Tuesday, April 30, 2002

Welcome to where time stands still
No one leaves and no one will

What a wasted day today so far, all I've done is sit at the computer for about like 3 hours now. My butt is starting to feel tired of sitting. Well my last day of no school till Spring classes start tomorrow, so I guess I should try to enjoy this. I still have no clue on how I plan on waking up for this morning class.

Well I just got done looking at the tournament pictures that Kent took. Wow, I'm in a lot more than I thought, and there is a good shot of Phil killing it between 2 guys. There is a good shot of me getting stuffed by a tall monster. And there are a couple of good shots of me making some sort of an attempt to block all at Detroit Volley-Ball Player's Club website.

Gee playing tonight should be fun too since Phil is back. But I don't know how I'm gonna do the tape job on my finger. My finger has no feeling in it right now. I wonder if that is from losing so much blood the past couple of days? And now I'm feeling the pressure already on where to play this year for CCUC. Do I play b-ball or do I play v-ball? If I play b-ball, which division do I play in, do I start for A or play with my friends on C? If I play v-ball, do I play A or higher, or do I play B and play with Joyce and Lindsay. I've been blessed to be able to play in any of these sports but sometimes it's like a curse because I gotta make some sort of decision. And now again I have people asking me where am I playing this year. I kind of want to play b-ball and play C because I wanna win a championship with all the true CBC guys because they've never won in b-ball. But however, is my pride that high that I don't wanna demote myself from A all the way down to C? I kind of wanna play v-ball as well because playing in A, I like the challenge of going up against their top players. Then again I wanna play B as well because of that thought of Back to Back champs with Joyce and Lindsay have a nice sound to it as well. Decisions, decisions, oh Lord where do I go from here?

Battery

Monday, April 29, 2002

Controlling master
Obey your master
Your life burns faster
Master of puppets
Pulling your strings

Well this weekend it seemed like luck was against me. Lately it seems like I've been feeling that pressure again, like not living up to people's expectations of me. Like not being good enough to always make everyone happy. I felt it, Saturday morning at b-ball, certain peeps gave me the choke artist sign for blowing a shot. It was fun because I like that added pressure of trying to be one of the top players there. Then at work, me and my dad got into a dispute, pretty much not meeting his standards at work. Then yesterday, I played in my first 4's v-ball tournament. I was nervous pretty much throughout the whole tournament, and I felt like I choked in a couple of games. Especially on one play Howard set it to me to end the game and I tried to roll it and I rolled it right into the net then game over for us. I was so upset with myself that after the tourny, I played pick up v-ball because I need to get over another mental block in my mind.

And that is playing my best with or without the people that I love to be with. I felt like a lost sheep at certain times on the court. And Saturday I cut my finger open on accident of course and it was bleeding like crazy. So Sunday morning I took off the bandage and it seemed fine. I got my first block at the tournament and I looked at my finger and the blood was gushing out of the bandaid I had put on. Of course I'm not gonna tell the ref because I don't want to be taken out or to stop the game. So I had to keep wrapping my finger throughout the rest of the tournament with my sports tape to make sure that the blood does not squirt out. Looking at it today, I'm glad that it looks like I won't be needing stitches to seal it up. Also Saturday night, one of my toe nails finally came off because about a couple of months ago, playing b-ball everyone kept stepping on one of my toes. And I took off my sock and it was bleeding, well like I said the other night it finally came off. Sick right?

And now with my body really sore, and I just sneezed and my ribs were hurting. I guess it was from all the diving I did yesterday. Boy do I feel really broken right now with my body all beat up and my mind of trying to live up to people's expectations, all I can do is ask God for help. And with that I'm glad that I ran into Peter last night at Beech Woods. I haven't played v-ball with him in a while so it was fun talking afterwards. And already I'm really blessed to have Dan and Cindy. It was nice of them to have me over for dinner although the boys wore me out even more but it was nice to help them look after them. And also nice not to worry about coming home and trying to salvage the energy to making some sort of food. Thank You Lord for putting these people in my life.

Damage Inc.

Friday, April 26, 2002

I get goose bumps
When the bass line thumps
So phat
Call me Prof. Clump

Now that I can say finally I am done with finals, it's a shame that Spring term starts in less than a week. It was kind of relieving today to get that last exam out of the way. And since I had so much time today, I went to pick up my term paper and project for THA. And bam, I got a 4.0 on both the paper and project. I'm really praying hard that I can score around or higher the 3.0 area because my chances getting into the education program is running out.

