Victor in a Nutshell!
Well, Just sitting here realizing that my life is just too boring! Last night I took a 4 hour nap! I know what you're thinking! "Oh My God, Victor, How could you do such a horrible thing?" Trust me I already cried! It was just so disappointing! Just the thought of losing 4 precious hours of my life! Well, today I have decided to write about My life. You will cry! You will laugh! You will think! But most of all you will see the side of me that only few know, some of the "life story has been a little altered for fun, but most of it is true! This story is rated PG-14.5!
It was a cold November night when Dr. Chung jammed a rod up my mom to waken her sleeping baby boy inside! The water had broken hours ago and the child was sound asleep, at last Dr. chung had an idea, so he stuck a marshmallow on the rod and tried again! 10 seconds later Victor Emanuel Mercado the 3rd. was born! At exactly 12:56pm on November 9th, of 1986. I took my first breath on earth! It was Awesome!!!
Throughout My ghetto Puerto Rican life, I grew up with 3 older biological sisters (Lourdes, Mayra, and Awilda) and an adopted one named Jeanie, in Oakland! All my life I grew up playing with girls! I always wanted to be around them and I always wanted to do what they did! I played with barbie's, played house, played dress up, and I even started liking bo...? wait, no I didn't! anyways My sisters were a great influence in my life! One saturday morning at the age of five I remember playing a stupid game my sisters made up called "how high can you jump?" The goal of the game was to see from which step, out of 19, can I jump down the stairs and over a little bench we had placed at the bottom, and still land on my feet! One. Two. Three. As I kept continuing to rise higher and higher I began to feel the intensity, the air began to get thinner and thinner! Finally I reached my peak! The Fifth Step! As I looked down at the bottom of the stairs I saw the little bench as if it were an ant! My sisters right next to me saying "do it, hurry, it's our turn!" As I looked at them, looking at each other, they looked at me. Then, Push! I went flying through the air, as I reached the bottom of the stairs I felt my arm get caught in the bench and POP! I remember a trying to get up but my arm felt like it had been glued to the floor, as I began to panic, I began to cry. Louder, and Louder My cries turned my sisters laughter into panic as well. As they realized what they had done and realized that my arm was twice its normal size and two different colors, they decided to grab me by my arms and drag me into the nearest room. My screams bounced off the walls, my sisters began their attempt to tickle me and make me laugh, saying "we have candy!" "shhhh! tickle, tickle, tickle!" Nothing, not even candy could stop the pain in my arm! After 2 hours of non-stop crying my parents decided to take me to the hospital. As Dr. Chung entered the room, he immediately took me to the X-ray center then to the cast room! My left arm was broken in two places!
8 months later I was cast free! Two weeks after I was 6 years old, I went outside to play with my friend eric. He had just got a new skateboard and I had just gotten a new yo-yo, we decided to switch and play with each others toys! so he got my yo-yo and I got his skateboard. As he played with my yo-yo, I began to try new tricks on his board! All of a sudden I tripped and Bang! right on the same arm! Once again 2 hours later my parents rush me to the Oakland Kaiser Emergency Room, where even Gun shot wounds had to fill out a stack of papers! It was Broken again!
To make a long story short, as I grew up I had broken my left arm four times, my right wrist two times, tore my right knee's ligament three times, my right ankle twice, and my left ankle once. Not including sprains, pulled muscles, and bad cuts! I was a walking miracle! Dr. Chung had all my file memorized, social security number and all!
Another great time in my life was when I joined CCS and eWay youth ministries. i was about 13 years old! I remember going on trips and Have some good times with my new friends! Like the time I went to youth convention on my birthday and slept in a hotel bed with urine all over it and i didn't realize till the next morning when it was all over my face! Or maybe the time where we were on a trip to a leaders convention and I was sleeping in the front seat of the car with the window rolled down and my mouth open and woke up to bird crap all on my tongue, In the freeway a bird crapped and with my luck, it flew at a precise speed to end up in my mouth! Or maybe the time where I was at taco bell with friends and we were all sitting outside and I asked why there was water on our table so used my hand to swish it off and later smelling urine all over my hand! Or maybe the time where I went rock/wall climbing and jump down from a 50ft wall sending my spotter at the bottom soaring through the air! (he was tied up to my harness) Or gee, maybe the time where I was 7 in my first christian church pretending i was demon possessed, rolling my eyes back and cussing out my sunday school teacher saying: "the Devil made me do it!" Or maybe the time I wore make up for all the pacesetter girls (angela,amy,gabby,samantha,jen) and let them pluck my eyebrows and then take pictures! Or maybe using and flushing a toilet at an orphanage in Mexico and leaving the water running and later finding out that the orphanage was in trouble because they ran out of fresh water supply! these were just a few embarrassing times in my life! but what about the good?
Getting filled with the holy spirit for the first time and speaking in tongues, Or maybe my first time singing in the eWay worship team, Or maybe The first time I met Evan, David s, Krystal, Gabby, Sophie, Angel, Jazz, Deana, Robert Mc, Josh, Pastor David... Remembering my first time speaking publicly, remembering the first time I wasn't shy!, remembering the first time Prayed and saw God move!, So many good things!
How about my struggles? Like the first time I got rejected by a girl, or the first time I felt away from God, or the time I got kicked out of CCS, or the time I fell with the wrong crowd (even when I knew Jesus), or the time I hurt my friends feelings, or the time I disrespected my parents, or the pet dog died, or the time I was back stabbed by a friend, or the time I felt unwanted, or the time I felt worthless.....
