Fall

It seems to me that lately it has been extremely difficult to find anything to write about, hence the 2+ month long hiatus from this wretched internet tool.

I don't know what pulled me back into this thing, but it just seems that i have been in a mood to type. About whatever.

Unfortunately there seems to be nothing to write about so i am stuck here

The one profound, epiphany you could say, i've had is one that breaks my heart

I think God doesn't want me to like sports

This is half joking, but half serious

I can honestly say that one of the biggest joys in my life is sports, and if you've ever met me, you could probably figure that out in about 20 seconds.

Anyways, this last weekend, was probably one of the most devastating weekends, sports-wise

The Hokies lost to an inferior Georgia Tech team, costing us any shot at a national title

The Redskins lost to an equally inferior Kansas City Chefs, yes i wrote chefs (snickers commercial, great googly moogly), at HOME....

Have no gods before Me... word up, i totally get it

But did You have to do it in such a HURTFUL way?

I now hate Georgia Tech with a passion not felt since i remember being lied to for the first time in my life

That is now 2 states that i will refuse to ever move to (Cali is the other, curse you 400 dollar ticket for taking a right on a red light.....)

The Boston College game doesn't even register in my mind any longer, i realize had we made it to the championship that year.. we would have gotten ROCKED by an LSU team that killed us the first time around....

But this year, we win out, we play either Florida (who almost lost to an alright Arkansas at HOME), Alabama (who we only lost to by 10 despite our offense not being even close to how we're playing now), or Texas... i mean c'mon.. they beat a team that lost their Heisman-Winning qb, by 3.... 3!!!

This one hurts a lot more....

Have y'all been watching Glee!?! What a great show!

Well, mainly the music

Well, just wanted to let y'all know i'm still alive!

So Cold- Chris Brown

Glee Soundtrack- Glee Cast

Do You Remember- Jay Sean

Addicted- Sean Kingston

This Is Us (CD)- Backstreet Boys

August Rush

Can't believe that it's already August!

Mid-august at that

I can honestly say that this has been one of the most productive summers of my life

I got to travel

I got to go on missions

And so on

I even took pictures of most of these things

Unfortunately i am a lazy, lazy man

As i get older i realize that there is still much left to do

I've still got to go on a journey across the world

I told myself once i got to the the Great Wall of China, that i was not done seeing these "wonders of the world"

But since then i have not seen any more of these things

But that is up to me

I also want to jump off a plane with a parachute on my back

I'm told that having a list like this is called a "bucket list"

Horrible movie by the way, i never thought 2 such amazing actors could make such a horrible movie, the acting was done well, but the story line was just too... bland

Anyways, yes

I have a bucket list

But i will not share most of it because if i do not complete said list, i will disappoint no one but myself

Hahaha i can do whatever i want

Football season is about to start!!!

I am so happy

Fall is my favorite season, if not just for football, but also because the weather is by far the best during this time!

I honestly would love to move to a place where it was fall everyday, but unfortunately that is impossible

Luke 1:37

Anyone with even a half ounce of knowledge about football could tell you that the redskins looked pretty bad this past week

But, i tend to look on the bright side of things, which leads to constant amounts of sadness, but that's a different story

Anyways, the redskins looked horrible

Just horrible

BUT

There are a few things that i believe are good signs:

1.) The offensive line HAS improved (obviously that's not saying much, but hey, it's something!)

2.) We have something special in DE orakpo, but nothing that special in LB orakpo

Just look at this monster!!

3.) We also have something special in jeremy jarmon

4.) We have a young defense mixed with some key veterans, our defense will be fine, D. Hall and Laron Landry are who i'm counting on in the secondary, any producting from carlos rogers will be a plus, the same goes for Horton, or doughty, or smooty, or whoever is our other safety

5.) Jason Campbell has turned into a pretty decent leader, and what i mean by that is that in the huddles, no one is leaving the huddles early, and he's constantly encouraging his teammates whether it be a high five, a pat on the helmet or booty, and he's constantly talking, not yelling, he seems to have a better attitude, i'm sure it has something to do with him needing a new contract soon, but whatever, i'll take it

Everyone is going back to school

Weird

That used to be me

Now i'm just another person trying to get by and become an adult

Enough complaining

Just wanted to talk about redskins football

AND HOKIE FOOTBALL!!!!

Sept 5th ladies and gentlemen, the tyrod taylor show goes nationwide

Remember the name david wilson

Ryan Williams is a given

LET'S GO

HOKIES!

Finally!

Man.. it's seriously about time that the Red Sox got some crap for their players using PEDs.....

Im so glad "Big" Papi and Manny got caught... if one player goes down they all should go down...

