Well this sucks, it's Spring Break and here I am on campus doing homework. It amazes me that their are actually people here in the ERL with me. Ok time to be productive and produce them fruit!

Peaches N' Creme

I slipped away
Closer to me
The only thing that is real
I'm falling behind
But now I can see
Your absence helps me heal

Well today is the official start of my Spring Break. So wha and does that mean, do I get to relax, be lazy, go party, or just sleep all day? Wrong even though it was nice to get a little bit more sleep today but that will soon end. So what have I done today, I had dim sum with my mommy, and I cleaned my room! So what's next on the agenda, let's say how bout some homework while watching the Wings game then the Pistons game. Tomorrow is just gonna be one crazy day with student teaching then going straight to v-ball. Who said I don't have to go to during break! Hmmm what are my other plans this week for this so called break? Well I would like to kind of get back on track with my Bible in a year, working out at the Rec Center would be good and not only that but to push harder since I have a week before the Troy Finals.

Also another thing I realized yesterday was that I really miss my PS2 :( To better discipline myself over this break, I traded in my PS2 to Rich for his computer so that I can actually get some work done. What a tradeoff, eh I think I ripped myself off, oh well. Well time to do some more work, boy this is some exciting break.

Downfall

A couple of Sundays ago, Fred wrote down during service, Are U Ready? Well today I went home in the morning, which rarely happens but I kept wondering why I was going home? So as soon as I got home I sat on the couch then the door bell rings instantly. I answered the door and saw an old lady with an older gentleman. So they introduce themselves, and then the lady asks "Do you think God is in control of what is going on in the world today?" I just started laughing in my head because I knew these two jabroni's were a couple of Jehovah Witnesses. So I played dumb for the first part to see where this lady is gonna take me.

She starts sharing with me a couple of verses in her NWT Bible, clear indicator of Jehovah Witnesses. So as she went on, I finally had enough of what she had to say while the grandpa kept chilling in the back. I popped the ultimate question of where their faith is, and her was what I'd expected it to be. From there I took over and used verses to counter what she had to say, plus I gave her like that fake I dunno anything type attitude, like it was fun when I was like "yeah isn't there some sort of verse that I always hear people use I believe it is uhhh John 3:16?" So I shut the lady up then finally the grandpa comes out from the woodworks.

So it's like what is this a 2 for 1 sale here? Now the lady just chills in the back because I've stomped her on their faith. Grandpa Witness comes out and starts using other verses to try to reach out to me. And boy at this point I was having a blast because they think I don't know nothing about the NWT says. I can only praise God that I did a little study on this a few months ago, so I let Grand-daddy Witness try to say something important, while I go back to the I don't know anything about God mode. Then I had enough of him because he kept saying that I was being "infiltrated" by others about our faith. So I started firing back with some more verses of my own and even went to my bag of tricks by talking about pre-destination. Then grandpa even went on further by saying that their Bible is the same as all the other Bibles. Uhhh hello I know my NWT, KJV, NIV, NASB, ABC, BBD, oooooh shut your mouth already grandpa, because I brought the big differences in my Bible compared to his Bible and what answer do I get? "Oh that's a different topic" What kind of fricking answer is that didn't you just say that your Bible is the same as everyone elses? Oh yeah yeah yeah shut your mouth now which is what he did because the lady had to step back in.

It's like gosh lady didn't I just put you in your place? So she shows me a book "Drawing Closer to Jehovah" and offers it to me, and I declined by smartly saying "No thanks I think I'm drawing closer to God just fine" But now thinking about it, I wish I would of taken it. Why because it would be one less piece of crap that they can give to someone who doesn't know the real Gospel. Then I looked behind them to see a whole family of Jehovah Witness's walking down my street hitting up other families. Then Grandpa finally stumped and said "Well we gotta go now but we will see you again probably"

So I am like what does he mean by that? So I called Daddy Moy and GrandPastor B just to thank them for what they have taught me. I gotta say though I'll give those Jehovah's an A for persistence. However, GP B told me that I am probably on their list now because I spent so much time talking to them. Like Fred told me before that once you get through one another will come or as Bruce said, the "bigger guns" will reveal themselves. Kind of like how that grandpa came out the woodworks, and Daddy Moy was saying that maybe I should occupy all these Witnesses. Because if I do, then at least I slow them down from screwing with other people's head like Daddy Moy said.