My life has been filled of uppers and downers! But I thank God for the people in my lives Now! And I love each and everyone those I mentioned! If you wanna hear more of my life than just give me a call 510-472-5168 Bye!
-Victor Mercado.
It was a cold November night when Dr. Chung jammed a rod up my mom to waken her sleeping baby boy inside! The water had broken hours ago and the child was sound asleep, at last Dr. chung had an idea, so he stuck a marshmallow on the rod and tried again! 10 seconds later Victor Emanuel Mercado the 3rd. was born! At exactly 12:56pm on November 9th, of 1986. I took my first breath on earth! It was Awesome!!!
Throughout My ghetto Puerto Rican life, I grew up with 3 older biological sisters (Lourdes, Mayra, and Awilda) and an adopted one named Jeanie, in Oakland! All my life I grew up playing with girls! I always wanted to be around them and I always wanted to do what they did! I played with barbie's, played house, played dress up, and I even started liking bo...? wait, no I didn't! anyways My sisters were a great influence in my life! One saturday morning at the age of five I remember playing a stupid game my sisters made up called "how high can you jump?" The goal of the game was to see from which step, out of 19, can I jump down the stairs and over a little bench we had placed at the bottom, and still land on my feet! One. Two. Three. As I kept continuing to rise higher and higher I began to feel the intensity, the air began to get thinner and thinner! Finally I reached my peak! The Fifth Step! As I looked down at the bottom of the stairs I saw the little bench as if it were an ant! My sisters right next to me saying "do it, hurry, it's our turn!" As I looked at them, looking at each other, they looked at me. Then, Push! I went flying through the air, as I reached the bottom of the stairs I felt my arm get caught in the bench and POP! I remember a trying to get up but my arm felt like it had been glued to the floor, as I began to panic, I began to cry. Louder, and Louder My cries turned my sisters laughter into panic as well. As they realized what they had done and realized that my arm was twice its normal size and two different colors, they decided to grab me by my arms and drag me into the nearest room. My screams bounced off the walls, my sisters began their attempt to tickle me and make me laugh, saying "we have candy!" "shhhh! tickle, tickle, tickle!" Nothing, not even candy could stop the pain in my arm! After 2 hours of non-stop crying my parents decided to take me to the hospital. As Dr. Chung entered the room, he immediately took me to the X-ray center then to the cast room! My left arm was broken in two places!
8 months later I was cast free! Two weeks after I was 6 years old, I went outside to play with my friend eric. He had just got a new skateboard and I had just gotten a new yo-yo, we decided to switch and play with each others toys! so he got my yo-yo and I got his skateboard. As he played with my yo-yo, I began to try new tricks on his board! All of a sudden I tripped and Bang! right on the same arm! Once again 2 hours later my parents rush me to the Oakland Kaiser Emergency Room, where even Gun shot wounds had to fill out a stack of papers! It was Broken again!
To make a long story short, as I grew up I had broken my left arm four times, my right wrist two times, tore my right knee's ligament three times, my right ankle twice, and my left ankle once. Not including sprains, pulled muscles, and bad cuts! I was a walking miracle! Dr. Chung had all my file memorized, social security number and all!
Another great time in my life was when I joined CCS and eWay youth ministries. i was about 13 years old! I remember going on trips and Have some good times with my new friends! Like the time I went to youth convention on my birthday and slept in a hotel bed with urine all over it and i didn't realize till the next morning when it was all over my face! Or maybe the time where we were on a trip to a leaders convention and I was sleeping in the front seat of the car with the window rolled down and my mouth open and woke up to bird crap all on my tongue, In the freeway a bird crapped and with my luck, it flew at a precise speed to end up in my mouth! Or maybe the time where I was at taco bell with friends and we were all sitting outside and I asked why there was water on our table so used my hand to swish it off and later smelling urine all over my hand! Or maybe the time where I went rock/wall climbing and jump down from a 50ft wall sending my spotter at the bottom soaring through the air! (he was tied up to my harness) Or gee, maybe the time where I was 7 in my first christian church pretending i was demon possessed, rolling my eyes back and cussing out my sunday school teacher saying: "the Devil made me do it!" Or maybe the time I wore make up for all the pacesetter girls (angela,amy,gabby,samantha,jen) and let them pluck my eyebrows and then take pictures! Or maybe using and flushing a toilet at an orphanage in Mexico and leaving the water running and later finding out that the orphanage was in trouble because they ran out of fresh water supply! these were just a few embarrassing times in my life! but what about the good?
Getting filled with the holy spirit for the first time and speaking in tongues, Or maybe my first time singing in the eWay worship team, Or maybe The first time I met Evan, David s, Krystal, Gabby, Sophie, Angel, Jazz, Deana, Robert Mc, Josh, Pastor David... Remembering my first time speaking publicly, remembering the first time I wasn't shy!, remembering the first time Prayed and saw God move!, So many good things!
How about my struggles? Like the first time I got rejected by a girl, or the first time I felt away from God, or the time I got kicked out of CCS, or the time I fell with the wrong crowd (even when I knew Jesus), or the time I hurt my friends feelings, or the time I disrespected my parents, or the pet dog died, or the time I was back stabbed by a friend, or the time I felt unwanted, or the time I felt worthless.....
My life has been filled of uppers and downers! But I thank God for the people in my lives Now! And I love each and everyone those I mentioned! If you wanna hear more of my life than just give me a call 510-472-5168 Bye!
-Victor Mercado.