Went to participate in Collegiates on Saturday.  Would normally detail something about the happenings but the entire event was overshadowed by more pressing matters.  If you want, my facebook and fellow team members facebook are full of pictures of the happier times.  Was supposed to go see my uncle 10am Sunday morning prior to meeting up with my ( Read more... )

I leave Friday to head back up north to Stanford for Collegiate Competition.  Still feel like a ringer.  However I will be severely equalized it seems; the Universe has a way of righting itself when things are in my favour.  As it so happens, yesterday a boy, riding unreasonably fast on a bicycle, flew right by me while simultaneously having the ( Read more... )

I have no idea what's been going on lately.  Rather... I know exactly what has been going on lately and it makes no sense why I should be feeling so... how to say... dead.  Physically I'm sound.  Mentally I'm more or less sound.  It's just a dead feeling I have welling up within me.  I don't want to do this anymore.  I really don't.  I've realized ( Read more... )

Nothing witty to write.  Nothing anecdotal to report.  Or rather... I'm not in the mood to write about such things.  Only two things I wish to say after my long absence ( Read more... )

I'm back home now.  If there is anything I must do regardless of weather, it is train.  In all honesty, I have been lacking in training for awhile now but I cannot shirk it any longer.  Must get my chain whip form down.  Must get my staff form down (which is tricky since I'm using an 8ft 7in pole as a training tool).  Must get my Fist form down ( ( Read more... )

"Because I'm in a playful mood"
Haven't touched one of these things in years.  But my mood is a mixture of playfulness and desperation right now so I'll have a go at it.  I stole it from the PEPPer face so kudos to her indirect interference on my life:




What is your favorite song of all time?
I don't have a favourite theme song.  However, epic movies ( Read more... )

For those that have expressed an inkling of curiousity, it does seem to be the case that I have accidentally acquired a friend of the female nature. Go figure ( Read more... )

It's been awhile since my last entry and I have yet to make good on my promised treatise on martial arts. However, in lieu of that I think I'll share an amusing thought that crossed my mind rather recently. I was on the BART going to the airport and I overheard a conversation between a couple middle aged women. They were discussing some other ( Read more... )

So my uncle's brother, Jason, passed Wednesday afternoon. He died of liver cancer almost exactly when the doctors said he would; they gave him about a month, and he passed 5 weeks after the prognosis. There goes my hope of going a year without a person dying. My uncle, his older brother, is going to see an oncologist Friday to have the lump in ( Read more... )

It's gotten to the point where I just lower my expectations to the utter most minimum: Is it too much to ask that I don't want anyone to die during my years at college? Last year my aunt passed from hodgkins lymphoma. Now I found out that my uncle and his brother were simultaneously diagnosed with liver cancer last week. My uncle has yet to ( Read more... )