Sunday, April 12, 2009

Costa Rica: Day One

I was blessed to experience my spring break vacation in Costa Rica! It was my first time out of the country and it was one of the best times I have ever had in my life. Everything we did was very fun and entertaining. A very good team bonding experience. Well, the first day our flight left LAX at 1:00am early Saturday morning. We arrived in Costa Rica around 9am in the morning. It was about a 6 hour flight with a lay over in Sal Salvador. Once we arrived at the airport we were all scared our bags were going to be missing HAHA! Fortunately, all of our belongings made the flight too! First thing we did was travel in our bus to the restaurant where we had our opening presentation and lunch. The opening presentation included a latin dance, which was very entertaining. We spent our first three days in the rainforest at the Tilajari Hotel Resort. The weather was gloomy and would rain on and off lightly and sometimes hard, but it still was pretty warm. The first day we didn't do much except train a little, have dinner, and relax. Here are some pictures from the first day in Costa Rica...

The 3 hour bus ride!

Opening presentation. A little taste of Costa Rican dancing.

Everyone was starving! 

The food was delicious!

Haven't had Pepsi in a bottle for a long time!

World's biggest ox cart!

Toucan Sam!

Our hotel for the first 3 days in the rainforest.

Everyone hanging outside the room

The road to the field of dreams...

Soccer field where we practiced and played.



Tuesday, April 7, 2009

North Carolina - National Champions

"I think if we played as well as we did the last couple games, at least it's a game," Michigan State coach Tom Izzo said. "The only thing I feel bad for is that it was the biggest crowd to ever see a college basketball game and it wasn't much of a game."

"You've got six NBA players that could be drafted in the first round or early second," Spartans guard Travis Walton said. "You're looking at a team that could probably beat the worst team in the NBA."


University of North Carolina went on to win their fifth national title against Michigan State University. Although I wanted UNC to win I wanted the game to be a little more exciting and competitive. Especially since it was the biggest crowd ever seen at a college basketball game. UNC dominated the game and Michigan State could not seem to prevent the Tar Heels talented players from scoring. What can you do when your opposing team starting line up are all players possibly being drafted in the NBA. The final score was 89-72. A solid year from UNC and a solid win.

 Here is a video of the chaos at the University of North Carolina after they won the national championship.
                                

Many people took part in the bracket of the NCAA tournament with their friends, co-workers, whoever. President Obama created his bracket and had UNC winning the national title. He is a big fan of UNC and visited their practice to shoot some hoops with them too. 

Saturday, October 18, 2008

Find your strength to weather the storms

I haven't updated this blog in awhile so here it is...

School has been alright, I have been trying my best to keep my grades up especially with soccer consuming up basically my life for right now. I am actually in San Francisco right now for soccer. We just had a game last night against Santa Clara. We were suppose to start the game at 8 but didn't even end up starting the game until like 9:30pm. By the time our game ended it was already 11:30pm, which is very late for a soccer game to end. We ended up tieing the game 2-2 although we should have won and the referee's screwed us once again. Our team this year is legit and we are 4-3-5, but we are much better than our record, and despite the fact that we played six teams in the top 20.

Today, we had a light training session because we have another game tomorrow against University of San Francisco. After our training we headed over to one of my teammates house who lives in San Francisco. On the way there I got to see the Golden Gate Park, Alcatraz, and Golden Gate Bridge. It was my first time to see the Golden Gate Bridge and it was pretty exciting that we got to cross the bridge with our bus LOL. Other than that I just have been chillen and getting rest for tomorrow's game.

A couple weeks ago, Toe-Knee of the Wildboyz and Victory Nightlife missed his flight to SD from New York so he ended up catching one to Los Angeles. LAX is basically where my school is and he asked if I could drop him off at the train station, but instead he ended up watching my game and then hitching a ride with my parents and I back to San DIego. It was good to see TK cause I haven't seen him in awhile. It's funny cause my brother and his brother use to hang out a lot and there was a time when TK and I use to hang out a good amount HAHAHA. It was a long ride home, but an interesting conversation made it a little more exciting than usual lol. TK and his 1700 dollar camera followed me everywhere I went. Basically, he was like paparazzi status and created a lot of attention to me LOL. But here are some of the pictures...

Standing Pose Shot

Action Shot

Thanking the fans (my parents) shot

My mother and father outside 

Model shot. haha jk!

The Friday, which was the 10th of October, I met up with Bianca, Porky, James, Kirk, Keshia, and some of their friends at Knott's Scary Farm. I got there a little earlier than them so I was just waiting in my car. It was pretty funny because these mexican people got into a fight and that shit was crazy lol.  There were a couple of good mazes that scared me pretty bad. I got scared on one of them that I even lost my phone hahaha. It was good to see some people from SD and I had a good time. Thanks to Bianca for the invite and a special Happy Birthday shout-out to her as well! Here are some pictures from the evening...

The crew

Bianca and Me

Keshia, Porky, Me, Bianca

Keshia. Porky. Me. Bianca. James.

