Bittersweet poetry

Enjoy these days Raymond; these days are numbered. Magic number: 2

Wintsprummer vacation is just about over... I can't wait to start using my brain again.

Back Home

Lazy Sundays back in American Canyon. Oh, I love just kicking back with family, digging into some tasty Bbq, and watching some late afternoon football. BTW, 49ers are winning 7-3 at the half. :D
Can't wait to hit the gym tonight. For THIS brief moment, life is perfect... no matter what it looks like.

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Chillin'

Just watching the Giants beat up the Cardinals. After this, gonna do some grocery shopping at Wally-Mart in West Sac and then head over to my friends place for a small kickback. Pretty happy that my one week of summer break is starting off right on this beautiful Friday night. :D

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8 Days.

8 more days until I know I'll be done with summer school. Like, for good. Like FOREVER. (Not unless there's some retarded Master's degree program that offers summer classes, and at the chance that I might need to take those classes in order to finish my degree) BUT... other than that, I DON'T think I'll be worrying about summer classes ever again.

2 more lectures and a final exam. Then I'll have 13 days to diddle-daddle around before my last first day of class (as an undergrad).... Marching Band... Lolwut?

Oh yeah, and I've started to study for the GRE which is happening in 37 days. Wooh!

The weekends don't stand a chance.

The weekends are getting shorter and shorter. I swear, school for some reason, just creeps back up to you faster and faster. Funny thing is, I have school 2 days a week! Oh summer school, how I despise thee.

Some cowboy action right there...

I had a good weekend in Santa Cruz with my niece Rosemary's 17th birthday last Saturday. I'm not sure about all the fuss about where I was sleeping and who was gonna drive, but it was all handled better than I expected. Santa Cruz was beautiful, with all the nice, luke warm weather I was hoping for.

I'm glad my flip-flops didn't fall off.

I took some video of me and my cousins riding the Giant Dipper which turned out to be some pretty intense footage.

Anyway, after all the excitement, we headed back to the bay area around 11pm. (One side note) On the way home in the middle of the Santa Cruz Mountains, I spotted a car on fire in a turnout. I pulled over and the owner of the car on fire quickly asked me to call 911. I did, explained to the operator where we were, and while I was on the phone, the car started to explode. I knew that it would be a matter of seconds before the flames reached the gas tank. After the 2nd explosion under the hood, I knew that it was time to leave before me and my family could have been seriously injured. Knowing that a firetruck was on its way, I bounced as fast as I could. My biggest surprise is that no one else on scene (people were stopping to see if they could help) called 911. They just stood there, admiring that flaming car. SMH. I don't understand. At least I made the call and helped out in some way.

Gotta love family pictures.

The next day was a Rosie's birthday lunch with the rest of the family. I'm glad I was able to see Tony and his daughter Milan. I really missed seeing them all the time when I would go to San Francisco. After the lunch, we all gathered around and took this family photo...

Soon after, I got in my car, and drove the long and dull drive back to Sacramento, where it was back to reality... and school. Ugh... School... It's a lovehate thing.

Drogging.

I'm drogging. Don't ask what it is. It's a little secret between me and you.

I can't wait until this is all over. Summer school is a drag.

I can't wait until fall semester starts. Things will get back to normal, because right now, Summer just doesn't feel right to me.

Check out my other site if you wanna know what's really going thru my head. It's not pretty, and it's definitely targeted towards one naive person.

Carwash.

Recently, I moved into my new place. Let me tell you how much I enjoy this new house that I live in. It's very nice, and sometimes I feel like I don't deserve it.

I finally got the chance to wash my car in about a year today and it looks sweeetttt. I love the feeling of a fully detailed car and being able to just drive a nice looking car... again.

The past 2 weekends, I have been in LA so this weekend I feel like I can relax a little bit, although I do miss being there. Ahh Many good times we shared there. Rashad and Dahlia's graduations, Universal Studios, 2 grad parties, going to the beach, and many more things that I just can't remember at the moment.

Summer school seems like it has been in the back of my head for a while now. There's only 2 weeks left of the first session, and it doesn't really feel like I'm even going to school. I guess this is how people who don't care about school enough feel about college after they've taken a few semesters off and are just getting back into education. It's kind of scary... I don't want school to become a "backseat" priority. For me, I consider school being my life, so it's scary that over the summer I feel like a new type of student after 16 years of school.

