surprise!

im stuck here at work once again without much to do. i finished all my work at around 10am, and the time is now 240pm. ive just been browsing the internet and sitting here trying to figure out what what to blog about. i think this blog thing is pretty difficult because its so hard to get past the writers block, but i think im simply overanalyzing the issue.

a lot of people around me have been telling me that the new will smith movie, i am legend, is pretty cool. i think ill check it out this weekend. possibly next week, when i have the entire week off. score!

speaking of scoring, i came home pretty late last night, probably around 11, and as i walked into my house, i hear some tapping (like a woodpecker) coming from the living room. wtf? so as i enter the living room, my brother is sitting there playing rock band on the 360. he looks at me and says "merry christmas." apparently, my brother and sister bought it for me for christmas, but i guess my brother took the liberty of opening it and testing it out for me. which is fine with me, cuz it gives me more time to play. for those of you who dont know what rock band is, its a video game that's pretty similar to guitar hero, except you get a guitar, a drum set, and a mic. hence the title, rock band. so i got to play it, and needless to say, it was pretty awesome, but challenging at the same time.

did you know that the new lead singer for journey is a filipino? i think his name is arnel pineda. look it up.

africa, by toto. watch it.

little taste

ive been a lil bit under the weather the past couple of days, so i didnt feel like creating an entry for yesterday or the day before.

feelin a little bit lazy today too. here's a video. it's the 2003 edition of the santa clara vanguard at dci finals in orlando fl. check it out



ps. look for me about 10 seconds in.

lazy

football playoffs/championships are tomorrow. wish us luck. come out and support if you can.
have a nice weekend.

feliz navidad

ive been pretty busy today, well not really, but i felt like i was super busy because i was away from my desk for almost half the day. our company had its annual holiday luncheon today, and they catered lunch for the entire building. they served a traditional holiday meal: turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, gravy, etc. overall, the food was good (and it was free!) and i throughly enjoyed it.

after we ate, we got to enjoy a concert put on by the Cee Gees, which is a band that is made up of people that work here. fred is the drummer, and the 2 of the vocalists are vanessa and andie. they all did an awesome job, which is what i expected since they were able to leave during work hours to rehearse. (jealous!) so basically they got to rehearse and get paid to do so. so they performed christmas songs and everyone enjoyed it. including me.

i gotta cut it short cuz i get to go home soon. i gotta make like a tree and get outta here.

H20 audio

shanel' s blog about her diabetic cat reminded me of my friend mike, who is also diabetic. mike has this pretty crazy insulin pump which is this little electronic device that houses a small vial of insulin and is connected directly to his body at all times. and by connected, i mean its like a little needle (almost like an IV) thats hooked onto his skin, i think its connected on his side or back, somewhere near his kidneys. so basically, he checks his blood sugar levels periodically(by pricking his finger and feeding this sample into another little gadget), and based on this reading, he adjusts his insulin pump so he receives the proper amount of insulin.

we were on tour with the santa clara vanguard in 2003. for those of you who arent band nerds, scv is a drum and bugle corps (marching band on steroids) that tours the country from may to august, competing against other corps. and we basically travel from city to city by bus and sleep/stay on gym floors at high schools. it was probably one of the most challenging/rewarding things ive ever done, since our schedule consisted of 6 hour rehearsals during the day in 100+ degree weather, a show in the evening, and a long bus ride at night to the next city. repeat. i could write a whole blog about my experiences, but that would take too long. maybe later. back to mike....

so we were somewhere in texas and we had just finished rehearsing and we (me, mike, and our friend chris) were in the gym about to hit the showers. so this guy, allen (who is in the guard, and probably lacks the common sense gene) comes up to mike and asks him, "what is that thing on your hip?" (referring to his insulin pump). mike paused for a moment, trying to think of what to say to allen, since nobody had ever asked him before. with the straightest face, he replied "it's my mp3 player." allen just looks back at mike, says "oh. cool. what songs do you have on there?" mike just tells him "just a bunch of journey." allen nodded his head in approval and walked away. when chris and i heard this, we laughed our asses off. he actually believed that his pump, which was clearly connected to his back(since mike wasnt wearing a shirt), was an mp3 player. so the whole summer, whenever allen would see mike before (or even during) showering, he would ask mike what he was listening to, and mike would have to make something up, just to keep the joke going.

to this day, whenever i see mike, i ask him how his mp3 player is holding up.

