Sometimes we fall; Sometimes we soar,but most importantly, we must never give up.
NEVER, ever give up on yourself.
Are you ready for an adventure?
Well, welcome to my world, where
it's always adventure time!! :D
-Kevin C. Nguyen
Sometimes we fall; Sometimes we soar,
Friendship<3
“there are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.” —Albert Einstein
When I started to see everything as a miracle in my life, great things just seems to keep happening to me; I’m more happier and good news just keep rolling in, it’s almost unbearable how lucky I feel right now. I might sound like I’m on some kind of crack everyday by how much I express my happiness but it’s really no joke, I’m loving every second of my life right now and I couldn’t be in a better place in my life. So I guess you can say, I’m on the good kind of crack ;] (LOL).
Since March, I haven’t been able to stop and fully absorb my current situation of all these great opportunities and moments given to me. SO MUCH has happened already and I keep saying, “I wish I could cry right now” because of how happy I am, but for some reason I can’t when I try to. I have so many reasons to be happy with my life and if I can’t cry tears of joy, then I’m sure as hell gonna smile it off like a million bucks :D
Today, I choose to live as if everything is a miracle.
Kevin C. Nguyen
You Only Live Once
It starts off with me meeting up with thomas somewhere in the forest. He supposedly has some great news he wants to share with me. I’m walking my dog through one of the trails and in the distance I see another person walking their dog coming my direction. I can’t make out much but a dark figure. I begin to slow down when I notice his unusual red eyes glimmering. I stop and think if I should turn around. I glance at the dark figure slowly coming closer and look back to the entrance of the trail, not so far away in the only sunny patch of light. As I begin to turn around, his hand grabs me and it all went black from there. He attacks me. All I remember seeing was his red eyes.
I wake up in the forest hours later and there I see thomas. He helps me up and I ask what happened? He tries to calm me down but I feel something abnormal stuck in between my teeth. I open my mouth and fiddle the area with my tongue and gasp. My top two canine teeth are 3 times bigger and I begin to freak out even more. There’s blood all over my clothes and thomas picks me up and takes me to another part of the woods. He explains to me what happened and confessed it was him who attacked me. I realize I’m now a vampire… All I can remember him saying to me was, “Kevin its so freakin amazing” and started listing reasons why as if I’m at the car dealership picking out a car. When I get home, I’m still shocked with this surreal realization. I needed to tell someone so I gathered up all my friends I haven’t seen in what feels like years to meet at this forest to inform them what has happened (not intending to hurt them what so ever like how thomas did to me).
When we meet up, I realize I am the last one in the group to turn. They all are vampires as well! We go somewhere down the road where we begin “training.” We run back and forth at incredible speed and jump from tree to tree, spying on innocent people below. Then before you know it, we arrive at some library. We walk to the bottom floor to what looks like a book club gathering of some sort. But then I realize, this isn’t any book club gathering, it’s a decoy. Everyone in this room was actually a vampire. I could tell by the red glimmer in each of their eyes. Lucky says to me, we’re going to see each other every week now okay? I chuckle and I say “yeah, we will.” My friends and I stand to the side of the room catching up and right when the meeting is called to order, I wake up.
FUCK…
Crystal Cove 2/27/2012
Hollywood Tourist Day w/ Michelle
March 24, 2012
ChellVin :]
Shipwreck Cove:
Our new secret spot :P
I Llove our adventures… :]
HELLO TUMBLRRRRRR
As I’m driving along PCH, I roll down my window and in comes a comforting scent, the beach. Sniff-sniff. Sniff-sniff. The teasing smell of salty water goodness, cheap acidic suntan lotion, and burning charcoals on barbeque grills leave my nose sniffing for more. I can already feel the sand in between my toes. It’s like I’m back at my home town.