I was so tired of the abuse that the Yanks were getting, mainly for A-Rod, but now.. now the tables have turned

At least A-Rod came clean, and now people don't mention it as much.

But Ortiz was an advocate for getting rid of players who used steroids.... and manny.. o man.. manny.. of COURSE he used steroids...

Going back to Mr. Ortiz.. how ironic that even 5 months ago he was the one leading the charge for one year bans for those who got caught using steroids.. where were u 6 years ago when u were hitting 30+ home-runs whereas these days you're lucky to hit 20 in a season

all i can say is.. what goes around comes back around

Let's just all hope that Ken Griffey Jr. and Albert Pujols NEVER use steroids

Or else baseball is ruined forever

and i mean FOREVER

ok well not FOREVER, but for a long time..

at least for me.

VICTORY!

So obviously Mr. Roger Goodell was reading this blog the other day when he decided to let the REAL greatest show on turf back into the NFL.

Mr. Goodell, i applaud you for giving this man a second and third chance.

Your reward shall be more ratings and much more fan support from yours truly.

I have to really believe that mike vick will come back and be on his best behavior

I don't think you'll find a better football/life mentor than Tony Dungy

Let me tell you, i HAVE to believe that Vick will come back better than ever

That guy was the main reason i went to Virginia Tech (THE FOOTBALL)

Ok, well, not the MAIN reason, but it made a huge impact on why I was so excited about becoming a Hokie

I've never for one second had any regret about going to Virginia Tech over the other schools that accepted me, God placed me there for a purpose and i believed it

Please tell me WHY the yankees are tearing it up

Forget that, i'll tell you why

The yankees are a veteran team

They don't really start trying until it starts to really count... the second half

This team is filled with veterans (pettitte, jeter, damon, and posada to name a few)

They have superstars in sabathia, teixiera, and a-rod

And they have the Sandman.. mr mariano, the man with the nastiest pitch in baseball

Of course it would all come together rite now as they get ready to make a run at the playoffs

The summer is so boring when it comes to sports

There's not olympics rite now, there's no world cup rite now...

Sportscenter is filled with baseball highlights and WNBA highlights... i mean c'mon....

REDICKULOUS

So i've had a lot of time to think about what i wanna do with the rest of my life..

My plans aren't laid out completely in front of me like it is for someone who wants to be a doctor or lawyer or accountant..

I've prayed so many times for God to open up doors to lead me in the direction that He ultimately wants

I feel like i'm deaf

I have such contradictory desires..

I want to go out and do work

But in the back of my mind, there's always that selfish desire to live out a life where i can be comfortable and not have to worry about money

I kno it's either one or the other, it can't be both

To those who say, why not both?

I can't

Helping others requires being selfless, but if i live a selfish life, that lavish lifestyle i know in the end i'm gonna end up being selfish

I need to have no excuses, no way out i guess...

I have such a short attention span, i'm starting to get concerned that i can't focus

That was such an awkward way to end my story

O well

FREE MIKE VICK

I believed this cause was worth an update

My main homie Mike Vick is a free man..

I say let him play

I understand the multiple stupid things that he did, but he paid for those mistakes

The PR hit would probably be an understandable reason.. but he is well worth the risk...

He's not stupid, he'll make sure to be on his best behavior.. he's not a ri-tard like pacman jones....

Also, my left middle finger is really swollen and hurts when i bend it

My right knee hurts from being clipped on tuesday night

I have a partially torn rotator cuff on my right shoulder

Both my ankles can be sprained at any moment because the ligaments around my ankles have been stretched out from multiple ankle injuries

My right pinky is still jacked from Joe Im hyperextending it... ligaments are loose

Welcome to my world ladies and gentlemen

But God is still bigger than any injury

Summer Lovin

O my.. what a summer it has been!

I can confidently say that this has been by far the most productive summer i've ever had!

And that definitely is a great thing..

Here's the summary

Job

Mac

Retreat

Urban Hands

Football

Blackberry

haha... when i put it like that, it doesn't sound very exciting, but it was!

I guess i can start off with the job thingy

For the first time in my life, i found a job

and a pretty sweet one at that!

For 3 months (May-July), i was able to travel across the west coast working as a business analyst for a government contractor

I got to travel to places i have never been to in my life

These places included Denver, Co., San Francisco, Ca., L.A., Ca., and Kansas City, Mo.

Woo hooo

More than anything else, i was just really grateful for the opportunity to go out and see the west coast, except for vancouver i had never been even close to the west side of this country

West Virginia was definitely the furthest west i had been (and even that was by accident, freakin getting lost on the way to blacksburg....)

I got to experience life on the west coast, and i can't lie, i thoroughly enjoyed it!

