3 day climbing trip this weekend!!!

Yep, from Friday night to Monday afternoon Jeff, Laurel and I will be in the Valley climbing our butts off!!!!

Rock Band!!!!

My family and I kick butt at Rock Band!

Thanksgiving was wonderful. Lot's of traditional Thanksgiving food along with ethnic Cambodian food...which I missed oh so much!!!

Apple Butter!!!

Brittney in the backround cleaning the jars.

I CAN'T WAIT FOR THE WEEKEND!!! Gonna go climbing on Fresno Dome with Jeff, Joel and Bill!!! WOOO!!!

These glasses...holy cow!

I stepped out of the accommo truck tonight as I parked it to end the day of worked up looked up at the night sky. I could not help but say "HOLY $#!&!" Literally. I have not seen the night sky like that in my entire life. I mean, I've seen it plenty of times the past summers and Common Fire seasons I've worked up here. But I didn't realize my vision was THAT bad to be missing out on SOOOOOO much!!!!!!!!

I am going to make some tea, grab a blanket and spend a good amount of time on my roof tonight. Yes I will.

Bouldering/Climbing

Jeff scoping out the face of the infamous Calvin Crest boulder.

We're both going climbing tomorrow in Fresno again. I'm pumped. Laurel will be there to join us again, along with Travis Feaver.

The weather has been ridiculously beautiful and amazing up here! It's the middle of Nov. and we're seeing clear skies with temps around mid 70's. HOW CRAZY IS THAT??! Well, I'm looking forward to the rest of this semester. I think I might visit the Valley(Yosemite) on Monday and Tuesday, seeing how those are both my days off next week. Probably camp and climb my butt off till my fingers become raw.

Phil and Heidi also got married last weekend! WOO! Congrats to you both! I love you guys and look forward to continuing to be a part of your lives! :)

I love dancing. And food. Weddings are wonderful. I almost cried at this one...but held back because I had the responsiblity of doing sound stuff and didn't want to mess anything up.

:)

OH!!#!@ I got glasses too!!! I feel like I see everything in HD TV mode now! It's so awesome!

Lovely.

Taken this past Sunday after turnover.

Taken tonight

It was really dark earlier today, as I stated in the post before. It's cleared up now and the stars are out...but it's freezing. I talked to Tony to see if curtains could help us save money. Towels just might do that job. :) I take back my summer comment...somewhat. I guess the gloomy weather lately has taken somewhat of a toll on me. I'm looking forward to tomorrow morning, I feel like it's going to be really clear and sunny and beautiful!!

I'm also going to the eye doctor(not sure what the specific term for that is) tomorrow morning before work. It's exciting to see how bad my eyesight really is. And I'm stoked to use all this special equipment to test my eyesight! WOO!!

I...am...sleeeeeppppyyyy.

Wow.

It's dark.

That's all.

It's 6 and it's cloudy.

Dark.

And cold and wet.

:( I want the summer season to come back.

Weekend.

Halloween was pretty freaking awesome. I'll stop there :)

The next day Jeff, Andrea and I went down to Fresno to climb at the old climbing gym I used to work at, Yosemite Fitness. Travis joined us later that day, along with Laural, who I haven't seen in almost a year. The day started out well, Travis arrived before we did and was already warming up on some problems. Laural slept in and didn't come till 12. I jumped on a some SWEEET V3's and 4's to warm up on. I spent most of the day working on a crimpy V8 that did a number on me. I tore some skin off of some fingers that shed some blood, kept my shoes on too long and couldn't lock in any heel hooks 'cause the inside heel was too sweaty...Travis, Jeff and Andrea mostly toproped and climbed some routes using the autobelay. It was cool to see them getting on stuff that was challenging for their level of climbing.

Laural and I spent alot of time together helping each other out on some hard routes. It was so great to climb with her again after so long. Up until Sat. I had always talked to Jeff about how great of a climber Laural is. I don't think he really believed me until we watched her climb...out of the corner of my eye, I could see Jeff's jaw drop to the ground...he was floored. After about a good 6 hours of hard climbing, well at least 6 hours for me haha...we decided to end the day with a trip to Teazers(equivelent of Starbucks, but with tea).