Well after the exam it was time to drive to my Mei's place to just hang out with her. Along the way, I drove past Wabeek Dr. and boy did flashbacks of my senior year come to haunt me then. Flashes of the Carter twins keep haunting me and it's like I still can get it out of my mind sometimes. Even in the computer lab sometimes this one girl that walks in, looks exactly like Kathleen and then I'm like waiting for Kristen to show up right behind.

Anyways back to hanging out with my sis, we went to Target to grab some materials. Then we headed over to FCS to just do some window shopping, but yes I was excited because they have the types of WWJD bracelets I wanted. However I was disappointed that I couldn't find the Pokemon tracks. Afterwards we went to Dairy Queen for a nice cold blizzard. We back to her place and chilled with our little bro watching the Dove Awards. I had a great time with her and I'm thankful that God put such a great sis in my life. I think just talking to her and watching A.I. and Kobe play tonight has given me my confidence back to get down this weekend. It's wierd like some peeps think that it is bad that I'm playing a v-ball tourny over going to CBC. To me, it's like what the New Heart Ministry said about church, and that is church is just a building, it is what you do in your heart is what counts. God made me an athlete in which I am thankful for, so I believe I need to go do my thang on Sunday morning. The only thing I'm wondering is should I go to Toronto this Monday?

Just Cruisin

Wednesday, April 24, 2002

I don't want it
I just need it
To breathe, to feel
To know you're alive

Well now that it is finals week, I've noticed my online time has been out of whack. And with one to go, I'm having a hard time studying, go figure. This week, it feels like I've gone international with my lunches. Like eating at Pizza Hut with GP B for some italian food, then Tuesday I had lunch with Dan at Toxic Hell (Taco Bell) for some mexican cuisine, and today I had vietnamese with Sam. Hmmm I wonder what I should eat tomorrow for lunch. And yesterday I'm so excited because I bought the first ever DVD set of Transformers the first season. However, I'm sad that it doesn't have Hot Rod yet. But that didn't mean today as I was watching the DVD's that I was playing with my Hot Rod action figure, now if I can only dig up the rest of my transformer toys.

Last night also as expected the turnout was low at v-ball. However it was fun playing 2's all night long. I still can't get over what the G is so special about VeggieTales. Ya know like Pikachu can kick their Larry the Cucumber and Bob the Tomato's butt anyday. All he has to do is say "Piiiiiiiiikkkkkkkaaaaachhuuuuuuu" and boom their gone.

Anyways going back to last night, playing 2's was great but I don't know why I had to be handicapped. Like playing against Peter and David, David insisted that I am the only one be handicapped. Like why can't Howard be handicapped, I mean he is better than me. The handicap was from now on every game I played, I can not hit anymore. The only balls I can hit is anything behind the 10ft. line. I was left scratching my head the whole night wondering what is up with that. I mean it was a nice challenge but it didn't make a difference because me and Howard still won.

And I just got done watching the Pistons entrance to tonight's game. I was looking at Jerry Stackhouse's confidence and how he entered onto the court. And it made me think that lately with all the past tournaments that I've been playing, I've been finally getting a little mentally shaken. Not like I've been playing bad but for the first time ever, I've been getting really nervous. Like I lost some sort of mental edge I had over my opponents. And so I'm scared at this Sunday's v-ball tournament that I'm gonna be second guessing on a lot of things. I always love the pressure on me, like the team goes as far as I can take them type of attitude but if I don't have the confidence to do it then how far can they go. I just pray that God can help me restore my confidence in the way He sees fit.

Stinkfist

Tuesday, April 23, 2002

I want my baby
Where is the baby
There is no baby

Wow this feels wierd blogging on a Monday night. But hey got done with one exam and just one more to go. Tonight's BSF was an intense talk as well, but I'm sad to hear that Turbo and John won't be able to make it from now on due to Spring classes. And today, me and GrandPastor B went out to lunch and made a new friend who was looking for a church for their family. So Praise The Lord with guiding us to Pizza Hut for this great opportunity.

