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Supreme Soul from ABDC2

2008-06-12T00:43:00.000-07:00

I haven't blogged in a while so here we go again!

So I've been hearing all this talk about a group called Supreme Soul from the SF Bay Area region. I heard they beat the Jabbawockeez in previous battles and killed em. They're supposedly rivals (both on the West Coast - North vs. Southern California). So I decided to see their performance on YouTube to see what all this talk is about. As I was watching, I recognized the tallest white boy automatically. Dude was my classmate from high school. We knew each other, chopped it up, kicked it here and there during lunch, but not buddy buddy tight, if you get what I'm sayin. Pretty amazing though, boy got moves. And like most dance groups, they root from other smaller dance groups. He used to turf with the Animaniaks a few years back (All them dudes shakin' dreads in the Tell Me When To Go video).

His names C.J. a.k.a. Pharside (middle)

Luis' Back-to-Iraq get together.

2008-05-11T22:06:00.000-07:00

I haven't seen most of these fuckers in 2-3 years. They're still the same crazy white boy/washed crowd I kicked it with in high school. It was just like the good ol' days.

arty-b!

Joey and his lil lady.

Bobby and his lil lady.

Securitas?!

Brenkwitz Continuation High School. We graduated with honors.

where's Greg?

There's Greg!

uhhh.. what??

Crack Kills.

What's he planning on doing?

Yea.. give up..

It's not what you're thinking..

Okay it probably is what you're thinking..

damn, ya just don't give up do ya?!

"Hey bro, what are you doing?!"

"oh fuck yeaaahh!!"

The Mexicans

Now that's just fucking gay.

Luis is so piss drunk, he decides to piss in his garage.

Tennyson High School JV Wrestler.

that's enough.. help him up.

ahhhh.. a lil more!

.. and thats a wrap!

Longest day of my life.

2008-04-28T18:20:00.001-07:00

12 hour shift. 7:00AM-7:00PM. had to skip school and come in 'cause my supervisor at work had a minor heart attack. poor guy.. but aint that some baby back bullshit? 12 hours never went by so slow. i got a few pics from the weekend. post it later. too fuckin tired.

Easy like Sunday mornings.

2008-04-22T22:23:00.000-07:00

Pretty nice day on Sunday. Up until the wind started kicking in. This will be my first picture blog. Enjoy.

Thread Fashion Show in SF Galleria @ 12:00PM

My folks know what this scene is about.

Cherry Blossom Festival in Japan Town @ 2:00PM

I found this shit hella funny. A kid walkin around in a box, and in the front it had a picture of udon and said "UDON $5.00". I tried to get the front but he was a fast lil critter.

Pure genius!

Didn't get the group picture of the them anime dancers. But got a good picture of this Sailor Moon ass nigga though. hahaha

Now to Linda's work at Marina Sushi @ 5:00PM

Yea, we were that deep.

Everyone was supposed to give Ferd $1.00 each for eating a whole ball of wasabi.

Here we goooooo...

ahh suckerrrrr!!!

He couldn't handle it. (notice all the dollars disappeared)

The day ended with poker, beer and movies at The Group Home. Happy 420!

More YouTube finds.

2008-04-22T00:33:00.000-07:00

Blog + Pictures coverage on Sunday's Thread Fashion Show and Cherry Blossom Festival will be up tomorrow.

How to make a beatbox.

Kid with hella headspin handles.

DJ Sara.

Scratchadix - DJ Goons.

Damnnnnn.. makes me wanna cop another pair of Technics :(
I shouldn't have let em go!

Nike Tech Pack

2008-04-14T20:39:00.000-07:00

No exact date but i can't wait for the jackets + tee's to drop. Automatic cop!

