Good, long day

Well I had a great day today,
I started off the day quite early, at around 8 AM. It always feels like I have so much more time if I start of the day quite early. I just got my liscence this week and so I drove to go surfing, which was loads of fun.
I then got to a nice little surfing break, it was pretty warm out, so that was obviously nice.
The waves were about shoulder-head high (measured when the surfer is standing up) and were also crowded. I caught some good ones but it wasnt that great of a session, mostly compared to my last ones which were each more amazing then the other.
After that I headed home, I got caught in traffic and decided to take a side street instead of the main big street, well I regretted this decision when I had to turn back into the main street. It took me 20 minutes to get through 2 blocks, just to get me back into some more traffic. Anyways, I got home, ate, got dressed and all that and then headed down to my girlfriend's house by bike.
Well the bike ride was nice exept my bike scares me as it needs some repairing and the chain can basically derail whenever. It was really warm outside which I also loved.
After that I saw my girlfriend and stayed with her for a couple hours, that was quite enjoyable. She then had to leave so I headed back home on my bike. I stopped at a Rite aid to pick up a drink, got a great deal on it and just sipped it while basking in the sun on a bench next to the store. I just love stopping for half an hour or so and just relaxing. After that I passed by wallgreens, got some CD-r's to put some tunes on for car rides and now I am home, just relaxing.
Mmmmmm what a good day.

A bad day turned into a good one

Well today was not such a good day to start with and then got much much better.
The morning started off slow, I did not have much fun and had a test. Then things did not improve, and today is a long day as i get off at 5. Well I finish school and check my phone to see when the bus arrives, it is one minute. I quickly run out and get stuck in the middle of the street I had to cross, if I had made it I could catch the bus.
Well normally the bus runs every 10 minutes, so I check my phone again and notice the 30 minute wait in between buses.
Now the problem is, after that much wait, the bus is bound to be full and not let me in. I decide to start walking down to get to the bridge which is far away. All along I keep track of were the bus is. Turns out the 30 minute wait would have been a 45 minute wait. Well I walked pretty far and had to chose weather to walk through a huge park to the bridge or wait 10 minutes or so for a bus. Because I had already walked about 50 minutes, I decide to walk it out and what a wonderful trip it turned out to be! The walk to the bridge was about half an hour, the park was nice, I saw a huge abandoned building, beautiful views of the bay.
Well the rest of my day went well, and overall now, when I think about my day, it feels like it was a good day.

New board!!

Here it is! A beautiful Al Merrick Flyer. This board is 6 inches shorter than my first board (this one is 6 feet).
I also wanted to explain why I bought a new board, and why I just don't keep on surfing on the other one.
Contrary to what you might think, this board is not a replacement for my old one, it is just a board that I can take out on small days, while my other board can be used for days with bigger waves.
This boards shape and width make it a board that will glide nicely on small waves and yet will deliver the performance I want.
This board is also great because it can handle bigger surf, it is made to go up to 5-6 feet waves (1 and a half overhead), so I should be fine in any surf I go into with this board.
I surfed it today and well, its a big change, I first got on and felt that the board sunk REALLY easily, I was used to being able to push up from my board and meet resistance, but here it basically sinks in.
This is good because I can duckdive (go under) waves very easily! The board did not feel much more unstable but quite responsive, I had no trouble controlling it or getting up.
Another thing I like about this board is how easy it is to catch waves on it. Paddling seemed much more efficient and useful.

the protest went well

sorry about the lack of content lately... I've been busy with work.
So the protest went well, we marched up and down streets, and crossed some nudists. Well the torch was actually rerouted to avoid a protest, which is good because it avoided violence and proved an acknowledgment of the protest.
As San Francisco is about 1/3 Asian, many people went to support the olympics, only some isolated cases of violence broke out but nothing bad.
All in all I found this protest to be pretty effective and I am glad of how it turned out.
Here is a little picture even though it does not do justice to the amount of people present:

the deed is done

Well, I dumped my girlfriend today. I am honestly pretty relieved and happy to be single again :).
Other than that its raining outside so I couldn't speed down hills anymore...
I am also in desperate need of surfing but I don't think il be surfing anytime soon... The forecast is bad.
Im sorry I don't have much more to say but my mind is pretty uninteresting right now, il post more later if I get some more inspiration.

Relaxing my mind

Well I found a great way to relax my mind after a long day of work. Basically I enjoy walking up a hill with my skateboard just to go right down it at high speeds.
Coming up is always nice and relaxing, theres not much to think about, its great! But going down is even better. First of all its a little reward after that long uphill, but after its just exhilarating. Its intense because i feel the board wobbling under me every now and then, i have to watch the cracks in the road, have to watch for people and cars and i have to watch out for myself!
The problem is my only way of stopping is basically jumping off infront of the board and catching it when it rolls back down.
Simply going down a steep part to head onto a turn is exhilarating, and at a moment I get alot of speed before going on a long flat section which is pretty scary but also so rewarding and it just gets all the energy out of me.
Now i really want to buy a longboard, I have no clue what kind of board to buy so help is always appreciated

Well heres the daily comic before i go:

good things have happened

Well, I am quite happy of my day (except for the 3 hours of French that is). I found it to be completely unproductive work wise, but relationship wise, it cheered me up. As weird as this may sound, but I am quite happy that I managed to make my girlfriend happy (shouldn't I be doing that everyday?).