Sunday was just a great time of worshipping God. However I felt bad because I entered His house a little down but just sitting through service made me more joyful. And went to Gameworks with Steve, and Kin, yeah baby I'm still the king in race car driving for video games. And on Saturday, I had a great opportunity in making new friends at this place in Pontiac where I did some charity work. The work was just planting trees and I got extra credit for it in my PS class. 10% baby that rules. And I'm playing in a v-ball tourny this Sunday for $300. I'm excited to get down with that. Hmmm I can't really concentrate on what else I wanna say because I'm too busy chatting with everyone. Oh well I guess I'll eat dinner now at 12:30 a.m.

Asking For it

Friday, April 19, 2002

If I could teach the whole wide world
To be a thug in harmony
Then I would teach the whole wide world
To be a thugster just like me

Well last night was the Red Wings first playoff game of the year. It was disappointing to see them lose, but I enjoyed watching the game with Kin, Anthony, and Ken. I'm glad that I got to know them better and we were all into the game's intensity. Driving home afterwards made me think of how much I love playing hockey in high school. Playing street hockey, I had some great moments well more like scary moments. I wasn't a physical player but I could fly with the puck on my stick. My friends would call me the Asian version of Sergei Fedorov. I remembered when I took an 80 mph slapshot right off my forearm, and boy did my forearm swell up to the point where it was twice the size of my other arm. Or how bout when I got checked right into a parked car and left a dent there. I left the game with bruised ribs. Or when I played my first night time street hockey game at the SHS parking lot. Coming from behind, I tried to poke the puck away from Justin because he was winding up for a huge slapper. As he cocked his arm back, the blade of his stick went into my eye and I was bleeding from the eye. Gosh those were the days.

And so what did I do today? Well I am not completely healed from my war wounds but I did work out intensely today. Working out at the OU Rec Center is a great place to push myself even harder. However one downfall is that their were a lot of good looking girls, and that was a temptation right there. So what did I do to make sure my eyes don't go wondering about. I always made sure that I worked out in front of a tv. And that worked out greeat because the tv was replaying the Pistons game. So I was focused on the tv and plus stayed away from any lustful looks. Phew was that hard, hopefully it means something to my future gf, otherwise I'm just a bachelor till rapture ya know :) It was great though, working out and pushing myself to get ready for CCUC and whatever other obstacles are in my way. My football coach once told me that it is what you do in the offseason that gets you into the Finals. And now it is my offseason and time to get myself playing on a higher level. It's a choice, either sit on your butt or go out and work for it.

Ready 4 War

Wednesday, April 17, 2002

Move in, move out
Hands up, hands down
Back up, back up
Tell me wha' cha gonna do now
Breathe in, breathe out
Keep rollin', rollin'

Well aftre playing v-ball for God knows how long last night, boy do I feel exhausted today. I wonder was it the weather that kept certain people from coming last night or just coincedence. And for 2 weeks straight now, a Cheung has got some sort of touch on one of my hits. Sheeesh it must be some sort of Cheung Curse that I have been hit with. I mean it was Connie last week, Chrissy last night, and the next thing you know I'll have their cousins block me now. I mean I can't beat them in euchre it seems like, I have enough probs with them in bowling, and now v-ball. I'm telling ya, I must be cursed. But I got much love for them because they are both great athletes.

And the other night, I finally saw The Program and of course it made me reflect upon my football days at Stevenson baby! I remember coaches would always get on my butt during practice because me and my boy Dan Vu formed the Asian DB Crew. Like during our O-Line parties, coaches would be like "Lee, Vu supply the egg rolls and fried rice". As a football player in high school, it was always fun to walk around school in the morning with the other players because everyone in the hallway moved out of the way for us. It's kind of ironic, that our nicknames are the Titans, and people treat us like that in the hallways. Because Titans were known to be greater than gods or something like that. And it was always fun each week at school, a girl would want to wear our opposite jerseys to show which guy they represent or like. I remember the Carter twins would wear mine, or Kristin Kramer would always wear mine. And our homecoming game everyone that it was cute that my sis was wearing my jersey. Here are some of my favorite moments:

First game: Romeo
First Interception: Port Huron North
First fumble forced: Roseville
First fumble recovered: Roseville
First game as punt returner: Utica
First game on punt coverage: Warren Mott
Last game ever as a Titan: Detroit Catholic Central (conference playoffs, road to the Dome)

Gosh those were the days, and playing and talking to the guys who are now in college playing football. Scrimmaging against Brighton, and picking off Drew Henson's pass was a great feeling. Or going head to head with the 6' 7" black guy who played for Detroit Perishing and is now playing TE for Indiana University. Or playing against Craig Krenzell and his shotgun arm at Ford and is now at Ohio State playing QB. And Jim Sorgi now QB at Wisconsin but I got the chance to play against him at Fraser. I have to say is that my favorite place to play at was not at home. But I loved playing at Warren Mott because they had the music blaring to get me pumped up. Plus they had some sort of steam effect as their players would run out of the tunnel. I thought that really got me fired up. So my favorite place to play had to be there even though their colors were kind of ugly. Again those were the days.

