Thursday, July 29, 2010

Rock The Era Day 1

From July 23rd-25th I was in Philly for the weekend!
We had many obstacles we had to go through (My New York Zone Taiko Team)
But, in the end, we managed to pull through on the night of the 25th and it became a life-changing moment.

*What kind of obstacles?
Well on the 23rd, we gathered at 11AM sharp! and we were "supposed" to get on the bus at 12:30PM the latest. The bus didn't show until 1:30. I mean personally, that was fine with me! I got to talk to a lot of old and new friends. Met a lot of great people and started bonding and bonding because basically, I'm pretty much going to be with them the entire weekend. They were awesome people! This event was all for our religious organization, Nichiren Buddhism : SGI-USA. (No, It's not even close to being an all asian group buddhism) It's completely multi-cultural.
->RAIN!? It started raining and POURING HARD!! The bus still wasn't here yet! It was around 1. We were getting worried about our fearless driver! So we gathered and chanted(prayed) for the safety of the driver etc.etc. Amazingly, the rain suddenly stopped. It was POURING HARD. But we just wanted to chant for the bus to arrive and we could get on safely and get there safely with no accidents. In the end, It showed up safe. We got on and we hit the road! THE WHEELS ON THE BUS GO 'ROUND AND 'ROUND!
->TRAFFIC!? Yes, traffic. The best part of driving. Since this is a huge event, we gathered 11,000 Youth and rougly 3500 performers! Which meant A LOT OF BUSES! We had buses leaving from every umm, every borough. I was obvious in Queens. There was a manhattan bus with a bunch of people on it that arrived in Philly at 3-4 ish! We were still stuck in New York City! There was some CRAZY traffic which caused us to be stuck in the city for like 3hours. I decided to give up and I went to sleep. A sudden step on the brake woke me up because we were about to hit another bus! But, I was happy when I woke up besides my eyes blurred and the urge to pee really badly on top of this horrible thirst I had. I had a bottle of water with me, but I was at the point where I really needed to pee! and went "screw it, my bladder's about to explode! The water can wait, Must pee" Of course, It was a coach bus, which meant there was a bathroom on the bus! For those who've been on a coach bus, you KNOW how bad those bathrooms are. I didn't even want to bother. I really needed to go. People kept telling me how bad it was in there though, so I just tried sleeping it off again. I knocked out for a good hour or too, I woke up to ->BEAUTIFUL weather, yes, BEAUTIFUL! It was clear skies and SUNNY! I then went online to check the weather in Philly and it showed me 100. LOL at that point, I was like thank goodness we're indoors for 75% of the time. And it said it was going to be 110 high the next day! I went back to sleep after! LOL. I woke up from an announcement from our bus chief saying that we're almost there! HORRAY!
->JOKES!? Oh boy, while we were approaching the college university campus, there was still a while to go! So, they decided to start telling jokes on the bus! There were like 4 bus chiefs on the bus, and lucky me!? I knew all of them! So who'd they volunteer first? Yep, Moi. x-x. I really didn't know what to say, so I said. "All right! My joke is how I met you guys!" and everyone Boo'd me and I felt very much hated. LOL I realized how messed up that sounded afterwards but they started to pick on me all at once later, it was so rowdy. I wanted to just get there and PEE. I did mention I really needed to pee right? LOL. The neighborhood around it was pretty broken down. I was surprised. It reminded me of the ghetto. My eyes were twitching as we approached closer and closer because it WAS DEFINITELY not what I was expecting! So yadda yadda yadda, we finally arrived where we were supposed to get off and unload the bus. But, the driver ended up driving around and making u-turns because there were WAY TOO MANY buses there. About twenty minutes passed before we actually got to get off. Did I say I needed to pee? :/ LOL I've been holding it in the wholeeeeeee time oh boy.

