Chang

What can I say about Chang? He's one of a kind but there are a billion people who look like him.Chang once drove to Miami from Massachusetts with a Japanese exchange student in the trunk of a Hyundai Santa Fe.He likes to think of himself as a very outgoing person.Chang had to drive 8 hours north to rescue his friends who were sick and had been attacked by a crazy guy on the Appalachian trail.He has filled the Thai food restaraunt near his house with over 50 people...thrice.He's teaching himself backflips. Progress is slow.He's a mountain climber. He's climbed many mountains, including Washington and Katadihn.He has battled in cardboard and duct tape (Skotchtobrfest).Chang once hit the window operator at Wendy's with a waterballoon by accident while trying to hit his friend getting food.He works at a skydiving school packing parachutes.Chang once sold Steven Tyler women's underwear.Chang made a fire so big on the beach that people from the next town thought the marsh and dunes were on fire (see pictures)He has slept on the beach many times.Chang was a pioneer of urban golf. This game is similar to frisbee golf. You use golf clubs, plastic cups as tees, tennis balls as the balls, and instead of holes, you pick something like a store front.He's been choked out twice because he wouldn't say "I quit"Chang knows that we often make the mistake of thinking we're important.He has met a bunch of his really good friends on facebook and myspace but he acknowledges that both websites are full of sketchballs.He has seen a man die in real life.He's driven almost all of route 95 from northern Maine to southern Florida.He is the reason that nerf guns are banned at Westfield State College.He's slept in a car for weeks.He wrote an essay comparing the different ethos' of Batman and Superman as an allegory for the differences in politcal thought between Aristotle and Plato for an honors philosophy class on the best form of government. He got an A.He's driven to Philadelphia just for a cheese steak in the middle of the night...several times.He likes to pull pranks.Chang played capture the flag in Boston and discovered that the only force that could counter Team Awesome was in fact...Team Awesome.He's lives in a room at a skydiving school for the summer.He loves "B" movies.He almost died caving in southern Alabama.He randomly drove to NYC in the middle of the night to see the sun rise from the top of the Empire State building.He's hit a wild alligator in the eye with a marshmellow, the alligator was pissed.He's walked a 5 foot wide path with a 5,000 foot drop on each side. (The Knife's Edge on Mount Katadihn)Chang does not like doctors.He is banned from all McDonald's worldwide.He is very often misunderstood.His personality type is "entp", it is the most rare type.He's never done drugs or been drunk but he doesn't look down on people who do, it just isn't for him. He has tons of friends who drink and do drugs, it has never gotten in the way.He has lucid dreams all the time.He has been on national T.V. including CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, and Fox news for an offensive home movie that he made with his friends.He's climbed water towers just to have a picnic on the top.He's rappelled off the water tower in his town in the middle of the night.He knows himself better than most.He plays a lot of frisbee.In high school he snuck out of his house to kayak the south river at 2 a.m. on a school night.He once urinated in the Poland Spring after a freak accident left him stranded on the side of the road in Poland Maine.He likes rock climbing and rappelling.He once saw a man get stabbed because he thought that Korn was superior to Metallica.He tries to help as many people as he can.He's been on random trips everywhere from Florida to Colorado.He's always in for trying cool things.Chang is hard to understand for most people.He is a spontaneous person.He makes his dreams a reality instead of just dreaming them.He is pretty good at hackey sack.He once found himself stranded 1500 miles away from home in Miami with a car that had $1,800 worth of damage. Together the three of them including Chang had only $327 and a scratch ticket.He likes philosophy.He has been in an actual bus evacuation.He has been stuck on a mountain at night.Every year he and his friends have an annual event called “Skotchtobrfest”. This even consists of a cook out, pudding wrestling, caber tossing, live bands, bagpipe playing, and a Braveheart battle where you have to make all your own armor and weapons out of nothing but cardboard, duct tape, and bubble wrap.Chang was the only person to get an A in his philosophy class. He successfully argued that he is greater than God on the final exam.He once slept on the roof of his friend’s car, parked at the Vince Lombardi rest stop for truckers off the side of the New Jersey Turnpike during a lightning storm with a space blanket for protection.Once while he was walking down the streets of Boston two homeless men challenged him and his friends to a beat boxing competition. Once they saw their (well, mostly Colin's) skills it just turned into an all out beat boxing jam with the two hobos.He's slept in a graveyard on Nantucket because he was kicked out of the place where he was staying.He's had a