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Since the 2010 bet fell through, me and my friend have decided to make another bet.

The first one to be able to do horizontal(side) splits will get to dress the other person any way they want for a full day at some super public event (like the state fair or elitch gardens).

The winner will get to choose the clothes as well as any sort of make up, hair dye, fake tattoos, accessories, etc and the loser will have to wear it all as long as they don't pose a threat of physical harm to the wearer.

The bet will last until a winner is confirmed.

A horizontal split is defined as when the legs are pointing in opposite directions right and left of the torso creating a 180 degree angle between them. Also the inner thigh of each leg must be able to touch the ground.

I've been wanting to do the splits for some time. Maybe this will motivate me to stretch every night.

I want to be able to do this:


And apparently anyone can do the splits:

So it's 2010 and the results are in from my bet with a friend on how the year 2010 will be referred to. See the original post. It turns out that we were both wrong.

2009 was referred to as "oh nine." For example "I graduate in oh nine"

Years before they were referred to as "Class of ninety eight" or "Class of oh four."

Now 2010 will now be called...twenty ten. Wtf? The years have always been referred to by the last two digits. Why is 2010 different? Probably because saying, "I'm from the class of ten" would sound incredibly dumb and confusing. So it's now referred to as "twenty ten." Lame. I guess that's what's going to happen to 2011, 2012, and so on.

But the question is, when will it change back to just referring to a year by the last two digits?

"I'm from the class of twenty one". No that still doesn't sound right. I guess we'll have to wait and see.

Who comes up with these rules?

It's late but I was in Taiwan so that's my excuse. Last year I made 26 resolutions. Let's see how I did:

-Reach 7% body fat or lower - FAIL
-Be able to do 75 pushups in one session - FAIL (I got up to 70 though)
-Be able to do horizontal splits - FAIL
-Weigh no more than 155lbs - FAIL (Taiwan got me up to 163)
-Make 2 youtube videos a month - FAIL
-Make at least 3 Avenger Initiative blog posts a week - FAIL
-Make at least 1 Big Wanger blog post a week - FAIL
-Earn $100 over the internet by selling shirts, advertisements, ebay, scams, or whatever - FAIL
-Sell my Transformers toy collection on ebay - WIN! (I sold them for about $120)
-Go snowboarding at least once - FAIL
-Go swimming for fun - WIN! (Elitch Gardens)
-Listen to all the audio books I’ve burned - FAIL
-Find a part time job during the Spring semester - FAIL
-Study ahead in class - FAIL
-Don’t skip any classes - FAIL
-Don’t enter finals with a borderline 90% grade like always - FAIL
-Flirt with a girl online - FAIL
-Drink at most 1 can of soda a month - FAIL
-Keep my turtle alive - WIN!
-Keep watching the tv show Heroes - WIN!
-Get slapped in the face - FAIL
-Don’t knowingly kill any insects found in my house - WIN!
-Keep taking advantage of the local library - WIN!
-Don’t get into a car accident - WIN! (I hit a curb when it was snowy though)
-Stand in front of an audience without acting stupid - FAIL
-Consume zero alcoholic beverages or chocolates - FAIL (Why did I put chocolate in the same category as alcoholic beverages?)

So I got 7/26. That's a 27% success rate. Lame.

Ok this year, I'll do better. Here are my resolutions.

The usual goals:
-Reach 7% body fat or lower
-Be able to do 75 pushups in one session
-Be able to do horizontal splits
-Weigh no more than 155lbs
-Don't consume any alcohol
-Save at least 33% of all the money I earn
-Keep my turtle alive

New goals:
-Get a higher success rate than last year
-Visit Nancy in Boulder before she leaves for Africa
-Finish School
-Get a good professional job
-Move out of the house
-Get a PS3
-Get a 360
-Get an HDtv
-Get a desktop computer
-Assemble my 3 gundams
-Limit fast food to once...no...twice a month
-Get As in my last 2 classes
-Brush my teeth everyday
-Use the Rec center more often
-Spend less money on vending machines
-Post Youtube vids at least every 3 weeks
-Learn to read a chinese children's book
-Dress better

There. 25 new resolutions. Most are dumb but it's something to work for. We'll see how it goes.