->AT LAST! ARRIVAL! or not? We finally MADE IT! Six hours on the bus and we're finally in PHILLAYDEELFEEAH. The moment i stepped out of the bus, the INTENSITY OF THE HEAT WOOSHED PAST ME. It was BURNING! at 100degrees and sunny, I was melting in all seriousness. but anyway, we stood outside with our luggage because it was a huge HUGE mess. The staff workers aka Byakuren/Soka Group/Gajokai. That was what they were called, they were running around everywhere trying to direct us here and there. We walked a couple of blocks to our dorms after noticing we were walking the opposite direction for about 2-3 minutes. We got into our dorms and the lobby was PACKED. There was like HUNDREDS of people in there trying to get into their dorm room. Let's keep it short, there was a big mistake with everyone and basically, a lot of us weren't on the list of getting rooms. So it was a big WTF. About an hour into waiting, we finally got keys to our dorms! It was around 7PM. Almost 8. We finally got our keys, and went to the elevator and then suddenly got stopped and were told to go back because we didn't have these friggen WRISTBANDS -_-..Those wristbands were to indicate where you're living and where you eat for food. So it was very vital. So my friend at the moment flipped out and started screaming out a shit of load curses LOL We all had to tell him to relax. I still need to pee by the way. I've been really holding it in the whole time. We couldn't take it anymore, luckily, one of our friends had a room and they took all our luggage into their room so we didn't have to carry around 3days worth of crap with us everywhere we went. We had no chance at our dorms, so we all went to go eat dinner.

->FINALLY FOOD! WAIT! Finally, after the long ride to philly and the huge mess of the dorms, even though we still didn't have rooms yet, we got to eat. It was a huge event with thousands of performers so we had to travel in PACKS, which meant we would lose a lot of people in the process. BAD!? Yes, very. But regardless, we made huge circles back and forth looking for the right cafeteria to eat and everything. When we finally got there, it was PACKED as usual. I was totally expecting it, they told us we got there late so we had like fifteen minutes to eat and I was like...you're kidding me. So I grabbed as much as I could eat. We all sat down and ate together but managed to stay there for a solid 40minutes which made us very happy! The food there wasn't bad at all though! We were happy with what we got. Later after dinner, we traveled in our pack again and went to a Pavillion. the place was HUGEEEEEE. Like dead serious huge. It was like a massive dome with INTENSE AC. I've never felt such ac in...EVER in ever...that made no sense. ANYWAY. It was like below 0 in there but it felt good ebcause it was burning ass outside. There were already hundreds and hundreds of people inside already chanting in unison before we got to the actual meeting and kickoff.

->HOLYHELLMADPEOPLEMADLOUD! The kickoff meeting started! THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE SCREAMING AND YELLING AND CRYING HERE AND THERE! It felt GREAT. Everyone was so energized even from the rides here and everything. It felt SO GOOD. It was just an amazing feeling. So that went on for an hour or two, and it was like almost midnight. With all the people yelling and screaming though, I felt good about myself. We exitted around like midnight literally, and walked back to our dorm. I was basically running on adrenaline. We got up early and we had a long day and now this! The sad thing was that, we knew we didn't even have a place to sleep yet. I'm going to cut to the chase. WE got to our dorms, and we were assigned rooms FINALLY! and we got our wristbands FINALLY! It was around 1 after waiting for our keys because we weren't the only ones! I was partnered up for a 2-man room with my friend! We walked up together and we ended up walking into someone LIVING IN THE ROOM ALREADY. So we were like oh shit. LOL and we're like oh maybe it's an accident. So we walk back down to the lobby, wait AGAIN for the keys which took like another 20minutes and went back upstairs and guess what? MORE PEOPLE WERE IN OUR ROOM! So I was like, you've got to be KIDDING ME! so I went back downstairs with very negative attitude because it was REALLY getting late and I just wanted to shower and stuff.

