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This weekend was amazing. I couldn't really log this blog like I usually do cause I was pretty busy the whole weekend. After finishing my first week of school, it was time to just relax and have fun going back to the Springs to hang out, eat, and dance at the 2008 Filipino Pageant. I woke up that Saturday early as I did that whole past week. I did try to sleep in though, that didn't really happen though. My main plan for the day was to meet up with Ray at the Alameda RTD Station at 3 that afternoon. Before that, I tried to finish up as much homework as I could. I stopped during the middle of the chapter and called it quits. I eventually finished up the homework though. Going to the RTD, I brought my laptop, Math homework, and a suitcase with all my dirty clothes. The stupid thing I did this time was that I had intentions of doing my English homework in the Springs, right ?? But I ended up forgetting to bring my laptop's AC adapter. So the whole weekend, I just needed to use the battery I had left on my laptop as efficiently as possible. I met up with Ray a little past three. From there, we headed to the County Line Station. That station's the same area where Park Meadows Mall is located at. From there, we patiently awaited for Giane's arrival.
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At the Bear Creek that morning, there was a breakfast promotion for $0.95 breakfast for their country fried steak breakfast plate. I had to wake up about an hour and a half earlier than pretty much everyone else because I had to bike. I pretty much woke up around 4:30 that morning. Before I left to bike to Anthony's place up on North Jetwing, I had a bowl of Wheaties to ensure that I won't get hungry on the bike ride there. I arrived at his place right on time so we could head out carpooling. We got there with already many people there eating. I was with Anthony, Amanda, Talia, Amanda's brother Gabe, and her mother. We didn't really have to make the waitress wait for us order, cause we already knew what we had in mind. Before we got our food, Amanda forgot Talia's diaper bag so she had to run back to the house to grab it. Our food came to us before Amanda got back so we started eating. About halfway through my plate, Amanda arrived back. Soon after, Briana and Matt came in as well. For only $0.95, I don't think I've ever had as humongous of a breakfast as that. The country fried steak took up nearly all of the plate and the biscuit looked like a Mondo Burger (Good Burger anyone ??) sized dinner roll. As usual, I cleaned out my plate, it was great. After that, we didn't really do anything else. We stuck around the parking lot talking (and gossiping *cough* lol ..) for almost a hour it felt like. We ended up splitting up after that.
When we arrived back at Anthony and Amanda's place, I called it a day with them and went off biking back toward my place. On the way there, I stopped by the shop through the strip of Southern Academy. I checked out Hancock Plaza and even browsed around window shopping at the Dollar Tree there. When I got back home, I passed out for hour till about noon I think. That night, Jeff and I made plans to go watch the new Mummy movie, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor at Tinseltown. But before that, that was when I had nothing to do .... at all. I thought about what to do and finally came up with a solution to use up some time. I decided to start making a whole new Myspace profile. After checking out this one dude's profile, it inspired me to make my own because I realized that I was capable to make one as good as the one I saw. I started with just the left side of the page. I ran out of time eventually because I had to go to the movies, so I put the project aside for night.
When I arrived at Tinseltown to meet up Jeff, Keanan, and Nick, I easily found a parking spot. That wasn't the most surprising part of that night. What surprised me was the amount of Harrison High Schoolers were there. After the movie, we saw people like Jeanette there. Anyways, on the way up to the front, I saw Keanan. As I was walking, out of nowhere, these people started to talk to me like they knew me. They knew who I was, but I really didn't know who they were. After all that, I met up with Keanan to wait for the other two and then something else happened. So this thirteen year old came up to me and started talking to me like she knew me as well. She kept trying to think of a name for me I guess. She called me Allen and Alex repeatedly until I finally just said that that was my name. Nick was the next one to arrive. I told the two to go ahead of me and go into the theaters because I had to wait for Jeff. He had my ticket, so yah. When he arrived, we went to the theater just in time for some movie previews.