A friend and I were discussing whether the year 2010 will be referred to as "Oh Ten" or just "Ten."

Just now my laptop of 6 years just went bluescreen. It actually was a double whammy since I had my laptop connected to a monitor also. The last time I had a BSD was about 4 years ago when my hard drive died. I was beginning to think that the BSD forgot about me. Seeing it today was a little heart warming, but after 1 second of a warm heart I got worried as to why it went blue.

It literally came out of the blue...forgive the pun, but I only had two Google Chrome browsers and an Internet Explorer window open. I wasn't downloading, installing, gaming, or anything that was process intensive. I was actually just looking up ratings of professors of classes I'm taking in the fall and suddenly it went blue. I guess it just needed a rest. I'm now using my netbook which luckily has not gone Eiffel 65 on me yet.

After a good nights rest, I'm backing up everything in good old Dell Latitude.

About 3 weeks after getting my wisdom teeth out, for some reason my lower right jaw hasn't healed yet. It was a dull pain until this morning where the pain woke me up way early. Which is weird since sleeping is usually my remedy for pain. Pain isn't supposed to wake me up. This pain is some kind of mutant.

Ahhh, I am very pain intolerant and this is pretty bad. Mom decided to get the prescription antibiotics that we didn't think I'd need. But geez, this pain feels like half my head has been punched by a clown with one of those boxing gloves on a spring.

Now my face is swollen. And ice packs seems to make it puffier. As you can see, my face is lopsided. Being lopsided is ok, unless of course you have a job interview tomorrow...like I do.

You know how I was saying in my last post that I was going to eat a big breakfast and then leave a "surprise" during the surgery? Yeah I didn't follow through with that. It's a good thing because right before the surgery I had to sign a waiver that said that if I eat any food or drink 8 hours before, it could cause life threatening complications and I could die. so my last meal would have been the cause for it being my last meal. Whew! I'm not dead!

Well the process went like this:

The surgeon stuck a needle in my arm that was supposed to be a catheter for the IV. It didn't hurt as much as I thought it would. He then injected some stuff into the IV and said that I should start feeling the effects in 30 seconds. I was thinking, "Yeah right, 30 seconds? I'm a tough guy. It'll take more than 30 seconds for anything to knock me out." I started counting. Then the nurse stuck a rubber piece in my mouth and then I passed out. So I'd say it was about 15 seconds.

Next thing I knew, I woke up and my mouth was numb. I felt no pain and there was gauze in my mouth. I was fine. I didn't feel woozy. I could walk, but they still had me sit in a wheel chair and had a guy push me to our car so my mom and drive me home.

At home mom made me eat a pain killer. Then I strangely decided to film a video. Then after that for some reason I had a huge urge to watch Transformers so I put in Transformers in the DVD player and started watching it with Michael Bay commentary. My parents didn't like that I was watching tv so they had me turn it off. I then took a nap.

I wasn't really hungry even though I hadn't eaten anything for 15 hours. I guess the fear of pain from eating was enough to make my stomach not growl. I did have a lot of blood drip out. My shirt got dirty and I had to change the gauze every 40 minutes or so. I'm alright now. I just hope I don't choke on any extra blood while I sleep tonight. Gosh! It seems like everyday there is a chance of me dying!

Here's that weird video I decided to make. As you can see I'm still very incoherent and mind altered with drugs.

Getting my wisdom teeth out tomorrow. The appointment is at 9:30am. That means that if I can't eat or drink for 6 hours, I have to wake up at 3am to eat something otherwise I'll be stuck with just dinner 15 hours before.

I wonder why we can't eat or drink for 6 hours. Maybe it's so that we don't relieve ourselves while asleep during surgery.

You know what? I'm going to eat a huge breakfast tomorrow morning and ignore the rule. It might be my last meal so it better be a good one. Plus I'd like to hear what the surgeon has to say when I leave him a present during the operation. I assume it would be along the lines of, "Uh, yeah you pooped yourself."

