Classic Summer Activities

Cookouts--Everyone has done this.  Where you invite your family or friends and do BBQ in your backyard.  When I do a cookout, I cook beef patties, sausages, hot dogs, chicken, pork, shrimp, and any other meat you can think of.  I'm Asian, so that means I also eat and BBQ disgusting things.  From my personal experience, the key to making the cookout food taste good is to season and marinate them overnight.  So that the seasoning and marination seeps into the food.  Like any party, a fun cookout requires the following.  Bring people that will make others laugh.  Bring attractive people.  Bring people that can help you cook and serve the food.  Bring people that will eat a lot.  Bring people that will help you clean up afterwards.  Have a kick-ass stereo for the music.  Have plenty of beer (preferably imported beers not those cheap domestic beers).  And have plenty of food for everyone.

Beaches--Going to the beach is definitely a summer classic.  You can go there to play in the water.  To build sand sculptures (like sand castles, sand dicks, and other creative sand sculptures).  To view the ocean or water.  To view beautiful people (and nasty people like a 60 year-old woman in a  bathing suit or a 300 pound guy, with his big belly showing, trying to play volleyball).

Amusement and Water Parks--Most of us go to these places when summer comes.  We scream and go crazy when we go to these places.  These places are a great stress-reliever.  I always leave smiling and laughing after going to these places.  But the thing is, they can be expensive (even with the season passes).

Celebrating the 4th of July--I personally think that the best time of summer, is during the 4th of July week.  There are usually parties everywhere around this week.  People are happy during this week because most of them are on vacation.  Of course the fireworks.  Where would the 4th of July be without the fireworks. 

What's your favorite summer activity?

Must-See Movies Of  The Summer

"Mission Impossible 3"--I saw this movie.  It was a fun movie to see.  The movie had my dream car (the Lamborghini Gallardo).  This movie showed how beautiful Shanghai is.  Is it worth seeing?  Yes, go see it.   Is it  better than the previous two MI movies?  No.  I personally like the first one the best.  This movie is now playing.

"X Men 3"--A movie that looks fun to watch.  I enjoyed the previous two X Men movies.  A movie that always have an all-star cast.  If I can choose which mutant I would want to be, I would choose to be Magneto (the guy that can control metals with his psychic powers).  This movie will start on May 26.

"The Da Vinci Code"--A bestseller (I'm talking about the book of course) turned into a movie.  From my experience, the book is usually always better than the movie because the book has more details and we like details.  The movie always usually leaves out every detail of the book.  I guess we can expect this.  If they toke all the details and put them into the movie, it would probably be a 6-10 hour movie.  Tom Hanks, a great actor, plays the lead character.  Ron Howard (he directed Apollo 13 and A Beautiful Mind) directed this movie.  It will start this Friday.

"Superman Returns"--A guy in tights that can fly.  Interesting.  I'll go see this.  This movie better be good.  It starts on June 30th.

"Pirates of the Caribbean"--Johnny Depp, in my opinion, is a great actor.  This guy can really act.  He's probably looking for his first Oscar.  I still remember his 21 Jump Street Days.  He's cool-looking too.  This movie starts on July 7th.

"Miami Vice"--Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx.  What an awesome combination.  This looks like a fun movie to watch.  I'm definitely gonna go see it.  It starts on July 28th.

What movies do you plan on seeing this summer?

Sports Cars  I would like to thank everyone for commenting.  This entry is my 20th featured content, thank you all for making this happen.  I will update around Wednesday.

"Lamborghini Gallardo"--This car is my dream car.  It has a V-10 engine that produces 520 horsepower.  It goes from 0-60 in 4 seconds.  The price is about $180,000.  I know Lamborghinis aren't reliable as Japanese or even American cars, but they sure are fast and hot-looking.

"Lamborghini Countach"--This was the most famous Lamborghini of all time.  It was for sale from 1980 to 1989.  This is the one you usually see on posters.  They don't make this anymore.  But you can still buy them used.

"1980s Ferrari"--This old school car is still a beauty.  Similar to Lamborghinis, Ferraris aren't reliable as Japanese, German, and American cars.  But similar to Lamborghinis, Ferraris are fast and hot-looking.

"Ferrari 360 Modena"--This is one of the current Ferrari models.  I think this is the nicest of the current models.  It has about 400 horsepower.  It does 0-60 in 4.3 seconds.  It's around $175,000.

