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Sunday, 30 April 2006

  • Inevitably, it happened. 

    My grandpa foresaw the coming of this day
    Unfortunately i was the only person who had faith in him in his time.
    If only he could see it w/ his own eyes.

    oh yea i recently joined Facebook (under Rich's threatening fists and devil-red eyes), holler at me, search for 'Xiang Ji'


Thursday, 13 April 2006

  • Recently a tragedy involving well known bodybuilders (Craig Titus and Kelly Ryan) and the death of their assistant has surfaced and greeted national television.  While the case is still in development, a good number of reports on major news networks are already reinforcing the negative image of bodybuilders and their lifestyles: mega doses of testosterone, drug use, reckless aggression, wild and immoral sex life, steroids, violent behavior, etc. 

    I'm really sad to see this happening, because what happened to the people involved in thise case has little to do with the bodybuilding community.  It's more of a personal choice and individual lifestyle.  It's even sadder when the person involved (Craig Titus) used to write columns for my favorite bodybuilding magazine - Muscular Development.

    While the detail of the case is gruesome (an oversimplified plot: buying lighter fluid well after midnight from wal-mart, driving to a remote location, dump the fluid on the car and lighting it on fire, all while the victim is lying alive in the trunk w/ her mouth taped), it does not warrant generalization toward the whole of the community.  So if u catch the news on TV or in magazine, try to keep an open mind...

    More details here:
    http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10627143/
    http://craigtituskellyryan.abfx.com/
    http://www.titusandryan.com/


Sunday, 25 December 2005

  • MY~~ this year has been decent for me, today's the perfect day to recap:

    Academic: My grades just came in and I can finally announce a full year, or 38 credits, of As.  I know everybody's 'been there, done that', but to me, this is my history in the making!

    Athletic: running upped to 1hr continuous, learned a new stroke for swimming.  Kept my weight down to 175 lbs and reduced my body fat from 19% to the now 15.5%.  Some major stats from last month on weights:
    (lbs * reps)
    bench: 150*5
    squat: 200*5
    leg press: 460*9
    bb curl: 75*4
    wide-grip chin-ups: bodyweight*7
    abs seated-crunch: 135*25

    $$$: 3 jobs in spring, 1 jobs + 1 internship in summer, 2 in fall, 1 right now.  Two major purchases (powerbook & ipod video), saved the rest, which will cover for my gas/insurance/parking expenditure for the next sem

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    New Year's Resolutions - goals till May 31st, 2006:

    Academic: well now i'm done w/ UWEC, time to drop the magic stick on UW-Madison, my goal is to pull a 4.0 in my new school this spring

    Athletic: shred myself 5 lbs to 170 lbs while simultaneously reducing my body fat from 15.5% to 13%, as for weights, here are the major goals:
    bench: 165*8
    leg press: 500*8
    bb curl: 80*8
    wide-grip chin-ups: bodyweight*10

    $$$: no major plan here, i've saved enough for this upcoming semester's expenditures, so my goal is to find just one job, something steady and not requring too much time, maybe 7-12 hr / week while i look for an internship for summer

    Summer:
    plan to spend time in Ji Nan, Guang Zhou, and Shen Zhen around June.  For July and Aug I'll hopefully be doing a worthwhile internship and / or one 3-4 cr class.
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    I hope everybody's had a wonderful year, productive or not, as long as you enjoyed it!  you can't change the past, so put on a smile and plan out the new year, GOOD LUCK and ViVE LE ViE!


    pic taken this fall:



     "God helps those who help themselves"
    Hezekiah 6:1

Saturday, 19 November 2005

  • "One of the most famous examples of same-sex marriage is that of the Azande of Sudan, where male warriors took younger male brides, who served them sexually and by performing domestic duties.  The warrirors paid 'brideprice' for their male 'brides,' ... When Azande warriors retired from that role, they gave up their male bride and sometimes married the sister of the former male bride.  The former male brides, in turn, moved into the warrior grade and took their own younger male brides."

    ^i wonder where i, and some of my friends, would fit in, in the Azande society
    --

    "Traditional two-parent household is on the wane not only in America but throughout the world, except in Japan, where 1.1% of births are to unwed mothers - unchanged from 25 years ago.  In the US, the figure is 30.1% and rising rapidly."

    "The durability in the Japanese family is particularly wondrous because couples are, by international standards, exceptionally incompatible.  30% of fathers spend less than 15 minutes a day on weekends talking with or playing with their children.  Among eighth graders, 51% reported that they never spoke with their fathers on weekdays."

    "Incompatibility might not matter so much, however, because Japanese husbands and wives spend very little time talking to each other.  'I kind of feel there's nothing new to say to her,' said Masayuki Ogita."

    "'I take good care of my wife,' he said.  'I may not say 'I love you,' but I do hold her hand.  And I might say, after she makes dinner, 'This tastes good,'"

    "'Of course,' Mr. Kawaguchi quickly added, "I wouldn't say that unless I'd just done something really bad."

    "Even Mrs. Uemura, the elderly woman whose husband used to beat her, said that her husband was treating her better.  'The other day, the tried to pour me a cup of tea,' Mrs. Uemura recalled excitedly, 'It was a big change.  I told all my friends.'"


Saturday, 05 November 2005



  •  What a great man looks like. 

    When I look into his eyes, I feel so average and immoral.  Strength like that are not easily found in today's college kids.  We got nothing on this man.

    Anniversary - 1860.  This is the man who gave y'all Thanksgiving, if you can't remember him for anything else.  Lots RESPECT, rest in peace, dawg.


    How refresing these quotes sound, in this "future" year of 2005:
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    "Let us discard all this quibbling about this man and the other man, this race and that race and the other race being inferior and therefore they must be placed in an inferior position. Let us discard all these things, and unite as one people throughout this land, until we shall once more stand up declaring that all men are created equal."

    "Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose- and you allow him to make war at pleasure."

    "Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."

    "I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards."

    "I am not concerned that you have fallen; I am concerned that you arise."

    "It is an established maxim and moral that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false is guilty of falsehood, and the accidental truth of the assertion does not justify or excuse him."

    "The true rule in determining to follow any thing, is not whether it has any evil in it, but whether it have more of evil than of good. There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost everything is an inseparable compound of the two; so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded."

    "    The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him."

    "You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."

    "You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was."

    "What I do say is that no man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent."
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