Alright SG. Well damn...I know that it's been a very VERY long time since I've been around or updated my blog, but I'm back now, sorry for the wait (though really, no one was aware I'm sure haha).
Alright, where do I start...a lot has happened since my last blog.
I suppose I should begin with my new love...and no it isn't the sort found in another human being, I'm still attempting to discover that again...the love I'm talking about is for the martial arts I've been taking since about the time of my last blog, in April. It's called Capoeira and it's an afro-brazilian martial art form that incorporates not only the fighting style but also gymnastics, dance, and percussion.
If any of you are familiar with "Tekken" video game series, in Tekken 3 and up, the character Eddy Gordo uses this very fighting style. A lot of people don't know about Capoeira, although knowledge of it is growing, and if you are one of the people who don't, I would like to show you.
This first video is of a Mestre (Master/Teacher) of Capoeira showing what it is we do and teaching his class. His name is Mestre Barrao, he opened the 1st Capoeira school in Canada and has sister schools all over.
Awesome, no? The dance you see them do with sticks is called Maculele.
This second video is from a movie featuring the popular Muay Tai fighter/actor, Tony Jaa, and another aspiring martial artist/actor named Lateef Crowder who uses Capoeira. The movie is called "Tom Yum Goong" but over here in the US it was renamed "The Protector".
Lateef, to me, is one of the most impressive capoeiristas I've seen.
So this is more or less what I've been doing and learning how to do over the passed months. It's incredible and I recommend anyone and everyone to try it out, anyone can do it. It sounds silly, but I've seen it firsthand.
I'll update again soon, hopefully with pictures. I need to get a friend to take some pictures me doing the stuff.
Thanks for reading
-Kiryu (Keith)
Alright, where do I start...a lot has happened since my last blog.
I suppose I should begin with my new love...and no it isn't the sort found in another human being, I'm still attempting to discover that again...the love I'm talking about is for the martial arts I've been taking since about the time of my last blog, in April. It's called Capoeira and it's an afro-brazilian martial art form that incorporates not only the fighting style but also gymnastics, dance, and percussion.
If any of you are familiar with "Tekken" video game series, in Tekken 3 and up, the character Eddy Gordo uses this very fighting style. A lot of people don't know about Capoeira, although knowledge of it is growing, and if you are one of the people who don't, I would like to show you.
This first video is of a Mestre (Master/Teacher) of Capoeira showing what it is we do and teaching his class. His name is Mestre Barrao, he opened the 1st Capoeira school in Canada and has sister schools all over.
Awesome, no? The dance you see them do with sticks is called Maculele.
This second video is from a movie featuring the popular Muay Tai fighter/actor, Tony Jaa, and another aspiring martial artist/actor named Lateef Crowder who uses Capoeira. The movie is called "Tom Yum Goong" but over here in the US it was renamed "The Protector".
Lateef, to me, is one of the most impressive capoeiristas I've seen.
So this is more or less what I've been doing and learning how to do over the passed months. It's incredible and I recommend anyone and everyone to try it out, anyone can do it. It sounds silly, but I've seen it firsthand.
I'll update again soon, hopefully with pictures. I need to get a friend to take some pictures me doing the stuff.
Thanks for reading
-Kiryu (Keith)
Well hello there SG world. It's been quite some time since I've really done something SG related, such as a blog, despite things coming about in life...that most would feel obligated to write about. Sorry I've been gone so long. I missed you guys, haha.
But anyway, I wanted to ask a question, after going over the scenario pulled from my own life over these passed few months where I haven't blogged. Its not above the norm. I was in love, we'd both done each other wrong in more ways than one over the time we were together. I helped her fight her habits that dragged her down, but some die harder than others. But there comes a time where things have to end, and that time came the sunday before our anniversary.
Haha, I always fall just short of the year mark. She wanted to be some sort of friends and become good friends with the passing of time...but I didn't see her as being a friend to me and when I let her know that it wasn't what she was being after some weeks, she suddenly decides that she's willing to be. However, one thing she said stuck with me, which was "We're not even close anymore"...which she said she wanted to be, and I tried hard despite everything to be her friend.
Right now is a crucial part in my life I would say...one chapter of my life, in more ways than one, is closing this year. So I was too fed up for that now. I said it would be best if we just didn't talk...as the only friends I hold close to me now aren't Hi-Bye friends...they're my close friends that I can talk to honestly. I burned the bridge I shared with her and decided to just move on with live, closing this chapter of my life completely after this year.
My question now...is what you all might think...about burning bridges with people. Necessary part of life or can it be avoided, etc.? I want to know what insight your experience on this planet has given you on dealing with that sort of thing, if it's not too much to ask.