After the movie, I was disappointed somewhat. Compared to the first two Mummy's, this was one the corniest of the three. Also, the actress who played Evelyn, the wife in the first two Mummy's, didn't return for the sequel. That made me almost as mad as I was when Katie Holmes didn't return to reprise her role as Rachel Gawes in The Dark Knight and instead put an uglier person in for the role. The movie wasn't too bad though, if they were to take out the corny jokes and put Rachel Weisz in to play Evelyn, then the movie would be pretty decent in my opinion. Anyways, after the movie, we were stuck figuring out what to do.
So what we did was that we went to the McDonald's near Harrison High School. Coincidently, all of us drove .. except Matt. So to save gas, we decided to carpool with Nick's Escort to go the McDonald's. There we didn't even get anything to eat. We just hung out and a couple of them got themselves just a drink. After Jeff left to go home, the rest of us went to Nick's place to chill for a little while. Nick and Matt went onto the computer while me and Keanan played a game of NBA 2K8 on the PS3. After that game, we called it a night. All of us went our separate ways. I left and went straight to Ihop in Southgate to meet up Julie and Giane for a midnight snack.
I had to wait slightly longer than usual for them because they were running on Filipino time, for sure. After about 25 or so minutes, they finally arrived. Marie Fe, Victor, and Steve with his friend, showed up as well. There were a lot of people there that night. Maybe it was because we went in during the drunk rush. Basically when everyone was getting out of the clubs to cop something to eat. I ordered a simple sampler which I finished amazing fast. That wasn't the highlight for the stay there. The highlight was this drunk guy confronting us and talking to us out of nowhere. He was just hilarious. He kept talking about dance battles and American's Best Dance blah blah. It was insane. Another funny situation there was when Marie Fe ordered out of the freakin' dieters menu lol. Her chicken was dry as the Sand Dunes. As we were heading out, that same drunk guy made an insult towards Steve. It was crazy because once Steve turned around, the guy quickly said he was kidding. Funny stuff.
Well the day started out with me finishing up the text part of the blogs from Elitches and the Pike's Peak Incline and Bowling that next day. I was sorta worried that I was going to get behind because I had a lot on my mind for those blogs. Luckily, just before I left to go meet up with the others to hang out and play basketball at Sinton Park, I finished the Elitches video and at the same time finishing the last couple of sentences for my latest blog that day. Around four that afternoon, I headed with my bike to Sinton Park. I thought I was going to be late or something. To my surprise, I was the first and only one there for about 15-20 minutes. Good thing though, people eventually started to show up. Originally, we had plans to go swimming right after the park. But that didn't happen. We stuck around the park, not necessarily just playing basketball the whole time, but pretty much just hanging out and attempting back flips. I myself didn't attempt any back flips, but Jeff did. The results weren't pretty when he tried doing one a second, guided lol. Matt and Keanan also attempted to try and do front flips. Keanan eventually successfully completed one ... and on video. After we got thirsty, we all went to 7-11 to cop ourselves some Slurpees.
While we were there, I gave Keanan and Matt the idea to start taking a collection of picture in front of places doing back flips. While they were doing their back flips, they seemed to be getting some attention. These two guys started walking out and they confronted Keanan and Matt. They convinced them to do yet another back flip for them on video. Now that's what you call Keanan and Matt, monkey flipping celebs. I called it a day for myself with them and split ways to go to Giane's place to meet up with the rest of the Flips. When I got there, Julie took me home to drop my bike off while I got washed up and ready to go to downtown for dinner. When we got back to Giane's we left straight to downtown to meet up with Julius and Romano at Old Chicago.
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When we parked and tried to get a seat at Old Chicago, there was a thirty to forty-five minute wait for the table. So what we ended up doing to kill time for dinner, we just walked around and talked. While we were walking, that's when we met up with Julius and Romano. Time seemed to go by fast because before we knew it, we were called to get seated. When we got seated, it took us a short while to figure out what we wanted to get. I ended up being the last one at the table to be undecided. When the time came up, I decided to get a mushroom swiss burger. In the end, I ate a lot. I ate my food, some of Marie Fe's chicken sandwich, some of Julie's nachos, some of Giane's fish, and some of RJ's quesadilla. I was stuffed. After staying there for about two and half hours, most of us went back to Giane's to chill. RJ left when we got back, same with Marie Fe. Julie and Hannah stayed behind to go to the Ritz for a couple of hours. So we just chilled and talked and me, Steve, and Mav watched Giane and Julius practice for the dance before we eventually left for home when Hannah and Julie arrived back.
