buh luddy knows up en hurrr!

my people,

you know i've always been up front with you about my nose bleeds. exhibit a. 

that is why after what i just experienced, i felt an urgency to share with you my story.

so check it, i'm taking a shower...the radio's on, my lather is all up in my unfortunate haircut...basically, life is good. then i feel saltiness in my mouth so i open it and all of a sudden this huge dollop of bloody saliva comes spewing 

out and trickles down my six-pack in a mottled river of alluvial crimson. yikes, right!

so at first i seriously thought i was dying cause i thought the blood was coming from inside my mouth...as if i developed some phantom hemorrhage behind my buck teeth. but really it was coming from my nose...crazy!

i had to lean forward and pinch my nose for it to stop...wasted about 3 extra minutes of shower water! my b, earth!

point of the story: enjoy life. don't freak out when fatty ploppets (is that a word) of blood exit your body at random moments. 

oh yee, happy birthday riley! i think you're going to grow up to be a very intelligent youngun

proof that i know you...that's my right hand pointing at your plastic keys.

i'm sorry your shoutout comes after a story of blood and showers.

performing arts night // weekend update

who remembers 'hold up wait a minute'??

well, now we gon' have our own talent show. holla!

act I: sensazn

holler at them boys! all you haters (yeah, i'm talking about you) change your achichudes...and get ready

you like it, don't hide it

act II: keri hilson

when is this chick gonna come out with her new album?

she killing it

keri hilson ft. ne-yo - ready to fall

keri hilson ft. james fauntelroy - fly

and i don't have the links, but...

keri hilson ft. tank - do it

keri hilson ft. timbaland - return the favor

whenever her cd drops, watch out...

also, ciara ft. young jeezy - never ever

rihanna ft. the dream - hating on the club

act III: AiR

say hey to room 311 and the celebrities that inhabit it!

that's right...i know two of the two new members of Artists In Resonance which is this sickkk with a triple-K acapella group on campus

they're gonna be singing like so:

well that concludes that.

and now, the return of....

WEEKEND UPDATE

Friday, January 30, 2009

possibly one of the most productive fridays i've had in a while...i woke up at about 10ish and went to the RSF at berkeley to play...basketball. yee, i know...you're jealous, impressed, and confused at the same time. i haven't touched a basketball since my 17th birthday (vivid memory) and haven't played basketball since middle school...so that was ridiculous. 

later on we went the the pre-audition workshop for movement...it was pretty fun. hard, but fun. 

then oliver, aaron, amber, and i had to shower quickstyle and get on bart to come back to san francisco...ernest picked us up and after getting a delizzious meal at nation's, we went to church for the ck1+college freshman combo...we had a photo scavenger hunt at pier39...i was quite convinced we were gonna ace that thang but we ended up not even placing...outrageous.

afterwards, they all came to the go casa where wii was played and heavyweights was disrespected (since all of us fell asleep during it...rude)

Satchurday, January 31, 2009

as i recall, this day was ridiculous. we woke up, ate pho at turtle tower, then watched beauty and the geek. i drove them back to bart, and fell asleep...until 11pm. crazy waste! in my anger, i won't even elaborate on whatever happened after that...cause i forget.

Sunday, February 1, 2009

went to breakfast with ed,chris,horseman...church...lunch at noreiga okazu ya, and then back to church for the first kcdc training...i'm excited for the summer

then ada and i went to the deYoung for a photoshoot...holla!

i'm surprised i didn't break her camera...cause it was not a crackin' day...

but we took some:

jumping photos

some not so serious photos

some stately photos

and some RIDIKULUS photos

haha! i laugh whenever i look at myself trying to be fake serious

oh yeah i also got an unfortunate haircut which is shown here...

pray for it/me

perfect day

if i ever had a day off, i would...

wear these CLACKIN' slippers

+ celebrate the return of the slanket...this time, in "castlerock"

with these, you will find me in the club.

watching this:

triology

yo. i did some perusing for you.

and it comes in a package of threee

I. stick with it until a minute in

II. it's the boxcuttuh chick

III. a crown jewel

outties.

things you should know

so my friends, i have jams to share. 

however, blogger is gonna cancel my

account if i violate copyright issues again...

drama drama.

so here some jams that you should listen to...

Love Spaceship - Lloyd

bigger than the world - justin timberlake

Move If You Wanna (Prod. by Da Internz) - Mims

right round - flo-rida

and in honor of the honorable barack obama,

Its a New Day - will.i.am

today i went with oliver, eric, and jocelyn to sproul to watch the inaugural events on a big fat screen... my heart goes out to barack for stuttering and stumbling a little bit during his oaths, the many laborers it probably took to make aretha franklin's hat, and the poor people who have to type out closed captioning. instead of 'shouting from heaven' it came out as 'shopping from heaven' and "barack obama" came out as "about a rock obama"

word.

r.e.m. inesss

i like to reminisce...so as i was facebook stalking myself this morning (be jealous), oh boy...came upon some good memories!

and these picturas helped me remember things that i had previously forgotten! so now i share.

chapter 1: senior trip | 06.08

i think this is when winch, jeff, and chris went to the safeway that was maybe a half hour away...so we decided to play some sardines. and we were all in the garage and i found some febreeze, and nevin was in the bathroom with two chicks or something scandalous like that (watch yourself, nevster), and we tried to scare winch, jeff, and chris when they came back...but that didn't happen. and remember even before this at costco when tina demanded nevin to get him a hot dog? whipped, nevStar!