cookout in the middle of the night in the courtyard of an elementary school.He owns a Jeep wrangler.He once drove 4 hours to Vermont to get Thai food. When he got there at one in the morning, he climbed to the top of Okemo Mountain. He slept on a chair lift using a sheet of plastic as a blanket. He was worried about bears so he made a flamethrower out of a can of OFF and zippo. The next morning he went to the Thai food place to discover it was closed that day.He once played hide and go seek in an abandoned revolutionary war fort.He has been his friend's legal aid in a court of law.He is able to get along with almost all people.He is banned from the town of Hanson Massachusetts.He likes paintball.He enjoys conversations where you really feel a connection with someone.He once pied his R.A.He drives standard.He can juggle.He once slept in a church parking lot in his friend's 2 door chevy cavalier in Montreal in the middle of the winter.He likes to argue.He doesn't like dumb people.He loves snowboarding.He likes beach fires. He loves the beach (duh). He like it at night the most.He thinks too much sometimes.He acts without thinking other times.Chang has pissed off of the roofs of Marshalls, The New Hall, and several schools.He plays the saxophone.He can't stand who he used to be.He has complicated beliefs.He cooked his dinner on a fire on the beach pretty much everyday for two months during the summer.He has incredible luck.He once sold a man a few hundred dollars worth of merchandise and then had the man arrested.He has great friends.He knows that Batman is the man and can kick Superman's ass.He's slept in a McDonald's play place.He does a lot of off-roading.People call him Chang, his real name is Matt.He feel like he's wasting his life too often.He once turned the side of Dunkin Donuts into a Bat-signal.He doesn't like it when people change themselves to fit in.He's had the same dream his whole life.He's not special.He was in band for 8 years.He thinks most people waste their lives, including him.He's been mistaken for a homeless man while sleeping in a burger king.He's a rebel that follows rules.He's loyal.He's been seen climbing around the roof tops of Boston.He's had a loaded gun pointed at him.He likes to grill on the beach.He once saw a deer get hit by an 18 wheeler going 70 mph on the mass pike.He has trouble with math.He's always trying to be the best person he can be.He has been attacked by a wild alligator while adventuring in the Everglades.He thinks about life constantly.People think he is crazy.He thinks that he is sane in a crazy world.Time fucks with him. He can't believe how much he's changed.He once saw a moose that got decapitated by a minivan.He loves his town but he must escape the urge to stay there.He has a peculiar memory.He is smart.He is stupid.He thinks he is a waste of life.He looks for meaning all the time.He has broken into an abandoned insane asylum.Lots of the time, Chang knows that he is not living up to his potential.Some of his best friends are not like him at all on the surface.He finds it's too easy to sink into routine.He needs to feel alive.One of his favorite things to do is just talking with another intelligent person.He asks himself a lot of questions.He likes local music.He is an R.A. at Westfield State.He is a dual major.He was President of the class of 2007.He owns his own business.He has a very fun time with life.Chang once built a viking snowman out of the wreckage of a bus crash he survived.He helps as many people as he can.When his body fails him, he wants to teach philosophy.He has been lit on fire twice. He got revenge both times.He hates it when people bitch about life but don't try to fix it.He owns a few hundred dollars worth of Batman books.He has views that most people don't have.He is friendly.He tries to live for today.He likes talking to people.He hates letting himself waste his life.He works at ski shop.He misses the days of the 40oz crew.He believes that we are who we choose to be.He the most complex, simple person I know.Chang was in Alabama when the car he was in started to make bad noises. He looked at his friend (Campbell) and Campbell looked back at him. Chang said "There is no way we can make it back to Marshfield like this....but I think we can make it to Miami" to which Campbell replied "At least we'll be warm" they then said "let's kick it" and drove 10 hours south to Miami where the car was riding on 1 break and a blown suspension.He's slept in the parking lot of a Walmart in Tennessee.He swims in the ocean every January 1st.He'd do anything for his friends.He likes to change signs around.He has slept over night on a bench in a park in North Conway New Hampshire. He woke up at dawn and climbed Mt Washington.He's writing a book with his best friend.After waking up in a field in the Everglades, Chang walked into the woods, got a stick, tied some line with a with a hook to it, baited it with some marshmellow and cast it into a river in the Everglades, he and his friends caught 5 fish and fried them up for breakfast.He befriended a group of homeless people that were living in a public bathroom in Key West.He hates the source of the greatest things about him.He likes to swim in the ocean at night and then warm up by a beach fire.In high school