Vegas; the windy city

A lot happened this past weekend in Vegas. Too much to lay out in 1 blog so I'm just gonna have a post for each day in Vegas. I've found that people tend to not read everything if its too long. So off with day 1...

10:30: Billy picks me up to head to the airport and we take off at around noon. As we get nearer I see all the buildings and get more and more excited. We land in Sin City at around 4 and little did I know I was in store for one of the best weekends ever. Some of my friends had just came back from Vegas and while they were telling me all their stories, I just couldn't wait. I was scared that they would hella hype up Vegas for me and my trip would be somewhat of a let down; this weekend was anything but that. When we landed, we take a shuttle to New York New York to meet up w/ Presh and Jinjer. We get settled in and head over to planet hollywood to meet up w/ the others. They were already drinking so we had to catch up.

My first shot in Vegas in the nice ass suite. They even had a bidet!

After taking a bunch of shots Billy and I went to eat at cheeseburger. The whole Sison family were hyping up that place so we had to check it out. That burger definitely hit the spot. I don't really remember what we did the next few hours. We all went our separate ways to get ready for Tao. All I really knew about Tao was that there would be girls just chilling in bath tubs. We somehow got in for free? Again, I don't really remember how?

I dunno whats going on here

Katrina is one cool chick

Del Rosarioooo

106 bucks a round...

The guys

Best

Tao was pretty nice. Aside from all this picture taking, we danced the night away. Err danced till 12:30-ish. Billy got kicked out haha. When I heard the news, I was not surprised. We then went to some dinner to eat. I wasn't too hungry so I shared a plate of chicken fettucini with Jinjer. Before they brought my food out, willy wonka put it in his television thingy and shrunk our portions. Jinjer and I had like 4 bites and it was gone. It was depressing to know that we paid 22 bucks for it while JR and Presh paid 15 bucks for their steak and eggs.

I think Jinjer is buzzed lol

This has become a reoccurring sight. That sight being Billy wasted

We then went back to Planet Hollywood to chill for a bit.

Billy knocked out

Myer made me drink some more of his fat tuesday drink

The girls soaked there feet in the bath tub

Ash and JR knocked out

I don't really remember that much but it was a nice way to start off the weekend. Day 2 coming soon. Hopefully.

I am finally home from Vegas. I should've gotten back yesterday but stupid standby flights left me in Vegas for an extra day. That remaining day was an interesting one. Excluding that day, this has probably been one of the best weekends I've had in a long long time. I'm pretty exhausted to actually blog about the trip but once all the pictures are uploaded and everything, I promise to blog. It's just nice to be back...

I've been on a brief blogging hiatus. I always start blogs and then just leave them as drafts and I never get around to finishing. I dunno why either? I have so much down time. I mean, I don't really work. I should've got a job before summer started but I was in that whole "I wanna enjoy my last summer in Newark phase". A month or two in, I was broke and figured it was too late to get a job since I'm leaving. I would've felt bad if a friend had hooked me up w/ a job or something and I quit within a few months. I would either get a job w/ decent hours for a few months or just chill and be broke. I was in a pickle and chose to go w/ the latter. Things have been pretty chill lately. Downtime does suck when you're not working though. You just feel...lazy.

However, this week was one of my more productive ones.

Tuesday: Went shooting w/ Billy and Lisa

I'm still a noobie, but I'm slowly getting there

Wednesday: I went to Rio Del Mar beach with Joomee, Brian, Ava, and Danielle Smith. It was a hella nice day. Too bad Brian hella lagged and when we arrived at the beach it got hella cold. We ended up staying at the beach for about 15 minutes and just headed downtown to do some shopping and grab a pie from pizza my heart.

Thursday: This was probably one of my favorite days of this summer. Presh and I went on a double date w/ Ashley and Jr. We went to Sand dollar beach

Jr's pretty buff

The date went really well. It was really romantic lol. We walked along the beach, made s'mores, and collected hella sand dollars. I'm rich in sand dollars; too bad sand dollars won't translate into real currency. Presh and I have been hanging out a lot more and she's kinda growing on me. We'll see what happens.

Friday: I went to Twin Lakes for Billy's pre-celebration birthday thingy. I've always been w/ him at midnight for his birthday for like the last 5 years or so? Jinjer calls this "Bromance!" It was a random group of people that went. I guess that is a testament to Billy's personality - random. The people that went were Ava, Billy, Lisa, Michael, Nancy, Lam and Brian. We ended up getting to the beach at about 1150ish and got kicked out at like 12:10. Nancy got a parking ticket in the process. We then just headed to Denny's and chilled there for hella long to conclude the evening.

Saturday: To celebrate Billy's 21st we went to Voodoo in SJ. It was a prettttttty eventful evening.

