Carlos Mencia as Sean Paul

Funny Carlos Mencia

The Who were awesome!!!

The Who concert was one of the best ones I have been too and I have been to a lot of concerts from U2 to Pearl Jam to Green Day to Bob Dylan. 'Baba O'Riley' and 'Won't get fooled again' were exactly as I imagined it as a kid listening to Who's Next on my dinky little CD player. They played a lot of songs from their new album as well. It was awesome to hear 'pinball wizard' and have the visual of Pete Townshend doing the windmill.

Dove

http://www.campaignforrealbeauty.com/

This commercial by Dove illustrates the fact that the billboards we see are a fantasy...a lie, not even the models look like this really. This is must view for all young girls self conscious about themselves.

The Who - Who Are You

Going to see The Who tonight (11/08/06) at the HP Pavillion in San Jose with Marsha. Should be awesome!!!!

Newfoundland Tourism Video 3

Newfoundland Tourism Video 2

Nicely done video celebrating Newfoundland

Krav Maga

Cool Demonstration of Krav Maga I found on YouTube.

Buying a House

So it is up to us to sign the counter offer on the Townhouse that made an offer on today. So tomorrow morning we are going to see the realtor and finalize the deal!!!

Taking the Plunge

Made an offer on a property today in Santa Clara. Hopefully it gets accepted.

Nissan X-Trail - Bonavista

Funny Commercial.

Buying a Townhouse!

It looks like we may be buying a townhouse in Santa Clara, CA if all goes well. It all started when we took a course at De Anza College a couple of Saturday's ago titled "Buying your first home in the silicon valley market". It just so happens that the instructor is also a realtor and the other instructor a loan (mortgage) broker. We ended up meeting with Gene, the Realtor and he showed us an amazing townhouse. We looked at a few others in person and many online but the very first one we saw blew the others away. Today we took it a step further and went to see the loan broker Sam and it looks like we will be able to get the funding we need. I don't want to put up any pictures of the place in case the deal falls through and since we have not even made an offer yet. Will keep you posted.

Krav Maga

Krav Maga: "contact combat") is a self-defense and military hand to hand combat system developed in Israel. It came to prominence following its adoption by various Israeli Security Forces and is now used by military and law enforcement personnel, as well as civilians, around the world. The version of Krav Maga taught in civilian martial arts classes is more often a simplified version that emphasizes personal self-defense, and is likely to exclude the killing techniques taught to the military, or the holds and come-alongs taught to police forces; there are legal proscriptions in some countries which govern and constrain the teaching of hazardous or life-threatening techniques to civilians.

click here for more

I am attempting to take my orange belt on November 18th, it is 5 hours long approximately with the first 4 hours simply to exhaust you and the last hour or so for testing. I must be crazy!!!!

I am also picking up escrima now as well which takes a lot of concentration and hand eye coordination.

Eskrima or Escrima refers to a class of Filipino Martial Arts that emphasize stick and sword fighting. Other terms which have entered into common usage include Kali and Arnis de Mano (harness of the hand); occasionally the abbreviation FMA (Filipino Martial Arts) is used. Eskrima and Arnis are among the many names primarily used in the Philippines today to refer to these arts. The name Kali, although primarily used in the United States and Europe, is seldom used in the Philippines and in most cases is an unknown word. But due to the popularity of the term outside of the Philippines and the influence of foreign practitioners, the term Kali is increasingly being recognized and accepted in the Philippines. Kalis, as used in the Philippines, refers to a sword. It is commonly mistaken as synonymous to or a derivative form of kali (note: postfixing of "s" is not used in Filipino languages or dialects to indicate plurality). However, for all intents and purposes, Eskrima, Arnis, Arnis de Mano, Kali and FMA all refer to the same family of Filipino weapons-based martial arts.

Went to a wedding

Went to a wedding in Dublin (not Ireland, but CA) on Saturday here are some pics. Marsha's friend from work, Lisa got married to Ryan.

more pics here

Anderson resevoir

Went to Anderson Reservoir last week. It is just south of San Jose in Morgan Hill. Pretty big lake I did not know even existed. You can have your dog there with you, you can fish and boat and there is a fast moving stream nearby for your dog to swim in. Click here for more pics.

CDT

Finished CDT today, very painful course. To find out more about it click here

Camping for my Birthday

So we decided to get out of the city and go camping for my 30th birthday. As usual Marsha did all the research and I said 'yes' and we ended up going to 127 miles east to Pinecrest, CA to camp on the lake (Pinecrest Lake). It was a nice park in the Stanislaus National Forest not too far from Yosemite National Park. There were about 200 campsites and a lake stocked with 3500 rainbow and brown trout every year (but we did not manage to catch one). Anyway it was great, I turned 30 in a tent listening to neighbor's pet hawk sqawk (who takes a pet hawk camping anyway???). Before coming home today we also checked out Beardsly Resevoir which is a much bigger lake, less people, very quiet but not services and it is 10 miles just to get up to the main road to the lake and another 10- 15 to any services. For more pics of our trip CLICK HERE

What's Up

Going camping tomorrow at Beardsly Resevoir (at least trying to as it may be full- only 26 campsites). If not there then somewhere in the Lake Tahoe area.

Bought tickets to go see The Who today as well! That should be a good show and it is in San Jose so it is close.

Nico Swimming at Niles Park in Fremont Aug 2006

Fremont (Niles Community Park)

Canada Day Picnic

So I am going to the annual Canada Day picnic today in Woodside, CA. I have been wanting to go to this for 3 years now and this year I was able to get the day off. Also Canada Day, falls on a Saturday this year so it actually is Canada Day on the day of the picnic. Usually, these guys have it on the Saturday closest to the day as it is not a holiday here, obviously.

BFD

Went to BFD yesterday. It was a cool show. It started at noon but we did not make it there until 5pm. It was over at midnight. The strokes were the best part of the show as well as Franz Ferdinand. AFI was the headliner, they are okay but the lead singer screams too damn much or maybe I am getting too old. Echo and the Bunnyman sucked. I am not even sure why they were there. They were apparently pissed that they got moved down from second last to play to second to play on the main stage.