It was just joking around on the way and in sports class, but I think it meant a lot and also, helped me see that she still loves me. I also found a solution to my problem of me and my girlfriend arguing to much. I thought it would be best to simply stay with friends during class and be together more at lunch or after school. I hope it will bring me back closer to friends and make me appreciate my girlfriend more and be with her in majority during good times instead of bad.

This might sound random but it sprung to my mind. I just love how curious my girlfriend is about what I'm doing and what I'm thinking (the latter is not always true, but still!). Not only does it let me ramble on about what I find interesting but it also shows that she is interested in me (yay!).

Well, with the good comes the bad (or the good?):
I've noticed that I have very little to no problems compared to a lot of people around me... The weird thing is I don't feel fortunate, but i feel somewhat different and trivial, as if nothing really important happened in my life. Its a really weird feeling because I am happy I don't have problems but at the same time it makes me feel trivial and simply bad. Ive noticed that I already wrote about this but its stuck on my mind.

Well my mind is now blank and ready to move on to something else, thanks for reading!
Well my mind moved onto the daily comic:

What an eventfull day!

Well yesterday was filled with drama, pain and happiness.
Time for a little recap:

First thing in the morning I go to my friends house for us to film for our biking movie. At his house i get some much needed parts for my bike for free (two new tires, one new wheel, and a brake lever). We then go ride at the local skate park and a grandpa was taking pictures of us and the kids were amazed by some of my friends.

We then head out to some dirt jumps, my friend falls and rips a chunk out of his chin. I then bike home (one hour ride in hills) and relax for a bit.

I then leave for a party, pick up my friend and my girlfriend and just when we were going to take the exit onto the freeway, a guy on a bike falls right in front of us, breaking his arm.
We then park the car to make traffic avoid him, call 911 and make him confortable. About 4 minutes later, a Marine comes with medical equipment and starts to take care of the man. A couple minutes later, ambulances come. We leave our spot to the ambulance and head out to the party.

Next comes drama!
Well, my friend (if you remember this post: http://cokeandmenthos.blogspot.com/2008/03/dazed-and-confused.html, its about the same two guys)
loved this girl, and now he says he is over her but he still has feelings for her. The girl likes my other friend, and well, they ended up going out.
This was problematic because one friend was somewhat "stealing" (even though not really) my other friends girlfriend. We told the guy who didnt know and he seemed to be ok with it.
The party kept on going, my girlfriend had some troubles as well as my friend which made me feel really bad. I just felt as if my life was too good and as if i did not have enough problems... I try to make up for that by helping people with their problems, a lot of people call me their psychologist :P.
Well the rest of the party was fun and i came home this morning just to do homework! Yay???

I wont forget the daily comic, no worries:

happiness

well i got 720 on my SAT for math, placing me in the 96th percentile!! I am honestly quite happy and impressed with myself.
Me and my group also passed for our TPE (huge project we present) and did quite well (the people ask questions after), but we don't get grades til june 30th...
Other then that after passing, we got 4 free hours which was relaxing as I don't recall having had that much free time in quite a while.
I have also been thinking about my futur, wondering what kind of job I will be doing. I used to think research in chemistry, but now im leaning towards biology. Any advice on both professions is greatly appreciated!!!
Well comic of the day here i come:

Back from skiing!

Well i had a great one day snowboard trip up at Tahoe. I was so excited and happy to be on the slopes that my first run led to me face planting with a considerable amount of speed. My friend slammed into a 300 pound Swedish dude but it was still awesome.
Also im happy because i can now 360 (on the ground) smoothly. I still can't jump though, but hey! It was great.
I also took my girlfriend up snowboarding for the first time. I had a blast teaching her but then she had to go take a lesson and I never saw her progress...
She had a fantastic time, the whole bus ride back she was talking to me about how great it was! That made me hella happy cause its a sport we both love and she will soon become better!!
I also finally got some sleep!! I was so tired because i had only slept 4 hours the night before snowboarding that at 10:30, i basically passed out on my bed and slept for 12 hours. Yet i'm still sleepy now!!
Well here is the comic of the post:

still sleepy but happy

Well today was a good day, or so it seems.
Its wierd because none of my classes were particularly fun or interesting, but today just seemed fun.
The littlest things make me happy.
Well today i found a sweet program called Evernote, it basically allows me to makes notes from pictures or text from everywhere (any computer, my phone) and to retrieve them from the same place. It is in private beta so you must ask for an invitation or wait a while.
Well the concert came to my head and ive been listening to linkin park non stop, and now I have a live version of the songs, brings back memories!!
Well I hope everyone is having a nice week!