For reading this, thank you...I appreciate it, and I would appreciate your feedback that much more
-Kiryu/Keith
P.S:...my godbrother is the man for bringing this up from the Bronx to good ol' Connecticut for me
But anyway, I wanted to ask a question, after going over the scenario pulled from my own life over these passed few months where I haven't blogged. Its not above the norm. I was in love, we'd both done each other wrong in more ways than one over the time we were together. I helped her fight her habits that dragged her down, but some die harder than others. But there comes a time where things have to end, and that time came the sunday before our anniversary.
Haha, I always fall just short of the year mark. She wanted to be some sort of friends and become good friends with the passing of time...but I didn't see her as being a friend to me and when I let her know that it wasn't what she was being after some weeks, she suddenly decides that she's willing to be. However, one thing she said stuck with me, which was "We're not even close anymore"...which she said she wanted to be, and I tried hard despite everything to be her friend.
Right now is a crucial part in my life I would say...one chapter of my life, in more ways than one, is closing this year. So I was too fed up for that now. I said it would be best if we just didn't talk...as the only friends I hold close to me now aren't Hi-Bye friends...they're my close friends that I can talk to honestly. I burned the bridge I shared with her and decided to just move on with live, closing this chapter of my life completely after this year.
My question now...is what you all might think...about burning bridges with people. Necessary part of life or can it be avoided, etc.? I want to know what insight your experience on this planet has given you on dealing with that sort of thing, if it's not too much to ask.
For reading this, thank you...I appreciate it, and I would appreciate your feedback that much more
-Kiryu/Keith
P.S:...my godbrother is the man for bringing this up from the Bronx to good ol' Connecticut for me
If you've read my blog or profile then you may know...I'm a writer. While this is true, I've always been confined to writing stories, creating characters, and role playing...I could never write a poem no matter how hard I tried, and I happen to love poetry.
About a week ago now...I analyzed my feelings about the relationship I have with one of my ex-girlfriends and the lies she was spreading about me currently and in the past...and it brought me to finally create a poem.
I didn't think it was anything great but my "brother" Miguel who is a great poet loved it and other friends of mine did as well. So I decided to share it with the SG Community. I hope you enjoy it as well.
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-The Sinner and The Succubus-
Once More The Curtains Raise.
Once More The Play Resumes.
She Bares Her Fangs.
He Arms Himself Accordingly.
Just As A Victory Appears Imminent,
The Battle Begins Anew.
Utter Chaos Ensues.
This Play Is Without End.
The Audience Is Uninterested.
Willed By Fate, The Quarrel Lasts For Eternity.
As Light And Darkness Will Always Be,
This Struggle Too Is Surely Never-Ending.
Will And Love Become His Weapons.
With Them He Will Cut Through Hate.
With Them He Will End The Never-Ending.
The Winner Is Decided By Fate.
The Impossible Made Possible.
About a week ago now...I analyzed my feelings about the relationship I have with one of my ex-girlfriends and the lies she was spreading about me currently and in the past...and it brought me to finally create a poem.
I didn't think it was anything great but my "brother" Miguel who is a great poet loved it and other friends of mine did as well. So I decided to share it with the SG Community. I hope you enjoy it as well.
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-The Sinner and The Succubus-
Once More The Curtains Raise.
Once More The Play Resumes.
She Bares Her Fangs.
He Arms Himself Accordingly.
Just As A Victory Appears Imminent,
The Battle Begins Anew.
Utter Chaos Ensues.
This Play Is Without End.
The Audience Is Uninterested.
Willed By Fate, The Quarrel Lasts For Eternity.
As Light And Darkness Will Always Be,
This Struggle Too Is Surely Never-Ending.
Will And Love Become His Weapons.
With Them He Will Cut Through Hate.
With Them He Will End The Never-Ending.
The Winner Is Decided By Fate.
The Impossible Made Possible.
( PRE-READ: This blog is somewhat long but it is within good reasoning. Please read and give me feedback if you like. Thank you very much )
So, viewers of this blog and really, SG Community in general. I have both good news and bad news.
The good news is something now widely known. My first time voting only yesterday came to fruition that very same day when the news that Barack Obama's victory, our victory, reached me at about 11:00PM. I consider myself very fortunate to have been part of such an amazing, history-making election. Obviously, racial barriers have been broken but this election was much more to me than just that. Now I look on towards the future with even higher hopes than before. I hope you all feel and do the same as well.
