enchanted.

so i thought i would put on "enchanted" while i clean my room. my sister has been bugging me to find an instrumental for "that's how you know," so i thought i should download the movie and watch it to find out what all the commotion was about.



so the download finishes. and i put it on.



no room cleaning took place. =(











however, i did find myself feeling mad gay. no homo. just warm-and-fuzzy-inside type gay. hahah. it could be the no sleep in me talking. but yeah. i feel mad fuzzy inside. if you were to turn me inside out, i'd be a carnival game prize. (i would say a teddy bear, but i'm way too tall to be a teddy bear, unless i was won at a carnival. y'know?) so yeah. "enchanted" made me warm and fuzzy inside.














no homo. =)

sleep < john.

as you can see by the inequality that is my title, sleep is less than john. not necessarily meaning that john is greater than sleep. it simply means that i won this battle and am here blogging at 3 in the morning with a messy room that seems to get messier every second.

anyway.

the past couple of days have been a blur. not that they went by quickly. it's just that nothing much happened.

short recap.

wenesday, may 28.
school. nap. a lotta nothing. got my body rock ticket. =) mavyn. going to see my mavyn family was probably the most exciting thing that happened. i havent seen them since the 10th and it's weird not being at the studio on wednesday nights and sunday afternoons. unfortuneately not everyone was there. a lot were either in or supports jaychris' carnival set. but it's cool. i just like to get out of west covina when i can.

thursday, may 29.
school. nap. a lotta nothing. lakers. johnny-ray lim's bday party. party was chill. jokes. skate. session. the usual.

that's pretty much it.

so yeah.

the lakers are back in the nba finals. heck yes. probably wont see em play 'til tuesday. i predict the boston vs detroit series will go to 7. i like detroit. but i want boston to win. not just for the whole lakers vs celtics flashback. but because detroit is tougher for the lakers. lakers can take the celtics for sure.









so i'm excited for body rock. one day away. i'm excited for several reasons. =)














time to clean my room.








for real.







(sorry no photos. maaad lazy)

sleep is for the weak. (or tired)

so as we speak...i am eating a bowl of cap'n crunch berries. just thought you should know.

anyway...

where was i?

oh yeah.

i went to all male practice to see what's up. got there. they were team bonding aka f*cking around. they played duck duck goose freestyle while sidney and i sessioned kinda. but my stay was short because i had to take my sister and ria to the thrift store.

so we leave. and arrive at the thrift store. walk around for a bit. just browsing. interesting stuff.

then...

out of nowhere...

i stumble across a pair of nike SB dunks lying in the shoe rack. mochas to be exact. they were $3.99. what a steal?! the downsize is...they're size 12. and i am size 9-10. so you do the math. but i simply couldnt resists. so i bought em. =)

after that...went to sharp practice. lotsa stretching. technique. did pretty well. proud of myself.

after...cassie took me and brittany to in-n-out. but brittany did not eat due to a "tummy" ache. me and cassie had cheeseburgers. we got it to go btw.

no i am home. doing this, eating cap'n crunch, and watching the late night lineup on nbc.

now to connect this blog with the title:
i have agreed with myself not to sleep at all tonight (maybe an hour). i am chosing so because i need to do homework because i promised jackie i would do it because she's my bff. and i must clean my room. i'm tired of it looking the way it looks. so yeah. i dont know how long all of this will take, but it must be done.

sales galore.


aisle.


lake elsinore storm.


$3.99 for mochas. =)


(all images take by the trusty sk3)





oh yeah....
lakers won! heck yes! 3-1!

i can taste the finals.
i can smell a championship.








mmmMmmm. crunch-a-tize me, cap'n!

memorial day madness.

well...not really.

yesterday, memorial day, i woke up at 4 in the afternoon. yes. 4 in the afternoon. well...actually, i got up at 4. i woke up probably at noon. but i laid there in an out of consciousness for the next 4 hours. my cousin, jeriel (i call him "david"), stayed the night, along with his 2 younger brothers, jezikiel (?. idk. i call him "mark") and jael (?. i call him "eli"). with all of them over...the house is a mess. with the mess around me, it gives me the idea to just lay in bed. hence the 4 hours of falling in an out of sleep.i was suppose to go to roger's at 3 to session with him, allen, and kevin...but fell asleep.