I could definitely see myself living there for a certain amount of time.. not LA, but any of those other places.. wait... it's a no to KC as well.. sorry

In that short amount of time that i was out there, i felt so alive, i know that sounds cheesy, but i mean... who cares

There was so much to do and see, i felt like a kid who just discovered cable t.v.

It was just me, my rental car, and a GPS, and i was off!

The only regret i had this trip was not doing enough in Cali

But i guess there's always next time!

I purchased my first mac this summer

I believe that's an accomplishment in itself

It was too pretty to pass up.

Don't judge me, i did what i had to do

It's significant because of my stand against the Apple brand... yes i had an ipod, but i was forever against the computers... haha

That's all i have to say about that...this laptop rocks!

I also purchased a blackberry.. the tour to be exact and i have to say... well worth it

I kno i sound materialistic, and i promise i'm really not, well.. kind of hahah.. but yea

The power that the blackberry has over the iphone is redickulous

I'm not gonna argue about which one is better, because honestly, it's pretty even to me, but let's just say.. Verizon for the win!

So i'm on a flag football team for our church (SNL)

It's fun playing with people from your church

It's also not that fun playing with people from your church

There's so much unnecessary pressure when it comes to playing this game

Perhaps most of that pressure is from me

Up until i started playing in this football league, i was not very competitive

Yea cheering for teams i got competitive, but when i played a sport, i just wanted to run around so that i could eat whatever i wanted and not get a heart attack at the age of 25 (so far so good!)

But yea, win or lose, i just really wanted to play to hang out and be around the sports environment...

But lately i've become so infatuated with winning that i start to mentally have a meltdown

I'm always scheming ways to improve on offense and trying to figure this and that out..

I mean that's kind of cool, but i'm not played to play this sport, i joined because i wanted to play football, not because there's some prize at the end for winning it all

I've realized i don't like the mindset i've been having when i play, my pride is like HUGE, whether in defeat or victory

In defeat, i get so angry at myself for being so "stupid" or whatever

In victory, obviously i get big-headed because we won....

But the past 2 weeks, i've had time to analyze this and realized that my pride is a goliath in my life

I want to win so that i look good

Like the victories were all because of ME

Forget that

David was a servant, a shepherd, he gave all glory to HIM and the victories came to glorify the Father

My prayer has been to have the heart of a servant, that win or lose, all glory goes to the Father, that i would be grateful simply for the opportunity to go out there and play

My shoulder and pinky have been sore for the past few months, it was good to rest it a little bit this past week! Please pray for my physical health, i'm breaking down like the walls of jericho

But anyways, i believe in the sports ministry so much

God can use this simple sport to bring people together under His name, there's so much power in that

This summer's KCPC retreat theme was "Poiema" or God's Workmanship

This retreat was bomb yo, from the Mr. T look-alike contest to the lollipop dance, it was an uplifting 3 days

I was really encouraged by just how powerful our God is

He really broke some walls down this summer, kids were able to worship freely and comfortably, i think

One thing that really stuck with me was about being His masterpiece

It's amazing to realize that we were each individually created by Him

Created for a purpose that was not our own, but for His perfect will

I know God is not finished with me yet and that encourages me because i realize how many times i've failed

Urban Hands 09 has been the most recent trip that i have taken

All the way over in Washington D.C.

What a journey it was

Being the only Asian group, you always wonder how you're going to fit into a place filled with different groups

My fears were relieved when i realized just how quickly a game of ninja or some other group bonding game can bring people together

By the way, i HATE that ninja game, it hurts my head just watching that game, and seriously, how do you lose in that game?!?! You can stall for as long as you want... just yell out your name for a long time, i was so amazed that people were losing left and right

Anyways, yea, it was a blessed time where instead of just serving the students, i had the opportunity to serve WITH the students

It was a humbling experience, one which i hope will constantly be remembered

The word that God was pouring into my heart this week was the word beloved

I had no idea why, i rarely ever used that word, but as i was praying for each member of our group, that word just kept pouring out of me

God was telling me that each child there was His beloved, that no matter what burdens they carried, that no matter how far they felt they were away from Him, that they were still His beloved! That Jesus' death on the cross was for THEM, that they were worth every single second of pain and suffering that He endured for us, that He has no regrets

The only thing about summer i don't appreciate is the lack of sports

Baseball is cool, but out of the big 5, it's number five behind hockey, and believe me, i love my hockey

I understand that baseball is America's pastime or whatever, but still, it doesn't bring the excitement that every other sport brings, at this point, every game is not cutthroat, there is no desperation in every game, you lose one game, you still have 161 games left, even at the halfway point you have about 80 games left....