Greg stopped by, which was great, except when you put him and Jeff in a room together, madness occurs! Good madness though, they're really goofy and funny. I probably drank way too much tea that night, but the sugar helped me share lots of great stories and keep the energy alive. Overall, great weekend.

Today is my day off and I'm contemplating whether I should stay here and relax or go down to Fresno to visit my uncle.

Hmm...

Picture time!

Jeff warming up on a sweet lieback.

Mary at the base of Yosemite Falls.

Overlooking the pool at the base of the fall.

I love this view.

The leaves are turning!!!

Destruction at Curry Village

Dining Hall roof is being redone!

I love my room.

Taken on the way to the Vermont Competition

So...the weather isn't looking too good. It's cloudy and the chance of rain I heard is above 50 percent. Which means the plans for climbing this weekend just might go down the drain. I thought of the idea of going down to Fresno to climb at my old gym, but we'll see if that changes...it's all up to the weather :)

Weekend in Santa Cruz/LA!

Hanging out at Emily's house before we hit the HUGE waves.

The water was pretty cold too.

And I got caught in a rip tide.

No more competing...

I decided sometime last week that I wouldn't be competing anymore. It's just costing me so much to go compete every other weekend. The cost for gas, entry fee's and food, would total almost half an entire paycheck. Oh well, at least I can say that at one point in the competition, I was ranked 1st in the nation :).

On a different note, I really really enjoy learning new songs on the guitar.

Like...I really like it.

Jeff and I have also gone to another boulder I forgot existed. We're working on this super hard slab project with death crimps and horrible feet. I'm looking forward to getting the first ascent though. Not saying that Jeff can't, it's just he's having a hard time sticking the crimps, which are actually my forte...and vital to getting past the crux moves.

OHH! And myself, Jeff, Joel and hopefully Sarah and Graham from Summit Adventures will be joining us next weekend to do some climbing on Fresno Dome! I'm thinking of calling some more people from Emerald Cove to come along so it could be one big party! Ooooo this is so exciting! There's also a sweeeet boulder project I'm working on at the Willow Creek area. Can't really do too much or get too high on it since it's pretty mossy. I'll definitely have to do some cleaning and brushing to get it prep for it's first ascent.

Yay for climbing!

What a great day off.

Watched two movies, ran into town to drop off Marcus for his class...

Hung out and caught up with Ann which was great!!

Had sushi with the White's and Ann.

Took lots of pictures of the leaves turning color.

:)

Oh yeah, took a trip to the hospital too!

I love...

...laughing!

I haven't laughed as much as I have been these past few days in such a long time.

Just in case...

So I didn't go to a comp today and won't next Saturday either...which is a huge bummer and might move me down in rankings drastically.

I thought it'd just be sweet if I posted the rankings on here just in case I never see them like this again this season.

ANNNDD I went climbing in Yosemite today with Jeff Wilson and Travis Feaver...I injured my forearm which put me out of commission for the entire day. IT SUCKED!! I only got one climb in! I don't even know how I injured it! :( I hope it heals before the 1st of Nov...it hurts really bad.

Climbing update

As of today, I found out that I am ranked 1st in the state for the Adult category and 3rd in the nation! Not much words can describe how I feel right now. The above picture is of me warming up on a sweet V3 from my first comp.

Everyday I have the blues.

Kudos to anyone that can name the artist of the song titled above! No cheating either please(ie. using Google)

As of right now, I'm in the computer room with Mary to my right looking at some random blog, James on my left playing my newly strung electric Hohner and I'm here typing this as you read!

AND it's raining outside! Or maybe just sprinkling.

But Fall is near...or is it already here?

Okay, I'll promise I'll write something productive next time. Goodnight!

Oh, by the way...

I also just found out that I am ranked 3rd in the state.

I'm going to have such a hard time sleeping tonight. Holy cow.