Ride of your life

Tuesday, April 16, 2002

Wooooooooooooooooooo

Wow after reading through some of my amigos' blogs, I've noticed that I am not the only one doing some reflecting upon life. I was so lucky that I made it to class just barely because I again held off yet another paper to due. I stayed up all night, yes another all nighter, to do this THA paper. And I was a half hour late to class, and by the time I showed up, our prof ended class. I had to say phew because after I turned my paper in, he was accepting no more. And I got my exam grade back and again am I pissed or happy. He curved it because so many people did bad, my grade was above average compared to the class without the curve. But a 76% hmmm not acceptible to me but again others did way worst than me.

Anyways, last night I skipped Bible Study because my mommy wanted to host a b-day party for my grandpa at my house. Of course I wanted to go to Bible Study instead but I can tell my mom really wanted me to stay home for this because it meant a lot to her. So I'm chilling at home waiting to eat dinner at 7 like it was scheduled. What do I find out at 8:00 is that my grandparents were expecting everyone to come to their house. My mom's whole family was upset and couldn't decide what to do. And yes this pissed me off because now we don't eat till 9 is one thing. And yes I could of went to Bible Study and gotten back in time if we were to eat at 9. But this is just another proof for me of why I choose to isolate myself from both families. Like how my parents got married is like Romeo and Juliet because one side of the family is wealthy while the other side is poor. So you can see the problems already with in-laws.

The reason why I choose to isolate myself from both sides, is because yeah they looked after me when I was young. And I appreciate all that but who ever took care of me, either of my grandparents that is, they would always force an opinion on me. Like my grandma would be like, oooh you shouldn't like your grandparents for this then vice versa if I stayed at my grandparents place. To me at an early age, I always knew that both sides were wrong for trying to teach me this type of garbage. And now one side of the family is like so nosy (sp?) always trying to be on top of everyone to make sure they are noticed as #1. And the other side is on top, and so spoiled that they have no respect for people's things. Well atleast that's how I see them because that is how all my cousins are raised. Like last night my cousin Sonny is only 2 and he's throwing my football at my DVD player and all my VCD's. Yeah he doesn't know better but uhhh my uncle is like think it's the most adorable thing in the world. Like helloooo? Could you tell him to throw it elsewhere? And my cousin Victor is like 7 or 8 (I think) wanted to borrow one of my cd's. So I said no, and what does he do? He throws my cd across the room! I am like what the GG, I've had it with any family member that comes to my house. It's crap like this that I don't like them over. Last time when I was at Bible Study and my mom had the family over for dinner I come home and my place was trashed. PS1 and PS2 wires hooked into different things, my video games all over the floor, and they even went into my room! I go into my room and see my Gameboy in my closet, opening my drawers in my closet and having my papers, remote control all over the place. I blew up at my mom for letting this happen, and she was saying that they are just kids and that I was their age too. Well my beef with that is, yeah I was that age, but you taught me better on how to respect people's property. My cousin, Victor was pushing my buttons last night daring me to hit him, which came close to it. Even my aunt pissed me off, like some of them were eating lunch with me in family room. So I told them to please put something under the plate like a newspaper so no mess. What does my aunt grab, my mail for today to put her lobster shells, and prime rib fat all over my mail. I'm like helloooooo my mail is in there and of course after she was done eating, she threw my pile of mail away with her plate. I didn't even bother fishing my mail out of the garbage. And then during dinner she tells me to turn down the tv. I'm like excuse me, this is my house and I watch tv as loud as I want to. She's like no the kids are in here it could hurt their ears. I'm like well I didn't tell them to eat with me and if you want it turned down, you can tell everyone to lower their voices when they talk so the tv don't have to be so loud. So like next thing I see, she cares so much about her kids ear drums but obviously not their livers. Because she lets my cousins or her sons, Victor and Sonny drink some of her Heiniken beer. Uhhh Sonny is 2 and Victor is 7 or 8? Yeah sure I'll turn down the tv for that. My thing is just because we are family by blood don't mean a thing to me. And back to my grandparents they ordered everyone at my house to go to their house for dinner. I'm like hell no did I skip Bible Study to go to their small place and lug so much food down to their place. So the family decided to have dinner at my place without them. Pretty sad in my opinion because it is suppose to be my Grandpa's 76th b-day but he don't show up. Again my family, yeah I'll be there for them when they need it but I choose to go my own way.