So with that, to all you Jehovah Witnesses out there reading this, come down to my place and we can chit chat all day since that's what you like to do. Bring the whole WatchTower Society if you want to because their the ones who are doing what they are doing to your Bibles. These Jehovah's don't know who they messing because I'm the Big Bad Booty Daddy and I thank God for what I've learned in the past about Jehovah's Witness.

To all my true brotha's and sista's out there, holla if ya hear me! To the rest of the Jehovah's, if ya smell la la la la la watch the tongue, la la la la la What The Rattlesnake is Cooking?

Ok time to go watch Survivor, and I gotta admire Joanna's faith but then again after watching this part I might change my mind about that. My Survivor picks, Heidi and Jenna :) well Dave and Alex too.

Stars

Well I feel rested up a little better after oversleeping for MTE then again I still feel sore. Last night, was the Troy conference finals and I got there early to watch the top team play. I was kind of laughing because Larry's team, told me they would see me in the finals last week. Well after last night, I guess that won't happen because the number 1 team took them in a 3-2 series. I felt bad for Larry's team though, because it's those type of players that I don't like playing with. It's like the goal to them was to get this far and then call it a night or they'd just give up playing when they are only down a point. After being with my team, Altair, I think I've finally figured out my role on this team. But I like the fact that before the game I would call everyone in for a team huddle and everyone comes in right away, just trying to build up the team morale. Anyways, we swept our opponents so it looks like the top 2 teams in the league will meet in the finals. But before out game I started walking around Boulan just to get away from everyone to clear my thoughts and be focused on the game and what did I stumble upon? I found Kelly and Lindsay's graduating middle school pictures, boy Kelly was a lot darker back in the days and Lindsay's looks cool cuz she got the brace face action going on.

And I don't know why but why don't Ro understand it when I say I am sick of the ABC thing. Oh well, anyways doing homework yesterday morning with Kelly was interesting. It's funny how looking at each other's work, we learn what type of person we are.

Me: Gosh Kelly, you're the type of person that goes through every single little detail in the problem to get the answer.
Kelly: And you're the type of person who only reads the first half of the question then gets the answer wrong.

Anyways I'm looking forward to tonight for some hot CBC v-ball action, well maybe not hot because games like last week only come once in a blue moon. Hopefully Ying is coming and this time I want to play against her because I want to see her play without holding back any of her skillz. I wonder how good she really is? Also I got to talk to my mommy last night about a new car, so I'm looking forward to thinking which kind I want. I was looking at the new Mazda RX-8 boy could I have fun tinkering that thing around. But I think it's better if I go back with a Pontiac because then my car guys up there can take care of my car. So if I get another Grand Prix, what color should I get? I was kind of leaning towards yellow or maybe a green color. Plus this time I want to get a Grand Prix with a super charge engine, boy with that be fun racing around with. Then again I am sentimental and I do miss my current car so maybe I should get a white color again. Boy I can't wait to test drive some of these cars along I-69, gosh I can't believe they always give me the keys to their cars to play around with. And what's up with this chinese guy taking pictures of some cuties here at the ERL? Gosh what a hom sup lo.

Paper Cut

Well it's about 6:30 a.m. now and I've been up pretty much this whole morning or night depending on how you look at it. Can I just say again I hate MTE and I love the fact that my education classes don't have any real exams. However, what sucks is that I'm getting overwhelmed with homework. Now I'm up because I gotta build this stupid paper rocket and water magnifier. Plus I need to re-do my homework that I spent 3 hours on last Thursday because someone stole my disk at the ERL on Thursday night. So right when I think I am ahead in all my classes, something like this brings me back down.

What was painful yesterday was to turn down a chance to play in a v-ball tournament :( Gosh I really wanted to play so I can see how teams from Kentucky and Indy play. Oh well, might as well get rested up for tonight's Troy playoffs. Hopefully I'll get to see those pics that Rob took of me, but anyways I'm drained so I better build these things before I head to school to meet up with Kelly.

Bad Boyz

Wow, Tuesday night was sure exciting because in my opinion their is a new sheriff in town for female v-ball playa's at CBC. I wonder how good she really is because she was holding back some of her skillz. But I gotta agree with Howard, I prefer the trash talkers, they just get me going to play at a higher level. I wonder if she knows Christ?

