I should be heading to bed, but I really need to get this out before I lose my thoughts.  I was watching Grey’s Anatomy (don’t hate), and I just got to thinking about what it must feel like to save lives.  Sometimes I wish I had the devotion and the drive to be a doctor or a nurse.  Nevertheless, I am in the business of saving lives.

For those of you that don’t know, upon getting my Masters I want to work in Student Affairs.  What this basically entails is student support services at a University; anything from academic advisement to new student orientation to resource center coordinators.  I’ve always been quite the curious fellow, and I knew I wanted to go into a helping profession.

College was an imperative portion of my life.  Aside from the free karaoke and bountiful quantities of beautiful women, I learned a lot about identity, culture, and social justice through my experiences.  I learned to accept and be proud of my Asian American lineage, something I had struggled with growing up.  I was introduced to Hip Hop Congress, and learned much about grass roots movement, oppression and expression, justice, and hate.

These experiences have contributed so much to me becoming who I am today, and I need to share this knowledge with others.  Theres all these obstacles in my way, but all I want to do is guide the lost, educate the masses, feed the hungry minds.  I want to give the power of knowledge to the weak, so that they may rise up and be strong, I want to teach people how to right their wrongs.  I just want to help.

But I can’t.  Not yet.  But until then I can’t help but feel that.. Theres gotta be more to life than this.

I’m issuing a memorandum to let everyone know that I will be writing a blog (or possibly a series of blogs) entitled “The Diary of an Overqualified Bachelor”.  Entailed in these writings will be many questions and opinions, but there will be no answers.  I will address issues of what it is to be an “overqualified bachelor”, the issues of dating in these instances, and [dare i say it] the problem with womens’ mentality.

Right now Ms. Trillo just said “oh hell no.” as I’m sure many of you others have, but I will assure you that I have done my research and will but contrasting my opinions with other sources.  So hold on to your knickers, and hopefully the first post will come soon.  Have a nice day.

Jung has supplied me with a plethora of questions, since no one else seems to want to ask me anything ):  So i’ll be spreading them out for the time being and answering them.

Jack Lalanne, one of the pioneers of the body building world, said that “if it tastes good, spit it out.”  I thought that was hilarious.  And really, there could be many ways to look at this.  Coming from my Buddhist background, the easiest answer would be because its delicious, you want it.  And because you want it, when you can’t have it you will suffer.  To reach nirvana, you have to release your wants, so it is simply a trial in the path to enlightenment.

But I suppose to answer this in a less spiritual way, the world needs to keep a balance.  Delicious things are bad for you, because if they were delicious and you could have them all the time they wouldn’t be that delicious.  They would probably be a little more mundane, and life would become decreasingly satisfying.  You need to work hard for what you want.  Eat some bomb ass fried chicken, you gotta get on that stationary bike and spin it outta your thighs.

Kinda.  So with my influx of downtime having graduated college and waiting to hear back from Grad programs, I decided to create this formspring in which you can submit a question that I will answer.

http://www.formspring.com/forms/?715048-gpoT0Y2kpD

I want to answer YOUR questions about anything.  music, life, love, cars, how to pick ripe fruit, whatever.  I got a couple submissions already so I’ll answer them

from a Daniel Samarin:  Why did pogs die such a quick death?!?!?!?!

Answer:  Pogs were a wonderful invention.  Cheap to produce, and exponentially growing popular in the early 90s.  In my elementary school, pogs were banned because so many fights would break out.  Many were lost in the ‘92 battle of Diamond Point…  But I think pogs died a quick death because they were suddenly outlawed everywhere, and because a kid’s attention span is not long, we moved on to the next cool thing.  A one hit wonder, just like The Cardigans - Love Fool.

From a Jung Kim:  What is the meaning of life?

Answer:  First off, I’d like to say:  Smartass.  Now for the question, there is no single, universal meaning of life.  It’s contingent upon each person, and what they deem valuable.  If you’re talking about in terms of modern American society, the meaning of life in a nutshell would be to get an education, get a job, have money, and raise a family.  But as aforementioned, that cannot be generalized onto everyone.  If you yourself are trying to find the meaning of life, perhaps you should stop looking.  Some things are better left unexplained because doing otherwise takes the magic out of the enjoyment.

Keep the questions coming (: