So today was the official start of my winter break, but again I ask it is really a break for me? Break from school, yes but from God's Will never. I had a great time of fellowship of lunch with David D. It was just amazing that we could just spend time and pray together over CBC's needs. It's funny how the Spirit is giving me the same thoughts along with other CBC leaders as well. I pretty much spent the rest of the day shopping for the first time, better late than never right. As I was walking through Somerset, I still can't get over the fact that it's been about 3 years now since my incidents with some of my supposed closest high school friends. As I kept walking around, I just decided to leave because of some of the painful memories there. Honestly, I felt kind of alone today and these incidents made me in the past unable to trust people. I bought some things for myself to kind of cheer me up so to say, but ya know it's just material things that come and go. I finally bought this book at FCS, and it talks about how to deal with contemporary issues using the Bible. So I can't wait to dive in that, purchasing that lifted my spirit up a little.
And I came home in time to watch the Survivor finale, which I predicted right that Brian was gonna win. But it is something that Ken said about integrity. And I still remember the lesson about integrity I learned last year in BSF. And a couple of things that hit me of what Maragret taught this past Sunday. One of them was how she had a particular weakness and she kept working on it so that it doesn't appear as much. Now I know I have my weaknesses but I continue to do my best to work on them. What really bothered me today is how some people have certain weaknesses but it's like they use it as an excuse sometimes now because it's been their habit or it's like you gotta expect that from them. I dunno where I'm going with this, but as for integrity, I just hope like Ken said, all I can hope for is when I leave is to have my integrity.
I guess I've been letting my frustrations get the better of me. I think a nice read, would be to dive into Hosea because it's just amazing what he does. Anyways, I guess I just need to focus on this Saturday's tournament as the 5-1-4 will be looking to rocking the house. if only I knew where we are playing still? And now, I've been put back on the grill for b-ball from my cousin. As he's got me in some sort of 3 on 3 game for $$$$, just another day in the office I guess.
Take Me Back To Heaven
Friday, December 20, 2002
Tuesday, December 17, 2002
Finally this semester has come to an end and where the GG is Melissa she was suppose to meet me at the KL as soon as she finished. I had a nice time of finishing the 97 question exam in less than 45 minutes. I woke up early to study as well but gosh it was like soooo boring that I just layed on the couch. Now I can relax over my break right? Wrong, their is still soooo much of God's ministries to be done and I can't believe to even imagine that He is using me in all these ways. What the chicken, now Melissa finally gets here. Wow it took her 2 hours to finish that exam compared to my world record time. Anyways going back to what I was saying, I mean it's like the sports ministries are pretty much up to me to be the one who keeps things going while the outreach committee is gone on vaction/work. Then their's trying to lead the 5-1-4, along with serving at the Chrismas Eve Service. These are just to name a few things but man may I be remind of 2 Cor. 4:5? I think it was about relying on God's power and not of my own. It's too bad that I didn't get the vacation that everyone else is getting, but hey I get to serve, learn, and grow in Him even more.
Last night I finally figured out which team I was playing for, the team name was Altair. The first thing I walked and noticed at Boulan was wow I'm the shortest and youngest player in this league now, the net is at men's height, and is that Rob D standing over there? This league is pretty fun, I like the fact that we play 5 games up to 25 points rally scoring. So how did I do, well my first thought about this team was, wow these guys stink but how in the world are they in first. So the first game I played like crap because it's been a while since I had to hit on a men's net, I kept hitting it into the net. As the game progressed, I played at my usual level but I didn't have to play any higher than just being normal as in my opinion I didn't need to go S.S. It was funny because one of my teammates Charlie kept getting pissed at me for running a couple of quicks. Why was he mad, because he said the team is not use to my flashiness on offense and let's stick to the game plan of running a simple 4-2. Later, the captain Phil came up to me and apologized to me for them not being world class players. Later Charlie got even madder at me when I called a timeout because we were up by 12 and our lead was cut to 3. He was mad and told the team not to get into the huddle with me, but hahah even his own teammates didn't want to listen to him and they listened to what I had to say in the huddle while Charlie just isolated himself on the court. Then Charlie got mad again at me when I didn't take the 2nd ball, and I was like uhh hey stupid am I the setter? However I decided to yell at the setter for not calling help and that it's not my fault that he is slow and unable to get the pass, plus it wasn't even me who shanked that pass. Phil and Kevin had to pull me back as I just chewed out Charlie. Gosh I wish I was playing against him, so I can go S.S. and make him eat my Air Force Ones. Anyways so after the 5 games, Rob asked me in a sarcastic way of how were my setters? Kevin thought when I did set, that I was the best setter on the team, wow imagine that? But it's too bad that I was the best hitter on the team as well. The team we were playing against, had this one guy I'd called greenie because he had all green on was getting pissed at his own teammates for their mistakes like he was Mr. Perfect or something. So you had to love this, when he tried to kill it over me and I just stuffed him and the ball came straight down on his side. My reaction, stare down baby as he should shut his mouth too and that he isn't the best player on his team, plus I thought it was mean especially when he was kept yelling at their oldest player on the team, that was uncalled for, hence my stare down block was for them.
Well that's it for today, if you're reading this please take a minute to pray that the Holy Spirit will work within me tonight during v-ball sharing. I need to jet because I got this thing called a hair cut, so I look slick this Saturday for the v-ball tournament, and then lunch with Lindsay! Yay I haven't hung out with her in sooooo long it seems like.
California Dreamin'
Last night I finally figured out which team I was playing for, the team name was Altair. The first thing I walked and noticed at Boulan was wow I'm the shortest and youngest player in this league now, the net is at men's height, and is that Rob D standing over there? This league is pretty fun, I like the fact that we play 5 games up to 25 points rally scoring. So how did I do, well my first thought about this team was, wow these guys stink but how in the world are they in first. So the first game I played like crap because it's been a while since I had to hit on a men's net, I kept hitting it into the net. As the game progressed, I played at my usual level but I didn't have to play any higher than just being normal as in my opinion I didn't need to go S.S. It was funny because one of my teammates Charlie kept getting pissed at me for running a couple of quicks. Why was he mad, because he said the team is not use to my flashiness on offense and let's stick to the game plan of running a simple 4-2. Later, the captain Phil came up to me and apologized to me for them not being world class players. Later Charlie got even madder at me when I called a timeout because we were up by 12 and our lead was cut to 3. He was mad and told the team not to get into the huddle with me, but hahah even his own teammates didn't want to listen to him and they listened to what I had to say in the huddle while Charlie just isolated himself on the court. Then Charlie got mad again at me when I didn't take the 2nd ball, and I was like uhh hey stupid am I the setter? However I decided to yell at the setter for not calling help and that it's not my fault that he is slow and unable to get the pass, plus it wasn't even me who shanked that pass. Phil and Kevin had to pull me back as I just chewed out Charlie. Gosh I wish I was playing against him, so I can go S.S. and make him eat my Air Force Ones. Anyways so after the 5 games, Rob asked me in a sarcastic way of how were my setters? Kevin thought when I did set, that I was the best setter on the team, wow imagine that? But it's too bad that I was the best hitter on the team as well. The team we were playing against, had this one guy I'd called greenie because he had all green on was getting pissed at his own teammates for their mistakes like he was Mr. Perfect or something. So you had to love this, when he tried to kill it over me and I just stuffed him and the ball came straight down on his side. My reaction, stare down baby as he should shut his mouth too and that he isn't the best player on his team, plus I thought it was mean especially when he was kept yelling at their oldest player on the team, that was uncalled for, hence my stare down block was for them.
Well that's it for today, if you're reading this please take a minute to pray that the Holy Spirit will work within me tonight during v-ball sharing. I need to jet because I got this thing called a hair cut, so I look slick this Saturday for the v-ball tournament, and then lunch with Lindsay! Yay I haven't hung out with her in sooooo long it seems like.
California Dreamin'
Monday, December 16, 2002
Ya know considering I still have 1 exam left tomorrow morning, I've been treating this past weekend like I was out of school already. This weekend was draining as I woke up butt early to go see Ting play at her high school tournament for v-ball. Last night, I had fellowship over at Fred and Kim's because Margaret was sharing about how God's been working in her life lately or over the year. I remember last summer I attended Maragaret's sharing as well, but I didn't get to stay as long. I think it was because I had to go to the D-Ship/College Dinner last summer after it. But this time I'm just sooo thankful that I stayed and really got to know her more. Her words of wisdom was just an encouragement to me to continue to serve in the 5-1-4. It's just too bad that she's always bouncing around but hey that's how God is using her so I can't complain. Hopefully I get to spend more time to talk to Margaret before she leaves, but she's just so funny telling us stories about her and Freddy :)
Finally there's tonight, where I'll be playing in this new v-ball league I guess you can call it that. Honestly I'm quite nervous because I have no idea who I am playing with, never met them in my life before. Gosh what if my level isn't as high as these guys? I'm starting to get that feeling of yup the lone CBC person type of thing, oh God be with me tonight. And afterwards I gotta make yet another trip to CBC for music practice for tomorrow night. I just can't explain the feelings I got when Fred was talking to me about how this sharing is the first time ever in the sanctuary and that this could be the springboard for something bigger for God's glory. If only Charles was here to see how much sharing has changed since his days when he first started it.
The Boys Of Summer
Finally there's tonight, where I'll be playing in this new v-ball league I guess you can call it that. Honestly I'm quite nervous because I have no idea who I am playing with, never met them in my life before. Gosh what if my level isn't as high as these guys? I'm starting to get that feeling of yup the lone CBC person type of thing, oh God be with me tonight. And afterwards I gotta make yet another trip to CBC for music practice for tomorrow night. I just can't explain the feelings I got when Fred was talking to me about how this sharing is the first time ever in the sanctuary and that this could be the springboard for something bigger for God's glory. If only Charles was here to see how much sharing has changed since his days when he first started it.
The Boys Of Summer
Thursday, December 12, 2002
Woooooo I have surpassed the 1 day of hell tonight with back to back exams, took care of the term paper, and going strong on my all nighter. What really got me going last night was just a great time of sharing from the 5-1-4 crew. I came home and pretty much just hit the books all night long. My diet last night consisted of that ice coffee with 2 hots expresso and over 20 packets of sugar, a large ice cappucino, and a couple cans of coke. I think that messed up my eating habit because my stomach kept growling, so I tried eating pizza but as I put it in my mouth I just wanted to spit it out. So yup I'm pretty much going on no food today either except for a couple of Flipz I had earlier. I finished my review sheets earlier than expected so I treated myself to a nap at around 10 and woke back up and hour later. It wasn't too much of a nap as I had trouble trying to sleep. I got up and it felt like I had a caffine hangover or a buzz, whatever that feels like, but I'm sure that's what I got. All that sugar just rushed to my head so I just kept drinking water all day to clean out my system now.
So I showered and went to go to the KL to study with Jenny for PS 241. Dude we studied for a little bit but like with an hour to spare we started talking about random things. Well actually she thought the caffine I had in my system started taking over as this what I randomly did as everyone was trying to study in our PS classroom.
1) I started singing Britney Spear songs, any song, name it and I sang it
2) Oh then I started rapping to Nelly, and moved down to J. Lo
3) Then I started giving a lecture about how big J. Lo's booty is
4) Then I started to tell the class how A Walk To The Remember was the best movie I've seen and that I cried as well
5) I started busting out some Mandy Moore songs
6) Then I moved on to Charles In Charge and Saved By The Bell and how I've been watching that recently, and 5 minutes later I started singing the theme song to that
7) Then I started doing my Chuey (sp?) imitation in front of the class
8) Then I told peeps how played out the Power Rangers are now these days
9) Then I got into a debate with Jenny in front of the class about how Pokemon can take out Harry Potter anyday
10) Finally I started hitting up Harry Potter hard by bringing in Goku, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and X-Men
Yup I got all that in, in a one hour time span, well with the class either laughing at/with me and the rest of the class must of been annoyed by my obnoxiousness. Man that was a sugar rush or what?
After my PS exam, I quickly went to the KL again, this time to study for HST 115 with Paula, Beth, and Monica. Man I was about to pass out in the KL but dang it I gotta know this crap as I was disappointed in my grade on my paper I just recieved from Zellers. I got a 2.7, dude I worked on that thing like no other with the help of Beth. I spent like only 2 hours doing my PS paper and I got a 3.4, there's gotta be something wrong here. Oh well what can I do now but study for my last crackhead exam in ENV 306. I can sense freedom will be upon me soon enough. It's amazing how I ain't even tired yet either, I might as well bounce around campus because I'm in the OU paper for winning the IM V-ball championships.
Bad Guy
So I showered and went to go to the KL to study with Jenny for PS 241. Dude we studied for a little bit but like with an hour to spare we started talking about random things. Well actually she thought the caffine I had in my system started taking over as this what I randomly did as everyone was trying to study in our PS classroom.
1) I started singing Britney Spear songs, any song, name it and I sang it
2) Oh then I started rapping to Nelly, and moved down to J. Lo
3) Then I started giving a lecture about how big J. Lo's booty is
4) Then I started to tell the class how A Walk To The Remember was the best movie I've seen and that I cried as well
5) I started busting out some Mandy Moore songs
6) Then I moved on to Charles In Charge and Saved By The Bell and how I've been watching that recently, and 5 minutes later I started singing the theme song to that
7) Then I started doing my Chuey (sp?) imitation in front of the class
8) Then I told peeps how played out the Power Rangers are now these days
9) Then I got into a debate with Jenny in front of the class about how Pokemon can take out Harry Potter anyday
10) Finally I started hitting up Harry Potter hard by bringing in Goku, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and X-Men
Yup I got all that in, in a one hour time span, well with the class either laughing at/with me and the rest of the class must of been annoyed by my obnoxiousness. Man that was a sugar rush or what?
After my PS exam, I quickly went to the KL again, this time to study for HST 115 with Paula, Beth, and Monica. Man I was about to pass out in the KL but dang it I gotta know this crap as I was disappointed in my grade on my paper I just recieved from Zellers. I got a 2.7, dude I worked on that thing like no other with the help of Beth. I spent like only 2 hours doing my PS paper and I got a 3.4, there's gotta be something wrong here. Oh well what can I do now but study for my last crackhead exam in ENV 306. I can sense freedom will be upon me soon enough. It's amazing how I ain't even tired yet either, I might as well bounce around campus because I'm in the OU paper for winning the IM V-ball championships.
Bad Guy
Wednesday, December 11, 2002
I said, yeah we need troopers
Cause I need troopers
So I can get da stomping
In my
Air Force Ones
Man I'm so pumped to play in this v-ball league this Monday night. I have an exam the day after, my last one then it's freedom! Well last night I was disappointed that the challenge from that one guy was merely a challenge. Sometimes when they're talking, I wonder if they're trashing talking to me in mandarin? Oh well that's why I felt the urge to show them my Air Force Ones after one kill. What really sucked was on one play, I followed through my hit so hard that swung and hit myself in the chicken. Man that killed, but worst of all that was embarassing oh well Phil did it to himself too. Man I can't wait to make my return back to Boulan.
Ya know one thing that's been really encouraging me lately is seeing the females of CBC just really striving for spiritual growth. I remember I had this conversation with Lindsay a couple of years ago about the females at CBC. I just feel bad that they're aren't any ladies that have the burden or maybe the time to disciple someone like Lindsay. But now it's frustrating to see that they're are girls like Chrissy, Connie, and Cecilia who are growing or have that desire to serve The Lord, but no women around to lead these group of women to another level of accountability and discipleship. I mean you look at discipleship with the women and how easily it could work on it's way down. If you start with the adult women, and then they move down to the 5-1-4 ladies, then they pass it on to the eLLe generation of girls, and they pass it down to like Grace and Stephie's gang of girls so forth. This is one of those times I wish I was a female to take on this ministry. May The Lord send someone who will help the ladies of CBC continue to grow in Him. I guess it's time for me to stop procrastinating and get my butt down to Barnes or was it Borders to hit the books? Oh well I'm gonna go be a nerd.
Work It
Cause I need troopers
So I can get da stomping
In my
Air Force Ones
Man I'm so pumped to play in this v-ball league this Monday night. I have an exam the day after, my last one then it's freedom! Well last night I was disappointed that the challenge from that one guy was merely a challenge. Sometimes when they're talking, I wonder if they're trashing talking to me in mandarin? Oh well that's why I felt the urge to show them my Air Force Ones after one kill. What really sucked was on one play, I followed through my hit so hard that swung and hit myself in the chicken. Man that killed, but worst of all that was embarassing oh well Phil did it to himself too. Man I can't wait to make my return back to Boulan.
Ya know one thing that's been really encouraging me lately is seeing the females of CBC just really striving for spiritual growth. I remember I had this conversation with Lindsay a couple of years ago about the females at CBC. I just feel bad that they're aren't any ladies that have the burden or maybe the time to disciple someone like Lindsay. But now it's frustrating to see that they're are girls like Chrissy, Connie, and Cecilia who are growing or have that desire to serve The Lord, but no women around to lead these group of women to another level of accountability and discipleship. I mean you look at discipleship with the women and how easily it could work on it's way down. If you start with the adult women, and then they move down to the 5-1-4 ladies, then they pass it on to the eLLe generation of girls, and they pass it down to like Grace and Stephie's gang of girls so forth. This is one of those times I wish I was a female to take on this ministry. May The Lord send someone who will help the ladies of CBC continue to grow in Him. I guess it's time for me to stop procrastinating and get my butt down to Barnes or was it Borders to hit the books? Oh well I'm gonna go be a nerd.
Work It
Tuesday, December 10, 2002
Because I believe there's a magic way
Slipping into your mind
Brightening up your day
Everything's gonna be ok
Well I just got through my first stage of hell, as I stayed up till 4 this morning working on my term paper for PoliSci. It wasn't due till Thursday but I got it done this morning and I just sent it up to my prof to let him read it and tell me what grade is it worth. Dude, I did such a crap job on this paper and by God's grace I got a 3.4 on this paper so I took it. Now I still have 2 stages of hell to go through this Thursday and their is no way I can speed that up since it is back to back exams. So I'm gonna try to go on the 2 hours of nap time I had this morning for the next 48 hours and push myself to the limit. And to feel better, I think I'm gonna go to the Rec. Center in like 10 minutes to work out as well.
Last night we had our victory team dinner at BW3's and it was my first time there. Man now I see why Vickie loves that place, I played this virtual football game where it lined up with the Dolphins and Bears. How you play is that you gotta guess the play depending on whoever is on offense, the more detailed you get the more points you get but the more points you lose as well. I was soooo into it that I didn't talk to anyone on the team, Maegan and Cindy kept trying to get my attention but I was too focused on football. Stan couldn't believe how into sports I was and didn't bother talking to any of the girls there. Then there was a Chicken Wing eating contest, where anyone could join and the first one to down 20 wings as fast as they can win $100 worth of food there. I was actually gonna compete but it was for the championship from the previous weeks. So I was studying it, and this is what I would do, since I am pretty much the slowest eater on Earth, I would just eat one wing and then I would take the rest home. Why? Because the 20 wings are free, hahahaha so I would get to eat for free there and enjoy my food, hahahaha. I don't care about stuffing my face, I get free food where I can enjoy it, hahahaha. There was almost a 2 way tie for first place between these big boys, and man their faces were sooo red because they were about to puke it all out. Again I say, take my 20 wings for free and eat at my own pace, hahahaha.
So what's the topic on my mind since this past weekend. Well it is dry skin, dude I never had a problem with dry skin in my whole life till last year where my hands flet like the Rocky Mountains. This year it got even worst on Saturday, because it was soooo dry, that every time I spread out my hand, my hand would just start squirting out blood. That's how dry it was, gosh this is getting annoying to me. And this past Sunday, someone came up to me and said that he is bringing some sort of team to go up against me tonight at v-ball? I wasn't quite sure as his english isn't the greatest but I look forward to seeing this challenge. And now I'm playing in yet another v-ball league that goes yeear around I think, and I start this Monday night.
Another blessing that has been brought to my attention is my new bond with David D. at CBC. He's just an amazing godly man, and he is just so on fire right now to serve God. I love his kids, they are so well-mannered and for some they know why they accepted Christ into their lives while the others are still learning. We even talked after Sunday School and it was all in french, man I haven't spoken in frech mode in a couple of years now. Gosh I was sooo rusty, it took me like forever to respond, but I'm thankful for our fellowship that God has provided.
Sky
Slipping into your mind
Brightening up your day
Everything's gonna be ok
Well I just got through my first stage of hell, as I stayed up till 4 this morning working on my term paper for PoliSci. It wasn't due till Thursday but I got it done this morning and I just sent it up to my prof to let him read it and tell me what grade is it worth. Dude, I did such a crap job on this paper and by God's grace I got a 3.4 on this paper so I took it. Now I still have 2 stages of hell to go through this Thursday and their is no way I can speed that up since it is back to back exams. So I'm gonna try to go on the 2 hours of nap time I had this morning for the next 48 hours and push myself to the limit. And to feel better, I think I'm gonna go to the Rec. Center in like 10 minutes to work out as well.
Last night we had our victory team dinner at BW3's and it was my first time there. Man now I see why Vickie loves that place, I played this virtual football game where it lined up with the Dolphins and Bears. How you play is that you gotta guess the play depending on whoever is on offense, the more detailed you get the more points you get but the more points you lose as well. I was soooo into it that I didn't talk to anyone on the team, Maegan and Cindy kept trying to get my attention but I was too focused on football. Stan couldn't believe how into sports I was and didn't bother talking to any of the girls there. Then there was a Chicken Wing eating contest, where anyone could join and the first one to down 20 wings as fast as they can win $100 worth of food there. I was actually gonna compete but it was for the championship from the previous weeks. So I was studying it, and this is what I would do, since I am pretty much the slowest eater on Earth, I would just eat one wing and then I would take the rest home. Why? Because the 20 wings are free, hahahaha so I would get to eat for free there and enjoy my food, hahahaha. I don't care about stuffing my face, I get free food where I can enjoy it, hahahaha. There was almost a 2 way tie for first place between these big boys, and man their faces were sooo red because they were about to puke it all out. Again I say, take my 20 wings for free and eat at my own pace, hahahaha.
So what's the topic on my mind since this past weekend. Well it is dry skin, dude I never had a problem with dry skin in my whole life till last year where my hands flet like the Rocky Mountains. This year it got even worst on Saturday, because it was soooo dry, that every time I spread out my hand, my hand would just start squirting out blood. That's how dry it was, gosh this is getting annoying to me. And this past Sunday, someone came up to me and said that he is bringing some sort of team to go up against me tonight at v-ball? I wasn't quite sure as his english isn't the greatest but I look forward to seeing this challenge. And now I'm playing in yet another v-ball league that goes yeear around I think, and I start this Monday night.
Another blessing that has been brought to my attention is my new bond with David D. at CBC. He's just an amazing godly man, and he is just so on fire right now to serve God. I love his kids, they are so well-mannered and for some they know why they accepted Christ into their lives while the others are still learning. We even talked after Sunday School and it was all in french, man I haven't spoken in frech mode in a couple of years now. Gosh I was sooo rusty, it took me like forever to respond, but I'm thankful for our fellowship that God has provided.
Sky
Monday, December 09, 2002
This weekend has been a week of frustrations and a time of growing as well. Saturday morning b-ball was our last time to practice as a team before Stan leaves for Hong Kong. I'm starting to understand how Rick Carlise feels now, how the team keeps winning but yet their are still soooo many mistakes. It's like when you win the mistakes are overshadowed because of the victory but when you lose the mistakes become very evident. I'm glad that Rich was there for me Saturday night to just listen to me because it's just frustrating to see that we as a team don't even have the fundamentals down yet. It was only like a month ago that we were all geared up to practice as a team and win this tournament. And now it's like yeah we're blowing every single team at Saturday morning so we'll be ok at the tournament. I mean do people not realize that the talent is totally different from that of the MSU tournament. It pisses me off when I'm getting blind sided by picks because it shows my teammates don't even talk. The last tournament I kept getting blind sided and one time I was knocked to the floor, I remember after the game, Sam was nice enough to wrap my ribs with a bag of ice. We need a coach to mold us together, and I wouldn't mind if someone got in my face to push me harder. Because I made a lot of stupid mistakes by going to fancy and again I'm glad that Rich and Rich (that sounds funny) always pull me aside to talk to me if they thought I could of done something different to run the offense.
Then there was yesterday, another great day of worship. Ya know one thing that sucks about us as in human kind, is that we all carry that sense of pride or that sense of we know it all type of mentality. One thing that trully humbles me, is being in Chris's Sunday School because it talks about discipline. Now you would figure this would be a class full of teenagers because the younger you are majority of the time you are more immature. However this class is full of middle aged adults and it's just amazing how even at that age, they all want to grow and develop a stronger committment to Christ, it's just trully amazing. I had to pray hard the week before the new Sunday School quarter started because I didn't know where to go. I wanted to go to Fred's class because I love how he teaches and I love the book of Phil. However then there's dicipline taught by Chris, and I could just feel the Holy Spirit speaking to me saying that I've lost control of my spiritual walk and I need to regain it. I've been faced with many types of temptations especially at OU and it's tough, and sometimes I've let those temptations get the better of me while the other time I get the better of it. So hopefully with this new Sunday School, I can develop a stronger walk with God again to go up against those temptations. Gosh I can't remember where it is in Paul's letters, but I want people to follow Christ like I do.
Also I'm thankful for the time I spent with Cecilia yesterday. Actually as I was pulling into her place, I had flashbacks of when I first came to CBC, and she helped me out around this time of year by helping me going Christmas shopping. And she was there for me my freshman year at SVSU to help me with my paper, and just like last night she was there for me again helping me with my B.S. paper I mean P.S. paper :) I'm glad that God has called her back to CBC and to serve Him once again.
Gosh it's amazing how many great songs are on this Ekin cd.
Live For The Moment
Then there was yesterday, another great day of worship. Ya know one thing that sucks about us as in human kind, is that we all carry that sense of pride or that sense of we know it all type of mentality. One thing that trully humbles me, is being in Chris's Sunday School because it talks about discipline. Now you would figure this would be a class full of teenagers because the younger you are majority of the time you are more immature. However this class is full of middle aged adults and it's just amazing how even at that age, they all want to grow and develop a stronger committment to Christ, it's just trully amazing. I had to pray hard the week before the new Sunday School quarter started because I didn't know where to go. I wanted to go to Fred's class because I love how he teaches and I love the book of Phil. However then there's dicipline taught by Chris, and I could just feel the Holy Spirit speaking to me saying that I've lost control of my spiritual walk and I need to regain it. I've been faced with many types of temptations especially at OU and it's tough, and sometimes I've let those temptations get the better of me while the other time I get the better of it. So hopefully with this new Sunday School, I can develop a stronger walk with God again to go up against those temptations. Gosh I can't remember where it is in Paul's letters, but I want people to follow Christ like I do.
Also I'm thankful for the time I spent with Cecilia yesterday. Actually as I was pulling into her place, I had flashbacks of when I first came to CBC, and she helped me out around this time of year by helping me going Christmas shopping. And she was there for me my freshman year at SVSU to help me with my paper, and just like last night she was there for me again helping me with my B.S. paper I mean P.S. paper :) I'm glad that God has called her back to CBC and to serve Him once again.
Gosh it's amazing how many great songs are on this Ekin cd.
Live For The Moment
Thursday, December 05, 2002
Ok so the last 24 hours I have been sooo unproductive, let's see everything that I did yesterday? Eat, play PS2, watched tv, and went to the Pistons game. Hmm not exactly producing any fruit here. And I got finals next week and on Dec. 12th, I have officially named it, The Day of Hell as I have 2 exams and a term paper all due. Worst of all the exams are back to back so I have no time to cram in between. I have the option of doing another paper for extra credit which I am considering but do I really have enough time to put in a good amount of effort to do this paper? I've been such a slug lately that I have decided to stay on campus till 10 p.m. tonight, just studying and working out a little if I even get a chance to do that. What's funny is that I know my grades are down a little bit this semester but yet I don't seem to care as much around. I agree with Breadstick on this because I know last year I was studying (not hardcore as others) but hardcore for my poor habits.
Woohoo Melissa's gonna go out to lunch with me after our next class. Dang it she wants chop suey and asked if I wanted any, I was like are you on crack sister? And last night at the Pistons game, we lost, but I got to see Jordan play live one last time. It was amazing to see all the flashing bulbs going off as he was just shooting a free throw. A free throw!!!! Nothing spectacular just a simple free throw, that's shows you how much people respect his game if they can take a picture of you when you're shooting a free throw. Anyways I'm bout to bust on outta here because Melissa keeps making fun of my aroma therapy hi-liter. Plus, she's got integrity, why? She sent this email to her prof complaining about her grade and so I'm thinking yeah it must be to low for her standards since she's one of those peeps who's gotta study like 24-7. However as I'm reading it, the complaint was about her getting a grade higher than what she should of gotten due to a calculation error by the prof. So she went down from a 3.9 to a 3.8 after it was recorrected. Dude what's wrong with that girl, I would of took the higher grade and kept my mouth shut. Since I have this prof next semester, I'm trying to get that extra .1 added to my grade for next year.
Magic
Woohoo Melissa's gonna go out to lunch with me after our next class. Dang it she wants chop suey and asked if I wanted any, I was like are you on crack sister? And last night at the Pistons game, we lost, but I got to see Jordan play live one last time. It was amazing to see all the flashing bulbs going off as he was just shooting a free throw. A free throw!!!! Nothing spectacular just a simple free throw, that's shows you how much people respect his game if they can take a picture of you when you're shooting a free throw. Anyways I'm bout to bust on outta here because Melissa keeps making fun of my aroma therapy hi-liter. Plus, she's got integrity, why? She sent this email to her prof complaining about her grade and so I'm thinking yeah it must be to low for her standards since she's one of those peeps who's gotta study like 24-7. However as I'm reading it, the complaint was about her getting a grade higher than what she should of gotten due to a calculation error by the prof. So she went down from a 3.9 to a 3.8 after it was recorrected. Dude what's wrong with that girl, I would of took the higher grade and kept my mouth shut. Since I have this prof next semester, I'm trying to get that extra .1 added to my grade for next year.
Magic
Wednesday, December 04, 2002
Last night as I came home from v-ball I spent some time of reflection/prayer of just staring outside my window and looking at the snow. One memory I had back at my old house was the days of the Ice Wars, that the neighbors and I had, where all of us on the street all had our own snow forts loaded with snowballs and some of us who were smart made pure iceballs. There would be a certain time of day we would all just go out and launch an attack on each other. And even when it wasn't time to attack, you had to guard your forts even when you're inside the house. Because some of us went around sabotaging each other's base or stealing ammo. See the dumb ones were the ones who did in broad daylight, while I did my sneak attacks at night and robbed people of their ammo. I remember one time I was caught going outside my house to grab the mail without my shirt. Boy that was a bad idea, because the neighborhood kids saw that and chased me up and down the street as I looked like an idiot running around with just my b-ball shorts on. I remember that to dodge the attack all at once, I just jumped into a big pile of snow, boy was that dumb as I came out with redness all over my chest and arms. Man those were the days.
Woohoo get to go to the Pistons game tonight, and see Jordan make on of his last apperances at The Palace. And finally last night we played some meaningful games of v-ball, ya know it's gonna be a great time of v-ball when you leave CBC at midnight. It's too bad we couldn't keep going because I know I was getting an adrenaline rush. Gosh I wish the v-ball tournament was now so the 5-1-4 can take it to the house!
Eye Of The Hurricane
Woohoo get to go to the Pistons game tonight, and see Jordan make on of his last apperances at The Palace. And finally last night we played some meaningful games of v-ball, ya know it's gonna be a great time of v-ball when you leave CBC at midnight. It's too bad we couldn't keep going because I know I was getting an adrenaline rush. Gosh I wish the v-ball tournament was now so the 5-1-4 can take it to the house!
Eye Of The Hurricane
Tuesday, December 03, 2002
I know why you wanna hate me
Cause hate is what the world sees lately
There's just something around this time of year that I love. I woke up super late this morning and missed class but Melissa's got my back. However I saw the snow and then I noticed that my house is the only one who hasn't shoveled a lick yet. I love snow, it's the whole point of winter, while some people hate it but I just love looking at the snow covering the trees up. Or how bout as I'm driving to different places, I love looking at people's houses who really go out of their way to decorate. Then their's Christmas, and it's like I can remember every single childhood memory I had with my sister. My favorite thing to do back then was always putting all my Transformers underneath the tree and build a base with all the presents underneath. Then there was this one year that my sister and I were wrestling and I accidently body slammed her into the tree and the tree collasped. Gosh I really want to put up my tree this week, but it's not the same because my mommy and sister aren't there to help me. Then there was the first time I build a snowman with my Aunt Nora from Seattle. The only bad part about snow is just driving on it, but the great part back then was when school was cancelled :) I'll probably reflect more as the days count down to Christmas.
So last night was the OU Finals, and it was a pretty grueling game. However, the Titans came out victorious once again as we are now back to back champs. Brandon kept calling us the Lakers and if I was gonna keep the team around for a 3-peat. We took the series last night 2-1, and my goal the whole night was just to keep putting the ball to the Rump Shaker or Big Momma's House because the Rump Shaker just got a lot of booty and thinks that this is Soul Train or something and Big Momma was just slow but dang she can hit. I gotta say I love this team's unity coming from Cindy and Maegan as they wanna do a team dinner plus they even promised me that they would come up to MSU to cheer for Stan and I at our b-ball tournament. We got our championship t-shirts and they were so big on Melissa, Jane, and Maegan that it seemed like they weren't wearing any shorts. I tried to get a pic of Melissa because I kept lifting up her shirt as if i was looking at her legs. Then Jane and Maegan started showing some, then came the team picture that will be in the OU Paper, dang it Steve took a pic of me when I was goofing off because I put my finger in my nose. Stupid digital cameras don't have flashes so how am I suppose to know when it is taking a pic or not. Then after that, Maegan showed us her tattoo and I have a lot of respect for it because it has the intials of a close friend who passed away last year in a car accident. The tattoo was right in the middle and right above her butt crack, it was funny because I kept telling her to pull her shorts lower because I couldn't see it then I took a quick picture of it, then she chased me around the court trying to beat me up :Þ I look forward to next semester for yet another title defense.
Chocolate Starfish & The Hotdog Flavored Water
Cause hate is what the world sees lately
There's just something around this time of year that I love. I woke up super late this morning and missed class but Melissa's got my back. However I saw the snow and then I noticed that my house is the only one who hasn't shoveled a lick yet. I love snow, it's the whole point of winter, while some people hate it but I just love looking at the snow covering the trees up. Or how bout as I'm driving to different places, I love looking at people's houses who really go out of their way to decorate. Then their's Christmas, and it's like I can remember every single childhood memory I had with my sister. My favorite thing to do back then was always putting all my Transformers underneath the tree and build a base with all the presents underneath. Then there was this one year that my sister and I were wrestling and I accidently body slammed her into the tree and the tree collasped. Gosh I really want to put up my tree this week, but it's not the same because my mommy and sister aren't there to help me. Then there was the first time I build a snowman with my Aunt Nora from Seattle. The only bad part about snow is just driving on it, but the great part back then was when school was cancelled :) I'll probably reflect more as the days count down to Christmas.
So last night was the OU Finals, and it was a pretty grueling game. However, the Titans came out victorious once again as we are now back to back champs. Brandon kept calling us the Lakers and if I was gonna keep the team around for a 3-peat. We took the series last night 2-1, and my goal the whole night was just to keep putting the ball to the Rump Shaker or Big Momma's House because the Rump Shaker just got a lot of booty and thinks that this is Soul Train or something and Big Momma was just slow but dang she can hit. I gotta say I love this team's unity coming from Cindy and Maegan as they wanna do a team dinner plus they even promised me that they would come up to MSU to cheer for Stan and I at our b-ball tournament. We got our championship t-shirts and they were so big on Melissa, Jane, and Maegan that it seemed like they weren't wearing any shorts. I tried to get a pic of Melissa because I kept lifting up her shirt as if i was looking at her legs. Then Jane and Maegan started showing some, then came the team picture that will be in the OU Paper, dang it Steve took a pic of me when I was goofing off because I put my finger in my nose. Stupid digital cameras don't have flashes so how am I suppose to know when it is taking a pic or not. Then after that, Maegan showed us her tattoo and I have a lot of respect for it because it has the intials of a close friend who passed away last year in a car accident. The tattoo was right in the middle and right above her butt crack, it was funny because I kept telling her to pull her shorts lower because I couldn't see it then I took a quick picture of it, then she chased me around the court trying to beat me up :Þ I look forward to next semester for yet another title defense.
Chocolate Starfish & The Hotdog Flavored Water
Monday, December 02, 2002
Well it's been a while since I got on this thing, hmm I wonder if I gained any weight? I don't think I did because I was very controlled in what I ate well except for the all guys hot pot. So what happened these past 5 days that made things memorable? Well last Wednesday was the CBC Dinner, but a lot of us skipped it because it's just hard to tell these days what kind of program it really is. I'm glad that I made it back in time from shopping with JW and V to see and hear eLLe praise God. And afterwards, I got to hang out with Jason and it was just great to see him because the last time I saw him was at CCUC. Also it was great to hang out with Gary, and Jimmy along with some other peeps from A2 on Wednesday night. It was cool that Cassie and Laura came along to the Eastside for this. We all went to see Die Another Day, and for Cassie it was her 2nd time. Ya know I have to agree with Jason, Gary and Jimmy that this had to be one of the worst Bond movies. I don't know what Joyce was thinking when she told me that she thought it was the best one. Anyways, I wish I just got a chance to hang out with Jason a little bit longer.
So then came Thanksgiving Day, and the big Turkey Bowl. I can't believe we lost. I had a rare case of the drops because of the cold air that made my fingers freeze and couldn't hold on to the ball. Man I really need one of those hand warmers to keep my fingers warm. Also I give a lot of credit to Dan because he played some great coverage on me. Afterwards, I came home to see the Lions lose yet another game. Then finally the whole family came over for turkey. And I was sooooo excited to see that my Aunt Lisa made kalbi, however I never even got to touch it as it was all taken by the rest of family in the matter of minutes! I'm like what the freak, how is it possible that I asked for it but yet I didn't even get a chance to touch a bone.
Then came Friday, JW's Prime Rib party, I thank God that I was very self-controlled there as I didn't eat anything due to the overload of turkey and dim sum the previous days. And dang it I was too stupid and too cocky as I had the chance to win in Settlers but I chose to let it go to make the game more interesting and I got greedy. So I ended up losing to V. And Saturday we had our all guys night hot pot and it was great to hang out with Emoy. All I gotta say is that we were like T-Rexes all over the meat. Then it was time to lay the smackdown when we were playing Smackdown. All I gotta say to the fellas is go Stacy, Torrie, and Trish go and dance for Triple H.
And that leaves us to tonight, and what a snowy day has it been already. The OU v-ball finals are tonight as it will the Titans vs. Haters R Us. We'll be playing without Lisa (flu) tonight probably our best girl, and so I'm hoping that Maegan, Jane, Cindy, and Melissa really pick up their games. I think I should start off as a S.S. because it looks like this year's MVP winner is Mike from their team which totally gives them a more powerful offense. Well less than 2 hours to go so it's time to get down.
Need A Little Time
So then came Thanksgiving Day, and the big Turkey Bowl. I can't believe we lost. I had a rare case of the drops because of the cold air that made my fingers freeze and couldn't hold on to the ball. Man I really need one of those hand warmers to keep my fingers warm. Also I give a lot of credit to Dan because he played some great coverage on me. Afterwards, I came home to see the Lions lose yet another game. Then finally the whole family came over for turkey. And I was sooooo excited to see that my Aunt Lisa made kalbi, however I never even got to touch it as it was all taken by the rest of family in the matter of minutes! I'm like what the freak, how is it possible that I asked for it but yet I didn't even get a chance to touch a bone.
Then came Friday, JW's Prime Rib party, I thank God that I was very self-controlled there as I didn't eat anything due to the overload of turkey and dim sum the previous days. And dang it I was too stupid and too cocky as I had the chance to win in Settlers but I chose to let it go to make the game more interesting and I got greedy. So I ended up losing to V. And Saturday we had our all guys night hot pot and it was great to hang out with Emoy. All I gotta say is that we were like T-Rexes all over the meat. Then it was time to lay the smackdown when we were playing Smackdown. All I gotta say to the fellas is go Stacy, Torrie, and Trish go and dance for Triple H.
And that leaves us to tonight, and what a snowy day has it been already. The OU v-ball finals are tonight as it will the Titans vs. Haters R Us. We'll be playing without Lisa (flu) tonight probably our best girl, and so I'm hoping that Maegan, Jane, Cindy, and Melissa really pick up their games. I think I should start off as a S.S. because it looks like this year's MVP winner is Mike from their team which totally gives them a more powerful offense. Well less than 2 hours to go so it's time to get down.
Need A Little Time
Wednesday, November 27, 2002
Wow only less than 24 hours away from the Turkey Bowl and then Thanksgiving with family. Hmmm I'm thankful that God brought me home safely. As I was driving and got onto the free I saw like numerous cars just flying into the ditch. There were like 5 firetrucks acting as road blocks at 24 Mile, boy last night's black ice on the eastside was incredible. And I'm thankful that so far so good that my mommy doesn't need me to come up to the restuarant to help out, so that means I have more time on my hands to take care of the last minute shopping for tomorrow.
And I still don't know what it is about me on Tuesday nights sometimes. How come I get so easily frustrated with those on my team if they aren't performing at a higher level or at least playing smarter. And sometimes it's the same at b-ball, it's like people try to do things that they can't do. But it's just more frustrating at Tuesday nights, because if I'm on a bad team for b-ball it is easy for me to just get the ball every time but in v-ball it actually consists of teamwork. I dunno, it's like what Dave shared last night, why do we play v-ball? Well some people said for exercise and a time to get out and run a lil bit. Which is true for some people, but is it ok for me to say some of us want to improve or just play at a higher level? It's funny that Dave used Ecc. 3 while I've been using that chapter the whole time about Tuesday Night v-ball outreach. I mean do we now split up the court and say ok this side is for competitive/serious play and the other side is the exericise side? I mean if you want exercise to get out and work out a little then go to Bally's? Well that might be a bit harsh but I dunno it's just tough and it gets harder when you see those who play for the exercise and don't care too much about learning the game possibly hurting others. I mean yeah accidents are bound to happen but I remember Bao, Howard and I use to talk about this by saying that we can limit the amount of accidents. I mean if someone isn't as good but they are trying and willing to learn then I am all for that because you gotta start some where. I remember when I first came to Tuesday night v-ball and I was like the worst player there and yeah I got the look and the complaints. But that only motivated me more to learn this game to get better and play at a higher level than those who looked down at me. Am I satisfied of where I am at in v-ball? No way because like God's Word, I have a thirst to keep improving and I just can't stand being where I am at because I know I can keep going at a higher level. I dunno what it is sometimes with Tuesday night v-ball especially though, it is just mind boggling to me.
Next Big Thing
And I still don't know what it is about me on Tuesday nights sometimes. How come I get so easily frustrated with those on my team if they aren't performing at a higher level or at least playing smarter. And sometimes it's the same at b-ball, it's like people try to do things that they can't do. But it's just more frustrating at Tuesday nights, because if I'm on a bad team for b-ball it is easy for me to just get the ball every time but in v-ball it actually consists of teamwork. I dunno, it's like what Dave shared last night, why do we play v-ball? Well some people said for exercise and a time to get out and run a lil bit. Which is true for some people, but is it ok for me to say some of us want to improve or just play at a higher level? It's funny that Dave used Ecc. 3 while I've been using that chapter the whole time about Tuesday Night v-ball outreach. I mean do we now split up the court and say ok this side is for competitive/serious play and the other side is the exericise side? I mean if you want exercise to get out and work out a little then go to Bally's? Well that might be a bit harsh but I dunno it's just tough and it gets harder when you see those who play for the exercise and don't care too much about learning the game possibly hurting others. I mean yeah accidents are bound to happen but I remember Bao, Howard and I use to talk about this by saying that we can limit the amount of accidents. I mean if someone isn't as good but they are trying and willing to learn then I am all for that because you gotta start some where. I remember when I first came to Tuesday night v-ball and I was like the worst player there and yeah I got the look and the complaints. But that only motivated me more to learn this game to get better and play at a higher level than those who looked down at me. Am I satisfied of where I am at in v-ball? No way because like God's Word, I have a thirst to keep improving and I just can't stand being where I am at because I know I can keep going at a higher level. I dunno what it is sometimes with Tuesday night v-ball especially though, it is just mind boggling to me.
Next Big Thing
Tuesday, November 26, 2002
I'm back and better then ever
I have a knack for making things better
Cause your opinion don't matter
This maniac is gonna step on whoever
It's time to get live
Wow so last night was the upsets of all upsets during the Eastern and Western Conference Finals. In the East we have Titans vs. Vertically Challenged and in the West it was GoodNPlenty vs. Haters R Us. Last night was just great v-ball in both games and soooo much intensity, and every game went down to the wire. So who got upsetted since everyone who works at the Rec Center picked us, the Titans vs. GoodNPlenty to make it a repeat of last year's finals. Well looks like we have a new Finals this year as the Fall 2002 OU V-Ball Finals will be Titans vs. Haters R Us. The best in the West meets the beast of the East. I felt bad as Joey just got outpowered by Haters R Us and he gave it all he could but this year's playoffs prove to have gotten tougher. Not to say we didn't have our probs in our own game because we were down 13-2 in the first game. Then I served and had a season high of serving 13 points in a row so we took the first game 15-13. Then the next game got tougher and as the game kept going, crowds started to form and watch because you can feel the intensity. We lost our second game 15-9 and these games at least from my team you can tell who wants it and who were scared of the challenge. I'm glad Lisa was helping me and seemed to have read my mind on a lot of things because I was getting frustrated with some of my teammates. And Vertically Challenged pissed me off even more with some girly calls and some non-calls that they got away with. So that lead me to go yet again S.S. not 1 but I had to go S.S. 2. So with the 3rd game being rally score and the deciding game how did we fare overall. Stan played his regular game, Melissa had some great sets, Meagan was just unbelievable playing back row, and Lisa yet again was probably our unsung hero last night. While me at S.S. 2, well I had about 6-7 kills right off the bat, however one of them I killed straight down into a girl's jaw. It was the kill heard around the Rec Center and the ref had to call an injury timeout. Then I almost hit this one kid who I can't stand Joey (gosh it seems like all the annoying kids at OU are named Joey and I'll explain why he is annoying later), anyways yeah I almost killed one right into his yup you guessed it straight down at his GG but he was able to get his hand there at the last second to deflect it. Then I killed another one straight down onto the same girl but this time she had her face protected so it hit her elbow and flew into the bleachers. I tell ya man, I ain't goofing around in the playoffs and next week it will be the same as I'll probably have to go at S.S. at least. And I talked to a couple of people after the game and wondered why my game drew sooo much attendance. And all the guys said they love the girls on my team and they all want to play for my team since we have the hottest team in the league, skill and looks wise. My friend, Mike probably the best player on Haters R Us already committed to joining my team next sem and all his friends told me to make sure I keep all the girls on it.
So why do I not like the other Joey on Vertically Challenge? Well after the game it was funny because he thinks he is like the pimp at the Rec Center, he's one of those touchy feely guys. So after the game, he was trying to get up all over Maegan and Cindy, and I'm thinking uhh stupid you have a nice girlfriend already plus Maegan's boyfriend was at the game as well. I just can't stand those touchy feely guys, I don't know what it is about them but I just think they are all gay.
So today, I just got done taking yet another ENV 308 exam and dude these fricking exams are getting harder. I kept looking at Melissa and she was just racking her brain against the wall. This class is suppose to be a blow off class but yet it seems like it is the hardest class I've ever taken. I even tried going to the study group last night but what the chicken, he didn't even email me and some others on where to meet at. Anyways it's time to go workout and look for Melissa and Lisa. Woohoo 1 more class till Thanksgiving Break.
The Fight
I have a knack for making things better
Cause your opinion don't matter
This maniac is gonna step on whoever
It's time to get live
Wow so last night was the upsets of all upsets during the Eastern and Western Conference Finals. In the East we have Titans vs. Vertically Challenged and in the West it was GoodNPlenty vs. Haters R Us. Last night was just great v-ball in both games and soooo much intensity, and every game went down to the wire. So who got upsetted since everyone who works at the Rec Center picked us, the Titans vs. GoodNPlenty to make it a repeat of last year's finals. Well looks like we have a new Finals this year as the Fall 2002 OU V-Ball Finals will be Titans vs. Haters R Us. The best in the West meets the beast of the East. I felt bad as Joey just got outpowered by Haters R Us and he gave it all he could but this year's playoffs prove to have gotten tougher. Not to say we didn't have our probs in our own game because we were down 13-2 in the first game. Then I served and had a season high of serving 13 points in a row so we took the first game 15-13. Then the next game got tougher and as the game kept going, crowds started to form and watch because you can feel the intensity. We lost our second game 15-9 and these games at least from my team you can tell who wants it and who were scared of the challenge. I'm glad Lisa was helping me and seemed to have read my mind on a lot of things because I was getting frustrated with some of my teammates. And Vertically Challenged pissed me off even more with some girly calls and some non-calls that they got away with. So that lead me to go yet again S.S. not 1 but I had to go S.S. 2. So with the 3rd game being rally score and the deciding game how did we fare overall. Stan played his regular game, Melissa had some great sets, Meagan was just unbelievable playing back row, and Lisa yet again was probably our unsung hero last night. While me at S.S. 2, well I had about 6-7 kills right off the bat, however one of them I killed straight down into a girl's jaw. It was the kill heard around the Rec Center and the ref had to call an injury timeout. Then I almost hit this one kid who I can't stand Joey (gosh it seems like all the annoying kids at OU are named Joey and I'll explain why he is annoying later), anyways yeah I almost killed one right into his yup you guessed it straight down at his GG but he was able to get his hand there at the last second to deflect it. Then I killed another one straight down onto the same girl but this time she had her face protected so it hit her elbow and flew into the bleachers. I tell ya man, I ain't goofing around in the playoffs and next week it will be the same as I'll probably have to go at S.S. at least. And I talked to a couple of people after the game and wondered why my game drew sooo much attendance. And all the guys said they love the girls on my team and they all want to play for my team since we have the hottest team in the league, skill and looks wise. My friend, Mike probably the best player on Haters R Us already committed to joining my team next sem and all his friends told me to make sure I keep all the girls on it.
So why do I not like the other Joey on Vertically Challenge? Well after the game it was funny because he thinks he is like the pimp at the Rec Center, he's one of those touchy feely guys. So after the game, he was trying to get up all over Maegan and Cindy, and I'm thinking uhh stupid you have a nice girlfriend already plus Maegan's boyfriend was at the game as well. I just can't stand those touchy feely guys, I don't know what it is about them but I just think they are all gay.
So today, I just got done taking yet another ENV 308 exam and dude these fricking exams are getting harder. I kept looking at Melissa and she was just racking her brain against the wall. This class is suppose to be a blow off class but yet it seems like it is the hardest class I've ever taken. I even tried going to the study group last night but what the chicken, he didn't even email me and some others on where to meet at. Anyways it's time to go workout and look for Melissa and Lisa. Woohoo 1 more class till Thanksgiving Break.
The Fight
Monday, November 25, 2002
I don't care what y'all say
It's time to rock and roll
This time I'm in control
Right now I own the streets
I got the keys to the city
That's because I get down
Let's start with Saturday, as some people were upset that tempers flared and some shoves were going around in a particular game. I think I had to be the only one excited about that because finally Saturday morning, people started playing with more intensity and emotion. I mean this was my type of game, play hard and smart or get yelled at. Sometimes morning b-ball, it's like people just come and play for the sake of playing. I guess I'm in that mindset with Tuesday night v-ball that I'm playing harder but are the people around me doing so. I remember in high school, a lot of people would say that I take every game so seriously whether it'd just be pickup or a game of 21. My favorite was when people said this about me "Kenny plays every game like it is Game 7 of the NBA Finals". If only everyone has that mindset Saturday morning, then there would be some much better ball playing. Oh and yeah, another thing that I am sick of at Saturday morning, are all the flopping calls that be use to bail them out. It's like every week I'm tired of seeing it and it just makes me lose more and more respect for them as a b-ball player. Everyone won an Oscar or an Emmy from me this past Saturday for their wonderful acting jobs.
