Thanksgiving Weekend

[started Thursday morning and typing as I get the chance]

WEDNESDAY

• really didn't want to wake up
• breakfast @ Whole Foods
• opened up at Banya when I wasn't scheduled, agreed with Carrlee to work the second half of the opening spa attendant shift
• girl's place and nap
• work
• hangout fail.
• gym
• back to Bremerton w/ Sammee and Sheena
• high school reunions at Applebee's
• J&R's
• Shari's and food and coffee anxiety attack
• passedthefuckout

THURSDAY

• woke up, gave Bruce Lee a happy birthday wish, played football and went upstairs to find the food nearly ready
• Kristina embarassed me about the facial hair, told me to shave
• Finally shaved and went back upstairs to find everyone eating already
• Ate one plate. Passed out
• Woke up, Nicole Diva came over and we had a real talk
• Watched the Bond Marathon on Sci-Fi with Tito Rey
• Sam picked me up, drove back to Seattle and found traffic before the Tacoma bridge
• Beer and chips and fireplace
• Speed Racer!
  

FRIDAY

• Lazy Friday, woke up in the late afternoon!
  
• pop tarts
• lunch w/ Sammee, bank run
  
• Northgate Mall, U-Village H&M, Northface, Urban Outfitters, downtown, RPS, Laced Up!, GOODS, 35th North
• back to Northgate Mall. WTF we have a Lids?!
• officially in love with the Vans Store
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars on Cartoon Network, prefunk
  
• War Room w/ Sammee and Mikey
• Maharaja pit stop, QFC for beer, drank & eating in the car w/ a tit of real talk
  
• Micah's birfday, WSU kiddos (WHAT IT IS YOSIS?!), Kim & Andrea, Lelani drunk as hail (as usual, but was kind enough to introduce me to her other bro bro), Tina, Jamie, Sistar and her friends.. ____ & ____ = ?!
  
• obligatory hot dog stand visit. chatted up with some random peoples.. Hey Maricris! ahaha
• Coca-Cola crackwater, Bond and finally sleep
  

SATURDAY

• laundry, clothes organization
  
• a lot of contemplating
• picked up Sheena from the ferry, the Westin for the Seattle Marathon
  
• Sushiland for Anna's birthday celebration!
  
• The Nutcracker for Anna's birthday celebration!
• meatball sub @ Subway
  

SUNDAY

• breakfast = [yellow] eggs and ham
• Seattle Marathon @ Seattle Center
• bells!
  
• early northwest morning double fisting = drip coffee & soy chai
• Whole Foods
• the finish line.
• Fu-Lin for Miso Ramen + fried rice
• NAP! (=
• Village Sushi
• Sammee's sinigang!
• passed out during Hairspray
• Britney: For the Record (Madonna doesn't look right)

Let's see what happens this week. Pacquiao forthewin. Expect me to write about it.

Speaking of Bruce..

Boy Genius Report reported (?!) about the special Nokia N96 Bruce Lee Edition in China. The phone isn't special in any standard other than it's engraved image and signature of Bruce Lee on the back cover. The package also includes a wriststrap with mini nunchaku, and a bluetooth headpiece.

this costs $1286. DAMN.

And here is the awesome television commercial that goes along with it. The dude is obviously NOT Bruce, but just imagine. This would be THE definition of dope!

UPSIDE DOWN!

˙ǝpnp sıɥʇ ɹoɟ sʞuɐɥʇ ˙ǝɯosǝʍɐ sı sıɔuɐɹɟ

The Nutcracker

From November 28th through December 30th The Pacific Northwest Ballet presents Stowell & Sendak's 25th Anniversary of The Nutcracker.


Tonight I'm going to see it for a friend's birthday celebration. The ballet is based on the story "The Nutcracker and the King of Mice" written by E.T.A. Hoffman. Although what is seen on the stage today is different in detail from the original story, the basic plot remains the same; The story of a young German girl who dreams of a Nutcracker (who becomes a Prince) and a battle against a Mouse King.


It's a classic! Maybe I'll write a review.

Happy Birthday Bruce

Bruce Lee (birth name Jun Fan) was born on today's date in 1940. He was an American martial artist, philosopher, instructor, martial arts actor and the founder of the Jeet Kune Do combat form. He was widely regarded as the most influential martial artist of the twentieth century and a cultural icon.

He was also my greatest influence in life.


"Use no way as way, no limitation as limitation."

"Booshiii Booshiii Booshii"

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Handwriting

via Tita's blog I saw this cool little test online about your graphology. Anyone who knows anything about the PUA society knows how important this skill can be, so yeah. Haha..

My Results:
Andrew Bueno, your handwriting reveals that you are down-to-earth and sensible.

You remain cool and calm in most of the situations and do not tend to over-emphasize on anything. You love taking initiatives, but at the same time you never rush into anything.

