Grandpa is good.

My grandpa went in today for surgery #2 for a bowel resection (cutting a part of his intestine out cause it didnt get enough blood and died). I wasnt there to hear the news firsthand cause my Mom made me go to work cause Ive called in sick the past few days. You cant really blame me, I am definitely not getting paid enough to not be there for my family when they need me the most.

Hearing the good news that my Grandpa is stable and doing well definitely has lifted off a lot of stress off my shoulders and I can finally get a goodnight's sleep in. Compared to staring at this all night: (with studying mixed in here and there)

But today, after visiting my Grandpa in the morning, I headed out to San Francisco for a much needed "get my mind off things" ride for Justin's birthday. Did the big Paradise Loop. It was a good route and I definitely want to ride it again cause I was totally disappointed in myself today. My legs just had nothing in them and I got dropped by a damn roadie! and he even waved at me bye! First time ever! I guess I could blame it on the 2 hours of sleep I got the night before or the total of less than 10 hours of sleep the past 4 days. It was just embarrassing for me. The ride shouldnt have been as hard as it was but I just had no energy. Ill get it next time.



Paradise Loop Round 2 coming soon.

Get Well Soon

Ive only had a handful of hours of sleep the past few days.

This is the one time I wish I could say that it was from studying, but its not. My grandpa is in the hospital. I came home to him throwing up and having severe pain in his abdomen. I took him to get checked out and he was admitted to St. Rose hospital a couple hours later. Tubes were inserted to drain out his stomach and relieve some pressure which helped his pain a bit.

At first no one had an idea of what was wrong with him. A nurse said diveriticulitis, another ischemic bowel, then Crohn's disease. Till this morning a doctor that specializes in gastroenterology came in to check him out.

Turns out that my Grandpa has an infection somewhere in his intestines. He is going to need surgery. They dont know the exact place so they need to explore a bit. This makes it more dangerous on top of my Granpa's underlying condition regarding his heart. He is on blood thinners and blood pressure medication and his heart is beating way too fast for the doctor's liking.

They spent all day today trying to stabilize his condition to put him in best shape to go into surgery. He has been transferred to to the Intensive Care Unit waiting for the operation.

Pray for him and wish him luck.

June 13th

Im leaving for the Philippines on June 13th. Going to be back sometime in July. Its been 12 years since the last time my family and I were there. Its a much needed vacation for my parents. I am really looking forward to be doing this:

FEEL IT ALL AROUND from Northern Lights on Vimeo.

Catching Up

Past few days have gone by so quick. Or maybe its just me cause I cant stop stressing out about how many days left I have to study for this stupid test. Gotta keep it short and sweet cause I gotta get back to studying, so heres the past few days.
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Baby.
Indian Rock.
Marina Trail
Ended up at Oakland Airport.
I fly oak... for free. ha!
Old Lake Chabot
Trespassing
Randy. Charles. Me

Deer Skeleton


View. SF on the left. Oakland on the right.
Spicy tofu ramen on a rainy day. mmmmmm
Get Fat Crew team shirt.
SF
Gotta hit THE book. Later.

LOST

The past few months I have been hooked, well more like obsessed with LOST. I lost a lot of sleep cause of this show. Staying up till the wee hours of the morning trying to catch up and waking up as soon as I can to watch some more.

I dont care what all you haters out there say about it. I love this show. Dont complain that its too confusing or its too sci-fi. Sorry that youre either too slow or too stupid to follow the story and/or your too close-minded to be saying that all of the things happening in the show is not possible. Its a fucking show. A majority of the shows on TV dont portray what really happens in the real world. Does it hurt to use a little bit of your brain and imagination? Stop being lazy and use your heads. Sorry for the rant.

Well, this 6th season is the last one and yesterday was the finale. As weird as it might sound, I did not watch it, nor am I excited for it. I really dont want this show to end. Ill probably watch the finale in the next couple of days. Im just trying to extend it as long as I can.

5-20-10

Rode to work to fill out some vacation request papers. Its not much of a request, its more like Im telling them that I cant work these days. I need a total of 41 days off work.