NIKE created its Tech Pack collection in order to take something familiar and reinterpret it through our signature innovation process. It’ an evolution: taking iconic pieces from NIKE’s DNA and fusing them with innovative fabrics and design embellishments. Together, Michael Leon and Jarrett Reynolds, the designers behind Tech pack, created the Summer 08 collection by combining cutting edge performance materials and diverse fabrications with sophisticated design techniques and original graphics, and then adapted each garment for everyday use and the culture surrounding sport.

The same philosophy that saw the evolution of the NIKE Windrunner jacket, and includes subtle references to NIKE ACG (All Conditions Gear), was used in the modernization of the humble polo and NIKE tee, allowing for the inclusion of other iconic elements in the Tech Pack collection. For Summer 08, designers Jarrett and Michael are adding cycling-inspired elements to the Tech pack theme. Throughout each piece in the Summer 08 collection, subtle attributes such as 360-degree reflectivity, accessible pockets for quick storage, and packable qualities , easily translate each product from morning to evening.

Graphically, Michael stayed true to the “Day and Night” theme, which is echoed in subtle design allusions to dark city landscapes and the ultimate nighttime creatures – howling coyotes. Materials selected for this collection are at times so minimal that they are transparent (as seen on the Windrunner), yet retain performance properties such as being water repellant and breathable. The silhouettes designed by Jarrett easily move with the wearer throughout the day, such as the packable jacket that folds up and can be hung from a belt loop when the damp morning clears up in the afternoon.

Real Life Cartoons

2008-03-27T21:04:00.000-07:00

Seen this randomly while i was browsing. This dude is bad ass with photoshop. He goes by the name Pixeloo and his blog is at: pixeloo.blogspot.com

kinda scary.

Flashlight with a nice little suprise..

2008-03-23T22:52:00.000-07:00

Spring Break

2008-03-17T21:37:00.000-07:00

Feels good to have some time to relax and SLEEP IN!

Another Jam packed weekend has just passed. Fey came to The Group Home on Friday with 9 FUCKING HOMEGIRLS! 7 of em left hella quick though to go kareokeing....(WTF?) but 2 of the NICE ones stayed behind along with Fey. I got to taste some alcohol finally after a long week of the stomach flu.

Saturday, Ferd, Mark, Edwin and I went to BOSS, NV, and THE ROOM. We couldn't get into BOSS cause of some shit, and Mark didn't wanna stay cause of personal reasons. Went to NV and i met up with the beautiful Kelly Nguyen. She is one HOT MAMA. Holy... You still owe me a dance like you said kell :P and thanks for putting us on guestlist even though we hella forgot to use it! fuck!

and I keep forgetting i have a fucking camera on my phone. Ok starting now, my blog is gon' start havin' pictures in it. haha

I'm just now starting to adjust and love this lifestyle I'm living. Took alot of work, but I'm diggin' this freedom shit now! woooooo party boyyyyy! syke. I'm a grown ass man. haha til next blog, fuckers.

Ferd's Birthday Weekend

2008-03-03T21:23:00.000-08:00

Friday, the squad went to Mission Rock for Ferd's Birthday. I was pretty gonzo. Knocked out at The Group Home and woke up at 7AM exactly! I was about 20 minutes late for work. I slept til about 1PM.... at work! haha

Saturday, went to rouge and I chilled off the alcohol for that night, had a few brewski's.

Sunday, Ferd's BBQ. got there around 9PM after my mom's house.

My mama told me she's going to move to Macau in 5 years to be with her family and retire. By that time, I'm going to be 27 and hopefully married and my brother is going to be 21. I'm going to miss her dearly, but whatever makes her happy. She gave up so much of her life to raise us in the states. She has a house in Macau that I didn't even know about. But I'm glad she has her retirement plan ready.

Back home from LA!

