Thursday, April 23, 2009
Friday, January 16, 2009
Update 2009.
Wow, I haven't wrote in this place for a long time. Its been since October. I'm just going to rant and give some updates.
School:
Right now I'm at an odd place in my academic career. As you already know I'm back from Corvallis, and I just finished my first and only term at PCC. Right now I'm just working on my dental hygiene applications, and just focusing my time on that.
Work:
Damn, work is hard to find. Our economy is in the shits, and everyone around me is feeling the same way. The only income I have is working at David Douglas High School.... my old playing grounds hahah. damn that place has changed so much. It's much more diverse, more populated, and kids are thinking they are grown ups. But the kids I tutor are awesome. They are very nice, and most of the time are very dedicated students. Although I like this job, it is very limited in hours, and I don't really make much. But I will take what I can get, since its pretty fun. I never really thought I'd be working and tutoring at a HS.
Love Life:
Nothing has changed here. It's the same old single thing. Since I've been back in Portland it has been a lot harder to meet people. In Corvallis, meeting people happens everyday because of class, parties, clubs, or just meeting random people through social networks. All my friends are still in C-town, so basically It's just me and a couple of close friends. I'm going to work on my game, but its going to be a long and tough ride. I thought about if I get accepted to OIT in La Grande, I might meet some ladies, but they would most likely be all into dental hygiene too, and I would much rather date someone with a much different occupation, because It would make things more exciting. I couldn't imagine having the same type of conversation about work all the time!
Talking about the ladies, I've figured out it's time to man up and stop being a shy chicken shit. It is time for a change. No longer I am going to be too hesitant, and not take chances. I'm going to teach my self to be a man. Heck, I learned how to swim, which I thought was impossible, so it's time to teach myself something else. How to find a nice companion.
To be honest finding a gf or whatever is the funnest part. For me, the chase is a crazy feeling. It brings excitement, happiness, and the adrenaline because I might be in the mist of finding someone special. So far that has not been successful, but I still have time.
Anyways, That is what is on my mind for now.
PS: Go Blazers
School:
Right now I'm at an odd place in my academic career. As you already know I'm back from Corvallis, and I just finished my first and only term at PCC. Right now I'm just working on my dental hygiene applications, and just focusing my time on that.
Work:
Damn, work is hard to find. Our economy is in the shits, and everyone around me is feeling the same way. The only income I have is working at David Douglas High School.... my old playing grounds hahah. damn that place has changed so much. It's much more diverse, more populated, and kids are thinking they are grown ups. But the kids I tutor are awesome. They are very nice, and most of the time are very dedicated students. Although I like this job, it is very limited in hours, and I don't really make much. But I will take what I can get, since its pretty fun. I never really thought I'd be working and tutoring at a HS.
Love Life:
Nothing has changed here. It's the same old single thing. Since I've been back in Portland it has been a lot harder to meet people. In Corvallis, meeting people happens everyday because of class, parties, clubs, or just meeting random people through social networks. All my friends are still in C-town, so basically It's just me and a couple of close friends. I'm going to work on my game, but its going to be a long and tough ride. I thought about if I get accepted to OIT in La Grande, I might meet some ladies, but they would most likely be all into dental hygiene too, and I would much rather date someone with a much different occupation, because It would make things more exciting. I couldn't imagine having the same type of conversation about work all the time!
Talking about the ladies, I've figured out it's time to man up and stop being a shy chicken shit. It is time for a change. No longer I am going to be too hesitant, and not take chances. I'm going to teach my self to be a man. Heck, I learned how to swim, which I thought was impossible, so it's time to teach myself something else. How to find a nice companion.
To be honest finding a gf or whatever is the funnest part. For me, the chase is a crazy feeling. It brings excitement, happiness, and the adrenaline because I might be in the mist of finding someone special. So far that has not been successful, but I still have time.
Anyways, That is what is on my mind for now.
PS: Go Blazers
Friday, October 10, 2008
Random Blurbs
From now on I will just blog short random ideas
-I was having flashbacks of visiting the dentist and being scared every time. They had to strap me down to make sure I didn't kick or punch the dentist. I remembered the frightening car rides to Gresham for the appointments. The same fear goes with my flu shorts and vaccinations. Terrifying!
-I will vote for Barack Obama. Many reasons, but just please read up your own research to see why he is the better candidate. John McCain is not competent enough to be lead our country. I mean look at us, were in the shit. Our health care system is ruining families, our economy is in the shit, were losing in a war that we shouldn't have started, were still relying on fossil fuel, our education is underfunded, and everything is just fucked up. Who is to blame? Our current dumb fuck of a president. I know its overplayed that he is a moron, but wait and read the history books in fifty years. It will clearly explain how he just fucked everything up. John McCain? The guy who basically agrees with the "W" 90 percent of the time? That guy is going to change our country? Right now, none of the republican trash can do anything for us. They worry too much about shit that doesn't matter right now. Anyways vote smart and vote Obama.
