Eh, Family Stuff

My Streak Was Broken =(


I was aiming to break my posting streak record of like two months, but unfortunately, got into some sort of trouble with my mom yesterday about using the computer way too much and she took it away (in fact, I shouldn't even be using the computer right now XP). It doesn't really matter that much. It was only a three streak post. But compared to the Canucks exit out of the playoffs, it doesn't matter at all.

Canucks Lose 2 - 1, Kings Win Series 4 - 1


You know, if you're an optimist, you'd probably still be sad, or you'd say, "Well, at least we weren't the first team that won the President's Trophy and get sweeped in the first round in the following post season." Anyways, today the Canucks took a heart breaking 2 - 1 (OT) in Game Five and are now officially out of the playoffs.

My hockey heart is officially transferred to the Blues, who are a great team, a great rival and have a good shot of getting the cup for their first time too.

Running On Used Time, So I Have To Go


There's a Family Guy episode on right now and I want to watch it and I also have to go right now. Hopefully I won't get into trouble again and I can once again continue my streak.

Today I'm a low 4 because of the Canucks loss. That's mostly why I'm in such a low mood today. Oh well, still got a shot next year.

"Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns." - John Leonard

Nothing Much Today

Just Posting To Keep The Streak


Probably the main reason why I'm posting today is because I want to keep up my streak. I'm kind of not really in the mood to post today, but it's for the stake of the streak. I'm pretty sure that tomorrow will be a big day and I'll have loads to write and blog about. Here's a little post to keep him going.

Soccer Tomorrow


I'm pretty excited about the first day of soccer tomorrow and I guess that's a good place to start. I can't wait to see new players and old friends who I made last year. Some of the players had early birthdays (including my awesome friend Joshua) and are 13 (so they can't join).

The last time that I was on was basically the all star team because it was completely studded with awesome players. I kind of wish that I'm put on team Mexico, Italy or Argentina, because those are probably my favourite soccer countries (not that I know many other more).

Made Pizza... Stuff Today


Today was a pretty cool day. My cousin Lina came over and we made some pizza. But I guess you could say it wasn't your regular type of pizza. We made some corn dogs (pretty awesome right?) three loafs of pizza (you'll see in the pictures) and a regular pizza. It was nice to have just a day of unwinding and relaxing.

So here are the pictures.

Making the dough.

Ingredients! =D

My mushroom obsessed brother took this.

The dough after it grew for a while.

ONE of the pizza loafs.

The second out of THREE pizza loafs.

The pizza.

Corn dogs?

After the loafs were done baking.

MY plate...

My plate after a few seconds...

It isn't really usual for me to add captions, but I guess when I actually OWN the pictures, I'll put in captions. I dunno, something along the lines of I-did-this-at-home.

Peace Out


I wish that Blogger would incorporate a slide show feature (unless I don't know about one that's hidden... O_o) so it would make it much easier to view multiple photos.

I'm a 10 today because of the easy going day that I've had (basically any day that doesn't involve work is fine XD). It kind of makes me feel sad because at the end of this break, there's no P.E. on Monday. I really want to own the other team that beat us 4 - 3.

You know, just a little side story won't hurt. So, the first time our class played floor hockey was when the playoffs had started and my team had won 3 - 1 (I was in net and was largely credited by my team for the win). So you know, I had established myself as a great goalie in the class and I had a lot of respect when we played floor hockey.

So, when you think of all the jocks in Mr. Rowland's class, you would think of Angelo, Brian, Phillip and I. You've also got Joshua in there, Kito, Jonathan and Gordon along with Justin. It's a pretty athletic class. Anyways, basically the only jocks that we had on our team were Angelo and I. So that's partly why I was hugely credited with the win.

Anyways, the real point is, the teams were changed and Brian ended up with Paguio and I (Paguio is my common name for Angelo). So what happened was that Kito wanted to be in net and he was because, you know, I wanted to try and score some goals. So Kito was in net and he did a pretty good job. I imagine he was feeling pretty bad when he let in two goals and traded of with Angelo. Angelo did a good job too and didn't let in any goals, but Brian wanted to play with Angelo (he was on the other team last game) and Angelo started to switch off with me.

But the plot gets THICKER.

Michelle comes over and is like, "Oh, can I be goalie?" and you know me, I can't really refuse when people ask for something that's reasonable and doable. So I let her into the net and she lets in two goals too, but I have to admit, we do have some backup goalies if I want to take a break.

Anyways, it was a two point afternoon for me. A goal (lucky shot between Phillip's right pad and the post) and an assist to a on-the-breakaway Brian. So I've got some hockey skills at least. Anyways, biggest reason I was bummed out about no P.E. on Monday was because I'd have to wait until Friday to get between the pipes again and win another game for my team (which is currently 1 - 1).

Well, that was a LONG side story. Don't want to keep you up any longer, so night (unless you're reading this the day after, which is must more probable).

A Few Achievements

This Blog Has Been Up For... 8 Months


You know, if I really wanted to be exact, my blog has been up since August 31, 2011 at 4:14PM. It's kind of amazing to see how I was blogging back then. I sounded pretty uncool and nervous about this whole thing and I was thinking about how I wouldn't get many visitors besides friends, but I guess that's still the case today.

So that's why I want to start like advertising or something like that. You know, just getting people to spread out the word. I know my blog doesn't really contain many meaningful things all the time (the reason why I'm starting a new blog about stuff that actually matters), but it would be nice to have some people who I don't know to visit my blog sometimes.

Anyways, point is, I want to have more people learn about Kevin. The REAL Kevin. Even if they have no idea who I am or even where Canada is, maybe it could be a learning experience.

Achievements


Well, I already noted that this blog has been up for about a month. I guess another achievement would be that this is the 126th post and that's pretty much a nice number to "brag" about. Ummm... the longest streak of consecutive days with a post daily is 31 days from this post to this post. I've got 50 comments up to today and 4842 page views in the history of this blog.

My most successful post has been this one with a huge number of views of 2396 (about half of my total, so that's amazing) and 38 comments. It's gone global and there was a time when the views just kept on rising, but things have slowed down now I guess.

I'm planning to break some of these records. Everyday that passes adds a day to my blog life and every post adds to the number of posts and I also get views everyday. I'm planning to break the post streak during this streak of... two days and I'm sure I'll get more comments in the future.

As for the most sucessful most thing, I don't think I'll be able to break that without the help of my friends spreading out the word (or if I ever talk with a bot again). I guess I'll still try.

Three Day Weekend


I can't wait for the first soccer practice and game on Saturday because, you know, I want to get my mind off things and get active again. Looking forward to a three day weekend (professional development day tomorrow) and going to A.R. Lord on Monday to watch something (kind of pissed because coincidentally we have P.E. on Friday and Monday).

A Splash In The Fish Bowl


Don't worry, it'll take you a while to find my newest blog on Google. I'm pretty sure that it's so insignificant in the world of websites and blogs that it'll probably be on around the last page. Anyways, the name of my new blog is A Splash In The Fish Bowl. It's a blog that I'm planning to use to raise awareness about issues in our modern world. I don't think it will ever become a real global wide blog that everybody knows, but then again, hard not to hope that it will.

IF you do happen to find it, then you'll get a good look at what the blog will probably look like when it's released.

Remember Guys, Keep Strong And Don't Give Up


You know what keeps me fuelled for this blog. It's not the fact that I have people reading it. It's the fact that it helps me calm down and think things over. It would be incredibly awesome if random people did read this blog and subscribed to it and followed it, but I write this blog not only for the viewers, but also for myself. I know, it sounds kind of weird... but it's true.

I'm looking back at this blog post and it kind of annoys me to see all these red squiggly lines (you know, for the auto correct?). I mean, blog and anyways are used so often that they SHOULD be words. Oh well.

Definitely excited for Game Five on Sunday. Canucks will be on the brink of elimination, but let's hope that the Canucks will play like how they did in Game Four and maybe LA will also be on the brink of elimination in a crazy comeback. So I'm a 10. I've been incredibly content and satisfied with my recent days. Maybe some greater power out there does pity me. Kevin is out of the house.

"Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor." - Benjamin Franklin

Doing Okay I Guess

Things Do Sound "Flowy" When Others Read It


There are two blogs that I think were created and were inspired by this blog, so I'm pretty happy about that. If you're looking for some blogs to read and to stalk people's lives, then you should go check out my friend Tyler's blog and Calvin's blog. Both of them are great to read and it's nice to see what people are like when they don't have people pressing on them to say things instead of having the freeness of just writing about anything.

Anyways, the reason why I the title of this topic is what it is is because (that was kind of weird) Calvin mentioned this in his blog and it's kind of true. I guess you just have to write and not think about filtering anything that comes up in your mind that is worth the typing. Reminds me of the format of how my class is doing novels.

Feeling Awesome Because Of The Win


So as most people of Vancouver know, the Canucks have been looking for a win in the playoffs and today they have been rewarded.

Thanks to some 40 something saves by the brilliant Schneider, a good powerplay (success on two out of the three powerplays, which is something for the Canuck's struggling man advantage) and some heart in their game, the Canucks have narrowly avoided elimination.

Sure the Kings took control of the game in the first period, but you have to admit that the Canucks in period one were nothing compared to the regular power house that they ARE now in the later periods.

I'm feeling pretty happy because of this 3 - 1 win and if we keep up our game, I don't see why the Canucks shouldn't have a great chance of advancing to the next round.

I've Been Doing Okay Since The Breakup


Even though the breakup was yesterday, I feel completely fine and I'm kind of nervous as to how people will react to me. Will they think that I'm just rejecting my own sadness and bottling it up inside? Will they think that I'm a player and that I don't care about my girlfriend? I dunno.

There's something called the Bro Code. It's pretty good and reliable when you think about it. Anyways, there is a rule in the Bro Code about dating girls right after a breakup. So the deal is, you can't date or date somebody who was in a relationship in the past three months. In simpler terms, I can't (and won't even if I could) date anybody who had a relationship in the past three months. I guess that's good for me, because I do need some time to cool off and think about things.

That's It For Today


I have to start looking up some movies I'm interested in watching on Wikipedia to spoil them for myself (since I'll probably never even watch it anyway). There's soccer on Saturday, so that's something positive.

Canucks win, thinking about stuff, soccer, all of these things are definitely making my day today a 10. Amazing how yesterday I was feeling horrible and now I feel great. Hopefully the Canucks will keep winning, I'll get my mind over this stuff and I'll have fun at soccer.

"Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be." - Abraham Lincoln

I Don't Know What To Say =/

So, I Just Went Through A Breakup

You know, as Nelly Furtado says, "Why do all good things come to an end?" in her song All Good Things. Well, I guess that one very important part of my life has just ended. In a way I kind of knew that it would end pretty soon, but with an ending there's always a beginning.

I just had a talk with Cecily and we're now not together. I don't know how to react to this, because it wasn't really much of a boyfriend/girlfriend relationship. I guess it was more of a I-like-you-and-you-like-me thing that never turned into a serious relationship. So I don't know how to feel about this. I'm kind of sad, but then, not so much because it was never anything so serious.

Well, looks like I'm single again. But I think I'm going to lay off dating until I'm around grade 10 or something like that.

Maybe the winds will blow us together again in the future and maybe we'll talk and remember of these times.

Happier Terms

There's not really much happiness these days. Vancouver is in a deep sulk that our team has a slim chance of advancing to the next round, but I do have my first soccer practice this Saturday.

But I guess that's like a thin ray of sunlight in the darkest fog ever.

Well, This Concludes This Post

Experience gained. Love lost. I guess that's how I'd put my day in just four words.

Today I'm feeling pretty... weird. I guess I'm a 5 because of the Cecily thing and also on account of the Canucks one loss from being sweeped.

"Nothing hurts more than realizing she meant everything to you, but you meant nothing to her." - Random Site

Awesome Day

Today Was An EPIC Day


My day? You want to know about MY day? Today was awesome. It was filled with the Sun Run, Left 4 Dead 2 and a load of other things that I'll probably look forward to doing again. Here's what happened on April 15, 2012 Sunday.

The Sun Run


Today was the Sun Run and it was the first time that I'd ever done it, so I was pretty unprepared. It was extremely chilly out there and I underestimated how long it would take for us to actually start running and warming up. So there I was, wearing barely anything but a pair of shorts and a thin t-shirt. It took us about 40 minutes until we actually started running, so I'll know what to do next time.

