Burned Out

Im so tired...
tired of work
tired of school
tired of family
tired of friends
tired of pretending
tired of stressing
tired of trying
tired of lying
tired of motorcycles
tired of advertising
tired of coveting
tired of playing
tired of soccer
tired of basketball
tired of drumming
tired of facebook
tired of thinking
tired of driving
tired of sitting
tired of talking
tired of teaching
just plain T I R E D ! ! !

i need more time alone with God. i wish He'd give me like a week or something to just drive somewhere far from any of these things or people and just go retreat. im trying to get my second foot out of the world but the worlds draining all the energy and strength from me. there is so much stress/worry/anger/fear/hate boiling up inside of me and its almost at its tipping point. i NEED God to lift this from me. I know Gods not one of my "subscribers" on blogger but i know hes reading this post/prayer. Please God, you know exactly what i need, give me patience Lord.

Giving Up or Getting Started?

Havent really been posting up any new things cause ive been up to absolutely nothing! so i decided a couple of weeks ago that school (pcc) just wasnt working out for me so i dropped out and have been just bumming around looking for jobs and just thinking. but me dropping out wasnt really an act of quitting more like trying things differently. ive decided to take a year or two off and work (full time hopefully) while taking classes at art center at night and getting my portfolio together. so i actually start my second advertising class at art center today! im pretty excited cause i heard my teachers really good, and also maybe i can actually start using my creative side again and make something to spark my artsy side again.

on other news i think ive picked up another passion, COOKING! ive been cooking alot these days and i gotta admit its pretty damn good. steak, spaghetti, quesadillas, candied bacon, im starting with the easy stuff. haha but yeah its good and its good cause i gave up eating fast food and soda, its tough and i slip a couple of times but im doing pretty good. no more mcdonalds, bk, carls jr, jack.. etc but those street tacos still get me, i cant give them up just yet!

and MOVIES!


Thor was actually pretty good, alot funnier than i thought it would be. C+/B-


Fast Five was good and bad at the same time, as a regular action movie it was GREAT! but not as a racing movie, barely any racing. C+


i went to go watch this with a friend cause it got 90% but it totally blew! it was horrible! D


this movie is actually kind of old but i just watched it on netflix the other night and loved it! its funny, exciting and real! and also gives me hope that someday ill meet one of my celebrity crushes haha solid B

Krazy Glue Campaign

so for my advertising/graphic design class at PCC were working on making an advertising campaign for whatever product we want and i chose Krazy Glue. We had this project for a good month now and its due in about a week and so far this is all i have...


...absolutely nothing! all i have is a crumpled piece of paper filled with useless thumbnails, hopefully i can pull some miracle outta my butt in the next couple of days. in the meen time here are some glue ads that i thought were really good!

Reverse Graffiti!?

This is amazing. Instead of using paint to tag walls these artists use the dirt on the walls as the canvas and the water as the medium... amazing! They need to come to LA and clean up some of our dirty walls! haha go check em out at www.reversegraffitiproject.com

RUUDE

I cant really put it in words but WE Americans are rude. When i think about my trips to Cambodia, Philippines and Bangladesh i miss the people. I miss how genuine their kindness was. Not the fake kind that you get from going to the airport or restaurant. Back in Bangladesh they knew how to Love one another. Id be embarrassed if they saw how we treat one another here in America. We are all capable of being good kind hearted people, we're just too lazy to try.

and go watch this movie.
GOD GREW TIRED OF US imdb

Dream On

one of these days im gonna be rich (or marry a very rich girl) and buy this watch! more



i love bell&ross

The Pact

So me and my best friend were (past tense) having some issues with some girls so we decided to make a pact. We decided not to get "emotionally attached" to anyone until May 28th. I know its really short but we didnt want to be over ambitious and go for a whole year cold turkey so we're taking baby steps. This is probably the second or third time we had the same pact! haha So right now im super bitter so i thought that i'd list some things i've learned in the last 20 years.

1. Girls are evil.
2. Girls dont know what they want, they only know what they DONT want.
3. "No really, I'm fine." in girl talk really means "I'm saving this one for later fight."
4. Dont go on double dates, if you have to make sure the other guys a prick to his girl.
5. If 8 out of 10 tweets are about how much you hate your bf/gf its time to break up.
6. BEWARE of big sunglasses, they can make a mediocre 6 look like a solid 8.5!
7. Dont be outdo yourself on the first date or else you'll have to live up to that forever.
8. There is no such thing as a perfect couple.
9. Frenching your girlfriend for the first time in front of your whole school is a bad idea.
10. Dont go on blind dates set up by your on of your ex's.
11. Dont talk about how you use to go bowling all the time with your ex when you take your gf bowling.
12. Couple shirts are stupid.
13. If your girl doesnt want to take pictures with you its probably not the best sign.
14. Theres no such thing as a once sided relationship, thats not a relationship.
15. Emo songs start making sense when you break up with your girlfriend.
16. Dont just settle for someone cause youre lonely, you'll just end up regretting it or cheating.
17. Be honest.
18. Its better to be with the "right girl" rather than the "better" one.
19. When youre sprung everything feels like "love", get an outside perspective.
20. My wife is gonna be smoking HOT!


... ladies feel free to correct me if im wrong :)

CB550 (part 1)

So this is how far I've gotten on my project bike. Its been almost a month now and so far i've stripped the paint, disassembled and cleaned the carburetor and thats about it. Im planning on putting the carbs back together and getting the changing the spark plugs tomorrow to see if she starts! Should be exciting... ill keep you guys posted.

Surf/Shoot

saw this and had to share! watch it in 1080 HD! i cant wait to buy a new camera and go surfing!