Don't get me wrong, baseball isn't a crappy sport, it's just not as exciting from game 1 to game 12 like football and soccer is, and to a certain point, basketball and hockey

Anyways, i'll see you guys later, take it easy

Kate plus 8

In lieu of today's "surprise" announcement that jon and kate are getting divorced, i thought i would chime in

It's kind of sad

and by kind of i mean extremely sad

I actually got into jon and kate plus 8 this past week, hahaha

I was in Kansas City all week and obviously there is nothing to do there except eat bbq food and watch t.v. in the hotel....

So in my hotel there are only a few interesting channels, there was obviously espn, there was some channels that fresh prince of bel air and some movies, and then there was TLC... yes..

I had actually heard of this show only because there are a few people in my life who are pretty into the show.... so i sat down one tuesday night and just watched an episode from season 4, i think it was about some yard sale they were having for cancer awareness or something, that led to another episode, and another, and then another.

Next thing you kno, i'm lovin this family

Those kids are so freakin lovable man...

Jon is an idiot, kate is not much better.....

Makes me kind of sad for these kids.... had there not been so much attention surrounding this family, who knows where the relationship would be right now, the kids don't deserve to be this exposed, especially at such a young age

Seriously, i feel like these parents were exploiting these kids to further their own agendas, whatever that may be......

Saving themselves by saying that their number one priority was their kids... i'm pretty sure TV life messed them up, as it does many celebrity couples

Now that it's summer there's really not that much to watch on TV

everything is basically a rerun of the previous year, sports is at a minimum, and it gets really hot outside...

I hate the summer

I can't stand the beaches because of the sand, and salt water dries out my skin like no other...

I hate humidity

Hm.. this makes me sound like a child

Well well well

Seriously, if albert pujols is ever found to have taken steroids

i will hate baseball for the rest of my life

I still believe in baseball, there is still hope out there: poo-holes, josh hamilton, evan longoria, ryan braun and others

But seriously, if pujols ever gets in trouble, i'm gonna cry, and burn all my baseball caps... yes.. i said caps

I must comment on the real madrid signing of Cristiano Ronaldo and Kaka....

It makes me really really sad....

One team has signed one of my all-time FAVORITE players of all time (Kaka) and one of my all-time HATED players of all time (ronaldo)

I don't kno what to think about this team... obviously they are now the favorites to take over alll that is the league of champions.... and if they somehow get mr. ree berry... i will explode with rage.. if mr. ribery is going ANYWHERE i am hoping it is to the blues of chelsea....

Cristiano was bought for a transfer fee of almost 131 millions bucks....newcastle, a soccer TEAM, is trying to be sold for 150 million...priorities...

So lately i've been playing this game, it's actually really stupid but it humors me.

Ever morning i place my glasses somewhere, put my contacts on and go to work,

i come back home do my thang, whatever that may be for the day, and then i put my contacts away

This is where the game begins, me being the awesome memory man that i am, i am unable to find my glasses because i never put my glasses in the same place

I search high and low until i find them and then i am elated when i am able to see again

It feels like a scavenger hunt

With a reward of sight!

I just bought a macbook pro, i am now cool rite?

I thought that once i bought it, my life would be changed, so far, i'm stuck using my old laptop because work requires i have some stuff that only works on windows xp

But starting next week, i will be in the transition phase.. kind of like my life

Whaddup there's some deep thoughts for you rite there

So i got to thinkin about my favorite burgers of all time

and it goes a little something like this:

1.) Shake Shack's- Double Stack (fried portabella mushrooms stuffed with chedda for the win)

2.) Hamburger Hamlet's- Hickory burger (onion rings in a burger for the double u)

3.) In n Out's- Double Double with grilled onions (freshness for the dub)

4.) Westport Flea Market's- Market burger (good overall burger ftw)

5.) Tie Ray's Hellburger's - Diablo style and Good Stuff Eatery's- Spike's 5 Napkin (local flavor for the win)

special shoutout to Carytown Burger's- Barnyard Brawl (chicken tenders inside a burger with tater tots on the side!!!) This would have made it on the list had i not almost had a heart attack after eating this burger.. granted i had like 5... just kidding just 1

I know that i put down like 7, but really, can u blame me? i've had such good burgers i wanted to share them all with you

Enjoy a good, no, great burger this summer, u will not regret eating any of the burgers i have suggested, and when you have a burger this summer i want you to think of me, and laugh, because u just thought of me... creep...

Stronger- Mary J. Blige

The One- Mary J. Blige

Roses- Mos Def

Be Worried- Nas

Same Song and Dance- Eminem

Shawty- Moonie

i've been on a music slump lately, but that first song, stronger, by mary j. is money.

Enjoy life my friends.