Worktime hilarity

So the funniest/most awkward thing happened at work yesterday. My boss decided to show mine and Nila's concept video during the HR meeting. Needless to say I was a bit embarrassed because I don't feel I'm ready to be put in the spotlight. To top things off at the social where everyone takes a break to have beer, one of the older women that works in the Payroll division asked me if I'll be doing some dancing for the social and while I'm at it I should take my shirt off. Haha she's quite the joker and she's an older columbian lady that is still in pretty good shape but I stil think that may be sexual harrasment? haha I dunno but it was quite the awkward situation where the only thing to do ws laugh awkwardly.

Your harshest critics are some of your greatest teachers.

Notorious BIG- Nasty Boy [Original]

Finally figured out the track. The choreo was to Biggie's first verse.

Just took a Lenny Len class downtown. It was alright. He taught pretty fast but you get use to it. The only thing is now my back hurts. There's a lot of core movement. Once I find out the biggie track I'll post it

Everyone has a breaking point. There's only a finite number of times you'll get shafted before you realize you need to put your guard up and react. ... this zen thing isn't working as well as I would hope.

Hadouken! - Evil

Sometimes all you need is an open ear.

Tupac Lives haha

Flying home!

Found this great song while listening to another great song. Can't wait to put this in my phone and listen to it while at the airport. hahaha. Exams done. Not sure how they went yet, we'll know for sure when grades get posted.

I can't wait to come home.

Toilet Epiphanies.

While taking a dump today I came across a thought. The meaning of life is to experience things. It's about the end of a journey its about the journey itself. So the meaning of life is to live and experience things. Anything that stops you or others from experiencing life is against life. Inevitably life does end but it should be by natural decay. But there are also things that seem to be against life but are really only hurdles that make you stronger after you overcome them. When things get stronger and expand then it creates new opportunities on how to experience life and this cycle goes on.

There is no reason not to live life and not experience things. Because if you cease to exist then you cease to exist and it becomes a constant that has no reason to exist. So enjoy life because there will always be something new to learn and explore.

Random I know. The things you think about while on the toilet hahaha.
Peace.

This zen this is difficult. It's hard to understand and respect someone if they cannot do the same. “Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile.” ~Thich Nhat Hahn

Song Spam

Jagged Edge - Lets Get Married (Remix) feat. JD

Ahh shiet. Heard this on the radio. Way back playback.

Just a quick note for you guys. Do not miss out on 8 hours of sleep. It ruins your cognitive functioning, your health and it especially gives you mood swings.  Today I found myself happy, then hungry, then mad and finally sad. That can't be right haha there was definitely some sort of imbalance.

I take that back. That was the longest day of work and I felt braindead. probably won't be doing that again.

Whoa running on two hours of sleep. YOLO hahaha

Exam inspirations

I was looking on youtube for that epic Immortals pump up scene. Too bad it's not up yet. Haha would have been perfect for exam time.

Best of luck guys. Haha

Was thinking about dance lately and what it means to me. Sometimes I'm so conflicted because I really enjoy it but there are times where I completely withdraw from it. I don't know why but I always seem to have such an extreme attitude/stance towards it. I know you guys (Mike/Paul) have noticed it too haha. I just want to find that happy medium in life.

Also sidenote: Street/Urban Dance was originally a dance to break the bounds of dance and bring it back to the people and to the roots. Who is anyone to say where one urban dance style ends and another begins. Dance is free expression and even more so in urban dance. The only requirement is urban music. So this goes out to all the haters, which I may have been at times in the past, stop trying to define something that doesn't need to be defined and just DANCE.

Good Ideas

Joe Gebbia: The Airbnb Story from Piers Fawkes on Vimeo. Watched this video and a couple others from the guy who posted this one. It shows us that businesses can come from such small opportunities you just need to take advantage of that opportunity when it becomes available to you. This one and many other videos speak of creativity as a catalyst for change, motivated for the need of money, food, shelter and survival. Watching these videos has begun to inspire me because it makes starting your own business seem like a more viable alternative to working for some corporation that usually shows little to no means of instant verification or quantifiable feedback.

"You’re going to die and any illusion of happiness you may feel while in this life will be fleeting and short lived and eventually the crushing reality of losing what you had will destroy you and you will die alone and your genetic line will eventually be diluted and lost and any trace of you that ever was will dissipate and dissolve past a subatomic level until not even your atoms are left and all of this will happen in a relatively short amount of time and you will not leave one singular trace or impact on this whole world" - Anonymous

Read this today and I beg to differ.

Saturday Morning Reading

I'm Christian, Unless you're gay. This post is a must read article. It puts into words some of my views of religion and people these days. So many people blindly follow the doctrines of their faith and forget that they need to challenge their own faith in order to find the pure essences of it. I don't usually get philosophical but this post just hit all the right notes and talks about something that's close to me because I've witnessed this first hand and it makes me sad. So I encourage anyone reading this to open their minds and understand the message of this post. And I agree that some parts of it may weaken the argument but again try to understand the main message.

Awkward.....

Damnit. Why am I still so awkward? First, I engage in a conversation only to end off awkwardly by grabbing food after a period of silence. And I'm pretty sure I unknowingly insulted the other people. Secondly, I still find it difficult to talk to the pretty girl I work with and when given the opportunity I just walked by her without saying hi. WHAT'S WRONG WITH ME! Gahh no wonder I enjoy dance. To me it's an easier form of physical expression then the complex use of words. FML.

“Coming back [to America] after seven months in Indian villages, I saw the craziness of the Western world as well as its capacity for rational thought. If you just sit and observe, you will see how restless your mind is. If you try to calm it, it only makes it worse, but over time, it does calm, and when it does, there’s room to hear more subtle things -- that’s when your intuition starts to blossom and you start to see things more clearly and be in the present more. Your mind just slows down, and you see a tremendous expanse in the moment. You see so much more than you could see before. It’s a discipline; you have to practice it.” - Steve Jobs

UWHH Ren Nila Collabo

While editing that last video, I forgot that I had this still in my iMovie. This is before we finished the whole piece for Love & Truth.

UWHH RainHeart

So Earth Hour messed up my sleeping schedule and I was up from 2AM to 7AM. And what did I do instead of sleep... you guessed it, watched old dance videos and edit this video (pretty haphazardly though).