This year I cut down 3 trees. A 15ft tall aspen tree, a 10ft tall apple tree, and just today a 25ft tall leafy tree. Mom had various reasons for wanting to cut them down ranging from too many seeds spreading to hitting the window when it's windy outside.

The tree I had to cut today was one of my favorite trees. It was at least 21 years old. I saw it grow up, but it had to go so I took our electric saw and chopped it down. Chopped all the branches to little pieces so they'll fit in our trashcan and then chopped the trunk as if the tree never existed.
NOTE: Uprooting trees is such and major, humongous PAIN IN THE...back.

I forgot to take a picture of the tree before I made the first cut so here are two pictures of the tree after I already cut half of it down. You can still see how tall it was.

Here's what the house looks like after the tree is all gone.

Here's the dying pile of tree.

What I've learned from killing all these trees is this: When you plant trees, they are small and they are cute...like babies. But after 15-20 years, they're gigantic nutrient sucking monstrosities that start imposing on your personal space. You won't like them anymore and will want them gone. And the process of cutting them down and uprooting their stubborn tentacle roots will make you regret ever planting the tree in the first place. So don't plant trees in your yard because you'll have to cut them down. And that is murder.

My future yard will consist of a 5x5ft square piece of grass for backyard picknicks and maybe a flower somewhere. No trees. Maybe rocks. And a tree house.

Here are some other trees that might fall victim in the future. God it's going to really suck to cut these guys down.


And now here's me, my brother, and my mom cutting down most of our aspen tree.

I went to an oral surgeon today for a consultation to get my 4 wisdom teeth taken out. Two of them are coming in weird and are pushing the rest of my teeth crooked so I really want to take them out, but today at the office they had me watch an "Informed Patient Consent" video about the procedure and risks of getting my teeth taken out.

I must say that the video freaked me out a little. Cracked jaws, permanent nerve damage, extreme pain. My I remind you that I'm very pain intolerant. I'll also have to be put to sleep during the operation. Though it's only going to be 20 minutes I'm afraid that I won't ever wake up. I'm a heavy sleeper and I'm sure my body would like being in a coma. Judgement day will be 5 days from today.

So I just want to make it clear that if I die, here is how my stuff will be divided:

DVD Movies - All will go to my brother since he needs a good Kung Fu movie collection.

Text Books - All of my text books will be either sold, and the money given back to my parents, or burned.

Other Books - All are given to my brother since he still needs to read Harry Potter and could use some Bruce Lee exercise books.

Clothes - Donated to ARC or the Salvation Army. Except for my autographed Lalaine shirt. That will go on ebay and the money given back to Lalaine.

Video Games and Hardware - will be given to a grade school girl who writes the best essay about turtles determined by my friend Terra.

Computers - My two laptops will be buried with me since I've spent a high percentage of my life using them.

External Hard drive - Given to Terra since she'll probably be the most appreciative of all the music and video I have on there. But it might be nice to let my parents get a copy of all the pictures on there also.

Toys - If you were a childhood friend, you can pick your favorite toy that I have to keep, but the rest of my toys will be sold on ebay as one giant lot with a Buy it now price of $10,000.

Cameras - My digital cameras, camcorders, and web cam will be given to Terra only if she starts making YouTube videos with them. If not, then they shall be given to an astronaut to make YouTube videos from space.

Wealth - My meager savings, paypal, and google adsense account will be transfered to my parents in order for them to buy a giant tv and another year worth of internet/cable service.

My Pet Turtle - If I leave Mr. Turtle to my parents they'll probably throw him away. So I will give my turtle to my two responsible friends Celia and Cleria. They will have joint custody of Mr. Turtle because even though he's only 6oz, he's a handful...literally. And maybe Mr. Turtle may even become their official church mascot.

Everything Else - The rest of my stuff from my bike, tooth brush, bed sheets, key chain collection, stickers, exercise equipment, lint roller, etc. will all be up for grabs for whoever wants them.