Well today I had dim sum with my mommy and Aunt Lisa. I'm glad that I got to spend time to talk to my Aunt Lisa. I remember as a kid she would always babysit me and at the time I didn't know what Korean culture was but she tried to teach me something about her culture. I guess she is another person that I am thankful for because she took so much time back then to babysit me so my parents could go work. I remember always riding in my Uncle Simon's corvette and then going into his game room to shoot pool. I love that house because I had so many memories such as BBQ's in the backyard, or feeding the fish and playing with the turtle. However I'm quite sad to see that house up for sale as they'll be leaving the Heights soon to go up to the Hills as in Rochester. What's cool is one reason for them going to Rochester, is so they could be closer to their church, which is Korean Baptist Church. It's funny how just a few months ago my 3 year old cousin couldn't speak a lick of anything. And now today he was speaking to me in english, chinese, and korean. Man at age 3, he's already trilingual! Also I never realized my cousin Fred goes to the International Academy for school? I guess that's what separates me from the rest of the family is that I'm the only jock in the family now. Oh well, I should be seeing them all this Thursday at my house for turkey and dude my Aunt Lisa's gonna make Kalbee, oh man this could be a Thanksgiving I won't forget.
And tonight, is the conference finals for OU V-ball. As the Titans meet Vertical Challenge, the only team that gave us a blemish, so tonight no goofing around from me and let's just dominate them from the start.
At Last
It's time to rock and roll
This time I'm in control
Right now I own the streets
I got the keys to the city
That's because I get down
Let's start with Saturday, as some people were upset that tempers flared and some shoves were going around in a particular game. I think I had to be the only one excited about that because finally Saturday morning, people started playing with more intensity and emotion. I mean this was my type of game, play hard and smart or get yelled at. Sometimes morning b-ball, it's like people just come and play for the sake of playing. I guess I'm in that mindset with Tuesday night v-ball that I'm playing harder but are the people around me doing so. I remember in high school, a lot of people would say that I take every game so seriously whether it'd just be pickup or a game of 21. My favorite was when people said this about me "Kenny plays every game like it is Game 7 of the NBA Finals". If only everyone has that mindset Saturday morning, then there would be some much better ball playing. Oh and yeah, another thing that I am sick of at Saturday morning, are all the flopping calls that be use to bail them out. It's like every week I'm tired of seeing it and it just makes me lose more and more respect for them as a b-ball player. Everyone won an Oscar or an Emmy from me this past Saturday for their wonderful acting jobs.
Well today I had dim sum with my mommy and Aunt Lisa. I'm glad that I got to spend time to talk to my Aunt Lisa. I remember as a kid she would always babysit me and at the time I didn't know what Korean culture was but she tried to teach me something about her culture. I guess she is another person that I am thankful for because she took so much time back then to babysit me so my parents could go work. I remember always riding in my Uncle Simon's corvette and then going into his game room to shoot pool. I love that house because I had so many memories such as BBQ's in the backyard, or feeding the fish and playing with the turtle. However I'm quite sad to see that house up for sale as they'll be leaving the Heights soon to go up to the Hills as in Rochester. What's cool is one reason for them going to Rochester, is so they could be closer to their church, which is Korean Baptist Church. It's funny how just a few months ago my 3 year old cousin couldn't speak a lick of anything. And now today he was speaking to me in english, chinese, and korean. Man at age 3, he's already trilingual! Also I never realized my cousin Fred goes to the International Academy for school? I guess that's what separates me from the rest of the family is that I'm the only jock in the family now. Oh well, I should be seeing them all this Thursday at my house for turkey and dude my Aunt Lisa's gonna make Kalbee, oh man this could be a Thanksgiving I won't forget.
And tonight, is the conference finals for OU V-ball. As the Titans meet Vertical Challenge, the only team that gave us a blemish, so tonight no goofing around from me and let's just dominate them from the start.
At Last
Thursday, November 21, 2002
Wow their is nothing better than pulling yet another all nighter. So I spent all night working on this dumb term paper due in a few hours. Yup you guessed it, I am the King of Procrastination and yup it's due in a few hours and I have yet to finish it. So it took me like 3 hours per paragraph because my prof is getting smarter now. Take last week, he sent around the usual attendance sheet towards the end of class. As usual some people started leaving after signing it. So what does he do? He starts a second one attendance sheet, yup it was cruel and those who left screwed themselves. It didn't help this morning as I continually drank Coke, that I was watching Bad Boys while doing my paper, then I found myself flipping back and forth through Pistons and the 76ers game.
Last night I had dinner with Larry at Burger King before Bible Study. I felt weird because I wasn't sure I was at Burger King or some Chop Suey place. Because this chinese girl took Larry's order then called it out in cantonese to the 2 chinese cooks back there. I was just gonna order in catonese but then I decided not to because it was just too wierd. And I don't know why God gave me a small bladder, because from 6-9:30 I had to go the the bathroom and pee like non-stop. All I drank was a little Gatorade and the next thing you know I'm in the potty like every 15 minutes.
Also Larry sent me some Christian pick-up lines that Vickie posted up already. I already used a couple of these to Melissa and she just started laughing at me. Dang it, I need to find some cute girl in the library to see if this works. Or maybe I will go to IV tonight and do this, plus Bali is speaking tonight too. Another thing is, I need to start learning how to talk to girls.
For instance, I noticed Melissa darken her hair and I asked her about it. She asked for my opinion, and what did I say? I said "Uhhh geez what do I care" yeah that didn't come out right. I just didn't wanna play with some girl's heart then again I need to respond better next time. Well look at that I have 4 minutes to spare from online, so I think I will go look for test subjects around the library and then join Melissa in studying. Ya know since Jay Leno has JayWalking, I am thinking about calling mine KayWalking, well unless I think of a better name. It's fun going around asking strangers about the Bible and then really really random questions. Gosh it's amazing how some people think that I am on the OU Newspaper staff now too. Then again I think it's my fault for using that line to start up conversation. Oh well, this is fun, on the other hand I hate HST 115.
Let's Save The World
Last night I had dinner with Larry at Burger King before Bible Study. I felt weird because I wasn't sure I was at Burger King or some Chop Suey place. Because this chinese girl took Larry's order then called it out in cantonese to the 2 chinese cooks back there. I was just gonna order in catonese but then I decided not to because it was just too wierd. And I don't know why God gave me a small bladder, because from 6-9:30 I had to go the the bathroom and pee like non-stop. All I drank was a little Gatorade and the next thing you know I'm in the potty like every 15 minutes.
Also Larry sent me some Christian pick-up lines that Vickie posted up already. I already used a couple of these to Melissa and she just started laughing at me. Dang it, I need to find some cute girl in the library to see if this works. Or maybe I will go to IV tonight and do this, plus Bali is speaking tonight too. Another thing is, I need to start learning how to talk to girls.
For instance, I noticed Melissa darken her hair and I asked her about it. She asked for my opinion, and what did I say? I said "Uhhh geez what do I care" yeah that didn't come out right. I just didn't wanna play with some girl's heart then again I need to respond better next time. Well look at that I have 4 minutes to spare from online, so I think I will go look for test subjects around the library and then join Melissa in studying. Ya know since Jay Leno has JayWalking, I am thinking about calling mine KayWalking, well unless I think of a better name. It's fun going around asking strangers about the Bible and then really really random questions. Gosh it's amazing how some people think that I am on the OU Newspaper staff now too. Then again I think it's my fault for using that line to start up conversation. Oh well, this is fun, on the other hand I hate HST 115.
Let's Save The World
Wednesday, November 20, 2002
Tuesday, November 19, 2002
I know your every move
I heard your every word
I know you well
I got nothing left to prove
Everytime you think that I am done
I come back stronger
Everytime you think that you got me
I will fight you
And I will put you in the ground
Wow, was last night some incredible v-ball being played last night in our playoff game. Because I never saw The Free Agents play before I didn't have much of a scouting report to go on. But I could sense some of them did have some high energy levels. My brotha, Brandon who works at the Rec Center told me who was strong and who was weak. Gosh he really loves that little Asian girl on their team because he thinks she is sooo cute. But he told me about The German Duo, and that these guys can play. Then B, kept trying to pump me up for the game and psyching me up. He also shared with me that everyone believes that it will be the same Finals again. Last night we didn't have Stan, so everyone had to step up. The German Duo sat out the first game thinking they would walk over us or something. Um hello do they know we have the best record? However these 2 came in and played the whole 2nd game and the game went down to the wire. I actually had to go S.S. because they 2 were tough to put away. I mean what pumped me up when was they were calling plays in german. Oh yeah you gotta love that, it just adds to the intensity of the game. Accept for Melissa's first set, everything else was sweet. I loved it when I went right over one of the German players and put it away, why because this guy is about 6 ft. 1 in. I just stared him down and all he could do was look down, because you don't wanna mess with a S.S. The 2nd game had everything, bumps, passes, kills, blocks, great serves, intensity, and even a controversail call. This was a crucial call as The German Duo tried to take the game by setting each other for a 10 ball. However the ref called it by saying one of them was past the 10 foot line. And their were on going debates during and after the game, gosh you gotta love this type of game. All it was missing was trash talking. Man Lisa our unsung hero was coming up with some incredible hits. Maegan had some awesome passes too! Only 4 teams remain and after next week will be the deciding Finals.
Also so today, I've been online for more than my half hour. Why? Because I've been doing some research on my classes and today I decided to catch up with my friends blogs. I spent a lot of time just reading and it's nice to see how everyone is growing. I wish I could stay online longer to talk to each one of them to see how things are going with them. I commented here and there, and so that's another reason why I decided to stay on longer was to just see how everyone is doing. Some people I can praise God with while others need praying for.
Anyways, I'm sitting with Melissa and she is doing her EED 310, dude it looks so complicated! And just think I have to take that class next semester. Today was funny because I just listened to my CD player during lecture. Then I kept sending messages with my phone to Jaime and her phone kept going off since she sits all the way on the other side of the room. Hahah I got her in trouble because our prof even had to stop class about people having their cell phones on. Melissa and I just kept cracking up, then I went back to listening to my music during lecture. Yup the highlight of my day in ENV 308. Time for Melissa and I to bust and for me to hit up Jessica with God's Word and the real meaning of it, pray for me peeps!
I'm Back
I heard your every word
I know you well
I got nothing left to prove
Everytime you think that I am done
I come back stronger
Everytime you think that you got me
I will fight you
And I will put you in the ground
Wow, was last night some incredible v-ball being played last night in our playoff game. Because I never saw The Free Agents play before I didn't have much of a scouting report to go on. But I could sense some of them did have some high energy levels. My brotha, Brandon who works at the Rec Center told me who was strong and who was weak. Gosh he really loves that little Asian girl on their team because he thinks she is sooo cute. But he told me about The German Duo, and that these guys can play. Then B, kept trying to pump me up for the game and psyching me up. He also shared with me that everyone believes that it will be the same Finals again. Last night we didn't have Stan, so everyone had to step up. The German Duo sat out the first game thinking they would walk over us or something. Um hello do they know we have the best record? However these 2 came in and played the whole 2nd game and the game went down to the wire. I actually had to go S.S. because they 2 were tough to put away. I mean what pumped me up when was they were calling plays in german. Oh yeah you gotta love that, it just adds to the intensity of the game. Accept for Melissa's first set, everything else was sweet. I loved it when I went right over one of the German players and put it away, why because this guy is about 6 ft. 1 in. I just stared him down and all he could do was look down, because you don't wanna mess with a S.S. The 2nd game had everything, bumps, passes, kills, blocks, great serves, intensity, and even a controversail call. This was a crucial call as The German Duo tried to take the game by setting each other for a 10 ball. However the ref called it by saying one of them was past the 10 foot line. And their were on going debates during and after the game, gosh you gotta love this type of game. All it was missing was trash talking. Man Lisa our unsung hero was coming up with some incredible hits. Maegan had some awesome passes too! Only 4 teams remain and after next week will be the deciding Finals.
Also so today, I've been online for more than my half hour. Why? Because I've been doing some research on my classes and today I decided to catch up with my friends blogs. I spent a lot of time just reading and it's nice to see how everyone is growing. I wish I could stay online longer to talk to each one of them to see how things are going with them. I commented here and there, and so that's another reason why I decided to stay on longer was to just see how everyone is doing. Some people I can praise God with while others need praying for.
Anyways, I'm sitting with Melissa and she is doing her EED 310, dude it looks so complicated! And just think I have to take that class next semester. Today was funny because I just listened to my CD player during lecture. Then I kept sending messages with my phone to Jaime and her phone kept going off since she sits all the way on the other side of the room. Hahah I got her in trouble because our prof even had to stop class about people having their cell phones on. Melissa and I just kept cracking up, then I went back to listening to my music during lecture. Yup the highlight of my day in ENV 308. Time for Melissa and I to bust and for me to hit up Jessica with God's Word and the real meaning of it, pray for me peeps!
I'm Back
Monday, November 18, 2002
Ya know I step away from online for like the past 4-5 days and it seems like I've missed a lot. Since when the heck did my Mei and Breadstick have a blog? What the freak is going on with the world today? Well it's another Monday and the beginning of classes. I registered for classes for the next term and finally I'm taking all my major classes. One thing about OU is that we have crappy advising and from here on out I've decided to go my own way to enroll. Hahaha I'm in yet another class with Melissa, another semester of drawing SpongeBob getting his butt beaten by Pikachu!
I've decided to extend my online time today just to get this blog in because my computer is slow. And so it's like 5 minutes for each thing to pop up and by the time I get to where I want to be, it's like my half hour is up. I just got a book recently from GP B to take my spiritual level up a notch. I'm really getting into a good discussion with Jessica about Jehovah's Witness. Like the message was a couple of Sunday's ago, may God continue to use me in reaching out to those who have distorted God's Words. Also I learned another thing yesterday that I guess you can say I've been struggling with. Let me just say that Sunday School was great yesterday when we dove into Romans 12 and 13. I think it was the latter part in 12 that it talked about associating with people lower than us type of thing. I guess I've been struggling with it on Tuesday night v-ball when I don't feel like playing because their are a lot less talent there. I know it's something I got to work on, but yeah, what Bruce spoke of yesterday made sense.
And speaking of v-ball, last week YCF was eliminated in the 2nd round. Gosh it feels wierd not having to get ready to go to Connie and Chrissy's place. Hopefully I get another chance to prove myself in this league and help win a championship. I guess now I have to get ready for the OU V-ball playoffs as it starts tonight. It's nice to see that GoodNPlenty are tied with us for best record in our respective divisions. I didn't even get a chance to see it but I think we're like 8-1? So it's nice to know that we have a first round bye in the playoffs. I wonder who we will be playing, The Free Agents or Anibal Pride? Gosh I haven't seen any of these teams play so I guess I need to go now and watch their game so I have a battle plan with my scouting report. Ok time to go and time to get down tonight.
Need A Little Time
I've decided to extend my online time today just to get this blog in because my computer is slow. And so it's like 5 minutes for each thing to pop up and by the time I get to where I want to be, it's like my half hour is up. I just got a book recently from GP B to take my spiritual level up a notch. I'm really getting into a good discussion with Jessica about Jehovah's Witness. Like the message was a couple of Sunday's ago, may God continue to use me in reaching out to those who have distorted God's Words. Also I learned another thing yesterday that I guess you can say I've been struggling with. Let me just say that Sunday School was great yesterday when we dove into Romans 12 and 13. I think it was the latter part in 12 that it talked about associating with people lower than us type of thing. I guess I've been struggling with it on Tuesday night v-ball when I don't feel like playing because their are a lot less talent there. I know it's something I got to work on, but yeah, what Bruce spoke of yesterday made sense.
And speaking of v-ball, last week YCF was eliminated in the 2nd round. Gosh it feels wierd not having to get ready to go to Connie and Chrissy's place. Hopefully I get another chance to prove myself in this league and help win a championship. I guess now I have to get ready for the OU V-ball playoffs as it starts tonight. It's nice to see that GoodNPlenty are tied with us for best record in our respective divisions. I didn't even get a chance to see it but I think we're like 8-1? So it's nice to know that we have a first round bye in the playoffs. I wonder who we will be playing, The Free Agents or Anibal Pride? Gosh I haven't seen any of these teams play so I guess I need to go now and watch their game so I have a battle plan with my scouting report. Ok time to go and time to get down tonight.
Need A Little Time
Wednesday, November 13, 2002
Ok gotta make this somewhat quick because my time is running out now. Gosh yesterday was just full of great things. As Melissa and I started to study yesterday, we began yet again to talk about our faith because she is a Catholic. I went around the library asking people if they knew what John 3:16 is. Almost kind of like one of Jay Leno's Sidewalk shows where he goes around asking people simple questions. Anyways I came across this one girl who was able to recite it pretty well. And then she joined us in talking about the Bible and then we all talked about theology. Then this girl revealed what she believed in, and she said she is a Jehovah's Witness. I remember last year during BSF, we spent one day in trying to learn what they believe in and how to use verses on how to go against what they believe in. And so this girl and I, Christian vs. Jehovah's Witness went at for a while because I talked to Bali and he said that I am in a fight for our faith. So this girl and I are gonna meet up tomorrow afternoon to discuss more about each other's faith. Gosh this spiritual battle is just pumpin my thirst for God's Word even more. However I was shocked to see that Melissa's faith was shaken by what this girl said. Round 2 begins tomorrow hopefully.