Adventures

My friend shared this with me and i thought it was worth the repost! i wanna do something like this. more

In the beginning...

...there was scrap!
so today i finally picked up my motorcycle and brought it to my dads house. lets be completely honest here, its a piece of junk! the bike is from 76' and its all over the place. its a 1976 Honda cb550. this is what its suppose to look like

and this is what it looks like right now...



so pretty much its gonna be a long time before i get to ride this sucker! i would list all the work that needs to be done but i know ill be up all night typing so i wont! i will leave you with this, my inspiration and vision for this bike when shes done!

Impluse

Ive been wanting a motorcycle for quite a while now. A cafe racer to be exact! For the past two weeks me and my friends have been trying to rebuild/revive my other friends 1980 Honda CB750. so picture 4 "post-highschool" guys with no mechanical background messing around with a bike thats ten years older than us, lets just say its been very interesting and educational. Now all i think about these days are bikes, bikes bikes girls, and more bikes! haha but after working on his bike i started really really REALLY wanting to get a bike so i impulsively signed up for motorcycle class! (if you guys are thinking about getting a motorcycle license you should really look into this class) its a 15 hour class, and if you pass you arent required to take the driven part of the test when getting your license. But anyway working on his bikes been a ton of fun and really got me thinking that i could do it too. we're still working on his bike and hopefully he can fix it up sell it make some money and buy a better one! haha










oh yeah by the way... i just bought my first bike! IM IMPULSIVE.

iPhone 4 DSLR

came up on this while surfing the web! im waiting to see some sample images of what the pictures actually look like but i cant really find any. pretty cool idea though, pocket dslr!




turtleback


and did i mention...

yo quiero...

Timex Camper
Nixon The 51-30
Nixon Murf
wewood CRONO army
Timex Military Chrono
Timex WS4
Noon Copenhagen No.18
Timex for Club Monaco

I Miss My QUEEN!

so its only been my third day in korea but i feel like ive been here for years! of course i miss my friends and family and all that stuff but what i really miss the most is... my QUEEN sized bed!!! so last night i spent the night at my friends dorm in Jeonju and i had to crash on the ground. falling asleep for me is never the problem, its just in the morning when i wake up my back feels like a freaking tree trunk! and also i dont know how people sleep with pajamas. when i sleep i sleep FREE! i dont like being restricted in my sleep so at home i sleep shirtless and in only my boxers. so im not completely nude but just free. the entire trip in bangladesh my team were all wearing pajamas and complaining how cold it was and i was just wearing my white t and shorts thinking, damn this shirt! i wanna be free! haha even know at my uncles house i have my cousins room to myself but i think if i slept in just my boxers they'll probably think im weird or something cause they all wear pj's too. haha am i the only one who sleeps like this? or do you guys just not know how much better it is on this side of the mountain :)
i also miss mexican food, most people dont know what tacos are here... how do they live?! i also miss my toilet, i cant poo the same on these other toilets, we dont have that bond that i have with mine at home! and also i miss my castle*
but tomorrows my last full day in korea and im feeling 80% better so i think ill make the best of it! i promise ill upload the pictures and other stories i got to share for you soon... until then amigos happy valentines day!

i went to this mountain in the middle of Seoul and at the top they had these locks that couples write on and put for good luck! there were so many locks everywhere! reminded me of valentines day

Bangladesh

I just got back from a mission trip from Bangladesh with my church and a team from Jeonju Vision College. it was a short 10 day trip that started with a 13 hour flight to Seoul then a 6 hour flight to Singapore then another 6 hour flight to Bangladesh then finally a 3 hour bus ride til i got to finally put my travel gear down and rest! by the time we arrived it was already night fall so we just had service, ate and knocked out! i thought all the hard traveling was over until i woke up and found out that we were gonna ride a bus for another 10 hours plus a quick trip on the boat to cross a river. Planes i can handle cause they have movies and games but buses are full of mosquitos and the smell of gasoline makes me sick so i suffered quite a bit. We finally got to the school in a small village (which of course i forgot the name) and were greeted by some of the locals, they were all so friendly i know im gonna miss that when i get back home. majority of the time the Jeonju Vision team did ALL the work, they had their worship dance, games, activities, puppet shows and everything planned out. i couldnt help but to feel alittle useless. The head pastor of the school/church (Pastor Mondal) was a super soccer fanatic! Bangladesh is majority Muslim and Hindu and they arent very friendly to Christians. Because people in Bangladesh like soccer so much pastor Mondal holds local soccer games in these Muslim and Hindu towns that attract a big crowd. So right before our game we passed out cards and information about Christ and the people were so happy to receive them. so i played our game and finished and on the way home it hit me. BAM! in the beginning of this mission trip i was starting to wonder why God even wanted me on this trip if all i was gonna do is take pictures and sleep but then i realized it was soccer. of course anyone can come and play soccer, no biggie but the way people received me there i felt like a superstar not trying to sound conceited at all because i know its only through Christ that i could have been so blessed. i realized how great our God really is, that he can use the smallest things like english, dance and even soccer to evangelize to his people. God works in mysterious ways my friends! the rest of the trip was good we all kind of got sick toward the end but God protected us from any serious hardship.
now im in korea with my uncle and cousins, its the first time i ever met them so its a good experience. tomorrow im going to Sarrang Community church to go see my old pastor (pastor Doug) and after im gonna go down to Jeonju to see some of the friends from the mission trip! i cant wait to come home though, i feel like its been so long since ive slept in my own bed, driven my crappy car, seen all my homies and most of all, eaten some bomb ass street tacos! haha i miss you all and hopefully i'll see you soon!







+ill update some pictures and on other little things that happened on the trip but for now im out! since im considered a "fob" here .... V^^ laters!