Sorry guys, it's been awhile since I've blogged....
I lost my phone after my last post and have lost motivation to blog without pictures. And also, I've been SUPER busy!
Anyway, I saw Thor with one of my best friends Nabil last week. Suffice it to say, I'm starting to work out for serious now.....
I've made a workout schedule and diet and everything! Wish me luck!!!!!!!!
Props to my girl Kanal! She finished the MS150 bike ride from Houston to Austin this weekend!
At the finish line, she was rolling fast so I had to run to get the pic; blurry
Big ups to my boy Fred as well! He did the damn deal! Sanam was uber excited, Mona was proud, and Fred wanted to check out the ghetto bootiez...
All in all a fun weekend! Started out with work on Friday and Saturday, then drove up to Austin Saturday night. Went and got some bawller chicks and painted the downtown red. Almost got booty herpes from a couple people. Woke up next morning and got us the most undiverse variety of assorted donuts... I suck. Also everyone was lactose intolerant but me, so the gallon of milk was a fail.
Then met up with Paiam and FINALLY had our 3rd extreme day!
--> We started having nature hikes and doing outdoorsy stuff about
a year ago and wanted to do them on a regular basis.
We did 2 before I moved to Houston...
So I was looking forward to it all week.... we went to Sculpture Falls. We set out on our quest!!
We had to take The Ring to .... Golem?
Unfortunately there wasn't enough water for the Falls to ....fall. No waterfall, but we did find a rope swing! It was tricky cuz there was a boulder in the rope's path, and also rocks all around a small pool that was MAYBE deep enough to jump in.
Being the MAN that I am, I decided to be the crash test dummy first. ALSO as a man, I was scared of the water being too cold.... fail.
Then here's Paiam bawlling outta control!! With his amazing pose both into and getting out of the water.
When we are around each other, only amazing happens. We're like the NBA but without basketball skills and haven't raped anyone.
I'm half monkey
Paiam is half flesh, half spirit
After Extreme Adventure day, went to go cheer on the cyclists. Kanal was super tired and slept like a bitch! No...literally like a dog....
Degree of exhaustion: couldn't take off both shoes
I played xbox and conquered Halo Reach from start to finish before Kanal woke up and we got dinner at midnight. We all went to bed at 2am. Woke up to start another Adventure DAY! Went kayaking at Town Lake and swam at Barton Springs.
Isaac, Jeremy, Paiam, Cayce, and MAGGIE!! Kanal and I (not pictured)
Keyan (pictured)
Fun times; we raced, we jousted, we swam, I dougied.... had lunch and went to UT campus. Kanal ( a GIRL) went shopping at the Co-op for Texas gear. I went exploring around campus and saw some people I knew. When I would see people, I would ask them:
Then went back to Houston.
Congratulations to EVERYONE who finished the MS150! If you don't already know, these cyclists ride about 180 miles to raise money and awareness for Multiple Sclerosis. Great job!!
BIG NEWS!
The new MJ game for the xbox Kinect came out on Tuesday. I have been playing it nonstop and now finally have a chance to blog.
In addition to changing my shirt from all the dancing, I also had to change my underwear a couple of times.....
This game is amazing. I'm already a huge nerd as is, so if I'm saying THIS game is awesome..believe me, IT. IS. GREATNESS INCARNATE!
Which brings me to the next topic: We are throwing a HUGE MJ PARTY here in Houston on April 23rd. I have been thinking about it for months! I'm making a Billie Jean dancefloor for it! Soon we can all do this:
Long story short: dancefloor, huge speakers, fun times, food, drink, costumes, gloves, dancing, and less importantly it's my birthday.... Hit me up if you wanna come through!
Lost my wallet this week, found it the next day. Got stung by a wasp today, then played soccer. Made an AMAZING goal with the outside of my foot between the keeper and the inside post.
The food of champions: Pre-Soccer Pizza (literally 10 min before I left to play)
Wednesday, my friends and I literally had a Dougie class. In order to Teach You how to Dougie
In laymans terms: "ALL I NEED IS A BEAT DAT'S SUPER BUMPIN'!"
Pretty much, I love to dance. Dancing always puts a smile on my face. Everyone should just dance when they feel down.
"The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing." -James Brown So true......
In any case, Friday night was a fun night for dancing! Thanks to Sanam who was born and thus allowed us to have a birthday outing! I am all about new dance moves... (although my opinion is that ALL {cool} dance is inspired from anything Michael Jackson has done already) but after mastering The Dougie, Walking it Out, Jerking, etc. etc. I have found the new move.
It may be a little known, but I haven't seen it get picked up in my circles yet.
Start doing the CAT DADDY
This is just the music video and too much stuff is going on to see the WHOLE dance in action, but the jist of it is to basically swag out your wheelchair!
