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Parkie

If I dont remember....then it didnt happen, unless there are pics to prove otherwise ;)

About Me

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About time I rewrote this part, so here goes....my name on here is a result of me calling people by their last name and adding -ie to the end, so it got reversed onto me and the 'legend' of Parkie came about (credit to Cromwell, and to Anna and Kathy that kept calling it to me, haha). My real name is Richard (my best friends call me Richie, some can call me Rich) and my path of life after 6 years of college (2 at CCBC Catonsville & Essex and 4 at UMBC, getting my B.A. in psychology) seems to be stalled right now, due to my lack of work history and research knowledge. While my current job is going alright, it is NOT something I would want to stick with for the rest of my life, but for now its working and hopefully over time can help build the resume. 2002 started a very interesting journey, one that has culminated into knowing the people I know today, and while each year since has seen an increase in friends, in particular in 2006....a definite year of change (between losing touch w/some friends and meeting a bunch of new faces), it seems clear that 2007 may turn out that way as well, I guess we shall wait to see how it all unfolds!!
Your Birthdate: August 7
You are an island. You don't need anyone else to make you happy.
And though you see yourself as a loner, people are drawn to you.
Deep and sensitive, you tend to impress others with your insights.
You also tend to be psychic - so listen to that inner voice!
Your strength: Your self sufficiency
Your weakness: You despise authority
Your power color: Maroon
Your power symbol: Hammer
Your power month: July What Does Your Birth Date Mean?-A few new pics (including this one), taken during Kessell's graduation party on 5/26, this one w/Cromwell, Sarah, Allen & myself....-Here is the other, w/Kessell, myself, Steph & good ole JP, and on a night I did not get mad-drunk....-This one was taken on March 3rd at Camden Pub....w/myself, Andy, Kendall & Nick!!-How to start off 2007....simple, watch the Rose Bowl game that features your best friend's team (USC) w/some friends, eating wings, drinking some beers, playing pool, and being the last fans left representing our team, here is a pic of Teri, Parkie & Kathy =)-This one was before Christmas, and it featured an ole face I had not seen in a while (Dave) as well as my friends Leah and Marj....-I have been on this site for around 2 years now, the REAL reason I joined was ultimately to find ole high school friends and people I knew from my college years as well....and hope to get back in touch with them. Its not realisitic to think that I can keep in touch w/everyone equally, so I am glad a site like this exists, as it helps me, to an extent, fill me in on how they are doing....and to stay in contact, so ALRIGHT!! The intent was NEVER for dating or meeting random people, however the meeting random people part has more often than not (particularly in 2006) kept happening, but its cool. I gotta say, I really do have the COOLEST and BEST set of a friends a person could ask for. Its kind of unusual for a guy to say that his best friends are girls, but in my case its true....I LOVE my 3 best girls (Kathy, Anna, Meghan). I constantly say this, and will continue to do so....they ket about me is that my friends are the most important people in my life (family does come 1st) and I will do what it takes to ensure their happiness.
You Are 2: The Helper
You always put on a happy face and try to help those around you.
You're incredibly empathetic and care about everyone you know.
Able to see the good in others, you're thoughtful, warm, and sincere.
You connect with people who are charming and charismatic. What Number Are You?-These are the BEST group pics I had in 2006......

My Interests

My Friends, Psychology (understanding people), Halo, Halo 2, Halo 3 (whenever it decides to come out), Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Sports, Playing Cards (Texas Holdem), Sci-Fi, Pool, Foosball, Red Bull (or by itself) + Vodka, Long Islands, Captain Morgan, Southern Comfort, Chicken Wings (hot), CheeseSteaks, Onion Rings, WWE RAW, all of the following....
You Are 24 Years Old
Under 12: You are a kid at heart. You still have an optimistic life view - and you look at the world with awe.

13-19: You are a teenager at heart. You question authority and are still trying to find your place in this world.

20-29: You are a twentysomething at heart. You feel excited about what's to come... love, work, and new experiences.

30-39: You are a thirtysomething at heart. You've had a taste of success and true love, but you want more!

40+: You are a mature adult. You've been through most of the ups and downs of life already. Now you get to sit back and relax. What Age Do You Act?
Your Power Color Is Red-Orange
At Your Highest:

You are warm, sensitive, and focused on your personal growth.

At Your Lowest:

You become defensive and critical if you feel attacked.

In Love:

You are loyal - but you demand the respect you deserve.

How You're Attractive:

You are very affectionate and inspire trust.

Your Eternal Question:

"Am I Respected?" What's Your Power Color?
P Pure
A Ambitious
R Raw
K Kind
I Irresistible
E Exhausting
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Your Values Profile
Loyalty:

You value loyalty highly.
You're completely devoted to your friends and family.
Even if they totally screw up, you're still there for them.
Just make sure they're equally loyal to you!

Honesty:

You value honesty highly.
You're unflinchingly honest, even when it's not easy.
For you, integrity is very important - in yourself and others.
People may not always like what you say, but they know they can trust it.

Generosity:

You value generosity a fair amount.
You are all about giving, as long as there's some give and take.
Supportive and kind, you don't mind helping out a friend in need.
But you know when you've given too much. You have no problem saying "no"!

Humility:

You value humility highly.
You have the self-confidence to be happy with who you are.
And you don't need to seek praise to make yourself feel better.
You're very modest, and you're keep the drama factor low.

Tolerance:

You value tolerance highly.
Not only do you enjoy the company of those very different from you...
You do all that you can to seek it out interesting and unique friends.
You think there are many truths in life, and you're open to many of them. The Five Factor Values Test
TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Name: Richard Park(ie)
Birthday: 08/07/1982
Birthplace: Baltimore, Maryland
Current Location: Cockeysville, Maryland
Eye Color: brown
Hair Color: black
Height: 5' 5"
Right Handed or Left Handed: rightie
Your Heritage: South Korean
The Shoes You Wore Today: New Balance
Your Weakness: My Top 8 (esp. those in the Top 4)
Your Fears: losing a friendship
Your Perfect Pizza: meatball, rosemary ham & onions
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: graduate & get a REAL job
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: indeed
Thoughts First Waking Up: ah crap!!
Your Best Physical Feature: not sure
Your Bedtime: past midnight definitely
Your Most Missed Memory: My 23rd Birthday (Anna & Kathy know why)
Pepsi or Coke: Coke is better
MacDonalds or Burger King: both, since I got coupons & little money ;)
Single or Group Dates: have not done either
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: Lipton baby!!
Chocolate or Vanilla: vanilla, ummmmm....
Cappuccino or Coffee: neither, bleh :P
Do you Smoke: no
Do you Swear: when it is called for
Do you Sing: no, unless its karaoke
Do you Shower Daily: indeed
Have you Been in Love: of course
Do you want to go to College: still doing it, and inevitably grad school
Do you want to get Married: most likely
Do you belive in yourself: definitely
Do you get Motion Sickness: no
Do you think you are Attractive: not always, but thankfull my friends do =)
Are you a Health Freak: do u see the way I eat, Subway is healthy to me
Do you get along with your Parents: for the most part
Do you like Thunderstorms: what kinda question is this???
Do you play an Instrument: not anymore, stupid clarinet in 6th grade
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: trick question (yes)
In the past month have you Smoked: nope
In the past month have you been on Drugs: nope
In the past month have you gone on a Date: I wish
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: Hunt Valley one but to get Quiznos ;)
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: I miss Oreos, but um no....
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: yea, but ONLY Shrimp tempura rolls
In the past month have you been on Stage: nope
In the past month have you been Dumped: nope
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: no
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: no
Ever been Drunk: again, trick question
Ever been called a Tease: no
Ever been Beaten up: few times, but they got a beatdown themselves
Ever Shoplifted: no
How do you want to Die: I do not, but having made a difference
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: someone who can help people feel better about themselves
What country would you most like to Visit: not sure, but would wanna go if my friends did
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: blue
Favourite Hair Color: blonde, but darker hair is cool too (if you can pull it off)
Short or Long Hair: somewhere in the middle
Height: close to mine
Weight: something reasonable
Best Clothing Style: normal, NO LEATHER!!
Number of Drugs I have taken: 0
Number of CDs I own: 15, better than 0 from 1999
Number of Piercings: 0
Number of Tattoos: 0
Number of things in my Past I Regret: a couple, most of you know what those were....