Does this sound like me? Tita and I had the same results. Those who have seen my handwriting, does this make sense? I always write in print and it's very legible. People usually comment on my handwriting when they see it, especially when I'm doing the personal training thing. My signature looks like a lifeline and I purposely did that. Hmm. Cold reading is funny.

Firefly fans!

There are these dope double-sided posters showing The Verse of the Firefly/Serenity lore. You can get these bad boys for $34.95 by clicking here.

via Ain't It Cool News

"I AM smiling."

Black Dynamite is a film by Scott Sanders starring Michael Jai White. It's a 70's blaxpoitation film homage.


WATCH THE TRAILER HERE! It's dope as fuck. Arsenio Hall is in the movie!

Snoop on Martha Stewart

Ze Veekend

FRIDAY
work @ Banya, Filthy Nice @ Baltic for Samantha and her Saved By the Bell! theme. Props to Micah for being AC Slater. Hi Cinderella! Obigatory hot dog stand visit, walk back to our cars, end the night at the ladies' house

SATURDAY
woke up hella early, RAINSTORM @ Foundation CrossFit, help Marc move (OUR BAD! See next...), naps, work @ Banya, Crimson C and Corona, saw the Nelson twins, bounced and drove in Sam's packed car to Venom, another Corona, Filipino people, Rose Marie dancing!, meeting Dante Basco, Jack in the Box, Pizza Craver/Ranch Dorito's, crack water, Dexter

SUNDAY
woke up hella late, "Lazy Sunday", Sammee's Mountain Dew/Sprite "adobo", QT.. tonight- DINNER!

WOD 18NOV08, 20NOV08

The 18th

5 x 5 of the "CrossFit 9" all with 95lbs, for form: squat, front squat, overhead squat, press, push press, push jerk, deadlift, sumo dead-lift high-pull, and squat clean.

This is a pretty dope workout when I don't feel like exerting myself too much. Form felt good on everything. My olympic lifts are feeling a lot smoother than before, I just wish we had some proper bumpers. Handstand practice as a finisher.

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The 20th

I taught class on Tuesday how to properly do handstands, so I've been doing a lot of practice with those. Took out the parallettes and did 5x5 handstand pushups, working on form and range of motion.

QBert drumming

The Filipino DJ god shows off some of his turntable drum skills. So ill.

Good afternoon

It just hit me that I haven't regularly slept before midnight since April or so. How sad. I'm pretty sure that's the biggest hit in my health other than lack of proper nutrition, which is pretty simple:

• Eat meat and vegetables, seed and nuts, some fruit, little startch, no sugar.

My dinner last night consisted of soup, pizza rolls and white chocolate chip macadamia nut cookies. Last night was good though. Mmhmm. I got a workout in too (I'll post that in a second). I must've had more than 10 cups of coffee yesterday- I went to Uptown Coffee, Panera Bread, The Great Northwest Soup Company, Whole Foods and North Seattle Community College's little coffee bar.

I met up with Shannon and we had lunch and a real talk. Fun times, I miss hanging out with her.

I also got Yeezy's new album. I like what I've heard so far, I kind of listened through it once and then I uploaded it to my iPod, but I really want to LISTEN and absorb it as an album. Maybe during lunch I'll sit in my car and listen. I'm back working Thursdays JUST for this week and next week because they're going to shorten the hours of operation at Banya (!) due to lack of business. Blame the economy, right?

Gotta run, work calls.

Eight-Oh-Eights & Heartbreak

Thoughts on the albulum? Discuss in comments!

Luam's SLU

Why is she so dope?

Ooooh.

You could teach me how to swim.

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The Funky Fresh Senior Choir

Pretty cool, but I wish it was more dope (see: staying on point)- but they're old so I guess it's okay.

See more funny videos and TBT Videos at Today's Big Thing.

The "Hey Ya!" breakdown was gold. The "Hot in Herre" stripping was funny, yet disturbing. Do they know where they're doing?!

WOD 18NOV08

Front Squat
9 sets of 3-reps, for max loads

165-175-185-195-205-215-235x2-245x

I mentally let it get to me towards the end. My biggest weakness is my lower back and front squats definitely psych me out. I probably should've warmed up. This will be one of the goals of 2009.

Later that evening (midnight to be exact), I decided to run the inner loop of Greenlake (2.8mi) for fun. I didn't time the run as I was just trying to get my mind elsewhere while listening to some tunes.

playlist: H.E.R.

Cross the Line // John Legend
More Than Friends // Estelle
Daykeeper // The Foreign Exchange
The Way She Dances // N*E*R*D
I Like the Way (The Kissing Game) // Hi-Five
The Sweetest Thing // Lauryn Hill
Super(natural) // Miguel
Valediction // The Foreign Exchange
Just Friends // Amy Winehouse
Still On My Brain // Justin Timberlake
It's Not Fair // Janelle Monae
Anything // Kate Earl
Find a Way // Dwele
Can't Help But Wait // Trey Songz