So that's the new dance... but the new song that always gets me up and moving no matter WHERE I am is by a relatively unknown artist named Tabi Bonney. Basically I just like this one song so far but it is a DOOZY!
My friend Fahreen and I went to the Bayou City Art Festival today. In the spirit of being artsy fartsy....
I'll write this post on the RIGHT!
So this festival won the 3rd best art festival in America in 2009. I HEARD it's #1 this year, but that was just hearsay. Anyway, I'm just trying to plug how awesome Houston is.
It was super fun! But it would have been more fun if I had about ten thousand bucks to spend, then I could have bought one, MAYBE two pieces of art. Seriously, some stuff was super cool and I wish I had some spare money to spend. But then there was the stupidest crap selling for like $1000.
Retarded crap that would be like:
"Orange"
by Visual Visionaries
$890
JOKIN' ME?!
That's some bullhonkey! I can dookey stuff better than half the "art" there. Actually, I have made some pretty cool art. FUNCTIONAL art at that!
I have this piece I made over my bed for when the magic happens. And by magic I mean needing a nightlight so that I don't pee my pants. It's MAGICAL!
It only cost me like $50, which is like a $2530 savings. It started out as I needed more light for my room so I got this hanging lamp. But the only wires they had were white or black. The white would have been off white and it would have looked douchy, so I got the black so it would be on purpose. Then I noticed my wall was pretty bare, but there was a wire right in the middle of it, so might as well make it look I preplanned it all and made the wire part of the painting!
Now that I'm looking at this picture I took of it, one can try to put an actual meaning to it? Like how about:
"The Light"
Everyone ends up in The Light, but it's your choice how you get there.
Or better yet, I do have a dimmer attached to the lamp so it can be bright like the picture or darker. That could add another layer to it...
In your path through life, choose the amount of light to give.
I don't know, I just made some stuff up off the top of my head. .......and it's 4am.
But I DO know that this is real art. The depth of its meaning, the magnificent subject, the shapes and strokes that cradle a most awe-inspiring face.
"Keyan"
I didn't paint it, a good friend Sabrina painted it a few years ago.
So me and some friends road tripped up to New Mexico for an eventful time! We took a day driving up to AngelFire, NM. Everything closes at 3pm apparently so we all went to bed hungry.
Next morning, real food. Then hit the slopes! 4pm, went to the donkey-est grocery store in town. Had no bread or honey mustard or chicken (good chicken), but we managed to make some amazing Parmesan Chicken and Fettucine that night. Errbody was super tired that night and went to bed fairly early at like midnight.
I woke up early to make breakfast for everyone... as an apology for going to ditch them the rest of the day as I try to hit up the super crazy black diamonds. I even packed a lunch in my backpack so I won't waste any time buying food.
Ice. Everything was ice. I got 2 nice gashes on my board before I decided to head back down the mountain. Luckily, errbody was hungry and what not and I met them all up for lunch. Then we all headed up to the top of the mountain and started putting the Winter Olympics to shame!
The girls went snow tubing as the guys .... took showers... and napped. EXTREME!
On the menu for dinner was an amazing lasagna where domination in an intense game of UNO occured, by ME! MUWAAHAHHA!!
Sleep.
I was awoken butt early in the morning. Why you ask? My friend was bored. That is all.
We all get up, pack up, and head to Taos. It's very scenic and we take pictures along the way and all through Taos. It was so serene and calm and you could feel the power of nature.
Just the kind of place a douchebag would fit in!
Please note the UBER cool RED beanie and not one, but need for TWO pairs of sunglasses! Only a really BEAST kind of guy can pull a pose like that.
We get into town and get some authentic New Mexican food (with blue corn!), then headed to the San Fransisco de Asis mission church. It was made in like 1800 out of adobe, pretty cool. Went souvenir shopping at the main plaza. Met this crazy lady. Saw some boobies. Lips were chapped.
Then went to this bridge over the Rio Grande River where there was amazing sunset.... unfortunately we were too busy goofing off to notice it too long.
We take the long way back because we heard that the road was haunted. Nothing happened.
Then we go to the only nice restaurant in town called The Love Apple, which in France is the tomato. As we are waiting outside by the firepit, one of our Persian moms remind us that it is Char-Shambe-Soori that night.
The tradition is that the Tuesday night before the persian new year, one must jump over fires so that the evil and bad spirits following you are burned away so you can start the new year fresh! Well, we had a fire pit but it was kinda tall so I had to pick everyone up over the fire one by one. Good times! It was funny trying to explain to the waitress what we were doing.
We went to the only cantina afterwards to see what the nightlife was all about. And it was all about...nothing.
Earlier that day, I had stole one of the girls' keycards. When we went our separate ways, the guys decided to "haunt" the girls. Our plan was to get into their room and make subtle noises here and there to freak them out. Well, they had chain locked their door so the key didn't work. We just scratched the door, knocked on their back window, and made a weird rock sculpture outside their door. Soon enough, they started calling us. We pretended to be asleep. We all went over there and they... were... SCARED.
It would have been perfect if we didn't wake up the neighbors and they came knocking, but OH WELL!
Next morning went to a biosctucture where they made houses out of recyclables. Then went on a nature hike up a mountain, took some glamour shots and hit the road!
2 hours outside of Austin was fun when our car broke down. Luckily, it wasn't that big a deal (....we think) and we made it home.
I went and chilled with some friends the other day at this pretty cool indie, hipster, coolio, emo bar. It was actually pretty tight. I had low expectations but then the most amazing thing happened.... I saw this guy from across the way. He was wearing the most glorious sweater I have ever seen. He got in line to go to the bathroom. I had to talk to him.
*** Quick sidenote, I am not gay. With that in mind, please continue***
There is a reason I wanted to talk to him so badly. It's because I have in my possession an equally amazing sweater...
So I go to him (he's waiting to go to the bathroom mind you) and compliment his sweater and give him mad props for wearing it. I explain I have the same sweater and that we are awesome! Just as he is opening the door to the restroom, I'm telling him that I'd like to take a picture with him when he gets out...awkward? I don't care!
So he introduces himself as Trey and he knew a bunch of facts about unicorns! Something about Narwhales and that unicorn in Japanese is actually one of their popular beers. He was pretty cool, except for the fact that he thought I was super weird.
It was awesome because I have never seen anyone wear something like that except me and a couple friends who bought them to be funny on a road trip together. But then it got cool when we sewed our nicknames in the back.
Only like 2 my friends and I still actually wear them, so seeing Trey was a mind blaster!
Adventure Time is by far the BEST cartoon there is out there. I finally got the complete first season! It's about a boy and a dog who go on adventures to help people. It's pretty much the story of my life....actually, EXACTLY like my life. This is the same reason I like to help people:
No, but really this show is hilarious. I'm sure nobody agrees, but this is seriously funny. PERIOD.
This is how I start my adventures....
Timbos, sweats, hoodie, fly sunglasses. I also had a can of orange Sunkist.
MATHMATICAL!!!
Sorry to the maybe one person who reads this thing.... a very eventful weekend.
So Friday it was supposed to snow here in Houston, my boy Brian came over Thursday night since we both had work closed on Friday and we made preparations to have the most ultimate snow day EVER!
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It was icy at like 3am but when we woke up in the morning, NO SNOW. Talk about climate blue balls. We went out and got some fly jackets and pulled a prank on our friend Nader. We went to his house, I pretended I was alone and then Brian came out and Airsoft gunned him. It was fun, I guess.
Anyway, we pick him up, go eat, and go to a friend's to party it up. And by party it up I mean play a round of Mafia then go to IHOP. Which was fun, cuz by the end of the night I had started and epic spitball fight.
Slumber party at my house that night!
Don't they look cute? Hahahaha It was pretty awesome cuz their mommies said they could spend the night!
Anyway, Saturday was just errand running then went to a family friend's 15th birthday party. Please note I do know that I am 25, and I thoroughly enjoyed being there. We played Hide n Seek and Bloody Mary, in which I pwned all the high school noobs there.
Then I went out for an age appropriate peer's birthday which started at a restaurant, then on to the clubs. It was a pretty fun weekend especially since it basically started on Wednesday (for me, both Thursday and Friday work was canceled due to climate). The club was crank, past tense of crunk, and super fun. My brother was there too so it was a jolly good time! . .. .. . . .. up until I found out my car was towed.
Every time I would go out, I park in the same lot! Not only have I asked the managers around, but also a couple cops! I've always been good there, but of course the one time I don't check they put up a sign. That was a buzzkill to my weekend.
But it was still fun, when we went to eat after I kept messing with my tipsy and oblivious friend Monica. She had ordered a sandwich, fries, and a shake. I kept taking her fries...out of HER HAND! I even took half her sandwich just after her first bite. A minute later I tell her, her sandwich is gonna get cold if she doesn't eat it. Again, she picks it up and takes a couple bites and the transition from her hand to my hand is made unbeknown to her. It was pretty hilarious! And yes, I did give her her WHOLE sandwich back. But you know who DIDN'T get something back? 59 Diner. She was blind to the fact that she took the milkshake glass out with her to the car!
Good times. minus the $250 I spent getting my car back. : /
I was, am, and always will be a HUGE fan of Michael Jackson. I found this video on Youtube today.
It was awesome and bad at the same time. MJ is ALWAYS awesome! But the bad thing is, every time I watch an MJ video, I sit online playing all his stuff and dance around for 2 hours. It's not a very efficient way to spend my time.
