i'm melting!! i'm melting!!
that's how it felt like up here last weekend... friday started out nice enough. sunny with a little bit of wind. tom took me to beau's photo to buy me and the girls some photo supplies we need. man it felt cool to come into the shop with my school supply list and say "hi. i would like all this times four, please." then i got to spend about 250$ on us... i felt like such a baller. too bad i'm not rich for real. *sigh* one day :o). that night i checked out the chinatown night market and this little "c-town urban dance off block party" which was also in chinatown. there was a dance dance revolution game contest, and some singing and dance performances. it was short but really fun to watch.

become the stick
saturday got hotter, and as most saturdays, i spent the afternoon indoors... arnis was good this week. i almost broke my knee cap by hitting it really really hard with the bamboo escrima stick. then of course was the trapping exercises which contributed to my new bruises on my arms... again. i think i have to hit the weights again soon cuz defending myself won't do me any good if i don't have any muscles. and i think i've got to practice a bit more with them sticks...

keepin' it g-a-n-g-s-t-a
that night almost felt like a clubbing night but at the last minute eddie was all "naah, skip it" even though we were the next ones to get in. we even got a good parking spot! well, you know you're "gangsta" when you can afford to be like that. most people would be upset if they had to spend any amount of time in a line up and not get what they lined up for. but not us! according to eddie, "there are only 2 kind of people in the world. haters and gangstas." which side are you on?... ;op instead, we decided to hook up with sabby and li and them to eat us some all you can eat sushi!!! yum yum. we were all SO full that we just headed home to sleep! it was good cuz at least i got some rest before the races that were happening the next day.

please don't feed me to the rabid killer seals!
sunday was cloudy... at first. i was on the water at about 945am and yelled my brains out. although i was worried about not being able to call a proper race piece, i think i did okay. the second race i felt better about even though we placed first for those first two races. the third race was a bit harder... to make a painful story short, i messed up the calls, and we got third... hopefully i wasn't the only reason we dropped, but i'm pretty sure i had something to do with it (my bad!!). well, at least there's 5 more practices for me to get it all right before the big festival on the weekend of the 22nd...

who got game?
sabby picked up nurse chris, eddie and ron and they came to watch. but when we were done we went to check out the hoop it up 3 on 3 basketball tournament... this is when the sun decided to come out and burn us as much as it could without letting us die. i felt worse for manny, jaywin and russell tho. they were actually playing in this scorching heat. good thing they had something to show for it more than sunburn and heatstroke... they got first place in their division :o). yay!

on your marks...
we were all kinda bored in between the games so we decided to take a little walk to chinatown. now, there is a part we had to pass through that i wouldn't walk through at a pace slower than a sprint if it were around dusk or later. we call it "cracktown". lucky for us it was 2 in the afternoon. so off we went to explore all the cd/dvd/vcd stores we could... some of us found one or two good movies for cheap (like the beijing bicycle and full throttle) and we got these cute little bags that fit the dvds perfectly... and one of us (NO names... *cough* ron! *cough*) found so many that the cute little bag was not an option... he got a big unsightly bag instead. hehehe... i really shouldn't clown though. he's going to end up leaving most of them with me!! yay! i've got movies to last me oh, say, 6 months!! ;o)

SOLID
and despite all the movies purchased, we decided to end the day by going to the movies... undercover brother was SOLID!!! if you're up for a funny movie watch this one. i laughed til i hurt. plus it doesn't run too long so it's perfect for a comedy.