->Strangers? Caught SHOWERING!? When we got back to the lobby, we found out there were no more 2-man rooms, but all the rooms were fit for two people! So that meant you would have a COMPLETE stranger in your room. so I was like uh! hell no! :D so I called up some friends to ask if I could sleep on their floor or something because I was at the point where I was like I just need to sleep. I don't give a fuck. LOL But then, one of my friends said her brother had a room to himself! So I'm like THANKS FOR TELLING ME NOW! :l so I rushed up there, a BEATIFUL SOOTHING ROOM ALL TO MYSELF! I was SO RELIEVED. I dropped everything when I finally got there and called my loving girlfriend that was with me all the way texting me for support. honestly couldn't have coped with all the situations this day without her. I love you honey! :D (If you're reading this) I told her I was going to take a shower and then call her back! So I stepped into the shower, I was midway done and I hear someone OPENING MY DOOR I was like, you're kidding me...I got dressed like instantly and walked out and they said oh, if you're in here that means the other rooms empty right? So I explained to them the situation and they let me stay, but before that, they told me I had to GO BACK DOWN. and I flipped out and said I'm sorry I can't and told them what I went through. SO I RAN BACK INTO MY SHOWER AND FINISHED IT QUICKLY and then finally got to lay down and relax.

**The night was over. It was a HECTIC DAY! Thank you so much Jocelyn! My loving and caring girlfriend (: Couldn't have gotten through without you. Honestly. I thank her so much for the late night call that finally got me to fall asleep after the long day. I love her! I finally got to sleep around 3ish. That was day 1! Day 2 is even more epic!

Sunday, July 18, 2010

Sun-DAY practice!

Typical Sunday? No way!
Never have my sundays been typical!
Besides me oversleeping when I was supposed to arrive at practice at 9, I woke up at 11
I have practice every sunday! This has been going on for a whole year now!
It's downtown manhattan near Union Square!
We've been preparing for this huge festival on the 25th of July
Gathering 10,000 people to come watch us!
As you can see, It's a week from now!
We'll be going down to Philadelphia to perform in front of those 10 thousand people!
I'll be going there for three days starting on Friday-Sunday.
But, basically today was full of sweat and tears and just hard work and screaming.
It's the LAST sunday practice and wrap up we'll have in NYC before the ACTUAL thing.
So today, I put in my WHOLE EFFORTS all into one and MADE IT HAPPEN.
The festivals going to big! It's really going to be life changing.
I hope to come back with new goals and dreams and a different way of viewing life.
Today, our wrap up was amazing.
The spirit from the 750 performers we had today which is not even close to half of what we'll have in Philly were blood sweating tears! We were crying here and there.
The energy level was over the TOP! It was definitely something else. I have a great feeling about next weeks performance.
I do Taiko Drums/Lion Dance Drums. :D The amount of energy I had today was amazing.
I've never felt anything else like it. Each pound on the drum, was a tear. I really hope this will all work out. From all the sundays we've gathered? It will be worth it.
So let's ROCK THE ERA!

July 17th Overall (:

Well, we're off! It's my baby & I's one month.
I overslept like a pig. LOL But everything still worked out!
My baby & I met in the PM.
She took the bus here and complained about COACH seats. :3
She's too cute.
We then waited for the bus after that to go to the movies in the HEAT!
Surprisingly, I'm happy it came pretty quickly.
It usually takes years.
When we got there, I wanted to buy the tickets first because we wanted to see Predators
It's Rated R! and guess what? I'm not within age!
But, that's not stopping me. So I took a deep breath and tried getting the tickets.
I tried talking in a deeper lower tone of voice and tried starting small talk with them
so they would think I'm cool or something. They didn't ask ANYTHING. They just gave me the tickets after making me pay for 'em
I turned around, and screamed HOLYSHIZZ SCORE IN MY HEAD!
LOLOLOL, It was a big accomplishment. I'm glad I look seventeen+ :D
So when we bought the tickets, there were like 40minutes until the movie, so we went to Toys R Us to kill some time.
She told me the night before to think twice about it again before we actually go because she'd want the whole store because it's the hap- SECOND happiest place on Earth. && the first is Disneyworld/Disneyland.
Epic moment, we walked in and she wasn't expecting it at all. She thought it was supposed to be WAY bigger. But she hasn't gone in ages! Everything appeared bigger when she was young. She's funny (:
So, we walked around and we were messing around here and there, until it was time to go watch the movie.

