3 posts tagged “daily5”

The first real test of the Toronto Raptors' season was yesterday afternoon against the Boston Celtics. To make a long story short, shooting was crap, defense was awesome, lost by 3 points within the last 3 or so seconds. TJ Ford made the miracle 3 inbounding with 7 seconds left. Ray Allen replied with his own miracle with the 3 right after that possession. We laughed, we cried. What a game.

bs angel, author of Hawty McBloggy Invites You to Play, made an internet-wide call to video game bloggers to participate in a monthly article writing extravaganza. I've been meaning to write in here more often and here's a perfect opportunity. (life is best lived in the) front row is more of a personal blog. I game occasionally and when I do, I tend to write about it here. It's not really a hardcore gaming blog like hers or, say, Destructoid or QuickJump but I try to get my opinions across as best i can. Maybe the extra traffic would be a good thing. Maybe I should hade a few articles...

btw, I started playing CS1.6 again. Why? Tee hee. There's a reason except I don't feel like sharing it. A guy can have is secrets, can't he?

daily5 here we come:
5. Weighted Companion Cube
4. 4beatgamers.com- my canvas
3. Online gaming with friends
2. Voice chat
1. Honesty

I haven't been "reading" happiness so I haven't been doing any of the exercises. I've been pretty happy recently. I can't complain. I had my reading week and did absolutely no school work. I kinda regret it but the week overall was eventful.

Here's a few pics of what's been going on...

I haz bayked a cayke

I got bored and hungry over the break and I baked a cake. It was yummy. Cinnamon Crumb Cake. It has icing on top. It looks like someone... you get the idea. I want more... o_o. That was Monday I fink.

But before that, I made a bunch of new friends on stickam with the gamer chat turned Gamers&ELBeats turned 4BeatGamers. Funny story that happened between me and one of the ppl there but you'd have to know me personally and talk to me in person if you want to hear that one. lol. I have to finish making the website. I'll be awesome... I hope.

i haz winned at habanera duble expurt

Anyway, in the week, Friday to be exact, I decided to catch up with an old friend. I went to Fairview Mall to confirm the rumor of there being an ITG machine there and whaddaya know... there was an r21 but custom songs weren't enabled. I wanted to play custom songs so I decided to head down to Putting Edge after and I made a new friend. This new friend just happened to be organizing a tourney the next day. I attended this tourney and met a whole bunch of local ITGers which was comforting. I joined the standard division and won. My FA sucks compared to the expert division but I probably should've joined the expert division... I have been playing for 6 years but I've never really worked on FA until I started ITGing and that's been less than a year. Anywho, I finally passed habanera 1 double expert. Crappy score but a PASS none the less. That was post tourney. My legs were shot post tourney too. I was sitting down behind the machine watching the expert division finish up and my left calf just KNOTS. That hurt but I got over it prett quickly... When I got home and finished showering to go to my friend's birthday dinner and right before I exit my door, my right calf KNOTS. After dinner, we went to Dave and Busters and they had a Pump Zero there. I played one round and the arcade attendants open up the machine and say "how many credits do you need?" and followed with "do you need the volume turned up or anything?" lol it was awesome. I was like a celebrity. Anyway, 4 credits in... my thighs start to knot a bit but doesn't fully flare up. It was kinda scary. My legs a better now.

I got a few packs of keyboard charts for stepmania from a friend the other day. My arms are starting to feel the burn.
I think I was meaning to write more... but I won't...

Oh shi-
The daily5.

5. Mr. Happy. (lol. Distorted Minds and Hazard. It's a drum and bass song)
4. The Toronto Raptors (winning the season opener!! WOO)
3. ITG
2. People who care
1. Seeing things in their place

Just letting you stalkers readers know, I'm still alive.

School started. The semester's going well. I love my classes except the work sucks especially after such a LAZY SUMMER. Oh well.

Started listening to Podtoid today since I had something better to do. I can't really compare it to other episodes since I just started following it, so then, podcasting in general, episode #32 was epic. If you like BioShock, rape, shitting dick nipples, and fat Japanese girls, this podcast/episode is for you.

Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment

Also, good friend, Zad, introduced me to a good book which I still have to purchase. I finished reading the first chapter. It's called "Happier" by Tal Ben-Shahar. It told me to write about 5 things that made me happy throughout the day and that I should do it daily. I've been meaning to do it. I even had a name for it... "my daily 5" except I haven't been able to implement it until now. I won't be doing it everyday though I should. *shrug* Baby steps I suppose. So I'll turn it into a bi-weekly thing. Probably Thursdays and Saturdays? That may change later on though I'm going to keep the bi-weekly thing going. Routines are good.

On with the bi-weekly 5.

5. Taking public transit
Why it makes me so happy? I don't know. Maybe its not having to drive the rest of the way to school? Maybe it's the potential of meeting someone special? Maybe it's all the hot girls? I dunno. I just like taking the bus 4 times a week.

4. Destructoid + Podtoid
As posted above, I started listening to podtoid and just destructoid articles in general. They are tres (with the little accenty thingy cuz I'm too lazy to open up character map) groovy and brutally honest.

3. Routine
Going back to school, the daily crunch, everything. I like it. I hate to admit it. I like it. Ugh. YAY. Bipolar.

2. Technology
It makes me VERY happy. I <3 my PSP, my iBook, RSS feeds, LOVE IT ALL.

1. People who talk to me
You know who you are. I'd name you but then others would get jealous and be like "how come you didn't name me you little bitch?" and I'd be like "IDK WTF GTFO!?" and then the whole e-drama snowball would roll and I'd be dead and have no friends.

0. DRAMA
I LOVE DRAMA WHEN IT'S NOT HAPPENING TO ME.

-1. The weather.
It's still very nice.

-2. Facebook Mafia.
I NEED PEOPLE TO PLAY WITH. My family sucks. LOL I said it.

OKAY. THAT WAS 8. SUE ME. I'll still tag anything with a list of happys as a daily5 in hopes that one day, it'll manifest and all will be good. There's enough bad shit going on in the world these days that a little happy reminder wouldn't hurt on a daily basis. One of the secrets of being happy is to remind yourself of what makes you happy. O RLY? YA RLY.