Well another cruddy day in MTE, so what happened today? We got our exams back and I can't believe I did that bad. However as we were going over the answers, Melanie's friend and I were comparing our answers. And on one question, we both have the same answer, but we both forgot a set of parenthesis in our answer. So I get knocked off a point for that, while on her exam he actually puts it in for her. I was like what the GG!!!!!! It's one thing that this is a battle of Grossman vs. me in this class but now we're not even playing on an even playing field. That is so messed up, and so I kept pondering if I should drop. But a new light has opened itself to me that motivated me to stay in this fricking class. I will pass this class and shut him up if that's the last thing I do in this class. And don't worry Wendy I hear ya on your feelings towards him.

Points of Authority

Other than God, I can't think of anything that is good and it is good, like that saying their is always 2 sides to every tale, or the pro's and con's about something. So last night I was excited because I worked out, played some b-ball, then had the back to back v-ball games. The bad part was in my first v-ball game, I ran and flew into the bleacher area. As I was sliding, I happened to slide right underneath the bleachers till my hip smashed into the bleacher leg. The whole set of bleachers shook because I was sliding at such a high speed. So now I'm stuck with this bruise on my hip, gosh did it hurt to just try to sleep on that side last night.

It did feel good to work out, and what was cool was that I followed this 6'2 monster to work on my legs. He did reps of 275 lbs. on the toe extention machine and probably saw me as a chump because of my size compared to him. But yeah I showed him up, because I was going at 300 lbs. on my feet. Then I realized a goal for me for this semester. The goal is for me to max out on the toe extention machine and the possibly max is 405 lbs. So I only got a good 105 lbs to go. This is all the good part but to every good thing their is a bad. Well the bad is that, the weight room is always filled with beautiful girls. And it's like I always try not to look but then some of the guys in there always make comments as I'm working out about who's hot in there or some of them will be staring a hole right through some of the girls. Man I tell ya men, it's like Temptation Island in there or something. That's why I gotta stick to my goal and just work out.

Today I woke up butt early to study for the dreaded MTE exam. I kept thinking about Susan because she kept telling me that she was highly considering dropping the class. And today she did because she didn't show up for the exam. That only gave me extra motivation because i was considering dropping but now I wanna stay in there to show Prof. Grossman that he ain't gonna intimidate all of us to drop out. I have to do well on this exam because I wanna show him up so however I did, it's for you Susan. God bless ya with where the Lord takes you in MTE. I praise God for giving us the chance to get to know one another. Now that was the bad part is Susan leaving. However the good part is I can join Wendy and take Susan's place in this dumb math project so I don't lose 10%. But I feel guilty for jumping in on this chance because Susan's gone so I don't want to seem heartless about it.

The good and the bad with life baby. Time to take it to the extreme, new motto for me as well,
Hit it strong, hit fast that's the way K Dawg does it.

The Reckoning

It's great to have Saturday's off from the restaurant but it sucks when you have to be a little more conservative with $$$ the following week. Anyways this weekend, I have stopped doing the Bible in year because I wanted to make sure that I am hearing how God is speaking to me. But I'll probably pick up the plan tonight as if I weren't behind enough on my readings though.

This past Sautrday, I received an award for being the outstanding volunteer of ACA. Their was this huge banquet at Golden Harvest. Again I don't think I deserve this award because I believe their are a lot more people more deserving. Anyways, the amount of people just blew me away, over 300 peeps packed into Golden Harvest. It was wierd receiving the award in front of all those people, then giving a speech to everyone about it. It's cool that a little bio of me went circulating around the tables and people could read my testimony. All I could do was just give praise to God, and I kept wondering why I would want such an award. All I did was do my job because I love kids. It was even wierder after the banquet was over, as the president and vice president of ACA came over to talk to me. Then I got to talk to Marcella Lee from NBC the tv anchor lady, I didn't even know who she was before Elaine told me. Then I got to meet the first Asian state representative of Michigan right now, but personally I still don't like politics. Plus I felt some what famous when people wanted to take pictures of me for their chinese news paper. It was great to see old faces, Tracy, Viotta, Scott, Elaine, and Emily. It was nice to meet Igun (sp?) since Elaine used my guest ticket for her. Anyways, it was a nice night but personally I'd rather get back to the kids than attend one of those again.

Then yesterday's message was just so powerful and I'm glad David and I could talk about it. It was all about being hardcore straight to da bone Christian. So after watching the all star game I did some reflecting time with God. It's just so amazing where God put me at now in my life, but have I gotten complacent? I mean I'm doing pretty good in school right now would be excellent if it weren't for MTE, I'm in pretty good shape physically, and my walk with God has never been better. Just sitting in my room, meditating, I've come to realize that I'm at a limit, but I know I can go farther. So how do I do that? It's with myself and I need to push myself harder like MJ said last night, he wanted to distance himself from everyone in terms of b-ball. That's what I want to do in all aspects of my life. And it starts now by going to work out before the v-ball games instead of sitting at home being a coach potato or sitting in the ERL surfing the web.

