Well, I think I've overcomed the whole deception of me not going to the Otakufest 2008... yes, I guess a year might go by really fast but I would have liked to get back into the community aspect of Anime, Manga and TCG (Trading Card Game) or at least observe very passively. =D I guess theirs nothing else to do but to wait.
Well I've been playing for a few weeks now that beautiful game known as Basketball. I don't know I can basically play whatever I want... I guess I'm lucky I'm physically capable to perform in those type of activities and perfomr good! It's just that Basketball is like a very complete sport to me. You run up and down a field just like soccer, you need as much coordination hand to eye as person to person as in any other team sport. Then theirs the whole multitasking part I like. Say I'm making the 1-2 step jump and in mid air I can't make the shot, I can still use the momentum to look around and pass the ball and all done in fraction of second before you hit the ground, then you have to think while dribbling the ball and looking around and calculation if theirs an opening to get in to and then planning a play with your teammate by just looking at each other or just nodding in a certain direction. Last my favorite thing are all the funny stuff that only happen on a court, all other sport are so serious at times, but form time to time some one will get ticked off and kick the ball or jump out of the court into the public stands or just basically ice skate through the court when theirs like dust or water on it... also cause I play so hard and long my Nike's sole have like detached themselves from the rest of shoe like 3 times now... I was playing very hard and when I was like by the 2nd quarter I was wondering why I was slipping so much when my right foot touched the ground and when I out of curiousity looked down I realized the friggin sole had fallen off. :lol:
Anywho, yeah I'm playing at some like-mulit courts (indoor soccer, basketball, volleyball, whatever else) near the airport. Besides the courts they are constructing apparently some like pools for some sort of recreation or if people want to go in to swim (I really don't know),and besides that they've constructed and finished a skatepark (which I have celpics of and will post later on). Apparently that place was like really ghetto, like up to two years ago, and from then they've started to invest and clean up the place more since they finally realized that when tourists come to the country, that's the first place they look at and it gives the country a bad first impressio.
The court, skatepark and future pools are next (very very very literally!) to a river. Don't worry! Its not a river surrounded by soil earth but it's a rock formation that surrounds the course of the river. What's wrong with that river is that it has a very public fame by being basically a dumpster to many neighbors of it, so when you cross the river by the small bridge on top of it... Man! IT STANKS!! Its weird because if your next to the river it doesn't stink, just when your on top of it... weird. Or atleast when the team plays, it doesn't even smell weird. Lucky us, I guess. :?
I can't say that the location where the courts are located are exactly safe yet, specially because from the courts up to where I walk to take my bus home (8 city blocks) is next to the river and if someone killed you there, nobody would even notice. It's kinda Silent Hill empty near the river :?, I would film it but I kinda think someone will try to jump me for the camera... just wait till I have some cash and get one of them celphones that also record video. When walking with a teammate, who leaves at a block from where I take my bus, we have look around from time to time cause since it's still not Winter around here, the river is basically dry so people who like to smoke crakc or glue like to go by the dryed up river shores to smoke that sh!t. When its Winter though, that river looks like a friggin controlled tsunami is going by 24/7, and the shores become the streets overlooking the river, hence getting rid of those people until Spring comes back again.
Well getting back to the topic at hand... my body still has to get the physical resistance I had back when I was traning on in a team during my high school years. Ok, you can have muscle and overall look good but you can't let your physical resistance down cause other wise you may look like The Hulk but you won't be able to run half a block before gasping like you're having some sort of chronic asma attack. Very important to do activities where your heart get excersice i.e. jogging, running, jump rope, jumping jakcs, soccer, basketball, baseball, basically sports although I don't know if golf counts as a physical activity :?. So that's what was happening to me, I have broad shoulder from doing pushups and stuff but after 15 minutes of playing basketball for the first time in some years I was gasping and getting those pains in your abdomen when you get enough oxygen into your system (I don't know the name in English, kinda like internal cramps or something).
Fast foward to the present, and now my physical ressitance is up, still not quite like before but it's getting there. These guys I'm playing with basically train like a team but are not yet a team, but since a week ago I think the coach now feels like he has a presentable team and a good startup formation and will present all of us as a an official team to the municipal building or whatever that building in hte centric part of that district is called. If we get that type of backup then that building will start giving some cash like to send us out of town for tournaments, etc.
To be honest, since this team isn't offically a team then we don't even have uniforms. Three nights ago, a guy a from a uniform making company called: TheFox came to show us the type of uniforms they make and that they make uniforms apparently for this country's national team and like some more collages. The coach wanted the uniforms from this manufacture because they use this nice cloth that allow you body to breathe more freely and it's not made from that other plastic like ones that he heard cause cancer or some other disease. Now immediatly I know I arrived to the right place to play basketball... THEFOX!!! Come on! Those who REALLY know me know why this makes me think their could be a God somewhere that actually likes me.
So even though my physical resistance is going up, man my butt and lower back keep hurting the next day I come from training. Must be that I'm still not used to jumping so much as before. For some reason, this coach want to enfisize speed and jump-agility. Which kinda underminds the part of creatign some physical strength and he doesn't really makes us do pushups or squats or belly presses. I guess those will have to go by my count.
Oh and about the homophobic part... well I'm not sure if it makes me homophobic but like I saw like two dudes get on the bus when I was going to train to the courts but and they were wearing basically like women cloathes. Not like dresses but like cargo tight women pants and jeans and like almost baby tees size shirts and even one of those head bands that girls use on their head to pull their hair back and reveals their forehead. Kinda like what Sakura Haruno uses. So when those dudes came on the bus... I was like weirded out... cause If I didn't know any better, and I was looking them from behind and from a bit affar a would have taught they were slim looking women.
So basically, is me getting weirded out by them make me a homophobe? As a modern citizen of the planet do I have to work to like when I see men dress like that to not get freaked out? Is it wrong for me to weirded out? I don't know, it's not like I hated those two dudes or disgusted by them... its just that it looked so weird and I felt weird because I usually don't see people like that everyday.
Well this blog went long enough... just wanted to make an update on my extracurricular non gaming activities. O, and also I'm gonna start blogging only on Gamespot, becuase blogging on Giant Bomb is dead. I like to talk to people who really like games but you find like those really really nerdy only gaming and nothing else happening in their lives type of people. I found people who like anime and thats cools but then again its like those very orthodox people who are only anime and anything anime specific and I'm afraid to talk about sports or tv or movies without getting labled something as stupid as noob.
Cheers!
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