Archive for May, 2009
Appreciation to Ben!!!
I don’t know where to begin. Sometimes it is hard to write about people you admire and letting them know so. I have known Ben most of my life. Our mothers are best friends and all 6 boys were always around each other as we were growing up (him and I, Ben’s brother, and my 3 brothers). We drifted a part in college; I went to the big state school, he went to the local university. We formed an untouchable basketball duo that was called, Hot Brothers, nobody could beat us if both of us were playing on the same team. We did some crazy shit I can’t even mention on the blog, because one, people wouldn’t believe it, and two, it will surely get me in trouble or frowned upon (I’ll just say we were curious kids). We even started a business together that almost dismantled the friendship altogether, but we learned from it and are better friends because of it.
The Ben I Know
Most of the things Ben and I talk about were business related, our futures, or what movie we were/are going to make. We also talk to each other about our girlfriends, and his year plus child who he constantly thinks about. We also talk to each other about our families, and when he is going to come home from working abroad. He is also the one who comments on my blog and gives me pointers, but more importantly, encouragement to continue my passion of letting the world know the true me. We joke around about many things and at times can remember something in our childhood and start laughing about it.
Tags: appreciation
The Eventual Future…
The Future Becomes Clearer, As Each Day Passes By
It is the end of May and so far this year is going well for me. However, as I keep thinking of the future and what it may bring, I think of the next step for my life. I mentioned it briefly in the last post, but now as each day passes the future becomes more and more clearer. I’m not so much worried about my assignments of my 9-5, I’m not worried about when my book is going to ever get finish, I’m not worried about what others are thinking of me, I’m just focused on living for.
I read this book a couple of years ago that has seeped into my memory recently. It was something my brother and I were going to do around this time. We both read this book and were looking forward to the new stories and memories we were going to make. We took the first step into moving in with each other. We went out, here and there, and then, I found the love of my life, and all of those expectations went underneath the rug and to never resurface again. If any one wants to read it it is called, Honeymoon with My Brother.
What’s the Future?
Tags: the future
Part 3 of California Trip May ‘09
The Last Bit of my Vacation
This is the last post of my trip to California that happened a couple of weeks ago. I go back and forth when it is the best time to write my vacation trips. Some of them are right after, others are a couple of months later, and at times I don’t even feel like writing. When the latter happens I think and ponder over the life lessons, but for the most part can’t really see how the trip has changed me in any way.
I talked about the trip up to the ocean shore house. I haven’t talked about all of the activities, for instance: the horse back riding, playing endless hours of Nintendo Wii, how was it a shock that there were a good handful of the people reading on the trip (I had Reader’s Block after the craziness of last month), palatable dinners with cool people with the t.v. not even a part of the event, a couple of times of quiet-quick-bed-barely-moving sex, starting the day with a beer, and whatever else I’m slowly forgetting. The trip was needed. I still think I need another vacation. I am getting back into my normal routine of waking up early, working out, writing, going to work, and whatever else. I’m still racing home for no good reason. I am watching more t.v., due to the NBA playoffs (I can’t wait for it to be over, so I can eliminate the television as much as possible). I play with my pimp camera. I look at the pictures on the wall that my uncle graciously painted for me. I see all of the things that I have and all of the same things I don’t even use.
My ideal Day
I constantly think of the next step in my life. I want to rest and be alone as much as possible. I want to stop the mundane and do something I get full-gratification from every single day. I don’t know why I think of this, so much now. I think I just have to do it. But, my ideal day, would be me waking up at the time I do (4 a.m.), running 2-3 miles, coming back and writing for an hour, walking the streets of downtown or whatever else that is a mystery to me with my big-ass-bazooka camera over my shoulder. I would take many photos of the buildings, more importantly of the people (homeless and ‘9-5’ers’). I will also bring my flip video and record what was going on around me and interview people as they went on with their busy days. I know for sure I wouldn’t have a watch nor a cell phone anywhere on my body. This is the thing that keeps flashing in my mind.
Tags: california, lessons learned
May ‘09 Vacation to California (part 2 of 3)
I haven’t been on a real vacation ever since I went to Japan, which is roughly 2 years ago. I was looking forward to this one because I was going with my girlfriend. We went on a trip last summer to Minnesota, but we didn’t spend much time with each other because she was running around doing activities with her cousins.