One cool thing was that I got to spend time with my dad and we went climbing on the roof of the house. Sounds stupid right? But we were knocking all the bee hives from last year so they don't grow even bigger this year. It was quality father/son time that I cherished.

Firestarter

Monday, April 15, 2002

Step off
I'll let you live a little bit
With the pain that I bring
Ya know it's only the beginning

Wow this weekend seemed like it had a nice age theme to it. And after just finishing the my weekend recordings of Boy Meets World I had some time to reflect on what they were talking about. I am gonna sad that they are moving on to the newer series now because that means old cast members on not on the show anymore such as parents, Mr. Turner, Mr. Williams, and Morgan. And so I never thought I'd enjoy the show as much but actually I learned a lot today or made me reflect on my Senior year in high school since it is Cory, Shawn, and Topanga's Senior year. Shawn was trying to skip high school because it's pointless to learn anymore and just go to college for a girl instead. I probably did the exact same thing, like throughout senior year I'd always skip class and give my usualy football players need rest excuse. Or I'd just fall asleep in class because hey who needs grades when I got my popularity as one of the best athetes in school to maintain. And finally I met my Mr. Feeny (Boy Meets World) who challenged me in class. Her name was Mrs. Rheinstein and she taught U.S. History a requirement which seniors need to graduate. So first semester, I'm skipping this class left and right because it's my last class before football practice. However once football ended, my grade in the class was an F and with over 10 absences I think the final count was 21 not too sure. And she kept telling me how important it is to do well in this class because she isn't giving no free rides to seniors. So I had to retake this class, my first time in history that I ever failed a class and had to repeat the 2nd sem. I took her talk as a challenge and responded by passing the class with a B.

So that lead to yesterday which was crazy because after church, D-Ship went out for bowling. It was fun, and I had a good time. But dang it, Chrissy is still just a little better than me and wow Bernard's got some mad game as well. After that, I went apartment shopping for Vickie and looked at a couple of nice ones. This one Korean chick told me to follow her car to show me one of the models of the apt. So I'm following her car and boom this one Aztek just nailed backing out. What impresses is that these Azteks are built like a tank. So I wasted time to sit there and talk to the officer since I was a witness and then continue to look at more apts. I'd say I lost about 40 min right there but hey got to enjoy the weather while sitting outside talking to the boys in blue. After that, go play b-ball at lovely Warrner Park. It's nice to go back to my area of playground ball and where I developed my skills. This place was a place of high school memories for me because I'd always go here and play ball everyday after school. And it was nice to see my old friend Dan and see how he's doing.

This lead me to make another reflection about my high school past. My senior year, me and Dan were really close on and off the court. He was a decent player back then and we complimented each other well. Off the court we'd hang out. On the court, we had our famous tag team called Hill and Mills. Which stood for Grant Hill and Terry Mills, and I was Grant while he was Terry. People always knew that it was me who carried the team, kind of like the Batman and Robin thing. But towards the end of our senior year, our friendship took a hit and the same went for b-ball. Because he was tired of playing under my shadow and decided to take his game to a new level. We've resolved our differences but I often miss the times we've hung out. Now he's a better b-ball player than he was back then but he's a smoker and drinker while I've gotten better at b-ball as well but I have God with me as well. It's wierd how times have changed back then.

Again going with this whole age thing, me and JW were on the phone the other night talking about everyone graduating. It was a great convo we had, where we talked for like more than an hour and all I know was that we ended at 3 a.m. And last night, me and Alan were talking about how so many people seemed like they are moving on with their lives. And it's wierd how even someone like Sewa was talking about how she feels old now. And tonight is my grandpa's 76th b-day and my mom wants to throw a little party for him at my house. I told her that I had Bible Study to go to but I could tell it meant a lot to her if I stayed. Because after all my grandpa took care of me when I was little. But to me it just seems like time is moving so fast to everyone except me. Like I feel like time has stood still for me. Even just the other day at work, some regular customer that came in thought that I was still in high school and she thought I was a junior still. Man no wonder I'm dubbed as The Kid. I'm glad though to see all my friends moving on to bigger and better things, and pray that God continues to bless them.

