whirl.and.rewind
Friday, July 30, 2004
another day, another blog
ahhhhhh swamped with work now..!! my "supervisor" (not official, but pretty much the case) just dumped a huge task on me today...right before I had to leave to go see harry potter 3, which I've been trying to get together with my friend to see for like 1.5 months!! and now I'm too tired to do it...just enough time to squeeze in a blog =P
harry potter 3 was pretty good, some parts bothered me, partly cuz I knew what happened in the book and it didn't happen in the movie. daniel radcliffe (sp?) isn't so great at acting. the kids seemed a bit too old in general?..with the exception of hermione. but somehow the idea of time travel a la back to the future will always delight.
my friend that I saw the movie with also got another friend to come, someone I didn't know. both of the teach highschool credit courses in independent institutions! that's three people I know now who's doing that this summer. my friend's friend was also saying how much he enjoyed teaching. makes me consider (not for the first time) the possibility of me teaching. if not as a career, maybe I could try out what they're doing. I don't know. seems like too much work...all that prepping during your off hours. and I really don't think I could speak knowledgeably on a topic for how long...half an hour?...several times a day and every day. I think back on my best subjects in highschool...and realize that I only understood/memorized enough to get by. there is very little that I can actually teach, and have the understanding behind it to explain it. say for math...the teacher would just do a proof before teaching the applicable parts...well, I'd do the applicable parts fine, and all the proof does is convince to me what I'm doing to solve the problems is bone fide. but I would definitely not be able to explain the proof cuz I never really understood it totally in the first place. and for more lingual stuff, it was definitely all memorizing. I keep considering teaching because afterall I did spend 6 summers doing daycamp, and I've somehow managed to teach many a class. I guess at daycamp you just talk for like 10 minutes and hand out stuff for them to do. and running games or whatever is even easier. but to speak knowledgeably and continuously on an academic subject? totally different story... and yeah, if I graduate with an engineering degree, and for whatever reason decide not to do engineering related work...then what would I do? I've seen engineering graduates become teachers...so that might be a possible contingency plan? but again, all those reasons above. wow..that was somewhat long and blabbery. hope you enjoyed your first ride on my train of thought.
Sunday, July 25, 2004
mission accomplished...
yay. apostles won today. first win of the season. now we're 1-6. yeah, we lost the first game of the doubleheader. oh well. one win is good. the other two teams from our church that were playing today were also 1-1 in their doubleheaders...nice...finally, not the blatantly suckier team..(win-wise, of course..)...for the day.
our head coach aaron won't be there for the last three games of the season. which means I'll have to step up and take over the technical aspect of the team (I'm the assistant coach). this will be quite a challenge...I have never been one for giving pep talks or pre/post inning/game critiques to the team...
"an'-imma-gon-miss-evrybady, an'-imma-gon-miss-evrybady"
boys won, 36-5. not bad. clara the softball veteran brought two of her teammates to spice up the girls' team. had us nervous for a bit. and they had a couple of solid innings.
I ate soooo much for dinner. for me anyway. now I have to stay up till it digests considerably. might as well update this thing.
heard and was reminded of a song I haven't heard in a long time. bone thugs n' harmony - crossroads. oh how I miss the 90s music era...
Saturday, July 24, 2004
another day, another blog
softball game with church people this evening..should be interesting: girls vs. boys. I think the challenge for the guys would be: how to let the girls win without looking like we did it on purpose. =P dinner with everyone afterwards.
doubleheader tomorrow for my 0-5 team. if we win at all in this 10-game season, it'll be these games. our schedule gets rough again after that. ah well. it's like this every year.
my immediate future is still uncertain. but it's looking like I'll be going back to school in september. I'm not really ready to graduate in a year...university would have gone by too fast. I'm just getting used to it. although I could zoom in on all the memories, the last five years have been a blur...
Friday, July 23, 2004
mmm...
hmmmm.. cousin, i don't know how i feel about letting you write random comments on my Blog pages.. u might make me look bad :p
Thursday, July 22, 2004
another day, another blog
hello. had softball practice today. so little people showed up...only 5. everyone's working and can't get to practice in time, even though practice is 6-8. we usually stay past 8:30. the time just passes by so fast, especially since everyone comes late. what else happened today? nothing much. I commented a couple more C# files for my volunteer, work from home job. exchanged my rogers cable modem for a new one. they're swapping all modems so they can control the speed of their internet service. what? where? who? sorry, I just fell asleep writing this blog. goodnight...to this blog. =P
Tuesday, July 20, 2004
wow.......
...I just realized every other person has blogspot and/or xanga. and not one of them is older than me. haha. oh wait, there was one xanga guy older than me. whatever. blogging is so popular nowadays..where do people find the time? I just wasted 2+ hours blog surfing...at least they didn't take as long to load as AA pages used to...haha..same stuff, different packaging..but I do appreciate how blogs give non-artsy people like me a more level playing field...but then again, some blogspot pages don't even look like blogspot pages..it's quite versatile.
Monday, July 19, 2004
Official Launch...?
maybe I'm going to update this more often now...
I wonder how many people would read this stuff...8 people have viewed my profile...but how many of them were the same person? haha. why don't they have a counter for our actual blog page? that's probably a lot more useful?...
and why don't they put the DATE of comments, but only the time? how useless is that?....or maybe I just haven't figured out how to find out the date of a comment....if anyone knows, do tell.
the weird thing to me about a blog has been...if total strangers or even people you don't know well could read it, and you start putting more personal stuff on it, then doesn't it turn into a distorted version of "friendship" where the other person knows way more about you than you know about them? it doesn't make sense at all....one day you could get a total stranger go up to you and start talking to you about personal stuff you've been writing on your blog..
and putting up superficial stuff...well, I guess that's okay...but kinda boring no? we'll see...