I got my PS exam back and I did the math and not a bad score because I thought I completely bombed it. But then talking to one of the girls in the class, she said my grade is like a high B or a low A which is wierd because my prof doesn't curve. But nonetheless I'll take either grade. Plus my prof let us out of class early because we all fell asleep during lecture.
Then last night, for the first time in a while, I skipped Tuesday night v-ball to go to the Pistons game. I gotta say it was a nice rest for my shoulder. Thanks Wa and Miranda for the free tickets. It was funny because Larry brought his handicap sign but dang it we didn't get to use it. I don't know how Naomi tried to study during the game. Dang it, they didn't put Phil and I on the Smooch Cam. And Connie is a celeb now that a couple of guys wanted her autograph. JW and I met one of the Automotion Cheerleaders, gosh she was so beautiful. And Alan was like the live color commentator sitting next to me. Anyways my time is up pretty much, time to go watch DBZ.
You Think You Know Me
I got my PS exam back and I did the math and not a bad score because I thought I completely bombed it. But then talking to one of the girls in the class, she said my grade is like a high B or a low A which is wierd because my prof doesn't curve. But nonetheless I'll take either grade. Plus my prof let us out of class early because we all fell asleep during lecture.
Then last night, for the first time in a while, I skipped Tuesday night v-ball to go to the Pistons game. I gotta say it was a nice rest for my shoulder. Thanks Wa and Miranda for the free tickets. It was funny because Larry brought his handicap sign but dang it we didn't get to use it. I don't know how Naomi tried to study during the game. Dang it, they didn't put Phil and I on the Smooch Cam. And Connie is a celeb now that a couple of guys wanted her autograph. JW and I met one of the Automotion Cheerleaders, gosh she was so beautiful. And Alan was like the live color commentator sitting next to me. Anyways my time is up pretty much, time to go watch DBZ.
You Think You Know Me
Tuesday, November 12, 2002
Wow, last night was a night of yet another God teaching me something. So lately I haven't been going to Sunday School at CBC and I've been more of a cruise control mode I guess. And GP B challenged me awhile back about finding a verse that talks about disassembling from the church. So last night during my quiet times, I really focused and prayed hard about finding it. And I found it, see I have the verse Heb 10:25 memorized and I never really look on after that. But it is in Heb 10:26-31 that really talks about leaving the church type of thing. Basically these 5 verses are a warning to those who desert or abandon the church during an assembly. So now I understand and hopefully I won't be missing Sunday School anymore. I'm glad God is so forgiving and loving as I repented last night.
So this past weekend, I saw 8 Mile with Chrissy, Connie, JW, Larry, Phil, Cougar, Alan, and Naomi. All I gotta say is that movie, is one of the best I've ever seen. I would give it 5 stars out of 4 if I could. The movie I thought was pretty accurate of how Detroit is and was. I recommend for those who were trully born and raised from D-Town and love rap music then this is a must see movie.
Also on an interesting note today at ENV class, I was eating my M&M's and Melissa grabs one. She didn't like the peanut as she was eating it so she was gonna give it back to me with her tongue into my month. Wouldn't that been a cool site during class to see, gosh you gotta love the kinkiness that people think of these days. Oh and no I didn't take the peanut with my mouth, I made her eat it instead.
Off The Wall
So this past weekend, I saw 8 Mile with Chrissy, Connie, JW, Larry, Phil, Cougar, Alan, and Naomi. All I gotta say is that movie, is one of the best I've ever seen. I would give it 5 stars out of 4 if I could. The movie I thought was pretty accurate of how Detroit is and was. I recommend for those who were trully born and raised from D-Town and love rap music then this is a must see movie.
Also on an interesting note today at ENV class, I was eating my M&M's and Melissa grabs one. She didn't like the peanut as she was eating it so she was gonna give it back to me with her tongue into my month. Wouldn't that been a cool site during class to see, gosh you gotta love the kinkiness that people think of these days. Oh and no I didn't take the peanut with my mouth, I made her eat it instead.
Off The Wall
Friday, November 08, 2002
Does anybody really know the secret
Or the combination for this life and where they keep it
It's kind of sad when you don't know the meaning
But everything happens for a reason
I don't even know what I should say
Because I'm an idiot, a loser, a microphone abuser
I analyze every second I exist
Beating out my mind every second with my fists
And everybody wanna run, everybody wanna hide from the gun
Ok, I gotta make this quick because as of now I have begun my new fast. The last time I fasted was about 2 years ago, when Lindsay challenged me to fast from anything that had to do with Pokemon for a week. Boy that was one of the toughest weeks of my life. Then I remember Dan challenged me to fast from my Playstation for a week too. It's nice that I've been able to live life without my PS2 lately, well due to it's malfunction. But the past couple of days, I've noticed I've been having this obsession with being online instead of doing something more with my time. So as of now I've decided I will fast from online, well that is I will only be online for only a half hour a day. I think I will keep this little challenge till the end of this semester. So if any of you who see my on longer than a half hour then tell me to sign off! Help a brotha out because I've become an online junkie.
Last night was also a night of nervousness because I lead Bible Study for the first time by myself. Yeah I've lead Bible study before in D-Ship and I was always confident with myself because I always prepared with Tom, Lindsay, or Jon. Plus I was confident that I knew more Scripture than anyone else in D-Ship. I'm glad that Larry was able to play a couple of songs to help keep me calm.
And my HST paper that was suppose to be due next week just got pushed back another week. Woohoo! I hung out with Lisa on campus today, gosh I can't wait to play with her in our next v-ball game at OU. And today, I found out from JW that Stan and I along with Bobs will be returning back into the MSU tournament in January. It's been like 2 years now since we've last took 1st place at a MSU b-ball tournament. I'm still disappointed with my overconfidence at the last tournament. And now that I have a date back at MSU, I know I've got something to prove and once my shoulder is fully healed, I'll be working out even more. The Franchise, Ivo Show, Kobe, The Answer, K Dawg, K 13 or whatever I'm called these days will be returning January 11th. Hopefully we can get a nice crowd going for us again. That really gets me going. But what's gets me playing at a higher level is when other teams start talking trash to me, (sigh) you gotta love it :) Ok times up!
Nookie
Or the combination for this life and where they keep it
It's kind of sad when you don't know the meaning
But everything happens for a reason
I don't even know what I should say
Because I'm an idiot, a loser, a microphone abuser
I analyze every second I exist
Beating out my mind every second with my fists
And everybody wanna run, everybody wanna hide from the gun
Ok, I gotta make this quick because as of now I have begun my new fast. The last time I fasted was about 2 years ago, when Lindsay challenged me to fast from anything that had to do with Pokemon for a week. Boy that was one of the toughest weeks of my life. Then I remember Dan challenged me to fast from my Playstation for a week too. It's nice that I've been able to live life without my PS2 lately, well due to it's malfunction. But the past couple of days, I've noticed I've been having this obsession with being online instead of doing something more with my time. So as of now I've decided I will fast from online, well that is I will only be online for only a half hour a day. I think I will keep this little challenge till the end of this semester. So if any of you who see my on longer than a half hour then tell me to sign off! Help a brotha out because I've become an online junkie.
Last night was also a night of nervousness because I lead Bible Study for the first time by myself. Yeah I've lead Bible study before in D-Ship and I was always confident with myself because I always prepared with Tom, Lindsay, or Jon. Plus I was confident that I knew more Scripture than anyone else in D-Ship. I'm glad that Larry was able to play a couple of songs to help keep me calm.
And my HST paper that was suppose to be due next week just got pushed back another week. Woohoo! I hung out with Lisa on campus today, gosh I can't wait to play with her in our next v-ball game at OU. And today, I found out from JW that Stan and I along with Bobs will be returning back into the MSU tournament in January. It's been like 2 years now since we've last took 1st place at a MSU b-ball tournament. I'm still disappointed with my overconfidence at the last tournament. And now that I have a date back at MSU, I know I've got something to prove and once my shoulder is fully healed, I'll be working out even more. The Franchise, Ivo Show, Kobe, The Answer, K Dawg, K 13 or whatever I'm called these days will be returning January 11th. Hopefully we can get a nice crowd going for us again. That really gets me going. But what's gets me playing at a higher level is when other teams start talking trash to me, (sigh) you gotta love it :) Ok times up!
Nookie
Wednesday, November 06, 2002
I came into this world as a reject
Look into these eyes
Then you'll see the signs of the flashes
Dwelling on the past
It's burning up my brain
Everyone of them has to learn from the pain
Ouchie, ouchie, and more ouchie! Wow was my shoulder in pain last night. You know it's bad when pain just started shooting up everytime I went over in the car and change the radio station. Boy does this suck, it's good thing I got the next couple of days of just hardcore studying to do.
Woohoo, I got the new ICP cd last night. Sheesh it's about time they came out with a new cd. If you ain't down wit the clownz then you don't know what I'm talking about. And thank you Lord for what you did last night in restoration.
Break Stuff
Look into these eyes
Then you'll see the signs of the flashes
Dwelling on the past
It's burning up my brain
Everyone of them has to learn from the pain
Ouchie, ouchie, and more ouchie! Wow was my shoulder in pain last night. You know it's bad when pain just started shooting up everytime I went over in the car and change the radio station. Boy does this suck, it's good thing I got the next couple of days of just hardcore studying to do.
Woohoo, I got the new ICP cd last night. Sheesh it's about time they came out with a new cd. If you ain't down wit the clownz then you don't know what I'm talking about. And thank you Lord for what you did last night in restoration.
Break Stuff
Tuesday, November 05, 2002
Gosh, I really need to start fasting from being online. It's like ok I'm gonna be online for like only an hour then it's like 3 hours later and oh it's time to go to class. Sheesh where does time really go. Just looking at my calendar, I'm in the terrible 3 weeks again, as last week was an exam, this week an exam and a paper, and next week is a term paper again! One thing I am learning so far is that I am never taking these once a week night classes ever again. I think I'd rather go to school for 4 days then go to 1 night class.
Anywhoot, yesterday night was just a tale of two extremes of v-ball. I walk in, trying to stay mentally prepared for our first playoff game. Once I found out that we were playing against a team that tied with us for 3rd, that only pumped me up even more. The JFK gym added a new sign, and it read "Play Like A Champion, Today" and that got me going because again I don't like to lose. We lost the first game, but it was great to call a time out and the team really regroup and regained their composure. I felt bad because I gave crappy passes. On the other hand, the intensity of this game was just unbelievable and I apologize to the team for my language which was uncalled for. It's just frustrating to be passing bad and also to see the team not mentally prepared. As a player this is something you gotta want, laying everything all on the line and because if we lose then as Kenny Smith and Charles Barkley would say "We'd gone fishing". But praise God that we won and I look forward to going up against whoever our next opponent is.
Now with only 45 minutes after this game, I had to race on over to OU to play against Theta Chi. I made it in with 10 minutes to rest, and replenish fluids. No offense but after a high energy game, this must of been the low energy game because Theta Chi just flat out sucked. I'm amazed that Danielle would put us up against such a weakling in this Conference. You know it's sad when most of our points came off of lifts from the other team. Not much else to say but the Titans improve to 6-1, best record in the East baby! Oh and yeah see what I mean about the 2 extremes of v-ball last night.
Also, since I wasn't there for the first game, I let Jane and Maegan be the co-captains for my place. They decided to add another girl to the team, Lisa, and she isn't that bad of a player. I just wanna welcome Lisa to the Titans baby. I never really noticed till last night either, but man I got the hottest girls in the league right now, with Lisa, Maegan, Jane, and Melissa. Not only are they cute, but they got skillz and that's why I'm confident the Titans will repeat as champs!
Eeerrrr ok my shoulder is hurting so I can't type anymore, time to eat those yummy pain killers :) It didn't help last night that I flew into the bleachers at OU diving for a save, gosh this shoulder really stings. It's ok though, pain is temporary, The Game is forever.
You Can't Hunt What You Can't Kill
Anywhoot, yesterday night was just a tale of two extremes of v-ball. I walk in, trying to stay mentally prepared for our first playoff game. Once I found out that we were playing against a team that tied with us for 3rd, that only pumped me up even more. The JFK gym added a new sign, and it read "Play Like A Champion, Today" and that got me going because again I don't like to lose. We lost the first game, but it was great to call a time out and the team really regroup and regained their composure. I felt bad because I gave crappy passes. On the other hand, the intensity of this game was just unbelievable and I apologize to the team for my language which was uncalled for. It's just frustrating to be passing bad and also to see the team not mentally prepared. As a player this is something you gotta want, laying everything all on the line and because if we lose then as Kenny Smith and Charles Barkley would say "We'd gone fishing". But praise God that we won and I look forward to going up against whoever our next opponent is.
Now with only 45 minutes after this game, I had to race on over to OU to play against Theta Chi. I made it in with 10 minutes to rest, and replenish fluids. No offense but after a high energy game, this must of been the low energy game because Theta Chi just flat out sucked. I'm amazed that Danielle would put us up against such a weakling in this Conference. You know it's sad when most of our points came off of lifts from the other team. Not much else to say but the Titans improve to 6-1, best record in the East baby! Oh and yeah see what I mean about the 2 extremes of v-ball last night.
Also, since I wasn't there for the first game, I let Jane and Maegan be the co-captains for my place. They decided to add another girl to the team, Lisa, and she isn't that bad of a player. I just wanna welcome Lisa to the Titans baby. I never really noticed till last night either, but man I got the hottest girls in the league right now, with Lisa, Maegan, Jane, and Melissa. Not only are they cute, but they got skillz and that's why I'm confident the Titans will repeat as champs!
Eeerrrr ok my shoulder is hurting so I can't type anymore, time to eat those yummy pain killers :) It didn't help last night that I flew into the bleachers at OU diving for a save, gosh this shoulder really stings. It's ok though, pain is temporary, The Game is forever.
You Can't Hunt What You Can't Kill
Monday, November 04, 2002
Ok, I just need to clarify with everyone that unlike all of you, I ain't in the old club :Þ I am and forever will be The Kid. Yesterday I was pretty happy because my hip injury was finally gone or close to being fully healed. However, playing soccer yesterday, I reaggrivated it by taking a hard fall on my hip. Now I'm back to square 1 where I have probs sitting down again. Then after getting my daily evaluations from Dr. Kim, dang it I knew about a month ago I did something to my shoulder at the v-ball clinics. It's been bothering me for a while but I thought maybe I've been off on my hitting. But it was confirmed that for the past month, I've had some sort of inflamnation (sp?) building up and some tendonitis that has caused my shoulder to be sore everytime I lift it up. However Larry took the worst of them all yesterday, and all I can say is my prayers are with ya brotha.
And tonight is a wonderful 3 v-ball games in a 4 hour time span. Since one of them is a playoff game I've decided to skip my first game at OU and be back in time for the doubleheader. So who do play in the playoffs, well it exciting that we're seeded 3rd and we'll go up against Back Again. Then at OU hopefully I can make it back in time to go up against Theta Chi. I could use a sensu bean or two to hold me over for tonight. Alright time to wheel and deal in fantasy b-ball.
Rabbit Run
And tonight is a wonderful 3 v-ball games in a 4 hour time span. Since one of them is a playoff game I've decided to skip my first game at OU and be back in time for the doubleheader. So who do play in the playoffs, well it exciting that we're seeded 3rd and we'll go up against Back Again. Then at OU hopefully I can make it back in time to go up against Theta Chi. I could use a sensu bean or two to hold me over for tonight. Alright time to wheel and deal in fantasy b-ball.
Rabbit Run
Friday, November 01, 2002
Ya know I keep forgetting tonight was Halloween. I remember back in the day, me, my sis, and all of our cousins would just travel in packs hunting candy down. I was usually the bad boy of the group, of course, because I would be the one shooting out jack-o-lanterns, the one going pumpkin smashing, or the one damaging someone's house if they would just leave their lights on but don't answer the door. I remember I used to get so pissed ringing door bells to those who don't answer their door, I guess that's why I always had eggs with me in case of those situations. Oh but I love those people who'd like leave like a whole bucket of candy outside and a sign saying please take one. Gosh, how dumb can people get, like a little kid is really gonna take just one. I would always get mad if others beat me to those houses because then I'm just reading the sign. Man those were the days of a trick or treater.
As the b-ball season begins, I've noticed the past 2 weeks that I've been working out more for b-ball. And I know I always give shoutouts to the peeps that I miss or love playing with in v-ball. This past weekend, I just lit it up against Team Viceroy as they like to call themselves. I loved my team because everyone pretty much complimented my playing style. And one guy whom I love on my team is Mike. I remember when he first came into b-ball, I did not like playing against him. I thought he was a dirty player, especially when he'd always guard me. He'd tell me that he likes playing his best aggressive D against the best players at CBC. That was flattering but to me it always felt like he was trying to injure me. But I think after a few kind words from Randy, Kin, and Rich, he has played a lot cleaner. I'm glad that God has really changed my heart towards him in b-ball. He is a great role player, and he always plays within himself. Like whenever I had probs getting through double teams, I would ask him to set a pick, and without hesitation a pick would be there and bam swoosh for me. I can't get over this one pick he set, where we timed it perfectly and he almost took someone's head off. I can't say enough about Mike, but he is the ultimate role player along with Richard. These 2 guys I love playing with because they know their roles and play within themselves. There are other peeps but eh since I'm getting whooped in fantasy b-ball, I might as well look for the real thing.