P.S. screw that Toys R Us. they took out all the games they usually have up :l like guitar hero and stuff ): I was depressed.

Movie time! Of course with the tickets now, I felt good about myself :3 LMFAOO
We went up the escalators and I tried scaring her but it didn't work ): (She doesn't like them) Concession stands! Yet another moment of adventure. She's not a popcorn lover so I didn't get it. I wanted to just get the huge 44OZ jumbo bottle of soda thing but they ran out. I was sad -tear- So I ended up getting a large. We got sierra mist. So, we carried that inside, and friggen took one sip of it and I was about to VOMIT. It was FOUNTAIN SODA but it tasted like WATER WITH LIKE 1GRAM OF SUGAR IN IT.
Jocelyn : YO IT'S SALTY. LMFAOOOOOOOOO I don't know why she said it was salty, but I refuse to drink a huge bottle of soda I paid triple the amount for that tasted like salty water... So I immediately went back out and tried getting a new one. I cut the whole huge line, and it appeared I wasn't the ONLY one complaining. Everyone was like "ew wtf is this shiett" LMFAOO So I ended up just getting the ultimate sperm killer : Mountain Dew. But that was all right (: It actually tasted at least a bit like the actual soda.

Trailers? They were pretty good, except they all said COMING SOON, if not, it'd be like NEXT YEAR or two years from now. I don't understand why they do that. LOLOL As the movie started, I had a lot of WTF moments because I didn't know what was going on and all. (I've never watched the original one but I heard it was REALLY GOOD) So, I walked in there knowing nothing at all about the movie. I mean, over the movie was pretty legit. It wasn't boring, but there was more action than talking. I wouldn't classify it as a horror or anything. It's like Modern Science Fiction/Mild Thriller. I expected more though ): So, while it finished, I needed to pee really badly, so I walked into the bathroom, and these two little boys were talkng about how KICKASS the movie was and stuff and I was just standing there waiting for a urinal listening to them talk about Aliens vs predators and how they might come out with another one, and how they were just SO funny because they made NO SENSE. LOLOL I'm mean, but yeah. They were pretty funny. I wonder who took them in. Rated R movie, the scenes were quite nasty at times. Not that bad though.

Back to Toys R Us? Yes, we went back because I'm a failure and I didn't know what to do yet. I needed to decide on something to do from there, so we just kept walking around again and we wandered off to Path Mart and pretended as if we were "shopping". that didn't work very well. We were bored out of our minds. I felt bad. So, I was STARVING, it was like fiveish. So we went back to Main Street and decided to eat there.

Grand opening? Popeyes! Grand opening on main street! It was a HUGE thing because we got mad black peepoh on main street and all. THEY LOVE CHICKONN. And, ever since our KFC closed down a few years ago, there was nothing like fried chicken on main street ever again...UNTIL NOW! I wouldn't have eaten there because I mean, it was the FIRST day of opening. But, one of my friends got a job there. So, I saw him on the street and asked him when his shift was, and he said six, so we decided to walk around some more to kill time. I got some basketball shorts because I needed more of those. Once we finished doing that, we went to Popeyes. The place was PACKED AS HELL. But since I got there pretty um..what's the word..er..Good timing, the line cleared up pretty quick. I finished ordering and I was order number eight. I got some four piece chicken combo with mashhh, their mash was the BOMB. I split all of it with my honeypieee. and we just nom nom'd away. I noticed I was REALLY THIRSTY. REALLY REALLY THIRSTY, And I saw the line and it was NEVER ENDING. I knew I wasn't getting a drink, but I was like wait, it's a combo, why wouldn't I get a drink!? and I was like, dudeee, my friend works here wtf am I doing? I also found out he gave me an extra chicken and a 10% discount. YAY FOR DISCOUNTS!!! LOLOL I saved 79 cents. :3... BUT ANYWAY. we got the heck out of there and I took her home.