I said that this was memorable night for a reason. Nothing happened at all for me during the day. I pretty much didn't step a foot out of the house until almost 9 that night. I got picked up by Nick, Keanan, and Steven to join Ed and the others at Red Robin for dinner. When we got there, we had to wait for others to arrive. It was just the people riding in the car with me, Ed, and Robert with his cousin. The rest to arrive was the girls, Kristie, Joy, and Christine. From there, we all ordered our food. Well, I didn't order though as well as Steven. We stuck with the simple free water and the bottomless fries Red Robin provided. Surprisingly, that really filled me up. All I ate was fries and the leftovers of Joy's chicken sandwich. After that, we all drove by the theaters, I guess, to sneak in to the movies. We didn't go though. We instead went to Quail Lake to chill and relax. The other car, Robert's car, ended up following us. Before I left with my sister, we played some midnight basketball at the park. There was this game we started to play called, I think, Celebrity Basketball.
When I got picked up, Julie and I went straight to the Mendoza's place. There we got a couple of drinks, a shot or two, and all that good stuff. We just basically sat around for a little while and socialized for most of the time. I even tried a cigar just to see what it's like. It tasted like a strawberry Pop Tart to be honest, but I doubt I'm ever try that again. Steve and I eventually decided to go grab some late night Mexican food cause we were getting really reallly hungry lol. We went to the Albertacos on Austin Bluffs. I was looking forward to get a churizo burrito, but they said that they were out. I suspect BS, but it's whatever. I instead got a breakfast burrito with extra green sauce. When we got back to the Mendoza's house, the night was only beginning. We got back to find out that people were missing. Justin and Julie ended up to be the ones missing. They were dropping off Ralph and his cousin to his house I suppose. Anyways, when Steve and I walked to the basement to see what the other were up to, we saw the whole crowd except Ryan in the bathroom. I looked over to see he-who-shall-be-remained-nameless bleeding to death and everything. Ok, that may be a little over exaggerated, but it was pretty bad lol. So what ended up happening while I was out was that the dude tried to open up a bottle with his mouth and it ended up breaking on and cutting the dude on his chin really really deep. It was basically deep enough to the point where it needed stitches lol. Well, I still can't imagine the possibility of that happening especially when you look at the result of the bottle. I thought that was the buzz kill of the night. But it wasn't. Some of the people were nice enough to take the dude to the ER; the rest of us went back to the basement to watch a zombie movie, Undead. What a night.
Well the day after the 4th of July, surprisingly, I already had my weekend planned out for me. That Saturday morning, I biked up to Mav's place to drive to the park near Anthony and Amanda's house near Jet Wing. We were supposed to meet up with everyone at the park at noon, which we did, but everyone showed up late. For almost an hour, Alex, Mav, and I sat around with our jug of water waiting for the others to show so we can get some basketball going on. We kinda got tired of waiting for them, so Alex asked the kid nearby with a basketball to play with their ball. Knowing us, we didn't think smartly to bring a basketball with us just in case people showed up late. Eventually though, the others showed up. Anthony, Geoff Piechowski, Matt, and Amanda showed up. Shortly after, Robert Pruitt showed up to play as well. We played a couple of games of 3-on-3. After an hour or two of basketball, we went back to Mav's place to go get ready for Fort Collin's. I biked home from Mav's to go get ready and take a shower as well.
Before we left to Fort Collin's, we had a little problem with transportation. In the end though, Kevin and Alex ended up just staying behind for the trip to Fort Collins. In Giane's car, it was Giane, Julie, Steve, and I. In Darien's car, it was Darien, Mav, RJ, Cameron, and Darien's cousin's, Victoria and Stella. We got there around night time at Fort Collin's. Before we headed to Patrick's place, we stopped by at Chipotle to get something to eat, finally. After eating that, we finished it off with some dessert at Cold Stone. I was pissed tasting the Cold Stone cause knowing that there's no Cold Stone near in the Springs. Anyways, after eating dinner, we finally arrived to Patrick's, even though we got slightly lost.
