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Tuesday, January 31st, 2006
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So began 2005...
As the huge Broadway Revue we were doing in Ambassador Auditorium neared, we would start have 8-hour rehearsals. Which I enjoyed, learning some tap, working on our songs, what not... in Ambassador Auditorium! Where Frank Sinatra, Pavarotti, Ashkenazy, some Russian ballet dancers,... all used this stage... fantastic! Gold plated acoustic bouncers, Onyx Marbled walls, velvet carpets,...the whole deal! It'd been closed for 10 years prior to MHS and HRC acquiring the campus.... and now we were one of the first ones to use it. Since I was also in theater II, I got to work with the other techies and help open the huge orchestra shell they installed, rig some of the trusses with lights, and help the Disney light designer that came to help our show... without pay... for the sake of the arts... and to use Ambassador Auditorium...
At the rehearsals, Colleen, a friend of Chessum's was choreographing. Nice lady... I felt bad, she put up with 40 of us, and she had her moments, but kept calm most of the time.
Jan. 10 - MHS v. La Salle baskbetball game @ La Salle. WOW! It was one of those games... not really. There never had been one of those games... not often anyway. But yes, pretty much, the score was neck and neck, I was filming with my spankin' new Canon GL2! As the fourth quarter ended, it was tied and pushed it OT... it was then that we were down a point, but suddenly, before the buzzer sounded, someone made a 3-pointer to win the game! Our whole school rushed their court and put them in humliiating shame! WOW... they were pissed off. But remember, it's better to be pissed off than to be pissed on.
So between the dress rehearsals, and the actual Broadway Revue show, I got to help work in the auditorium... the orchestra lift was simply amazing. Four-level elevator: Stage, Orchestra(main seats), dressing room, and the prop-storage room! Walking down to the carpetted dressing room level, there were wood-paneled walls with those classic looking lamps lining the whole hallway. Amazing. Then came the show, put on our make-up(whoopdeedoo) and wardrobe, did our thang... had Sarah Joy Herema from Broadway sing, Harold Clousing from APU, and several lady teachers perform too! It was great fun, but at intermission, while the curtains were closed, the orchestra would play the whole Phantom of the Opera Suite. It was a sweet suite. For sure. Most definitely. Oh yes. As the curtains stayed closed, we all lined up in one line across the front edge of the stage, preparing for the Seasons of Love number. Our friend, the techie manning the "Open Curtain" button... got a little trigger happy! With 10 minutes still left in the Phantom of the Opera Suite, he tapped it, and the curtains flew open, with us, thinking, oh crap what do we do?! JUST SMILE. JUST SMILE AND ... SMILE. The cello player chuckled from the pit below,... the audience just stared. We waited. and SMILED. So that was that. We finished with a bang... numbers including 42nd Street, Seasons of Love(Rent), Can't Stop the Motion(Hairspray), a few good ones from Wicked,... etc, etc... What a night :)
Amidst the Musical we did, I would go down to USC and meet with my pianist, Kelly, to work on my viola auditions for college... yikes!
Jan. 23 - JP at church had a pass through JBL but he wasn't going that day, so I got to go with Robben and Sean to NAMM!!!!!!! aaaaaah........ it was amazing. I saw so much.....including tommy walker at the Roland booth, and Apple's booth, and got some free stuff.... i'm blown away!
Jan. 29 - Whitney invited me to South Pasadena High School's winter formal. It was at a huge mall in the middle of downtown L.A... Since it was at night, getting inside required huge black men as bouncers patting everyone single person down. Yikes... he reached... EVERYWHERE. It was amazing inside, decked out, DJ, lights, it was inside a mall... a fun time was had by all.
Guys bible study is growing each and every week, and it's been such a great privilege to be an upperclassman, to lead the guys through example...
