Rest In Peace

Taken from here.

"LA MIRADA – A 28-year-old man was killed over the weekend after he was hit and dragged more than 70 feet by a van at a Del Taco parking lot, authorities said.

The hit-and-run accident occurred at 2:15 a.m. Saturday at 15055 Imperial Highway, said Sgt. Liza Gonzalez of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.

Liberty Jaswal , whose friends say is from Pomona, was walking to the trash can when he was struck by a white Chevrolet Astro van traveling at 15-20 mph, Gonzalez said. Jaswal was dragged under the van for about 70 feet before the van rolled over him.

Jaswal, a fourth-year philosophy doctoral student at UC San Diego, was pronounced dead at UCI Medical Center in Orange at 4:18 a.m.

“Had the driver of the van just put on the brakes, Liberty would have been alive,” said Jake B. Wilson, who was Jaswal’s best friend and witnessed the accident. “But instead, the van accelerated and went right towards him,” he said.

Wilson said he ran after the van that was dragging his friend of 15 years and yelled at the driver to stop. But the driver just drove faster, he said.

Jaswal and Wilson had been playing pool with another group of friends before they stopped at Del Taco, never imagining what would happen. Wilson described his friend as an environmental, animal and human rights activist that who was unselfish and compassionate.

Authorities are looking for two suspects - a man in his 20s who was driving and a woman in her 20s who was in the passenger seat.

The passenger was heard yelling “Go, go go,” after Jaswal was down, Gonzalez said.

The van was seen fleeing on Los Coyotes Avenue, Gonzalez said.

Wilson is asking the driver and passenger of the van or anyone who might have information to come forward.

“We can’t bring Liberty back, but we want to bring the individuals to justice so we can get a small sense of peace in such a tragic moment,” Wilson said.

Jaswal would have turned 29 on July 1st."




He was my first DOC TA. I liked him.

http://www.helpliberty.com/

Complaints

I do not like having my stuff in three places and constantly living out of my suitcase. I already forgot some very important papers at home and I can never find anything that I need. Maybe I was smart enough to leave the papers here in SD that I need, but I doubt it.

It's so humid here in SD and I'm cranky because of a long (but fun) car ride after 3 hours of sleep.

Anyways, my vacationing and playing in Cupertino has already made me flake on some things. Now that I'm back in SD, I have 1 million things to do. I love my parents because they always clean up after me when needed. I think I forgot to kiss my dad goodbye today and it's bothering me slightly.

Cupertino cops are ridiculous. They have nothing better to do than give tickets or check up on three girls who are talking "too loudly" at 11:30pm. Today I seriously had my seatbelt off for 2 seconds and I got pulled over! :(


On the other hand, I am obsessed with this movie. I want to be able to bust it like a black woman. See, women with good childbearing hips are good for something.

The Summer Feeling

For every season change, I get a different feeling. Do you get that feeling too or is it just me? I remember talking to Kei about it and how we missed the fall feeling of Cupertino (crisp air) because San Diego is mushy and humid.

I LOVE the summer feeling especially here in Cupertino. I love how the sun sets at like 8:30pm and dusk is my absolute favorite time of day. I love driving around and just being outside at night time because it's cool, but still pretty warm. I love hanging out with family and friends here - a part of me wishes I was just working and staying here for the summer, but I know Italy will be a lot of fun too.

It's super nice not having anything to do, but I'm so lazy that I can't even get the few things that I need to get done, done. Sigh, oh well, what can you do. It's summer. :)

The Final Stretch

I made this blog a while ago, but I haven't actually used it since. I figured that 1. it's finals week and 2. I'm going to use this for my summer adventure in Italy, I might as well start writing in this now. I've actually been doing a lot of journaling so I haven't had any urge to write in my xanga.


I went home a couple weekends ago and it was such a nice feeling to get away from all my responsibilities in San Diego. I had so many thoughts about Cupertino, but it's not worth mentioning them now. It's just interesting how much things stay the same, but at the same time change so drastically. And how sometimes people become strangers. And is a friendship real if you don't talk to that person at all during the year but then spend all your time with them at home? Yeah, I guess it's nice that no matter how distant you guys are things can get picked right back up, but to a certain point is the friendship just based on convenience? I don't really know - I have such mixed feelings about that. I probably also have a double standard on the subject. Like it's ok for some friends to be like that, but for others it's not.

San Diego is good though. This year has gone by so fast. I can't believe it's been a year since my summer days of working at YMCA, taking classes with Kei and Mel, and hanging out late into the warm summer nights. My second year started out as a blast, went a little poopy for a while, but now I don't want it to end. I don't want to move off campus because I love where my apartment is this year and I love living on campus. Even though I don't HANG OUT with my neighbors, it's the little things that I'm going to miss. I'm going to miss people barging in to use the bathroom and walking over to somebody's place to borrow a pot or skateboard. It's just that I've finally become content with my situation here that I don't want it to end. It's such a different feeling from last year when I was more excited to go home and spend the summer in Cupertino than I was sad about moving out of the res-halls.


I think I'm going to miss these group of girls the most. Honestly, it's not even because I feel the closest to them, but rather it's because so many of them are leaving next year! Only five girls are returning and I really wish I got to know them better. At our last concert, I kept thinking that this was the last time this kind of sound would ever be produced. Next year, with a different group of girls, there will be a different set of voices, creating a different sound. Hopefully I will be less shy during my second year in DOTs and look less tall and awkward in performances.


Oh man, these people. Outside of my roommates, I think I spent the most time with them - we got together at least twice a week. I'm going to miss the cabinet of 06-07. It did take me a while to get comfortable with them, but in the end I can look back at all the freaking meetings and events we put on and say that it's been a blast. I'm sad that we didn't get closer in the beginning, but hopefully I will get to see them next year. It felt so good to pull of a successful banquet/year. Let's hope next year goes well too.

Speaking of next year, look at these beautiful people. Things have started off pretty well already, but the real test will be next fall. We've already had so many laughs let's just hope they don't get sick of each other too soon.

Sometimes I like finals week because I feel like most of the time at the library it's just a huge hang out. Although that's not necessarily good for my grades, this is how I felt during junior year too. Since everybody is struggling against school little things just make it all bearable like butt cracks and running around parked cars at a red light.

Anyways, I really can't wait until summer. Only 3 more days and 2 more finals to go! I'm dreading move out day, but I guess it's just something that has to be done. Part of me wishes I was going to stay in Cupertino to chill with buddies, but part of me is so so excited to go to Italy. It hasn't even really hit me yet. Argh, I don't want to go back to studying - I hate papers, they take up so much time.