So this is a little recap of some martial arts mayhem last night. My head was swimming with all the techniques I learned last night at my Kali class. (We were learning stick attacks) I felt like it was sensory overload.
Apparently there are 7 attacks per stick angle and there are 7 counters to those attacks and there x amount of counters to the counters. Classic. I was lucky if I could manage to remember 3 of the 7 attacks we learned. I cheated a little I guess because I kept doing attack one and six over and over because they were easy to remember.
It is a fun class and I wish it was held more than one hour a week. I feel like I'm barely scrapped the surface. It is funny because I seem to do better under pressure when the instructor makes it seem like a life or death situation. Nothing like the threat of a fatal knife wound to get me motivated to learn the technique. I wonder how many times I have "died' in that class.
I named this blog entry because apparently one of the drills is to practice 7000 hits with the sticks. The "of death" add on (my idea) just makes me laugh.
Sidenote: I also got some laughs like this:
Me: Wow this looks tough! (watching a technique) This must be advanced.
Instructor: Advanced? This is whitebelt. (Laughter) Advanced for whitebelt I guess
Others : (Laughter)
Story of my life
-Rab
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
We Won! We Won!
Okay as a favour to a "friend" who loves the Bengals (wink,wink) I promised to give a play by play of the curling game on Monday. (Sidenote: I wish I would have updated this sooner. The game details are starting to get fuzzy. Here is the play by play:
End 1: We lost the toss and other team has hammer to start. We score 5 in the first round (5-0)
End 2: Opposing team scores 1 (5-1)
End 3: Our team scores 4 (9-1)
End 4 Opposing team scores 2 (9-3)
End 5 Our team scores 4 (12-3)
End 6 We finished the end and shook hands.
It helped that we had a substitution player that is really good and made all his shots. And I felt good going in and made say 70 percent of my shots. Overall a good game. Sorry I couldn't get into more details of each round. (My friend wanted a full play by play)
My friend can read this and edit it as necessary if he needs to. Hopefully our hot streak continues. Kaboom!
We are blowing up!
-Rab
End 1: We lost the toss and other team has hammer to start. We score 5 in the first round (5-0)
End 2: Opposing team scores 1 (5-1)
End 3: Our team scores 4 (9-1)
End 4 Opposing team scores 2 (9-3)
End 5 Our team scores 4 (12-3)
End 6 We finished the end and shook hands.
It helped that we had a substitution player that is really good and made all his shots. And I felt good going in and made say 70 percent of my shots. Overall a good game. Sorry I couldn't get into more details of each round. (My friend wanted a full play by play)
My friend can read this and edit it as necessary if he needs to. Hopefully our hot streak continues. Kaboom!
We are blowing up!
-Rab
Monday, February 7, 2011
More Website Mayhem!
Okay so today I stumbled across a cool website while browsing the postcrossing website. Here it is:
http://myrealwall.blogspot.com/
Basically a guy decided to have a "wall" of postcards and any letter people send him. He also takes a picture of the wall and blogs about it. I fired off a postcard today for him. His address is on his website.
So cross your fingers and maybe in a month my postcard will become a part of his "wall". Here's where my patience has to come into play.
Sidenote: Here is a good spot where I can bury a story about me. ( A little embarrassing) I went to the local comic book shop to play in a magic card tournament on the weekend. Well when I got there to play the owner of the store looked at me like I was a fish out of water. It went like this:
Owner: (Surprised) Can I help you?
Me: I'm here for the tournament. Is there one tonight?
Owner: We are waiting for two more people and then we get started.
Me: Okay. (I browsed around the store. The store had about ten people sitting down playing cards and talking.)
(Two minutes later)
Owner: There is no game tonight. Sorry (acting suspicious)
Me: Okay. (I left)
So I don't know whats worse between the following:
1) getting rejected by comic book/gaming nerds
2) magic cards was my Sat night option
3) or that I care enough to actually blog about it
Zing to myself!
Add-on: I was telling this story and someone was comparing it to losing a friend in life and being true to myself. LOL. I don't care what the local comic book guy thinks about me. End of transaction with him.
