Wednesday, January 07, 2009

my new site is up and running!

ok, well, i haven’t really been able to figure this whole blog thing out.  possibly because i haven’t really looked into it all that much.  i’ve been spending my time pursuing other pursuits - such as practicing guitar, practicing piano, riding my new bike, learning to cook healthy, and trying to get my heart back into shape!  along with all the chores i have to keep my house clean, i just haven’t had the time to tinker around the back end of this site. 

so in the meantime, i’ve been itching to post… they’ve almost been spilling out of me cuz i haven’t been able to post it here. 

instead, i’ve started a new anonymous blog. 

if you would like the link, please email me.  or comment here.  but usually, emailing me is much better. 

cya around!!

Posted by kgrp on 01/07 at 12:19 AM
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Saturday, December 06, 2008

this might be it

i know i haven’t posted in a while, but it’s not cause i haven’t had stuff to write about…

i’m actually toying with the idea of deleting this blog.  or moving it to another site.  basically, making it unavailable to the general public.  i haven’t figured out yet how to make it a ‘members only’ blog and i think it might be because i don’t have the most current version of the software, plus it’s been 2 or 3 years since i’ve done anything with the backend of this website! 

at any rate, now that i have a little bit more time on my hands (because the volleyball season ended), i’m going to start trying to figuring it all out again!  which means that as i tinker around in backend, i might accidentally break the code while i try to make a log-in necessary to read it.  or i might end up being successful and figuring out how to move my entire site somewhere else.

at any rate, if you want to be told when this site finally moves, please leave a comment on this post or email me.  if anything, just to let me know you’ve been reading my blog.  i’d love to know who my visitors were!

thanks for visiting!

Posted by kgrp on 12/06 at 10:37 AM
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Friday, November 21, 2008

thanksgiving break

on the quiz today, i gave an extra credit question:

“what are you thankful for this Thanksgiving break?”

even though it’s not math related, i like to give questions like this because it helps me get to know the students as individuals, it gives me a chance to talk about what’s important in life, and i also get to see their writing ability.  i was really touched today reading some of the students’ answers.

here’s a sample of some of their answers:

  • a lot of the students are thankful for their family!
  • "For being able to wake up in the morning to go to school and get a good education for my future
  • "I’m thankful for my dad coming back from prison because I haven’t seen him for about 4-5 years.  I’m thankful for my dad getting a coaching job.
  • "I am thankful for having everything that I have for example a house to live in, food to keep us alive"
  • "I am thankful that I have a job and that I will be working during break next week.  With the economic struggle I am very fortunate to have a job."
  • "I give thanks because my dad gave up alcohol."

hearing about the students reminds me that being a teacher is more than teaching them math…

Posted by kgrp on 11/21 at 09:26 AM
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Monday, October 13, 2008

san diego asian film festival #9

so this past weekend, mr. man and i took a trip to the san diego asian film festival to watch some films.

i don’t normally watch a lot of movies, but i think when you start watching multiple movies in such a short time period you can’t help but compare and contrast the themes… hahah, do i sound like a nerd yet? at any rate, if i wanted to simplify things, i could say that the films we watched all dealt with one subject matter - purpose in life. 

in family inc, we watched as an american-raised daughter left her dream in the states to apprentice under her dad in china, thereby fulfilling her dad’s dream.  i think it was particular poignant for me to see the daughter of a chinese businessman return to work for a man that she only saw twice a year while he thought he was doing the best for his family - my dad always talks about how he has trouble knowing how to treat his children because his dad was always absent as well.  although i’m 2 generations away from it i could see similarities in the relationships.  of course, this movie also displayed the chinese guilt that is laid down for the children to do their duty to the family - not that big an issue in my life but i can see it affecting my friends…

assembly is a chinese war movie that was a bit intense in it’s warfield depictions, but as it followed one man’s journey beyond the war, he was unwavering in his goal to celebrate the unsung heroes who had fought beside him.