The ride back was brutal. So much headwind, so ridiculous.




Then stayed the rest of the night at Paddy's. Studying, playing cards, and of course sequence. If you dont know what that last game is. Better get on it! Guarantee youll be addicted.

But today, Michelle picked me up to go get brunch. Ended up spending the whole day with her.

Party at Paddys

Overfilled house at Paddy's yesterday. Every single seat was taken, even the ones on the outside. A lot more people came but would leave right away when they see all the people in there. The pictures actually doesnt do it justice to how many people actually was there. Coming and going.

I actually stayed there till 6:30 a.m. trying to study. I know thats really late but what makes it even worse is that I got there at 4:00 p.m. Surprisingly I got a lot of studying done and even got to take a nap. well yea. Tonights going to be a replay of yesterday.

Freaking Out

Today was my LAST day at my Kaplan review course for my board exam. We had a nice little potluck to end the class. Apparently were the first class that ever did this. But our teacher was super chill and real cool about it.

But the fact that 3 weeks has already gone by and my test date is nearing. Sorry but I am not going to reveal the test date since Im already fucking freaking out and I have a __ number of days left to study. As you can see its almost 6 a.m. and other than a little break on the phone I have been cramming. My scores on my practice tests have been steadily increasing which is giving whatever is left of my confidence a little boost but with so much material to take in I still run into shit that I have no fucking idea about which just brings me back down. I have never felt so stupid in my life. What kind of tests gets you excited to score a >60% on?!!

And tonight I seriously felt like I was going to have a panic attack or some sort of nervous breakdown and I NEVER usually worry about tests. But I guess this is a little different since this is basically what Ive worked for the past 4.5 years in college. But shit, the amount of material I have to get into my head and few thousand practice questions I have yet to do (no you didnt read wrong, THOUSANDS of questions) just hit me tonight. I officially hate this test, this book, and anything that has to do with it.

I wake up to it. I sleep to it. I just want it to be over and done with. And wish me luck and hope I pass.

Im gonna go scream now. Later.

Vegas-San Diego

Wednesday-Saturday morning was a bunch of craziness and it was damn fun!

Wednesday I flew out with my Mom to Vegas for a southwest party. They closed off fremont street and had free beer all night.






Angelina came by later to pick me up and she took me around for a bit till we met up with Mike. By this time I was pretty hammered but we went bowling anyways.


Next day we all met up again and ate at Hot-N-Juicy. I guess this is Vegas' version of Boiling Crab. After this we started drinking some more till I had to get on a plane to San Diego. Ive flew hungover before but I have never flown actually drunk and damn, best plane ride ever!





I was a little scared that I was going to be stuck in the airport for the night because Hoa and everyone at his house have been drinking since 11 a.m. and when Long got to the airport Hoa was in the passenger seat passed out. If that wasnt enough we all got ready and went to P.B. Good night out and we had a couple casualties. haha.
Next day was Sungod. Pretty much everyone woke up around 9 a.m. to drink. I like my sleep so I got up at 11 to this:
After a few games we headed to campus to watch b.o.b and chill on the field.

Oh and I cant forget about Michelle Branch! ahha. Shes not a bad performer. Best part of her part was when she did a Rolling Stones cover of "play with fire."

George got jumped so we all decided to go back home and drink it off. Grabbed a bite to eat and later on went back to say to a few people and get in the crowd for Drake.

Drake wasnt bad. Hes pretty funny and he brought out a couple special guests and gave some girl out of the crowd a 3000 dollar necklace. He also had this mike stand with hella bras hanging from it. After his show we went back to the house and I was goooooneee.

Then got on a plane this afternoon to back home. If I had a choice I would have stayed but I have work and I need money. Also my body needs some rest. I need to recover and get serious about this board exam Im taking in 3 weeks.
*There are a lot of parts missing in he trip that I wish I could have documented but most of the time I was too drunk or having too much fun to care to take a picture. But trust me, this was one of the best Ive ever had. (yupp corny drake reference)

Oh broakland in the airport.