Sunday, July 29, 2007

Box shit

why?

dodged two potential traffic accidents

with mom?

yeah

ic..

how close was it?

well one wasn't that bad

except my mom turned into a one way street

oi

not used to big ciry driving?

yeah. and she's very timid. and when she gets flustered, her iq points literally drop 10 points

another one, she changed lanes. except didn't bother shoulder checking or signalling. almost hit a taxi behind us

oooh

i mean we had to goto the airport for a really stupid reason

why?

basically, my aunt was going home (smithers) except one of her boxes was too big

over 70lbs

so we went to the airport with additional boxes

basically the box was all food items

haha .....better be food u can't buy up there

well overall, all of the boxes together must've been over 100lbs of food

oh yeah check this out

http://edchung2.blogspot.com/2006/08/this-is-why-i-have-favorite-aunts.html

no opinion?

still loading

Yikes

hahaha the lock and seat belt thing is funny

same aunt here

Anyways

turns out, my aunt gets upset and starts crying about the box problem.

some honger notices

and offers to hold the boxes temporarily in Richmond

Wow

nice person

so basically, my mom and I went to the airport for no reason at all

why didn't u drive ur mom?

can u DRIVE???

Well

the thing is

i can read a map. my mom can't

so i worried if i drove and got lost, my mom couldn't read the map to save me

Ooh

Anyways

we had major trouble finding parking

so we went in circles for a while. at that point, i started to drive until we found parking

my mom has a bad habit of repeating things over and over

"my english no good" " i don't know the roads" "i don't know how to find parking" "is it ok to drive in (blank)"

or just suddenly yelling out "your gonna hit (blank)" even though i'm a safe distance away

all in all, i start to get really tense and annoyed

yeah i hate passengers like that

anyways. my uncle gets the box and brings it to my house

my mom and dad take 2 smaller boxes to the greyhound courier

except they had problems finding it and the courier just closed when they arrived

so my dad and a second uncle are trying to ship the boxes some other way right now

so basically, all of this grief just so my obese aunt can eat some more

hahaha it's for the fat aunt too??? Heheh

another super annoying thing

while searching for parking, my mom got really flustered and hence a lot dumber

she devolved into my fat aunt and was incapable to reading simple english signs

Hahaha

funny family

i'd like to meet ur mom one day just too see

well when we got home (my just got off work)

*my dad

to my dad, my mom would explain the whole story. she'd talk really fast and be really excited. i'm like too sometimes

i'm like too ?

my dad meanwhile just laughed and snickered while listening. i do that too sometimes as well

i mean i'm like my mom. i talk really fast and excitedly when stuff like this happens

so ur like ur mom...eh?

and my dad

more like mom though

Dinner

Brb

Kk

Okback

Sexyback

Hm

(hehe-)

what do you think of that

love it

i only listened to a few seconds.

at least it's different

lol the box saga continues

Hahah

right now, my mom and dad are figuring a way of transporting and storing the boxes

turns out we still have the boxes

and we can't freeze it, cuz some of the contents will get messed up

i say eat the food

lol i know

oh yeah

a super annoying thing

my mom was the one who packed the boxes

she knew that the weight might've been a problem

except my aunt insisted on only one box

my mom should've put her foot down and did 2 boxes

"i told her over and over, the box is too heavy" ---> another statement my mom loved repeating on the way to the airport

One day, I asked my mom whether my aunt received those boxes to which my mom responded "Received? She has eaten and crapped it out by now"

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Daily Musings

Feeling awful right now. Feeling awful because I'm a really bad son.

Falling short

For the most part, Sherdog.net is filled with a) trolls or b) stupid fanboys, but occasionally there are great threads.

Thread name -My eyes welled up with tears when...

Post

I finally thought of a touching moment in MMA, when Sam Morgan was KTFO by Luke Cummo on TUF 2 and Matt Hughes was at his side trying to calm him down.

Morgan: I didn't make it? I didn't make it.. I didn't make it. *sobbing*
Hughes: it's ok. it happens to everybody. I've been submitted, I've been knocked out - it happens to everybody. It's ok."

yea that was sad all my friends were talking shit like what a pussy and i was all hey u fuckers dont know how it feels to be that close and lose it....neither do i but i can only imagine thats why i hate people who talk shit about fighters especially at places at hooters who dont fight ..


Watching the absolutely, amazing intro video for Pride Final Conflict Absolute just drives home the point even further. Just watch the video and see the fighters as they experience the thrill of victory and agony of defeat.


Monday, July 23, 2007

Benoit yourself

The Sherdog forums (specifically the Off-topic bareknuckle discussion forum) has some horribly cruel photoshop pictures and gifs of Chris Benoit in light of the double murder-suicide.

Venture forth if you dare.

Sunday, July 22, 2007

Random Movie Thoughts

Just saw "Night of the Living Dead" (original black and white version). Despite a painful slow start and some freaking annoying characters, it was a good show. In its entirety, the film is available as a legal download at Internet Archives.

Best part of the movie? When Barb started to get out of line, Ben clocked her with an overhand right.


Movies I want to see

Superbad -
For obvious reasons. "I am McLovin"

The Last Kiss - As the quasi-sequel to Garden State, I'm really curious as to what happens next

The Departed - I've seen Infernal Affairs (Great movie btw. Morse code is awesome) and I want to see how they compare.

A Scanner Darkly - I saw this on mushrooms. Holy fuck I had no idea what was going on. Maybe I can make some sense of it the second time around. Not on mushrooms



Grappling musings

Getting so close to my first submission. Made four attempts.

1) Tried for a guillotine and immediately pulled guard. However, the guy had a wrist on my hand to block my attempt

2) Same guy was in my guard and I worked for a kimura. I got the figure four hold and I was going to try to crank his arm.......but we got too close to the other people beside us. So we had to reposition and I had to give up the kimura

3) Same guy again. His name is Mike. Twice I went for an armbar from mount, but due to sloppy/non-existent technique, I couldn't swing my leg over his face and would end up on my back in guard.

Oh yeah, I now do a rolling kneebar ala Tyson Griffin / Franky Edgar UFC 67 style. And by "do", I mean I have to really think about which leg I use to trap his leg, what arm I'm supposed to use to grab his leg and which direction I'm supposed to roll. Once I figure that out, then i can do it seemlessly

Monday, July 02, 2007

MMA musings

One of the big things that people just don't grasp about MMA is the supreme cardiovascular condition that top fighters are in. All of the skillz in the world aren't going to help you with you're dead exhausted; an analogy would be putting the best driver in a really shitty car. My recent foray into grappling and watching UFC All Access with Sean Sherk has really drove home this point. Not to mention, getting kneed in the face by a maniac like Wanderlei Silva isn't going to help your stamina either

And conditioning for MMA and grappling is different from something such as training for a long distance running. MMA and grappling matches are usually spurts of wild sprinting followed by short rest intervals. It's kind of stupid to go for 60 minute runs when your MMA match isn't going to last more than 15 minutes.