so at approx 4PM, i get a phone call from lauren asking if i would like to play basketball with her brother, earl, and andrew. with that, i am inspired to get up. cmon now. it's basketball for goodness sake. cant pass that up. so off we go, to lauren's gated community just down the street from my gated community thing.

andrew and john vs david and earl. lauren, jamie, andrew, and phillip watch. andrew and i were clearly outmatched in the height division. we kept up. then they pulled away. i forgot how much basketball takes away from you. pretty tired. game ends. we lose. they win.

so we spend the next hour or two just throwing up ridiculous shots from all corners of the earth. (i dont know why that's an expression. the earth is round. it has no corners.) pretty amazing shots were made. (there were frisbees involved. it was pretty crazy.)

after we (all of us minus earl) head to krua thai to eat. there, marc and kathleen

up with us. i order a plate of pad se ew and a plate of shrimp fried rice. mmmM mmm. we share some laughs and have some interesting conversations that included "lists." [wink]

went home. did nothing for a looooong time.

(then closure...)

later, i attempted to clean my room. it is a complete mess from from 3 little boys, jared (my little brother), mark, and eli. but primarily just jared and eli. so i had to clean the loft (kinda). then my room. i put the sofa bed back in place, then knocked out.

which brings us to today...

woke up for school. went to school. took a test. kinda easy. kinda not. i wish we didnt have a 4-day weekend for me to forget everything. went home. sessioned. attempted to choreo a "lil som'n' som'n'." watched ET: the extra terrestrial. bought taco bell. continued watching ET. (which btw, has the best bike and car chase scene ever. well...in my opinion. primarily because it gives me memories of the ride the was formerly at universal studios hollywood and replaced by the 15 sec indoor rollercoaster, the mummy returns.)

that's my day so far. gonna swing by wesco all male practice. then go to sharp practice. then clean room. kinda whatever.

ET just ended.

super sunday.

ok so...

this post it technically posted on monday. but it's about sunday. hence the title, "super sunday." anyways...

so i woke up at around 9:45AMish, took a shower, got dressed, and headed to church with phillip for the 10:15 service. it was a really good service. great message and what not.

after church...we went back to my place. sat around in my living room and waited for kevin to get out of his church. so we call him...turns out he ended up not going to church. so we pick him up and go back to my house.

actually, i drop them off and i head over to get a haircut. my usual location was closed because it was sunday. so i went to supercuts. which is whack because it's mad expensive. (well...for the type of haircuts i get) i felt i needed the haircut seeing that i was gonna be at ultimate brawl and no one wants to be seen with whacked out hair at a show like that. my haircut looked pretty good. i liked it.

went home...watched the rest of "21" and then my parents invited the 3 of us (kevin, phillip, and myself) to chili's. (they were already there because they had gone to the 12noon service and went straight over.) so we agree for the free lunch and head over. we each got a half rack of chiiiiiliiiii's baby back ribs and mashed potatoes as a side. it was pretty bomb. (i dont have a picture of the ribs..but i do have a picture of the ending result of the sampler appetizer thing.)

after chili's we went to pick up claudia and meet up with cedric, jackie, and lauren who were suppose to be waiting at my house so we could all leave together for riverside (which is where ultimate brawl takes place, if you couldnt guess that already) get home. kick it outside as we waited for lauren to arrive. lauren arrives. we leave for riverside.

the ride wasnt bad. real chill. the alphabet game is maaad hard when you are the driver. it's too dangerous to play road trip games and drive. yeah. got there in a jiffy (yes. jiffy) and found sweet parking right in front of the venue.

we stood in front of the venue for an hour or so because we got there at 4:10ish and the doors were scheduled to open at 5. but you know how that goes. they opened at 5:15 or whatever. while waiting to go in line, we hear you are able to purchase alcohol at the bar with a special wristband (with you can attain with proper ID, of course), which i have never seen at a show/competition before (except world of dance, but that was at the fairplex) once inside the venue, we stood in the little hall area where the stairs, bathroom, and door to the green room was for about 20mins or so. then we head in to get our seats. this was my first time as a spectator at this show, so i had no clue the balcony was only for performers and those with special white wristbands. so the rest of the seats were floor level. we were kinda elevated however.

i dont like to sit for long periods of time...so i decide to get up and walk around. in doing so...i stumble across theMASSES vending area. i see jp and he tells me to buy a shirt. but he hooks me up so i cant refuse. i was gonna buy the midnight snack one (i like to call it "grumbles' graduation" because it's grumbles the bear kanye-ized.), but they did not have my size. and seeing i cant pass up getting hooked up, i decided to go with the dont stop tee. next time, i'll pick up the graduation tee. hopefully they sell at body rock.

word is...show is about to start...

so i head in.

