I'm not quite yet an "assistant coach," as the necessary paperwork hasn't reached all the right little hands yet. But DATU_B managed to bluff me in. That $7.50 will go quite a long way at Save-a-Lot.
It doesn't seem like I'll be filling up my "secret martial arts scrolls" with too much more FMA stuff this quarter. The "bad news" is that the focus of MMAC will be on Brazillian Jiu-Jitsu and practical...
Wednesday, March 31, 2004
Tuesday, March 30, 2004
Monday, March 29, 2004
Well, the past spring break here in this old university town had its quiet moments, but also its hectic ones. I kept working, I helped E recover from her surgery, and got to hang out with a fair amount of people. But now I need a break. It's just the sort of person I am. My energy is internal; I recover from the inside out.
Lists - I've got lists of various things to do that I've put off for...
Friday, March 26, 2004
Has it really been 5 days since I blogged last? Well, that's ok. It's not like there's been much to life this past week except for helping E recuperate after her successful knee surgery.
The Bees Knees - The part afterward was the scariest, though. She should've probably stayed at the medical center a bit longer before being discharged. Yes, they wanted her out quick, but they would've given...
Sunday, March 21, 2004
The World of Medicine - E is having her surgery in the next town over this Tuesday. Hopefully, that trick knee of hers will get better and I can finally teach her all the kung-fu she's been itching to learn for months. It's hard to do a horse stance, though, when your knee's likely to give out. Of course, she's been talking over the past week about wanting to do yoga along with her Tai Chi. Great,...
Thursday, March 18, 2004
You might ask, "So how does a Filipino who doesn't, to his knowledge, have one ounce of Irish blood in him, celebrate St. Patrick's Day?"
Well, despite being alcohol-free (due mostly to poverty, not temperance), by renting Gangs of New York and The Commitments.
Gangs finally cemented one idea in my mind, thanks to Martin Scorsese: Gangster $hi+ is gangster $hi+, no matter what time period or...
Well, my Tuesday was pretty uneventful. I didn't attend club because it's Finals Week on campus, which meant there wouldn't be much in the way of structure or new material. Which in turn meant I really couldn't justify the expense -- that I reportledly will incur significantly less of next quarter. Then, I'll take on the title of "Assistant FMA Instructor" which will theoretically get me into the...
These video clips of shotokan kata keep getting passed around different servers like some stolen mascot that one gang of high school seniors horked from the rival school. Here's where they are this week.
I looked for them as I read some article on the internet somewhere (I forgot the link and I don't feel like Googling it) about the applications of the various 270 degree turns in certain forms....
Tuesday, March 16, 2004
Monday, March 15, 2004
Rather than re-type SPEAKMAN's antics after last Friday's party, I figure I'll just cut and paste an email I sent.
Let me tell you the ghetto-ass stuff he pulled after the party. Just like he hogs me during club, he hogged me again as I was about to leave to take E home. He was like "Wait, wait... wait... I'll walk with you guys, I'm going home, too." I wanted to say, "Oh, but we're driving home"...
Sunday, March 14, 2004
OUATIA - Item Four, cont.
Knife fighting with washable crayola markers. There was Kali vs. Kali and Kali vs. American Bowie style. Having small markers did favor the kali people, as the Bowie people had a bunch of techniques closed off to them because they're used to working with larger knives. I fought four individuals; my biggest struggles were against DATU_E, who can be one tricky devil and...
Friday, March 12, 2004
As promised, a Rum and Monkey joint...
Are you damned?Brought to you by Rum and MonkeyYou will die a warrior and be spirited away by warbling wenches to the Hall of the Slain. Meat and mead for ever more, well until Ragnarok, anyway, when you will do battle with giants, giantesses, dwarfs, elves and Nidhug,...
The last official session of club for this quarter was a "free day," basically all sparring. We had three options: stickfighting, kickboxing or grappling. Guess where I was most of the time.
I must've sparred 7 or 8 times. My overall experience was positive. I learned many many things and, I hear tell, helped other people learn some things. There were a few negative aspects. I'll go through...