Anyway, I know that lately I haven't blogged at all. I'm definitely not forgetting about you, blog. I have just been so busy lately that I haven't had the time to do what I love to do. I'm not neglecting you, blog. Just wait til I get settled into my new place, and life starts to move slower. Then, I will get back into my old ways.

That's all for now, peace.

Summer 2010 Schedule

I guess I won't really get much of a summer vacation. Which is ok. Las Vegas '10 will still fit into my schedule and I will have lots of time throughout the week to work.

Woo!

This was taken on July 12, 2009 at East LA college. Woot woot! Man I miss this.

101 days of Summer: Review

So here I am, my last blog of my Summer. Class starts at 8AM and I should be getting to bed but I have so much to vent. Let's do this month by month.

May: Summer started on May 21st. I knew that this summer was gonna be an interesting one and I was all hyped up for it. First main event was my Lola's 95th b-day. There was some drama surrounding that b-day party but it was all eventually resolved. After Lola's 95th, me and my auntie Prescy drove from Vallejo to Riverside. It was a good road-trip and it was my first time actually doing the driving to Socal. I stayed in Riverside til May 29th. In that time, I was able to visit my Dad and bond with him almost everyday. I got to hang out with my cousins and have some random adventures with them. =) Rashad and I had a bunch of late night talks that I always enjoy having. We always talk about our future and how we want life to pan out. It's great because I feel like we were brothers from different mothers.... haha. So I then flew back to Oakland and went back to Sac that night to pick up my drums, THEN went back to Vallejo because I had Renegades camp the next day. Whew. What a good night that was. =)

June: Most of what I can remember June being was having skin issues from Sunburn. I had blisters from the sunburn to the point where I had to go to the ER twice in one day because it was just ridiculous what was happening to my skin. (I'm glad I don't have the same problem anymore.) Most of the month of June was dedicated to Renegades camps/shows on the weekends and traveling back and forth between Sac and Vallejo (hanging out with family and friends.)

July: July was a good month. July 4th I had a parade somewhere in Fremont for Renegades and then I enjoyed a good night of fireworks at ACMS. I also got a new car (we've had this car for a while but I just started to drive it). We held Rick's 22nd b-day party at the apartment in Sac the night before I drove to Socal, it was pretty rowdy in our small apartment, and it was definitely fun. The weekend of July 11 & 12, Renegades had the Socal tour. We had shows at Long Beach and East LA. It was a good weekend since I was able to see my cousins in Riverside, and for a few brief moments, I was able to see my father at his home in Walnut. After I saw my dad, I went to coffee with Rashad til like 2 am. We talked about our personal lives, and, it just was a good talk... (let's just leave it at that.) The drive back to Norcal was a marathon since I was running on 3 hours of sleep and I had a day of drum corps practice AND a show at ELAC. Had to give myself a few shots of Rockstars and RedBulls. July 15... my birthday. Well, I went to go to watch Harry Potter with a friend of mine. It was a pretty good night. I also went to Cache Creek and was able to (finally) play some BlackJack at "the creek". I lost money, but it was ok. The experience of going there for my birthday was all I asked for. The rest of that month was quite a blur in my memory. (More of the same, traveling between Sac and Vallejo, hanging with friends, hitting golf balls at the range, being with family, partying.)

August: Well, August was quite an interesting month. The beginning of it was pretty calm, other than going to Renegades camp. I also said farewell to my Lola as she went to the Philippines. She's coming back next month anyway so I'll get to see her next month! Yay, that makes me happy. The biggest part about August, and well, the ENTIRE summer was the SLO/LV trip. We left August 6th from Sac to SLO. We partied it up (well, my friends did, I was just being dumb), shopped, went to the beach, went to a bar, and just chilled with Matt, Justin, Rick, & Aimie. SLO was pretty cool. The Saturday night before we left for LV, we watched 21 (I love that movie). Apparently, that movie hyped us up soo much for LV that we decided to leave 3 hours early for LV than planned. So we did, and left at 2AM. hahahaha. We got to LV around 10AM. We stayed at the Flamingo... All I can say about Vegas is that I had the best time of my life. It was exactly how I thought it would be. We clubbed, pooled, gambled, ate great food, partied, got faded and walked around the strip, and just had a great time. It was great to go there with some great friends. We left headed back to Sac on Thursday. Which sucked cause we ALL missed LV, we didn't want to leave, and we had such a long drive ahead of us. Still, I had the best time of my life. Here's the crappy part of the month... I found out that the girl I was "dating" was cheating on me (I should have heeded the warning signs.) That's the main part of it. I don't want to get too into it, since than I was pretty (heavily) devastated and I didn't handle it all that well... I mean, I gave up a lot for her and I was treated like dirt. All I know is that I was wronged on so, so many levels by her. Oh well, I can't help her anymore. To end the month, and really the rest of my summer, I had 3 Renegades camps in a row and we have gotten better each time. I really happy with my improvement as a drummer. I've learned so much from Renegades and I've learned that drumming isn't just about beats, it's about how much mental focus you can force yourself to keeping to the task at hand. That's the hardest part of drum corps. It's 90% MENTAL.