One Step Closer

What sucks about being in the ED building is having to keep paying for copies now. At the KL I could of made lik 100 copies for free, the price of being in a nicer building now :( Anyways yesterday seemed like the neverending day but it was great blessing. First was student teaching and I'm so blessed to have such a great teacher who has been letting me teach while she just sits and watches. Some of my other friends, like Shanon, Sarah, and Melissa in their student teaching have done nothing but just sit and watch or just make copies for teachers. I've been trying to encourage some of them to stay as late as I do at school. I dunno but it's just me about being the last one to leave type of thing. Like school ends at 4 and that's when my friends leave, but for the past 2 weeks I have stayed till 6 just to do other things around the school and I am learning just soooo much from this experience. Yesterday I took one of my kids down the the principal's office because on Tuesday, he was shooting snot rockets at kids. Man my kids are just bad to the bone, but I love them all. A lot of the teachers have been so nice to me too and I feel like I know the whole staff their too. It's wierd because I call them by Mrs., Ms., or Miss, and like Ms. Jones was like just call me Christine because she's only a year older than me. It's just so wierd that some of these teachers are only a year older than me and I'm calling them by their first name. I dunno I'm wierd like that.

After work or school, whatever you wanna call it, I went to the Moy's place to just chill. I'm thankful that Cindy made me some dinner and boy was it delicious, even her left over hot pot was just so mmmm good. It's too bad Jonathon was a lil sick but he was cute when he tried be a little statue. Benji ate more than me I think, and was just soooo happy. After dinner, Christopher pulled my arm so I could read and teach him to read, that was great hearing him trying to sound out the words. Just another blessing to share a great time with the Moy family.

Then it was time for whirly ball, boy this game takes a lot more skill than I thought. Especially when finally that last game I got to drive a fast car. This game would be a lot safer if it had steering wheels instead of those sticks. I just remember driving straight down to our goal, and I kept looking up thinking when should I release the ball into the net. So I'm getting closer and and closer, and by the time I released it, it hit the backboard, so I extended my arm back looking up the whole time trying to get the rebound. As I'm doing this, my foot is still on the pedal, and I missed the rebound, next thing you know. Wham! I drove straight into the wall and I let out a whimper of "Oh my chicken" Kelly was next to me and thought it was funny, man I could of felt my stomach shooting up. Gosh this is a dangerous game if you have a fast car. But it was fun and I hope the 5-1-4 do it again in the future, good job on the activity selection llz.

The Fire Still Burns

Wow yesterday, I can't believe I was able to be sooo productive. But after MTE, now I'm back down to reality again, gosh school stinks. So last night the table was set at OU, all eyez on probably what will be the finals this semester for v-ball, Titans vs. Grone. The game had every type of emotion that you can think of, the first game started off horrible for us. I was talking to Meagan during pre-game warm ups of how to set the rotation and their was 2 ways that we could of gone about it. So the first game we tried it and it ended up to be our downfall, plus the fact it didn't seem like we were mentally prepared. So Joey did a good job in leading his team to a 1 - 0 lead against. So Game 2 begins, and this time everyone was focused and we tried the 2nd lineup which worked out much better and it ended up to be a blowout from us, which tied the series 1 - 1 in the best of 5. Then came Game 3, we stayed the same and they adjusted their lineup because Melissa's serving was too much for them in Game 2 and they had 2 weak passers in Game 2, so Game 3 it was a dog fight with leads changing back and forth throughout the whole game. In the end, our team came out on top to give us a 2 - 1 lead. So Game 4 started and Joey got his team fired up pretty well as they took a commanding 9 point lead. But with 2 minutes left to go in the whole series, they were up 20 - 11.

So the question on my mind was, should I of told Lisa to hit the net on her serve so they could get the point for rally, which would be 21 - 11. Because if we did that then it would leave us a good amount of time to try to take the series in Game 5. Or should we of tried to go for the win in Game 4, trying to play mistake free? So we opted to continue to play Game 4 out and Lisa was leading the come back. She brought us back at 20 - 16 with 26 seconds left in the series. So they called a timeout to shake her up, but we played out one long volley which gave them the point in the end because we shanked a pass. So with 3 seconds left, Brandon asked us if we wanted to play the 5th game out with only 3 seconds left meaning pretty much do or die, or just call the game a tie at 2 - 2. I wanted to play the 3 seconds left for the 5th game because their's nothing better than a good pressure game when everything counts. But everyone else wanted to take the tie so Joey and I agreed to take the tie.