2008-02-27T19:49:00.000-08:00

Just the kind of time off I've been needing! LA was crack-city! Friday, left the city around 4:30pm. Around Fresno, Donna and I went out at the gas station to smoke this loose ass blunt she rolled. I was blasted for a hot one. Everything after that was pure entertainment. Donnie was trying to fix the internet connection on his laptop and Kristie said to let me do it, Then Donnie called himself the only wizard around here, and some how the topic went to dungeons and dragons. lol and some other fob ass shit he said was, "go on google and check it up" might not be funny now, but it was funny then. ok nevermind. we arrived around 10:30 or so, went to settle in the hotel, went to Denny's, then went to the room to sip a little bit then we crashed so we can wake up bright and early for the next day.

On Saturday, we went to Roscoe's chicken and waffles with everybody and met up with Kristie's hot ass pregnant home girl and her husband (HAHA). But man! Something about the chicken and waffle combo hit the spot just right! After we finished we went to The Grove Shopping Center. It was like an upper class out door mall with a paris feel. It was nice, but it was gay cause the dudes had to wait for the damn girls to shop at forever 21, yes forever 21. After that, we went to North Fairfax and went to my little spots. Didn't see anything I liked surprisingly. Then we went straight to Donnie and Donna's cousin's baby shower at a kids pizza play place called Big's. Sat there for about 4 hours haha. I could've been doing my essay that time but I left it at the hotel. Around 6pm, we went back to the hotel, chilled, and got ready for the club that Donnie's cousin Ray was going to take us to called, V20 . We all rode in the van and went to Long Beach which was about 30 minutes away from our city, Buena Park. That shit looked so much like Pier 39 but 10 times nicer than any pier I've seen. Went inside and I got hit with the WOW factor. Shit was hella big, hella nice, hella suffa. We got there early around 9:30. and it was fully crackin around 10:30, it was pretty crazy. Girl ratio was about 3/1 over guys. No fat ones, no ugly ones, NO JOKE! And they had this cool ass text message screen behind the dj booth. You text a number your message and it shows up on the screen for everybody to see, good stuff eh? I definitely want to go back for my birthday, I already told a few folks the business plan. cause there so many bad ones, and they play hella bay shit, it wouldn't be right without my goons takin over that club! JP met up with us right when we were about to leave, he came all the way from San Diego (about a 2 hour drive) to meet up with his home girl christine and us. but then Donna started complaining about how she was hungry so we left around 1:00am and went to Denny's again! But my drunk ass was knocked out and I had no food to eat when we got back to the hotel. those fuckers!

Sunday, more shopping at another mall then went to Melrose Ave. I swear that shit was like a bigger haight street. It was sick. Thats where I did my CONTROLLED shopping. I did not splurge out. After shopping we went to eat at this bomb ass Thai restaurant in North Hollywood that Rodney took us too. I was sittin there grubbin still 20 minutes after everyone was done haha. It was the grammy's that night also, so we passed by the closed down streets on the way to the freeway.

Overall, it was a good weekend. I'm still thinking about moving to LA within the next year or two. Donnie, Kristie and Donna said they wanted to also. lol but I'm not sure if they're serious or not. LA is much like the Bay Area plus nice ass weather. I was talking to Neil yesterday and he said he might move down there also, because of his mom's company expanding to LA. He might run shop out there within the next year. So if he does move out there, I'm movin' out with 'em for sure. woooO!

Pictures will be posted soon at: www.myspace.com/snipephoto

LA?

2008-02-21T20:00:00.001-08:00

I was showering last night and a random thought popped in my head. "how would life be outside of the bay?" Then i thought a little harder. "Where would be a good place to be for my future?". Then BAM! Los Angeles.. all the brands in my field are down there and if I moved to Los Angeles, I would have a lot more opportunities in the fashion industry than I would have here. Theres only about, a good 5-8 known legitimate companies in the Bay Area compared to TONS of known brands in LA. So now, I'm thinking about moving to Los Angeles within a year or two. Sounds crazy, but i gotta do what I gotta do. Bold career move? I would like to think so.

I'm going to LA early tomorrow afternoon with Donnie, Kristie and Donna. I know its just a few heads compared to my usual goon squad but, I guess you could say this is a test run to see how I really like it down there. I'm retchy boy!

