수요일 아침: mornings when i try to go to the sunnyvale skate park but end up not being able to go really p!$$ me off big time. 2day was 1'f those morns. i don't sleep in much these days. rather, 4 the most part i have 2 kinds'f morns: 1's where i wake up early n' hit up the sunnyvale skate park n' 1's where i wake up early hafta do lots'f housechores n' the like n' then end up not making it to the sunnyvale skate park. as u know, the latter p!$$es me off big time, while the former makes me quite happy. is it not a simple request? i just wanna hit up the sunnyvale skate park n' get a li'l skateboarding in b4 werk. it's free. it hurts no 1. why not? simple pleasures, u know? i'm not asking 4 a riches beyond my imagination. i'm not asking 4 an expen$ive, designer suit or an italian sportscar. i just wanna skate. *sigh*
yesterday i went to the sunnyvale skate park. on last fri, i went as well, rt? yah, i did. yesterday, i was talking to my buddy over there, mike; n' he advised that i praktice rolling over the coping in the small bowl, the li'l 0.5pipe area. he sed that if i get used to rolling over the coping, then i'll get closer to doing axle stalls. these days, i mostly do a bunch'f backside rear axle grinds, short grinds. i've been trying a li'l to carve frontside on the walls n' to roll back down fakie now n' then. *sigh* i'd like to be able to do some rock to fakies soon. n' hey... i'd love to be able to catch some air someday. dude, the things i can do on a snowboard... why can't i do them yet on a skateboard? heh, i'm trying to be shaun white, as u all know.
neway, dude, as i looked @ the clock on my way out'f the house this morn; i realised that i needed to grab my "casual" shoes n' not my skateboarding shoes. 'twas like 740a or sumpthin'. *sigh* i try to be @ the sunnyvale skate park by like 715a or else just 4get it... ideally, i need to be there b4 700a. i hear it pretty much opens @ 630a.
on fri, this adolescent boy was talkin' to my buddy mike n' me. he asked mike how old he is. mike answered, "45"; n' the kid responded, "whoa! you don't look a day over 17!" or sumpthin' like that. seriously! i knew mike was older, but i thought he was @ most 35. it's crazy how the sunnyvale skate park attrakts the older crowd in the morn. i like it.
what if i could just skate, do taekwondo, go snowboarding in the winter, n' do dj stuff all the time? *sigh*
baby blogs - whadya think'f'em? i have sooo many friends who r either having babies this yr or else just recently had babies... or both!!! some r already going 4 round 2 so soon. amazing. think: britney spears (born 1981) has a kid n' is 'bout to have a 2nd: what is it she sings? "hit me baby, one more time"? apparently, the aktual, official title'f that song is "...baby one more time," n' that's exaktly what's happening, eh? didju know that last summer, michelle branch (born 1983) had a baby w/ her husband who's her bass player?! on sat, while we were hangin' in berkeley w/ our good friends eric johnson n' roland, the beautiful kaela hwang attributed the recent surge in baby stores to the recent trend in big name stars having babies, which has made it so trendy to have babies. true? *shrug* in a way, maybe it's a much needed backlash to the whole $ex & the city nonsense. *shrug* neway, i was asking 'bout baby blogs... my ol' hi skool friend jerin n' his wife wami have a kewl blog, but he recently turned his baby blog into more'f a spinoff, giving his baby son taisei his own blog n' reserving the couple's blog 4 adult aktivities.
me, i really want to have kids someday. heck, it's like a dream'f mine, i guess. like, yah, i reallyreallystill not time. really, it's not. like, in past yrs, i wanted more than kaela to have kids sooner than later. perhaps, i still do. however... i mean, shoot; if it's not gonna happen soon, u know what? i can't force it! i really can't. u know, god makes everything happen 4 a reason. if he put me in a situation where i have a stressed out wife living as an eternal student who can't raise kids cos she's in skool, even that happens 4 a reason. kaela's skool, our finances... those r the 2 main reasons we're not yet having kids, i guess. also, heck... i'm just plain 2 scared... which is not necessarily justified. in society 2day, we're obviously 2 accepting n' compromising 'bout fear, huh? "i'm 2 scared" is a bad excuse. i mean, heck! 1 could be "2 scared" to go to college, yet we wouldn't take that as an excuse not to go to college. sometimes, u just gotta have faith.. n' it's not always a warm, fuzzy thing; sometimes it's more serious. :-/ just a few months 'go, i was still 2 scared to drop in on vert in the sunnyvale skate park. now i'm dropping in fine. the difference was simply getting over my fear. i felt really accomplished after getting the hang'f dropping in.