Strawberry Swing... :)

4th place! I placed 4th! WOW!

I did not expect to do that well at my very first comp, especially with the condition my fingers were in! I am DEFINITELY excited to compete in future comps. I feel strong, I am confident and am SOOO STOKED! HA!

Hope.

OHHHH man I had a weird dream last night involving lots of dancing, chips and dips, awkward slow dance moments, songs I haven't heard of since I was in jr. high....boys seperated on one side and girls on the other...

Wait, just kidding, it was real!

Hahaha, I got a kick out of that one!

2 days.

I'm not ready.

Wow!

Holy crap it's been too long since I've last updated this thing! I would use summer as my excuse, but it looked like posts came to a halt at the beginning of April. Now that I'm here and back, I will try my best to keep this updated, for the sake of those who wish to know how life is going here at camp.

Well, to start out, I'll be heading to Fremont this weekend with Jeff Wilson to compete in the first ABS 10 Bouldering comp. of the season!!!! WOOO!!! I'm really excited and nervous at the same time. I'm also really glad that Jeff is here to keep me mentally and physically stable. He's been working me out very hard these past few nights in preparation for the competition.

I'll keep you guys updated as to how I do, where my future comps. will be just in case you'd like to stop by and be my personal cheerleaders(which I would really really love and appreciate by the way! haha) and what not. Wish me luck! And stay posted, I'm so stoked to start posting on here again!

CTC and French Toast

Geoff embracing the Cinnamon Toast Crunch as a proud father would embrace his son...or daughter.

Geoff and I look forward to Thursday morning breakfast every week. Why? Because we get a combination of both CTC AND French Toast!! It's just a bunch of toast madness in a single morning! To top it off, there's also sausages included. Yum! Thank you kitchen!

I want more sushi now...

Lingo.

I felt compelled to ask everyone up here if I sound funny when I talk. Well, not sound funny, but if have a weird accent. Before I begin, let me share a short story...

When I was in..4th or 5th grade, I remember receiving an award that had to do with me speaking English very very well. At first, I was confused because there were alot of other students who spoke as well as I did. But! I then found out that the award was for students who weren't caucasian! And what made it even more amazing was the fact that I was the only student that got the award, which meant a big awards ceremony with lots of old people that looked important, music and FOOD! That's all...a very random and not so great story.

SO! For some odd reason, I've been getting playing back this memory in my head daily...and one morning during turnover, I asked Caitlin if I talk funny. I now realize that I say the most random things whenever I talk to Caitlin, which then results to lots of laughter and me having to explain myself. She tells me that I do have a funny accent, but not an asian one. I asked her to elaborate some more and she, with short bursts of giggles in between every other word tells me that I talk in question marks. Like..." I ate sushi today? And I probably ate too much?"

Notice the bolded "shi" and "too". She also pointed out that whenever I talk in my question marks or just overall, I tend to exaggerate words or parts of words and say them in a higher pitch than my regular speaking voice.

Am I even making any sense? I can't tell you. But you can tell me! :)

I got attacked by a squirrel today. Holy cow, that's definitely a story I need to save for another post. I really enjoy having stare offs with squirrels. I've never beaten a squirrel at a stare off, partly because I feel as if they're going to pounce on me and rip me to shreds.

Yeah, a tiny squirrel, ripping me to shreds. It can happen.

Burn Piles

This week is Spring Break for the kids down in the valley, which means no Outdoor Ed and lots of stuff to burn for us :). It gets pretty exhausting to tell you the truth. During my lunch break, I walked into the dining hall, looked out the huge window, saw the pool and couldn't help but jump in.

It was freezing.

But SOOOOO refreshing! The heat from the burn piles seemed to have consumed my entire body and I felt as if I was on fire, until my body hit that ridiculously fridged water. I was tempted to keep my clothes on, including my shoes, but took all but my boxers off. I jumped in a total of three times, two of those were after I had eaten lunch. One of the times Tony saw, which wasn't akward for me, but I don't know how he feels about seeing me in nothing but my boxers, jumping into a body of water that can kill me in minutes. haha.