Well I guess that it's it from me. After figuring out what's wrong with my knee, which is a hyperextension. So I can't take it anymore just sitting at home and resting! I'm going out to workout for a little before class. Boy was this a long blog!

Serial Thrilla

Thursday, April 11, 2002

I am in control, I am the pain
After this you won't be the same
This is my time, I make the rules
You mess with this
And you'll die like a fool
Here comes The Game

Gosh what a lovely day it is, however this sucks because I wanna go jogging. Ugh, but my knee is not letting me go. I tried giving it a whirl and boy did I feel a lot of weight on that side. This sucks, I can't even get outside. So I improvised, and cruised through the ghettos of Shelby Township to pick up some stuff. And yes I got a tuner now so that kind of rocks.

And just got done taking the last exam for my classes before finals. All I got now is this stupid paper to do then relax for a couple of days before getting ready for exams. Gosh dang it though this weather is killing me because I gotta stay inside and be a coach potato. Ughhhh, I see families outside with their kids, and old folks golfing, this is killing me! Dang it I wanna play some v-ball, b-ball, baseball, or tennis right now. Dumb GG injuries! Everyone else reading this, must mean they don't like enjoying the weather right now and must be suffering as much as I am. Live long and prosper!

The Beautiful People

Wednesday, April 10, 2002

Yeah, I'm comin now
Come on
Yeah that's right, I'm puttin it down
Get the tables and you can never survive

Ok, gotta be a man of my word and to say that this 5'3 Chinese girl with mad hops, name Connie actually gotta piece the ball when I went to hit over. Yes, it was with her pinky finger and it was a celebration to remember. There's no shame in my game to say this because I have great respect for her as a player and as a person. The next thing you know is she'll be spiking on me.

What else to say is that, dang it, I hurt myself last night. I tweaked my knee as I was backing up during v-ball and I think it's just a minor sprain. But I am having probs walking straight at this moment. Ugh, this sucks because I wanted to work out my lower body this week since I can't work out my upper body. But now I'm gonna have to be a coach potato for the rest of this week or till Saturday b-ball. We did however play some meaningful games, well close enough. V-ball competition is in the air, gotta love it. But now gotta go to Lit class, gotta hate it!

Bye Bye Bye

Tuesday, April 09, 2002

IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII Stand Alone......

Well that was certainly the case last night. As I had a wierd dream because I was upset as I was studying last night. The reason why I was upset was because I don't know if it's wrong for me or not to feel this way but I hate when people say they are gonna do something and then don't end up doing it ya know. But then I turn back at myself and say that I have done that too or we're not perfect. So in my dream, I felt like Satan was attacking my mind while I was sleeping and he kept filling my mind with bitterness towards the people that I love. And it caused me to wake up at 5 this morning to relax and spend some time talking to God about this. And after reading a little Scripture this morning I feel refreshed. Wierd dream right?

Also here's another thought, I thought would be a good day yesterday because I went to the vending machines here at lovely OU and I got a pack of Sour Patch Kids. What luck I got 2 for the price of 1, I was like that rocks. Because usually I get screwed at the other end with it. So here I am sitting in class thinking it's a gonna be a good day because I get my exam back. Once I got it, I was like should I be pissed or happy with my grade? Because I got a 2.5 on this exam, however people surrounding me scored .5, .7, 1.0 and other low scores such as that. And my score was one of the higher grades, so should I be happy or pissed? Well time to bust and get a quick bite with my adopted father, Daniel. Woohoo v-ball tonight and we better play some meaningful games.

Love the sinner, hate the sin

Monday, April 08, 2002

Now get the drugs, from my generation
I'll take the fall
The same incarceration, yeah it's a state of being together
The fate, the fraud, their messing wit me
Come on, come on
Let's get it on!

