Snowboarding again for the second time. During Freshman year over the Christmas break my sister was planning to go snowboarding around New Years with her boyfriend, Kevin. After Christmas she was excited to go snowboarding and she asked me if I wanted to go with her. I said yea and I was excited also. The next day we went shopping to get my snow clothes and I got a jacket and pants so I don't get my inside clothes wet. Later we went to Any Mountain (which is a store we went in Berkeley) to rent my snow boots and snowboard. I didn't know where we were going snowboarding and I thought we were going to "any mountain" to rent my equipment then we arrived to the store called Any Mountain. I got my snow boarding equipment and got myself a pair of snow gloves and thermal socks.
It was New Years Eve, My sister and I went to spend the night at Kevin's house so we could leave in the morning. It was New Years leaving at 6 o'clock to Boreal. It was about a two hour trip and we arrived there. We got our tickets for the ski lift. We got our snowboard ready to go on the lift and we got to the top. Since it was my second time I wasn't nervous going down the slope because I did okay on my first snowboarding trip. So I went for it gaining a lot of speed about less than half down and I end up face planting onto the ground. This happened because I forgot to stay on my heel or toes instead I went flat feet on the board that made my board a little wobbly. I end up with a busted lip and became numb, I was okay.
Two hours later we went to the very top of the mountain and I was scared going down. Some parts had sharp turns and was steep. I was be hide while I was going slowly down the hill, maybe an hour later I got down.(Sutherland you heard that your abbes gets sore?something like that but my legs were sore from my body weight on my heels but I didn't get sore on my abbes.) After we went off to the side playing in the snow but Kevin wanted to go snowboarding some more. It was my sister and I and we made a snowman. Kevin came back and we had a snowball fight with a snow fort.At Boreal it kinda suck because the snow wasn't soft and smooth and it's warmer than the other places. Boreal was about 40 degrees and the snow was hard. We went home after and all that was a one day trip.
Hope I go again this break!
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Friday, December 4, 2009
The Gold Rush
Making a project about the gold rush. In 5th grade my teacher assigned the class a writing assignment about pretending that we were in the gold rush. I just wanted to bring this writing of mine of the gold rush for fun and show how horrible and funny my writing was. In this writing I'm not going to correct my grammar errors, so I'm going to leave it as it is.
A long time ago in the 1790, I was 29 years old and I was going to dig for some gold so I could be rich. I was digging for gold and there was a lot of people there. I was digging some gold so, I was to the store and I bought a weapon to protect myself.
at the store and got materials for the gold, I went back to the river. I put the pan in the water to see if there was gold in there. Someone tried to steal my gold, but I had my knife to protect myself and he ran away.
I got married and I stopped digging for gold. I was almost rich but I had a lot of gold.
Doing this project took a few days to complete because we were supposed to make a picture frame and a writing about the gold rush attach to it. The worst part of this project was making the frame because we had to cut out the picture frame by ourselves. We had crappy scissors to cut the hard card board out and it was crowded in the corner with people sharing a big piece of cardboard. We would cut out a picture frame design for our picture.
Later we took our pictures and there wasn't many choices of props, there was a hat (if you wanted to wear it), a big button coat, pick axe, and a shovel as I remembered. I'm not sure if this real but my teacher told us we couldn't smile in the picture back then because if you do, the camera would take your soul or have bad luck, she said some thing like that. We had to type up our writing and make it look old by tearing the sides, wrinkle the paper a lot, and the teacher soaked our writing in tea.
A long time ago in the 1790, I was 29 years old and I was going to dig for some gold so I could be rich. I was digging for gold and there was a lot of people there. I was digging some gold so, I was to the store and I bought a weapon to protect myself.
at the store and got materials for the gold, I went back to the river. I put the pan in the water to see if there was gold in there. Someone tried to steal my gold, but I had my knife to protect myself and he ran away.