I took these picture APRIL 17th. And it's snowing! It was scary snow too. With thunder and lightning. That's a first.



On a totally unrelated note, my brother once said, "If April showers bring May flowers, what do Mayflowers bring?...Pilgrims!"

I don’t remember my 2008 resolutions and I know that I will forget my 2009 resolutions unless I write them down somewhere.

Will Smith says he doesn’t believe in resolutions because “why wait to do something when you can start doing it now.” My resolutions will be more like goals. By the end of 2009, I will have to have completed each of these goals. Or else…I fail at life.

So here are my resolutions.

PHYSICAL
-Reach 7% body fat or lower
-Be able to do 75 pushups in one session
-Be able to do horizontal splits
-Weigh no more than 155lbs

INTERNET
-Make 2 youtube videos a month
-Make at least 3 Avenger Initiative blog posts a week
-Make at least 1 Big Wanger blog post a week
-Earn $100 over the internet by selling shirts, advertisements, ebay, scams, or whatever
-Sell my Transformers toy collection on ebay

ACTIVITIES
-Go snowboarding at least once
-Go swimming for fun
-Listen to all the audio books I’ve burned
-Find a part time job during the Spring semester

SCHOOL
-Study ahead in class
-Don’t skip any classes
-Don’t enter finals with a borderline 90% grade like always

ODD
-Flirt with a girl online
-Drink at most 1 can of soda a month
-Keep my turtle alive
-Keep watching the tv show Heroes
-Get slapped in the face
-Don’t knowingly kill any insects found in my house
-Keep taking advantage of the local library
-Don’t get into a car accident
-Stand in front of an audience without acting stupid
-Consume zero alcoholic beverages or chocolates


Well, that's good enough for now.

Funny how people can be Atheists but yet still celebrate Christmas. But we all know what Christmas is about. It's not celebrating the birth of Christ. Not about giving, or family, or killing trees. It's about the presents. Buying presents and getting presents. That all people care about. Well here are the presents that I got for Christmas this year.


All the presents pictured above were from my brother. 4 Nike shirts, a sleeve for my Lenovo laptop, 1 pair of Nike shoes that my brother doesn't want to wear, and a book. The book (Bruce Lee's Complete Fighting Method) was the only thing that I asked for from my brother. All the rest were because he's nice. I also got a Lenovo S10 Laptop. It's basically that present from my parents since it's expensive. $380. I usually get $200 from my parents but this year I got a computer. I'm not complaining even though I am light on cash.

I love fast food, but it’s getting expensive. I remember when Happy Meals used to be $1.99. Now they’re almost double that. So whenever I eat out, I always get food from the Dollar Menu. Every fast food restaurant has a variation of this where the items on the menu are $1 or less.

I really don’t care what I eat because all fast food will satisfy my belly equally; I just want to know what dollar menu burger gives the most bang for its buck. So…I decided to do research.

I went to three of the most common fast food burger restaurants. McDonalds, Burger King, and Wendy’s. I bought every single burger they had on their dollar menus and took them home to compare.

The burgers I bought were:

McDonalds
Double Hamburger w/ Cheese
Hot n Spicy McChicken

Burger King
Whopper Jr.
Spicy Chick’n Crisp

Wendy’s
Double Stack
Jr. Cheeseburger
Jr. Cheeseburger
Jr. Bacon Cheeseburger
Crispy Chicken Sandwich

I weighed each burger on a small kitchen scale and noted the ounces. I also took pictures of what the burgers looked like inside and out.

NOTE: The nutrition facts were taken from the restaurants’ official websites. They may have been altered a bit to make the food seem healthier.

(Click on the pictures for a larger view)



McDonalds ($1 each)
Grew up on this stuff so it all tastes nostalgic to me. But there is this unique taste to McDonalds’ burgers. It must be something in that meat flavoring they use.


Double Hamburger w/ Cheese:


Comments: Does this sound weird? Shouldn’t it be the Double Cheeseburger? Nope. McDonalds decided to cut costs by taking away 1 slice of cheese from its Double Cheese Burger. They changed the name so people can’t complain and increased the price of the original Double Cheese Burger to $1.19.