Feb. 18-21 - Spiritual Life Retreat. We had Mike Schoonover, a great speaker, very passionate. Funny... I had my GL2 and Dave brought his new Sony camcorder also... lots of fun taping all the stuff happening. Unfortunately we were locked in the lodge most of the weekend because it was sleeting. One night, after everyone had left the lodge, the guys found a mouse running around evading capture,... it was hilarious. Caught on tape... the mouse finally hid behind Jesus... a portrait of Jesus... thus was never found again. Last day, Sunday, it finally stopped sleeting, snowed a bit, and lightened up. We went out, had the biggest fricken snowball fight all over the whole camp... naive me and my camcorder, went out warning people don't touch my equipment, though I grabbed some great footage... somebody threw a snowball... more like iceballs... at...well...my nuts. twice. i was on the floor. there's footage. don't watch it. anyway... i banded with some guys afterwards, got pelted, all wet haha... yes yes. Oh, and I missed the PYMO tour to go on SLR... so... no regrets.
Feb. 24 - I think this was the day we had a choir festival at The Master's College. We saw Paul there and sang... other high school choirs were there. But we held up nicely...
March. 4-7 - Here it was... the weekend we'd all been waiting for. Choir tour... in Orlando, Florida. So here's a little background:
During the Broadway Revue, which was intended to raise support money to send us there and perform and such... the Admin decided, rather than have free tickets and have suggested donations for the Revue, they jacked up prices to $40 and $100 tickets. This of course drove everyone away, barely filled half of the first floor of the auditorium that night. Sad, I know. So as a result, we not only failed to raise money, but cost the school thousands in funds for doing the revue. After the parents almost went rioting on the Admin, they had a big fat chat... parents and admin congregating for a fiesty heart-to-heart....yep. So we were on our way to Florida eventually, but parent chaperones were replaced with school administrators. I think we drove them a bit nuts by the 2nd day or so, and had our share of fun.
Back to Florida, so kinda of the senior guys in our group... Kev, Titus, Daniel, me... stuck together a bit. It was great fun... but the first day, our flight was a red-eye... and we got to Florida at 5am, got to the resort, put down our luggage, didn't even see our rooms, and went straight to Epcot! By golly... flew on a red-eye, got to Epcot by 8am for its opening,... and were expected to have fun. I'm sure my diminished expectations of this Epcot I'd always heard about weren't so accurate, unfortunately. You could've walked around the park that day and saw teenagers lying flat on the floor asleep in the sun outside a ride or by a bench. That was us. :) Then the next day we went to Disneyworld, the park. Performed for an audience of 2 or 3... yea... empty rows of seats since people were probably at a parade or something outside the amphitheater, and did our thing, left. Went on rides, the whole deal. Sunday was fun... MGM Studios, I believe. My kinda place... it's almost like Universal Studios anyway. We got to go into one of their TV-taping studios, met with a cast member who could really sing. He taught us some stuff, and we proceeded to sing to a video track from the Hunchback of Notre Dame, after a few tries, he recorded us and we watched it back... I little recording studio session for us to experience. That was pretty cool indeed. Then that night we went to Fantasmic. Nothing overwhelmingly great, infact, the original one in Anaheim was way better. Tons better. Tons and a few pounds better.
OH YEAH, that afternoon though, somehow I got split into a group with Chessum, Amanda, and Merrilee... what happens next, actually happened! So we decide to go on their backlot tour, and the first exhibit they have is where you sit in stands and watch a live stage taping... action taping that is... there's a director, and they do a little 'lights, camera, action' type of thing for each piece of the short clip they're making. They finish that and piece it all together for the audience to see it all come together. Little did we know... since were the last four of the whole group entering, a cast member popped out from a side door and pulled the four of us aside, asking, "You want to do something? It'll be fun!" So of course we said yea... few minutes later, we found ourselves in blue deck-swabbing raincoats and waterproof boots behind what was a water-dock stage. They said, just follow the instructions, and specifically to me: "When she says action, talk into the phone, yell like mad, and DON'T look to your right!" So I said ok... as they called all of us out, there were hundreds of people watching! They put Chessum at the top of a warship with binoculars; Amanda and Mer on the deck swabbing with towels on their knees(told to just act like what you will when they see what's going to happen...); Director pulls me aside into a room, looks like the navigator's room. So I sit in this chair, she yells action. Phone rings, pick it up, I yell something like, "No, I didn't order that pizza!" Next thing I know, a few hundred, maybe thousand gallons of water comes crushing through an open porthole hitting me on the right side! "CUT!" So that was my little debut. The two girls on the deck and Chessum... well she had to point across the sky as sounds of an overhead skyplane crossed from left to right, right to left, and look silly as a captain. The two girls below were barraged with explosions, real fire popping from the side of the ship, and gun fire with pellets going into the water, splashing all around them! Barrels blowing up 20 feet in the air, and they basically jumped into each other's arms, threw up the towels, quite literally! And there's the whole thing. Made quite the film.
I think that night we went to Downtown Disney, it's a party there! I traveled the night away with Erica, Linda, and I forget... but we had good food, saw some shops, and made our way through "Pleasure Island" (ref. to Pinocchio)... wow... strip clubs, drinks, DJs, dance floors, crazy people smoking crazy stuff. Downtown Disney. Yep...
Monday was rather long... spent the day at Animal Kingdom. I enjoyed it, but it got quite monotonous. And thus ended our journey in Florida. Good weather by the way.
March - Biggest thing probably was play rehearsals. I got to help with tech again for this play: Much Ado About Nothing. I love the movie! Kenneth Branagh... I got to play Denzel's character, the 'Prince'... except our play was set in the Vietnam War era... in San Francisco of course. Yes, WOW. It was lots of fun, being on stage, I'm pretty sure I suck at acting, but it was fine while I was doing it... got to know the cast PRETTY well...
Of course April... Tennis season! Woohoo... juggling the play, rehearsal, performance, PYMO orchestra, even doing the chamber orchestra in Altadena at the same time! and I had decided to start raising support to get me to Brazil for a mission trip in August with the church college group... so much, and on top of all this... College decisions, which I'll post in a separate blog entry. Oh yeah, and AP tests! Holy moly.....
Oh wait, tennis. This season was... a bit disappointing, happy that there were lots of talent and depth, especially in the new freshman, three of them all my freshman buddies! Joel, Erik, and Ian... so proud of them! haha... so it was particular dissapointing, I didn't get to play that much, and at that, the other doubles teams were doing much better, but I was getting to be a very solid player. In many aspects. We did ok as a team, we got very close with Valley this year, and beat out the other teams in our league position.
So in May, PYMO got to do a special thing. Alexander Xu, a composer working out of UCLA, with a cultural dance team there,... composed a show ... a little like Joy Luck Club... with a part of our orchestra, in the pit of Royce Hall... with what I remember as the Los Angeles Children's Chorale... and the UCLA dance club or something. It was fun playing different music like that. So we did that and they came to our spring concert also. Of course, I also took the AP Calc and AP Music Theory exams. I came out of both exceedingly confident. Not sure why. But Calc actually made sense. Thanks Mrs. Pelletier for working us extra hard so the exam wouldn't be. and after taking all those Theory lessons on my own.... with Whitney... I was waaaay prepared for the school AP exam.... it was easy actually. Well... July came, and I passed with flying colors! Calc - a 4, and music theory, aural: 5, non-aural: 5...so yea...5! fricken 5!
April 18 - Mark, Pahl, Geoff, and Matt went to the sequoias to film for CORE week... so to help them out, the one day I could make it on Sunday, I drove myself for two hours up to the Sequoias... t'was a fun drive. Then we came back down by night after finding some rivers and places to film.
May 17 - Star Wars opens tomorrow on the 18th! Episode III: Revenge of the Sith! aaaaahhhhhh..... Tonight... Fenderson's home, we had a little star wars marathon, and on the 18th, Brian, Ryan, Matt, Jordan, Fletcher, and myself went to the Arcadia mall and....even made our own character t-shirts! lined up for the movie.....and it was incredible! What we've all been waiting for!
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Saturday, January 28th, 2006
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So the end of August, wow... couldn't believe it was happening. ASB President, meetings, volunteering at school registration, and putting BBQ's on. Another easy week, working on Senior buddy stuff, hoping it goes well. Rehearse for worship band here and there, work at Mac7 Graphics, and then the weekend before school starts, Mark asks me to go down to San Diego with him on those weekend jobs!
Guess what it was? You know the 40-foot semi/18-wheeler/trailers you see on the road? Yes like those COORS or BUDWEISER ones? Yea....those. For two days straight we worked in 90 degree weather, putting up the graphics on the side of the truck. It was cool, 12 sheets all taller than me(obviously) on each side of the trailer, with all the tools etc... so then, there's lots of rivets. We needed to take a squeegee and flatten the areas to stick tightly around each rivet. I think I counted about 4,166 rivets at one point. bleh...
We also started Monday Night Football with the church guys, each week going to Gino's Pizza, it was great.
Sept. 10 - Uprising, again at C.O.D. went well, it was a long day. But worship band did well, but everyone was a bit confused at the video we made about someone being chased, and a secret agent headquarter, what-not.
This year, I joined choir, and there's quite a few people. Just a handful of seniors though. by Sept. 17, we were going on our choir retreat to the cliffs of San Onofre Beach. It was darn cool: camping out on the cliffs, hearing the waves break, seagulls flying overhead, surfers doing their thing, and of course the nuclear power plant down the coast line visible to all. Got to know Kevin, it was a fun time. So there's this 'leadership' in choir, a.k.a. prefects(Harry Potter reference), so Kevin, Amanda, Merrilee, and Searcy (later replaced by Kimmy) who kind of look after all of us, I suppose. Or....the inner circle might I add. So the great thing is, we spend all of Friday there, sleep, spend Saturday morning in the water once again, and get home by 2:30. I head straight to church in my board shorts, and then go to the church beach trip to Huntington Beach! Alrighty then... we had a bonfire and worship there until 10pm... relaxing weekend eh?
Sept. 30 - Gabrielino had their homecoming, at Mark Keppel HS' field. Weird. Anyway, it was fun seeing Lindsay cheer and get homecoming queen. Lots of familiar faces in the bleachers.
Oct. 1 - Royal Ball for the Rose Queen competition! It was kinda fun too... Nicole asked me to go with her, the place was pumpin'! We go to the Pasadena Civic Center on Green St. only to find the line wrapping around the block because of security checks. So that was fun, towards the end of the night, apparently a girl had to get taken away on a stretcher, maybe alcohol poisoning. Turns out we used to go to school together. Well enough of that...
Oct. 15 - Our worship band was asked to lead at the ACSI Jr. Hi Student Council Convention! Exciting! So our band went to Lake Ave. and of course, I fiddled :) and we played for the jumpin' junior highers... a fun day off of school. That night, was the performing arts department Wake-A-thon. We get sponsors to fundraise for us to stay up all night to do activities, learn drama stuff, etc. Being part of choir, we worked on songs for a good part of the night, played improv games, and the rest.
Oct. 23 - Alicia asked me to her high school's homecoming dance! Monrovia HS held it at the Almansor Park banquet room. It was a lot of fun actually, just, bump n' grind. pretty much the whole night. WHAT?! no, not me. what are you talking about?! haha... anyway, it was a lot of fun going with Alicia! It was us, Richard and Aaron too.
Oct. 24 through Oct. 26 - ACSI ASB Leadership Retreat!!! Last year's retreat got cancelled at Forest Home because of the forest fires. But here we were! Basically, about 10 Christian high schools, of which MHS and Whittier Christian were the big two, spend three days on leadership activities, seminars, and bonding time in the mountains. It was great deals of fun with our group. Especially with our group. So another school up there was Mr. Northrop's dad's group! Mr. Northrop senior led a group from Arizona, it was great seeing them together up here. So Whittier Christian's band was supposed to do worship all weekend, but somehow we ended getting to split the time between MHS and WCHS... it was great, we played our hearts out and just rocked the house! People were seriously so pumped up for the music too. So this one high school.....Hillcrest Christian from Agoura Hills... hehe I'll explain once we get to college *wink*...
We had a good time getting away from the hustle and bustle, and added some more resources to my leadership folder.
As soon as we came back, it was float building for homecoming! I spent most of my time working on a single soundtrack to carry through our whole presentation. We worked at Brittany's house and created a little Peter Pan adventure. Good fun was had by all, including dave orme dancing!!! Need I say more?
