this is a different kind of end of the year wrap up. i could sit here and tell you how much shit i learned and how much i've grown blah blah blah, but thats not what i wanted to do this time around. i took this survey that i saw on not so small talk's blog, and thought it would be cool to do for my blog as well. so as the first post of the new year here it is! enjoy!
1. What did you do in 2009 that you’d never done before? have my own (along with erwin and JV) clothing company, and showcase our shirts at sfsu's talentado fashion show! :-D
2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year? i don't think i had any specific ones.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth? No.
4. Did anyone close to you die? No.
5. What countries did you visit? none
6. What would you like to have in 2010 that you lacked in 2009? money, and better time management.
7. What date from 2009 will remain etched upon your memory and why? nov. 7th the day me and "eva" met and took her home LOL
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year? waking up everyday, and fighting through the struggle that is life.
9. What was your biggest failure? again TIME MAGAGEMENT!
10. Did you suffer illness or injury? nope
11. What was the best thing you bought? oh man 4 things 1) authentic LT jersey, 2)my G1, 3)PS3, and finally 4) 2010 honda civic si sedan aka eva lol
12. Whose behavior merited celebration? my friends. a bunch of them have good heads on their shoulders and are heading into the right path, and for that i look up to a lot of them.
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed? smh @ tiger woods, kanye, gloria macapagal arroyo, and floyd mayweather sr and jr. (fuck those guys)
14. Where did most of your money go? from jan - oct. money went to car insurance for nov and dec money went to car payments.
15. What did you really, really, really get excited about?getting my new car, the 2009 san diego chargers season, and kristine graduation from UCI :-D
16. What song will always remind you of 2009? Run this town - jay-z
17. Compared to this time last year are you:
Happier? yes
Thinner? i wouldn't say thinner, i've gained muscle mass due to crossfit.
Richer? nope, lol. it's all good money management is something i can improve on this year.
18. What do you wish you’d done more of? make more of an effort to go bboying on monday and wednesday
19. What do you wish you’d done less of? procrastinate.
20. How did you spend Christmas? usual family party, but it was 10 times better because the charger game was on, and we won! yeahyuh!! lol
21. How will you be spending new years? spent it with family & kristine again :-D, and finally saw the hangover
22. Did you fall in love in 2009? 24/7 365.
23. How many one-night stands? None.
24. What was your favorite TV program?family guy, community, Cleveland show, scrubs, mythbusters, comedy central presents.
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year? not that i can think of
26. What was the best book you read? didnt read any books in 2009, maybe something i can do in 2010
27. What was your biggest musical discovery? coleman hawkins album "at ease with coleman hawkins"
28. What did you want and you got? a brand new car, ps3, authentic LT jersey, and my G1 (although the battery life could be better lol)
29. What did you want and not get? i've got everything i need and want.
30. What was your favorite film of this year? UP, district 9, the'res a few more that i cant remember.
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old did you turn?turned 22, spent it with the homies, and got really thrashed lol
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying? if i knew what i was doing in my community is making a difference.
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2009? i have no idea how to describe my style TBH lol
34. What kept you sane? family, friends, and kristine
35. Which celebrity did you fancy the most? alicia keys, need i say more lol
36. What political issue stirred you the most? marriage equality, and immigration laws.
37. Who did you miss? my family in the philippines
38. Who was the best new person you met? Kasamas from different bayan organizations :-D
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2009:stay positive!
40. Quote or Song Lyric that sums up your year: "don't whine, don't complain, no excuses" and "don't give up, don't ever give up"
biggups and shot outs to:
Kristine
BnB
1520 sedgewick ave. Djs
Rock So Fresh
Swift Wizards Crew
R/D boys
SDA
Anakbayan SD
all the bayan USA orgs
KAMP
the MMHS kamp students, y'all are the best
and to you, the reader.
bring on 2010, im going to give you hell! LET'S GO!!!!
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Saturday, January 2, 2010
Thursday, January 1, 2009
'09, BRING IT ON!!