at first i didn’t want to see accuracy of death because i hate things that deal with the supernatural, but in the end this one touched me the most.  the movie uses the grim reaper as a literary tool to discuss if a person’s life has been fulfilled before they can die - and we watch as the grim reaper makes several visits to determine if a person’s life has been fulfilled.  as he suspends the death sentence on someone, he gives her another chance at life, and at the end of the story, we are shown what she has made of her life.  it was bittersweet (as life usually is) to see the parts of her life that changed and to see the one thing that was constant throughout her life.

chocolate is a martial arts film starring a 14 year old!  this was done by the makers of “ong bak”, and so it was extremely neat to watch the young actors make a film like this, knowing that it wasn’t special effects or camera tricks, but all real choreography!  in the movie, she plays an autistic child who uses her gift at martial arts to collect money from her mother’s debtors to pay for her medical expenses.

it was a weekend of sitting (and subtitles!) but i enjoyed being there - and i got a free toyota matrix t-shirt!  it was also fun wearing a festival pass and getting into any movie we wanted, and the gala was nice too.  i found myself standing next to john cho a couple of times, y’know, harold, from harold and kumar =) i know there were more people there too but i don’t know their names and i didn’t take pictures with them… but they were there!

thanks to mr man for bringing me to the sdaff!

Posted by kgrp on 10/13 at 01:54 PM
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Wednesday, October 01, 2008

why can't i sleep?

so i’ve been working long days and been running ragged and you’d think that’d make for some pretty good sleeping when i get the chance to, but for some reason i’m still up and it’s past midnight and i coulda gone to bed around 10pm but i’ve just been awake and not sleeping....

i mean, i suppose i can partly blame it on my computer being on but really i’ve run outta mail to read and blogs to catch up on and the like, and i’m just here, lying down, not sleeping, and not really doing anything either!  or maybe it’s just my body rebelling against me… i have not been in top form lately and i’ve been forgetting things - important work things! - and maybe this is part of the same problem.  i have to admit i’ve been feeling a little off lately and i think maybe my mind is trying to figure it all out but currently i don’t even know what i’m thinking about i just know that i’m writing these horrible long run-on sentences instead of sleeping!

i desperately need sleep…

and how do you stop feeling off?  how does one get back into sync?

Posted by kgrp on 10/01 at 12:29 AM
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008

jumping on the wakeboard

last weekend my man flew me up to lake shasta to spend some time on a houseboat with his friends… i was fighting off a sickness but i didn’t wanna give up the chance to meet his friends, nor did i wanna miss out on the fun of being on a houseboat, on a lake, part of nature, away from the city and the stress, and of course, i was looking forward to the chance of wakeboarding again!

lake shasta was rather pretty, although the water levels were dropping extremely low, and i enjoyed being out there.  it was neat seeing markers from old bridges that had been covered up when they first put up the dam on the sacramento river.  i also enjoyed the church service we put on for ourselves cuz i haven’t led out in church in a while - and they put the two of us in charge of song service - with my hoarse voice and all!

here i am enjoying wakeboarding after our impromptu house church. 

and then later in the day, i tried again cuz i wanted to learn to jump.  actually, i got a few jumps in the morning but nothing was caught on camera.  later that afternoon i decided to give it a try again and adam took this photo as proof that i actually did jump =)

we had fishing poles hanging off the side of the houseboat all day long and when we came back in the afternoon, grace’s dora the explorer fishing pole had been pulled over the side by some fish… they set it up again and later on that night, another fish took the bait and my man reeled in this huge fish on this tiny fishing pole.  the fish was almost as big as grace herself!  i can’t believe that plastic pole held up!  can you see how huge that fish was?

kurt kept on creating these fantastic gourmet meals all weekend long as well, but i was too busy eating the yummy-ness to take any pictures.  but all in all it was a great trip!  good people, good food, good times =)

Posted by kgrp on 09/23 at 09:13 PM
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Monday, September 08, 2008

161 cookies

i rung in my birthday this year baking 3 ‘family size’ batches of pre-made cookie dough to bring to my students!  i thought it might be more fun to give them away this year…

the total came up to 161 cookies!  that’s a lot of cookies…

and thank you to The Man for helping me bake them!

Posted by kgrp on 09/08 at 01:29 AM
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