Another weekend of clubbing.

2008-02-19T20:15:00.000-08:00

Friday: Went to Latitude for Rick's birthday, it was coo. Ended up gettin' hella drunk cause I had half a pint of heem before the club then drank 4 beers in the club. Man! I haven't been that drunk in a LONG time.

Saturday: We all went to The Room Ultra lounge again for Melissa's birthday Part II and that shit was dead! So Jojo, Edwin, Dru and me went to Loft 11 and it was like little Africa in that mug. Then we went back to The Room and the turn out wasn't bad.

Sunday: Ate a Texas Double Whopper meal from Burger King for lunch. Talk about a heart attack! Shit was bomb though. It was a double whopper with jalapenos, mustard, cheese, and bacon.

Heart attack!

All of this clubbing lately hasn't been amusing me too much. Like my previous blog down there about nightlife, thats what really goes down at clubs. Funny, but its the fuckin' truth. Eyein' down females and waitin' for a perfect chance to dive in like some vultures, just aint me. I rather be kickin' back wit a female at the house or chill at a lounge or the group home with my kinfolks. It still amazes me how I've matured after all the bullshit I've been through the past few months. I guess it takes a hard hit for some folks to realize the real world.

Captain's Blog 021208

2008-02-12T22:37:00.000-08:00

I Passed on Taste last Thursday. Friday after work, Group home. Saturday, went solo to support my girl Hopie. Leon and his folks met me there. I ended up seeing Patrick Lacanlale. I Grew up with him all throughout my school days in Hayward. It was cool, bought each other shots and beer and what not and I met his girlfriend and their folks. Sunday, went to Grub Stake with Vicky. That shit was goooood! If you haven't tried real Portugese food with Portugese beer, you need to. The price was decent, nothing that was too expensive or too cheap. If I had my camera, I would've taken a few shots.

Lately, I've been strictly schooling and working Monday to Friday. I find it kind of strange that i don't have the urge to go out anymore. After all the shit I've been through lately I would have expected myself to wild out and become my old hyphy self again. I guess Young Snipe really is gettin' old? haha I don't mind it though. I feel pretty good about what I've been doing. I've busy non-stop FOREAL! It'll just get me to where I want to be, faster. Parties come and parties go, your money just goes down the drain and you really have nothing to show for it. That's the way I see it.

Facts about the nightlife.

2008-02-08T20:10:00.000-08:00

Guys go to find chicksGirls go to "have fun"Now, why is this so? Cause’ girls friggin always seem to have a good time. They don’t need to meet guys to have fun. Girls can dance w/ each other, hold hands, kiss each other, get free drinks, get hit on all night. They get to do whatever they want, and it’s considered HOT. Guys on the other hand have no choice. What would you think if you heard 2 guys talking like girls?Joe "Yo John"John: "Sup Bro"Joe "It’s Friday, I’m so stressed, I need to dance yo"John "Werd, me too, my body is so tense I’m gonna explode if I don’t get down"OMG, can we say G-A-Y GAY? How bad does it look to see 4 guys dancing in a circle just smiling all night long? Or holding hands? This is exactly why the only legitimate reason for a straight guy to go clubbin is to MEET GIRLS. Why do girls go to "have fun"? Cuz they get hit on all the time like a pinata that they dont’ need to go to meet guys. I’ll tell you one thing though: IF YOU ARE AN UGLY GIRL, you may not say it, but you are there to hopefully meet a nice guy. Hot girls get hit on at clubs, at school, on the bus, at church, in the crib, on friendster on xanga, they are so sick of it. That’s why they go to "have fun and dance". But if some cute guy comes along, they may give him a chance.So what does this mean? Well once you understand the mentality of the clubbers you will now know why they act the way they do.

