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1. Kiri Sparks is like the best person I've ever met. Like. EVER. 
2. I AM SO DONE WITH MY FINAL PROJECT! I GOT A WEEK OF FREE TIME!!! HOLLA AT YO' BOY, SON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
3. So today, to celebrate my wrap up of final project, I went to EUR (pronounced as an one word, Ay-oor). EUR stands for Esposizione Universale Romana and was erected during the Mussolini's throne to realize his imperial fantasy. All over the Italy, there are signs of Fascist movement through architecture and while fascism itself is some crazy ass idea that I would not like to get into, Italian fascist art and architecture is something you should take a look at. Other than EUR, Milan's main train station and the central postal office at Naples are also two biggest architectural monuments from Mussolini's fascist era. Anyway, because I went there early saturday morning, not a damn soul was around which made the place looking that much gaudier and creepier at the same time. We are talking about very solemn fascist buildings here, they look square and they are big as a motherf'er. It's hard to think that whole area is a failed project because of it's audacity when I walked in there. Now surrounded with all the businesses and banks and such, EUR certainly has lost its fascist taste, however, I could not stop myself from marveling at some of the buildings. EUR is located at outside of Rome and it is, yes, virtually a suburb of Rome. To tell you the truth, the first impression of EUR when I got out of the subway station was it looked like Bellevue. It totally did. But then Bellevue doesn't have an ass kicking looking basilica, they got Bellevue Square. Boo-hoo. So EUR wins, hands down. 
4. I love riding on the subway, wherever I'm at. Subway is the best public transportation. EVER. I took a subway to go to EUR this morning and it was like best feeling ever. I don't like bus that much and taxi sucks hard but the subway always gives me a good feeling. As stale and sometimes even acidic as they would come, subway trains and subway stations always give me some kind of nostalgic vibe. It's probably when I was kid living in Korea, we didn't have a car so my mom and I would get on subway trains and she would buy me a steamed corn or a can of soda or things like that just so that I won't make any noises when I'm on the train but anyway, subway trains are so awesome. Especially in Rome, they are all tagged up and 'decorated' in this beautiful graffiti, cars after cars...I feel like I'm riding on the best roller coaster in the world. Super awesome. 
5. I think I'm going to try Chino tomorrow, it's an Italian soda. It says it's like a bitter cola.It also will make your face cringe a little from what I've heard. Sounds like my drink. Coke and Pepsi sucks arse. 
6. No, I am not sad anymore even when I go back home. That's not going to happen. I am doing great. I don't tell that to myself to just to hypnotize me. It is actually turning alright and I am actually doing great. 
7. A can of beer does not effect me at all anymore. I'm a changed man, I'm a beast, I'm nasty, I'm evil...but then, I still get drunk after a bottle of wine. I don't want to step my game up on that anytime soon.