Wow what a fast weekend compared to last week. Stupid Daylight Savings Time, made me 5 minutes late to CBC yesterday because I forgot all about it. Good thing the sun was shining on my eyes to wake me up instead of depending on my 1 hour back clock. Ok, so Saturday was a blast with b-ball. Because everyone was calling me A.I. or The Answer or my fav because it's new, The I-Vo Show. With Kin in and out of Zion and Rich having the new kid, somebody's gotta hold the fort down for CBC. I know it's an Outreach but I feel it's my duty to show up those who choose to be disrespectful in God's gym. And actually someone brought up an interesting point during sharing at v-ball. He said that he believes in Jesus but thinks that The Bible is just a regular book because it is written by man. But I'm glad that someone shared what they felt about what they believe in.

And yesterday was totally sweeet well sort of. I learned a few things on what to do on my bad boy toy to get some practice down. And I had the pleasure of serving at the Baptismal Dinner to watching the kids. It was great because we were watching DBZ. But afterwards, it got chaotic and in my mind I was trying to think quick something new to me of course. In the past, I have watch people like Dan Moy and Flora able to turn something chaotic or boring with the kids into something fun and controlled. And finally I had a brilliant game for them, which was Bean Bag B-ball. I had to say I was impressed that this game last for like an hour till everything was done and the kids had a great time. For that I'll give them a reward on Sunday for behaving and participating.

Oh good golly time to head to class, eeeerrrr 2 exams this week, not good! Another thing is what sucks is that Kim looked at my shoulder and yay, the swelling and bruises did go down in my shoulder. However, Kim said I can not lift/work out for the next 3-4 weeks!!! Dude how am I suppose to raise my game to the next level? Maybe I'll say no lifting after 3-4 days. Or at least after my exams, ugh gotta go to school now!

Just Another Victim

Thursday, April 04, 2002

Hey you
What do you see
Something beautiful or something free
Hey you
Are you trying to be me
You'll never reach me
To try to be me

Praise the Lord because my shoulder is like totally all healed now! Oh here's a thing that I've been eating like the past couple of days. Ok I've been eating law bok gau (chinese spelling on that?) like crazy the past couple of days because my parents got like a box full of it from Toronto. And like now I hate this dim sum dish because of eating it for lunch and dinner. So I guess I won't be going to dim sum for a while now. And dang it have people noticed how much gas prices are going up?

And since all I've talked about or hear people talk about lately is v-ball. I did something thinking, well more like daydreaming during class. But I noticed that my record the past 2 years at CCUC, my team has only last twice. One regular game in 2000 because we got overconfident and the 2000 CCUC Championship game. Last year we went undefeated so I have a pretty impressive record at CCUC right now. Hmmm I wonder if I should play v-ball again this year for CCUC and if I do play, where do I play, who do I play with? I know I am on the CCUC most wanted list for taunting their B teams last year such as staring them down on a kill, or nodding my head when I block them, or my personal fav, me jogging around the courts with them to warm up. Gosh those were the times last year, I wonder if they dislike me for that? And I got a interesting challenge yesterday for v-ball. A game of 2's, Arthur and Lindsay. Pretty good team, and I lose Lindsay if they team up together well. And it looks like me and my tag team partner are up for it after talking to her last night. Hopefully we can get this party started before she leaves for intern. Ooooh Boy Meets World is on now and it is another heartbreaker, so gotta go.

Oh and I need to give a shout out to Rodimus Prime the best Autobot leader of all time. And Hot Rod by far the best Autobot ever!

Time To Play The Game

Wednesday, April 03, 2002

The fear I see when I look in your eyes
Makes you believe I'm
One of a kind
The fear I leave in the back of your mind
Makes you believe I'm
One of a kind

Man I don't know what the GG I'm think about going for Spring class again this year. But ya know I need to catch up to everyone else. So I woke up to register for spring classes and I've decided to take chem because Melissa is taking it too. And since she is a brain she can help me study if I get stuck. But the thing I have to sacrifice to get into a class with her is fricking this class starts at 8 a.m.! Hmmm the odds of me waking up for this class are uhh not good. This will be a test of discipline for me.

And finally I have snapped out of that hitting funk well almost. But dang it, now I'm in some sort of passing funk. What the G squared, can't I ever be consistent with both at the same time. And finally Tuesday night actually came close to playing some meaningful games for the first time this year. And I must say this is that, 2 years ago I would say I was the Most Improved Player, last year had to be Ting, this year I would have to say so far is Ray. I would like to see him play at CCUC this year. And Praise God for that He has blessed me with quick healing abilities. Because now my shoulder is downgraded to just a little soreness. If only it could be the same for my nagging wrist still. I guess I can't have it all. Oh and I wonder what does it take to be on that Blog On Note thingy?

