Archive for May, 2008

May 25th, 2008

Blog Anniversary

It is yet another anniversary for me for this blog. I am quite happy where this blog has been going and looking forward to where it will go in the future. In the beginning it was about my entrepreneur endeavors and how I was adjusting and surviving being an entrepreneur. But now it is mostly about my life is spurts and my quest to leave a meaningful life my way. I am still doing entrepreneur things, but have also written about my hobbies, work, happiness, and whatever I come up with. I didn’t think much people read my blog, but since the beginning of this year I have gotten some great emails back about people being touched by what I write and I that alone has gotten me to write more. I don’t know what I really know what is planned for this year, but I do feel that I am trying to do different things to allow people in my life and do hope that I reach more people with my simple writing.

With that said I have a couple of good blog post that I have written in the past, but I suggest you to just go look at the past month and find which one you like the best and let me know which one it is. Until next time have fun, chill alittle, but do something whatever it is do something…

May 24th, 2008

Seeing Oke through video…

I was unwinding one day before I went to bed and decided to say something on my flip video recorder. This is my first thinking rant of my thoughts through my voice and I guess my visible appearance. So enjoy and let me know what you think. I think I was talking about writing and then life, I think I am going to atleast do one a week.


Just a Thought! from Oaks Real on Vimeo.

May 17th, 2008

Working Out vs. Everything Else: What is really Priority?

I have been meaning to write this post for the longest and realized that there shouldn’t be a delay on it. I think this post will help me to realize what I spend most of my time on and what I classify as important vs. not compared to the actual existence.

My way of living now has changed some since the beginning of the year and also last year. But most of what I am going to say is still relevant. I am going to take a week of my:

Week:

7 days = 168 hrs

May 17th, 2008

Lesson’s Learned from Limited Breathing

In mind: “Damn, this place looks like shit, hopefully the food is good”
“Damn, it looks like shit inside and so many space with empty seats, I guess they are busy during dinner time”
“Fuck they don’t have much of a selection to choose from, I don’t ever want to come back to this Chinese buffet place again”

Talking to co-workers: “Hey guys, I CAN’T BREATH”

I was thinking how this could have happened. Sure the place looked like a place I know my girlfriend wouldn’t step foot in, sure it should have been packed with people during the busiest time of the day, sure the carpet and lighting reminded me of being in an alley late at night, but I was hungry and ate 1 bowl of shit that was mixed in with shrimp or some other type of shell fish that I’m allergic to. As soon as I got back to work I took a pill a friend gave me, told everyone else in my work section that I couldn’t breath and headed to the pharmacy to get a quick puff of medicated air.

You don’t realize how important something is until you need it the most. I started to look around and quickly got envious of the people who had no problems breathing correctly and me at that very moment felt like I was trying to push air through a very small straw. The good thing about this whole altercation was that I was going to the allergy/asthma doctor 2 days later and was going to get all of it handled. But still it sucked and made me realize that I have to watch were I go eat and more importantly stop being lazy about myself, especially my health which I put other things ahead of.

May 17th, 2008

Lost…Without Planning

Wake up, go to work… eat, sleep

Wake up, go to work… eat, sleep

Wake up, go to work… eat, sleep

That is what I felt like this week. I did get somethings done, but I felt like I was running around circles thinking of what else I could do once I left work. I didn’t work on things that have been on my plate for some time, I didn’t get some of the little things, and in general wasn’t all there. I have learned this lesson before a year ago setting goals for each day and then the next week of not setting them and witnessed the same emotional distraction from life. I guess I am realizing that certain things in my life are important and feel a need to do something about it or facing the fact that nothing is going to get done by itself. Really simple thinking and it sure can go along way.