Now this is exactly what a typical club floorplan looks like. First of all notice the ratio is like 7-1 BLUE/RED (Guy/Girl). The girls are dancing together in their stupid Fobby Circle, while a bunch of daring guys are on the outside dancing trying to get in. Most of the guys are on the OUTSIDE of the dance floor staring, trying to look cool. In this scenario, NOBODY looks cool, so give it up ok? Guys always complain, I can’t find a girl. Well cause’ there’s like a 7-1 ratio stupid. Girls always complain, how can I meet a cute guy? Well if you seperate yourself out of your fobby circle and go to the bar area, there are more guys there than fobs who can speak good Engrish.

MaMasita: To the left is a close up of the dance floor. What some people don’t know, is that within every group of girls is some type of Cockblocker called a Mamasita. She is the size of the Great Wall of China and there is no way to go around her. Guys are in no way able to get to the skinny girls unless MaMasita is taken care of. This is where the WingMan comes in. Friends take turns being the "designated driver" and take turns occupying MaMasita (otherwise known as "taking one for the team") so that the other guy can bypass security. If MaMasita is unusually big (which more times than not is the case) open a big tab and buy her some 151s to take her out.

Sneak Attack: Girls absolutely hate this. Sometimes it’s Guerilla warfare and despite the best efforts of girls to holds hands and protect each other, some asshole will come out of the woodwork like a silent fart and catch you by surprise. He’ll come and suddenly put his arms around her waist. Gasp. Who the hell is that? She will make faces to her friends to ascertain if the guy is cute or not. If he is cute, the other girls will give her the thumbs up, but 99 3/4% of the time, the girls will either pull her away, or MaMasita will come and sit on him.

Bitch: Yea, some girls have such an attitude. They are hot, and they know it. She gives you the finger no matter how nice you are. Once I saw a guy give a girl his business card. She tore it up right in the middle of the dance floor in front of him. I swear there are some stupid guys and some ass hole guys, but that’s just wrong. If you got game perhaps you can win them over, but guys can be victims too.

Jealousy: Sometimes you have a couple of girls in a group. In the beginning the short fat girl is like, it’s all find and dandy. But after like the 374th time u go clubbing she finallly gets fed up. "stupid blonde bitch gets all the attention" and secretly plots her downfall. The final straw is when the short fat ugly girl talks to a guy she likes, who suddenly sees her blonde hot friend and leaves her to join the crowd who surrounds the hot chick. A screaming match ensures followed by hair pulling, screaming and other less than ladylike personality traits. Next time u go clubbin, for once, look at thehot girl’s friend and you will see a polite smile, while rage is being built underneath. Eventually she resorts to online dating.

Sucker: Never never get suckered into buying a group of girls some drinks unless they are friends or it’s going somewhere. Many girls don’t’ want to pay for anything including cover charge or drink. They stand next to the bar looking all hot waiting for some unsuspecting fool to talk to them. They will be unusually friendly, and before you know it they suggest a round of drinks. Usually it’s some worthless weak ass drink like Apple Martini, Malibu Pineapple, some other fruity fruit punch cost $10 kool aid drink. As soon as you get suckered into it, they take their smiling faces (and drinks) away. Well at least you made someone happy for 5 minutes. Too bad it isn’t you. Say bye to $40

Copped the Rebel.

2008-02-08T19:50:00.000-08:00

I bought the Canon Rebel XTi yesterday from Comp USA for $459.99! That's $200.00 regular price. It was a display model, but i thought it would've been okay. that shit had 2 prongs/pins missing from the compact flash card drive. I went back to Comp USA today, and the bitch ass manager wouldn't let me return it. He said sale was final. So i sent it back to canon for the 1 year manufacturers warranty. hopefully they'll replace it free of charge and I'll get it back in time before LA.

Captain's Blog 020508

2008-02-05T18:19:00.000-08:00

I came home from school today and I got bombarded with questions from my Uncle Tone. He asked, "which way did you walk in the morning? did you go around my car? what time did you come home? what time did you leave?". Then i walked to his car to see what he was cleaning, and in exact words with a sharpie marker, it said, "STAY THE FUCK AWAY FROM MY WIFE" all across the driver side. I was just thinking, wooow.. Someone definitely got some beef against 'em or has the wrong dude.