Trick or Treat
As the b-ball season begins, I've noticed the past 2 weeks that I've been working out more for b-ball. And I know I always give shoutouts to the peeps that I miss or love playing with in v-ball. This past weekend, I just lit it up against Team Viceroy as they like to call themselves. I loved my team because everyone pretty much complimented my playing style. And one guy whom I love on my team is Mike. I remember when he first came into b-ball, I did not like playing against him. I thought he was a dirty player, especially when he'd always guard me. He'd tell me that he likes playing his best aggressive D against the best players at CBC. That was flattering but to me it always felt like he was trying to injure me. But I think after a few kind words from Randy, Kin, and Rich, he has played a lot cleaner. I'm glad that God has really changed my heart towards him in b-ball. He is a great role player, and he always plays within himself. Like whenever I had probs getting through double teams, I would ask him to set a pick, and without hesitation a pick would be there and bam swoosh for me. I can't get over this one pick he set, where we timed it perfectly and he almost took someone's head off. I can't say enough about Mike, but he is the ultimate role player along with Richard. These 2 guys I love playing with because they know their roles and play within themselves. There are other peeps but eh since I'm getting whooped in fantasy b-ball, I might as well look for the real thing.
Trick or Treat
Thursday, October 31, 2002
Look
If you had
One shot
Or one opportunity
This is everything you ever wanted
One moment
Would you capture it
Or just let it slip?
Finally I got the 8 Mile Soundtrack, and it's just a great cd. I guess you can say I love Eminem from way back when before he became famous. Why did I like him? Because he always represented Detroit baby, my hometown, where I grew up. Other favorites of mine that came out of Detroit are I.C.P. and Kid Rock, you had to be hardcore to know who they were before they came out and became superstars. I can't wait to go see 8 Mile, I used to remember as a kid, everyday going to my grandparents restaurant and always getting off at 8 Mile.
I just got done taking my ENV exam, and dang it! Ya know the first exam everyone tells me that he posts most of the questions from the exam on his website. So I did nothing but study those questions for this 2nd exam, however out of 47 questions he only puts like 5 questions this time. And tonight I'll probably find out my sorry grade from HST.
At least I have last night to live off of for a little bit. Last night was just like a blessing in disguise and part of me wished that I could share this week for v-ball instead of last week. Like I haven't talked about this enough, is that I still get kind of bummed with some of my other friendships and where they are heading. Yeah and it's been a struggle sometimes because I dwell on it so much. However last night was just rewarding as I got an unexpected surprise for my b-day. I'm not the type of person to be telling everyone by b-day because personally I don't care about it. I think it's the age thing, and as I'm reading it everyone keeps talking about old age. Guess what, I'm still gonna be The Kid :) but I remember when I first turned 16 that was the age I wanted to stay at because all I cared about was driving. Everyone keeps talking about 21 is the age but eh I don't drink so that wasn't a big deal to me. I don't think I've ever had a surprise for my b-day like that. It was truly a memorable one, and honestly I was choked up with emotions because I didn't realize it was for me. And I just can't praise God enough for the friends that I spent last night with. Just reading the card really puts a tear in my eye. So before I get any more sappy, I just want to say thanks to JW, Phil, Larry, Chrissy, Viv, Connie, Cougar, Alan, Naomi, Cecilia, Vickie, Les, Kelly, and Andy.
25 Mile
If you had
One shot
Or one opportunity
This is everything you ever wanted
One moment
Would you capture it
Or just let it slip?
Finally I got the 8 Mile Soundtrack, and it's just a great cd. I guess you can say I love Eminem from way back when before he became famous. Why did I like him? Because he always represented Detroit baby, my hometown, where I grew up. Other favorites of mine that came out of Detroit are I.C.P. and Kid Rock, you had to be hardcore to know who they were before they came out and became superstars. I can't wait to go see 8 Mile, I used to remember as a kid, everyday going to my grandparents restaurant and always getting off at 8 Mile.
I just got done taking my ENV exam, and dang it! Ya know the first exam everyone tells me that he posts most of the questions from the exam on his website. So I did nothing but study those questions for this 2nd exam, however out of 47 questions he only puts like 5 questions this time. And tonight I'll probably find out my sorry grade from HST.
At least I have last night to live off of for a little bit. Last night was just like a blessing in disguise and part of me wished that I could share this week for v-ball instead of last week. Like I haven't talked about this enough, is that I still get kind of bummed with some of my other friendships and where they are heading. Yeah and it's been a struggle sometimes because I dwell on it so much. However last night was just rewarding as I got an unexpected surprise for my b-day. I'm not the type of person to be telling everyone by b-day because personally I don't care about it. I think it's the age thing, and as I'm reading it everyone keeps talking about old age. Guess what, I'm still gonna be The Kid :) but I remember when I first turned 16 that was the age I wanted to stay at because all I cared about was driving. Everyone keeps talking about 21 is the age but eh I don't drink so that wasn't a big deal to me. I don't think I've ever had a surprise for my b-day like that. It was truly a memorable one, and honestly I was choked up with emotions because I didn't realize it was for me. And I just can't praise God enough for the friends that I spent last night with. Just reading the card really puts a tear in my eye. So before I get any more sappy, I just want to say thanks to JW, Phil, Larry, Chrissy, Viv, Connie, Cougar, Alan, Naomi, Cecilia, Vickie, Les, Kelly, and Andy.
25 Mile
Tuesday, October 29, 2002
Wow it's been a while it seems like, anyways last Thursday, my HST class was cancelled, maybe Prof. Zellers isn't a bad prof after all. Nah, I think he still is one of the worst right up there with Prof. Izrealli. Survivor sucked because Robb got voted off dang it! But it's cool Erin is still my pick to win. And let's see since last Sunday I've been playing more v-ball than sleeping it seems like.
Last night was the season opener for OU IM V-ball, and I was glad that my teammates from last season were reunited, Stan, Melissa, and Jane. It's too bad Nick couldn't play with us this year, he was the X-Factor for us. And now our team, Titans (yeah gotta name it after my high school) I've added Maegan, Cindy, and Kathy. What's even more exciting is that we have so many teams in IM V-ball, that we have formed to 2 Conferences, Western and Eastern. Danielle, who works at the Rec and is in charge, purposely split up our team and Joey's team, GoodNPlenty because we're the top teams. So last night we played Vertically Challenge, and we beat them 2-1. I was upset that we lost the first game as I blame myself for the lost. Maybe I was overconfident, because when it was 9-2 I chose to sit out and conserve my energy for YCF's game. However we ended up losing 15-11 as I checked in too late. Then again, the team seemed to of had butterflies as everyone was still trying to get used to each other. So I stayed in the 2nd game and we just dominated them 15-2, and finish it off in the 3rd game. Something I've been thinking about all of last week as I've been working out to push myself at a higher level than last year, is that it gets lonely at the top ya know? I guess that's why you need faith in God to truly be satisfied and content in your life. Last night, before the game, I was looking at everyone warming up then I kind of looked outside the window, having this lonely feeling inside of me about v-ball. Like I love playing with everyone on my team, but it's not the same. No Joyce, Lindsay, Chrissy, Connie, Phil, Ting, Viv, JW, and Larry the people that I've been playing with for so long now. I guess it is like what Kabito said to Gohan about being the lone saiyan, I guess I feel like the lone CBC person at OU and I don't have them to back me up for my mistakes.
Last night I also felt that compassion that God's word speaks of, about having compassion for your enemies. Joey's team is in the Western Conference, and I knew I sensed great power, and skills from other teams. But watching Joey's team struggle against Haters R Us the way the did, made me really want to jump in and help Andi and him out. They've been in the finals the past 2 semesters now, and they got rocked a few times. Boy I never imagined that I would have it in my heart, to really want to charge up and go out and help his team out. Then again, I've got my own worries with this 6 foot plus monster on Theta Chi next week. One funny thing that did occur last night was, Jane and I were about to be ejected from the game because we were sporting red bandanas on our heads. So we were asked to take them off which sucked because we matched pretty well. Well I guess it's time to go hit the books.
Hero
Last night was the season opener for OU IM V-ball, and I was glad that my teammates from last season were reunited, Stan, Melissa, and Jane. It's too bad Nick couldn't play with us this year, he was the X-Factor for us. And now our team, Titans (yeah gotta name it after my high school) I've added Maegan, Cindy, and Kathy. What's even more exciting is that we have so many teams in IM V-ball, that we have formed to 2 Conferences, Western and Eastern. Danielle, who works at the Rec and is in charge, purposely split up our team and Joey's team, GoodNPlenty because we're the top teams. So last night we played Vertically Challenge, and we beat them 2-1. I was upset that we lost the first game as I blame myself for the lost. Maybe I was overconfident, because when it was 9-2 I chose to sit out and conserve my energy for YCF's game. However we ended up losing 15-11 as I checked in too late. Then again, the team seemed to of had butterflies as everyone was still trying to get used to each other. So I stayed in the 2nd game and we just dominated them 15-2, and finish it off in the 3rd game. Something I've been thinking about all of last week as I've been working out to push myself at a higher level than last year, is that it gets lonely at the top ya know? I guess that's why you need faith in God to truly be satisfied and content in your life. Last night, before the game, I was looking at everyone warming up then I kind of looked outside the window, having this lonely feeling inside of me about v-ball. Like I love playing with everyone on my team, but it's not the same. No Joyce, Lindsay, Chrissy, Connie, Phil, Ting, Viv, JW, and Larry the people that I've been playing with for so long now. I guess it is like what Kabito said to Gohan about being the lone saiyan, I guess I feel like the lone CBC person at OU and I don't have them to back me up for my mistakes.
Last night I also felt that compassion that God's word speaks of, about having compassion for your enemies. Joey's team is in the Western Conference, and I knew I sensed great power, and skills from other teams. But watching Joey's team struggle against Haters R Us the way the did, made me really want to jump in and help Andi and him out. They've been in the finals the past 2 semesters now, and they got rocked a few times. Boy I never imagined that I would have it in my heart, to really want to charge up and go out and help his team out. Then again, I've got my own worries with this 6 foot plus monster on Theta Chi next week. One funny thing that did occur last night was, Jane and I were about to be ejected from the game because we were sporting red bandanas on our heads. So we were asked to take them off which sucked because we matched pretty well. Well I guess it's time to go hit the books.
Hero
Thursday, October 24, 2002
So we just had a fire alarm at KL, so sorry to those I was talking to because I had to shutdown and walk outside. I never realized that many people went to our library. Boy this sugar rush is really killing me because now I'm starving with PS 241 coming up in a half hour. Tuesday I fell asleep during class and I gave a little spasm then I woke up. It's funny because Larry, JW and I were just talking about falling asleep during class and doing something retarded last week. I don't have much to say now and I guess after reading Conehead's blog, it must be a randomblog day for myself too. Maybe I'll go to class early and get some reading done, what a good boy I am.
Oh here's a lil' somethin, somethin that I've been humming in my mind as I was just surfing the web.
Do we always gotta run,
Do we always gotta hide,
Life's moving fast,
You're smoking a lot of hash,
You better get a move on,
Before it kicks you in the ass.
Why is it so hard for me to put things away in the past or even in the present? Instead why can't I focus on what God has shown me in His direction. I need to keep my faith strong, like my boy Job did back in the days. Gosh it's funny that the guy across from me keeps talking so fricking loud about fantasy hockey to this one girl. Wow is this a new way in picking up women? Maybe I should shove a hockey stick up his butt because some of us in here are trying to do work.
Lamb of God
Oh here's a lil' somethin, somethin that I've been humming in my mind as I was just surfing the web.
Do we always gotta run,
Do we always gotta hide,
Life's moving fast,
You're smoking a lot of hash,
You better get a move on,
Before it kicks you in the ass.
Why is it so hard for me to put things away in the past or even in the present? Instead why can't I focus on what God has shown me in His direction. I need to keep my faith strong, like my boy Job did back in the days. Gosh it's funny that the guy across from me keeps talking so fricking loud about fantasy hockey to this one girl. Wow is this a new way in picking up women? Maybe I should shove a hockey stick up his butt because some of us in here are trying to do work.
Lamb of God
Better is one day in Your house
Better is one day in Your courts
Than thousands elsewhere
Wow it's like 2:15 a.m. now and I'm still not sleepy even after another nite of guys nite last nite. I think it has to be all those cupcakes I ate tonight at Chrissy and Connie's place. Oh and plus all that left over frosting and the huge box of Nerds I had in my car. Because of all this sugar attack, I didn't even bother eating dinner. Boy talk about a nutrional meal after what Conehead said in her blog. Anyways, today I went to MSU to take care of a couple of things and I went to visit my sister's place. It's been a while since Labor Day that I've went to my sister's place. And now that their all settled in, I have a couple of things that I want to say. I find it funny that, one of her roommates who asked a month or two ago that she needed help on trying to quit smoking, because I still see a pack of Marlboro's on the table. I'm disappointed as well that the bottom half of the fridge contains a box of 24 pack Bud Light. Hopefully their will be that one day for my sister and her friends to turn and find their path of righteousness.
Replay of Monday nite's game against Try Again, is that we got spanked and even shut out! I got schooled 2-3 times by Phil's friend Jen. I don't want to take any credit away from their win but I know for a fact that we can beat them. I remember talking to this one lady who organizes the league and she kept talking to me about how a lot of the teams have played together for so many years and that you can tell which teams are newly formed while others have played for the longest time. I agreed with her because I've played against some of these teams for the past 2 years now. And so sometimes it's frustrating to see our team lose because our lack of team chemistry is there which in overall is our communication. I always said that talent can only take you so far but chemistry is what pushes a team higher. I'm starting to understand what Howard's been teaching me about our Men's v-ball team and how we need to keep our chemistry.
I went to OU after our game to play some more v-ball and to check out the talent of this year's league. The comparisons have begun now, between Joey and I to see who is the MVP of this semester. I gotta say that he has improved this past summer so I've been pushing myself on Tuesday with Melissa, to keep me ahead of him. What sucks now is that I got this bruise on my hip bone which is causing me to walk with a limp. I got this on Tuesday night, I dove straight down hard on my side to pancake because our team was so great with their passing. So it's been difficult to sleeping on that side, but I just got done running up and down the stairs for a little bit and it feels a little better. I must say it's gotta be that frosting, dang it that's given me so much energy.
And just a random thought as it hit me while I was driving home after CYAF. Gosh I can't believe how much Connie and Chrissy's dad reminds me of my daddy. I'm starting to understand how my parents, Rich's parents, and the Cheung sister's parents were so tight back then. Actually after thinking about it, it's kind of amazing how God has placed us, Rich, Connie, Chrissy, and I staying tight kind of like today's Bible Study about generations come and generations go. And it looks like Rich already got a jump on us for the 3rd generation with Audrey. But I don't think anyone should be looking on me to keeping the 3rd generation going. It's just amazing that what holds true in the OT still holds true today.
And final thought of the day, is have you ever wished that you could be there and do things that you have in your mind? But God's guiding you in another direction and you're kind of hesistant about going because you wanna go back towards the other way. Well I gotta give all the praise to God as He's provided CYAF or possibly TF (Transformers Fellowship) that I can really feel the fire for God and to truly focus on serving Him.
God of Wonders
Better is one day in Your courts
Than thousands elsewhere
Wow it's like 2:15 a.m. now and I'm still not sleepy even after another nite of guys nite last nite. I think it has to be all those cupcakes I ate tonight at Chrissy and Connie's place. Oh and plus all that left over frosting and the huge box of Nerds I had in my car. Because of all this sugar attack, I didn't even bother eating dinner. Boy talk about a nutrional meal after what Conehead said in her blog. Anyways, today I went to MSU to take care of a couple of things and I went to visit my sister's place. It's been a while since Labor Day that I've went to my sister's place. And now that their all settled in, I have a couple of things that I want to say. I find it funny that, one of her roommates who asked a month or two ago that she needed help on trying to quit smoking, because I still see a pack of Marlboro's on the table. I'm disappointed as well that the bottom half of the fridge contains a box of 24 pack Bud Light. Hopefully their will be that one day for my sister and her friends to turn and find their path of righteousness.
Replay of Monday nite's game against Try Again, is that we got spanked and even shut out! I got schooled 2-3 times by Phil's friend Jen. I don't want to take any credit away from their win but I know for a fact that we can beat them. I remember talking to this one lady who organizes the league and she kept talking to me about how a lot of the teams have played together for so many years and that you can tell which teams are newly formed while others have played for the longest time. I agreed with her because I've played against some of these teams for the past 2 years now. And so sometimes it's frustrating to see our team lose because our lack of team chemistry is there which in overall is our communication. I always said that talent can only take you so far but chemistry is what pushes a team higher. I'm starting to understand what Howard's been teaching me about our Men's v-ball team and how we need to keep our chemistry.
I went to OU after our game to play some more v-ball and to check out the talent of this year's league. The comparisons have begun now, between Joey and I to see who is the MVP of this semester. I gotta say that he has improved this past summer so I've been pushing myself on Tuesday with Melissa, to keep me ahead of him. What sucks now is that I got this bruise on my hip bone which is causing me to walk with a limp. I got this on Tuesday night, I dove straight down hard on my side to pancake because our team was so great with their passing. So it's been difficult to sleeping on that side, but I just got done running up and down the stairs for a little bit and it feels a little better. I must say it's gotta be that frosting, dang it that's given me so much energy.