-I was having flashbacks of visiting the dentist and being scared every time. They had to strap me down to make sure I didn't kick or punch the dentist. I remembered the frightening car rides to Gresham for the appointments. The same fear goes with my flu shorts and vaccinations. Terrifying!
-I will vote for Barack Obama. Many reasons, but just please read up your own research to see why he is the better candidate. John McCain is not competent enough to be lead our country. I mean look at us, were in the shit. Our health care system is ruining families, our economy is in the shit, were losing in a war that we shouldn't have started, were still relying on fossil fuel, our education is underfunded, and everything is just fucked up. Who is to blame? Our current dumb fuck of a president. I know its overplayed that he is a moron, but wait and read the history books in fifty years. It will clearly explain how he just fucked everything up. John McCain? The guy who basically agrees with the "W" 90 percent of the time? That guy is going to change our country? Right now, none of the republican trash can do anything for us. They worry too much about shit that doesn't matter right now. Anyways vote smart and vote Obama.
Sunday, July 13, 2008
random
Things I want the most this year, to enter dental hygiene school, and find a girl. thats all folks. You can't even describe how much I want to achieve this, More than anyone on earth. I guarentee you that when i apply I am the most dedicated and hard work. To be honest my path has been a wild ride, but Honestly I just want to suceed, make my parents happy, family proud, make my self happy, and show that I work to maximum potential for more than monetary reasons. I wish my self the best luck and hope you do too.
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Girls, Girls, Girls, part 2
After writing my first blog on my relationship with the ladies, I forgot to add the second part of the equation. I was thinking about how I blame my self for most of my mistakes. I still hold my self accountable, but I think it isn’t 100 percent my fault. I think another problem is that girls don’t really give me a chance. I usually try to start off slow, and just ask people to do casual things, such as go for lunch, hang out, study, or whatever activity that is used to break the ice and give my self a good first impression. Only about 25% of the time, I get a response back. It could be the fact that, the person is a self inflated dumbass, snobby, stuck up, not interested, or just being lazy. It could be a combination. Its happened many times. Yeah it feels like shit, but it also gives me the fire to keep going, and to improve my self and attain higher goals. It gives me motivation to try to prove that person, although most of the time, they don’t know or care. But It’s funny how some people have totally flaked out on me, or changed their minds when I ask them to do something, and to make it seem like your interested, that is just a plain bitch move. Sorry about using the language, but its just me expressing how I feel about it. But shit that’s all I have to say about that.
MMA
So In the last year of so, I’ve grown to love this new up and coming sport of Mixed Martial Arts. As I kid, and most of my high school and college years, I thought MMA to be a brutal and inhumane sport. I’ve ignored it largely to that I had only paid attention to my other favorite sports (Basketball, Tennis, and Motorsports.)I always thought of it was two men wildly kicking, punching, and laying on the ground hugging. But after being exposed to it by reading forums, watching it on TV, and doing my own research, the sport it self is something that can be only enjoy by being exposed to large amounts of it and being open to new things.
The sport in America, is marketed incorrectly. Everyone laughs at it, and people from other major sports think of it as a joke. I can’t really blame people that much though, because If you watch spike TV or the Versus channel, they almost market MMA as “Hardcore, and Bloody”. Also society compares MMA to boxing, which is ridiculous. It’s not even remotely the same sport. It is like comparing baseball and cricket. Yes there are two teams, using a wooden stick to hit a ball. But in Baseball the bat is tapered, in cricket the bat is a flat surface. The balls are of different size, the rules and style of play are totally different. It just doesn’t make sense to compare these two types of combat sports. In America there is one main branch of MMA, which is the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Yes I think it is a great organization, but it is lead by a man who wants ONLY the UFC to succeed. They even made sure of this by buying the world dominating, but slowly dying PRIDE FC, which is based in Japan. Pride FC was the most dominant MMA organization in the world. They had the best shows production wise, the best rules, drama, technical skills, and charisma of the fighters. Sadly the Yakuza was becoming a part of the company, and the Japanese media did not tolerate that, so they shut down their TV deal, which resulted in lower ratings and the lack of constant revenue.
