So now halfstep is part of a crew. Tuesday after college park practice Russ gave me a call. He told me that cab crew had a meeting earlier and wanted to invite me to be a part of the crew. I had been waiting for CAB to ask me to be down with them for a while now. So now its time to rep cab hard and show some mofo's what's up!
Halfstep
Thursday, October 19, 2006
San Diego an CSDC
So all month I've been busting my ass to work on choreo for San Diego. Well I been busting my ass for quite some time now...but that's besides the point. There were 2 pieces in paticular that I thought I had a decent chance on. I really wanted to be able to perform with CSCD(cultureshock DC) in san diego for the showcase. I didn't make the cut however. It hurt a lot to have worked so hard and not gotten what I was working for. I was really frustrated and angry at myself. Its easy to think of the unfairness of it all, but that's not really what its about.
For me dance has never came easy as it does for a lot of people. Especially choreography. But my life isn't about only doing those things that I'm good at. Life is a struggle. My dad always used to say if something's worth having its worth fighting for. Just because you fall down, you don't give up. You get up, and you try again. Its not like I wasted all that time training. Everyone on the team has said they've noticed a big improvement in me. Even I have noticed over the past few months, things get a little easier. But I'm still not clean. I don't have the control yet. Because my dance style is BIG, its hard for me to do a lot of small quick things cleanly. But that is my challenge. That is the area of dance that I need to focus on. I'm glad to have gotten the feedback from csdc.
I know it hurt, and it sucks for me to be the only person on the team going to san diego and not performing, but I welcome it. Whatever doesn't kill me can only make me stronger. Kate has a good saying that there is no comfort in progress and there is no progress in comfort. I know it would be easy for me to have just not gone. But I want to be part of the team. Even if it hurts, I will go and support my team, otherwise am I really part of the team? You have to give to get. In the beginning when I first joined culture shock, I didn't really understand that. I was always so frustrated and always felt so far behind, and felt that no one accepted me. But was I leaving myself open and trying? Maybe not hard enought.
I've always been pretty shy, but thats not the problem. Even if I'm not the best dancer or best leader, there are ways that I can contribute to the team. I've realized that as of late and decided to be more proactive on the team. Specifically in my nerdiness. I'm going to try to help organize the team more on the tech side and help with their website. Eventually I will get the choreography part. Eventually I will perform with my team. These things I know, because halfstep doesn't quit....
For me dance has never came easy as it does for a lot of people. Especially choreography. But my life isn't about only doing those things that I'm good at. Life is a struggle. My dad always used to say if something's worth having its worth fighting for. Just because you fall down, you don't give up. You get up, and you try again. Its not like I wasted all that time training. Everyone on the team has said they've noticed a big improvement in me. Even I have noticed over the past few months, things get a little easier. But I'm still not clean. I don't have the control yet. Because my dance style is BIG, its hard for me to do a lot of small quick things cleanly. But that is my challenge. That is the area of dance that I need to focus on. I'm glad to have gotten the feedback from csdc.
I know it hurt, and it sucks for me to be the only person on the team going to san diego and not performing, but I welcome it. Whatever doesn't kill me can only make me stronger. Kate has a good saying that there is no comfort in progress and there is no progress in comfort. I know it would be easy for me to have just not gone. But I want to be part of the team. Even if it hurts, I will go and support my team, otherwise am I really part of the team? You have to give to get. In the beginning when I first joined culture shock, I didn't really understand that. I was always so frustrated and always felt so far behind, and felt that no one accepted me. But was I leaving myself open and trying? Maybe not hard enought.
I've always been pretty shy, but thats not the problem. Even if I'm not the best dancer or best leader, there are ways that I can contribute to the team. I've realized that as of late and decided to be more proactive on the team. Specifically in my nerdiness. I'm going to try to help organize the team more on the tech side and help with their website. Eventually I will get the choreography part. Eventually I will perform with my team. These things I know, because halfstep doesn't quit....
The new J O B
So now you are reading the blog of an official Booz Allen Hamilton! Haha. I started last week and so far am loving it. The team I joined is called the IT Innovation team. I get to do all sorts of nerdy stuff, which is awesome for me. Here thinking outside of the box is encouraged. I'm on a pretty big team of all tech geeks who love programming. I realized how much I loved it when going to lunch with some colleagues and having a serious geek discussion daily. How cool is that?! The drive to McLean kind of sucks, but whatever, maybe I'll start taking the metro, we'll see.
So right now its pretty chill at work, but I'm guessing soon I'll be working on some crazy stuff. The cool thing about this job, is almost no overtime. They were telling me once that sometimes in crunches where we have to work overtime. And they were complaining like 45-50 hours for a few weeks haha. I kept quiet about that, but thats a cakewalk. I like the culture here so far too.
Hooray for booz!
Halfstep
So right now its pretty chill at work, but I'm guessing soon I'll be working on some crazy stuff. The cool thing about this job, is almost no overtime. They were telling me once that sometimes in crunches where we have to work overtime. And they were complaining like 45-50 hours for a few weeks haha. I kept quiet about that, but thats a cakewalk. I like the culture here so far too.
Hooray for booz!
Halfstep
NYC Dude!