I got married and I stopped digging for gold. I was almost rich but I had a lot of gold.
Doing this project took a few days to complete because we were supposed to make a picture frame and a writing about the gold rush attach to it. The worst part of this project was making the frame because we had to cut out the picture frame by ourselves. We had crappy scissors to cut the hard card board out and it was crowded in the corner with people sharing a big piece of cardboard. We would cut out a picture frame design for our picture.
Later we took our pictures and there wasn't many choices of props, there was a hat (if you wanted to wear it), a big button coat, pick axe, and a shovel as I remembered. I'm not sure if this real but my teacher told us we couldn't smile in the picture back then because if you do, the camera would take your soul or have bad luck, she said some thing like that. We had to type up our writing and make it look old by tearing the sides, wrinkle the paper a lot, and the teacher soaked our writing in tea.
Friday, November 13, 2009
Martial Arts
(On my last blog, not the new statement one I don't feel like continuing it. Also on my new statement I just failed on one of my goals which was writing my blog before Friday. . . and it's Friday.)
Now I'm doing my other goal, writing about my martial arts. I'll probably be writing more on this topic when I feel like it. I been taking Kung Fu/Vietnamese Martial Arts for about four years now but I kinda do some Vietnamese Martial Arts (V.M.A) because there located at the same place. I'm taking lessons at my Uncle's garage so yea. For (V.M.A) I am a blue belt and I don't know whats the belt order but highest is red belt(male)and yellow belt (female). I only learn Vietnamese forms and always go to tournaments every year.
As for Kung Fu, I am a first degree brown belt(just got promoted to first degree yesterday =]). The belt orders are white, orange, purple, blue, green, brown, and black. There is class on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday located in Hayward in my Uncle's garage and there are two class. The first class is for the younger kids and second is the older people. We train for about an hour and a half. Now the kids class is getting too crowded.
For the second class that I'm in, there are three black belts including the teacher, two brown belts, and a green belt in there. For me it sucks because this year I have been going once a week on Thursdays. I only go once because my mom has work late at night and I can't get a ride. In class we warm up with stretching, kicking, punching, and sometimes jump roping. We do our different types of forms. First we do the all four cotta (I think that's how you spell it)forms and the other type of form is called pinon and it goes up to 1-15 forms. I only got up to 13 but when we work on our forms we only go up to what the lowest rank knows up to like if they only know up to pinon 11, we only go up to 11. The thing I don't like to practice are punching attack 1A,1B,2A,2B ect., up to 15. The other one is called grab-arts that go up to 15 and sometimes I get them mixed up with both of them or forget it.
I'll be writing about this again.
Now I'm doing my other goal, writing about my martial arts. I'll probably be writing more on this topic when I feel like it. I been taking Kung Fu/Vietnamese Martial Arts for about four years now but I kinda do some Vietnamese Martial Arts (V.M.A) because there located at the same place. I'm taking lessons at my Uncle's garage so yea. For (V.M.A) I am a blue belt and I don't know whats the belt order but highest is red belt(male)and yellow belt (female). I only learn Vietnamese forms and always go to tournaments every year.
As for Kung Fu, I am a first degree brown belt(just got promoted to first degree yesterday =]). The belt orders are white, orange, purple, blue, green, brown, and black. There is class on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday located in Hayward in my Uncle's garage and there are two class. The first class is for the younger kids and second is the older people. We train for about an hour and a half. Now the kids class is getting too crowded.
For the second class that I'm in, there are three black belts including the teacher, two brown belts, and a green belt in there. For me it sucks because this year I have been going once a week on Thursdays. I only go once because my mom has work late at night and I can't get a ride. In class we warm up with stretching, kicking, punching, and sometimes jump roping. We do our different types of forms. First we do the all four cotta (I think that's how you spell it)forms and the other type of form is called pinon and it goes up to 1-15 forms. I only got up to 13 but when we work on our forms we only go up to what the lowest rank knows up to like if they only know up to pinon 11, we only go up to 11. The thing I don't like to practice are punching attack 1A,1B,2A,2B ect., up to 15. The other one is called grab-arts that go up to 15 and sometimes I get them mixed up with both of them or forget it.
