Play Hard

Hello, folks! Back again for another blog post!

So......I've been on a good high on life as of late. Been going out more often than usual due to the sheer amount of birthdays and house parties that have been popping up around the Bay Area since last month and continuing into this crazy month of October. I'll be going to my record seventh b-day bash tomorrow night at my co-worker Cisco's place in Santa Clara which should be a blast with plenty of booze and gaming to satisfy everyone.

Hmmm...sounds a lot like this past weekend....

Anyway, in other awesome news, I got second place overall in the fifth season of the Southtown Arcade Ranbats for Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition 2012. First place went to Harrison Young of Starbase Arcade fame with his strong Cody play and third went to my good friend and rival, Long "LPN" Nguyen playing mostly with Cammy and Adon throughout the entire season.http://www.southtownarcade.com/archives/684

This is the highest I've ever placed in a ranbat season so I'm extremely happy with this accomplishment. Two of the tournaments I went to in San Francisco I would lose my first match only to run it all the way back through losers to either get second or third which was no easy feat. I learned more about spacing, positioning and playing under pressure more so than any other ranbat I've attended.

Oh, and I got first place for the first time at the last Southtown Ranbat of the season which was the start of my recent high on life and it hasn't stopped. Hopefully I can finally win my first Thursday Night Throwdown later this week. It would be a huge confidence booster going into the Street Fighter 25th Anniversary Qualifier in L.A. next weekend. I will be competing in both Street Fighter 3: Third Strike and AE 2012 so wish me luck on my training and success. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx_p5P_twwQ

Little Red Corvette

Hi, folks. It's been an extremely long time since I've written my last blog post. 2010 was the last time I had written something, right? Yes. That was the year.

A lot has happened in my life since I wrote about going to a video game tournament in Davis, CA, getting a parking citation and my mom looking for work. I'm nearly 30 years old now, my mom who just turned the big 50, is working temporary jobs through an agency that finds work for her all around northern California, my now 20 year-old sister, Michelle, just got engaged to her wonderful fiancee a few months ago at Disneyland in Anaheim and the San Francisco Giants and the Oakland A's are doing fantastic in the current baseball season. Oh, and I graduated from San Jose State University with a Bachelor of Science in Journalism in May 2010!

Of course, a lot more has happened since my last update, but it's nearly 2:30 a.m. and I am beat. Just thought I'd at least get going with this blogging thing again. Have to make good use of my degree, right? I'll share more of my thoughts about the past two years as well as what is currently going on in my present world.

Going to listen to a few more Prince songs before calling it a night. Cream sounds really good right now.