And just a random thought as it hit me while I was driving home after CYAF. Gosh I can't believe how much Connie and Chrissy's dad reminds me of my daddy. I'm starting to understand how my parents, Rich's parents, and the Cheung sister's parents were so tight back then. Actually after thinking about it, it's kind of amazing how God has placed us, Rich, Connie, Chrissy, and I staying tight kind of like today's Bible Study about generations come and generations go. And it looks like Rich already got a jump on us for the 3rd generation with Audrey. But I don't think anyone should be looking on me to keeping the 3rd generation going. It's just amazing that what holds true in the OT still holds true today.
And final thought of the day, is have you ever wished that you could be there and do things that you have in your mind? But God's guiding you in another direction and you're kind of hesistant about going because you wanna go back towards the other way. Well I gotta give all the praise to God as He's provided CYAF or possibly TF (Transformers Fellowship) that I can really feel the fire for God and to truly focus on serving Him.
God of Wonders
Monday, October 21, 2002
I tell myself
Hey only fools rush in
Only time will tell if we stand the test of time
All I know
You got to run to win
I'll be dang if I get hung up on the line
Hey, no I can't recall anything at all
Wooo it's got what it takes
So tell me why can't this be love
You want it straight from the heart
Oh tell me why can't this be love?
Wow was it just me or really praise God for the good competition that came out on Saturday morning. However, at one point I did feel bad for my actions. Their is this one guy, who I guess JW so kindly named him Truck that pissed me off. As I turned the corner to guard my guy, he just popped up for a quick hip-check and instantly knocked me to the ground. I got back up and got in his face because it was an illegal pick. The last time I got blindsided like that was a few months ago at MSU during a b-ball tournament where this monster guy just knocked me to the ground and the ref called it. I finished the game, however afterwards, SammeeQ was nice enough to nurse my shoulder with ice and put it in a sling for me. And also as I was racing for the ball, Saturday, Alex bumped JW and JW fell onto me my left leg and ultimately twisted my knee and rolled on top of it. I don't know if it is a hyperextention or strain, but it just feels like my knee is out place.
And yesterday, I went to Cornerstone Christian Fellowship Church to worship with them. It was the first time I ever that I've gone to another church to worship by myself. It was also nice to worship with brothers and sisters in the Lapeer area. As I was driving looking for this place, the area made me think back of the place I stayed at over the summer while in NJ. And this church I believe is a good reminder for all of us who tends to think of a church is a building with a cross. But this place was nothing like that, it was like an office building, however a church is the body of people who worship our God. I remembered that from last year's music seminar I went to at CBC. But the people their were just so loving, supportive, and they welcomed me with open arms. I met this one guy, Dennis, a godly man indeed, and he asked me to start coming to Cornerstone to take his place in ministry as he was leaving to Florida for good because of a new job. And I felt honored to be there yesterday as they had a special service, since it was their 6 year anniversary. You can tell that God has done wonders with this body of believers, yesterday was just an amazing experience.
Driving back down to get to my soccer game I had a little encounter with about at least 20 biker dudes. And some peeps been asking what happenned, so I'll give the details. I'm driving down M-24 and I am in the right lane about to get on I-75, the biker gang was in the middle lane. Now they realized that the exit ramp to I-75 was on the right lane. So they all tried to cut over together but I was in the middle of them. So their is this one biker who tried to join his buddies by trying to get all the way around me, as I'm getting on the ramp. So he thinks that I purposely cut him off, and I'm like dude I was already on the right lane getting on to the ramp. So then he proceeded to drive on the shoulder to get ahead of me, and once he did all I could do was laugh. Because as soon as he got in front of me, he braked really hard, turned around to look at me, gave me the number 1 finger salute, and said "F*** You". All I could do when he looked at me and did was smile and laugh, kind of in a taunting matter because if I was pissed then that would give him the satisfaction that he pissed me off. But I laughed and that only irritated him even more. Once on the freeway, I went to the middle lane, and this guy cut in front of me again, and hit his brakes hard again forcing the both of us to go about 40mph on I-75. I don't know if this guy was high or anything because ummm yeah I'm driving in a car, and he is in his harley. If I hit him while he was braking, he would die. Anyways, I cut about 2 lanes over to the left, and got up to my max speed, about 110-112 mph till the governor kicked in. While I passed him cutting over, he looked at me again, and I smiled, blew him a kiss, and gave the peace sign to him. Which of course only irritated him even more as I'm having fun and he is gettin even more pissed. So he decided to tail gate me at speeds of 110 mph down I-75, now let's think for a moment here. Again I am in a car, and if I braked at 110 mph instantly, with him tailgating me, wouldn't he just fly over my car if I had done that, and again killed him instantly? Gosh, this one biker is just really stupid. So I realized the time, and that I couldn't joke around him even more due to the soccer game, I quickly exited onto Square Lake, but of course he kept following me. However, I lost him going 110 mph down Square Lake and I made a quick U to get back onto I-75. While I'm heading east on Square Lake, the biker was heading west still looking for me and as he saw me across the island, I just waved my hand good bye, smile and stuck my tongue at him because he had just gotten smoked, and outsmarted by your's trully. Again when it comes down to street racing, mess with the best die with the rest.
Then that leads to the soccer game, and as a team we played better this time around. I believe the upgrades of Ray, David, Chrissy, and Naomi helped out. I wish this was like football, because I wanna say I had the hit of the game, knocking down one of their guys on his back. I played a little more aggressive but now I need to help out even more on offense, as I blew 3 scoring opportunities. I hope Chrissy and Naomi had a great time and would be interested in joining Zion United. What sucked was that I kept cramping up and as I woke up this morning I felt like my body was broken in half. But I gotta suck up for tonight's v-ball action against the number 1 team in the league, Try Again then it's off to OU to play some more because I need to start scouting this year's competition for IM v-ball.
Panama
Hey only fools rush in
Only time will tell if we stand the test of time
All I know
You got to run to win
I'll be dang if I get hung up on the line
Hey, no I can't recall anything at all
Wooo it's got what it takes
So tell me why can't this be love
You want it straight from the heart
Oh tell me why can't this be love?
Wow was it just me or really praise God for the good competition that came out on Saturday morning. However, at one point I did feel bad for my actions. Their is this one guy, who I guess JW so kindly named him Truck that pissed me off. As I turned the corner to guard my guy, he just popped up for a quick hip-check and instantly knocked me to the ground. I got back up and got in his face because it was an illegal pick. The last time I got blindsided like that was a few months ago at MSU during a b-ball tournament where this monster guy just knocked me to the ground and the ref called it. I finished the game, however afterwards, SammeeQ was nice enough to nurse my shoulder with ice and put it in a sling for me. And also as I was racing for the ball, Saturday, Alex bumped JW and JW fell onto me my left leg and ultimately twisted my knee and rolled on top of it. I don't know if it is a hyperextention or strain, but it just feels like my knee is out place.
And yesterday, I went to Cornerstone Christian Fellowship Church to worship with them. It was the first time I ever that I've gone to another church to worship by myself. It was also nice to worship with brothers and sisters in the Lapeer area. As I was driving looking for this place, the area made me think back of the place I stayed at over the summer while in NJ. And this church I believe is a good reminder for all of us who tends to think of a church is a building with a cross. But this place was nothing like that, it was like an office building, however a church is the body of people who worship our God. I remembered that from last year's music seminar I went to at CBC. But the people their were just so loving, supportive, and they welcomed me with open arms. I met this one guy, Dennis, a godly man indeed, and he asked me to start coming to Cornerstone to take his place in ministry as he was leaving to Florida for good because of a new job. And I felt honored to be there yesterday as they had a special service, since it was their 6 year anniversary. You can tell that God has done wonders with this body of believers, yesterday was just an amazing experience.
Driving back down to get to my soccer game I had a little encounter with about at least 20 biker dudes. And some peeps been asking what happenned, so I'll give the details. I'm driving down M-24 and I am in the right lane about to get on I-75, the biker gang was in the middle lane. Now they realized that the exit ramp to I-75 was on the right lane. So they all tried to cut over together but I was in the middle of them. So their is this one biker who tried to join his buddies by trying to get all the way around me, as I'm getting on the ramp. So he thinks that I purposely cut him off, and I'm like dude I was already on the right lane getting on to the ramp. So then he proceeded to drive on the shoulder to get ahead of me, and once he did all I could do was laugh. Because as soon as he got in front of me, he braked really hard, turned around to look at me, gave me the number 1 finger salute, and said "F*** You". All I could do when he looked at me and did was smile and laugh, kind of in a taunting matter because if I was pissed then that would give him the satisfaction that he pissed me off. But I laughed and that only irritated him even more. Once on the freeway, I went to the middle lane, and this guy cut in front of me again, and hit his brakes hard again forcing the both of us to go about 40mph on I-75. I don't know if this guy was high or anything because ummm yeah I'm driving in a car, and he is in his harley. If I hit him while he was braking, he would die. Anyways, I cut about 2 lanes over to the left, and got up to my max speed, about 110-112 mph till the governor kicked in. While I passed him cutting over, he looked at me again, and I smiled, blew him a kiss, and gave the peace sign to him. Which of course only irritated him even more as I'm having fun and he is gettin even more pissed. So he decided to tail gate me at speeds of 110 mph down I-75, now let's think for a moment here. Again I am in a car, and if I braked at 110 mph instantly, with him tailgating me, wouldn't he just fly over my car if I had done that, and again killed him instantly? Gosh, this one biker is just really stupid. So I realized the time, and that I couldn't joke around him even more due to the soccer game, I quickly exited onto Square Lake, but of course he kept following me. However, I lost him going 110 mph down Square Lake and I made a quick U to get back onto I-75. While I'm heading east on Square Lake, the biker was heading west still looking for me and as he saw me across the island, I just waved my hand good bye, smile and stuck my tongue at him because he had just gotten smoked, and outsmarted by your's trully. Again when it comes down to street racing, mess with the best die with the rest.
Then that leads to the soccer game, and as a team we played better this time around. I believe the upgrades of Ray, David, Chrissy, and Naomi helped out. I wish this was like football, because I wanna say I had the hit of the game, knocking down one of their guys on his back. I played a little more aggressive but now I need to help out even more on offense, as I blew 3 scoring opportunities. I hope Chrissy and Naomi had a great time and would be interested in joining Zion United. What sucked was that I kept cramping up and as I woke up this morning I felt like my body was broken in half. But I gotta suck up for tonight's v-ball action against the number 1 team in the league, Try Again then it's off to OU to play some more because I need to start scouting this year's competition for IM v-ball.
Panama
Friday, October 18, 2002
Look's like I'm gonna do everything myself
Maybe I could use some help
But hell if you want some done right, you gotta do it yourself
Maybe life is up and down
But my life's been what to now
Crawled up your butt from how
And that's how things got turned around
What's done is done
Just leave it alone and don't regret it
Sometimes, somethings turn into dumb things
And that's when you put your foot down
Why did I have to meet somebody like you?
How could you do somebody like that?
Don't you know that I'm never coming back
Wow how my Thursday went from this morning till now. Ya know, whether I flunked, failed, or passed this HST exam I am just happy finally for a little breather. Even though i know I bombed because for some strange reason, our prof requires a 4 page answer for his last essay. Dude how the heck can you possibly get 4 pages, unless you are a major BSer, I could barely crack 2 pages for my last answer. I gotta tell you that I studied pretty hard for this exam, and you've gotta be insane to be able to pull off a 4 page answer with these questions. I'm already disappointed with my term paper grade. I just want everyone to know for those who are planning on attending OU or are attending OU, do not take Prof. Zellers, he is on my bad prof. list.And tonight I've come to the conclusion that after this week, I need to cut down on the guys night. I need to challenge myself to get caught up in my classes, sorry fellas, hopefully we can finish the season soon.
Tonight I walked into the Rec Center, to see if anyone's playing v-ball, and I ran into all the b-ball guys. I walked in feeling like a scrub ya know. Back in high school, I was able to walk into our gym floor, or go to Dumars, Metro Hoops, or Basketball City and all the brotha's would know who I am cuz I got skillz and that I was their every night till closing balling with the best of them. I miss that feeling of people knowing who I am, and tonight just watching everyone playing made me realize that I gotta hit the weight room and courts more often at OU to gain everyone's respect as the Asian Superstar. You can ask any baller, and playin with the brotha's is the only way to get your game to a higher level. Since I've been on this competitive roll lately, I guess I wish more brotha's would play ball at CBC on Saturday mornings to spark up the competition as well. I miss those nights playing with and against them in my high school days.
And I guess I understand why people say, if you don't look for it, it will come to you, or some mumbo jumbo like that. Boy did I have that experience today and it was quite flattering. I guess I need to watch my steps because I'm just trouble.
And finally, I thought I was stress free for the next couple of days. Just got done watching Survivor and the peeps I wanted on are still on. But no, some peeps just don't know when to mind their own business. I'm glad that we don't have like mock elections at CBC because man this person would be bringing home one heck of a trophy. And last week we had the first 5 ways of how to kill a church, and after tonight, I can only take a shot at what the last couple of them are. I really hope that God can prepare me for what lies ahead, and makes me a more encouraging believer to everyone, instead of looking down on others.
My Way
Maybe I could use some help
But hell if you want some done right, you gotta do it yourself
Maybe life is up and down
But my life's been what to now
Crawled up your butt from how
And that's how things got turned around
What's done is done
Just leave it alone and don't regret it
Sometimes, somethings turn into dumb things
And that's when you put your foot down
Why did I have to meet somebody like you?
How could you do somebody like that?
Don't you know that I'm never coming back
Wow how my Thursday went from this morning till now. Ya know, whether I flunked, failed, or passed this HST exam I am just happy finally for a little breather. Even though i know I bombed because for some strange reason, our prof requires a 4 page answer for his last essay. Dude how the heck can you possibly get 4 pages, unless you are a major BSer, I could barely crack 2 pages for my last answer. I gotta tell you that I studied pretty hard for this exam, and you've gotta be insane to be able to pull off a 4 page answer with these questions. I'm already disappointed with my term paper grade. I just want everyone to know for those who are planning on attending OU or are attending OU, do not take Prof. Zellers, he is on my bad prof. list.And tonight I've come to the conclusion that after this week, I need to cut down on the guys night. I need to challenge myself to get caught up in my classes, sorry fellas, hopefully we can finish the season soon.
Tonight I walked into the Rec Center, to see if anyone's playing v-ball, and I ran into all the b-ball guys. I walked in feeling like a scrub ya know. Back in high school, I was able to walk into our gym floor, or go to Dumars, Metro Hoops, or Basketball City and all the brotha's would know who I am cuz I got skillz and that I was their every night till closing balling with the best of them. I miss that feeling of people knowing who I am, and tonight just watching everyone playing made me realize that I gotta hit the weight room and courts more often at OU to gain everyone's respect as the Asian Superstar. You can ask any baller, and playin with the brotha's is the only way to get your game to a higher level. Since I've been on this competitive roll lately, I guess I wish more brotha's would play ball at CBC on Saturday mornings to spark up the competition as well. I miss those nights playing with and against them in my high school days.
And I guess I understand why people say, if you don't look for it, it will come to you, or some mumbo jumbo like that. Boy did I have that experience today and it was quite flattering. I guess I need to watch my steps because I'm just trouble.
And finally, I thought I was stress free for the next couple of days. Just got done watching Survivor and the peeps I wanted on are still on. But no, some peeps just don't know when to mind their own business. I'm glad that we don't have like mock elections at CBC because man this person would be bringing home one heck of a trophy. And last week we had the first 5 ways of how to kill a church, and after tonight, I can only take a shot at what the last couple of them are. I really hope that God can prepare me for what lies ahead, and makes me a more encouraging believer to everyone, instead of looking down on others.
My Way
Thursday, October 17, 2002
Another Thursday, another fricking exam, that's been 3 Thursdays in a row now that I've had an exam. I can only thank God that next week, nothing is actually do! So last night as I came home from dinner with CYAF, I busted out the books and was about to study for HST. Viv called but dang it I missed her call, sorry I had Dragon Ball Z turned up too loud. After that, I'm thinking history, study, history, study, that was all running in my mind, history, study, history, study, ummm nap then history, study, history, zzzzzzzzz, next thing I know, I wake up and it's time for ENV 308. Dang it! So now I'm bout to study with Melissa but I'm having too much fun procrastinating again.
Mmmmmm Nerds are such a good snack to eat during studying. Speaking of nerds, yeah that's what Melissa and I are since we're suppose to go play some v-ball but now opted to study at the KL. The v-ball season at OU is only 2 weeks away and that is when the Titans (that's us) defend our title. It sucks that Nick isn't playing this year because he was a pretty average player, but I respected what he saw that I might of missed. The core of this team is Melissa, Jane, and I, I must say it's a lot different than being part of my own core at CBC. Ooooh well, a guy's gotta do what a guy's gotta do. Yesssss after the final tonight I get to go home early. How early, ummm I'm hoping to finishing this bad boy by 8.
Resonate
Mmmmmm Nerds are such a good snack to eat during studying. Speaking of nerds, yeah that's what Melissa and I are since we're suppose to go play some v-ball but now opted to study at the KL. The v-ball season at OU is only 2 weeks away and that is when the Titans (that's us) defend our title. It sucks that Nick isn't playing this year because he was a pretty average player, but I respected what he saw that I might of missed. The core of this team is Melissa, Jane, and I, I must say it's a lot different than being part of my own core at CBC. Ooooh well, a guy's gotta do what a guy's gotta do. Yesssss after the final tonight I get to go home early. How early, ummm I'm hoping to finishing this bad boy by 8.