I'll be writing about this again.
Friday, November 6, 2009
New Statement of Purpose
So during this first quarter I been writing all my blogs on Friday. In the beginning of the school year when we started on our blogs I thought writing up to 300 words would be hard. I reviewed all my passed blog post and I actually been writing about 400+ words. When I write my blogs I feel comfortable because I could write about any topic I want. But sometimes when I write up a blog I don't know what to write about.
In my other statement of purpose I said I was going to write about Kung Fu and Vietnamese Martial Arts. In the first quarter I never did that and didn't feel like it. So far I been writing about topics that are interesting and things from my past life. There are so many topics I could write about besides my martial arts. In this second quarter I will try to write a blog or a few on that topic. When I don't know what to write about I just write about what I did on a day like I did on my last post about biking riding. I need to stop posting my blog on Friday and use the time wisely in the computer room.
In my first blog post my goals were planing on writing about staying on topic of my writing, grammar, punctuation, speed of my writing, and develop my paragraphs. I been staying on topic on my blogs, punctuation, and now I'm starting to develop my paragraphs since I saw on the dailies we had to make 3 paragraphs in our post. My new goals are to proof read my writing and I noticed I made some errors on my other blog post. Make a blog post about martial arts. Increase the speed on my writing because it takes me about one to two hours to finish. Start making my post before Friday and continue on writing about different topics I choose to write about.
In my other statement of purpose I said I was going to write about Kung Fu and Vietnamese Martial Arts. In the first quarter I never did that and didn't feel like it. So far I been writing about topics that are interesting and things from my past life. There are so many topics I could write about besides my martial arts. In this second quarter I will try to write a blog or a few on that topic. When I don't know what to write about I just write about what I did on a day like I did on my last post about biking riding. I need to stop posting my blog on Friday and use the time wisely in the computer room.
In my first blog post my goals were planing on writing about staying on topic of my writing, grammar, punctuation, speed of my writing, and develop my paragraphs. I been staying on topic on my blogs, punctuation, and now I'm starting to develop my paragraphs since I saw on the dailies we had to make 3 paragraphs in our post. My new goals are to proof read my writing and I noticed I made some errors on my other blog post. Make a blog post about martial arts. Increase the speed on my writing because it takes me about one to two hours to finish. Start making my post before Friday and continue on writing about different topics I choose to write about.
Friday, October 30, 2009
Today's Adventure
An adventure on the island. Today we (Adam R., Nathan T., Nathan Tr., and me) had an adventure on Alameda/Bay farm island bike riding! Starting from the morning, I woke up, went to brush my teeth ect. and ate. Later I got bored so I called Nathan T if he wanted to go bike riding and the others and they wanted to go. I got ready to meet up with them at the main island. I was heading over to the garage to get my bike but it was flat so I checked the other bikes and they were all flat. I got the bike pump (borrowed from Adam) to inflate my bike but something was wrong. Each time I put the air hole pump in the air tube it keeps popping out when I pump it. It kept pissing me off when I tried to pump the dam bike and I thought the pump was the problem. My bike was the problem because the air tube kept going in the tire but I already knew that. I pump my mom's bike and it worked fine.
I took a while pumping my bike so my friends wanted me to meet them at bike bridge and I was on my way. When I was close the bike bridge there was so many bumps on the walk way and I was riding with no hands for fun. Out of no where I hit those bumps and almost fell. I saw them at the bike bridge (see Nathan T fall he was okay). We followed the bike trail along the water. Adam was thirsty and later we found a water fountain. We took a break and there was a tower to climb up and we were playing around on it. We went to the streets and found a path next to the lagoon and there are a lot of random parks. But it turns out we were there before and looked around some more.