When I think about what kind of year I had in 2008, I never would have thought id be where I'm at right now. within the past 12 months I've joined 2 more non-profit orginizations (KAMP, Anakbayan San Diego ) aside from zulu which helped me grow into a better person, helped me re-identify with my filipino-american self, all thanks to the homie Ray of cool kids, who introduced me to these orgs, made new friends, got closer to old friends, I VOTED, mine and krisitne's relationship has gotten a whole lot stronger, my eyes have been opned up to things i never would have thought of in 2007, and CHANGE for me, for my community and for this country.
It's amazing how much change can happen to one person in the course of 12 months, but with these changes came more challenges. Challenges like finding a new balance in life trying to fit in friends, bboying, organizations, school, family, girlfriend, RE.DEF, yeah 2008 was a BIG year for me. Having to balance all of these helped/forced me to mature a little bit more, which isnt such a bad thing, all this change just means i learned how to write reminders, and made me realized that i need to start using an organizer haha.
A lot of growth happend this past year and much like this blog, it was unstructured, it was more like a "take it and run with it" kinda year, you know?, I didn't even think id be doing things to better my quality of life. Just like the years past one of my biggest goals was to make sure I try to keep my friends close and build on new friendships, and this year was probably the best year for this, not for the purpose of saying "OH YEAH I HAVE THIS MANY FRIENDS BLAH BLAH BLAH", naw , not me, but for the purpose of knowing who my friends REALLY are.
As Great as 2008 was, It did have its low points. One being that the Chargers lost in the AFC championship game against the patriots, ah well. Another is the san diego padres whole season, yeah having 99 looses in one season is never a good thing. There was actually a point and time this past year that i felt like I was just existing not living meaning there were some emotional breakdowns. My grandmother in the PI passed away, but i couldn't go with my family to attend her funeral because school was starting at the same time, and since the first couple weeks of school is so packed and teachers drope students not there on either the first day of class or the first week of class I just couldn't pay for my classes then get dropped :-( . but even with all that said, 2008 was still a great year
some 2008 highlights:
- joining KAMP
- joining Anakbayan SD
- RE.DEF "sample" shirts haha
- attending my first ever charger game (also got to see the great brett favre play)
- turning 21
- VEGAS!
- New wizard member
- saw Q-tip in concert
- Kristine's cocktail party in irvine
- filipino studies course
- got back into playing basketball
- KAMP retreat
- 6 YEAR ANNIVERSARY!!
and now my shout outs:
-BnB/sensations
-rock so fresh
-1520 segwick avenue dj's
-swift wizards crew
-cypher city kings
- KAMP
-Anakbayan
- condo/sda
-Kristine
thank you all for such a memorable year!
peace and love
It's amazing how much change can happen to one person in the course of 12 months, but with these changes came more challenges. Challenges like finding a new balance in life trying to fit in friends, bboying, organizations, school, family, girlfriend, RE.DEF, yeah 2008 was a BIG year for me. Having to balance all of these helped/forced me to mature a little bit more, which isnt such a bad thing, all this change just means i learned how to write reminders, and made me realized that i need to start using an organizer haha.
A lot of growth happend this past year and much like this blog, it was unstructured, it was more like a "take it and run with it" kinda year, you know?, I didn't even think id be doing things to better my quality of life. Just like the years past one of my biggest goals was to make sure I try to keep my friends close and build on new friendships, and this year was probably the best year for this, not for the purpose of saying "OH YEAH I HAVE THIS MANY FRIENDS BLAH BLAH BLAH", naw , not me, but for the purpose of knowing who my friends REALLY are.
As Great as 2008 was, It did have its low points. One being that the Chargers lost in the AFC championship game against the patriots, ah well. Another is the san diego padres whole season, yeah having 99 looses in one season is never a good thing. There was actually a point and time this past year that i felt like I was just existing not living meaning there were some emotional breakdowns. My grandmother in the PI passed away, but i couldn't go with my family to attend her funeral because school was starting at the same time, and since the first couple weeks of school is so packed and teachers drope students not there on either the first day of class or the first week of class I just couldn't pay for my classes then get dropped :-( . but even with all that said, 2008 was still a great year
some 2008 highlights:
- joining KAMP
- joining Anakbayan SD
- RE.DEF "sample" shirts haha
- attending my first ever charger game (also got to see the great brett favre play)
- turning 21
- VEGAS!