Coming up with the nutrition facts for this one was tricky because McDonalds’ website didn’t have one up for the Double Hamburger w/ Cheese. It still had is old Double Cheese Burger. So what I did was take subtracted the nutrition of the Cheese Burger with the Hamburger. That gives me the nutrition of 1 slice of cheese. I then subtracted the results from the nutrition of the Double Cheese Burger, thus giving me a decent approximation of the nutrition of the Double Hamburger w/ Cheese.

After eating 2 of these you get a little sick of the overpowering cheesy taste. Not the best for eating competitions.


Hot n Spicy McChicken:


Comments: It was spicy enough to make my nose sweat. The shredded lettuce makes it appear like there’s more than there actually is. But I do like them shredded. There’s less of a chance of accidentally pulling out the whole lettuce leaf in one bite.



Burger King ($1 each)
Their meat is “flame-broiled” so it tastes more like a grilled burgers than the other restaurants.


Whopper Jr.:


Comments: Pretty tasty. The sesame seeds, crunchy pickles, and flame-broiled meat that makes it taste better than most fast food burgers. Though I did only get 1 small tomato when the picture clearly shows 2. Disappointed.


Spicy Chick’n Crisp:


Comments: Also spicy enough to make my nose sweat. But it’s pretty much the same as McDonalds’ chicken sandwich.



Wendy’s ($0.99 each)
Wendy’s burgers have a rectangular meat patty instead of the usual circle shape. They use mustard on their burgers.


Double Stack:


Comments: It’s alright. Similar to the McDonalds’ Double Hamburger w/ Cheese. But it doesn’t make you feel sick after eating.


Jr. Cheeseburger:


Comments: Just your average fast food cheese burger. But it does come with onions.


Jr. Bacon Cheeseburger:


Comments: I don’t know why anyone would buy the Jr. Cheeseburger when they can buy this for the same price. Nice large piece of lettuce and tomato. The bacon strips were wimpy but it’s still my favorite out of all the Wendy’s burgers.


Crispy Chicken Sandwich:


Comments: No change in the chicken sandwich formula when compared to the other two chicken sandwiches. Nice large piece of lettuce and mayonnaise. I do feel that this was the smallest and least satisfying of the chicken sandwiches.



Final Verdict:
So when it comes to chicken sandwiches, Burger King’s Spicy Chick’n Crisp wins for taste and weight. Though it does have the most fat.

Because Burger King didn’t post the amount of vitamins in their burgers, it’s hard for me to judge which burger is the healthiest. But from the information I do have, McDonald’s Double Hamburger w. Cheese is the “healthiest” of the group…surprisingly.

When it comes to taste, it’s Burger King’s Whopper Jr. for the win.


God this post took me forever to do.

I've always never really had trouble with my weight. I would stay approximately the same weight for years. Below is a record of my weight during the summers of college.

Weight as of June 8, 2005: 142 lbs.
Weight as of June 5, 2006: 157lbs.
Weight as of June 24, 2007: 155lbs.
Weight as of June 7, 2008: 160lbs.

I entered my freshmen year of college at about 140lbs. And I ended my senior year of collage at an astounding 168lbs. That was the heaviest I've ever been. But not for long. That summer, I slowly lost weight until I was about 145lbs by August. I wasn't trying to lose weight. It just kinda disappeared. I think the change of diet from dorm food to my mom's cooking played a major factor.

Right now. I'm 138lbs. That's 30 pounds less than 6 months ago. And I now also weight less than my freshmen weight. I had literally zero exercise so the weight just kinda got lost by itself. My mom thinks I look sickly being so skinny and she liked it when I was 160 something. But to tell you the truth, I just can't each as much as I could before. I don't really know why. I can now only eat two 'dollar menu' burgers and i'm full. I could used to eat 4. Maybe I have a tapeworm or something.

But I have now decided to start exercising. Start getting muscular. Why? To get girls duh. Why else do guys do anything?