"Toyota Supra"--The Supra from 1993-1998 was the ultimate Toyota sports car.  The car cost around $45,000.  The car had 320 horsepower.  Of course if you tune it, it should be more than 320 horsepower.  This Supra was also hot-looking.  Around 2008, Toyota will unveil their next supercar.  The car is suppose produce around 500 horsepower without tuning.  The car might also be label as a Lexus rather than a Toyota.

"Acura NSX (Honda NSX)"--This was Honda's supercar. It cost around $90,000.  It was one of the lightest and balanced car in the world.  When it first came out in the early 1990s, it was successful.  A lot of people were buying it.  It had 270 horsepower and it does a 0-60 in about 5 seconds.  These specs for back in the early 1990s were a lot.  But of course compare to today's sports cars, these specs are a joke.  So currently not a lot of people are buying NSXs.  In 2005 Honda stopped the production of the NSX.  Honda is now working on a new supercar that will produce about 450-500 horsepower.  Whether this new car will be call NSX, we'll not sure yet.  We'll found out by 2008.

"Nissan 350Z"--This car is currently the best selling sports car out there.  It cost around $35,000.  This car is currently Nissan's flagship.  When it first came out in 2003, it had 287 horsepower.  Now it has 300 horsepower, without tuning.  This car, I must say is one good-looking car.  This is Nissan's flagship car in America.  Else where, it's the Nissan Skyline GTR.  Nissan is currently working on the new Skyline GTR.  This new car is suppose to produce around 450 horsepower without tuning.  This new GTR will finally be available in America.  It should be ready in 2008.

"Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution (EVO)"--The EVO is currently the ultimate Japanese sports car.  It may not be pretty and nice-looking as the other sports cars, but in terms of performance it's deadly.  It does 0-60 in 4 seconds.  It has 286 horsepower, without tuning.  This is one of the sports cars that proved all-wheel-drive (the other being the Subaru WRX) is better than rear-wheel-drive for a sports car.  It is one of the best handling cars out there.  It cost around $35,000.  Mitsubishi is currently working on the next generation of the EVO.  This next EVO should be available around 2008.  I know a lot of sports cars enthusiasts are either sided with the Subaru STI or the EVO.  There are a lot of debates over these two awesome cars.  But I'll go with the EVO.

"Ford Pinto"--This car is a classic.  It's well known (for the wrong reasons though).  Pinto in Spanish means "to go."  What's ironic is that it doesn't go.  The Pinto has been part of many jokes (including mine).  This car you can say, is charming.  If you ride this car around downtown, you will be noticed.  People will smile at you.  Imagine modifying this car.  Putting 18 inch rims on this.  Giving it chrome rims.  Putting a big-ass spoiler on the back.  Giving it a big muffler.  Putting HID lighting on it.  And riding it around downtown.  That would be something.   

1.)  What's your dream car?

2.)  What's your favorite sports car? 

Gas Prices

Have you been to the gas pump lately?  Damn!  Those gas prices are outrageous.  For me to fill up, it cost $50.  Ouch!  Back in the old days, it used to cost me just about $20.  I guess those days are gone.

Of course I use regular gas.  None of those super or plus.  I don't care what gas level my car requires for performance, for now it'll be eating regular gas.  In my area, some gas stations don't have regular gas.  Why?  Because they ran out of them.  I guess when gas price is this high, regular is the most popular flavor.

Look at Bush here. He's probably happy as hell.  Why?  His family is in the oil business.  When gas prices are this high, expect the oil business people to profit a lot.  Hell I would be happy too if I was in the oil business.  But I'm not.  I'm in the student business, which isn't much profitable, but rather close to poverty.

This guy's probably thinking, "As soon as I fill up my car, I should just fucking jet!"  I'm sure you have probably thought of this while at the pump.  I have actually seen people fill up their cars and just toke off.  What do you expect?  Gas price is damn expensive.  There are people out there that basically can't really afford gas.  So there will be people that will fill up and immediately take off.  I think they call this gas crime?  Of course some gas stations have cameras.  So it would be unwise to do so.  But there are those gas stations that don't have cameras.  If I was one of the owners of these gas stations, I would worried.

Would I want full service at the pump?  Hell no!  At these prices, self-service is good enough for me.  At these prices, I can't afford to tip these pitiful full-service people.

This pic is just scary and horrifying to look at.  This pic is scarier than movies such as The Grudge, Sixth Sense, or The Ring.

How much does it take you to fill up at the pump?