-Rab
http://myrealwall.blogspot.com/
Basically a guy decided to have a "wall" of postcards and any letter people send him. He also takes a picture of the wall and blogs about it. I fired off a postcard today for him. His address is on his website.
So cross your fingers and maybe in a month my postcard will become a part of his "wall". Here's where my patience has to come into play.
Sidenote: Here is a good spot where I can bury a story about me. ( A little embarrassing) I went to the local comic book shop to play in a magic card tournament on the weekend. Well when I got there to play the owner of the store looked at me like I was a fish out of water. It went like this:
Owner: (Surprised) Can I help you?
Me: I'm here for the tournament. Is there one tonight?
Owner: We are waiting for two more people and then we get started.
Me: Okay. (I browsed around the store. The store had about ten people sitting down playing cards and talking.)
(Two minutes later)
Owner: There is no game tonight. Sorry (acting suspicious)
Me: Okay. (I left)
So I don't know whats worse between the following:
1) getting rejected by comic book/gaming nerds
2) magic cards was my Sat night option
3) or that I care enough to actually blog about it
Zing to myself!
Add-on: I was telling this story and someone was comparing it to losing a friend in life and being true to myself. LOL. I don't care what the local comic book guy thinks about me. End of transaction with him.
-Rab
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Kramer and J Peterman
Hmmmmmm........... I was at a buddies last night and we were catching up on old times. He was telling stories and I was laughing a mile a minute. He has so many stories that I was scrambling to write down notes to remind myself later.I thought using his stories on my blog would help to jazz it up. (It reminded me of the Seinfeld episode where Elaine "purchased" Kramers life stories and changed them into Peterman stories for Petermans biography book.)
So maybe I could do that on this blog. I could tell some tall tales to make this blog more exciting. But alas right this moment I don't have time to give a story as I'm killing time at the coffee house and I only have few minutes left. If my evening plans fall through tonight maybe I will revisit this idea.
Did I mention I love Flight of the Concordes? I'm huge fan.
-Rab
So maybe I could do that on this blog. I could tell some tall tales to make this blog more exciting. But alas right this moment I don't have time to give a story as I'm killing time at the coffee house and I only have few minutes left. If my evening plans fall through tonight maybe I will revisit this idea.
Did I mention I love Flight of the Concordes? I'm huge fan.
-Rab
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Paper-Boy
I went to see the move "The Fighter". I have to say its an awesome movie and way better than I expected. I wasn't in a rush to see it and I decided to go because a friend wanted to. This brings me to my current post:
I guess I am a "true geek" though, because I swear I had more fun playing arcade games with my buddy then I did watching the movie.
They have an arcade machine with 60 in 1 classic arcade games. We played Paperboy, a no name wrestling game (forget the name) and Rampage. (My buddy never played Rampage in his life. I was like what?) And then we moved on to Pac-Man. We ran out of time so we had to abandon our quest to see how could get the best score in Pac-Man ( For the record I was winning)
Paperboy was a bust though. It brought back memories but it is a hard game. My only hope was to make sure the first house got its paper and then hold back on the joystick (your paperboy moves forward no matter what) and hope that my guy didn't crash into anything. I didn't even survive one day or half a block. The game over screen is hilarious though. It has a image of the "paperboy" lying on the curb with a paper sack over his head and a caption stating: worst paperboy ever. Classic man.
And of course playing arcade games brought back memories of previous arcade stories. Basically several years ago I showed up at the cinema with a bank tube of "loonies" (1 dollar coins) and me and my friends only goal was to beat "Star Trek Voyager" the arcade game. (It is a shooter game with a light gun). Well we managed to beat the game but burn our eyes out. Our eyes were literally watering as we completed the game. We got strange looks from the staff at the movies.
So I beat that game in Timmins and the when I went away to university by fluke the game was in the arcade lounge there and I beat it again. Ah arcade memories.....
Rab
Paperboy Madness
They have an arcade machine with 60 in 1 classic arcade games. We played Paperboy, a no name wrestling game (forget the name) and Rampage. (My buddy never played Rampage in his life. I was like what?) And then we moved on to Pac-Man. We ran out of time so we had to abandon our quest to see how could get the best score in Pac-Man ( For the record I was winning)
Paperboy was a bust though. It brought back memories but it is a hard game. My only hope was to make sure the first house got its paper and then hold back on the joystick (your paperboy moves forward no matter what) and hope that my guy didn't crash into anything. I didn't even survive one day or half a block. The game over screen is hilarious though. It has a image of the "paperboy" lying on the curb with a paper sack over his head and a caption stating: worst paperboy ever. Classic man.
And of course playing arcade games brought back memories of previous arcade stories. Basically several years ago I showed up at the cinema with a bank tube of "loonies" (1 dollar coins) and me and my friends only goal was to beat "Star Trek Voyager" the arcade game. (It is a shooter game with a light gun). Well we managed to beat the game but burn our eyes out. Our eyes were literally watering as we completed the game. We got strange looks from the staff at the movies.
So I beat that game in Timmins and the when I went away to university by fluke the game was in the arcade lounge there and I beat it again. Ah arcade memories.....
Rab
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Not Another Postcrossing Update!?!?
I want to just keep spreading the joy and excitement of postcrossing. My stats are improving (16 sent 13 received). I'm chomping at the bit because when you reach 20 sent postcards you are able to have 6 travelling at a time instead of 5. Every 20 sent increases your ability to send.
But alas if i talk about postcrossing all day it will look like I have no life. But half no fear - I have cultivated a life that keeps me busy. Because of martial arts and curling most weeks I'm always on the go after work. Often I don't get home till after 10 or 11. It makes for a busy and long week.
And it must be the mid-week blahs for me today because I'm not feeling the martial arts tonight. But I will force myself to go because I know that I will feel better after. (A natuarl high from exercise)
I have always mad ideas and side projects but I never get around to half of what I want to accomplish. I always say to myself: oh I want to read this book, learn this skill, watch this movie or get into this craft/hobby but nothing seems to pan out.
But when I do get something stuck in my head I often go for broke (ie postcrossing). I guess I'm weird like that. And look at me now I'm just rambling away again.
Hmmmmmm.......................... What else can I talk about?
I will get back to you on that.
-Rab
But alas if i talk about postcrossing all day it will look like I have no life. But half no fear - I have cultivated a life that keeps me busy. Because of martial arts and curling most weeks I'm always on the go after work. Often I don't get home till after 10 or 11. It makes for a busy and long week.
And it must be the mid-week blahs for me today because I'm not feeling the martial arts tonight. But I will force myself to go because I know that I will feel better after. (A natuarl high from exercise)
I have always mad ideas and side projects but I never get around to half of what I want to accomplish. I always say to myself: oh I want to read this book, learn this skill, watch this movie or get into this craft/hobby but nothing seems to pan out.
But when I do get something stuck in my head I often go for broke (ie postcrossing). I guess I'm weird like that. And look at me now I'm just rambling away again.
Hmmmmmm.......................... What else can I talk about?
I will get back to you on that.
-Rab
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Find all the Plugs!
So I was lucky to have someone show me the website: http://www.listen.grooveshark.com/. It is the best internet radio website out there. I think it will give my fav site http://www.icebergradio.com/ a run for its money.
On grooveshark you can play full albums and find any music you want and make your own playlists. And to top it off they also have full comedy albums (Mitch Hedberg and Lewis Black. Kaboom!) I'm listening to Lily Allen right now.
And don't forget my fav political website http://www.infowars.com/. And last but not least http://www.postcrossing.com/. And a shout out to my fav celebrity websites : http://www.dlisted.com/ (hilarious!) and http://www.tmz.com/.
6 plugs is good enough for me.
-Rab
On grooveshark you can play full albums and find any music you want and make your own playlists. And to top it off they also have full comedy albums (Mitch Hedberg and Lewis Black. Kaboom!) I'm listening to Lily Allen right now.
And don't forget my fav political website http://www.infowars.com/. And last but not least http://www.postcrossing.com/. And a shout out to my fav celebrity websites : http://www.dlisted.com/ (hilarious!) and http://www.tmz.com/.
6 plugs is good enough for me.
-Rab
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