Which now reminds me that the new MJ game for the xbox is gonna come out in a month or 2. In which I am buying that game and throwing the MOST EPIC party ever! I advise everyone to bring at least 2 changes of clothes for the amount of dancing that is to take place.
(details for the party will be announced once I know an exact date for the release of the game, and how to make a lighted Billie Jean dance floor)
This past weekend was pretty nonstop. So Friday, my friend wanted to pull a prank on one of her cousins who doesn't know who I am. We decided that I would come over for dinner, but I would be a neighbor in their apartment building that came over unannounced coming home from work to help them fix their toilet that they mentioned was broken like a month before. They had just started to start supper when I "fix" their toilet and then try to invite myself and my "girlfriend" over for dinner. Instead of going to our reservation at a nice restaurant, I called and insisted my fake girlfriend come over here for dinner. She starts yelling and we break up. Oh well. Time for dinner! FYI, I'm in a full suit and tie. They ask if I just came from work. I own a landscaping company. "Oh, so you are the manager? Did you have to meet any clients today or something?" Nope. My "company" is called Classy Cutters. We mow lawns wearing suits. Since it was Casual Friday I was wearing only a suit and tie, not the usual tuxedo... hahaha! Anyway, my fake life and personality gets more and more outrageous and obnoxious throughout the night. (I'll put up a video soon...) That night I played the most hilarious game of Monopoly ever. Basically, there were so many deals that when I landed on a hotel Park Place (which I didn't have the money to pay), I ended up paying off the debt and gaining hotels on my properties as well!
Woke up early on Saturday to go to work and prepare my dessert. That night was one of our famed Cook-offs we throw about once a month! This time was the "Best Chocolate Dessert" competition.
Needless to say, I won with my KitKat Covered Chocolate Raspberry Truffles. Then we had an intense DANCE PARTY! Brian: "I have so many dance ideas, but my muscles won't do what I say!"
I wake up 2 hours later at 7am to go cheer for my good friend Lulu at the Houston Aramco half marathon! Congrats to running! I kinda want to run a half marathon now... a real marathon would kill me. It looked like so much fun and so many people cheer for you and you get a medal at the end!
Went to a brunch,then a linner (guess I didn't really have a real meal),power nap, Quadratic Equations, cartwheels, and went to sleep (at 5am) watching How I Met Your Mother. Awesome show.
Yesterday I went mountain biking at Memorial Park with my good friend, Pejmon.
It was pretty awesome! A little TOO awesome. So awesome that it had been raining for 2 days prior and there were "signs" that were "posted" that said the trails were "closed". But we knew that they were only for losers and not us. So Pej cut up his leg a little bit.
To which I then immediately peed my pants....
It was AWESOME! I then went to my friend's house to visit, but along the way I had a hankering for McDonald's. Going INTO the MceeDees, a guy came up to my car and asked if I wanted some Black Maui (I can only assume it was a type of kush). "No, my kind gentleman. I am only in need of the fine gourmet of sir McDonald." As I walk away he is telling his friend that I am racist cause I didn't buy weed from him cause he's black....OR it could be that I don't smoke, MAYBE! It was pretty funny to me. Then as I'm walking out, there is some kind of HUGE dumb high school fight going on with like 60 kids watching to see if this Hispanic girl (or so I thought.. the shman could have gone both ways in the looks dept) was going to get crunk enough to do something about ... something? I didn't know who or what was going on but I can only assume that maybe a guy complimented her on how pretty she was, so she grabbed her crotch and started talking ISH! In any case, all fights are pretty funny to me. I've never been in a real one, but I have been punched by a drunk guy in the stomach once. I didn't care enough to do anything, talked to his friend, and let him go. I do want to get in a fight nowadays...not to try let vent anything or that I love violence, but I would just want to know how good I would be at it so I can gauge if I could kick someone's ass or not. I think I'd do well in a fight. A theory not tested would only stay a theory... how'd we start talking about fighting? Anyway, mountain bike mud drifting is super fun.
So on Monday at work (I work part-time as a supervisor at a Kumon Learning Center), I was leaving after we were done with class. A brother and his 2 sisters were waiting for their mom to come pick them up. The brother asks me how old I am....
"How about you guys guess how old I am."
One guesses 16, another says 17, the youngest guesses 27.
"Ok, you were the closest. I'm 25! Thanks guys, I AM young for my age."
...I spoke to soon...
Without hesitation, one asks me, "Are you married?"
Nope.
Unprovoked, the TEN year old says to me, "It's okay...you'll find someone."
WHAT?! How and why is this 8 year old telling me, in a genuinely pleasant way, that I'm a lonely loser. Needless to say, I high fived her and left...to the Little Caesar's next door, got a large pizza, and ate it all by myself at home. But then again, I always eat a whole pizza at least once a week regardless of what noob kids think of me.
The moral of this story? Nothing can stop me from getting myself a pizza. God, I love pizza!