couch potato

the wish lists for our secret santa came out yesterday. i thought it was pretty funny what my brother put down on his list. he listed the usual stuff (clothes, guitar hero, stuff for snowboarding, etc.) but the funniest part was what he asked for at the bottom of his list. he put : "girlfriend (must be hot! no dudes, shemales, or anything of that sort.)" i just thought it was hilarious because he usually isnt open to us about dating, and its been a while since he's had a girlfriend, so this caught me off guard. haha. well if youre reading this, and you are a hot, single girl, and not a shemale(important!), my brother is about 5'6", dark hair, brown eyes, and has an engineering degree from ucla. holla!

i woke up extra early this morning(about 4am) because i couldnt sleep, and got to work at a pretty decent time(655am). when i got up, i was torn between playing call of duty 4, or watching the nfl replay of the chargers vs titans game thats on my dvr. i chose to play the video game for about an hour. i will watch the game later, as well as this week's amazing race episode. my brother and i was watching superbad last night, but i fell asleep. so i gotta finish watching that too. ive got some major catching up to do!

'tis all for now. haveaniceday.

ime mun muna lutka!

we had the final regular season game this past saturday. we beat this team 20-6 even though we only had about half of our team. we were so thin that i even got to play some offense....and i scored a touchdown! haha. it was funny too, because i was playing running back, we were about 5 yds from the goal line, and i went out, caught the ball and juked this old man on the other team in order to get into the end zone. it was pretty funny because he dove for my flags and completely missed. my friends said the ref was going to call a penalty on me because "i made him look bad" oh well, my only glory for the season. next saturday, we have the playoffs and the championship game (if/when we make it). if you're not busy, come out and support us, our game starts at 1130 at robb field.

after the game, i went to gary(37) and marcus' (17) birthday party. it was cool, mari's family, a bunch of gary and justine's friends, and some of marcus' friends were there. my dad bought a keg because he didnt know what to get gary. so we had some fun with that.

Family party+keg=family keg stands!!!!

my cousin timo from finland was also visiting us (its pretty crazy that i actually have cousins from finland) so we brought him with us to the party, and it was cool seeing him discover "how we roll" here in the states. we even convinced him to do some grey goose shots with us and he even did a keg stand. in exchange, he taught us some curse words in finnish. good fun.

on sunday, went to disneyland with mari, marcus, and hannah (marcus' girfriend). left san diego around 9 am, got back home around 9 pm, so it was a short, but fun trip. ive never really gotten to know hannah, so i didnt know what to expect. turns out, she is a really cool person. she's pretty funny and weird, but she's a lot of fun to be around...i approve.

its pretty cold in my area here at work. whenever someone comes by to visit, they say its colder here than it is back at their desk. i think im gonna build a fire in my trashcan.....

free beer + peer pressure = late to work

so i got in to work pretty late today. i usually try to make it a point to get to work around or before 7-715. but today i got in at 900. the 805 was a parking lot, so we took the 125 since we have one of those transponders for the fastrak toll, which is a pretty cool device. but we left the house at 725 and i didnt get to work til 900...fuckin ridiculous!!! oh well, its friday and i dont have to be anywhere tonight anyway. so i'll probably get out of this joint at around 6. and by the time 430 comes around, most of the people will be out of the office, so maybe i can sneak a nap under my desk =).

so last night, EVERYONE from cdg went to strauss. i swear there was at least 30 people there, which is probably the deepest we've ever been. i remember when i first started working here and fred brought me along to strauss, i think there was about 8 of us and we all fit on one table. last night, we had 3 reservations and about 6-8 tables. re-dong-culous! but i had fun and it was cool hangin out with these people outside of work nahmsayin? i was only planning on having a couple of pints and maybe a few 'shots' of the free beer, but somehow i ended up having about twice that amount. i'd like to thank fred for bringin along andie, who seemed to enjoy forcing beer down our throats, which isnt a such a bad thing i guess. i gotta stop bein a lil bitch. =) i think they (fred and andie) tried to order a round of shots for our table, and i remember shaking my head in disapproval, since i already had enough alcohol in my system. luckily, they dont serve liquor at strauss, so that got me off the hook. afterwards, some of us ended up at shanel's house for a little bit, hung out, had some pizza, listened to some music, and learned the soulja boy dance....(note to self: don't dance. ever again.) im sure there were a lot of juicy details that i left out, but i still had a lot of fun, good times with good people (fred, shanel, ronnie, marcos, andie, vanessa, etc....)

plans for this weekend:

• gary/marcus's birthday party at the talavera residence on saturday. more drinking.
• deesneeland (<--van damme voice) on sunday, hopefully it stops raining a little bit.
• call of duty 4.
• christmas shopping???

time for that nap......