• Mike almost got arrested for fighting?
• Billy got totally wasted and was yacking for like 2 hours straight. I thought it was hilarious. Yes Billy, I do find some sadistic pleasure in watching you suffer from alcohol. It is a rite of passage to get messed up on his/hers 21st birthday
• We get a call that some dudes are trying to mess w/ presh and Jessica so me, Jomar, and Jon go run to the rescue, but they were driving off when we got there

Prior to that, I had a very enjoyable evening. I didnt drink that much so I was able to witness all this sober. It was pretty interesting Amidst all this Brian and I bonded a little bit. Nancy was taking care of Mike, Lisa was looking out for Billy, Jomar and Jessica were w/ each other, and Jinjer was caring for Presh which left me, Brian, and Jon just chilling waiting for things to resolve.

Today: Another game, another loss. We're 0-5 now. I played pretty well but we came up a little short. We only lost by 8 - as opposed to 30 - so I guess you would say it was a moral victory. After the game, I headed to Milpitas to celebrate Jinjer's cousins birthday. I hadn't eaten all day and I took a 2 shots and I didn't feel good at all. I cut out at like 12:15ish and then now I'm writing this while watching the Espys.

I'll try and blog more consistently for my followers. Goodnight world

Derek showed me this. I laughed out loud

As Vegas gets nearer my days are getting slower. I try to counter these slow days by being semi-productive. I went to Erik's deli cafe for brunch w/ Jinjer and Presh. It was pretty good. I think its good enough for me to drive to milpitas just for their sandwiches. After that we went to visit Nicest and have some frozen yogurt. For the brief moment we were at nicest's actual job I was thinking to myself, hopefully when I'm out of school I can have a stable job after I graduate and be self sufficient. Nicest says she spends at least 150 on alcohol each weekend! I probably won't spend that money on alcohol but I would like to have the opportunity to! We then all went our separate ways. I was suppose to stay in milpitas to hang out w/ some cousins but that didn't follow through. I ended up going home and work for a little bit. I then biked around newark for a good 3-4 hours. There's nothing more relaxing then a lil bike ride. I then came home, knocked out in the living room, and now I'm here. I guess you would say I was pretty productive.

The other day I sprained my finger hella bad playing football. Just in time for sunday when we play the number 1 seed! I also tried lifting last night but that was a complete failure. Even typing is difficult but I didn't want to deprive my reader(s) anymore than I have. jk

It was nice to get a bunch of people together for football; it reminded me of last summer. Robbie was shitting on me though. It was very reminiscent of derrick rose vs andre miller (youtube it). I was getting hella mad at myself and everyone was like "damn robbies shitting on you blah blah". That got me going and I sort of redeemed myself the next 2 games w/ some deflections and 1 or 2 touchdown catches. Not to be cocky or anything, I feel like I'm a better player than Robbie and when he was shitting on me and talking hella shit in the process, it lit a fire under me if you will. Oh and sorry if I got mad at certain people. I was just angry w/ myself and took it out on whoever.

This got me thinking, what motivates people? For me, I think its the challenge, fear of failure, desire and determination to succeed, and some form of acknowledgement from peers. Err actually, I think those are the general factors that get most people going. I expect a lot from myself whether its sports, education, or whatever and when i don't perform at that level that I expect then I become a little disappointed because I know I can do better. I'm sorta just rambling on now. I'm off to ice the finger! Goodnight world

away we go and fireworks

Today is one of those days were you just wake up and you have that feeling that nothing will deter you. Its been a great weekend thus far.

Friday - Went to San Jose with Jinjer to watch Away We Go. We were both expecting more but I think I enjoyed it more than she did. It was about this couple who's expecting a child and are in search of a home to raise the child. They went out to seek help from friends and along they way they realize that all their friends are just as lost as they are and unable to help them. It was a nice little metaphor of parents trying to get it right but getting all the wrong advice as their journey progressed. I dunno, that was my interpretation of it. I think the reason for me liking independent movies is cause I can feel relate to the characters really well. I can't really relate to what Optimus prime goes through. (I thought that movie was just OKAY. Sorry Billy and Stan) Anyways, after the movie we chilled at Phresh's place and watched mall cop and chilled till like 1?

Saturday: My cousins came over to celebrate 4th of July. We had a nice little BBQ going on accompanied with some Poker and good company. Later that night Phresh was having a house party. We get there kinda late and Jinjer is super wasted already. I dunno if I've seen her that messed up but it was pretty entertaining. I played some beer pong with Billy and met some new friends while reacquainting with old ones. Billy got super wasted too. Me driving him when he's super wasted has become a reoccuring theme lol. It was almost exactly like last time. Just like last time I drove him at Santa Cruz, we got sorta lost, we had to stop at 7-11 to get him some water, and me leaving 7-11 only to see him yacking outside my car. The exact same thing happened again last night. It was very deja-vu-esqe. I hope everyone had a fun and safe 4th of July.

Today I woke up, had nice run, and now I'm just relaxing and about to watch the Giants. I am very excited for some upcoming events such as Vegas in 2 weeks and moving in to Davis in September. Currently i am just enjoying possibly my last summer here in Newark and I'm anxious and ready to embark on a new chapter in my life.