Later we found a park ahead of us and we been there before and it was the fun park close to the Bay Farm School. We played sandman on the small play structure and it was fun. Later we went to the better play structure next to the one we're at. We were just messing around and swinging on the swing. There was a tire swing and all four of us tried to balance the tire and we did it for like 20 seconds. Someone ends up falling and the last one we balanced on the tire swing both of the Nathan’s fell kind of bad because Nathan T had to turn the opposite way and made me tilt the tire but it was fun. After that we went some where else and ended up at the same spot where the view tower was.
Continuing next blog.
I took a while pumping my bike so my friends wanted me to meet them at bike bridge and I was on my way. When I was close the bike bridge there was so many bumps on the walk way and I was riding with no hands for fun. Out of no where I hit those bumps and almost fell. I saw them at the bike bridge (see Nathan T fall he was okay). We followed the bike trail along the water. Adam was thirsty and later we found a water fountain. We took a break and there was a tower to climb up and we were playing around on it. We went to the streets and found a path next to the lagoon and there are a lot of random parks. But it turns out we were there before and looked around some more.
Later we found a park ahead of us and we been there before and it was the fun park close to the Bay Farm School. We played sandman on the small play structure and it was fun. Later we went to the better play structure next to the one we're at. We were just messing around and swinging on the swing. There was a tire swing and all four of us tried to balance the tire and we did it for like 20 seconds. Someone ends up falling and the last one we balanced on the tire swing both of the Nathan’s fell kind of bad because Nathan T had to turn the opposite way and made me tilt the tire but it was fun. After that we went some where else and ended up at the same spot where the view tower was.
Continuing next blog.
Friday, October 23, 2009
Getting Money
How do you earn money? Do you ask your parents for cash? Well, sometimes I ask for money when it's for school stuff. The way I earn money is by working for it from my job at the Free Market near Laney College 's parking lot every Sunday.
My dad owns table's so people can rent them. There are six groups of people of two working and I work with my brother. My brother and I head over to the Free Market around 3:45 pm to collect the tables (you might see me in a red or blue truck if you go) that my dad let people rent. Some of the workers use the flat bed cart to stack tables and load the tables onto the truck and make a small stack on the ground when the truck is full. My brother and I use the pick up truck to load tables to make it faster and easier. We head over to the self storage close by to unload the tables onto a pallet with four stacks in two storage's. There's another group with a pick up truck doing the same thing as us. That's a lot of tables and including three stacks on the big truck and six on the other truck. We have to hurry because the owner or the person in charge of the Free Market is very strict and people need to clean up the parking lot but some people who are selling are slow cleaning up. We check the parking lot for tables and my dad parks the two truck.
Working at the Free Market isn't that bad and it's pretty easy to me. My brother and I get paid every two work days. I get 70 dollars for the two weeks, not bad for my age I guess. But the only time I hate about working is in the Spring or Summer because it's HOT working in the sun for two half hours straight and I get a little tired. Another time when it rains on Sunday = [ because people don't sell and don't want our tables to get wet and I miss 35 dollars that day. The last few weeks I got lucky because it started to rain on Monday and being close missing another 70 dollars.
My dad owns table's so people can rent them. There are six groups of people of two working and I work with my brother. My brother and I head over to the Free Market around 3:45 pm to collect the tables (you might see me in a red or blue truck if you go) that my dad let people rent. Some of the workers use the flat bed cart to stack tables and load the tables onto the truck and make a small stack on the ground when the truck is full. My brother and I use the pick up truck to load tables to make it faster and easier. We head over to the self storage close by to unload the tables onto a pallet with four stacks in two storage's. There's another group with a pick up truck doing the same thing as us. That's a lot of tables and including three stacks on the big truck and six on the other truck. We have to hurry because the owner or the person in charge of the Free Market is very strict and people need to clean up the parking lot but some people who are selling are slow cleaning up. We check the parking lot for tables and my dad parks the two truck.