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I'd like to meet:

People who do not change for anyone and always stay true to their character. Anyone that takes time and effort to make a difference in someone's life and can make people happy. A person that is not so darn self-centered and can actually seem (and are) concerned about how other people are feeling. Anyone that does not give off that 'im better than you' vibe and thinks they are all that....in other words, arrogant people. Local peeps would be ideal but making friends from elsewhere is cool as well.
You Have A Type B+ Personality
You're a pro at going with the flow
You love to kick back and take in everything life has to offer
A total joy to be around, people crave your stability.

While you're totally laid back, you can have bouts of hyperactivity.
Get into a project you love, and you won't stop until it's done
You're passionate - just selective about your passions Do You Have a Type A Personality?-5 year high school reunion was a good time, and for those that came....just awesome to see everyone again in the same place, and I FINALLY took the time to make a mini slideshow of other pics taken from that night, so here goes......-Not to be overlooked, but in my view this is the best group pic that I had from reunion, w/Bergeron, Wally, Steph, John, myself & Becky....-People that have a real PASSION for their music, so it is so darn cool to have friends that are in bands. Those that are pretty well established and recognized such as my friends in Plunge and Yesterdays News, those that are up-and-coming such as Second Class Citizen, and those that are on the verge of something BIG like my good friends of Eighty1South and Tim Cyphers. As far as my friends that are in the music field, I have had a limited collection of pics w/people that are part of some GREAT local music, and now is my chance to show some of it right here....in this most recent slideshow I have created of some of that talent, including the lovely girls of eighty1south, my boy Timmy Cyphers, Chris Sellman!!..-As far as celebrities go, 2 come to mind....Sarah Michelle Gellar, no doubt about it. I saw her evolution on Buffy the Vampire Slayer throughout each season and kept being amazed at how incredible she is. When you have the combination of beauty, personality and the "it" factor, you cannot help but be the best. I am just glad that my 3 best friends have these qualities, since meeting Sarah Michelle Gellar is so unlikely, but its my choice. I love all the movies she has been in, I probably will wind up getting them all. Another person I would also wanna meet is Richard Dean Anderson - heres a guy that goes from doing one of the coolest shows of all time in MacGyver to doing another of the coolest Sci-Fi shows of all time in Stargate SG-1!! This is the MAN right here, he is hilarious!!

Music:

-Kinda lacking in the music department, its safe to say though that it is slowly progressing. I like music with a good beat though, it cannot be slow and boring....so most likely something fast-paced, but as mentioned before, I got no idea. When it comes to music, I am not the right guy to ask, lol! I consider artists like Disturbed (their newest album Ten Thousand Fists is AWESOME), Rob Zombie, Radiohead to be good. I try to expand on my limited music horizons....I do have some friends in bands and like their music....like Plunge, Yesterdays News, and Second Class Citizen!! Over the past few months however, I have getting more and more exposed to more of the local bands in Maryland, I know cool dude named Tim Cyphers and Greg Riordan, both play some darn good music. And who would have thunk, I am kinda getting into country music....eighty1south is AWESOME!! I have gotten the pleasure to see on a weekly basis a very talented young lady named Danielle Renee!!