The Crew again


On another note, Trevor James just turned 19 years old on the 14th of October. Congratulations as he is one step closer to becoming a man! LOL. Tj is one of my best friends so I decided to head down the Saturday night before his birthday to hang out. I was accompanied by Allyson and Cheryl aka the broncette's lol. We had a fun evening hanging out at TJs place and going to gravity hill. If you do not know what gravity hill is, basically it is a hill that you go down and there is a stop light. If you put your car in neutral your car goes backwards up the hill. It was my first time going and I couldn't believe it actually worked! haha. After gravity hill Tj, Marvin, and Kevin wanted to go to Mercy Road. I was too scared so I stayed in the car with Allyson, Cheryl, Ryan, Kay, and Jenn. Finally, the guys stopped pretending to be so hard cause they knew they weren't going to go all the way down in the first place. After walking a couple steps they came back up and we all just went home. I ended up sleeping at TJ's house cause I couldn't go home since I had a game the next day or my parents would have been pissed. Anyways, I had a good time kicking it with some of the friends I haven't seen in awhile. Here are some pictures from my photobooth at TJ's.

Marvin while he was sleeping. I think this was the Buldge affect on photobooth. HAHA

TJ. Allyson. Cheryl.

Allyson and Cheryl

Allyson. Cheryl. Me.

Me. TJ. Marvin. HAHA TJ's got a horse grill

LOL Marvin is a martian!

Last of all, Congratulations to my roommate Kenny for getting his first tattoo! It is probably one of the sickest tattoo's I have seen. Check it out for yourself!


Wednesday, July 16, 2008

HAWAII

I went to Hawaii for 8 days because my club soccer team won our state championships and advanced to regionals, which were in Hawaii! Our main goal was to win the tournament, which we accomplished, than to enjoy Hawaii and what it has to offer. I had a great time enjoying the beautiful beach of Waikiki, and the other attractions as well. Thanks to Nikki and Katrina for showing me their neck of the woods, and the pain I suffered from walking those damn rocks! The weather was amazing as well as the beaches. Anyways, here are some pictures from the trip...

The view from my room!

The beautiful beach. Literally a block away from our hotel.

Junior Seau of the New England Patriots was there on vacation. I don't know if you can see him cause I took the picture from a good distance away.

Austin, Dan, and I at the team BBQ.

Some of the guys just hanging out enjoying L&Ls BBQ and company.

Me at the beach

The team at the beach enjoying a nice day under the sun

My buddy Andre and I

Dan. Me. Shaun. Cesar

David. Dan. Me. Shaun. Cesar

Me. Andre. Servando.

The only soccer picture I have from Hawaii. I'm in the white with the neon shoes haha

Austin and Cesar with some late night hunger after a night filled with intoxication. HAHA   
                              

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Kaitlyn's Going Away BBQ

"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page."
-St. Augustine

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." -- Mark Twain
                        
Kaitlyn and her sister Jenny both departed overseas to study abroad. With their time left in San Diego they both decided to throw a joint going away BBQ at their house. It was an eventful night with many people showing up from class of 01', 05', and 07'. We ate some delicious food and played a few games of pong. Here are some pictures and videos of the evening...

Kaitlyn aka Kay aka klol aka KAYsadilla aka Bake Me A Cake
and the delicious ice cream cake she made for everyone.

The hosts of the evening, la familia de Kay.

Jared, April, and Ian of Hoey Inc.

Iron Chef, Josephine

The lovely ladies and myself =D

My sister Stephanie and I

My sister Stephanie and her boyfriend Wiley

The boys

The boys and girls club

The 05' heads kicking it outside

Shotgun

My brother and sister

My sister giving Marvin the infamous Dash

It was nice to see James hanging out again

Jommellee, Jared, and I showing off our pretty smiles

My two brothers, Kris and Chris

Awww Kay! I'm going to miss her! But not too much because we can still video chat! 
Yeaaa Macbook buddies! LOL
The story of our life is an autobiography. We write the pages with the experiences we go through in life. Explore, Dream, and Discover. Make your story worth reading. 

The girls challenged the guys to some 4 on 4 action in beer pong. Of course the guys came out on top. Better luck next time girls! HAHA. Here is some footage of the evening festivities.

 Ryan defending the girls team in BP. 
"Hey Fuck You Kris!" -Ryan C.
"Woooo! Wooo! Wooo!" -Marvin C.
"Get on the fucking guy side Kris." -Ryan C.
"It's alright ladies these guys are fucking losers anyways." -Ryan C.
"Dude were losing come on gaahhh!" -Jared M.
                              

the guys vs. the girls. Team Guys > Team Girls. 
"That's why I said one at a time bitches!" -Agnes P.
"Fuck that shit Go!" -Agnes P.
"Just Do It!" -Kay
"Did someone call me a bitch!?! Did someone call me a bitch!?! What the fuck cuhz!" -TJ
"You're talking too loud! You're talking too loud!" Kris G.
                              

 I don't remember why, but the guys just started c-walking. 
I think some gangster song was playing and we all dream of being gangsters.
LOL look at TJ in the navy blue shirt. He is laughing so hard and he is sooo faded! HAHA
"STOP! Black Magic." -Kris G.