I remember thinking that I was SO TIRED I wanted to just stop and walk. I don't know how these things happen, but I kept on running. I guess I just wanted to keep up with MJ and not get lost. Anyways, I'm extremely proud of doing the Sun Run (although I don't think I'll be doing it for a while again).

Left 4 Dead 2


There's this really awesome and gory game called Left 4 Dead 2 which I'm really taking a liking to. It's pretty gruesome, but it has really good game play. The graphics could be a little bit more fancier, but oh well, I guess every game has its perks and... well, yeah all that stuff.

I think I'm going to have nightmares about "spitters", "tanks" and "smokers" in my dreams. Maybe I should lay off the whole Left 4 Dead 2 thing.

Rest Of The Day


I guess my day mainly composed of my friend Justin's birthday party (happy birthday shout out my friend Justin XD). The party itself contained basketball, root beer, Sprite and Left 4 Dead 2.

Gotta Go


My dad's coming in a few minutes to Justin's house (probably the only time I've posted in another house rather than my own), so I guess the last part of this post was kind of rushed.

Today was a definite 10. I guess yesterday was too. This weekend I was really busy, so when I go home I'm probably going to chow down on a chocolate muffin and finish my math. Peace out guys.

"Celebrate we will, because life is short but sweet for certain." - Line From Song "Two Step"

Eh, Mixed Feelings

A Bad Habit Of My Parents


My parents have the bad habit of always calling me a lazy person even though it's just because every night I commit a few minutes to this blog (actually probably the rest of the night). There are several things to prove them wrong. FIRST of all, if I was lazy, I would be slacking in my school work. If I was slacking in my school work, Mr. Rowland would schedule an appointment with them. BUT look, no appointment, so I don't know if they just think that doing just fine in school is being lazy or what.

SECOND, they have to stop putting me down on things I would like to do. Today I went to Alpha for an interview (a very brief one by the way) and I decided to apply for both of the Honours programs (Scimatics and Humanities) and my parents are all like, "Oh what a waste of money (It's a cost of $120 per exam)." and, "You're so lazy, you'll never make it." So I don't really get it.

The Interview


Today I got to skip probably around a period of school (1:00 to around 2:00) because I had to go to Alpha for an interview regarding how well I would fit in at Alpha and just a brief overview of what it was like at Alpha.

It turns out that I was completely wrong about Alpha.

Okay, let's get a few things straight my friends who told me that morale was low there. The students do NOT smoke in the hallway, skateboard in the hallway and the teaching staff is excellent. They have an AWESOME transition program from grade 7 to 8 where they combine Math and Science (Scimatics) and English and Socials (Humanities) so that we only get two teachers for the whole of grade 8 (sounds fun).

So it sounds like a pretty awesome place at Alpha. With 800 people, I'll get to know them a lot better.

The Future


I dunno what to make out of the future and I have NO IDEA at all what it will hold for me. All I know is that it's up to me to form my own future. I just wish that the time machine had been invented and I would be able to go back in time and answer all those, "What if..." questions that I have in my head.

Probably the biggest one would be, "What if I had followed that guy into his van when he offered me some toys." Maybe I wouldn't be here. Probably.

Life Is *Sigh* Happy


I guess my life is pretty good now. Running a blog and all that stuff. School's still awesome and I can't wait for floor hockey tomorrow (though I'm kind of bummed out that on April 30 I have to go to the Honours exams and I'll miss P.E). Canucks are also playing tomorrow and I can't wait to see if my prediction of a five game series in favour of the Canucks will be true.

Today's a 9. It's been a while since I've actually been a 10, but there just those little imperfections in life that I just need to iron out. Maybe it's all this stress that's boiling up in me or maybe when I get into high school and start finding the path to my life then I'll start being a 10.

"When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people: those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened." - John M. Richardson Jr.

Kings Win 4 - 2 In Game One =(

High Hopes Of A Win

I was kind of hoping for a win from the Canucks to start off the playoffs, but I guess that the Kings got there first. The Kings won 4 - 2 in Game One and are currently leading the series 1 - 0. But then again, I'm predicting that the Canucks will win the series 4 - 1, so as long as they win the next four, I'll be happy (but that seems kind of unlikely if they keep this playing up).

Anyways, Vancouver down 1 - 0 in the series, it's nothing. We'll just own them harder in the next game.

Anyways, Onto My Day

It's hard to say that one thing in my day was not related to the Canucks. I went over to my Brian's house today... to watch the Canucks game. But I have a pretty cool story to tell you (which thankfully does not involve the loss from the Canucks).

So, as I was saying, I was at Brian's house today when his mom told us to leave at 9:30PM and when I called home, I found out that my aunt had fallen asleep (she had called earlier and asked me if I needed I ride and I thought I didn't XP). So I ended up walking home with Angelo and my brother and on the way there, we saw... WORMS.

They were HUGE. It look like they were growing out of the grass and onto the pavement and it was literally like trying to play a game of Minesweeper. Anyways, we got really freaked out for the six blocks that we had to walk back to Angelo's place (where I would chill until my mom came to pick me up) and we still could not believe that the worms were there.

So overall, a kind of epic and awesome day, but I'm still bummed about the Canucks.

See You Next Time!

I haven't posted for a while and I think "next time" will be in about a few days. A few changes to this blog I made were the font of the whole blog and just a few settings I had to change. Errr... what else? Oh yeah. I was thinking about starting another blog about the problems of the Earth and... I guess you'll really find out about it when you take a good look at it in a few weeks notice (I'm taking this really seriously, so I'm going to put some actual time into this).

So, in a futile attempt to cram all the events of today into a few words, here goes. Canucks lost, giant worms, Earth's problems and school. Sure sounds like a fun day to me (sarcasm XD). I think I'll rate this day a good old 9. I'll hopefully see you on the day of the next Canucks game and until then, remember. Never go out around 9:30PM in the night when it's dark and wet because you will most likely step on a giant worm and when you get home, you'll be like, "OH DAMN. WORM GUTS ON MY SHOE."

Changed Up The Blog

I've Been Doing A Bit Of Blog Cleaning


I've just been checking here and there for any bugs or tweaks that I needed to do to make this blog run on it's full potential. As you can see, I've put up a new template already and I have to say that I'm surprised I didn't use this in the first place. Anyways, the main topic about this post will be about two sayings that I heard that I will probably remember for the rest of my life. So before I stall any more, here are two articles about those two sayings.

Love Will Define That Number


So for all those people who watch those sitcoms like The Big Bang Theory and that stuff, you should take a look at How I Met Your Mother (if you already watch it though, thumbs up dude). It's pretty funny and once in every few episodes you will find a silver lining (or in other words an important message within the whole thing). One time I was watching an episode of How I Met Your Mother (unfortunately, I don't remember the name of the episode, I'll Google it) and there was a really meaningful message to me (just found the episode, it's called the Matchmaker).

So there's this guy named Ted and he's an architect (not really what I needed to tell you). Anyways, he seems to have a problem finding "the one" and is tricked to go to some company called Love Solutions (which uses numbers and that stuff to find "your one" XD). There he gets a number for his compatibility rating (which was 9.6) and finds out later that there was only one recent person that had a 9.6 too.

Ted ends up tracking down the person and finds out that she's a dermatologist. He later finds out that she is engaged. But at the second time at the same dermatologist (his excuse the first time was to check out a mole and now the dermatologist wanted to make sure it was not a cancer mole), she reveals that her fiancée had a much lower compatibility rating. When Ted asks why, she says, "When you fall in love with somebody, that somebody turns into a 9.6 for you."

So the message I've been trying to tell you is that whenever you start loving somebody, that person becomes perfect. And this kind of ties into my second subject.

You Need Results


A while back I started an online browser game called The UnderWorld and it failed. The main reason was not because my team was doing anything. It was because I had appointed myself the leader and I was showing no results. Without results you lose your hope.

This ties into my first subject about that whole number thing because even if you do find that "9.6" (or whatever your compatibility number is XP), you still have to get results out of that relationship.

Maybe your partner doesn't want a seriously cuddle up and being too weird relationship (that's my opinion) and maybe they do. But if you don't develop into a serious relationship soon, you start losing hope.

Peace Out


I'm looking forward to an awesome Easter break, but I'm kind of bummed that we miss both of our P.E. periods in one week (which are coincidentally on Monday and Friday). Oh well.

Today I got a lot of stuff off my back and I'm really happy. So I'm a 10 today.

"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results." - Winston Churchill