Paper vs. Digital

I bought a planner at the beginning of the year and made it a mission to start using it. I have written a total of 2 sentences worth of information in it. I believe the reasoning behind it is because most of the time I operate in an online and digitally way. My ipod and phone are attached to me most of the time and feel naked without them. I seldom put appointments in my cell phone, but in the past couple of weeks have used my icalender and syncing it with my ipod. It is better for me. I do see how a paper planner is beneficial, but just doesn’t work for me. Many habits take time to learn and become routine, but there are situations that are natural from the very beginning to a person. That is the way I feel about my digital planning and the only thing that I will probably add is an iphone.

So in the future or really soon I will see drastic improvements in my life and will use what I have learned from this planning on the wire so to speak and see where it takes me.

May 9th, 2008

Things I am Up to Lately…

Life is going great for me. Don’t have much of anything to complain about and just enjoying my journey through life. I thought about this while in the shower and wanted to get it out there before I headed to bed.

In no particular order:

1. Books- I am currently reading 2 books, well really one now it really grabbed my attention after 3 pages and want to get it done before next week is finish. The book is called, The Alchemist, Will Smith talked about it on Tavis Smiley show awhile back ago and him being someone I admire and sharing the same birthday I had to run out and get it. I’ll do a book review after I am done.

2. Too short to publish- I started my short story series and was going great for 3 straight weeks. I have taken about 2 weeks off and was suppose to write something in it yesterday but didn’t and will finish it up in the next week or afterwards. I think it is funny, but I will post it up on my other website once I update that site also. I am going for the end of this month. Oh yeah it is about a dog… trust me you have no idea.

3. Buying like crazy- I have been buying alot of crap lately. I have bought a good catalog book for writers, a flip video- just to bullshit around and see what kind of project I come up with I will also use it as a vlog from time to time, final cut express 4- that isn’t currently working but hopefully will tomorrow, I plan to use this to edit my little movies and again to just teach myself new things, new ipod adapter for new car, and I am pretty sure some other things that I am forgetting.

4. A new car- I have had my new car (new to me) for 2 weeks and it is going great. I am in the process of writing about all of what went down in my other passion/business blog and will let yall know when that is done. I didn’t think I was going to buy a car so quickly, but that is how things happen sometimes.

May 8th, 2008

I Just Bought a New Video Game

It has been a long time since I am have bought and played a video game. I use my dedicated $300 dollar dvd player, XBox360, as a playback movie watcher I even got a cool looking remote to help navigate through. I get made fun of all the time, but feel that most of the video games out there either suck or take up way too much time. I am always looking at my watch wondering if I am suppose to do something else with my time. Don’t get me wrong there are many things that I do in life that are huge time wasters, but playing video games for hours is way to obvious and there isn’t much to gain at all from doing so.

However, now is a time for change or should I say hype. I have been seeing tons of reviews for Grand Theft Auto 4 and hearing all what you can do from friends and family, hell my younger brother picked it up last week and didn’t even let me know. So I took the bait and am giving it a shot, allowing myself to waste time to fill my life with more pointless things. I bought GTA 4 because I felt that it would be okay to let some aggression out on a make believe story you can lose yourself in and not feel guilty with the ramifications of your actions. Also to play against and with friends to form gangs and do what gangs do.

I don’t think I will learn anything from this game, but I do hope to understand what the big hype is and rekindle old and new friendships through common interest. But I really don’t know and that is the beauty of trying things with no real expectations and seeing if what I believed then is what I think now.

So we shall see…

May 7th, 2008

How Much Money do We Really Need?

I was thinking about this question when I was driving home from work today. I was actually thinking about this awhile back and now feel that it is time to talk about it. I am using the young professional template or any person in general, it doesn’t matter how much money you make, but more of what you spend your money on.

Breakdown:

For each month:
Rent- $525 + $150 for utilities and things around the apt.
Food- $250 bucks for lunch + $300 bucks for the apt.
Gas- $200 bucks due to new car
Car fuckin insurance- $1500 (for whole year) it really depends on your car but lets just try that

I know that there is more things that I am forgetting, but this is pretty much the bare minimum, here is the total for a year: