A poem about growing up

I found this in my notebook, don't know when I wrote, prolly the beginning of the quarter...

but along with my last post I think it's rather appropriate...

Enjoys :-)

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Growing up, it's no joke 

I remember when I was young 

I thought it would be dope 

to live on your own, no parental control, 

but I realized growing up means being bold

stepping out on your own, facing the unknown, 

Trusting in only yourself and God for strength, preseverance and pursuit. 

Now yeah living on my own may be cool, but is nothing like those days of school. 

When worries where far away and responsibilities were days, miles, centuries away. 

I envy the young, so naive, and unnoticing of all stress and worth forthcoming

But then I just realized my time has passed, no fun left anymore for me. 

I gotta grow up, I gotta live, and somehow still be free. 

I can do it though, even when it may hurt, even when I may be in pain. 

I can grow up, Move on without much strain. 

so I take a deep breath, exhale slowly, jump on to my next journey.   

PEACE & CHICKEN GREASE!!

so it's been a month....

since I update last. Exactly a month, btw. 
And to say the least, i've been busy. with school work, classes , my practicum at ETHS, NCE, NUMB, work, and just general resting hanging time, this blog was definitely pushed to back of thing on my list of to do.

not to mention my laptop charger almost caught on fire, like seriously dude i was scared I was gonna burn the dorm down. anyhoo I was too lazy/cheap to buy a new one, until I got one for like 4 bucks (7 total) off that good Amazon dot com. so let's just say we back in business, for a least some time.

it's also sad to think that my last Fall quarter at Northwestern is coming to an end. by all means, I'm excited, but parting is such sweet sorrow (SHAKESPEARE!) but I realized it's also a great jubilee. Like from this quarter I've realized one thing: College is stupid. Like I hate it. I hate having to worry about these stupid assignments, when in real life I won't have to write paper or anything. I'll have to write lessons, which I also hate.....uhhhh i don't know anymore.....

I  mean, I just want to figure out what I'm doing with my life, and by that where I'm going to teach when I graduate, when I figure out that I'll be so much happier about life, and it'll give me a goal. Because without goals, life is like a box of chocolates like drifting on the ocean on a piece of ice, eventually that ice will melt and you will sink and die because you can swim. so yeah.

yo that's was like real deep (Heavy?)

In other news. I'm getting old, Officially. On monday I'll be 22, which makes feel real old, I don't know why. I guess this is point where I become an adult. and I guess it's kinda is true. I mean I'm bout to start real life. I got my license, I got a car! (yeah that's news I got a car over thanksgiving break. 2001 Honda Civic, Green, Two Door. Amazing.) I mean I don't want to grow up, but I think it'll be kinda fun/interesting to be completely independent and stuff.

I don't know what else to talk about.
 Um
Band Banquet this Saturday, I get to say goodbye to a great (but crazy) organization. I'm really happy to be done with Band, specifically this quarter it was just another thing on my long list of craptastic-ness. I'm just glad I did it all four years. Even through all the struggles, and the times I didn't want to be there, I really enjoyed being apart of NUMB. I'll miss it. But at least after the Bowl game, I won't have to wear that uniform ever, ever again.

Also, something I learned in the past month:  Teaching is mad hard yo. Like for reals,  I seriously I think it's one of the hardest profession in the world. There's so much to go into to teach high school students, to motivate them. I think besides teaching students math, I really just want to inspire, and just make learning/thinking something kool to do. But hopefully I can do a whole nother post, sometime in the future, more dedicated to my thoughts teaching, because seriously it's gonna become my life real soon. And the world should know how I feel.

um that's really all I have to say now. I might do a youtube mania or something random. Idk depends on how I feel.

Well, I'm off to celebrate something with friends.
Wow I've missed this blog.
PEACE & CHICKEN GREASE!!!!

Sorry...

I definitely don't update as much as I used to, comparing to how much I use to update about a year ago....
but ya know it that I'm in a different place now I guess (sounds like I gettin deep again)...
but ummmm
its not that I don't want to update, I kinda put posting stuff off,
and I guess I sorta don't need a blog as much as I had needed it a year ago.
or I don't find it as important to me, to show/tell people things about stuff that I think is kool to me.

but I will try to update as much as I can when I can. But ya know times are hard.....
Flash to scene of me on stage singing this
"when ya trying get this money for the rent........"
im telling you if life was a musical it be awesome as hell...
like fo-ril-zees.

Yeah but um I will try to update, a little som'n som'n......
if I can when I can......

PEACE & CHICKEN GREASE!

Winter Break is.....

awesome! !
I have done nothing but eaten, slept, showered, and watched TV,
and not necessarily in that order.

BUT
I seriously have somethings I must do:

Write Resume for Student Teaching Placement
Write an Essay about why I want to be a teacher

My plan is start on those on Monday, like really, but I'll probably end up procrasintating the
first couple of days, then again I don't plan on doing anything (like nothing) so I might end up actually getting it done before next year.

Then there are things I want to do:

Start the NCE website
GO SHOPPING for myself! ***this is kinda something I must do also**

Hopefully I can (theortically I should) get all this done before heading off to Tampa.
Yes, I can! I can do it! (ALL NIGHT LONG....whoa inapproriate!)...

that's it ya'll
PEACE & CHICKEN GREASE!!!!

Funny-Random-Thingy-of-the-Week-Type-Dealio.

Here's some things I found quite hilarious.

Hope you enjoy 'em too (like a bag of Lays Potato Chips!)

SO APPARENTLY

Martin Lawrence and Jamie Foxx are coming out with a movie

starring Sheneneh (from Martin's hit show Martin) and Foxx's character Wanda from In Living Color.

At the BET awards this summer, the two did a little thingy

watch it.

this is funny. I'm hoping the movie will be hilarious....(be sure to check out some of them related videos on youtube if you haven't heard of these characters before)

btw my favorite Sheneneh catchphrase is "I'm a LAAAY-DAY"........hahahahahah

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Sammy Sosa bleaching his Skin?!!!!

WHY?!!! RIDICULOUS! (dude like yo ass look white. seriously....)

like did he not see what happened to michael jackson?.

and then he gon try to lie about it, like about something like that....

 MAYBE you can lie about steroids usage but you can't like about bleaching yo skin

all people gotta do is take a picture of you, dude.....

ridiculous.

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the Toliet Rap. 



"Sittin' on the Toil-let!"
too funny.
short.
period.
point.
blank.
word.
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this is slowly turning into a Youtube Mania post...oops....





this is way too hilarious. esp the subtitles. and it sounds like what they say....


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random picture (hopefully it's funny)....







sorry.....hilarious.....i would like to say that I've done this before but unfortunately I don't do CRACK 
(like yo mama!)..... Things I find funny about this: helmet, the tongue, white substance on his body, the fact he's rubbing it, the guitar, his scary stare..
that's it....
PEACE & CHICKEN GREASE!!!

Blackface.

 IS NOT COOL. for any reason. people find it offensive. so you shouldn't do it.

If you haven't heard two NU students dressed up in blackface for Halloween, or should I say as black people, not sure of their intention, but it definitely came off as blackface.

I don't think they should have done it. I would like assume that those gentlemen didn't know about the history of blackface, and maybe that's why they felt it was alright. I would hope that it wasn't supposed to be a stereotype of black people. But this just demonstrates the  lack of awareness people have about race on the NU campus.

I myself am not that upset at the incident. I just hope people know that blackface not cool. And I expected people, especially the black community, to get upset about something like this. I think it was kinda stupid for them to post the pictures on the facebook. but hey.

there's supposed to be a discussion of the blackface tomorrow, educating people about it. I myself didn't know that much about it. If you want info now you can check wikipedia, as I did.

yes this was a serious post. I will do that from time to time.

PEACE & CHICKEN GREASE!

I Totally Wanted to Update Tonight...

but the problem is I have no time & I'm really tired..
so you get nothing.

(EVIL LAUGH)


PEACE & CHICKEN GREASE!

End of Summer Self-Evaluation

Seeing as my summer is coming to a close in less than a week (omg!).

I thought it would be interesting to see if I completed any of my summer goals.

Don't remember what goals I'm speaking of? click here (awesome poem here btw)

1. Hanging out of course... (with friends, family,myself, chillin on the couch all day, 'running' (i use that term loosely) outside, smelling the roses)

2. Get my L's (long overdue, like REALLY)

3. Get a job or something that gets me money (& not selling drugs, cuz i tried that last summer and it was terrible..i almost got arrested...... haha jk)

4. Not thinking about school & such until 3 weeks before I leave....

that's my plan(s), probably won't stick to them that much we'll see.. i guess....

well it looks like I accomplished 1 & 4, but not 2& 3 = 50% which is an F, for all you educational people out there. so this makes me a failure right? NO! (i'm trying to make myself feel betta, but its actually true!)

even though this summer basically was like ever other one I've had for the past 20 (or 19?) years,

I did accomplished some things

1. I cooked alot more, which made me feel I'll be alright on my own, like I don't need other people to cook for me.

2. I downloaded tons of songs (including tons of gospel, neo soul, and broadway type), which I am so happy I did.

3. Along with those songs, my love for singing has increased.

4. I've gotten like tons of sermons and such (my pastor is amazing) which therefore has strengthened my relationship with God.

5. Oh, and this blog, I've really, REALLY established it, in my mind as something I'll continue as long as I can (probably till I graduate)...

so as you can see (or read)....my goals were in total 4, but I accomplished 5 unexpected things(5 > 4, which should actually be 7 more so 6.5 > 2 cuz I accomplished 2 of my goals) but you know it was a good summer. I enjoyed myself, and I am so ready to head back to E-town & NU, and I'm bracing myself for this upcoming year & what God has in store for me.

should be interesting....

PEACE & CHICKEN GREASE!

ummmmmm....yeha too lazy to come up with a creative title....

that could've been the name of this blog....
but whatev...
I've realized I'm updating just about everyday now.
That's kinda scary, cuz apparently I'm not doing anything with my summer...
hahahahhaa

just a couple (dos, mbili <----ahhh I miss Swahili!) thingys to talk about....
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BB Updation

I think I'm officially obsessed with this show. Wouldn't you say? but ummm yeha. So Laura went home. Expecting Ronnie to go home this week. He was not nominated, but that doesn't mean he won't be backdoored. The people up for elimination is Jordan (popular) & Michelle (brains).

I realized while watching this show, that I actually would never wanna go on this show. I think it would be kool to go through the experience for a couple of weeks, but you know no amount of money would make me go through that stuff for like 3 months...it's just foolish-ness...I mean you're not going make me eat slop for nothin....I mean I'm not that money-hungry....but who knows maybe....probably not.....

oh there was this weird thing on the show today. Two girls were "fighting" over Jessie...??? why??? I just think I really don't like this guy, even though he might be really kool person, he was such a jerk on last season, that that's (???) all I think about when I see him/talk about him. Funny thing is I don't even remember exactly what he did last season.....

hahahaha

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I don't really have anything else to update about (question: tell me what you think about this? NO!, who are you destiny's child? Then what?, Why don't I just make this a post about big brother? Save the hassle...)

I was gonna post a picture...but I'm way to lazy to look one up.....soooo

PEACE & CHICKEN GREASE!

Random Tidbits and such...

"The Invisible Man"

Pics from Damn Cool Pics. Check out the original post here. Totally amazing how good some of these are.
This is kool cuz I was totally thinking about this a couple of days ago. Like how hard would it be to have something that'll make you invisible. Like each and every one of your particles will have to be unseen by human eye, would you have to genetically change stuff?...idk how that would work?
(Reason for this thought: I think my brother was watching that Muppets in Space movie, and there's this part where the muppets become invisible, and it got me thinking about it. ) anywayz check out the pics.

(there's more, but you should check out the post, cuz I didn't want to post them all)

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VBS Updation

Today was pretty much the last day of VBS, the last day of teaching. Tommorrow, Friday, every class does a presentation, and that's about it. It was pretty good today. I was actually getting really used to it. I can say I really enjoyed myself this week. I was expecting it to be very hard, and just tiring and down right boring. But you know it was good. I just kinda wish we could've got more people to come. But it is what it is. God got it all in control.

Next week, I'm just gonna be so bored, well probably not. I can say it'll probably be uneventful, but you know you never know. If it is you'll know and if it's not you'll know so don't worry about that...

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No BB update, didn't see it tonight of course becuz of VBS, updation on it tomm....
Short(er) post.
PEACE & CHICKEN GREASE!!

Not sure what update about.......

cuz of course I haven't been up to much.....
But I really wanted to update sooooo.....
here ya go, i guess....

BB UPDATE
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So this episode of BB was so much better than the previous 2. People are really starting to play the game, which I still think its too early, unless you're on the chopping block. But hey whatever. I loved this episode because there was drama, that's basically the only reason I watch it. Like people were arguing and its only the first week (CRAZINESS!). Also one dude, I believe his name is Ronnie, almost got caught up in a lie. And that was pretty good. well, he did get caught but the other dude just didn't say it. All this like happened in the last half of the episode (HOW LAME!).

Also, I've come to the conclusion (w/ the help of Wikipedia), that there is 2 (3?!) black people in the house. Chima (1), Kevin (1/2 black and 1/2 japanese), Russell (1/2 black and I guess 1/2 white). If you had up halves and such you get 2, but should each person be counted as black or mixed or whanot?? (idk). But that's kool I guess. But still there's hardly ever any obvious black males on the show. Kool season so far, though.

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what else can I update about?!!
hmmmmmmm.....

--Michael Jackon ( too sick of all the drama surronding it)

--Burr Oak Cemetery (Madness, straight buffoonary to the 12th degree, but no)

--Sarah Palin resigning (Who cares? I don't)

--Harry Potter (Nope, never been interested really.....yeha)

i just don't know. I really don't. This is pitiful.
Well that could only mean one thing (what?!)
It's........ (peanut butter jelly time?!)
Random Picture Time (booo!)
well it's all I got (lame, lame-0)
whatever, here ya go

found this at Explain this image .com (see it in the corner)....anywayz tons of photo that are unexplainable. I have to subscribe to this.
Aight that's it....
PEACE & CHICKEN GREASE!!

New Layout

Hey people's (what up though)
as you can see, hopefully
I have changed up the layout of my blog (Always time for a change, I guess) Can you spare some change please?...
As you can see it's nicely colorful and bold....really like the squiggly-ness of the blog post area....

Let me know if you like it or what not.
It would be very much appreciated.

Funny thing about this layout ( i did not make it)
but the person who made it had like everything in spanish...so I had to like translate stuff (of course I used the google translate thing, it would've taken my me 5 days to translate it myself.)...
it was just really funny...to me at least...

anyways hope you enjoy this new layout,
more updations later!

PEACE & CHICKEN GREASE!!!