Resonate
Wednesday, October 16, 2002
Wow, it actually happenned, what I couldn't thought happenned. So what happenned, well last night's v-ball games actually meant something. Finally we got some good hardcore v-ball going, again I say there is a time to play v-ball and then there is a time to outreach like that is what happenned. Not much else to say since I've been having nap intervals so can't go into deep concentration. Oh I beat Pokemon Red Version last night, woohoo!
Live For The Moment
Live For The Moment
Tuesday, October 15, 2002
Ok, I don't know what's wrong with my AOL lately because everytime I write something, as soon as I am about done, bam it fricking kicks me off. So now I doing right here at the OU library where I should be studying with Melissa. So what do I have to say? Well Viv is gone and I'm glad I got to see her before she left for Chi-Town. Zion United played our first soccer game on Sunday and we got smoked. It just frustrated the heck out of me because the goal of this team was too play well and have fun. So that is why we practiced every Thursday nights. However until the weather got colder the attendance started to drop. Some of us couldn't go anymore due to school and work. However the others I know are just a bunch of wusses and again I say it frustrates the hell out of me seeing us play. Because it's like well the weather is colder now and we don't need to practice, but I know our game will show up when it comes down to game time. Well hopefully this past Sunday it was a reality check for those people, I mean I'm not the best on the team either but dang it, if it wasn't for class I would be there to practice.
Then last night, we lost to Pfizer 1-2 which blows. Gosh dang it I need to start getting ther early now because it's frustrating trying to play without even touching a ball. This game was very competitive and boy did my energy surge up when me and this one girl were talking to the ref. Nothing better than talking a little smack, and afterwards, I talked to probably in my mind the MVP of this league, Chris. Every Monday night we usually talk, and we have nothing but the utmost respect for each other's game. I love how he plays the game, so smart and instinctive on what to do. I hope we play their team again in the playoffs so I can talk a little more smack at their girls though.
And that leads to today, I just got done playing with Melissa and now we're suppose to be studying but instead I'm in here. I got to talk to Kelly today because she usually hooks me up with info of what's been going on in the sporting world at OU. I tried to recruit her for our team because she's not a bad player, but she wants to head a free agent team instead. And this one girl, Kathy is paranoid of playing with me because I want good player on this team. Dang it, Melissa recruited her and she wants to recruit some guy, and I told her he needs to be good. And speaking of good players, ok I feel like I am regressing partially now due to the lack of competition on Tuesday nights now. I quote this from a couple of people now "it's not fun playing now at CBC" And dang it these people are right, again I say their is a time to outreach and a time to play some v-ball. I am seriously praying that tonight will be competitive right from the get go. But then again it is probably too much to ask for. I mean it's like ooooh we gotta reach out to the people who aren't as good at v-ball, so we gotta sacrifice those players who are good but are non-believers. Isn't both their salvations just as important? It's like we gotta mix up teams so those people who aren't as good or who go their for rec, get some fun in while those of us who wanna play hardcore gotta suffer. If tonight's v-ball action fricking blows monkey nuts again, I am seriously just considering posting up our Tuesday night v-ball to DetroitVPC so as JW and I would say, get some SS 3 players in here. Ok so the complaint could be, oh it's a sports outreach, dang it then let's play the fricking game like it's meant to be played. Again everyone grab a Bible and read Ecc. 3, their is a time for everything, a time to outreach and a time to play some v-ball. This fricking sucks I'm already complaining about Tuesday night v-ball when I haven't even played yet. So is tonight gonna blow baby mountain goats or are we actually gonna play? I guess we'll have to wait and see.
Jump
Then last night, we lost to Pfizer 1-2 which blows. Gosh dang it I need to start getting ther early now because it's frustrating trying to play without even touching a ball. This game was very competitive and boy did my energy surge up when me and this one girl were talking to the ref. Nothing better than talking a little smack, and afterwards, I talked to probably in my mind the MVP of this league, Chris. Every Monday night we usually talk, and we have nothing but the utmost respect for each other's game. I love how he plays the game, so smart and instinctive on what to do. I hope we play their team again in the playoffs so I can talk a little more smack at their girls though.
And that leads to today, I just got done playing with Melissa and now we're suppose to be studying but instead I'm in here. I got to talk to Kelly today because she usually hooks me up with info of what's been going on in the sporting world at OU. I tried to recruit her for our team because she's not a bad player, but she wants to head a free agent team instead. And this one girl, Kathy is paranoid of playing with me because I want good player on this team. Dang it, Melissa recruited her and she wants to recruit some guy, and I told her he needs to be good. And speaking of good players, ok I feel like I am regressing partially now due to the lack of competition on Tuesday nights now. I quote this from a couple of people now "it's not fun playing now at CBC" And dang it these people are right, again I say their is a time to outreach and a time to play some v-ball. I am seriously praying that tonight will be competitive right from the get go. But then again it is probably too much to ask for. I mean it's like ooooh we gotta reach out to the people who aren't as good at v-ball, so we gotta sacrifice those players who are good but are non-believers. Isn't both their salvations just as important? It's like we gotta mix up teams so those people who aren't as good or who go their for rec, get some fun in while those of us who wanna play hardcore gotta suffer. If tonight's v-ball action fricking blows monkey nuts again, I am seriously just considering posting up our Tuesday night v-ball to DetroitVPC so as JW and I would say, get some SS 3 players in here. Ok so the complaint could be, oh it's a sports outreach, dang it then let's play the fricking game like it's meant to be played. Again everyone grab a Bible and read Ecc. 3, their is a time for everything, a time to outreach and a time to play some v-ball. This fricking sucks I'm already complaining about Tuesday night v-ball when I haven't even played yet. So is tonight gonna blow baby mountain goats or are we actually gonna play? I guess we'll have to wait and see.
Jump
Thursday, October 10, 2002
Ya know what blows? Is that I had this monstrous entry yesterday and it got erased because I lost my connection on dumb AOL! Anyways most of it was about how crappy it was playing v-ball these past couple of Tuesday nights. And again I say in Ecc. chapter 3, it talks about there is a time for everything. So there is a time to witness, a time to outreach, and there is time to play some hardcore v-ball. Ya know playing on these mixed teams where half the people don't care if they get better or not is not helping some of us out here. How do I know that they don't care about getting better, well half the people there have been going to v-ball longer than I have! Anyways I complained about it enough last night.
Speaking of last night, God has planted a seed in what is now called CYAF, and it's pretty cool how we're doing things because we can do things on the fly. So what does CYAF stand for? Well it stands for Cool Young Adults Fellowship, it beats out YFF, which Young Family Fellowship aka Ambassadors, not to hate on them but ya know, once you have kids it's all down hill. But am I an adult? Dude I'm the only one still in school from this group, and I know I ain't old. Why? Because I'm still The Kid. Mmmmm caramel apples rule too!
Well it's like 1:45 p.m. right now and I'm like butt late too class. I already tanked on this morning's exam because our dumb butt professor doesn't believe in giving us review sheets. But now I know how to prepare for his exams because Erin got a 93% on her exam. Dang it! She did twice as good as I did! Well Viv should be on her way back and I just got back from bringing her mama home. Hopefully she has a nice safe flight back. Gosh is it just me or is airport security really anal these days? Driving around the new terminal today, I've already got this master plan to blow up the airport if I wanted too. And here I see Mr. Airport Patrol think they've got this place locked down or something. I still wanna blow that one guy up who gave me my parking ticket at the airport. Even though I should really blame it Osama because if it wasn't for him, our airports wouldn't be having this anal security. Oh well time to go to class, wow class is sooo much shorter today :) Thanks for the shout out sis! Much love to ya, Laura and keep writing because I do get bored!
Lose Yourself
Speaking of last night, God has planted a seed in what is now called CYAF, and it's pretty cool how we're doing things because we can do things on the fly. So what does CYAF stand for? Well it stands for Cool Young Adults Fellowship, it beats out YFF, which Young Family Fellowship aka Ambassadors, not to hate on them but ya know, once you have kids it's all down hill. But am I an adult? Dude I'm the only one still in school from this group, and I know I ain't old. Why? Because I'm still The Kid. Mmmmm caramel apples rule too!
Well it's like 1:45 p.m. right now and I'm like butt late too class. I already tanked on this morning's exam because our dumb butt professor doesn't believe in giving us review sheets. But now I know how to prepare for his exams because Erin got a 93% on her exam. Dang it! She did twice as good as I did! Well Viv should be on her way back and I just got back from bringing her mama home. Hopefully she has a nice safe flight back. Gosh is it just me or is airport security really anal these days? Driving around the new terminal today, I've already got this master plan to blow up the airport if I wanted too. And here I see Mr. Airport Patrol think they've got this place locked down or something. I still wanna blow that one guy up who gave me my parking ticket at the airport. Even though I should really blame it Osama because if it wasn't for him, our airports wouldn't be having this anal security. Oh well time to go to class, wow class is sooo much shorter today :) Thanks for the shout out sis! Much love to ya, Laura and keep writing because I do get bored!
Lose Yourself
Tuesday, October 08, 2002
Ok, so last night we defeated The Other Team 2-1 and I'm glad that everyone on the team had fun. So much fun that we all went out to the bar and it was a good time to just chill. For a second place team though, that team still sucks in my opinion. However, I couldn't enjoy myself as much as I felt like it's my fault that we lost that last game. Was it just me or did last night go by really fast. 2 plays that stuck out in my mind was the bad pass I gave where I got called for a double hit or lift, and the last play of the game where I hit right into the net. If their's one thing I love to study, it is studying how I play and how other teams play. Since we don't have these games on tape, I make mental notes of how I played and other teams. It took me a while to figure out what I did wrong and how did I hit it into the net, and after talking to Chrissy, and I know she is right that I just thought way too much in the air of where I wanted to go line or angle. By the time I made up my mind, I hit it right into the net and I came crashing to the floor already knowing that I hit it into the net just screaming out "SHIT!" It's one of the toughest things in the world is trying to lead a team when people have high expectations of you when you're considered a top player. When you do good, obviously people will say what a great job you did, but when you do bad, everyone gets on you. Like Tim Couch got hurt on Sunday, and he was playing bad, and his own fans cheered when he got hurt. That is just one of the worst feelings in the world. I know I've had my successes in leading a team and I'm thankful that those things happenned, by why do all the shortcomings stick out in my mind? Even just this past Saturday, I missed an easy shot for the game winner, and the other team took it all the way back to end the game. My teammates kept asking or telling me, how could you of missed that shot. All I could do was take the blame because I had the shot and missed it. Just like last night, I had a terrific set from Chrissy and I killed it right into the net.
I hate to lose, it's one thing I can't stand. Here are some of my biggest let downs that came up in my mind last night:
Fall '98, Stevenson vs. Romeo 28-7, We still won the game but I felt like it was my fault for letting them score their only touchdown. Because as a safety, you are the last line of defense, and I left my assignment reading the TE and let the WR go right past the cornerback and myself.
Winter '99 Wolfpack vs. Falcons, I don't remember the score but it was the city conference finals in b-ball. We were down by 2 with 3 seconds to go, and Cory was able to free me up for an open look at the 3. I took the shot, and it rimmed in and out, and I crashed to the floor upset, because it was an upset victory.
Spring '99 Titans vs. Everyone, this was our tennis invitationals, at 4 different high schools. Derek and I were lucky enough to draw and were able to stay at home against our opponents while everyone else got sent to other high schools. I was the team captain as usual, and I was going up against I believe it was Fraser's no. 4 singles. Coach Roman talked to me about how I needed to win my match in order for our team to be placed 3rd and get a bronze medal for it. I gave it my all, and in the middle of the match, my shoulder popped out. The ref asked if I wanted to forfeit? All I could say was hell no at the time because I don't quit. The trainer came out and wrapped an ice pack around my shoulder, and I resumed my match, but I was defeated. Coach talked to me after, and asked if I wanted to forfeit the rest of my matches at the invitational. I decided not to and took out my frustration against some kid from Warren Woods Tower and easily took that match.
So yup 3 things that stuck out in my mind last night. Again it's a crappy feeling to know that you've let the team down. But all I can do now is focus on next week's game and study that team's tendency on what they like to do.
Happy B-day to Chrissy as she is getting older now :Þ, mwhahahaha
I hate to lose, it's one thing I can't stand. Here are some of my biggest let downs that came up in my mind last night:
Fall '98, Stevenson vs. Romeo 28-7, We still won the game but I felt like it was my fault for letting them score their only touchdown. Because as a safety, you are the last line of defense, and I left my assignment reading the TE and let the WR go right past the cornerback and myself.
Winter '99 Wolfpack vs. Falcons, I don't remember the score but it was the city conference finals in b-ball. We were down by 2 with 3 seconds to go, and Cory was able to free me up for an open look at the 3. I took the shot, and it rimmed in and out, and I crashed to the floor upset, because it was an upset victory.
Spring '99 Titans vs. Everyone, this was our tennis invitationals, at 4 different high schools. Derek and I were lucky enough to draw and were able to stay at home against our opponents while everyone else got sent to other high schools. I was the team captain as usual, and I was going up against I believe it was Fraser's no. 4 singles. Coach Roman talked to me about how I needed to win my match in order for our team to be placed 3rd and get a bronze medal for it. I gave it my all, and in the middle of the match, my shoulder popped out. The ref asked if I wanted to forfeit? All I could say was hell no at the time because I don't quit. The trainer came out and wrapped an ice pack around my shoulder, and I resumed my match, but I was defeated. Coach talked to me after, and asked if I wanted to forfeit the rest of my matches at the invitational. I decided not to and took out my frustration against some kid from Warren Woods Tower and easily took that match.
So yup 3 things that stuck out in my mind last night. Again it's a crappy feeling to know that you've let the team down. But all I can do now is focus on next week's game and study that team's tendency on what they like to do.
Happy B-day to Chrissy as she is getting older now :Þ, mwhahahaha
Monday, October 07, 2002
So it would seem like it's been awhile since I've done this. I think it's because I haven't been sleeping lately that everyday seems so long. Saturday, I called my my little sis in AA to see how things were going with her. Gosh I still feel bad that it is Howie she likes and not Nick. My sis came home for the weekend, and ya know there are times when I hate when she comes home because all she does is come home and hit up the bars with her friends. However this weekend was cool because she cleaned up majority of my mess, and I like it when she acts more like my little sis instead of some badass girl who thinks their the bomb like the rest of her friends. And the times I missed like yesterday when she fell asleep in my room so I slept a little on the couch instead.
And yesterday was the Detroit Marathon, and praise God for providing so much such as health, weather, etc... the list just goes on and on. Saturday, a certain CBC member talked to me because this person was bothered by the fact that a bunch of us were skipping worship to go run a race. But I believed that God was glorified as a lot of us were using our shirts to witness to those who were interested in our t-shirts. And as I was being interviewed by the Free Press, all I could say was that all you could do was keep giving praise to God for what He has done. Speaking of which I need to go and buy the Free Press today. On the other hand, I was kind of down not being medically cleared to run. As I watched all the other runners pass by, I felt useless, I mean I'm glad that God had another plan for me which was to help Chrissy pick up and drop everyone off. I guess it goes to show who's plan is better mine or God's. It was fun driving the Surburban around because now that thing is built like a tank, and I'm glad that I've had so much experience driving the Yukon to be able to drive that thing. All in all it was a great time and I look forward to training myself so I can run it next year.
And on the fantasy note, dang it the week my team explodes for 122 points, I had no opponent to play against due to a bye. Dang it! And tonight the YCF crew play against The Other Team. Time to go lay the smackdown, as it is almost time to get down and get xtreme. Ya know one cd I've been listening for the past couple of days now is the newest Cecilia Cheung cd. I bought it like a month ago and I just started listening to it. Let me tell you, this cd really gets me going, and she is soooo cute, it's too bad she ain't the Coke sponsor over here.
Live For The Moment
And yesterday was the Detroit Marathon, and praise God for providing so much such as health, weather, etc... the list just goes on and on. Saturday, a certain CBC member talked to me because this person was bothered by the fact that a bunch of us were skipping worship to go run a race. But I believed that God was glorified as a lot of us were using our shirts to witness to those who were interested in our t-shirts. And as I was being interviewed by the Free Press, all I could say was that all you could do was keep giving praise to God for what He has done. Speaking of which I need to go and buy the Free Press today. On the other hand, I was kind of down not being medically cleared to run. As I watched all the other runners pass by, I felt useless, I mean I'm glad that God had another plan for me which was to help Chrissy pick up and drop everyone off. I guess it goes to show who's plan is better mine or God's. It was fun driving the Surburban around because now that thing is built like a tank, and I'm glad that I've had so much experience driving the Yukon to be able to drive that thing. All in all it was a great time and I look forward to training myself so I can run it next year.
And on the fantasy note, dang it the week my team explodes for 122 points, I had no opponent to play against due to a bye. Dang it! And tonight the YCF crew play against The Other Team. Time to go lay the smackdown, as it is almost time to get down and get xtreme. Ya know one cd I've been listening for the past couple of days now is the newest Cecilia Cheung cd. I bought it like a month ago and I just started listening to it. Let me tell you, this cd really gets me going, and she is soooo cute, it's too bad she ain't the Coke sponsor over here.
Live For The Moment