This vacation has been a couple of months in the making. I know my girlfriend needed it and I just wanted to unplug from the ‘9-5’ and relax for more than a weekend. So we picked California, particularly Oakland for a night, and then off to the Mountains (about 2.5 hours away). The drive through Northern California was satisfying, probably because I wasn’t driving, I was also soaking up all of the fresh and breezy air. Oh yeah, we went to California because my girlfriend’s friend husband was celebrating his 30th birthday.
As we were driving, all I was thinking of was looking over the balcony from the beach house and drinking as much as possible. I didn’t care about the scenery. I wanted to chill, eat, drink, have sex, and that’s about it. But, as I was day dreaming I started paying attention to the road. We drove over the Bay Bridge, which consisted of dirty, nasty, gray water. We went through this one ritzy town, where the locals looked like they enjoyed there quiet, but happenin habitat. We kept traveling on highway 80 or 580 to finally take a detour to the mountain side. The land was clear and flat, as if it was used for farming, as there were cows everywhere to eat, shit, and to look at the cars, trucks, and RV’s pass by. I didn’t know how much longer we had to get to our destination, but I stopped day dreaming and paid attention to the scenery. It was like something from a movie; the elevation kept rising and noticed their were deeps, turns, and mountain passes on both sides of the curvy road. It seemed there were at least 200 turns to get to our destination, I so badly wanted to take over in the driver seat to experience something I have only seen in movies or the television screen. But I stopped acting like I was the best driver ever in the world and enjoyed my time in the passenger seat.
Tags: california, new place, surprise, vacation
Why Does Passion Keep Coming to me…Even During Vacation? Ocean and Mountain, California Vacation Part 1
It has been some time since my last real post. I wanted to get one out of the door before I left, but wasn’t able to get good enough internet access and lost track of time and greatly enjoyed myself. Long story later on, but I went on vacation!
I don’t know where to begin and will write a couple of different post towards this very topic, because vacation, chillin out, relaxing, and doing something different is what all of us needs from time to time. I get different things from all of my vacation trips and don’t know quite yet what I got out of this one. So, for now, I will describe an incident that I’m still thinking about, and is something that will help carry my “other” career for some time.
The end of the trip was nearing and nobody wanted to go home, no one wanted to face reality, no one wanted to begin their routinely 9-5 schedule the same way, before the vacation. We stopped along the way leaving the mountains multiple times. I took some pictures along the way from the back seat of the black Ford Escape we were riding in. When we stopped, we got out of the SUV to take more pictures of each other, with the scenery in the background, and even managed to eat a delicious lunch at an eatery in Bodega Bay (I had 2 orders of fish tacos and an Alaskan Wheat Beer).
Tags: lovin life, passion, vacation
Back From My Vacation….
I’m back from my vacation and will be posting pics, stories, and what I learned while being away. I’ll post something friday.
Have a good Wednesday!
April Book Review…
I was able to read 5 books in April. There were two non-fiction books and three novels. I learned something from every single one of them and now I’m ready for what my next big goal is going to be towards my passion. The books are: Outliers, Wild Mind, The Giver, The Pleasure of my Company, and Shopgirl. Some short, some long, but they all had a realness to them.
Right now I am in the phase of improving my writing. There are a couple of ways to improve one’s writing. I could either write as much as possible, write everyday, and believe it or not, read as many books. I have learned how people put together their sentences, use commas, colons, semicolons, and whatever punctuation known to man (and woman). I was constantly jotting down words I wasn’t familiar with (which is a lot), so I can go back and remember them for my writing and in everyday speech. I got a better idea of how people let their voice be heard through the story they were telling. And, the sure pleasure of sitting down and getting lost for a couple of hours.
Here is a quick report of the books I read.
Outliers:
So, What Was My Goal of The Day?
Exhaustion, commitment, the story, being lost, a goal that had to be completed was what I went through a couple of days ago. I am not surprised that I completed this goal, but more surprised with 2 things: it is intoxicating and Steve Martin is an unbelievable writer who I want to learn more from.
Tags: challenge, reading, Steve Martin
My Typical 9-5 Day!
My typical week. I am always fascinated of how people use there time during the week. 5 out of 7 days is spent at work and it does determine what we do after we clock out. So, I’m going to see how far this goes and hope to get more people involved in seeing what a typical work-week day is for them. Here’s mine:
Typical Monday - Friday
4:25 a.m. - Wake up. Usually tired as shit, but realize I get more personal things done during this time, than any part of the day.
Tags: day job
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