Bruce Lee was about 5' 6" or 5' 7". His weight has ranged from 126lbs to 155lbs. He was 135lbs when he made Enter the Dragon. And supposedly he had 1% body fat.

Since i'm 5' 10.5" tall, I think a reasonable goal would be 155lbs with 3-7% body fat. That'll be my ideal body composition.

So how will I get to this point? I have no idea. Do a lot of push ups?

Here's a set of notes that I took when trying to figure out what Bruce Lee did for exercise. Decipher it if you want. It's mostly for my own reference.


Run
Hills
5 Miles

Bike
10 Miles
45 Minutes

Weights:
3 sets of 15 reps
Different angles each time.

Bench Press:
Heavy Days (160/150): 3 sets of 10
Light Days (100/90): 3 sets of 20-30

Abs:
Leg raises
Sit ups: curl body and elbow to knee

According to some of Lee's early training notes, his daily abdominal workout included:
Waist twists - four sets of 90 repetitions.
Sit-up twists - four sets of 20 repetitions.
Leg raises - four sets of 20 repetitions.
Leaning twists - four sets of 50 repetitions.
Frog kicks - four sets of 50 repetitions.


Bruce Lee's "Lethal Physique" Bodybuilding Program
(performed on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays)

Exercise Sets Repetitions
Clean & Press 2 8
Squats 2 12
Pullovers 2 8
Bench Presses 2 6
Good Mornings 2 8
Barbell Curls 2 8
The Breakdown of the Routine:

1.) Clean & Press: Lee would begin this movement by taking a shoulder-width grip on an Olympic barbell. Bending his knees, he would squat down in front of the resistance and, with a quick snap of his arms and a thrust from his legs, clean the barbell to his chest and stand up. After a brief pause, Lee would then thrust the barbell to arms length overhead, pause briefly, and then lower the barbell back to the top of his chest. After another brief pause, he would lower the barbell back to the floor (the starting position). With absolutely no rest, Lee would then initiate his second repetition of the movement and continue to do so until he had completed eight repetitions. After a very brief rest, so as to take full advantage of the cardio-respiratory benefits as well as the strength-building benefits, Lee would perform a second -- and final -- set.

2.) Squats: This staple of bodybuilding movements was the cornerstone of Bruce Lee's barbell training. He had dozens of articles that he'd clipped out on the mechanics and benefits of squats and he practiced many variations of this exercise. In his routine, however, he performed the exercise in the standard fashion. Resting a barbell across his shoulders, Lee would place his feet approximately shoulder-width apart. Making sure that he was properly balanced, Lee would slowly ascend to a full squat position. With absolutely zero pause in the bottom position, Lee would then immediately return -- using the strength of his hips, glutes, hamstrings, calves and quadriceps -- to the starting position, whereupon he would commence rep number two. Lee would perform 12 repetitions in this movement and, after a short breather, return and re-shoulder the barbell for one more set of 12 reps.

3.) Pullovers: Although there exists no physical evidence that Bruce Lee supersetted barbell pullovers with squats, there is reason to believe that this was case -- if only for the fact that such was the method advocated in the articles he read. Squats were considered a great "overall" muscle builder, whereas pullovers were simply considered a "rib box expander" or "breathing exercise." Consequently, the fashion of incorporating pullovers in the late 1960s and early 1970s was as a "finishing" movement for squats. This being the case, Lee would perform the movement in the standard fashion; i.e., by lying down on his back upon a flat bench and taking a shoulder-width grip on a barbell that he would then proceed to press out to full extension above his chest. From this position, Lee would lower the barbell -- making sure to keep a slight bend in his elbows so as not to strain the elbow joint -- behind his head until it touched the floor ever so slightly and provided a comfortable stretch to his lats. From this fully-extended position, Lee would then slowly reverse the motion through the contraction of his lats, pecs and long-head of the triceps. He would repeat this movement for two sets of eight repetitions.