Girls. Oh my god, so on our way to my baby's house, we sat all the way in the back.
There were like three other girls at the back with us. At first, I didn't notice them, but as the bus started moving,they started getting MOTHERFUCKING ANNOYING LOLOL
I shook my head like every minute because of the stuff they did/said. They're ridiculous. THEY WERE ASIAN PEOPLE TOO. All three of them. Not FOBS or anything. So they kept blabbering about how they had MAD EX BOYFRIENDS and started talking about hot and cute guys they knoww, and started to brag about how they played them and shit like how he's not GOOD enough for them and stuff. And I'm here going..What the fuck. LOL Those girls were FREAKS MAN. oh my god. I didnt even bother LOOKING at them. We were hoping they'd get off the bus earlier than us because I personally couldn't stand them anymore. But, it ended up being US getting off earlier, and while we were exiting the bus, they said bye to us and like started laughing. I was like wtf..and I looked through the window when I got off, they were doing the weirdest things to me.. I felt violated. I thought girls were nice. I guess I'm scared of them now. Thank god I have my own (: & she's more than just normal.

Late. It ended up being pretty late by the time I brought her home. But I was SO TIRED, I needed to just lay down for a bit with my baby (: I didn't even want to leave. I wanted to just sleep there for the night. LOLOL. That would've been nice. Grr. ): ONE DAY I SAY! ONE DAY! I ended up leaving at like 8:30. and got home pretty late. Dinner was waiting for me but everything was all right. I didn't get in trouble or anything! My mom wasn't even home yet! She was out having FUN with her BUDDIES. :3

So, as the night went on and on, I was very happy about the day. More than just happy actually. I couldn't stop smiling the whole time I was home. I'm glad everything went out right. It'll just keep getting better (: Next month? We'll see (: Until then! Later guys! Thank you Jocelyn for such a WONDERFUL day. Thank you for finally letting me pay for you. Sheeesh.

Saturday, July 17, 2010

The One Month Morning.

Today's my one month with the love of my life.
Cliche much? I think not!
It's very epic.
I was thinking about surprising her pretending I had practice for Lion Dance instead of deciding to spend time with her on such an important day.
I've been planning this with a few friends of mine for at least a week.
Everything was going according to plan, but as time went by, the time kept ticking.
It wasn't possible! I was so depressed, I didn't know what to do. I really wanted to surprise her though, It would've been nice. So, the night before, I decided to just tell her what I've been up to. I hated lying to her the whole time here and there to make it possible ): The time's just weren't working out. It was a mess. I am a poor planner. Also, my friends cancelled on me! The night before as well!
So it was like, what the phooo mangg. So I had to reschedule everything. I wanted to surprise her at her front door and then take her out, but due to time issues, it wouldn't have worked out as nicely. So, when I decided to tell her, she understood knowing what a caring and loving person she is, and we decided on something to do finally. We're going out for a movie. Typical? Not really. We're not JUST going to see a movie. Also, the theater's special too. We even tried considering going to a different theater every month! Oh man! I'm going to try getting into Predators even if it's rated R. I'll be very amazed if I get tickets because then I guess I look seventeen! Score! Anyways, besides all that, I got to call her yet again in the morning until like four in the morning. You can imagine how tired she is now. She never listens to me ): But that's okay, I'm just glad everythings working out efficiently now!
I'm just glad I have such an amazing girlfriend. Which leads to my amazing life.
It's been a month in the making. It's just the beginning though. I should start planning for next month already!
I'll get back with you after the day has ended!
Until then!
Peace! (:
P.S. Blogspot is pretty legit. I'm happy.

Blogspot?

I decided to make a blogspot today, July 17th 2010.
Why? I like blogging, I got addicted to Tumblr, but to be honest, There's a ratio of 1000:1 - everything but blogging. So, I decided to make this! I hope everything goes well!
Today's also my baby & I's first month! It's starting off great already!