Now, this leads me to where I am right now, It's 11:26 now and I've been typing for a while. I have school at 8AM (I don't really care that class is early, everything will work out fine.) My summer was filled with so many highs and lows. I've written down quite a bit of what I can remember of my summer off the top of my mind. I know there's plenty more things that have happened but it would take another 2 hours to write everything down. I've driven so much this summer, it's crazy. I mean, I've had 101 days this summer and I have so many new experiences that it just blows me away when I think about it. It was a great run. I regret nothing. I'll miss you, but you'll be back in 9 months. =]

It's over.

It's 12:07 AM on Saturday so that means that Summer Vacation is officially over. =( Now, all I have left is my weekend. A weekend that I won't even get to keep for myself because I have Renegades again. I'm ready for tomorrow, I just need to make sure I wake up at 6AM.

Sunday night, I'll probably write a long summer recap blog. I think it'll cool/interesting to be able to read & remember my Summer 09 when I get older and reread all the blogs I wrote.

Thanks Justin for dinner btw. mmmm BJs. haha.

Novena

Gonna drive to SF today.... on the way however I may make a pit stop in Vallejo and *possibly* going to see an old friend of mine and grabbing a cup of coffee.

Novena tonight, sponsored by my Auntie Medy. I hella miss August Novenas! Ever since I was a kid I loved going to them. Then back to Sac tonight.

=]

"There's only one Summer 09"

I just wanted to recap how fun Vegas was. I honestly had the time of my life... I've never had so much fun before. I finally rode the NY NY rollercoaster and also rode insanity at Stratosphere. I went clubbing at XS and LAX and although they were completely different experiences, I was getting my freak on both times... haha. I played blackjack, won & lost, ate expensively, went to the pool, walked around wasted on the strip, and sang "All-Star" with 4 of my buddies on the LV Monorail. I've never had such a good time before. So many good memories. There are pics on my facebook page if you want to check them out if you haven't already.

Insomnia much?

I need to be awake at 7:30am. That's 4 hours from now. Why can't I sleep? Should've took that benadryl around 10pm. That would have definitely KO'd me a looong time ago.

My plan for today... Well I have to wake up at 7:30, make breakfast, get ready, be in Fairfield by 9:30 to help my cousin move, then whenever I finish go to American Canyon... It's my niece Rosemary's b-day! Happy B-day Rosie! My cousins from Riverside are supposedly coming. I say supposedly because it's always uncertain if my ALL my cousins are coming to the Bay Area. I think that they're gonna leave Riverside at 4:00am (Hey, that's 30 mins from now!) so they should be arriving in the early afternoon if all goes well. Then there's going to be a party at my cousin's house for Rosie's b-day and hopefully it will be fun.

This weekend is gonna be a drag. I'm not looking forward to Gades camp because it just feels like I'm tired of Drum Corps. The thing with Gades is, that as soon as camp starts, I start to enjoy the activity more and more. The anticipation of camp is a drag and is the only bad part. I truly enjoy the activity of marching percussion. Plus, I wont be able to hang out with my cousins while they're in NorCal so that's also a bummer about camp this weekend. Hey, at least it's not in Patterson and it's back on TI. :)

Now if only I could finally get to bed. :\

Procrastination is the natural assassin of opportunity.

I'm sitting in my room, and for no apparent reason I'm blogging. Rather than finishing my Research Proposal paper, I choose to procrastinate i.e., play Halo 3. I know I can do a fantastic job on this paper but I honestly have no motivation to start it. I mean, I know I will crank it out eventually, but it's not quite crunch time yet. Now the fatigue sets in, which makes every minute I stay awake just a bit more demanding. Just a few more days, and I'll be done with this semester.

"Don't waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long and, in the end, it's only with yourself." -Baz Luhrmann