\icu

\i slept at tyler's house, it was great, then we went and got vegan organic lunch at this place called monks foods in kichijouji. then i came and hung out at 2nd mens dorm at \icu and slept at pain sol's dorm room. it was him and me and his roomate and his roomates female friend, the 4 of us, it was quite fun.
tomorrow i fly to bangkok, and it looks like i mite have an apartment lined up.. more details and pics to come later.

Started asia trip - but in Japan

So my flight from Columbus was delayed.
In columbus I met a Chinese friend from badminton... A few weeks ago He had told me he is going to Taiwan on february 19th , and I said I was going on the 20th. But it turns out his flight on the 19th got delayed till the 20th. So we were on the same flight together from CMH to Chicago and Chicago to Tokyo. Actualy as it turns out He also went to upper arlington high school and was in chess club. We knew eachother there apparently, but didn:t really talk much. Anyway it was cool to see him on the plane. Anyway since the CMh to chicago flight was delayed, I missed my connecting flight in chicago to tokyo, so I took the next flight an hour and a half later. So then when I got to tokyo, I missed my conencting flight to Bangkok. So I decided to stay 5 or 6 days in Tokyo to visit old friends. So I go to bangkok on the 26th, and for nwo i:m at my old school ICU hanging out.

That is a whole story in itself. So I arrived at ICU 4 days unshaven, and kinda dirty, so I went to a 100 yen shop (like a dolar store in usa) and obtained a disposable razor/shaving cream set. I took the train, and then bus to ICU university. I immediately went to the *abandoned bicycles* section. They are bikes that are left on campus for so long abandoned, that the university gathers them and puts them in this one area and then eventualy throws them away. When me and evan and Yuko where there there were probbaly 30 bikes or so. But this time there were only 10. So 10 bikes, of those. probably 6 were locked with a key thing that I couldn:t break, one was locked with a number keypad that i could probably crack in a couple hours, by brute force of 0001 0002 0003 0004 0005 etc. So aprox 3 other bikes didn:t have locks. Of those 3 bikes, 1 had no chain. So 2 other bikes, one had two flat tires, and one had 1 flat tire. So I took the one with 1 flat tire, and rode it over to my old classroom building. There I went into the handicapped bathroom, locked it, and shaved, washed my face, changed into badminton clothes,and headed over to the gym.

As my luck had it, badminton was in progress, and coinciedentaly it was the *OB reunion day* OB = old boy = anyone who used to be in the club but has now graduated or moved on. So I am an OB, and lots of my old friends were there. So I entered the OB tournament, which was really fun and played with all my friends, and I have improved a lot at badminton since ICU 2006!. after that I asked the clubpresident my good friend *asami kun* if he could help me pump up the flat tire, (i was just hoping it needed air). So he produced a pump in about 60 seconds, and together we pumped it up. It held air. So then after badminton everyne rode to the nearest train station area, for *nomikai* which is group drinking party. We ate japanese food, and drank crappy japanese alchohol, and had fun. I have some pics which I will load later cus i dont know how to on this comp. Anyway, it was a fun feeling riding with all the badminton friends from ICU to the train station, after having no intention of spending time in japan, and being able to play badminton with all my friends, dumpster a working bicycle, and now goin to drink and socialize with them, when I had intended in being asleep in some youth hostel in bangkok lol. Oh by the way, because I was so busy playing badminton and hanging out, I am already on a Japanese sleep schedule, no jet lag.

Also my flight from chicago to Tokyo was so empty that I laid down in my row of 5 seats, all to myself. Slept most of the way.
At the nomikai i borrowed a friends cell phone and emailed Tyler, and tam. Tyler let me crash at his place, and we had fun talking and drinking. Today Tyler and I are gonna go get some lunch at Monk]s foods, a vegan organic restaruant in Kichijouji.

ok. There is also soccer practice at 4pm which I might go to.

shoulder

yup, doc said it's seperated. ice ice ice he said.

i'm not ready yet to go to asia.

stuff

yesterday i didn't buy hornsby's hard cider 7.99
also didn't buy mad mex burrito 5.50.

donate both of those to charity.

also won 80 dollars playing poker.

have a ton to pack
have to clean out my room

mom is lending me her digicam
i'm exhasuted.

oh yeah i injured my shoulder while playing soccer yesterday. I'm going to the froctor "free doctor" today at OSU to see what's up, i think i seperated it, we'll see.

i'm gonna take a nap.

