Jeff (sumo), Jeff (Cyclops), Erwin, Adam, Ray, Scott L., Kirk, Elbert, Hsing, Steve, Aundre, Jeff (FOB), Paul and Tommy, graduating HS in 98 like it was last month. Boot camp with Ray, Adam and I was like last week and meeting all you ppl in college, Annie, Chung, Nora, Andrew, An, Dow, Rob, JJ, Marrisa, Heidi, Inyork, Kellie, Lilly, Linda, Nikki, Ben, Mike, Jun, Ronald, JG, Sam, Mimi, Michelle, Susan, Sean, Amy like it was yesterday. FK man..... time has gone by fast and it just aint slowing the fk down. Most of us now have one or WAY too many EX's hehehe, some of us still hasn't even crossed that line yet and other are still on their 1st. What's gonna happend next!? Adam, Ray and I almost ended up in Kosovo a few yrs back, that wasa close one too. Now... damn we may finish our tours in Iraq, just my luck. But whatever happends happends. Imagine all the shiet that has happend since we grad and yet we still aint even 1/2 way through out lives. So.... who's gonna get married 1st? Who's gonna have a kid 1st? Who's gonna be single for life? AND... hehehe well we do live in the U.S.A. so who's gonna get divorced 1st!? (let's hope none us)
daniel [5:02 AM]