Live For The Moment

Tuesday, April 02, 2002

Never gonna stop me
Never gonna stop..........

What a disappointing night last night. First off my Bible Study got cancelled and so I figured that would me I got more time to work on my theatre paper. So here I am busting out my paper and I'm a little tired so I'm like yeah, let's take a nap. Boom wake up and it's fricking 7 a.m. and the paper is due at 10 p.m. So of course I busted my booty to get this thing done. And finally I skipped a class this semester as well. I ended up skipping my Lit class yesterday to go to Tom's and pick up my newest toy and we got to just chill and talk for a little bit. Then I went to Rich's to go see little Audrey, even though I still like Princess. And man do I love my parents, they just went to Toronto again yesterday and brought home mad delicious food. But man that is the 3rd time in 5 weeks that they've been going to Toronto. Most importantly without me :( Dang it!

Well tonight is v-ball night but before that I am looking forward ot eating dinner with my boyz, E-Moy, llz, and P Dogg. And yes my shoulder is feeling a lot better. I rotated it to see what I can and can't do tonight. I know one thing, I can not do a back set without it being pain free but that shouldn't matter too much cause I can't set either way. But setting normally is ok just back setting was a killer. So I guess I'll see tonight in what I can and can't do.

Get The Tables

Monday, April 01, 2002

Cause everytime I breathe
I take you in
And my heart beats again
Baby I, can't help it
Keep me drowning in your love

Man was it just me or did this past weekend seem long? Well let's see on Thursday I went to see Lucky Stiff at Varner Studio Hall with Todd and Nicole. It was cool that we went together because I got to know Todd a lot better and Nicole brought one of her girlfriends so it was a nice group of just going to see a musical together. The play was very entertaining and it reminded me of Weekend at Bernie's. However I was rather disappointed that we did not start on time, how unprofessional I must say. Ya know they aren't chinese. And I felt it was rude for one of the ushers to ask me to scoot down so that I could make room for people coming late. Ya know if they are late that deserve the seat they get? It's called get your booty here on time.

Friday was a big blah, however saturday was rather painful playing b-ball. Going up for a lay-up, someone came running from behind trying to block me and took me under as I was in the air. So here I am in the air turned sideways, and boom my left shoulder, neck, and head crashed into the bathroom door and floor. I didn't feel too much, till yesterday as I was getting ready to go to CBC. I noticed the big bump on the back of my shoulder and how I can't raise as good without pain. Good thing Kim and Steve both took a look at it yesterday. And they both think that either I fractured it or it is just a deep bruise. Dan Moy wants me to go get x-rays for it just in case. but I do feel a littler better today, just feels like a lot of weight on my left side. I'm excited though to be Kim's bodyguard once she opens her place.

And I'm so thankful that I've been blessed with a lot of friends. As Easter was approaching, I thought I would just go home eat dinner by myself and do some homework. First Auntie C or my bro's mommy or you can say Ben's family invited me over for dinner, then I have my mother and father group or you can say Dan & Cindy's for dinner, or a third invitation which would of been at my other mom or you can say Auntie Viv or Phil's mom and eat dinner with them. So which one did I go to? Well I went to Dan and Cindy's because we had some personal issues to discuss about something that happened at CBC. I didn't realize that a lot of peeps were coming over and it was just great fellowship time. And of course I got to play with my bro's Jonathon, Benji, and Christopher. I can't believe we were there till 2:30 a.m. but it was great time of sharing for those of us who stayed that late. Also in the morning, I had so much fun just leading the kids for the Easter Egg Hunt. I wish there were more 5th Sunday's in the year so that I could schedule myself to do more of there things. Well I got the lovely babysitting ministry this Sunday for the baptism dinner so that should be interesting to see who I have to watch.

And I just finished watching Boy Meets World, well I've been recording them now for the past week. I love this show when it first came out. Yup call me a wuss, but again I came to tears in this last episode that I watched. I just can't help seeing so much of myself in Shawn and Cory. How much that I am like Shawn on the outside but deep down I'm like Cory on the inside. I know I'll be in tears tonight too because this episode that's gonna be on at 5 is one of the saddest ones that I've seen. Ooooh the tragedy, and yikes I better get going to class. Bummer gonna get that Lit exam back. I got this crazy feeling that I did bad on this puppy.

Bachelor Till Rapture