Working at the Free Market isn't that bad and it's pretty easy to me. My brother and I get paid every two work days. I get 70 dollars for the two weeks, not bad for my age I guess. But the only time I hate about working is in the Spring or Summer because it's HOT working in the sun for two half hours straight and I get a little tired. Another time when it rains on Sunday = [ because people don't sell and don't want our tables to get wet and I miss 35 dollars that day. The last few weeks I got lucky because it started to rain on Monday and being close missing another 70 dollars.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Best Random Moments
Where to start...Oh, when it was 7th grade during the finals or the state testing. We had our 30 minute break time and hanging out with my friends. One of them was talking about the long jump test thing we did in PE. He asked me if I could jump over a person while they are sitting down, so one of them sat down and I jumped over him. I was like wow that was easy and two other of my friends sat down in a row (3 people). Some people came and watched to see what was going on then I made it over them. It was still easy so two other people I knew joined the sitting line. I made it over, thinking it wasn't that bad of a jump then people were interested and became a semi circle of crowd people. Now it's 7 people sitting in a line, went for it and made it. One person came joining the line being the 8th person then a 9th person and made it. Now it's at the 10th person and I was nervous. I went for it but I messed up. I needed the line to move down farther for more running room, so I went for it and barely made it almost stepping on my friends face. I jumped about 9ft, I was surprised I made it and a random person gave me a dollar.
I was on vacation in Las Vegas with my family. We went to Circus Circus to the game prize room and my parents went to go gamble and I was with my older brother and sister. I saw a person with a big basketball prize that was the exercise ball and I wanted it. We went to go look for a game that had those prizes. I found one with the baseball in the old milk jug toss in but it was hard. Each ball throw was cost a dollar so I went for it and missed all 7 shots. The last throw looked like it went in but it didn't and I was sad. We went to look for a better game with the same prize. There was a ring toss in the coke bottle. I took 25 rings for like $3 and it was in a cup so I just dumped all at once and missed at of them, haha. I went back to the milk jug and spent another $5 and still missed. =( I found an easier game with the prize with the beach ball on top of the fan making the ball move up and down. This game looked easy to play costing $1 per bag sacks. My parents came and found us and my mom helped my out with $5 to start with. On my first shot I got so lucky. I hit the ball I was aiming for and I hit the side of it and knocked the ball on the left. I was so happy I won a big ball but it suck the 4 extra sack bags I couldn’t throw the rest because it was one winner per prize. My family got one throw each and missed but it would have been cool to have more than one ball. Was it worth paying $20 bucks for a big ball? Yes, it was worth it.
I was on vacation in Las Vegas with my family. We went to Circus Circus to the game prize room and my parents went to go gamble and I was with my older brother and sister. I saw a person with a big basketball prize that was the exercise ball and I wanted it. We went to go look for a game that had those prizes. I found one with the baseball in the old milk jug toss in but it was hard. Each ball throw was cost a dollar so I went for it and missed all 7 shots. The last throw looked like it went in but it didn't and I was sad. We went to look for a better game with the same prize. There was a ring toss in the coke bottle. I took 25 rings for like $3 and it was in a cup so I just dumped all at once and missed at of them, haha. I went back to the milk jug and spent another $5 and still missed. =( I found an easier game with the prize with the beach ball on top of the fan making the ball move up and down. This game looked easy to play costing $1 per bag sacks. My parents came and found us and my mom helped my out with $5 to start with. On my first shot I got so lucky. I hit the ball I was aiming for and I hit the side of it and knocked the ball on the left. I was so happy I won a big ball but it suck the 4 extra sack bags I couldn’t throw the rest because it was one winner per prize. My family got one throw each and missed but it would have been cool to have more than one ball. Was it worth paying $20 bucks for a big ball? Yes, it was worth it.
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