EXTREME and the TONGDAK KING....

its always an awesome weekend when you get to hang out with straight up shawwtiies....seriously, straight up 4 feet eleven inches and three quarters shorty....=), thank you esther for inviting me on the s.pole ski jam...being that i know nothing about south pole's corporate gossip and politics, i can naively say that if i am so fortunate enough  to get another snowboard invite i'd deem this place the company to work for in the future....a gathering of 25-29 year olds, playing hoookey on friday to get a headstart on the boarding season...HOLLA!

my experiment of me not telling anyone that i was chinese didn't really work out so well due to the fact that i ended up bandwagoning on the fobbiest of all boarding trips, i even wish it to be a 1.5 trip...but man.....they spoke 99% korean...and 1% of the time they spoke engrish was only to respond to me....and i must add in how interesting it is to see stereotypical patriarchal korean gender roles smak you in the face on these trips -- females instinctively migrate towards the kitchen to defrost the samgyupsul, put the plastic soju bottles in the fridge, start up the la myun, and work on the odeng guk (WHICH WAS ABSOLUTELY TIGHTBANGIN SON) -- and of course korean males being known as the palsy's of the culinary world diligently unload the groceries and open a beer whilst turning on sportscenter....to be honest, this is probably the norm throughout most of the world just because it is, but since the stereotypes are so evident it's hard not to just stick to the nationality comparison...

in comparison to US...3 chinks, 1 flip-gook and 1 alphamalemormon gook plus the girls, u'd find all boys in the kitchen pre and post meals whilst the women hop around shaking the salad bowl pretending they were dancing....different eh?...one more thing, is there this ridiculously subtle tradition amongst koreans where people must say "NO" to alcohol 3x before agreeing to a shot being poured?...can't they just say YES the first time if they know they are going to say "yes" eventually??...everyone needs to take a page from CHOMO and VIXSTAR...let chomo do the pouring for everyone..and let victor say "DOWN IT BITCHES"

**i destroyed my newly waxed board on trails that shouldn't have even been open...effing rocks....but THIS WEEKEND SHOULD BE AWESOME**

soju shits in ski lodges are the worst...

there was a lot of 2 handed pouring and 2 handed shot receiving

and we had the next best thing to BOXED WINE....

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EXTREME

we never do anything on sundays but even just lounging around the frat house recovering and recapping from the previous 5 days of drinking burns enough calories to cause severe face cramps from all the laughter....but on this particular sunday we actually decided to make an outdooors cameo and you could only imagine the craziness that ensued....

after napping in and out most of the day and celebrating a giants victory hunger caused me, the master chef of the apt to muster up some kind of concotion from the leftover 70 dollars worth of drunken food shopping from the end of last night (for the record i did not go to after hours party)....suping up the the joanne huang crescent rolls and cream cheese recipie i made the night before, i decided to try peanut butter/creamcheese, chilli relish/cream cheese, jelly/cream cheese for the 2nd cylinder...pretty damn good alongside some kettle coooked honey dijon chips...ok ok ...moving on..

we got some BR friends and family discount cards and made the trek up to the soho store around 7 -- and being that we were already out and facing the cold, we decided it might be a good idea to watch "first descent" and for some reason, hoan gets all excited for the movie and pulls out my snowboarding helmet from the trunk and we decide to dress up in character for the movie ala storm troopers for star wars....so we actually head downtown after dinner in chinatown to pick up hoans helmet and goggles and then back uptown to the un. sq. theater, and picking up donna somewhere in the middle just to watch the movie.....everything from that point on was "EXTREME"

mountain dew has new spokespersons....(i think donna was really embarrassed to be walking next to us...but no matter, as she ran forward to pretend she didnt know us, we ran to catch up then yelled "EXTREME" in her face)

since they call me a horse, they caught me sitting right in front a horse statue...

viet superstar....

shredding up 13st and 4th ave....GNARLY MAN!

getting popcorn thrown at your head ain't so bad when you're wearing a helmet and goggles

EXTREME!

