Not too many Fridays left this year...

Frisbee last week was amazing. All of the normal people came out and some new ones. Started out with testing for the first part of the day (Not fun at all). After testing we got out for a half day and went to get food. After the bell rang we all met up at the benches and got ready to walk to lunch. It took us all like thirty minutes to decide where we wanted to go. Pretty much we were all sitting around at the benches and talking about how the day was going. After about twenty minutes most of us decided to go to different ways for lunch and we would all meet up around four at Lincoln.

We all walked around and got food, i went home first though. After getting lunch France, Blair, Shuan, and i met up at Edison to play some basketball. We played basketball for a little while and met up with Carly and Angeline. We played at Edison for a good 3 hours and then decided to go to Angeline's house because her and Carly had to get some stuff. Ang brought her dog out and we all played with it for a little while. I think her dogs name is Patches. After we went to Angeline's house we all (France, Shuan, Blair, Ang, Carly, and i) started walking to frisbee.

We arrived at lincoln at four and then started to play basketball. I played a couple people in 1 on 1 and won. After playing basketball for a while we went to the grass and decided to play some soccer. It was France and I against Carly and Ang. It was really fun. France and i won. After the game we all kind of just hung out.

After the soccer game we (Alvin, France, Shuan, Andrew, Raymond, and I) went to the basketball courts again 3 on 3. It was me Alvin and Raymond against France, Shuan, and Andrew. The game started out pretty fair. They were keeping up with us for about the first five minutes. We killed them though, no contest. The final score was like 25 to 6. It was really fun beating them though. We had that great team chemistry. After the game we all went to decide what to do next, go home or wait around for Jon, Ron, and Danny.

In the end we all just hung out for another half an hour and then i had to go home because i had to get ready for my training with my personal trainer (for baseball). The training was fun. I learned a lot and had fun doing it. I got a lot of Batting Practice and also some fielding work in. The coach is really nice too. So now also on fridays from 7:30 to 8:30 i have to go to my trainer and do some work so i can be in top shape for the Hoots summer season coming along. Friday was really good and hopefully so is next weeks.

Once Again, Another Friday (2.26.10)

So now for blog posts sutherland wants us to do 500 words. I mean i am going to find it harder because usually when i am writing i can tell when i am nearing 300. So now i am going to have to write more which will take some time to get used to but i will eventually get the hang of it. So pretty much i am going to write about today and how my day went. Hopefully it is 500 words long because i am definitely not used to this.

So today was an okay day. Started out with the last day of spirit week, Super hero day. People were all sorts of super hero's (A lot of incredibles.). So during school was fun , we had short classes for the first three periods because fourth period we had the talent show assembly thing. It was pretty cool. It had singing, dancing, magic, music, and Michael Jackson. The Michael Jackson one was the ending to the talent show. Everyone seemed to like that one. He did the moon walk and danced very well (the second Michael Jackson). After the assembly came lunch at hawaiian barbecue, English with mr sutherland (Hotel Rawanda is good), and then PE (Test was not too hard).

After school all my friends and i met at the usual spot and spent like 30 minutes at school deciding what to do. We finally decided on going to Southshore. It took up like 20 minutes to walk to southshore because we all walk slow. When we got to southshore we all walked around for a little bit and then went to get some food. After food we went to See's candy and got like 6 peices of candy because we only had 5 dollars. i did not know candy was expensive. France and I bought some toffee which was really good. After buying the toffee we went to Lords ice cream and Steven bought some ice cream. Everyone else sat and watched Andrew and Raymond play Ms. Pacman. After they ran out of money for Ms. Pacman we all just sat at the tables and talked just about what was going on.

After sitting inside Lords for about two hours we all went to TJ max because Laura had to buy a water bottle for her dad or something. We pretty much just went through the store and just browsed all of the items. It was actually pretty entertaining. After browsing in TJ max we went to Kohl's and did some more browsing in there. Kohl's had much more variety and it was pretty cool. We just walked around the store's for about half an hour each.

After we were done browsing Angelina and Laura went home and we stood outside talking trying to see what to do next. We all ended up going our separate ways for the night becase there was nowhere we could really go. So that was the end to a pretty good friday even though there was no frisbee, and it rained.

A Crisis of Faith

As I grew up, it was natural to dress nicely on Sunday and go to church. My brother and I would sit in the pew and read the hymn books, searching for stories within the lyrics. Sundays seemed linger, and church always became a nuisance to my brother and I. Despite our distaste for attending mass every Sunday, we grew up with God. We learned how he forgave sins and responded to prayers.