So Homecoming day arrives, we setup at San Marino High, setup the dance at Monrovia Recreation Center, homecoming happens, we do our thang....I sing the national anthem with the seniors in choir, in my pirate outfit of course. If I remember right, we won the football game, and the Homecoming court's idea to announce the winner was a cell phone call, each one had a phone, but who would get the ring?! Then the after-party/dance went on, I basically worked and cleaned up. No biggie.
Nov. 5 - Took the SATs for the first time....eh.....it was ok.
Nov. 14 - We tried to get Our Hearts Hero to perform at MHS, but to no avail, somehow we got them at SGUC. So I spent all morning setting up the stage, and the band came, soundchecked, of course monitor problems. Inevitable. Great, great concert... band members were pretty nice. That week I proceeded to work on the fall play... A Midsummer Night's Dream, set in 19th century India! I got to be a light designer, patching things in, programming controls, working out ways to use all those colors for Puck and the fairies, and get settings and time scenes established, and.... it was hard, but turned out great. We got canvas to paint a huge moon backdrop. Threw a floodlight and faded it in, it was PHENOMENAL! I will never forget that... as the music builds the moon turns on amidst the dark stage, silhouetting our main character. Ms. Chessum played the fairy... and the cast was just hilarious! I love theater stuff...
December - Took my SAT II's... had a low key birthday... it was fine. Here's where we started rehearsing for the huge musical! This was our chance! We were going to do it in Ambassador Auditorium, how grand! But much less sing in a choir, we had to learn dance moves, and I was having the time of my life, regardless of a 5+ hour rehearsal on a weekend. I don't know if people got the concept that we were performing in Ambassador, where Sinatra, Pavarotti, among others used that stage. Gold and Onyx Marble, "Carnegie Hall of the West", top 10 acoustic venue in the world... WOW!
I went to winter formal with Tracy. Christina, Aaron, Shelby, Fletcher. They did a great job planning it at Castle Greens south of Old Town Pasadena. Good food, but couldn't finish it before the waiter took it away.
Christmas vacation came, and one of the days, I went with Habitat for Humanity and helped work on a house. Having Mr. Martin come with us was awesome. That man is awesome.
One of the Sundays after church, bunch of us went to the Fenderson's to test out their new home theater! Small, but a powerhouse set of speakers mounted, internally wired, Dolby 5.1 surround, no screen, but a projector! We watched the first two Lord of the Rings movies, and Tuesday we went back for the third movie. the sound was incredible! Scared us half to death most times!
January comes, and we have full day rehearsals for the big Broadway Revue... doin 42nd Street, song from Hairspray, Rent, it's amazing. I'm learning so much, but there's so many people still unappreciative of the historic opportunity they'll have to perform here! ARGH. Makes me mad.
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Tuesday, December 20th, 2005
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Sorry-got really busy with school, but here we go!
August 5, 2004 - What a nice relaxing day! Beach trip with Steffi, Jessica, and Erica :-). Man... perfect day, couple clouds, sunny, Huntington beach...
August 7, 2004 - Another day at the beach! With church this time, good fun with another small group of people.
August 13, 2004 - Since I'm working for Mac7 Graphics, Mark's invited me to go to, pretty amazing. Learned a lot, saw the trade and the different aspects of it.
Aug. 15 - Aug. 21: Hume Lake! Wow,... it's my last year being there as a high school senior!!! This year Dino came with us too, it was a lotta fun. This year, the SGUC group got really familiar with the nursing station...hahaha we kept getting scraped up and Dave kept bringing new kids in from our group. I jumped off a huge rock probably 20-some feet up and into the lake. So much fun :-p. It was awesome having Nicole with our group too... This year though, we didn't get the big lakeview chapel for our whole group. But it was still fun, few nights in the hallway eating trays of cookies... It was still a big summer for me. Made lots of decisions involving college career choices, and family, and what God had in mind for me. Conor and I even talked a lot about stuff, it was cool. Helped me really figure out my priorities. I did make the decision that I would take the leap and do what I had a passion for.. and now I've learned; film and music. If conflict came between my family and God, however hard it is, God does come first. So... some late night talks about that, and through lots of prayer, came lots of resolve.
Oh and Our Hearts Hero was kinda a neat band.