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are you one of those people that believe you can do anything and everything?  do you think you can put your mind to anything and just about accomplish any feat...physically, mentally, chronically, it's not just about the confidence you have in yourself to do it, but the discipline to do the impossible feats that may naturally go against your own abilities....do you believe in yourself wholly to do anything and rather than doing things to prove to yourself to do it, do you see things that other people do that are just flat out COOOL that you want will fully delve yourself into to do?  i'd have to admit that my competitive edge forces me wayy over the edge sometimes to the point where i'd consider myself christian bale in american psycho...if he has it i want it and i'll find some legitimate way to get it -- if he can do it, well then so can i, to a certain extent -- if she accomplished this, then so will i -- this flaw transcends beyond its initial emotion of "wutta psycho" and to the point where you the individual forgets to focus on what you want but rather constantly competing with what everyone else has....i've wavered the lines of this and it hasn't come to the point where i needed to "soul search" -- i hate that phrase -- and realized NO...i have not ventured to the wrong end of the spectrum....and to qualify this publicly i've only pushed my competitive interests in areas where i am interested in myself...and jealousy and envy have only been internal enough to force upon the discipline to achieve such feats....so in that sense, i've harnessed and channelled the negative weakness energy towards a PLUS...yeehaw...i've "epiphanized". ..hahahh.a."relevated"....is that how new words start?....i'm destined for something big dammnit!

"wutta crock of sh*t"

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TONGDAK!

if you didn't know hoan was a dude, wouldn't you just think this is a picture of 3 girls?

the white castle reunion....now that i think of it...our transvestite story at white castle freshmen year far surpasses HAROLD AND KUMAR...i'm sure with some decent script writing....we could entertain the masses a bit more....probably a bit more homo-erotic as well....i can't believe hobie denies his hickey from the he/she!!

 

happy birthday jenny...

take 1 - "your eyes are closed" says larry

take 2 - "oh...you just have small eyes".....

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...an email from esther

Those who drink in moderation may have a significantly lower risk of
obesity, suggests a new study published online in the journal BMC
Public Health.

The study found that those who drank one or two drinks a day had a
significant lower risk of obesity compared to the non-drinkers while
heavy drinkers and binge drinkers are at a higher risk.

In the study, a drink is defined as a 12-oz beer, 1 4-oz glass of
wine, or an ounce of liquor.

For the study, Ahmed A Arif from Texas Tech University Health Sciences
Center and James E Rohrer from Mayo Clinic Family Medicine Program
analyzed data from 8,236 NON-SMOKING respondents who participated in
the Third National health and Nutrition AnExamination Survey.





The drinking habits were surveyed and body mass indexes were measured.
The study was to explore "association between obesity and alcohol
consumption in the non-smoking U.S. adult population."

The researchers found "the odds of obesity among current drinkers were
0.73 times lower than the odds among non-drinkers. Significantly
greater odds of overweight and obesity were observed among those
engaged in binge drinking."

"Similarly, those who reported drinking four or more drinks per day
had 30 percent greater odds of being overweight and 46 percent greater
odds of obesity," the authors wrote in their article. "However
respondents who reported drinking one or two drinks /day had
significantly lower odds of obesity."

It should be remembered that the subjects involved in the study are
NON-SMOKERS. "Our study was limited to persons who never smoked; hence
findings are not generalized to smokers or past smokers." Most of
mainstream news media failed to acknowledge this, which is not
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lightly or in moderation is the cause of the relatively lower risk of
overweight or obesity. The authors acknowledged that "the accuracy of
self-reporting of alcohol consumption is subject to debate."

It is unknown why there is such an association between drinking
alcohol and lower risk of obesity. No previous studies indicate that
there is supposed to be such an association. On the contrary,
"Alcohol, which is the second most energy dense macronutrient
consumed, is known to reduce oxidation of fat and favors storage which
may result in weight gain," the authors wrote.

Some suspect that the lifestyle of those who drank lightly or in
moderation makes a difference. It is also possible that some of the
non-drinkers in the study might actually be heavy drinkers who
happened to have quit drinking.

"Actively promoting moderate use of alcohol as a strategy to combat
obesity would be inappropriate at this stage of our understanding
about the underlying mechanisms that link alcohol use with weight
control," authors auctioned. "Furthermore, it should be noted that the
data give no evidence to advise non-drinkers to start drinking alcohol
just for reducing body weight.

However, the current study indicates that light-to-moderate drinking
does not seem to increase weight gain.

Still, the results are applicable to the study population only. It
does not necessarily work for any particular individual.

Heavy drinking has been linked to a higher risk of obesity. A recent
University of Washington study published in the Journal of Studies on
Alcohol has found that people who began binge drinking at age 13 and
continued throughout adolescence were nearly four times as likely to
be overweight or obese.

According to t he American Heart Association (AHA), drinking too much

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drinking. If you have been drinking, drink in moderation, which means
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sudden cardiac death.

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drinking. If you have been drinking, drink in moderation, which means
one to two drinks per day for men and one drink per day for women. The
AHA defines a drink as one 12 oz. beer, 4 oz. of wine, 1.5 oz. of
80-proof spirits (liquor), or 1 oz. of 100-proof spirits (liquor).

Drinking alcohol can be a risky business particularly for those who
are incapable of digesting alcohol quickly. In those people, the
damage can be substantial.