Preparing for Asia

I leave in 3 days.
I haven't done any prep yet.

I have been sinus infection lately.
I played badminton rpac today.
I had dinner with family.
I will go play badminton rpac again.
and swim.

i Will fly into bangkok leaving wednesday, and arriving thursday at 1155 pm.
i ordered vegan meal.

i am taking 1 backpack, and am undecided on laptop.
I had my worst month at poker in a year and a half last month. I only made 1200 dollars or so.

yesterday was OK.
i played a bunch of soccer and stretched and it ws good, but i also played a bunch of live poker, and ended up winning around 12 dollars, which was super dumb.

today i have done chem homework, went to RPAC with ben, and ate some good food.
there is a show tonight i might go to.

oh yeah i won around 300 dollars playin poker in about 90 minutes

today was a good day.
i went to class, ate lunch with mommy, won around 1050 dollars playing poker, we had a fun show at our house, i helped jimmy cook a little, and i got a bunch of chores done.

somehow i got my passion back
it's great
i do fun stuff all day, and stay active

i have done my list everyday now for 3 days. pushups situps brushing teeeth, excerc ise stretching, etc.

i can do this

i had a productive day.. went to RPAC I dumpstered, i bought a car, and taught ben some poker.
i'm gonan do my list then go to bed
i have class in 8 hours

i meant, i should make a list of thigns that i should do, and then do them, and then this will make my life better.

i think it's a good idea.

also i feel like making it public will encourage me to do them more so here goes a few more

these aren't daily, but things i will work at doing more

reading.
watching documentaries
making new friends
riding bicycle
(which means get a bike soon)
cook more (me learning to be the lead cook too, instead of ben)
stretch
yoga
meditate
eat healthier
spend more money on things i want to support.
resspond to people's emails.
keep up with my notebook i made for myself with todo lists for the day in it.

i will say more when i think of them.

i finally care again, for some reason.
i'm gonan grab it, hold onto it and do it forever.

today i did well at poker, went to school, played soccer, hung out with friends, ate good food, did everything on my list.
basically best day ever.

from now on everyday will be up there as best day ever

fuck the government

i figured out how to make my life better and then mnade a list of things taht i should do daily

situps.
pushups
brush teeth twice
handstands
some kind of cardio (badminton, swimming, soccer, running etc.)
clean my room if it's messy
clean my car if it's messy
write in this blog.

today was a great day and i was in the best mood in weeks.
it was really warm.
i went to class, it was OK, and I know I can get an A.
I played soccer, I did average, but it was good excercise and fun.

tomorrow me and ben are gonna go to cleveland to buy a car, so i'm gonna go to bed early tonight. i'm gonna do my list and then go to sleep.

i've been going to bed earlier.
I made around 800 dollars at poker today, it was a great day.
yesterday i was up 900 dollars and then ended losing 700 dollars so a 1600 dollar down swing which sucked. but now i'm back up...

this writing in a blog is pretty fun.
anyway off to do "list" before bed.

quick lunch with mom

Made a dumpster meal.

Ingredients.

Dumpstered organic bell pepper.
Dumpstered organic onion.
Dumpstered organic tortillas.
Dumpstered vegetarian sausage.
Dumpster cage free eggs.
Dumpstered olive oil.
Dumpsterdd sea salt.
Dumpstered pepper.

Direct Cost: $0
Indirect Cost: gas to get to the dumpster, gas to use the stove, water to wash dishes. (probably also others i can't think of)

in canada

today we go to saint catherines to hang out with jarred.

I'm in Canada

Toronto to be specific.