NOW. As for my bad news...it might be something you know and at the same time it might not be, but I will let you know now that it infuriates me to no end. Because I'm part of the SG Community I sometimes receive remarks from people that call SuicideGirls "porn" and the like. I readily educate them on the obvious difference between pornography and nude photography and they then seem enlightened a bit.
However, this evening I understood a bit more why people normally have that idea of SuicideGirls. A friend of mine told me that she saw the porn when she looked for SG. All she did was put "suicidegirl.com" as her URL. I gave her the proper name with the missing "s" and took a look at the site she'd come across for myself. Needless to say, both of us were very surprised by the difference in what we found.
While she now wants to be an ACTUAL SuicideGirl, I was quite disgusted and pissed to see the "suicidegirl.com" URL simply forward me to "gothgangbang.com". Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against pornography of course...but I have no doubt in my mind that the people running gothgangbang.com knew fully well why they are using the misspelled URL to forward to their porn site.
All it takes is one to leave out the "s" in suicidegirls and they have another hit on their porn site. A porn site which also happens to be a cheap knockoff of the actual SuicideGirls. It shows "gothic" women with tattoos and piercings get gangbanged and cummed all over and to me it insults the photographic beauty of the real SuicideGirls.
Quotes taken from the site are: "Watch These Horny Goth Gals Take on Two, Three, or more cocks in one fuck!", "SEE THE HOTTEST GOTH PORN. FILLED WITH TON OF EXCITEMENT AND GOTHIC SEX. CUM INTENSELY FROM THE BEST GOTHIC SEX.", and "AMATEUR GOTH TEENS GETTING FUCKED AND SUCKING COCK."
Anyway...it upset me that SG's name is being used to forward to this cheap porn knockoff. I guess that's legal...I'm not a law major so I don't know...but either way I don't like it. I thought I'd share my disgust.
)So, viewers of this blog and really, SG Community in general. I have both good news and bad news.
The good news is something now widely known. My first time voting only yesterday came to fruition that very same day when the news that Barack Obama's victory, our victory, reached me at about 11:00PM. I consider myself very fortunate to have been part of such an amazing, history-making election. Obviously, racial barriers have been broken but this election was much more to me than just that. Now I look on towards the future with even higher hopes than before. I hope you all feel and do the same as well.
NOW. As for my bad news...it might be something you know and at the same time it might not be, but I will let you know now that it infuriates me to no end. Because I'm part of the SG Community I sometimes receive remarks from people that call SuicideGirls "porn" and the like. I readily educate them on the obvious difference between pornography and nude photography and they then seem enlightened a bit.
However, this evening I understood a bit more why people normally have that idea of SuicideGirls. A friend of mine told me that she saw the porn when she looked for SG. All she did was put "suicidegirl.com" as her URL. I gave her the proper name with the missing "s" and took a look at the site she'd come across for myself. Needless to say, both of us were very surprised by the difference in what we found.
While she now wants to be an ACTUAL SuicideGirl, I was quite disgusted and pissed to see the "suicidegirl.com" URL simply forward me to "gothgangbang.com". Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against pornography of course...but I have no doubt in my mind that the people running gothgangbang.com knew fully well why they are using the misspelled URL to forward to their porn site.
All it takes is one to leave out the "s" in suicidegirls and they have another hit on their porn site. A porn site which also happens to be a cheap knockoff of the actual SuicideGirls. It shows "gothic" women with tattoos and piercings get gangbanged and cummed all over and to me it insults the photographic beauty of the real SuicideGirls.
Quotes taken from the site are: "Watch These Horny Goth Gals Take on Two, Three, or more cocks in one fuck!", "SEE THE HOTTEST GOTH PORN. FILLED WITH TON OF EXCITEMENT AND GOTHIC SEX. CUM INTENSELY FROM THE BEST GOTHIC SEX.", and "AMATEUR GOTH TEENS GETTING FUCKED AND SUCKING COCK."
Anyway...it upset me that SG's name is being used to forward to this cheap porn knockoff. I guess that's legal...I'm not a law major so I don't know...but either way I don't like it. I thought I'd share my disgust.
Music. To me it is the closest thing humanly possible to "magic"...aside from love. Music can bring people together. Music can push people away from eachother. Music can help one find understanding and even express exactly what you are thinking and/or feeling. Music can make one...feel. One can feel the sheer sound of it...or feel the lyrics behind a song. Music can be connected to anything and everything. When the company of another cannot be attained and even sometimes when it is...music serves as that friend who understands exactly what you're feeling and going through.
My reasoning behind saying this not only stems from my love of music, but because of my connection to music...my blogs may at some points be simply the lyrics of a song. That song will either be one I love and enjoy because of the song...or it can be posted up here simply because I identify with it. These songs a very likely to describe my mood...my feelings...what I am experiencing in life at the time.
