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This post is a much not needed break from studying. My finals are on Monday and Tuesday and I really need to buckle down. I'm confident that once I start studying I'll be prepared, just gotta start. Anyhoot during my physics class there was this one kid who sat diagonal from me who always wears the same dragon jacket. I'm no fashion police but a whole semester? But I admit, when I saw his Naruto fingerless gloves, I got pretty jealous. What really amazed me was that he was picking his nose as if he was the only one in the room and it got pretty disgusting. Not only was he picking away, he was eating them! He was having his own buffet during class. I wanted to look away but I was just in shock that people still do that his age. Now I know it's even more juvenile to make fun of others but this is merely an observation and it has opened my eyes. Maybe this only happens at state schools.. or only during physics classes.. or he could just be hungry, who knows? Again sorry for blogging about this, it's just that I have no idea why he would eat his own boogers.. since earwax tastes so much better!

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I gotta get my stuff together. My priorities have been screwed up for the longest time now.. and I just realized it. Well I always knew it but I've been ignoring it.. Ah too late to fix it, just gotta move on and maaaybe it'll fix itself over time. Ha that doesn't really make sense. Sorry for the emo post. Soo here's a good chuck norris joke! or should I say chuck norris fact: chuck norris can win at connect 4 in 3 moves. Hahahaha. ok gotta studyyy. It's the final countdown!

Midterms, Thanksgiving, Zombies

Hey gals and pals (more like only pals..) its been awhile since my last post. I just finished with my calculus midterm and I thought I did alright. I know I didn't get an B but hopefully a high C or low B. There were some material that I thought I knew but apparently not thorough enough. I went back home on Friday to record with the fellowship gang which was pretty fun. I then stayed over at my friend's house because we planned to go to Sunnyvale for the NorCal Regionals street fight 4 tourney. My plan was to stay and watch for a little then study on Saturday and Sunday. We got to the tourney pretty late but it was still crowded and there was a strong scent of body odor and weed that filled the room. There were a lot of setups going on which was impressive. Marc and Norb had a 2v2 money match with 2 other guys but lost to a blanka.. I won't go into detail.. But other than that I've been studying for that midterm.

Now it's pretty much smooth sailing until next Monday. I have class tomorrow and one on Wednesday. My dad's side of the family plan to have Thanksgiving at Tahoe so I think I'm getting picked up on Wednesday. Yesss no cal train. I'm excited for Thanksgiving and Christmas since I haven't seen my cousins in a long while. And of course the best meals of the year!

Ohh I had the crazzziest dream last night but no one to tell...

So my family and friends walked went into this restaurant that was apparently owned by nazi zombies.. yes, and it gets better.. We wanted to leave but it was too late cause everyone was looking at us so we went into this back room to play it off and for some reason I was in a wheelchair pretending to be handicap even though I was walking later.. At first it was hard to tell that they were even zombies since they all looked normal and even some of my friends were zombies, but eventually the zombies just went crazy and we had to defend for our lives. At one point they were all outside of the room where we were safe in. We planned to open it and just kill our way out so I picked up a skateboard and when the door opened I was bashing people's faces LOL. I won't mention which of my friends/acquaintances were zombies but it got intense.. I distinctly remembered smashing Will Smith's face. HAHA. Soo random. But man that was one of the most crazy yet entertaining dreams I ever had.. so ridiculous! I assume that dream was the result of watching a Quentin Tarantino marathon and a lot of Fresh Prince.. Hahaha. When I woke up I was pretty much laughing.

broomballinnn

Yesterday I played broomball with the fellowship I go to at san jose. I didn't think that I was gonna go since I didn't get a call or make an effort to get a ride. But I received a call close to the evening and was able to get a ride with someone from SF state. It felt kinda sketchy being asked what color i'm wearing and to get into a random car haha. But they were really nice to give me a ride both ways. We ate at Red Robins and then met up with people from UC Berkeley and SF state to play some broomballll. Broomball is like hockey but you don't use skates. You kinda run and glide on the ice and use this stick to hit the ball. There were about 30 people who went and it was pretty fun. Falling kinda sucked but I guess its a part of the sport.

Liu Xiang is back!

The renown Liu Xiang is back at the track. It has been over a year since his last race but now he is back in action and taking no prisoners. He went through surgery to fix his achilles injury that caused him to pull out of the Summer Beijing Olympics. But the results from the Shanghai Golden Grand Prix in September show that he has fully recovered and is better than ever.






London, Summer 2012.