4.) Bench Presses: Bruce Lee was able to develop an incredible chest musculature. His upper pecs were particularly impressive, bunching and splitting into thousands of fibrous bands. And, as far as his personal training records indicate, the only direct barbell movement he performed to develop his chest was the good old fashioned bench press. Lying down upon a flat bench, and again taking a shoulder-width grip on an Olympic barbell, Lee would press the weight off the support pins to arms length above his chest. From this locked-out position, Lee would then lower the barbell to his chest and, exhaling, press it back up to the fully-locked out (or starting) position. He would repeat this movement for six repetitions and then, after a brief respite, return to the bench for one more set of six reps.

5.) Good Mornings: A word of caution about this exercise. Lee performed this movement to strengthen his lower back. However, one day in early 1970 he loaded up the bar with 135 pounds (his bodyweight at the time) and -- without a warm up -- proceeded to knock off eight repetitions. On his last rep he felt a "pop" and found out later that he had damaged the fourth sacral nerve of his lower back. The result was the Lee had to endure incredible back pain for the remainder of his life. This is not to say that the movement is without merit, just make sure that you perform an adequate warm-up prior to employing, it. Placing a barbell across his shoulders, Lee would place his feet three inches apart (Lee would later confide to Dan Inosanto "You really don't need any weight but the empty bar on your shoulders Dan -- it's more of a limbering movement") and bend over from the waist keeping his hands on the barbell at all times. Lee would bend over until his back was at a 90 degree angle to his hips and then return to the upright position. Lee performed two sets of eight repetitions of this movement.

6.) Barbell Curls: Bruce Lee performed barbell curls not only in his garage gym on Roscomare Avenue in Bel Air, but also in his studio office in Hong Kong. They were a staple or "core" movement in his weight training routine and were also responsible for building a very impressive pair of biceps on Lee -- not to mention incredible pulling power, which he used to such good effect in all of his sparring sessions! To perform this movement properly, Lee would take a comfortable shoulder-width grip on the barbell with his palms facing forwards. Keeping a slight bend in his knees for stabilization purposes, Lee would then contract his biceps and curl the barbell up to a point level with his upper pecs. Pausing briefly in this fully-contracted position, Lee would then slowly lower the barbell back to the starting position. Two sets of eight repetitions of this movement would typically wrap up Lee's bodybuilding routine.

Goals:
Push Ups with 250lbs on my back
Hold a 70lbs dumbell horizontal for 20 seconds

Ok, here's a picture of me half naked. Yes I know, I'm a skinny monkey.


Note: This picture was taken yesterday after 4 days of not showering and a week of not shaving. Can't you tell?

Well, that's me. And here's Bruce Lee. I tried to have similar poses.

I just wanted to keep track of how my shoes look. My brother got these Saucony shoes for me last year. It was a "Buy One Get One Half Off" sale so I bought two of the same shoe. They are very comfortable but they started to get holes in them after about a month. So I've finally retired my 1st pair and am going to start wearing the 2nd pair. I've added pictures to compare how they look new and old.








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I was at Pet City in Chapel Hills Mall today. Were was an abnormally large about of puppies there today. In this small shop in the mall I counted 65 puppies. It doesn't seems right to have so many.

People complain about depression. Imagine being one of the puppies that's been there for a couple of months and no one has bought him. He's getting big and no one bothers to make squeaky voices at him anymore. He'll be euthanize soon because he not cute anymore.

I also counted there to be 27 turtles (box and water). That's also a huge amount of turtles. One of them actually had a collapsed shell. I felt bad for it and wanted to buy it. They were $50. I only had 9 quarters in my pocket.

Toonami on Cartoon Network was basically a time slot where only anime (or Japanese inspired) cartoons played. Having started in 1997, it's robotic host introduced me to Dragonball Z, Gundams, the Power Puff Girls, video game reviews and many other great cartoons. But as of Sept 20th, 2008, Toonami will no longer exist. *sigh*

I don't know why girls like chapstick so much. It's like they have nothing better to do but moisturize their lips...all the time! But I got this particular stick during RA training the fall of 2005. I've used it about once a day in the morning and it finally ran out. It turned out that it's been expired since June of 2006. Dang.