Family

Family to me is pretty important. I am one to put family above anything else. I mean, they are the ones who I have been with for most of my life. Of course I did just graduate high school, and I just moved out here to California. So this is like the only time I have been away from my family back home in Hawaii. So it is safe to say I was with my family for most of my life. Family, is probably the best thing to ever happen to anyone. I say this because without them you would be one lonely soul. As you grow up and move on to bigger and better things in life, I feel that it is really important to stay as close as you can to your family. Even if that means a phone call every other day, you should at least give an effort to reach out and stay up to date with their lives, especially the immediate ones, your brothers, sisters, and mainly your parents. They are ones who raised you to be the person who you are today. For my case, that’s exactly what they did, I love them to death. They taught me everything I know about life; they taught me what’s good, bad, etc. I try to at least give them a call every day to check up on them. I really am homesick. As for my six other younger siblings, as much as they drove me crazy whenever I was home. I love them. They made my life not as boring as if I were to be an only child. The importance of staying close to them is that when they everyone gets older and we all have our own lives, I have six families to go to if I were in need of anything. But in all seriousness, family is a pretty important thing in life. You can love them or hate them, but the reality of the whole thing is that they are going to be there for you whenever you need them. So return the favor and keep them close people. Like now, that I am on my own, my aunties and uncles there are all there for me. Seeing how I am own my own here in the mainland, they are there for me, and I love them even more. That just about wraps it up for me. Love your family people. Thanks for reading.

Championship Game

Championship Game

            The day was Saturday, the 24^th of April. It was a warm sunny day, with clear skies, a beautiful day for baseball. Walking up to the field, you could just smell the scent of fresh cut grass. As a breeze of wind went by you could also smell the scent of fresh spray paint down the lines to each foul pole. The stage was set, the number 1 seed in the division vs. the second seed. Did I mention that we were playing our rivals? Both teams hated each other a lot if that wasn’t already obvious. For the past four years it was Radford and Waipahu in the championship game, they took two and we took the other two. This was the deciding game between the rivalry. There really isn’t a better matchup for this championship game. To add to all of the hype, this championship game was televised in Hawaii!

            I remember on the bus ride to the field, I was thinking to myself, “This is the big game baby we got to go harder than ever.” I was only a sophomore that year, playing on the varsity level, so I was sort of feeling like a bad ass. So we’re at the field warming up and, then my coach called me over to talk to one of the announcers for the game. He asked to take a picture of me for the broadcast later. Of course I agreed to take one, and in my head I was thinking, “Don’t look stupid.” After all was said and done with the announcer, my coach pulled me aside and said to me,

Coach: “Don’t let that shit get to your head man, you’re better than that, just play the game right.” Me: “Yes coach” Coach: “Get ready, your starting at third.” Me: “Yes coach.” I mean what else was I going to say? So the game gets under way, at first it was a pitchers dual, it was all defense in the first four innings, just until my second at bat comes around. I get a pitch to drive and I put a good stroke on it into left field. That hit, started a rally. We ended up scoring three runs in that frame. As quick as we scored those three runs, they came right back with three of their own. Then we scored one more run to retake the lead. From then on, for most of the game it was again nothing but defense. I remember having to turn two, to stop them from another rally. It was a hard ground ball towards the 6 hole, I had to get the throw off on the run, so it was quick to second and off to first for the double play. My thoughts during that whole play was “gotta get it out quick”. And as I looked on, I saw the play develop quite nice. The next batter after that play, had flew out to right field, which made the inning come to a close. It was our turn to bat, and during my at bat, Waipahu fans were screaming, making obnoxious noises, and even ringing a cow bell. Yes, I said a cow bell. I guess they brought anything and everything to make noise and try distract us. The things fans will do for their team. Anyways that’s all I could here during that inning, was the damn cowbell. They ended up just keeping the lead to just one run in the final inning. Our coaches were hoping that the one run lead was enough to finish the game. Our fans were hoping the same thing as well.

            So, the first batter of that final inning was a tough one, he had a ten pitch at bat. He was fouling off balls left and right, until our pitcher caught him looking on the outside corner. The next thing you know, the umpire rang him up, Umpire: “Strriiiiiiiiike 3, you’re out!” Of course Waipahu’s fan section was not liking the call. We thought we had the game in the bag after that, but man did Waipahu fight back. The next two batters had back-to-back singles followed up by a 1 out walk. Now this right here, we were panicing at this point. Up to the plate was one of their better hitters in the lineup. He was already 2-3 with a single and a double, we couldn’t walk him because that would tie the game up. So we had no choice but to pitch to him. To everybodys surprise he struck out on three pitches! Man was that a time where your butthole is super tight. Anyway, the next batter was one of the ok hitters in their lineup. So our pitcher and the batter, battle a bit and he works the count full. Its bases loaded, two outs, the count was three balls and two strikes, the next pitch was probably the biggest pitch of the game. If it is a ball, the game would go into extra innings, and if it was a strike, the game would be over. This was another time where everybody was on the edge of the seats. At this point in time I was getting set for the pitch to come as if the ball would be smoked right to me. If to my right I would grab it and step on third, if to my left I would have to throw to first. So here comes the pitch, the batter swings,*tiiiing*, and it’s a high drive out to left field, our left fielder is going back, back, back all the way to the wall.

