...soooooooo sore...
Okie, it's updated with photos now, enjoy! 
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I actually wrote this on June 29 and was waiting for my internet to come back up so that I could post pictures along with the entry, but alas, stupid Comcast has relegated me to a photo-less entry. I'll update this entry with pictures later, so stay tuned!
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...the pain, yes, the pain...
I've worked out the past two days, but before that, I hadn't worked out in more than five months. Needless to say, I'm quite sore. When I got home yesterday and took a shower, I could barely raise my arms up to wash my hair with the shampoo; I had to strategically rest my arm against the wall so that it would stay at a height that would allow me to reach my head--sooooo not fun, and that was just my arms. This morning, I couldn't sit up in bed. My abs hurt so much that I had to roll out of bed. I think I'm going to take a break from working out, at least for a day so my body can recover from this initial shock, haha. I noticed a weird thing as I was on the ellipticals though. So there are these sensors on the handles that are able to calculate your heart rate, and mine was hovering around the low 80s, but my target heart rate was 157. I'm a bit disturbed by this. Does anyone know if this is bad? I think my heart rate needs to increase, but nothing seems to be working. Perhaps I'm not working out hard enough? Whatever, as long as I can have my fried chicken and rice afterwards, I'm a happy boy!
Pride was this past weekend. I saw a lot of people I hadn't seen in a long time and I also saw some people that I didn't want to see, but fortunately, the former outnumbered the latter. On Friday, John, Barry, and I went to Dragon. Ly was DJ-ing that night and his set totally rocked! I heard all the songs I wanted to hear and wanted to just dance the night away, which is what we basically did, haha.
ANGEL ISLAND
On Saturday, we woke up bright and early to join the Roots Program to Angel Island to visit the Chinese Immigration Center. In my 3 years of working for Blue & Gold, not once did I take advantage of visiting such places as Angel Island, so I figured better late than never. It was a pretty cool experience to see in person all the Chinese poems carved into the walls of the buildings. I got a little sunburned though, and unfortunately, I was wearing my glasses that day, so I came out looking a bit raccoonish. On the boat ride back, John, Yohana, Sarah, and I were all sitting on the second deck on the side. It had been a windy day and we were all just chatting when, all of a sudden, Sarah screams. We thought something had happened in the water so we all proceeded to look towards the water, but just as we did...BAM! A HUGE FREAKIN' WAVE DOUSED US ALL! OMG, I was SOAKED and in nasty bay water at that! Soooooooooooo gross! I guess the upside of all of this is that at least a freakin' seagull didn't come and poop on us afterwards, is that much of a consolation though?!
the long trek up to the Immigration Center
The Immigration Center
under construction
the writings on the wall
they tried to cover up our history, but the memories are forever etched into our identities and struggle
a poem
I’m DRENCHED!
ewwwwwwww, nasty bay water in my hair!
PINK PARTY
After we got all cleaned up, we headed out to the Pink Party. John and I met up with Yohana, Brian, Sandra, and Martha and we made our rounds. We stopped in first to say hi to Milo and company. As we were opening the door, we saw two guys pressing into each other on the walls and playing tonsil hockey like they were in the championship game for the Stanley Cup. I noticed that one of them had a buzz cut and immediately realized that it was my ex. Haha, nice way of running into each other again huh? I guess some people never change, but I digress. We took a couple of shots with Milo and company and rolled out, only to return later for more shots with friends, the bathroom, more drinks, and of course, the bathroom, haha.
Ooooh, highlight of the night, I finally met Jason. As you know, his xanga's ridiculously hilarious, but he's even more of a riot in person, especially when he's drunk, haha. Anyhow, it was a pleasure to finally meet ya!
John and I got a lil’ hungry!
Yohana’s breasts got lots of action that night
I seem to be enjoying this, hehe
PRIDE
Sunday was Pride. I was supposed to walk with the A&PI Wellness Center, but I had to be there at 9:30. I tried, I really did, but there was no way to get me up before 11am, haha. We eventually made it out to Civic Center where all the festivities were though and ran into more friends. We hung out around the API stage most of the time, but ventured out to the Latin and Black stage early on. The Black stage was really small and crowded, but at least they had hip hop. I don't have a picture of her, but at the Latin stage, there was this granny that was totally dancing up a storm to Shakira's Hips Don't Lie. OMG, she was workin' it, flapping gums and all! We eventually went back to the API stage to wait for the hip hop dance troupes to come on. There were a couple of good performances, but the winners, by far, were the kids of FutureShock. There was this one little girl that had the best attitude out of them all. She was 9 years old, her name was Rashondra, and y'all bettah recognize! Haha, loved her! She kept it crunk and totally made everyone else look blah, haha. The wind started to pick up heavily towards the end of the day though and we decided to head out. At the end of the day, I had definitely been sunburned, particularly on my nose. Whatever, I'll be in Cambodia soon and I can even out my tan there, haha.
Ma-an, Anthony, and me: Blue & Gold reunion!
awww, the couples: Chris & Frangelo and Evan & Jason
me and Evan: fobbin’ it up and lovin’ it!
me and Brian…yes, it’s true, we’re freakin’ fob-tastic!
the little girl in the center is Rashondra, uh huh! Recognize!
awww, they’re all grown up now! Adrian, me, and Vaughn
Evan: “Hey, that guy has my underwear!”
John, doing the happy dance, hehe
Yay, that was my weekend, and now, there's an extended weekend! Can't wait!