- New wizard member
- saw Q-tip in concert
- Kristine's cocktail party in irvine
- filipino studies course
- got back into playing basketball
- KAMP retreat
- 6 YEAR ANNIVERSARY!!
and now my shout outs:
-BnB/sensations
-rock so fresh
-1520 segwick avenue dj's
-swift wizards crew
-cypher city kings
- KAMP
-Anakbayan
- condo/sda
-Kristine
thank you all for such a memorable year!
peace and love
Monday, June 9, 2008
Can I live?!?!
DISCLAIMER: this blog is not to offend anyone, im not trying to call anyone out. Its just me mearly venting out my thoughts of the past week or so. I apologize if any of this changes your attitude towards me in anyway. thank you and god bless.
so i've some things on my mind lately, mainly because I was confronted with why I hanven't been to any bboy jams lately. This particular problem of me not showing up to jams has been an on going issue since my senior year of high school, "why don't you come to jams anymore?","i heard you stopped bboyin?","where you been man, I haven't seen you at practices or jams in a while?"," what hes actually here at practice?", all of these questions were pretty common in 2004 - june of 2005, and now 3 years later it's being brought up again. What I don't understand is why are people EVEN saying those things. Don't get me wrong, i appreciate the fact that people want me around and all but just like a lot of you, I too have a life outside of HIP-HOP.
2004 - 2005 was my senior year of high school and during the 3 years before that i fucked up big time, meaning, I didn't have all my credits for my senior year. Senior year became my "stop the bullshit and get serious or else youre not fucking graduating because you lollygaged your way into senior year" year, so thats exsactly what I did, bboying was put to the side, and I got serious with school, that and wanting to live up my last high school year. I got more involved with FIl-am and started airbands with my group of my friends, we wanted to go "all out" for our last year of high school, and why not? right? I figured you're only a senior once in your life, so why the fuck not?. I know bboying will be there no matter what, and I was just hoping that everyone would understand that, apparently not. So there I was MY senior year, trying to get through it and graduate while being involved with fil-am and being vice-president, co-choreographer, and co-director of our airband group, and i'm gettins shit from people because im not going to jams or im not practicing anymore. I honestly thought we were past that.
Fast forward a few years later and now im a full-time college student working part time, and now im involved with three non-profit orginizations. I'm pretty damn proud that i'm doing other things other than bboyin. Sure it's great that im known as a bboy/dancer, its great i love it, but I want to do other things, bigger and better things. I, as a man, want to put MY mark here in SD, i'm not gonna do that bboyin. Lets be real here, yes bboyin is an outlet for some people, yes bboyin is a dance artform that is respected, but it doesnt give me the fulfillment I get when im giving back to my community. So now that i've started doing more things in my life the questions come up agian, "ey why weren't you at the jam?", "where you been, i havent seen you at practice for in a while?". Okay so maybe there aren't as many questions, but still the issue of me not being somewhere because I DON'T WANT TO or i just can't. one thing that does bother me is this "man, raf just bboys for fun", EXCUSE ME?!?!, if im not doing it FOR fun then what the fuck am I doing it for. I got into bboying because it IS fun, and therefore im doing it for fun and i never want to lose sight of that. Fun for me may mean something totally differnt from another bboy but if youre not doing it for fun then, i feel, youre not doing it for the right reasons. "bboying isn't a high priority for him", yeah, it isn't, why should it be, i still have family, friends, work, and other things goin on in my life that bboying just isn't ALWAYS a top priority. Im sorry but thats the truth, i really hope all of you can understand this, especially those that are in the same circle as me in the san diego hip hop scene.