I also grew up visiting my Grandma. She lived in a little house in the middle of Oakland somewhere. She had five children, Jose, Dora, Linda, Felix and Robert (My dad). My mom and dad would always take us over to her house. I remember all the statues of Jesus, and the pasture and all the little animals. I enjoyed visiting my grandma though, and I often looked forward to the twenty minute drive to her house.

I had never prayed for help before, I had never encountered anything that needed help from a person as mighty as God. But ever since I was little I was taught to pray before eating meals. I always just went along with the praying never asking why we prayed or what the point of it was. Nevertheless, I prayed before every meal, and cluelessly asked God to keep me healthy and safe.

Later on I started questioning praying more and more. My family and I stopped going to church and we just continued praying before meals. I was never really fond of praying before meals but I didn’t want any trouble so I did it anyways. One day I thought to myself, what is the point of praying and why do I do it. I thought about it for a long time and I still questioned it for a while after.

A week long break came upon me, and I traveled out of state with my family. We had a good time, and by the end of the week, we were looking forward to seeing our dog and all our friends again. That night we drove back home and it was a long drive. I don’t remember quite what happened but something happened to our car on the way back and we started slipping. We seemed like we were going to fall over a cliff.

As we were sliding on the roads of the hill nearing the cliff I started to pray. Naturally I didn’t expect anything of it but I did it anyways as a natural thing. I picked up from my family sort of a “When in doubt pray it out” kind of thing. I don’t know why I did it but I just did.

After making it safely down the hill without any troubles after that I question it some more. I was thinking, “Why did I pray even though I really don’t believe in it.“ I still could never figure it out why I had prayed when I was in my time of need. It was just a natural instinct I guess.


I have now decided after thinking about this topic for so long, that even if people do not believe in god they still pray when they need to. I have talked to friends, teachers, and even my parents about this topic but I get different answers. Recently in the years I have questioned if there even was a god. I have no proof of him, despite countless attempts of praying. There just seems to be no sign of this mighty figure in the sky.

As a result of questioning God I have gotten nowhere. My search for him has been pretty limited considering I can not get a straight answer out of anyone. People have their own different opinions and its hard to pick and choose which ones I want to believe. I am sure one day I will fine an answer to my questions and hopefully that answer will come before I die. Because who knows, when I die I could go to heaven and see God. I will never know until then. But this is my crisis of faith, trying to find God.

From redshirt to starting

So baseball season has started! It is a lot of fun already. Im playing shortstop and doing really well because i have been playing recently and been training hard so i could make it. So pretty much at practice we have done a lot of infield outfield work, some hitting (none for the returning players unfortunately.), and a lot of running. The running is pretty challenging but i am pretty used to it from my other team so i am not as exhausted as the freshman and some of my other teammates.

So today we started out with our daily warm-up, then stretching, and then a little catch. After catch we did some base running around the bases just to check out our speed and how our base running mechanics were. After base running we split into groups.

My group was Ryan, Keegan, Jack, Sean, and I(All the returning players.). We split into groups and did more base running by practicing leads and stealing and reading passed balls/balls in the dirt. We had a group at each base and then one batting at the plate. The rest of the groups were to play defense. So my group was the only group to not hit because we ran out of time at the end. Cody said that since he knew us already he needed to evaluate the freshman more. So pretty much we just stayed on defense the whole time and did a little base running.

After practice Cody said that the first cut would be monday and that it might be the only cut(probably not). Well that pretty much it. We got the weekend off, i was kinda upset because i wanted to play more. Practice monday should be fun, i cant wait. Our first game is in two weeks so we need a lot of practice if we expect to start the season off well. Hopefully this season will be better than last.

Project 365/Today (2.5.10)

So this blogpost was inspired to me by my dear friend France Darwin. So pretty much i made another blog that i am going to post to once a day for 1 whole year (365 days). So i have started now. I am on day 2. its pretty cool. I wrote about how i had the coolest day ever today (So much fun). We went to school like always and then went to lincoln and just played basketball the whole time. Actually there was a little bit of frisbee but not a lot because the field was closed due to all the mud :(. So far project 365 has been a lot of fun. I just write a little blurb everyday and have a picture i took that day. Then i post it to my tumblr account and its just an everyday thing. It pretty cool.