Thursday night-Talent night on the patio by the lake; can't forget that! I borrowed Gabby's cowboy hat(albeit there was a pink ribbon around it) and whipped out my violin. Daniel Flores backed me up on guitar, I walked up with Robben. He introduced me, saying, "This is my friend, he will play a song for you, he doesn't speak much English though..." and BOOM Copland's Hoe Down! The Ruffin bros. started square dancing in the middle of the stage!!!! AWESOME... I think at one point I missed a page, but i said SOR REE SORRY....haha.... at the end of it... just a few words: "Beef, it's what's for dinner!" Oh, and Richard ordered a side-order of bacon. We played a bit of Frisbee golf...I think jess got 78 over par and i was around 52. Neat-o.
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And that was the summer before senior year...
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Sunday, October 9th, 2005
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It's been over a year. Surely, I do see the value in even doing any of this, and it's there, yes it is. Well, I'm back, and I'm about to unleash in the next few days to catch up on the last year and a half, don't be obliged to read, it's for my own sake, unless you do decide it yours as well... I'll pick up where I left off, but be rest-assured, I could not even imagine where I am today. Not even a thought of it. But I'm here, and follow along and you'll find out.
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ahhhhh...... so many things happening... gotta catch up:
So ASB retreat at Big Bear was July 10. Fun, night sky, saw every star visible, on the lake, clean air.
Came back and kicked off CORE week at church. 616....it was a great week. I actually shared my testimony on video for everyone. First time I ever did in such a big way. Some great things happened, some dramatic things happened throughout the week.
Then that weekend I got to perform at the Colorado Street Bridge Festival, aka suicide bridge. Each summer they have huge throngs of people go there for music, food, booths and such. It was fun playing 10 variations of Mozart's Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, and some other pieces. Just a small ensemble of us.
Funny thing was the group we shared the stage with for a bit was called FUNdamentals. They go around to daycares and stuff to teach young kids how to sing and dance and 'groove'. So these are all 20-ish people, a guy on guitar, jamaican lookin guy, and a gal that was singing. After a song about being giraffes and animals and stuff with little kids, all the music groups went on a dinner break. Walking by the thai food, right next to that booth, people were in line at the kegs for some beer, and guess who we saw? haha.....drunken singers with little 4 year olds. hrm.....
Then next week, Thursday the 22, was really awesome. Dreamworks teamed up with Tremor, which I'm a part of. So since Dreamworks HQ was in Burbank, about 70 people like 15-20 yrs old were invited to go down there and catch a screening of a movie coming out in October called Shark Tales. It was pretty funny, but like Osmosis Jones mixed with Finding Nemo. Anyway, in the theater, apparently were some execs from MTV, one from BET, and like some other channels, NBC or something rather. But got to see a movie, got $100, a shirt, badge, and some other stuff. Not bad.
Saturday, Beach trip with church. Waves were great. Went out like sooo far, but luckily a sandbar was there and we were standing in the middle of well.....near the beach but nonetheless, far out in the ocean haha. Swells were huge, but we started wave-surfing, except by just swimming haha. Good fun. Then....
Today was a first. It was awesome. Thanks Dino, for inviting me. We went to the Home Depot Center to see the Finals of the WTA's JP Morgan Chase Tournament. Serena Williams v. Lindsay Davenport. Davenport beat the crap out of Serena, well she wasn't playing well at all. Anyway, it was cool, got all this free stuff, saw my first pro tennis event live. Took some cool pictures, and then we saw the doubles finals right after. Petrova/Shaugnessy v. Pascual/Martinez. Good first set I saw. I wanna go play tennis now.
Well, that's it for now.
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Well yesterday afternoon was the church bbq for the 4th of july. I stayed from 3-6, well a bit after that. But it was good fun, good fun. Pinewood derby, pie and watermelon eating contest, potluck, face-painting, even a Chili cook-off! Felt like a midwestern town celebrating... on the grass, with little kids running around, it was fun hehe, cuz in SoCal, at least I don't get to see much of that.
Speaking of which, I'm being bogged down incredibly once again. Church CORE week is coming up next week, this is 'hell-week', so to speak... at church haha....we're preparing and constructing for the next week. And then music, I'm being pushed really hard to advance on a lot of my violin stuff, as well as theory. And then Summer school, which I have to catch up from my week gone in Sacramento. Phew......