Thursday, March 11, 2004
Wednesday, March 10, 2004
Yesterday was another fun session of BJJ techniques with my friend Mr. SPEAKMAN as my partner. For some undisclosed reason, he couldn't stay more than 30 minutes after the start of club, but proceeded to hog me for every second of his stay. What was more frustrating was screwing up a takedown -- I probably only performed it correctly twice out of ten times. The worst part was that I really can't...
I don't know how close to the Arnold Battle of Columbus this joke was made, but I read this quote by Craig Kilborn in the local rag this past Monday:
Governor Schwarzenegger has come out against gay marriage, and then he went back to slathering body oil all over his muscles in front of other guys.As I said, I wish I could've gone this year, especially since I was in the city at the time. But, there...
Monday, March 08, 2004
I didn't get a chance to really mention it, but yesterday's entries were made from a friend's house in Columbus. E and I went there over the weekend for a belated birthday bash. I had so much more to say, but so little time, so here it is now.
ISA
It was nice getting reacquainted with several old friends, and make a couple of new ones. I swear even someone I thought was an ice queen seemed nicer....
Sunday, March 07, 2004
Friday, March 05, 2004
I received this email just moments ago from the folks at Rum and Monkey in response to the email I sent:
Eek!
I'm really sorry about that - the ad company have been informed, and
I'm
about to take down the ads until they can prove to me that it either
wasn't them or it won't happen again.These folks have just moved up to #1 in my Coolness bo...
ITEM CTA
Re: SPEAKMAN's behavior that I recorded last time, DATU B (Yes, I've decided that from this point on, any reference to an officer of the club will be the title datu (chief) and a letter.) had this comment, made before he read any reference to it on my blog.
...I wanted to say, "The only time I need your help is if you're better than me, and you don't have your $hi+ together."And here, I thought...
Wednesday, March 03, 2004
Where to start, where to start. Actually, a few hours before club, I ran into B (Still thinking of a nickname...) and since the weather was so nice, we took some time to train out in a field for a bit, after a detour to his house. The additional stick training was nice, although my arm was killing me by the end of club yesterday. The biggest plus was learning deflections to angles of attack that...
Luckily, I had the day off and Wednesdays are the days where E doesn't have to be anywhere until 2 PM, so she got to be pampered all sorts of ways this morning. It was nice and relaxing; one of those zen moments where time just slows down. By the time we had to get up and on with our days, we were surprised to find that it wasn't even noon.
In fact, that "slow-time warp" still seems to be going...
Tuesday, March 02, 2004
Ok, some news stuff that I meant to comment on, but didn't have the copius spare time until today.
ITEM ONE
UK 'spied on UN's Kofi Annan'
British spies listened in to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's office in the run up to the Iraq war, former UK cabinet minister Clare Short says.
Once again, the Brits are pulling the James Bond $hi+. Yet, oddly enough you don't hear about the US doing that...
Monday, March 01, 2004
I was replaying a move I learned a few weeks ago in my mind. It was a throw that you'd use to follow up after closing the distance. I recalled how the basics of the throw and how it was delivered were explained to me. Yesterday, it dawned on me that both the demonstration moves as well as the moves of the actual throw as it is practically applied were almost straight from the form Empi.
I keep...
Saw two movies over the weekend with E.
State and Main by David Mamet made me realize that I have yet to see a single bad performance by William H. Macy. It made me sad that I avoided that made-for-TV thing he did for TNT -- I don't trust made-for-TV stuff. But, I should've trusted the actor. My plan for the summer is to watch anything and everything Macy's ever starred in.
Bowling for Columbine...
These letters are written as part of the March Journal Collaboration Project for Rice Bowl Journals.
One
Dear L.
Don Henley wrote in the song My Thanksgiving
Well, a lot of things have happened
Since the last time we spoke
Some of them are funny
Some of them ain't no jokeThat's definitely been true in the year since I finally told you that I just couldn't have anything to do with you anymore....
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