If any viewer knows or likes the song/lyrics that I put up here, feel free to say so. If you haven't heard the song or seen the lyrics before and they appeal to you, then you should check the song out. I will close this blog...with a song that I feel right now more than ever in the deepest part of my core. It's called Pins and Needles by Billy Talent.
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Never understood how she could,
Mean so little to so many.
Why does she mean everything to me?
Is it worth the pain? With no one to blame
For all of my insecurities.
How did I ever let you go?
Questioning her good intention.
Jealousy's a bad invention.
When you push on glass, it's bound to break.
Even when she was defensive,
It just gave me more incentive.
The more you squeeze, the more it slips away.
I never walked so far on a lonely street,
With no one there for me.
Is it worth the pain? With no one to blame
For all of my insecurities.
How did I ever let you go?
Accept this confession! ...I'm walking on pins and needles
You're not my possession! ...I'm walking on pins and needles
My conscience is vicious! ...I'm walking on pins and needles
And I'm begging forgiveness! ...I'm walking on pins and needles
I never walked so far on a lonely street,
With no one there for me.
It took too long to see her in misery,
And now it's clear to me.
That it's worth the pain. Always take the blame
For all your own insecurities.
How did I ever let you go?
My reasoning behind saying this not only stems from my love of music, but because of my connection to music...my blogs may at some points be simply the lyrics of a song. That song will either be one I love and enjoy because of the song...or it can be posted up here simply because I identify with it. These songs a very likely to describe my mood...my feelings...what I am experiencing in life at the time.
If any viewer knows or likes the song/lyrics that I put up here, feel free to say so. If you haven't heard the song or seen the lyrics before and they appeal to you, then you should check the song out. I will close this blog...with a song that I feel right now more than ever in the deepest part of my core. It's called Pins and Needles by Billy Talent.
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Never understood how she could,
Mean so little to so many.
Why does she mean everything to me?
Is it worth the pain? With no one to blame
For all of my insecurities.
How did I ever let you go?
Questioning her good intention.
Jealousy's a bad invention.
When you push on glass, it's bound to break.
Even when she was defensive,
It just gave me more incentive.
The more you squeeze, the more it slips away.
I never walked so far on a lonely street,
With no one there for me.
Is it worth the pain? With no one to blame
For all of my insecurities.
How did I ever let you go?
Accept this confession! ...I'm walking on pins and needles
You're not my possession! ...I'm walking on pins and needles
My conscience is vicious! ...I'm walking on pins and needles
And I'm begging forgiveness! ...I'm walking on pins and needles
I never walked so far on a lonely street,
With no one there for me.
It took too long to see her in misery,
And now it's clear to me.
That it's worth the pain. Always take the blame
For all your own insecurities.
How did I ever let you go?
Alright SG, Kiryu is back again...how long he will be, I'm not quite sure. The reason is because...for one, I am a gamer. A gamer that's been deprived since his PS2 died. And that brings me to the start of my weekend blog.
So, Saturday I was asked by a friend to hang with her and her boyfriend at the mall. I agreed, thinking that my Yuki would go with me so that I wasn't 3rd Wheeling it for hours. Turns out Yuki couldn't go...so I was in quite a bind, since being the 3rd wheel isn't very amusing...unless it's with two women. My perogative. Anyway, I still go but I get a call before I leave from V (the benefactor that is my reason for having SG) with him asking what I'm doing that day.
Dude tells me he got his first $2000 check for being the son of a disabled veteran and wants to go wild with it. Obviously I'm down. I chill with JB and her b/f Greg for a while then V comes and we all hang. The plan was for me and him to get PSPs, but I didn't wanna spend all of what money I had left from my recent job at the Yale School of Art. We instead decide...that we were gonna buy me an Xbox 360...and V paid for half and then got me two new games afterward (Infinite Undiscovery and Tales of Vesperia). So...he's is...a god.
Needless to say, that made my life again...he always does that...if he was a woman, I'd marry him...her. Anyway, I may be online less cause of that obviously. I wanna get into the whole Xbox360 world...cause I've been strictly Sony/Nintendo all my life until now. Any suggestions for games?
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The other half of my story...involves my Old Man. We've had our battles in my life but I do still love the dude I guess...weird relationship. Anyway, he's turning 60 tomorrow...the fucker still looks like his late 30s it's ridiculous. But while me and V were being mallrats, we went into Spencer's and I saw a book in the back...I took a look at it...and I found it to be epic beyond belief. I bought it as a gift for my old man. Here's a look for your personal amusement.