And about Sacramento... be prepared. Because I'm going to try to go in full detail soon about my incredible week there! Now you can complain :-) about it being too long, but don't read it. I'm writing it for the sake of keeping it since they might ask, or the school might ask for me to speak on it, and I wanna keep a good memory of it. Well... you'll see. So it's going to be long... long... long... long... long....
I'm actually feeling really mad right now. Nobody's home that I called to go play tennis this morning. I'm dying to play right now, watching too much Wimbledon...
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Ok, so for those who want to know of my new job... hehe
Mac7Graphics. My church(San Gabriel Union) youth group leader, crazy dude... Mark. It's awesome. Flexible times for the most part, work out of his place, with his kids running around the house haha... I get to learn more on designing graphics and stuff, print and cut vinyl and stuff, and he even builds the whole sign in his yard so I get to use all the stuff. Like woodshop. Anyway, it's awesome, just to start with a concept, an idea, and draw it out, play around with fonts and colors and stuff. Then print, cut, or stick vinyl around somewhere, cut lots of wood, trace it, paint it, play around with materials to bend, cut, raise, all sorts of creative things. It's so cool seeing the whole process. And I get to take part in it.
Then sometimes we will go out on jobs, maybe in Old Town Pasadena, or in San Diego. Long trips, it's good food since it's the whole day. And fun part... creativity is a big positive working with that stuff, so even when we go to the Getty Museum, he might clock me in... just for looking at the photography exhibit this summer. Can't wait. So if you need a banner, graphic design, signage, decals, all the rest... you know where to go!
Lakers... *sigh*... they didn't even try. Goodness, nothing went in, kind of troubling. Like 30 points ahead... whatever.
Forgot about GradNite last week. Pretty crazy, by 3am, I was just dozing off in line, getting my fix of rides, doze a bit again in line... you get it. Morning came, got back to school about an hour to two later. 8am. Saw some people getting ready for finals mwuahaha.... I went to IHOP with some people. Fun. Next time, it will be potato pancakes or something.
I tried the Led Zeppelin DVD on our home theater system outside. SO GREAT.
Dang it, wanna go to the beach or see a movie or just somewhere far...
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Ok this sucks. I think it's just me though. Seriously. Nobody wants to do anything. At one point I'm criticized for not asking too. Well I doubt there will be any objections concerning my full summer schedule... so if there's nothing going on, er... if nothing's goin down... if nothing's up this summer... I guess I'll put down in stone my work days. 5 days a week most likely so that's my summer. School in the morning. work all afternoon. Thanks.
I don't feel like seeing any people anymore. I'll just work more hours, and I'm waiting for Saturday. I can leave to Sacramento for a week with strangers. Won't see anyone for a week and a half. Get back.... when are those ASB meetings anyway...
PS - Love my new job. so awesome.
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Saturday, June 12th, 2004
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ok whoever said Matrix revolutions was horrible? Well, alright, there are better movies out there(no kidding), but I'll admit I was on the edge of my seat. Next is Last Samurai, and then Command and Conquer. I wanna go see Day After Tomorrow and Chronicles of Riddick. Anybody up for it? I'm so bored and so free...
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Oh my gosh. Just watching the funeral for Reagan...That was amazing. The Eulogy by Michael the eldest son... was simply amazing. The greatest gift from a father to a son, from his father to him? God's love. God the Father's gift to us, well there ya go. My goodness, couldn't have said it better. But what does the media do? Highlight his rebellious son's message. I mean it was beautiful and great, but wow, the message of eternal salvation, that part. They don't even hint at it now after he's said it.
And Nancy Reagan with the final goodbye at the casket... who can bear that. She just... I'm sure she gets the sympathy of everyone who could even watch. And Margaret Thatcher...wow incredible that she came.
He truly went from sea to shining see. Wow. Can you believe that? At the National Cathedral in Washington... Thatcher, Krushchev, five presidents, Bush, W. Bush, Carter, Ford, Clinton. My goodness. With Mikhail Gorbachev was up with Reagan at the casket..... can you imagine? In the words of another, only God could have made that happen.
Wow. I'm speechless.
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