Movies:

The Matrix (all of them), Independence Day, The End of Days, Collateral Damage, Resident Evil, Resident Evil: Apocalypse (I agree with Jack....awesome movie), Scary Movie, Conspiracy Theory, all Jet Li movies, Saving Private Ryan, We Were Soldiers, The Fugitive, Eraser, True Lies, The Truman Show, Rush Hour 1 and 2, Office Space, American Pie 1 and 2, all 3 Die Hard movies, Speed, The Net

Television:

I am SO sick of all the reality shows that keep on coming....and they have gotten more and more ridiculous, the latest one America's Got Talent, do not even start me up on how much of a joke that one is. It is REAL sad to see how desperate people are to try and get onto TV. If you wanna make headlines, helping someone out is FAR more rewarding than being on TV in my view. But back to the topic, my 2 favorites of all time are Seinfeld and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Now those 2 shows were original and far beter than most of the crap that shows up nowadays. But for current shows, my favorites at the moment are Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis and Monk, and most recently, the show Tilt on ESPN is GREAT (high stakes poker, gotta love it)!! I am also a fan of Smallville, Charmed, and Angel. Most recently, the Sci-Fi series Battlestar Galatica has been quite interesting to watch!

Books:

Interestingly enough, the psychology textbooks over the years have been good reads. I have returned some but kept my fair-share of them, including Personality, Abnormal Psychology, Human Growth and Development, Adolescence. Yep I am indeed a psyc geek, lol!! And oh yea....any book that the damn bookstore will not give me any money for I wind up keeping. And if possible, I try to sell them to others and at least get something back for them, lol.

Heroes:

Anyone that puts the feelings of others above their own (Kathy)! People that stay true to their character by being themselves and not having to impress anyone. Anyone that can realize their TRUE POTENTIAL and try to better themselves in making a difference in someone's life. Here are some prime examples right here =)

My Blog

Things That Currently Annoy Parkie....

Not sure how long or short this may turn out to be, but here goes.... 1.  Cingular....why do you keep pretending to exist, you SOLD OUT to AT&T, yet you keep having your retarded commercials ...
Posted by Parkie on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 08:22:00 PST

June Tends to be Fun....

Hey all, I figured it was nearly a month since last posting so time to update on some stuff.... -1st off, May turned out to be somewhat eventful....between a surprise return from Kathy (even if it was...
Posted by Parkie on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 08:11:00 PST

Are You Ready, for March Madness....

Its mid-March and time to find out which, outta 65 teams out there across the country is ready to prove, they deserve to be the 2007 NCAA National Champions.  Its so fun, it promotes a bunch of o...
Posted by Parkie on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 09:03:00 PST

Random Stuff....

Have not posted in a few weeks, so I feel the NEED to talk about some stuff....so here goes!! -1st off, I had been sick since the 23rd, no fun but hopefully its the one and only cold I get this year.....
Posted by Parkie on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 11:04:00 PST

Good Ole Valentines Day....

Not much to say about it this year around that I had not the past 2 years I wrote a blog about it....but since this year I am turning 25, I am somewhat more bitter at it than the previous 2 years, jus...
Posted by Parkie on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 08:05:00 PST

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, Its Cold....And Something I NEED to Vent About!!

Oh, thats all I have to say, haha.... -Ok, been quite a while since writing one of these, reason being is that I have gotten kinda lazy and somewhat outta ideas but w/every couples' favorite holiday c...
Posted by Parkie on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 08:39:00 PST

Polar Bear Plunge, Jan. 27, 2007....Please Help

Hey, last year I heard about this from the same friend of mine that is doing it again this year....and I am hoping you can help his cause out, its for a good cause and YOU KNOW PARKIE ALWAYS PROMOTES ...
Posted by Parkie on Tue, 16 Jan 2007 07:48:00 PST

The HUGE Showdown....Steelers vs. Ravens!!

We all may be stuffed from Thanksgiving last night and the prospect of eating all of the leftovers will make us sick the next few days (among those that decided to get all crazy and do the 5-12 shoppi...
Posted by Parkie on Fri, 24 Nov 2006 08:11:00 PST

Today's HUGE College Football Games....

Today and the next 2 weeks, should things go the right way....will clear the way for the BCS championship game that I, and I would think everyone else would want to see, and of course I am talking abo...
Posted by Parkie on Sat, 18 Nov 2006 10:24:00 PST

Campaign 2006, Who Will Win....

I am hoping everyone can send me more ideas (as I have only gotten 2 responses so far) but for now, I feel like writing about this....on the day of mid-term Elections.  This should be a very inte...
Posted by Parkie on Tue, 07 Nov 2006 09:04:00 PST