*sigh* if i didn't go to the sunnyvale skate park 2day, why didn't i ride my bike to werk? i dunno... i really don't know. 'twas a frustrating morn.
so what's been going on? i didn't finish my update yesterday. what's been up? well, on thurs... hrm... we went to 청기와 chunggiwa 4 dinner after praktice. 'twas yet 'nother good all.u.can eat meat dinner. then our friend eric johnson came to meet us there as he flew in from colorado 4 werk. he was 'bout to move into his new apt in fremont but didn't yet have the key, so kaela n' i hosted him on thurs nite. on fri morn, i woke up early n' hit up the sunnyvale skate park. @ lunchtime, i went to the sunnyvale east arques 24 hour fitness to attend janice wright's turbo kick box (tkb) class. then, after werk, i met up w/ kaela n' attended the turbo kick box (tkb) class at the sunnyvale fremont ave 24 hour fitness. the usual instruktor there is may, but we had a sub who was barani from the moorpark 24 hour fitness. her classes r really confusing. i'd just eaten a bunch'f pizza @ my office. *sigh* then 4 dinner, kaela n' i brought sooni out w/ us to mtn view's castro. we ate @ vaso azzurro. what did we order? isalata avocadro, polenta con funghi portobello (extraneous; good but 2 much fatt'ning cheese), fettucine azzurro 4 kaela, coq au vin 4 me, moretti italine birra 4 me, n' pinot grigio vino 4 kaela. *sigh* well, we ate dinner... then? i don't think we did nething else. it was a late dinner; we just went home.
on sat, i slept in 4 the 1st time in ages. i wanted to hit up the skate park; but then 'gain, i also knew there was a skate contest there that day. i wanted to go to watch the skate context but also wanted to avoid the skate park cos i prob'ly couldn't get much skating in cos the placed'be crowded b4 the contest. *sigh* i wish i could've gone to the contest. i bet i would've cn several pro skateboarders there... like, not competing, but i might've been able to get an autograph or sumpthin'... i 1nce had an autographed poster'f steve caballero from when i met him @ the san josé snow expo; but i bet my mom threw it 'way. ... wow, didju read that wikipedia article on steve caballero? he recently got married 4 a 2nd time it also sez he's a "pentecostal christian." interesting. i wonder if he goes to church 'round here. *shrug* neway... when i finally woke up, what did i do? i 4get... i prob'ly did lots'f laundry. we did lots'f laundry last wknd. eventually, we made it out the door n' went to the santa clara farmers market, where i walked sooni 'round the outskirts, while kaela bought a bunch'f fruits, veggies, eggs, n' bread. we also got some drinks from a nearby café afterwards. then we brought sooni to the santa clara petco to use a $2 ¢oupon we had. then we visited 하나 hana dvd to pick up the last disc'f 대장금 daejanggeum n' then the entire series'f 내 이름은 삼순 nae ireumeun samsoon. while we were in the dvd store, i tied sooni up to this lightweight sign that was outside the door oh, she was sooo well.behaved 4 a while. then i looked over 'gain n' she was gone. some not.that.nice, white couple came draggin' sooni n' the sign back saying that she ran off into the "middle of the street" w/ the sign. i think she must've cn an ill.behaved doggy in the parking lot n' instiktively ran over to discipline the bad dog... which isn't her job, but oh well. [later] i guess we ate some leftovers fromt he nite b4 4 lunch. then, we got ready to go up to the east bay. we 1st visited eric's new apt in fremont. then we cruised up to albany to meet up w/ roland. wow, i guess the day flew by. we hung out 4 a short while in roland's condo. we watched a li'l bit'f mtv's final fu on tivo. then we headed to northside berkeley. while talkin' on the fon w/ toby last nite, i realised that we didn't visit the campus @ all this trip; which is pretty odd 4 me. i usually wanna drive by the campus every time i visit berkeley. in some ways, i really miss berkeley, as u prob'ly gathered. i talk 'bout berkeley 'lot; i know. in some ways it's as if i'm "homesick" 4 berkeley. @ the same time, like kaela, i prefer the warmer weather down here in the sobay. also, i do enjoy living close to my family, i guess. of course, i really like going to grx down here. seriously, i care 'bout living near my friends n' things like a good church n' a good taekwondojang, etc. i wouldn't ever just pack up n' move to a diff region just cos some company offered me $$$ n' a job. i just say this cos kaela, much to my extreme chagrin, always asks these mean hypothetical
questions'f stuff like "what if i can't make it [as a chiropraktor] in this area? what if we had to move to...?" n' she always throws in some "gosh awful" place that i would never wanna live. u know... like super boonies places where u'll never get asian fud. dude, i can't do that. i dunno... i mean, heck... if god himself really asked me to move somewhere, i guess i would... but i wouldn't move to some awful place just 4 a career, whatever that's worth. job titles n' akademic degrees... man, what is it all worth in the end, huh?