The night had just begun from there. Compared to the other times we went to that house, this time the house had every room themed and lit up with different colored bulbs. When I first walked into the house, the living room looked almost like a rave-like environment. There was two computers running at once behind the DJ's booth and there was a smoke machine and streaming lights flashing throughout the room. Near the kitchen and by the living room, there was a bar set up with Mike, the bartender for most of the night, ready to make drinks. The other two open rooms had different colored lights as well as different music playing in each of them. One room was lit blue while the other is lit red. I went to go to the red room where the hookah was at. Outside in the backyard was a beer pong set up and ready to go. During the middle of the party, I ended up actually getting the munchies. So in result, Mav and I went to a nearby gas station to pick up some stuff and Taco Bell to pick up some food. Let's just say the night was classic. Hookah, beer pong, music, hanging out at the roof of the house, watching out from dog doodoo in the kitchen, socializing with everyone. The night was basically ultra fun. I mean, even sleeping on the coffee table wasn't too bad. It was actually pretty relaxing when I woke up the next morning.
The next morning turned out pretty boring for the most part because everyone was sleeping or just wasn't there. When everyone finally got up Ryan E., Patrick, Giane, Steve, Hannah, Julie, and I went to Olive Garden to get some lunch. Pretty much everyone got the soup and salad there. After a couple hours of eating and then socializing in the parking lot, we finally started to head out back to the Springs. The time it took us to get back to the Springs felt like it was double the time it should've took probably because Giane was driving slow cause of the rain and her messed up wind shield wipers. It was all good though. We eventually got home around 6 the night. Right after brushing my teeth, putting on some clothes and fixing up my hair, I quickly left to go to Genna's house to celebrate her birthday. That's where I basically concluded my night. We watched the Olympic trials and this dancing show on MTV, ate a bit, talked a bit, and played some cards. It was a pretty fun way to conclude this 4th of July weekend.
I didn't really get up to do anything till like noon. Around 1 or 2, I finally got my ass up to go to the Old Town Bike Shop in downtown on Tejon to go fix up the gear cable on my bike. It was pretty sweet to look at the different types of bike that they had. I learned a lot from looking around at that shop. Basically to have a quality bike, you're gonna need to drop some big bucks on it. To sum everything up about bikes, titanium framed bikes>steel alloy bikes. Anyways, the repair guy did a great job repairing my bike. The service there was great and everything; I recommend going there if anything happens to your bike. Well after I got home, I ate a tuna sandwich and I packed an extra "triple stacked" tuna sandwich for dinner on the go. So after, I left to go bike to the gym and get a quick weights workout.
I wanted to go on base on my bike to go meet up with Jon and Jeff, but as I was approaching the B Street Gate, the sign basically concluded that they would not let me in without a safety reflector vest and a bicycle helmet. So what I ended up doing was biking all the way back home to go grab my car. I thought I was going to be late meeting up with them like usual. Fortunately though, they were the ones late because Jeff left his ID lol. We ended up going to the Waller Gym since the other one we usually go to closed earlier. The racquetball court there was slightly different compared to the other gym's. The ceiling was higher and the walls seemed closer. Like the first game we had seemed really frustrating because everything for me was going too long in my serves. After a while though, I started to kill it. After that day of racquetball, I started to really like this game a lot. I mean, I can finally say that this is much easier compared to tennis now lol.
When I got home, Julie and I went back to Fort Carson to watch some firework near the park formally known as Iron Horse Park. The fireworks were pretty nice from the view that we had. After those 20 or so minutes of fireworks, we drove to Giane's to meet the others up. We missed a huge event though at Tinseltown. So something happened I guess with the movie Hancock, so they started to give away free tickets. Maybe I should've went and got some lol. Well after sitting around trying to figure out what to eat, Giane, Mav, and I went to King Soopers to go pick up some candies and pizzas and fruit punch while Julie, Kevin, Alex, Steve, and Art stayed at Giane's. When we got back, we watched an episode or two of In Living Color while the food was cooking. When the pizza got done, I ended up eating about six or seven slices haha. Well we finished the movie watch the movie 23 with Jim Carrey.