(ultimate brawl takes place)

it was a good show. nothing too fancy but it got the job done. the only thing i was disappointed with was the sound. maybe the sound was blocked because i was sitting under the balcony. but i really wished i was able to FEEEEEL the music. but it was all good. i also wished the lighting was better. i remember them having lights in the back the past few years. but there were none to be found tonight.

anyway...

3rd - cadc
2nd - choreo cookies
1st - grv

i'm pretty satisfied with the placings. i felt the judges got it right. major props to grv for holding it down. i'm looking into auditioning for them when the time comes around. i really wanna be on a competing team as well as performing for mavyn. the "getting closer to God" buck section was ridiculous. and they brought back the photons to close the set.

yeah. we go outside.

we chill outside for a bit. (literally chill. it was cold.) i was pretty disappointed because we left to go eat so quickly. i wasnt able to see some friends who were in the show. yeah, we left because some of the group was cold and hungry.

drove around riverside looking for food for a good 20mins. went to university village only to find out every store is closed except starbucks. so we walked across the street to subway. i love subway. (well subs of any kind. togo's especially.) got my self a footlong chicken bacon ranch with heavy ranch (mmmmMmmmm).

then we chilled. and went back to wesco.

however, my night doesnt end there.

too tired to go into detail so here's a little outline.

• the most dangerous pillow fight with kevin and phillip
• my cousin, jeriel, watches BME pain olympics
• he also watched 2girls1cup.
• session a bit with kevin downstairs.
• drop kevin off.
• lots of chillin' and talking in between.

so yeah.

go on youtube. search for "kobe and the jackass crew" you won't be disappointed.













can't believe the lakers got smashed....
2-1 lakers.

brand neue.

with that post title...i shall start off with a shameless plug to a clothing line founded by 2 fellow west covina all male alumni...

www.neuemarvel.com

anyway, that's the only way i could link the title of this post with the actual blog. other than that...there's actually no connection.

so yeah...i am starting a blog because:

1. i need to keep my sanity late at night.
2. it'll help me actually remember events in my life.
3. my ASB advisor/AP world history teacher, mr david beeken, once told me that keeping a journal and/or blog would help...would help...would help...well...i can't quite recall. had i blogged what he said, i would've remembered.
4. cedric started one because he was inspired by khai and the nooe crew.
5. i would like to blog about the dance community like thatsfresh.com but a kind of smaller-one-man-new-to-the-scene type deal.
6. my grammar and typing skills will get better (i hope).

(six is such an odd number for a list. how ironic? six is an even number. how can it be odd? well i just made it odd.)

this is just an intro to further blogs coming up. i want to prepare you, the reader, of what's in store here in my blog. i'll probably keep a consistent photo blog and have videos to go a long with my blogs (when possible, of course).

...

it's getting late. i need to wake up for church that starts in about 7 and a half hours.

one more thing...

woo! ultimate brawl 8 is tomorrow! errr....today. you know what i mean. i'm really excited seeing this is my first real time at the show. last year, i was a performer in khai nguyen's kodama. i had a drill team and all male banquet so i had to bounce. fortunately enough for me, kodama was the opener. so i was able to leave right away and go to my banquet. but more about ultimate brawl...the environment is so chill. hospitality from 909 is wonderful. so chill. free subway and monster. it was my first taste of the dance scene out of the high school circuit. it was awesome. i played mario kart ds with dancers from cadc and sgbm. (and i schooled them...i think) but yeah. ultimate brawl 7 was dope. such a good show. and i'm sure 909 will be able to do it again this year with ultimate brawl 8. and this year i'll be a spectator and be able to stay the whole time.

so be prepared for a review of ub8 as well as photos and maybe videos of my time there.









off to bed.