chapter 2: marine whirled | 08.08

remember when chris found that bucket on the table outside the funnel shop so he decided to take it and then an angry mom came back calling him out for stealing her son's bucket. and when we were on the rapid ride and those homies sprayed us with water...so we did it to some random chicks and the one girl like stood up and said "bring it on!" and her friend dunked her head into the water and we thought her hair would get stuck in the tracks and she'd drown...ill. and then! that one marine world worker by the tigers that was dancing and we tried to catch him on video by pretending to take a picture of erik and caroline with him in the background...oh man, ridiculous! and then i spent seventeen bucks on that airbrushed trucker hat and i don't even know where it is right now...rippin it off! that was quite enjoyable.

chapter 3: prizzin brake | 09.07

yeah i know this wasn't this past summer, but oh shoot...i miss this. and tani just lent me the dvd so i watched it in crystalline perfection...oh the facial expressions. so good, so good. but i remember this particular scene being very eventful...the one where veronica (?...tani's character) walks in on the four of us digging a hole and then she eventually becomes part of the plan for good. so i remember blogging about it way back in february 2008 but there's still stuff to say about it. i remember tani hitting kevin in the head with the shovel handle, and michael chai sniffing his armpit even though he didn't need to/have to...and i said "then they forgot about the creator and forgot about him," and the apple almost fell of the table, and ...oh boy, supah fun! miss that miss that

alrighty, thanks for taking that journey with me. 

if i had one wish...

...i'd ask for one of these

the sessy "slanket" ... in apricot

too bad it's sold out...for now

and now, some Real Talk.

so i was talking with MasterNate last night and he told me he listened to this one pastor's sermons online...and that pastor's name was Francis Chan. and i was like "hold up! yo i've heard him speak before!" which is the stone cold truth! so nate sent me this one sermon and i listened to it at like 3 am, but it was really quite good. quite memorable and thought provoking...

so here's our man, franchan... if you google him this pops up somewhere...

i guess he makes videoblogs too.

and so somewhere in his message he was talking about james 1 and trials. and he used this metaphor of "testing" silver, which i really liked. so i wrote it down for you, fans...read it:

"...when you're surrounded by trials, you're being tested. and he says that's the only way you're going to build perseverance. this is how you can consider it joy because you realize that during that painful time you're being tested by God. and that phrase, i'm sure some of you have heard before, that the testing comes from the idea of the silversmiths, and how they would test silver. they'd put a bunch of silver in a pot and they would light this huge fire and then the silver would heat up and boil and get hot. and what happens when you heat up silver is all the impurities rise to the surface- all what they would call "the dross." all the junk, all the dirt, all the impure metals would rise to the top. and then the silversmith would take a scoop..er. i dunno what he used, but he would take that top...like i know...he just used...scuba gear. and he took that top layer off and he took the layer of the dross off. then what he would do is he would heat up that same silver again. again a little more dross would rise to the surface. he'd scoop it off. he'd do this over and over again. each time less and less impurities would rise to the top. and the way a silversmith could tell that his silver was pure or tested is that he would look down at the silver and he could see his own reflection. then he would know the silver's been tested"

so i guess you need to listen to the sermon to get some of the things (like the scuba gear)...so i guess tell me if you want me (or nate) to send it to you, then i'll know i actually have weblog readers. 

basically francis, or err PastorChan...? uhh MasterFrancis is saying that every time we're going through ridiculous or difficult times, it's God working in us...helping us to become more "mature and complete, not lacking anything" so that afterwards we're closer to God and closer to being like God...that way at the end when God looks at us, if we were de-drossed silver, he'd see His reflection and see more of Him in us. and he mentions that Christians have a tendency to want to feel happy all the time and we don't embrace the hard times that leads us towards holiness...so embrace the fire cause that's when you get your beauty from pain! [heard here, featuring mulan!]

YO. there are some Pearls of Wisdom right there.

so you can imagine how awed i was when my daily bible reading was about Job...and this here verse just echoed all of francis' sermon for me:

"He replied, 'You are talking like a foolish woman. Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?'..." job 2:10

ooh to the whee, my friends. 

so i know my blog is pretty inane [and that supah sick curious case of mastersamuel banner isn't helping it out (shoutout to ed)], and the only time i was really serious was when i ranted about faybook birthday comments (but i think only clifton saw that before i uhh deleted it), but i think i'm trying to live a less inane and more meaningful life...so i might try to write more substantive things...amongst the inanities (i wonder how many times i can use the word 'inane' in one paragraph). and even though today i basically relayed what francis chan had to say, it's a start. 

aite. go subscribe to francis chan's podcasts. and forreals watch that beauty from pain mulan song. and go buy a slanket.

outtiezzz

i feel a prophecy coming on...

...and it says:

leona lewis - run

rihanna and chris brown - bad girl

and the next sazzzha fierce-beyonce combo

ave maria and radio

there we is! make me proud, my predictions!

here are my resolutions

keep me to them...i even added italicized rhyming somethin-somethins!

1. work on my posture.

 i hunch when i sit and i slouch when i stand, when you see me like such, say "straighten up, man"

2. pay people back on time. 

borrowing one, five, and twenty dollah dollah bills...i don't want to disregard money like them beezies on The Hills

3. be consistent in saying grace. 

i'm blessed to have something to eat, so i should thank baby jesus for my plate of meat. 

4. stop being rude/degrading...even if in jest. 

everything is permissible, but not everything is beneficial. think about it

in uzzer news....