However I didn't view the game as a tie but more of a lost. Because Joey's team wanted to win more, you could tell, they were just more hungrier than we were. I mean they haven't won the championship in 2 semesters now. I again gotta say the lost is on me, I should of went S.S. I thought this year's team was strong enough where I can hold back, and you could tell Joey was not holding back but as the games went on his energy was dropping off. Another thing was Joey's team is probably the best defensive team in the league, they play their positions well. I wish our game was on tape so our girls can see where they should be on defense. The teams were even too, we were missing Stan, Nick, and Jane so the same amount of people were allowed on the court to play. What was frustrating was because we couldn't pass at certain stretches of the game, and so I kept taking majority of everyone's passes. It was hard to play because now I learned that Lisa has a medical condition, so I believe everytime she was on the court she was hurting the team. So do I ask her to take some time off from the game to let her get head back together again? I mean she is the best overall girl on our team but I'd rather have her straighten out her life first. I'm glad that Maegan and Cindy are gonna spend some time with her to see how she is doing. Then their's the setting part, I mean SpongeBob is an average setter at best. Our team lacks awareness when it comes down to it defensively and when one of them is setting. When their was good passing to Sponger she'd either put it too tight or too far away, gosh that was so frustrating. But again this game was intense as that's what everyone watching kept saying, it was like a tennis match Joey vs me after each take turns killing, then it was Joey's friend vs. Mike go back and forth.

Then afterwards as I was getting ready to go to Boulan. I asked this one girl why isn't she starting for Vertically Challenge? I mean this girl was fairly big but she played in the finals last year with Mike, and she has a great set of hands if the pass is there. Plus I believe she is one of the top 5 girls in the league and I thought she hooked up with VC. She told me as they were playing that they told her that they didn't need her on the team no more and that they are set. I was like what the G, because they let her play last week but now they cut their best girl and told her all that bullshit. I felt bad for her because as I was talking to her, her eyes began to water. I mean that's not right, you let her play with you one week then you cut her the next week. I could understand if she sucked but dude she's the real deal. Anyways because of this, I have decided to take out this out on VC next week. Praise the Lord that this will give me extra motivation to play hard next week. Hopefully tonight their will be a good competition because for the past month now, I haven't play at Tuesday night as hard as I want to due to the setup. But I can definitely tell my level of play has dropped off because of it. It's time to play The Game.

All The Things She Said

So Chinese New Year has come and gone yet again. It still amazes me how excited my sister gets when we receive money because even when I was little I never card about the "lucky money" type of thing. It also amazes me how ignorant people are when it comes to waiting for food. They should all go look at Vickie's blog to help further educate their money brain that working at a restuarant ain't easy. Another thing that amazes me is that I'm actually gonna ahead in one of my classes. Yay me! However that came across the fact that I am behind in MTE, my easily most hated class of this semester. I'm starting to understand why my advisors told me not to try and take 3 ED classes in one semester. Homework has been outrageously overwhelming, it's no wonder last night I went to take a nap at 7:00 p.m. and I just wanted to nap only for an hour. However by the time I woke up it was 9:00 a.m. Monday morning! I keep thinking back about how Monday through Wednesday I'm usually upbeat on things but once it's Thursday till the weekend, I am usually burnt from homework. Now I see why God said on the 7th day we should rest because for the past 2 Sundays I've just slept through the evening till the next morning. However on the bright side of things, I can wake up at 5:30 a.m. pretty consistently now and also it continues to remind me to be like Paul in 2 Cor. 4:7 Paul tells us that we can not do things on our own but we need strength from God to do all things. I'm thankful for God's grace that He continues to give me energy to get by the day and still do my best to continue my Bible in a year. Also it amazes me that I have yet to miss my 8:00 a.m. class even though Stan insists that I will oversleep one of these days.

Well time to finish one more assignment then off to face Grone. Finally a worthy opponent for v-ball then off to Boulan for my doubleheader. Hopefully by the end of it all I will still have energy to go to Barnes and hit up the books with Chrissy.

Wrong Way