So today frisbee we all just played basketball. We got a freshman Vs. Sophomore game. It was like Ten freshman Vs. like 5 sophomores (Me, Ron, Shuan, Blair, and Pranav). Pretty much i just stayed on defense and blocked shots and then passed the ball up court to Ron or Pranav. After the game we all just shot around for a little bit. Then it got late and people started going home. I chilled with everyone else that decided to stay later. After chilling for a little while i played basketball against Anthony. He was beating me 10-7 (Playing to 11) and i came back and won with a 3-pointer in his face.

After playing one on one with anthony, jared started to rap. His rapping was......interesting. A little weird. He thought it was the best though. After listening to him rap we all decided to get a rather short game of frisbee in. I ended up scoring once for our team and then the game kind of died. it was fun though. Overall i had a pretty good friday, as usual. I am really looking forward to this weekend though. Street fest on saturday and Superbowl party Sunday.

Talks With Parents

So one day i got home late. My parents were pretty worried. I felt really bad because i kept them waiting for so long. Apparently my mom went driving around town looking for me and my dad stayed at home waiting for me. So i was at the library until 5:45 that day and i could not call my parents because i have no phone (My phone got taken because i went over my texting bill by $100). I usually stay after school for tutoring on tuesdays, wednesdays, and thursdays. That day i went to the main library and studied with my friend. My parents did not know where i was of course and were pretty mad when i got home.

When i arrived home at 6:30 or so, my mom was just leaving to go get my brother from karate and my dad was still home. My dad was pretty mad. He yelled at me for what seemed like 30 minutes. I do not blame him though he was just worried where i was.

After he finished, i went upstairs and started doing homework. Then my mom came home and we all ate dinner. After i was finished i went back upstairs to do more homework. An hour after i went upstairs, my dad called me down so my mom, my dad, and i could talk.

I am really glad i had the talk with my parents. My dad explained a lot to me. He cleared some things up but also left me with some questions. That day was for sure a learning experience as he put it, and i do not think i will forget that talk for as long as i live. I'm glad i have parents that i can trust with anything, and sit down and talk with whenever i need to.

Social Groups

So i have nothing to write about this week. So many problems are going on right now in our group. Pretty much our group is falling apart. We all hang out during frisbee but we have all become separate mini groups. We use to be one big group but now we have branched off. Its sad :(. Because we are all friends and all still but we just don't hang out as much anymore.

Groups in high school are pretty much just the people who you choose to hang out with. There are kids who just are somehow nominated as cool(and you can tell because they walk around thinking they are the coolest person ever) and there are other groups outside of that. So pretty much everyone falls under their specific groups and has their friends within that group. There are people that will fall into more than one group because they hang with a certain group but they eat lunch with another or something like that.

So as i was saying our group is falling apart. Our group of like 15 has split into "The 4", and about 3 other groups that have not been named. So all the groups are breaking apart and stuff has started to happen and no one knows what to do anymore. Don't get me wrong we are all still friends, but everyone just isn't as close as we used to. As long as we are all still friends its ok with me though.

Friday 10.23.09 (Class Color Day)

Class color day was so much fun. Everyone was walking around in their class colors. I had on a bunch of orange. I was in the second assembly which was pretty loud. I would have to say that the Juniors were the loudest, then the Sophomores, then Seniors, and then freshman. I expected the Seniors to be the loudest because they were graduating this year but they turned out to be one of the softer groups. I completely understand why the freshman were the softest though. Just like us last year they did not know what was going on since this was their first year of high school. After the assembly was lunch.

After school i went with all my friends to Ultimate Frisbee at lincoln. Before frisbee we stopped at the Encinal Market to get some food. We ended up buying to orders of fries and some drinks. I could hear the people at the register talking about how we were dressed up in all orange, but they did not know it was class color day. I think they eventually figured out after reading one of our sophomore shirts.

After we ate our food we left and walked the rest of the way to lincoln. Ultimate Frisbee was pretty fun. We played ultimate for a while and then we stopped because some people had to leave. After we ended our game of frisbee we just ended up chilling at lincoln for a couple hours. We were all just sitting around or riding bikes.

When we were riding bikes James bike broke. I tried to fix it but his bike was really messed up. The chain fell off and his mom added something onto the bike making it impossible for him to change gears. So he had to walk his bike home and then come back. We stayed at frisbee from after school until dark. It was a pretty good day.