I hope i dont sound like a selfish bitch right now, but im so sick and tired of being questioned when i've repeatedly said that i have other this in my life that i do. just dont question me, my commitment to my crew, and my love for the dance. Family, friends, kristine, bboying, my crew, are all important aspects in my life, and ive tried so hard to balance all of those things. I dont wanna lose sight of childhood friends, i dont wanna lose my relationship with my family, i especially dont wanna lose touch with my crew and Kristine, so if im not out at a jam or at practice just understand and think to yourself, "oh hes prolly doin his thing, he doesnt have to be here all the time".
thank you for reading, and again i apologize if this changes your attitude towards me. This is just me, being grown. im not 15 anymore im 21 this year, i have my own mind and my own agenda and my own responsibilities that i will handle MY way NOT anyone elses. peace
so i've some things on my mind lately, mainly because I was confronted with why I hanven't been to any bboy jams lately. This particular problem of me not showing up to jams has been an on going issue since my senior year of high school, "why don't you come to jams anymore?","i heard you stopped bboyin?","where you been man, I haven't seen you at practices or jams in a while?"," what hes actually here at practice?", all of these questions were pretty common in 2004 - june of 2005, and now 3 years later it's being brought up again. What I don't understand is why are people EVEN saying those things. Don't get me wrong, i appreciate the fact that people want me around and all but just like a lot of you, I too have a life outside of HIP-HOP.
2004 - 2005 was my senior year of high school and during the 3 years before that i fucked up big time, meaning, I didn't have all my credits for my senior year. Senior year became my "stop the bullshit and get serious or else youre not fucking graduating because you lollygaged your way into senior year" year, so thats exsactly what I did, bboying was put to the side, and I got serious with school, that and wanting to live up my last high school year. I got more involved with FIl-am and started airbands with my group of my friends, we wanted to go "all out" for our last year of high school, and why not? right? I figured you're only a senior once in your life, so why the fuck not?. I know bboying will be there no matter what, and I was just hoping that everyone would understand that, apparently not. So there I was MY senior year, trying to get through it and graduate while being involved with fil-am and being vice-president, co-choreographer, and co-director of our airband group, and i'm gettins shit from people because im not going to jams or im not practicing anymore. I honestly thought we were past that.
Fast forward a few years later and now im a full-time college student working part time, and now im involved with three non-profit orginizations. I'm pretty damn proud that i'm doing other things other than bboyin. Sure it's great that im known as a bboy/dancer, its great i love it, but I want to do other things, bigger and better things. I, as a man, want to put MY mark here in SD, i'm not gonna do that bboyin. Lets be real here, yes bboyin is an outlet for some people, yes bboyin is a dance artform that is respected, but it doesnt give me the fulfillment I get when im giving back to my community. So now that i've started doing more things in my life the questions come up agian, "ey why weren't you at the jam?", "where you been, i havent seen you at practice for in a while?". Okay so maybe there aren't as many questions, but still the issue of me not being somewhere because I DON'T WANT TO or i just can't. one thing that does bother me is this "man, raf just bboys for fun", EXCUSE ME?!?!, if im not doing it FOR fun then what the fuck am I doing it for. I got into bboying because it IS fun, and therefore im doing it for fun and i never want to lose sight of that. Fun for me may mean something totally differnt from another bboy but if youre not doing it for fun then, i feel, youre not doing it for the right reasons. "bboying isn't a high priority for him", yeah, it isn't, why should it be, i still have family, friends, work, and other things goin on in my life that bboying just isn't ALWAYS a top priority. Im sorry but thats the truth, i really hope all of you can understand this, especially those that are in the same circle as me in the san diego hip hop scene.
I hope i dont sound like a selfish bitch right now, but im so sick and tired of being questioned when i've repeatedly said that i have other this in my life that i do. just dont question me, my commitment to my crew, and my love for the dance. Family, friends, kristine, bboying, my crew, are all important aspects in my life, and ive tried so hard to balance all of those things. I dont wanna lose sight of childhood friends, i dont wanna lose my relationship with my family, i especially dont wanna lose touch with my crew and Kristine, so if im not out at a jam or at practice just understand and think to yourself, "oh hes prolly doin his thing, he doesnt have to be here all the time".
thank you for reading, and again i apologize if this changes your attitude towards me. This is just me, being grown. im not 15 anymore im 21 this year, i have my own mind and my own agenda and my own responsibilities that i will handle MY way NOT anyone elses. peace
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