Midterminated

Hahaha I actually stole that title from my friend's facebook status.. but yes, it is that time of year again, midterms! I just finished taking my calculus midterm and it was not the greatest. I forgot really basic calculus stuff which hurt because I knew those were easy points gone. I also got the results for my physics midterm today. I scored a 12.85 out of 29 points.. but there's something called a curve, and I got a B-! I was somewhat satisfied but in order to get a B, I needed 12.95, a tenth of a point more. I looked through the whole test just trying to find some partial credit that the professor might give me. I found an answer that I wrote which was supposed to be right, just that I plugged in a wrong number, and I showed it to the professor. I didn't thing that he would give me credit. However, it worked! I got a quarter of a point. Just like that shamwow! I got myself a B. I was really glad that I took that chance and begged for that forth of a point. Yeah, pointless post once again but that's the most interesting thing that happened recently. I have a philosophy midterm next Monday so time to hit the books!

Track & Field

Today is my easy day only having my film class. The class is pretty nice so far although it's 3 hours long. The lectures are kinda boring actually and we usually watch a movie right after. My class starts at 1:30 so I got to sleep in and I started to study for the test later on. All of the professor's lectures were online so it was pretty easy to study for. But when I got to the classroom, apparently class was canceled for today. Another student next to me saw the sign and was like, "Couldn't he just use email?" Ha. But yeah that was a waste of time.

And I have noticed that my banner is really weak compared to other people's blog. I don't really have the patience or skill to make one so I'm stuck with the default ones.. yes that is my excuse for having such an ugly blog. Plus, I rarely take pictures let alone be in pictures so I don't put up many pictures either. But I recently dug up my track pictures and I put them up on facebook and I was thinking of blogging about my track experience or maybe one in particular since I could post up some pictures too. So here goes.

If you didn't know I did hurdling and long jump for the majority of my track and field career. I would say I was below average at both but never last Haha. Our school competed in the West Catholic Athletic League (WCAL) which was supposed to be one of the toughest leagues in California (hence why I was below average but no johns). I also did some 4x100 and 4x400 relays as well which were in my opinion the funnest events to do. I actually hated running the 400 but as I did it more it wasn't too bad. One race I remember clearly was the one against Riordan. I only have some bad pictures of the below. But on with the story!

So to set the stage, in one of the early meets in my senior year, I was the anchor leg for the 4x400 against Mitty. I was about 5 meters behind the guy ahead of me for the whole lap around and when we hit the last straight away, I was slowly catching up to him. I pretty much caught up to him and was at his side and it was kinda funny cause I remembered that if I swung my arm harder I advanced a little then he would advance a little bit and it went back and forth. It was like those over dramatic car races on tv. But I ended up losing and I was pretty mad.. but yeah. That was one of the best races I participated in until the Riordan meet. Fast forward to the end of the season. So the 4x400 race is always the last race of the meet so usually this event got the most attention. The race started and Riordan took the lead for the first lap but when Paul got the baton he was able to catch up and take the lead. Our second and third runners were the fastest 400 runners we had on our team and by the time I got the baton I had about a good 40 meter gap between the Riordan guy. I remember watching Jarret (third runner) run around the track and he had a crazy lead on his guy and the Riordan runner I was up against said something like, "Aw come on man. Now I gotta work." And for the record, this guy beat Jarret in the 800 meter race with a really low time. He was also pretty cut, about 6 something, and black. So when he said that I was so scared. My legs were shaking and when I got the baton I took it and ran for my life. I remember my coach saying, "Let's go Matt, make him work." I guess my coach knew that he was going to catch up so that added to the fear factor. I was always taught to sprint the first curve, ease up on the straight-away, then slowly speed up during the second curve and go all out on the last straight-away. So once I was past the halfway point, there were two of my teammates cheering and one said, "hurry he's catching up!" I was like what the- already!? So I started to speed up trying to save my energy. And right before the last straight-away, another teammate yelled, "RUN MATT!" And that's when I knew I should go all out. I didn't even think that he would catch up so fast and plus I didn't hear him or see his shadow coming up. The only reason I knew he was behind me was because everyone was jumping, screaming, and doing flips. My left ear was ringing after the race because my team was on the field and they were basically yelling right into my ear as I ran down. That straight-away was the longest 100 meters I ever ran. It was so scary. I was just hoping that I wouldn't see him and when I crossed the finish line, I was so relieved that I never saw his back. And then right after, I grabbed a basketball and dunked on him. Hahaha nah, he was by far the better runner but there's no "I" in "team" bahaha. After the race we had our usual Alma Mater chant/mosh pit and I had my glory. I remember I felt so happy as I was walking out with Kaeneth.. that was a good way to end track.

Well here's some pictures.. Wow this is a really long post, sorry

Mike was the first leg and he handed it off to Paul



Paul to Jarret



Jarret to me



Mitty pictures





I guess that Mitty guy felt the same way I did hahaha.