People in the United States think that MMA is “Ultimate Fighting.” What people don’t know is that MMA started of as a sport that was styles against styles. For example a man from a Kyokushin Karate dojo wanted to see how he would deal with a collegiate wrestler, Kung fu practioner or a Muay Thai Boxer. But things have changed. People are now cross training in many different disciplines. People start off with a striking art, such as boxing, kickboxing, Savate, karate. And complimenting it with a grappling/ground game, such as western wrestling, judo, Sambo, Brazillian Ju-Jitsu and many other forms. They use it so that if a match decides to get to the ground or stood up, they have many options to show their arsenal of assault. Fighters can win through TKO, KO, or Submissions.
What I love about MMA the most is that people from all over the world, and of all ages can enjoy this sport. In football, cricket, hockey and other regionalized sports, the sports do not translate well over the globe. People aren’t exposed to it in their culture. But in mixed martial arts, people all over the world know what fighting is. People from Brazil, Japan, the US, Russia, France, Thailand, South Africa and other countries all can understand it. You could even say its sort of like a Universal Language.
Overall MMA is a great sport. Rules are making it much safer, and the athletes are training at a high level that bring great fights. The dynamics of grappling and striking make it very exciting. At any minute a person could be knocked out or caught in submission and it could be over. But anyways I could probably keep writing most likely write a 10 page report about MMA, but I would like to keep it short. Maybe ill write another in the near future. I hope people who read this blog start watching some MMA, this July, especially FEDOR vs SYLVIA, which is epic.
The sport in America, is marketed incorrectly. Everyone laughs at it, and people from other major sports think of it as a joke. I can’t really blame people that much though, because If you watch spike TV or the Versus channel, they almost market MMA as “Hardcore, and Bloody”. Also society compares MMA to boxing, which is ridiculous. It’s not even remotely the same sport. It is like comparing baseball and cricket. Yes there are two teams, using a wooden stick to hit a ball. But in Baseball the bat is tapered, in cricket the bat is a flat surface. The balls are of different size, the rules and style of play are totally different. It just doesn’t make sense to compare these two types of combat sports. In America there is one main branch of MMA, which is the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Yes I think it is a great organization, but it is lead by a man who wants ONLY the UFC to succeed. They even made sure of this by buying the world dominating, but slowly dying PRIDE FC, which is based in Japan. Pride FC was the most dominant MMA organization in the world. They had the best shows production wise, the best rules, drama, technical skills, and charisma of the fighters. Sadly the Yakuza was becoming a part of the company, and the Japanese media did not tolerate that, so they shut down their TV deal, which resulted in lower ratings and the lack of constant revenue.
People in the United States think that MMA is “Ultimate Fighting.” What people don’t know is that MMA started of as a sport that was styles against styles. For example a man from a Kyokushin Karate dojo wanted to see how he would deal with a collegiate wrestler, Kung fu practioner or a Muay Thai Boxer. But things have changed. People are now cross training in many different disciplines. People start off with a striking art, such as boxing, kickboxing, Savate, karate. And complimenting it with a grappling/ground game, such as western wrestling, judo, Sambo, Brazillian Ju-Jitsu and many other forms. They use it so that if a match decides to get to the ground or stood up, they have many options to show their arsenal of assault. Fighters can win through TKO, KO, or Submissions.
What I love about MMA the most is that people from all over the world, and of all ages can enjoy this sport. In football, cricket, hockey and other regionalized sports, the sports do not translate well over the globe. People aren’t exposed to it in their culture. But in mixed martial arts, people all over the world know what fighting is. People from Brazil, Japan, the US, Russia, France, Thailand, South Africa and other countries all can understand it. You could even say its sort of like a Universal Language.
Overall MMA is a great sport. Rules are making it much safer, and the athletes are training at a high level that bring great fights. The dynamics of grappling and striking make it very exciting. At any minute a person could be knocked out or caught in submission and it could be over. But anyways I could probably keep writing most likely write a 10 page report about MMA, but I would like to keep it short. Maybe ill write another in the near future. I hope people who read this blog start watching some MMA, this July, especially FEDOR vs SYLVIA, which is epic.
Monday, July 7, 2008
Blazers Blogs
What inspired me to write blogs were my friends blogs, and MY Portland trailblazers. heres some links to their blogs
Channing Frye- http://www.channingfrye.com/blog/
Greg Oden- http://www.yardbarker.com/users/gregoden
Brandon Roy (not really a blog, but some updates on him) -http://www.broy7.com/roy/index
Channing Frye- http://www.channingfrye.com/blog/
Greg Oden- http://www.yardbarker.com/users/gregoden
Brandon Roy (not really a blog, but some updates on him) -http://www.broy7.com/roy/index
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