I got my haircut tonight. I like it alot. I have a fauxhawk now. Is that how you spell it? I always want to pronounce it "foxhawk".

Tomorrow is my day off and I have a huge desire and urge to jog/run all the way down to the 41 and back. And, my jumprope has done me good since I've gotten it. I forgot what a GREAT workout you can get by jumproping for just half an hour. I love it!

This week has reminded me alot of the interim period after summer is over, before Common Fire starts. No guests are here, small amount of staff members on the mountain(a few are on vacation...or will be) there's not really a set daily schedule(just 8 to 5) and...it's quiet.

Wait, I'm lying. Belle barks all the time, at nothing.

Nothing.

And...

...it's snowing really really hard. I don't think I'll be able to do most of my to do list for this weekend if the weather stays consistent. I can only limit myself to a few indoor activities, like playing my guitar(which I already did, I taught Ann some worship songs) laundry...lots and lots of it, reading, blogging(hah!) engaging in conversations, napping(which I really don't want to do), eating...and I'm running out of things to do. Help me.

I want to go snow shoeing, but it's literally storming right now. It's coming down like there's no tomorrow.

I feel like I'm making excuses for some reason. I really just need to shut up and be quiet.

Weekend off...

I have a few ideas about what I want to do, but truthfully, I don't think it'll be enough to make it a productive/relaxing weekend off. Not that I want my entire weekend to be this carefully, planned out mess that would disappoint me if I didn't fufill any of them...but I want to at least have an idea of what I want to do. I don't think I'm making any sense, to you and myself.

I've started cleaning the pool 2 days ago. I first found out my love for pool maintenence my first summer on staff on the Event's team. I love keeping it clean and clear, free of bugs, leaves and grass blades floating aimlessly on top of the water. I enjoy putting DH into the filters and rinsing out the pumps. There's this sense of peace that overcomes me whenever I dive to the bottom to retrieve pieces of tiles that have fallen off of the pool walls. I'm weird, I know. That's basically one of the things I'm going to do my entire weekend to pass time, cleaning the pool. Not that any of us will be able to swim in it soon since it's still so darn cold...and will be up until like, the second week of June. I just want to maintain it and not have to cringe whenever I pass by and see this huge nastiness of black stuff and gross algae. Anyways, people have been telling me "Hey, if you really enjoy it, go for it! I wouldn't do it, but since you are...go you." hahaha. I love the simple things in life.

My home smells good. My home being Calvin Crest. I was walking along the AIM trail and naturally took in a huge, deep breath through my nose and couldn't help but thank the Lord for CLEAN air. Living in Bakersfield for 6 years and Fresno for 4 months has done quite a deal to my lungs. I miss Long Beach.

I had a really good conversation with Janice tonight.

A fine day off...

My day off was pretty relaxing and productive at the same time. I showered, played on my drumset, traversed on the bouldering wall, did some archery, made mac and cheese with chopped up hot links(delicious!!!), bought a new sweater, ate some gummi bears, rollerbladed up and down CC road(INTENSE!!!!!!!hahahah)...andddd yeah...that was some of the things I did today.

I'm really bummed that I didn't get my package today. I bought a jumprope a while ago and it was suppose to come in on Friday but didn't. I've been really looking forward to doing a new cardiovascular excerise besides running and jumping jacks. But...I'll just have to wait till tomorrow, hopefully.

Oh...man.

Look at those faces. These two will be our(Event's team '08)fearless leaders for this summer. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I cannot wait! hahahaha I am just overcome with so many different emotions right now...I can hardly believe it.

Hummus

I love it, that's all I have to say.

LOVE IT!!!!!

Boo yes, Grandma!

Geoff White and I went out to get some sushi last night.

It...was... SPLENDID! Not only do I LOVE sushi, but it was also a great time to talk and catch up with Geoff. Dinner was filled with laughter, great stories, reminiscing about past camp experiences, and myself having to ask for the menu again because the first round didn't quite fill me up...

For the past week or so, the weather has been so beautiful and most of the snow has already begun melting away. I'm afraid that we might be getting some more snow again soon though. It's been overcast all day and a slight fog has settled in, which I hope doesn't stay for long. I really enjoy working in a t-shirt and jeans because I feel like my body is limited to certain movements when it's cold and I have to dress like this:


Lost and Found can be helpful when the weather gets bad up here! I'll never get cold again!!


I want the sun to come back. I want it to melt away all the snow so I can visit my favorite boulder. It's yearning for me to climb it, I can hear it calling my name, asking for me to chalk up my hands and smear my shoes against it's edges. The other day Chris asked me whether I prefer sport climbing over bouldering. I had to give it alot of thought, but came up with the conclusion that I like bouldering more because it costs less. With sport climbing or trad climbing, you'd have to invest in quickdraws, cams, ropes, caribiners, a harness...ect. While with bouldering, all you really need are the shoes, chalkbag, and a crashpad. But, I guess that's why you make friends with people who have equipment for sport climbing, so you can borrow them!!!

What the fuck?!

Okay, so what the hell is wrong with people these days? I can't trust anyone, I can't be myself anymore because I'm a fake, a liar, a person who "fronts" about believing in God, I lead people to hell, my personality is just a load of shit.


"What the fuck" is all I can say and will say.

And I highly believe that cussing is a sin towards man, so if you are offended...there's a little box with an X in it at the top righthand corner of your screen that you can click.

-Peter Khoy

It's about time.

I happened to stumble upon a draft of a post I was going to post up in may of '07 that went something like this...

"It's been a while...

Okay, maybe it's been too long since I've last posted...that's horrible. I'm sorry I mentioned that I would probably update this thing daily/weekly and completely failed at it.

But now that I'm here, I might as well talk about how life has been since my last post!

As I last stated, I attended CSUBakersfield and mentioned that I was already in love with college and CSUB, though classes had only been in session for only 3 days. Well...that's definitely changed alot. As the school year progressed, my feelings for CSUB as a whole changed from me being completely in love with it, to dreading attending another freaking day of class. My experience hasn't been the best and it goes to show that CSUB is not for me."

I can't really remember why I didn't finish the rest of the blog, but I do know that I'm not surprised that I picked such a subject to talk about. It made sense to me, to post a blog about how my school year has been since my last post, at the end of May...during finals and what not.

I also wish that my mind wouldn't constantly wander so much so that I could concentrate on writing this blog!!!! GAHH!

Ok, this always happens and I hate it because I feel as if I wouldn't be able to type from my heart with my mind on something else. I want to talk about how my first year of college went, but all I can think about is how much I want to rock climb...or how much I wish the snow would melt and be gone for a while just to make my job and things so much easier around here.

Oh yeah, I'm doing Common Fire now, which would explain the snow...and...stuff. I'm also on the accommodations team :).

Alright, I feel as if I should just update everyone on what's been happening in my life since my last post and up till now...

-After I finished my first year of college, I went back to Calvin Crest during the summer to work on the Sherwood team
-The Lord put a heavy desire into my heart to move to Fresno after the summer was over
-I struggled with the fact that finding a roomate might be difficult since I don't really know anyone that lives in Fresno
-One of my teammates told me that her boyfriend(who lives in Fresno and was also working on staff that same summer) had been praying for a roomate for such a long time!
-We talked, prayed...and found an apt. within a week...pretty sweet!
-Summer was extremely hard, but such an amazing and wonderful and blessing experience!
-Fresno was sweet, apt. was nice...I got a job at a Rock climbing gym, got held up at gunpoint, lived off of noodles and taquito's and mac and cheese...LOT'S of it.
-Ummm, the Lord put another huge desire to serve and work at Calvin Crest and do Common Fire...

And now I'm here!

Okay, I'm going to end this here, but for those that happen to stumble upon this and are curious enough to read what I write...please keep me accountable if I don't post on here much....pleasee!!!

Alright. :)

-Peter Khoy