wing chun

Last month, I decided that I was going to start training in some form of martial arts. Hence wing chun kung fu. Today is my first grading. Yes, I should be practicing and warming up but instead I'm blogging. Hehe, not the highest priority right now, but I feel I'm prepared and cramming last minute isn't going to help. It's definitely not like midterms and finals where you can just cram the information in and forget about it. I really need to know my stuff here because they can call out anything and I have to be able to do it. It's really good way to improve focusing. I think I'm totally addicted to it now. It's kinda like in Kung Fu Panda when Panda goes, "I love kung fuuuuuuuuuuuu!"

wouldn't life be cool as a musical

i always thought life would be more interesting if it were a musical and people would randomly burst into song and dance. so here's something to indulge that fantasy...

sad state

Samson, Alabama: 10
Oakland, California: 4
Santa Clara, California: 5
Carthage, North Carolina: 8
Binghampton, New York: 13
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: 3
Graham, Washington: 5

it's beyond words. just look it up and you'll know what i mean.

crazy...

as time goes by

it's crazy realizing how fast time passes. i still remember things as if they happened yesterday but i realize it's been years, a decade even. we just get caught up in cycles of being busy and don't stop to take a breather, even a small one. some times it takes some drastic event to make us stop and look at everything we've zipped past as we rushed forward with our lives. i'm definitely learning to take those much needed time outs, even though sometimes i don't want to. it's really difficult to force yourself to stop entirely, stop the vibration of the zillions of cells that just want to keep charging. then, pick up and carry on.

RENT!

So after almost a decade of waiting, I finally got to see Rent and let me tell you, those orchestra tickets were worth every penny and then some. It was incredible. I mean, to hear that music live and see Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp live onstage was uninmaginably awesome. Half the time I had chills running down my back because the music was amazing. The other half, I was pinching myself to make sure it wasn't some dream. And then there was some audience participation in "Over the Moon" which was just great. (That's the song where Maureen asks the audience to moo with her. So we all moo-ed.) The whole storyline (albeit a modern retelling of La Boheme) is so much more than just about a bunch of gay people living with AIDS. It's about community, friendship, coping with life, coping with loss, finding stability, finding love, finding your dream but not selling out. There are so many songs, little interludes and such, that really touch on these points. Anyway, go see the show. It's awesome.

you can't stop the beat!

i feel like i'm going at a million miles a second. so many ideas, aspirations, desires. so many things that i'm doing and trying out. also addicted to hairspray for some reason right now. so here's a upbeat little number that's on repeat on my ipod.