Summer fitness

so I finally started going to the gym today (UCSC has gym open to summer students), and ran on the treadmill for a total of 45 mins... pretty proud of myself, considering I haven't been to the gym since... since... um... anyways, yeah, after running I did some rowing on the seated rowing machine thingie to work out those arms, then gotta mat and did some stretches and then some crunches... I only did like 20 or 30 crunches and already my abs were refusing anymore, so yeah... gotta work on those abs... anyone kno of a good ab workout? I'm gonna try to go swimming and to the gym every Mon., Weds., and Thurs. before my class... hopefully by the end of summer classes I'll be in better shape, lower resting heart rate and nice(strong)flat abs... oh and maybe stronger arm muscles... that's my summer fitness goal! =P

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oh, it's on...

So the academic advising commitee has decided to approve my pre-appeal and waive my disqualification for fall... on the condition that I pass all classes in fall and meet with the academic preceptor every 3 weeks, the college preceptor once, an EOP adviser, and attend at least one academic success workshop... oh yeah, and get a tutor for my classes... boy, hope I remember to do all that... but yeah, they're also urging me to take a quarter off to get myself straightened out... but I don't think I have any time left to do that... no time, no money... wat would I do if I wasn't in school anyways... so yeah, it's on for fall...
On another note, I've gotten myself a pretty, shiny, new digi cam! as you've probably noticed from the very clear pics from a post earlier... now I can take pics of everything! yay! oh yeah, if anyone wants a copy of a pic from the sac town trip, let me know! tag me or email or aim...

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Trip to Sac Town

So the 'rents decided to take a trip all the way to Sac Town just to go to the Waterworld there, apparently it's cheaper there than Concord... anyways, we woke up pretty early to head out (around 7:30 or 8 am I couldn't remember), but yeah, we ended up being an hour late to meet up with the other families which were going too... so really it's not "filipino time" when ppl show up at least an hour later than they should, it's just "asian time" in general, cuz it always happens to us... but yeah, the drive wasn't very long at all and when we got there, the heat hit... big time! god, how could anybody inhabit such a place! A normal human could not possible function correctly in such high temperatures! so yeah, we went swimming in the "wavepool" for a bit, went down a pretty high slide thingie on a 2 person livesaver (I went on it with Cindy) and then alternated between tanning and taking a dip in the regular pool for the last hour or so... it was a pretty mellow day at a water park... or maybe I'm getting a little old for water parks... they had this huge water slide thingie called the "Cliffhanger" which looks like a regular water slide that u just sit down and slide on, except it's like 50 ft. high... maybe a younger me would've been anxious to slide down that big boy, but today... I wasn't so enthusiastic... just felt like tanning...
I think I gotta pretty alright tan, but I think I'll have to keep tanning this summer if I wanna catch up wit Julie since she's gotta head start being in Hawaii and all...


Here's Cindy looking out the window of our van as we're heading to Sac Town's Waterworld... actually I don't think she was really lookin at that car... who knows what she was really lookin at...  Posted by Hello



So there's Cindy and me, just tanning... and that latter one I just had to post, cuz Cindy's sisters got pretty bored after dinner (we ate out at her dad's work), and they decided to grab ppl unexpectedly and snap a photo of them as quickly as possible, first Jackie and Shirley practiced with each other for a bit, then Jackie told Cindy about it so she said, "let's do it" and Jackie told everyone, "Ok, act normal, pretend your eating," so Cindy started getting into it, pretending to get something from the table and BAM! Jackie grabs her by the neck and SNAP! she shot a pic! I had been prepared I soon as I saw them scheming and quickly snapped a pic of the action... and here it is... you gotta love the look on Cindy's face... just priceless... Posted by Hello

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Summer reading...

So I finally started Angels & Demons (by Dan Brown), the prequel to The Da Vinci Code... it's pretty interesting so far, since I'm only on chapter 6... should definitely read it before The Da Vinci Code if you haven't already read it all yet, I think it gives a good start, although I feel that The Da Vinci Code is a little more exciting in that the chase starts off almost rite away... but both books start you off with a mysterious murder scene to entice your curiosity and pull you into the story... making you want to know more...
All in all, there's nothing like a good mystery to keep your imagination alive through the summer...

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And she's off....

So I just sent Julie off to Hawaii today, well I didn't send her there, she wanted to go do that "cultural studies" program thingie, but yeah, dropped her off at the airport today around 3 pm... she was a little nervous about flying by herself, tho she has done it before... she was fine, just a little jittery... but yeah, I got her to start blogging about her time in Hawaii, so here it is people, Julie's blog!
Check it out!

it'll be on my links of ppl too....
i'll get her to put up a tag board so you ppl can bug her about stuff and see how she's doin over there... tell her to have fun, cuz she's still freaked out about the bugs and not having any blankets or a pillow... yeah, ask her about that...

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