Number Two

fred and shanel came over to my desk yesterday to keep me company since it was pretty late in the day already and most of the crew had gone home. we were talkin, and somehow, the conversation strayed to the topic of 2 chicks, 1 cup (which is an awesome video btw ..::gag::.. NSFW!!!) this somehow led to a conversation about how me and fred's friends have pretty weird experiences when it comes to poop. like the one time a couple of weeks ago, where our friend "mud-butt" joel, forgot to drop the kids off before we left for the stadium for the charger game. basically, if you have to drop a deuce at the stadium, you only have two options. you can either use the bathrooms inside the stadium, but you have to cut tailgating short, or you can use the port-a-potty, but you have to use it pretty early in the day(for obvious reasons). well we were running late that day, so port-a-potty was out of the equation, and no one wanted to go into the stadium early and cut the party short. so joel asks us to go to mcdonalds by the stadium so he could use the bathroom there. well, when we get there, i feel "the need" too. so when we get out of the car, i purposely rush to the bathroom and to my delight, it was only a one-seater, so joel had to wait for me to finish my business, which sorta ticked him off. to make things worse, when i flushed, not everything went down the drain and there were a couple of floaters. so, knowing that joel was dying to use the toilet and me being the good friend that i am, i just left it for him. it was probably the best gift ever! because theres nothing worse than seeing someone else's deed.

which leads me to the daryl incident....

our team was at a football tournament in pomona and we had just finished a day of games. afterwards, we all headed to a nearby carl's jr. daryl is one of the youngest guys on our team, and he's probably one of the craziest guys i know (ask him about the icy-hot incident). so we're eating our food, he finishes and decides he needs to go to the bathroom. well, after a few minutes pass, daryl comes out of the bathroom with the biggest fuckin grin on his face. so we ask him what was going on and he didnt say a word. he just kept smiling. so our friend larry goes into the bathroom, not knowing what daryl had done. when he goes in to use the toilet, everyone in the restaurant hears a loud "ohhh!" almost like he saw a ghost. so some of us go in to investigate. basically, larry discovered a giant log ON THE SEAT. now this wasnt any ordinary giant log, this was a fuckin masterpiece. this beast stretched from the front-right side of the seat, it followed the seat perfectly, and ended on the front-left side, like an upside-down horseshoe... almost as if it were planned. the best part is, if you looked at it yourself, you could tell where he started and where he pinched it off. how daryl pulled that off is beyond me, but i guess he's a pretty talented guy and he's pretty flexible. i wish someone would have taken a picture of this, but at the same time i wish i hadnt seen it.

enjoy your lunch everyone!

Ridin' Dirty.

i don't really know how i ended up on here, or how someone convinced me to start writing a blog. but here i am, with a blog and a sore ass. thanks fred and shanel!

a good place to start would have to be explaining how i got the "dpitg" aka the "dirtiest player in the game" nickname.....surprisingly, its really not what you think.......or is it?

my friends and i have been playing football together pretty much since high school, and a couple of years after high school, we started a flag football team. we started out playing other people in the 'hood, then we moved on to tournaments, played in some small leagues, and now, after 4 championships, we are on our way to a 5th one(hopefully) in a really competitive league, going against some of the best teams in san diego. back to my story, i guess it happened when we were at a tournament in la and we were playing a team that was also from san diego. the weather that weekend consisted of hail, rain, and fury. so basically, perfect football weather, but i was hatin it. well, we were on offense and the play was for me to get the ball. so i get the ball, and the guy that comes up to pull my flags, grabs me by the waist instead and throws me to the ground. i didnt take lightly to this, since it was raining pretty hard and it was pretty cold. so i get up and pushed the guy, a little scrum ensued, some words were exchanged, but no punches were thrown. i remember the ref running towards us, but in the process falling flat on his ass because the grass was slippery. this sorta broke the tension, and luckily, nothing serious happened. afterwards, my friends told me that they have never seen that look on my face before, like i was gonna kill someone, and i thought that was pretty funny, since i still look like im 12 years old and they know that 60% of the time im pretty easy going.

also, during our first season in this league we are playing in now, we beat pretty much all the teams quite easily. our team is known to be very "cock"y when we play, and we use it as a tactic to get in to other teams heads and we use that to our advantage. on the field, people hate us, but off the field, we are perfect gentlemen. so there was this one game where we were beating this team pretty bad. i was on the sideline, and next thing i know, i see one of my friends on the ground wrestling with another dude. so after the play, theyre still going at it, so i leave the sideline to try and break it up. little do i know, this is illegal, and is grounds for ejection. so i get ejected, which is pretty embarrasing, and my friends give me a hard time once again....callin me the dirtiest player in the game.

you can ask some of my other friends about this "dpitg" title, but they might give you a completely different story, not football related.....