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I actually wrote this on June 29 and was waiting for my internet to come back up so that I could post pictures along with the entry, but alas, stupid Comcast has relegated me to a photo-less entry. I'll update this entry with pictures later, so stay tuned!
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...the pain, yes, the pain...
I've worked out the past two days, but before that, I hadn't worked out in more than five months. Needless to say, I'm quite sore. When I got home yesterday and took a shower, I could barely raise my arms up to wash my hair with the shampoo; I had to strategically rest my arm against the wall so that it would stay at a height that would allow me to reach my head--sooooo not fun, and that was just my arms. This morning, I couldn't sit up in bed. My abs hurt so much that I had to roll out of bed. I think I'm going to take a break from working out, at least for a day so my body can recover from this initial shock, haha. I noticed a weird thing as I was on the ellipticals though. So there are these sensors on the handles that are able to calculate your heart rate, and mine was hovering around the low 80s, but my target heart rate was 157. I'm a bit disturbed by this. Does anyone know if this is bad? I think my heart rate needs to increase, but nothing seems to be working. Perhaps I'm not working out hard enough? Whatever, as long as I can have my fried chicken and rice afterwards, I'm a happy boy!
Pride was this past weekend. I saw a lot of people I hadn't seen in a long time and I also saw some people that I didn't want to see, but fortunately, the former outnumbered the latter. On Friday, John, Barry, and I went to Dragon. Ly was DJ-ing that night and his set totally rocked! I heard all the songs I wanted to hear and wanted to just dance the night away, which is what we basically did, haha.
ANGEL ISLAND
On Saturday, we woke up bright and early to join the Roots Program to Angel Island to visit the Chinese Immigration Center. In my 3 years of working for Blue & Gold, not once did I take advantage of visiting such places as Angel Island, so I figured better late than never. It was a pretty cool experience to see in person all the Chinese poems carved into the walls of the buildings. I got a little sunburned though, and unfortunately, I was wearing my glasses that day, so I came out looking a bit raccoonish. On the boat ride back, John, Yohana, Sarah, and I were all sitting on the second deck on the side. It had been a windy day and we were all just chatting when, all of a sudden, Sarah screams. We thought something had happened in the water so we all proceeded to look towards the water, but just as we did...BAM! A HUGE FREAKIN' WAVE DOUSED US ALL! OMG, I was SOAKED and in nasty bay water at that! Soooooooooooo gross! I guess the upside of all of this is that at least a freakin' seagull didn't come and poop on us afterwards, is that much of a consolation though?!
the long trek up to the Immigration Center
The Immigration Center
under construction
the writings on the wall
they tried to cover up our history, but the memories are forever etched into our identities and struggle
a poem
I’m DRENCHED!
ewwwwwwww, nasty bay water in my hair!
PINK PARTY
After we got all cleaned up, we headed out to the Pink Party. John and I met up with Yohana, Brian, Sandra, and Martha and we made our rounds. We stopped in first to say hi to Milo and company. As we were opening the door, we saw two guys pressing into each other on the walls and playing tonsil hockey like they were in the championship game for the Stanley Cup. I noticed that one of them had a buzz cut and immediately realized that it was my ex. Haha, nice way of running into each other again huh? I guess some people never change, but I digress. We took a couple of shots with Milo and company and rolled out, only to return later for more shots with friends, the bathroom, more drinks, and of course, the bathroom, haha.
Ooooh, highlight of the night, I finally met Jason. As you know, his xanga's ridiculously hilarious, but he's even more of a riot in person, especially when he's drunk, haha. Anyhow, it was a pleasure to finally meet ya!
John and I got a lil’ hungry!
Yohana’s breasts got lots of action that night
I seem to be enjoying this, hehe
PRIDE
Sunday was Pride. I was supposed to walk with the A&PI Wellness Center, but I had to be there at 9:30. I tried, I really did, but there was no way to get me up before 11am, haha. We eventually made it out to Civic Center where all the festivities were though and ran into more friends. We hung out around the API stage most of the time, but ventured out to the Latin and Black stage early on. The Black stage was really small and crowded, but at least they had hip hop. I don't have a picture of her, but at the Latin stage, there was this granny that was totally dancing up a storm to Shakira's Hips Don't Lie. OMG, she was workin' it, flapping gums and all! We eventually went back to the API stage to wait for the hip hop dance troupes to come on. There were a couple of good performances, but the winners, by far, were the kids of FutureShock. There was this one little girl that had the best attitude out of them all. She was 9 years old, her name was Rashondra, and y'all bettah recognize! Haha, loved her! She kept it crunk and totally made everyone else look blah, haha. The wind started to pick up heavily towards the end of the day though and we decided to head out. At the end of the day, I had definitely been sunburned, particularly on my nose. Whatever, I'll be in Cambodia soon and I can even out my tan there, haha.
Ma-an, Anthony, and me: Blue & Gold reunion!
awww, the couples: Chris & Frangelo and Evan & Jason
me and Evan: fobbin’ it up and lovin’ it!
me and Brian…yes, it’s true, we’re freakin’ fob-tastic!
the little girl in the center is Rashondra, uh huh! Recognize!
awww, they’re all grown up now! Adrian, me, and Vaughn
Evan: “Hey, that guy has my underwear!”
John, doing the happy dance, hehe
Yay, that was my weekend, and now, there's an extended weekend! Can't wait!