Haha Ya I know I'm writing this like a week late but whatever! Better late than never. So last week I went to NYC on my pseudo-week off between jobs where I still got paid. :D
I had a pretty good time. I stayed with suju and got to see some old friends from college. In case you didn't go to college with me, the title is an inside joke. There used to be this scrawny ass indian kid in my college who was absolutely obsessed with NYC, he thought it was the greatest place in the world. He was one of those from a pretty well to do family in bombay, kind of fake indian. He always talked about raves and dropping acid, though I doubt he'd touched a drug in his life. He walked around campus wearing slippers with cartoon characters on them, pants that were neither shorts nor pants, but somewhere inbetween. He was also very opinionated, which was why most people didn't really like him. One last interesting tidbit about K before I stop this tangent. He drank a 40 that was half piss once, and said to the host of the party "Hey Dood, this beer tastes kinda flat. hahaha.
Ok now that I've lost any direction in this post lets talk about NYC. Its still dirty and full of people. But at least my friends are there. I started waiting for sujan to come meet me in chinatown to pick me up from the bus stop. We had planned to go eat momo(nepali dumplings) with some of his friends. We were supposed to meet his friends somewhere, and knowing Sujan, things got mixed up and we were tracking all around nyc subway. One annoying thing about the trains in NYC, there is no cell phone reception, so once you enter the station, you have no ties to the outside world, making it near impossible to meet up with someone.
Well we finally made it, and I hadn't ate the whole day so I was STARVED. I ate like 100 momos(not really, but you get the picture) and was completely stuffed. Then Sujan and I left and we were going to one of his uncles houses because it was some Nepali religious holliday. Sujan failed to inform me there would be another meal....
So we arrived at his uncles place and then I met everyone. Then they decided to do the nepali ceremony and gave everyone some fruit and red dot. I got one too, so I am officially a dot head :D. Then his uncle spoke the fatal words, "It's time for dinner". My jaw dropped. I couldn't be rude and refuse, but I also couldn't eat anymore. I need to hollow out my leg in case something like this happens in the future. But I ended up eating again, it was really good food, but at a certain point nothing tastes good. I was very appreciative for their hospitality though. Sujan proceeded to get drunk off beer and whiskey, and Sujan drunk isn't a pretty site. He started getting really chatty in Nepali, he was talking to his uncles and cousins, and I could tell he was saying the same kinds of things he says in english when he's drunk. So classic hah, I miss suju!
Anyway the next few days were filled mostly with chilling. I got to meet Xiu mei after not seeing her since 04 when I graduated, watching her obsess about some korean boy band, even buying a dvd set that she can't even play because she doesn't have the right player....girls.....
I also got to meet up with Jin who cooked me awesome meat filled dinner. I also got to see the newest chinese movie, that probably wont be in the US for another 2 years haha.
It was a pretty uneventful week, but I needed some relaxing time. I hardly danced at all, which was probably good for my muscles, but its been hard getting back into the gear of things this week.
I had a pretty good time. I stayed with suju and got to see some old friends from college. In case you didn't go to college with me, the title is an inside joke. There used to be this scrawny ass indian kid in my college who was absolutely obsessed with NYC, he thought it was the greatest place in the world. He was one of those from a pretty well to do family in bombay, kind of fake indian. He always talked about raves and dropping acid, though I doubt he'd touched a drug in his life. He walked around campus wearing slippers with cartoon characters on them, pants that were neither shorts nor pants, but somewhere inbetween. He was also very opinionated, which was why most people didn't really like him. One last interesting tidbit about K before I stop this tangent. He drank a 40 that was half piss once, and said to the host of the party "Hey Dood, this beer tastes kinda flat. hahaha.
Ok now that I've lost any direction in this post lets talk about NYC. Its still dirty and full of people. But at least my friends are there. I started waiting for sujan to come meet me in chinatown to pick me up from the bus stop. We had planned to go eat momo(nepali dumplings) with some of his friends. We were supposed to meet his friends somewhere, and knowing Sujan, things got mixed up and we were tracking all around nyc subway. One annoying thing about the trains in NYC, there is no cell phone reception, so once you enter the station, you have no ties to the outside world, making it near impossible to meet up with someone.
Well we finally made it, and I hadn't ate the whole day so I was STARVED. I ate like 100 momos(not really, but you get the picture) and was completely stuffed. Then Sujan and I left and we were going to one of his uncles houses because it was some Nepali religious holliday. Sujan failed to inform me there would be another meal....
So we arrived at his uncles place and then I met everyone. Then they decided to do the nepali ceremony and gave everyone some fruit and red dot. I got one too, so I am officially a dot head :D. Then his uncle spoke the fatal words, "It's time for dinner". My jaw dropped. I couldn't be rude and refuse, but I also couldn't eat anymore. I need to hollow out my leg in case something like this happens in the future. But I ended up eating again, it was really good food, but at a certain point nothing tastes good. I was very appreciative for their hospitality though. Sujan proceeded to get drunk off beer and whiskey, and Sujan drunk isn't a pretty site. He started getting really chatty in Nepali, he was talking to his uncles and cousins, and I could tell he was saying the same kinds of things he says in english when he's drunk. So classic hah, I miss suju!
Anyway the next few days were filled mostly with chilling. I got to meet Xiu mei after not seeing her since 04 when I graduated, watching her obsess about some korean boy band, even buying a dvd set that she can't even play because she doesn't have the right player....girls.....
I also got to meet up with Jin who cooked me awesome meat filled dinner. I also got to see the newest chinese movie, that probably wont be in the US for another 2 years haha.
It was a pretty uneventful week, but I needed some relaxing time. I hardly danced at all, which was probably good for my muscles, but its been hard getting back into the gear of things this week.
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