            Keep in mind that if it turned out to be a homerun, we would lose. But if he caught it, we would win. Well, either way, I would say it was a great game played by both teams, we gave it our all and played like winners. At this point, I was just happy to be playing the sport I love to play, well ahead of my time. Anyway, our left fielder, Bobby, was really on his horse heading back towards the fence, I was really scared because from where I was standing, he was running out of room to run and the ball was still in the air. Turns out he was running to the wall while tracking the ball in flight, as he was taught to do by our coach. Once he found the wall, he took a three or four steps in towards the field, and the ball finds the pocket of his glove. Right then and there, everyone knew the game was over and the Radford Rams hold off the Waipahu Marauders to win the OIA White Division Championship. Let the celebration begin.

            Everyone on the field ran towards the mound and we started a big dog pile on top off our pitcher, because he pitched a hell of a game. Even the players from our bench slammed open the fence door and ran out to join the celebration. It was a very proud moment for everyone from the Radford fan base. We defeated our rivals in the championship game. Tonight, we celebrate, and then it’s onto the state championships.

 

Texting

Ahh, the lovely world of texting. This is another one of those subjects to where you either love it or you hate it. There are many reasons to love it, but let’s just start with the reasons why some people hate it. Now when I say some people, the majority of the people I know that hate it would be adults. I have never met a non-adult who said they don’t like to text. I would say they don’t like it because it’s too much technology. “Back when I was your age, we didn’t have fancy technologies like how you do today” those would be the famous words of my mother. Got to love her! Another reason why adults would probably not like the idea of texting is because kids tend to do it in class. Which to most adults would be a sign of disrespect? Like, how would you like it if someone is trying to talk to you and they are on the phone texting someone else about their plans for the weekend? Bad stuff right there.

Now as for those reasons why kids love to text, I see it as a faster way to talk to someone. Like if you don’t really want to talk to that person, you could just send a text and get your point across without waiting for them to pick up the phone. Or the all famous reason is to talk to each other during class, now don’t lie, majority of you reading this, have definitely texted during class. And you’re probably smiling right now because it’s true. Well that’s all I have to say about that. Thanks for reading.

Reality TV

To me, reality TV is just another channel. I will only actually watch it, if there is absolutely nothing else on television. Majority of the time, there is something other than reality TV on. Me personally, I don’t shun the idea of reality TV, I just frown upon it. All it really is, is just a whole lot of drama, sometimes mixed in with some hot people here and there, with some catchy title. There are some cases where its not about the good looking people. For example, there is the show called 16 and Pregnant, I’m pretty sure you can tell the title itself spells drama. When I hear the words reality TV, the one show that comes to mind would most definitely be Jersey Shore.  I am not really up to date with reality TV, but I believe to this day, Jersey Shore would be the most watched reality show. To tell you the truth, there was a time where I watched it every Tuesday night. I don’t really know why I did; I guess I just got caught up with the drama. See, that right there is the whole point of reality TV, in my opinion. The public wants something to watch, thus being drama. Drama can be very entertaining if you think about it. I know I think so. The show would keep you in suspense pretty good, to where you’re saying, “He did not say just that about her!”  I think this show is definitely harming our society, they basically influence the idea of partying and drinking until you cannot stand up. The good thing they influence is the gym and that’s it, well they do have safe sex. Then again, that is another subject. Anyway, the show itself had so much drama as well. They would fight over who said what, who “smashed” who, and what Mike said about someone. In my opinion, Mike is the main source of drama in that show, and then you cannot really have one person being the drama queen. Everyone had there round of drama throughout the seasons of Jersey Shore. Seeing how I did watch that show at one point, I would have to say it was a guilty pleasure for me. I really do try to avoid watching reality TV. There are better things to watch on TV, like the discovery channel or national geographic. Reality TV has a main goal of getting a lot of ratings. So, when people turn on the TV and find some reality show, you just boost their numbers.

Reality TV is different for everybody. You can like it, hate it, ignore it, whatever. But the reality of this is that reality TV is here and it’s probably going to be around for a long time. It’s basically public entertainment, and what is a world without entertainment? That is my take on reality TV. I don’t like it, but I don’t hate it. It is just there for whoever wants to watch it. Thanks for reading.