Chinese New Years Eve is tomorrow, I will be skipping school and working morning shift per my mom's request. I have to go with her to the bank to sign some account papers in case anything happens, which i pray to god.. won't happen. Then some dinner. She will be leaving to Hong Kong on Friday. She was supposed to go because her eldest brother was sick in the hospital, but she has just received a call today that her brother has passed away. She called me and told me and you can tell she has been crying. I feel bad for her. I don't like seeing her this way.

I haven't actually seen him since i was 6 or so, so my memory of him is very cloudy. I knew he drank, he smoked, he cracked jokes and he had about 6-8 children. He was a good guy and this is the 3rd brother my mom has lost, but the first she has lost in the past 20 years.

R.I.P Uncle
You're in a better place now.

Jojo's Birthday part duex

2008-02-03T11:56:00.000-08:00

Shit was crankin' again! Hella folks in that damn house. Hopefully we'll get some pictures in a few days. I didn't leave that muhfucka till 3:30ish. Met up with two homegirls, went to LC's and ate some dry ass jerky ass filipino breakfast. I just wanted eggs at that point! Then I went home, changed, went straight to work. Got to work around 5:00am and knocked the fuck out in the car until 7:00am. Woke up, then slept at the desk for 4 hours lol. Thats usually how my weekend goes if somethings poppin' off.

picture of the SLR I want:

shit goes sonny!

Jojo's 24th Birthday

2008-02-02T17:11:00.000-08:00

Yesterday was crackin'! Alot of niggas and females came through to support ya dude Jojo. I ended up gettin' drunk even though it was not my intention at all, knowing that i had work at 7:00AM. Me and my Brodi Ha was tearin' up that stage though. Hella giggin boyy.. i tell ya. But got home around 3:00AM, Showered, Slept, Woke up late at 7:45AM then rushed to work. Worth it though!

On a serious note, I added another class also, but it's an online course. It's English 875 English Grammar Skills. I wanted to add this class so I can do a little better on my essay forming. I got luckily accepted to add from my English 836 class. It was a raffle in a sense. i was 1/5 people that got accepted since we were trying to add so late. The teacher said that there were a few slots that opened up so, uh.. lucky me? haha

Now I have 4 classes this semester. I believe thats full time schooling now. 12 credits right? full time school + full time work? Damn, somebody try to stop me! I'm on a roll here!

School, Gym, Work, Sleep. That's all I know now a days. Ever since I started school, I've saved a hand full of guap. But, it's going byebye to my SLR, then saving some more for LA and some other event that I haven't got an answer to yet. We'll see how it goes.

Hello Blog World

2008-02-01T18:50:00.001-08:00

I figured I would start blogging to keep my grammar/writing skills sharp. I'm going to purchase a Canon Rebel XTi 10.1MP Digital Camera within the next week or so. I will be posting the taken pictures and daily rants, or what-ever-the-fucks I have off the top of my head.

I got a Verizon VZAccess Wireless Broadband Modem for my laptop yesterday from the FerdMan himself. This thing works wonders, especially at work. I was just almost running out of dvd's to watch. Now I can watch movies online, MySpace, eBay and all that good good. wooooo!

Tonight is my brotha Jojo's 24th birthday bash at The Room Ultra Lounge. I'm not sure why but I'm kind of excited for tonight. Maybe it's because I've been doing nothing but school/gym/work everyday. On the other hand, it's like any other club, any other birthday. But maybe because we're going to be so damn deep and so many folks are going that I haven't seen in a long time. I called him earlier to see what's the status with the V.I.P. and he was trippin' lightweight about it being too crowded. His list alone was about 150+. That's not including Rob's, Ferd's and the other two birthday celebrating there as well. Either way we poppin' bottles in the vip! on and crackin baby!