ahh, a great way to end the school year. here's what i've been up to:
Memorial Day
great day for the beach. the weather was getting all wierd a couple days beforehand and i was all hesitant on if i should schedule a beach day. "cloudy in the morning, clearing in the afternoon, high of 69 degrees." didn't sound all that appealing but chris said "fuck it, lets go anyways." damn good thing he did because it ended up being a perfect day at the beach.
the place was PACKED and parking was a biaatch (about 40 minutes ). what originally was gonna be just me and chris ended up being a crowd of 12. good times, good times.
Basketball Championships
Team Monstars finished the season with a convincing 20-2 record. that makes 3 championship seasons and 4 finals appearances in 5 years for me.
the beginning of the season was a bitch because we had like 13 guys on our team. our captain was a ballhog, this other guy would just chuck up bad threes all day and it was a dogfight trying to get playing time. some people stopped showing up, our chemistry got a lot better and towards the end of the season our team defense and offense was un-fucking-beatable.
The Class that Changed My Career
very few times in your school career you end up taking a class with a professor that teaches you so much more than stuff in the classroom. this quarter i had such a professor.
beginning of the quarter the first thing he said to us was this:
Professor Uyboco: there are two ways of motivating people. the first way is by fear. the second way is by desire. most teachers try to motivate their students to do work by focusing on grades. that's motivation by fear. i don't want to do that. instead, i will tell you stories that will hopefully instill desire in you to learn. i don't want you to take notes. all i want is for you to lend me your ears and listen.
such an awesome professor. i learned so much from him this quarter. he inspired me enough to change my career track to enterprise resource planning, which is what he specializes in.
anyways, there was no final for the class; just weekly quizzes and two projects. the last project was a huge one. my group members and i had to develop a business proposal on how to maximize effeciency for a company using the internet and enterprise systems (ever hear of PeopleSoft??). instead of having a final, we had to present our proposal to the class as if we were consultants pitching a huge multi-million dollar project. we had to wear suits and everything.
the cool thing about this class is i've been doing a lot of this stuff already. the577.com and justbball.com...both of my sites have given me experience that i was able to apply to the project. this stuff just comes natural to me and professor uyboco refined my skillz.
after our presentation (and several other presentations that he completely ripped on), he had some words for us:
Professor Uyboco: i have just one thing to say to you guys: if i were you, i would print a copy of this for myself and use it the next time i go into a job interview. excellent work, guys. this was extremely well done.
oh man, that felt good to hear...getting big props like that for something that i want to do as my career.
Random Stuff
"notch" is a new word for "hot." for example: jessica alba wore a see-through dress to the mtv music awards. her boobs are a fucking notch.
"proper" is a new word for "cool" or "tight." for example: i'm gonna get a 30inch lcd monitor / tv. that shit is proper.
guys popping their collars = (unless your name is samir).
finally watched the filipino-american movie, The Debut. it wasn't all that great but for some reason i liked it.
in the special features section of The Debut DVD, they had an audience review section which had a half-second clip of my classmate, Khaled, from webb.
just when i thought i've had enough of friendster and facebook...i went ahead and turned into a myspace whore too.
karma's a bitch. just ask shaq.
Songs of the Moment
23 - Jimmy Eat World
Never No Never - Drop N Harmony
My Friend - Drop N Harmony
When You Love Someone ft. Premiere - Drop N Harmony
All Because of You ft. Young Rome - Marques Houston
Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