he and his friends enjoyed making bombs out of dry ice.Chang was sleeping on top of a mountain, after exploring some caves in Tennessee, in a kiddie size tent that he was sharing with a Japanese exchange student. It was so cold that Chang got into the fetal position inside the sleeping bag and rolled the top so no heat could escape. He could only get a little bit of his pillow inside so he rested his forehead on the pillow and his mouth on the ground. Then he heard some coyotes and thought to himself "this is what my life has come to, this is great!"He is a love/hate kind of guy. A lot of people hate him until they get to know him. He comes off as someone who he isn't.Chang drove to Key West just to go swimming in the ocean because it was cold in Massachusetts.Matt Madden is Chang's Bruce Wayne, Chang can't exist without Matt's financial backing. Being Chang is very expensive.He loves the change of seasons but he knows that summer is supreme.Not being near the ocean really fucks with him.He enjoys playing with fireworks.Almost nobody really knows him.When he was a freshman, Chang took a coach from the lounge, dragged it up half a flight of stairs, stood it on its side, leaning against his R.A.'s door and knocked on the door and ran away. After the coach fell on him, his R.A. immediately went to Chang's room to yell at him because he knew he was the most likely suspect.He has driven to Queens, New York, just to eat some White Castle.One day while the plane was broken, Chang tied an 800 foot rope to his jeep and towed his friend who was wearing a parachute behind the jeep. His friend went para-sailing over ground and almost died.On his first day of college Chang noticed that all the people around him just wanted to sit around and drink. He did not want to do this. He said to a person who he just met let's go climb that mountain, as he pointed at a mountain in the distance. Westfield State College does not allow freshman to have cars on campus so the two young men walked to the mountain, forded a river, and climbed to the top. Upon returning to the college they discovered that the campus police had been notified that they were missing. The young men checked in with the police and were told that State Police rescue teams had been on stand by and that they should drop criminal justice as a major.He believes in personal responsibility.Once when Chang was trying to find philosophy books in the middle of the night, Chang and his two friends met a homeless man in Northampton. The man offered to bring the three young boys to a 24 hour library in exchange for a ride. While driving to the library, the man asked if they were interested in digging up a grave so that they could sell a human skull on ebay. The young philosophers said no.Chang and his two friends were hopping a train heading west one day when they were pulled out of the box car by Officer Eddie O'Brien. When Officer O'Brien asked what they were doing, they responded "looking for adventure".Last summer he spent at the beach near his house Mon-Wed and skydiving Thurs-Sun.Chang is in graduate school studying Criminal Justice, concentrating in Homeland Security. He's also been talking to Homeland Security (Border Patrol), Marine Corps officer recruiters for jobs after school.Chang once outlasted a Wendy's window operator when the employee refused to serve his friend and himself. The employee refused to serve them because their lights were off at the drive through. After waiting about 10 minutes, they finally made their food. Then Chang and his friend decided to go somewhere else.Chang once hit his best friend in the face with a dildo inside of a sex shop in New Hampshire. The head of the dildo was a replica of Bill Clinton's head/face .The girl who Chang lets date him knows him really well. Yet, she stalks him in the internet for some reason which he does not understand.Chang has over 100 sky dives under his belt.On his last night of summer before moving away to college for his freshman year, he stayed up all night on the beach where he had spent many of his summers and he watched the sun rise.He owns an AK-47 as an insurance policy against zombies.He got into a low speed pursuit (9mph) with the police on the longest wooden bridge in America after disturbing a hobo who was living in a tent on the beach in the middle of the night. Note that he was only a passenger for this incident and that it was his friend Sam's stupid idea.He works full time at a skydiving facility in Orange, MA, and the person who he admires most who works there, does not skydive.He has climbed a mountain in the middle of the night to have a fire at the top.He believes in hard work and earning your way.When he is at college, he wakes up every morning at 6:30 to climb a mountain.He was wearing a blue Hawaiian shirt the day he moved into college his freshman year. He wore that same shirt under his gown at graduation.Pretty much everything on this list is a direct result of a phone call Chang got on March 23rd 2002 at 8:50 a.m. that changed his life.He is a much deeper person than how this stupid thing describes him, if you want more talk to him.aim- Chang the crazywww.deadjournal.com/users/crazychang-Suzyp.s. He's amazed that anyone has read this whole thing...go outside or something.