We had a "surprise" party at my Gram's for him today and all of my mother's side showed up. It was great. Everyone got a kick out of the gift I got him, him most of all, so it all turned out well.
However, it makes me hope that I'm still attractive at 60 and not all...old-looking...and...that I can still make my lover happy in more ways than just one. Or else...that would fail. Anyway, it was a nice end to a great weekend. And that less great part starts all over again with Monday...hopefully this next weekend will be great as well.
I hope everyone else had a great weekend too tell me about them if you like.
-Kiryu/Keith
P.S. - Thank you so much to all the people that have become my friends here on SG I really appreciate the love and welcoming to the community. I hope to be around for a long time
So, Saturday I was asked by a friend to hang with her and her boyfriend at the mall. I agreed, thinking that my Yuki would go with me so that I wasn't 3rd Wheeling it for hours. Turns out Yuki couldn't go...so I was in quite a bind, since being the 3rd wheel isn't very amusing...unless it's with two women. My perogative. Anyway, I still go but I get a call before I leave from V (the benefactor that is my reason for having SG) with him asking what I'm doing that day.
Dude tells me he got his first $2000 check for being the son of a disabled veteran and wants to go wild with it. Obviously I'm down. I chill with JB and her b/f Greg for a while then V comes and we all hang. The plan was for me and him to get PSPs, but I didn't wanna spend all of what money I had left from my recent job at the Yale School of Art. We instead decide...that we were gonna buy me an Xbox 360...and V paid for half and then got me two new games afterward (Infinite Undiscovery and Tales of Vesperia). So...he's is...a god.
Needless to say, that made my life again...he always does that...if he was a woman, I'd marry him...her. Anyway, I may be online less cause of that obviously. I wanna get into the whole Xbox360 world...cause I've been strictly Sony/Nintendo all my life until now. Any suggestions for games?
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The other half of my story...involves my Old Man. We've had our battles in my life but I do still love the dude I guess...weird relationship. Anyway, he's turning 60 tomorrow...the fucker still looks like his late 30s it's ridiculous. But while me and V were being mallrats, we went into Spencer's and I saw a book in the back...I took a look at it...and I found it to be epic beyond belief. I bought it as a gift for my old man. Here's a look for your personal amusement.
We had a "surprise" party at my Gram's for him today and all of my mother's side showed up. It was great. Everyone got a kick out of the gift I got him, him most of all, so it all turned out well.
However, it makes me hope that I'm still attractive at 60 and not all...old-looking...and...that I can still make my lover happy in more ways than just one. Or else...that would fail. Anyway, it was a nice end to a great weekend. And that less great part starts all over again with Monday...hopefully this next weekend will be great as well.
I hope everyone else had a great weekend too
tell me about them if you like.-Kiryu/Keith
P.S. - Thank you so much to all the people that have become my friends here on SG
I really appreciate the love and welcoming to the community. I hope to be around for a long time So...greetings SG at long last. How I'm here I'm not sure...frankly I still think I'm being punk'd or something. But in reality, I am a brand new member to SG as of my 18th birthday which was Saturday, August 30th 2008.
My brother decided to get me about a years worth of SG as a birthday present...he's a god for that. So all thanks goes out to V. I don't normally do the whole...blog thing...but it might be a nice switch.
Right now I'm talking to myself because I don't have any friends here yet...aheh...so I have to go out and get some. I guess I'll start with some of my favorite Suicide Girls and photographers...hopefully they accept, heh.
I didn't realize at first that this whole friend-making process might take a bit because even on a place like this I'm rather shy at first, so I'll have to try shirking that off so I can meet new people.
I still have alot to see and learn on SG but I'm sure I'll get the hang of it soon enough. Thank you SG for...existing
-Kiryu/Keith
P.S. - I'm trying to...use this sg video uploader...so if you see something here and then not...it's not a glitch in the matrix, it's just me fiddling around : ]
My brother decided to get me about a years worth of SG as a birthday present...he's a god for that. So all thanks goes out to V. I don't normally do the whole...blog thing...but it might be a nice switch.
Right now I'm talking to myself because I don't have any friends here yet...aheh...so I have to go out and get some. I guess I'll start with some of my favorite Suicide Girls and photographers...hopefully they accept, heh.
I didn't realize at first that this whole friend-making process might take a bit because even on a place like this I'm rather shy at first, so I'll have to try shirking that off so I can meet new people.
I still have alot to see and learn on SG but I'm sure I'll get the hang of it soon enough. Thank you SG for...existing
-Kiryu/Keith
P.S. - I'm trying to...use this sg video uploader...so if you see something here and then not...it's not a glitch in the matrix, it's just me fiddling around : ]
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