I haven’t been to the beach since 2 summers ago. I love the beach, the beach is my spot! It’s where I could always go recharge my inner energy while have a blast at the same time. Today when I opened my front door to get the mail, this wave of heat rushed in and onto me and I said to myself, today would be a nice day to go to the beach... Then I asked myself. Why not then? I am off today… Immediately after I finish lunch, put on some board shorts (oh how nice it feels to wear these again!), and eagerly get into my car and drive down Brookhurst Street. After I park and walk down the main street towards the pier, I look around to the shops, restaurants, and people all over wearing board shorts / bikinis; something clicks. I feel strangely at home and that’s when I realized my old beach bum side came out. I am not gonna lie, I really miss these days so much. I’m totally a white washed Asian in disguise… Seeing all the surfers, volley ball players, and beach cruisers really showed so much life here today at the beach (when I thought it’s winter and it’ll be dead) and I wish I could be more apart of this. I feel, alive to be here. I then ask myself, where have I been…?
I’ve missed having sand in all the wrong places :P
Kevin C. Nguyen
YOLO
LA Travel Show: 01/14/11
where to even start? Well I surprised my friends by taking them to this convention about traveling which had all these interesting booths from all parts of the world handing out fliers and free stuff. And on top of that there were activities we could do like rock climbing, indoor scuba diving, zip lining, walking on water in hamster balls, and more all for free! :] It was an awesome experience and I’m glad I got to do it with my adventure buddies :] I love them to death! They are the reason why I am so hungry for adventure all the time :] I usually go on adventures with each of them separately so I thought today I could surprise them by bringing them together on one mega adventure! They were all so scared and nervous at first since I usually inform them what’s going on but today all they knew was that we were going to get wet, climb walls, and have lots of fun. One-by-one as I picked them up in the morning they were so surprised to see each other and anxious to see where we were going. I’m glad it turned out a success :D ADVENTURE is out there!
So this is what it feels like to be alive…
Now that’s a great adventure to start the year off >:]
Kevin C. Nguyen
YOLO
Calling—Alesso / Ingrosso
This is to last night @Palladium :] <3
Met sooo many nice people last night, it was awesomee! With all the temptations, I didn’t roll and I’m proud of myself for that. It was still so much fun going semi buzzed :D I think it really has to do with the crowd’s energy that gets me going. People thought I was rolling though LOL WIN. OH, last night was fun… :] And fuck you alesso for playing Pressure at the very end! I was so sad I thought I missed it… But then he said… Well he said something exciting. Then it went into Pressure and it was just a glorious moment >:D
DAYGLOW LA:
My group of friends hold onto this railing for our dear lives sending death glares at everyone behind us trying to get in between us. After awhile, I whip my arm back to send a “polite” message to the dumb bitches behind us, that I will hit you if you keep this up. Never in my life had I ever been so mean at these kinds of event but tonight, I had to fight for our front row spots at DayGlow and let me tell you, this is where all the action happens!
After this annoying countdown to when the paint party was going to start, we were quite disappointed by how little paint we got on our end of the stage. At first to be honest, I didn’t expect us to be in much paint since we were in the right side corner-ish of the stage. We all felt neglected and I could see it on everyone’s faces, I want some paint… Us all watching the people in the middle get painted on, then watching people from the middle back getting splattered by paint thrown from the second floor balcony, we then became hopeless and desperate for a single drop of paint. As soon as I turn to give my friend the hopeless look, a guy with a giant bucket filled of paint comes and splashes it on everyone in my area. I reach into the bucket, grab as much paint as I could and whip it back onto my group of friends’ face / hair and now, Game On! As soon as that paint party started, everyone who once was mean is now all of a sudden friendly and making up by help splattering paint on each other. It went from being a hostile environment to a painting love feast! LOL We got to be on so many cameras shots, I’m positive we’re going to be in one of the clips! >:D R3HAB tore the house up… OMG! It was nonstop back to back hard hitter songs! I was that beat and tired from dancing T_T LOL but it was a fucking amazing time. I haven’t had that much fun in such a long time. R3HAB you are definitely my 3rd favorite DJ <3 What a rush…
ADVENTURE, is out there!
Gorilla Challenge: Long Beach 11/12/11
As we all gather around outside of Rock Bottom’s Brewery, we stand anxiously waiting for further instruction. We stand for what seems like 10 long silent minutes waiting, waiting, and waiting; all of us not sure what’s going to happen in a matter of minutes when the race begin. All I remember after that, is as soon as the announcer said, “make your way to the tent, a block down this street to get your clue sheet. Only team leaders can pick these up,” I see all 180 faces light up and slowly moves towards that direction. Some I see look frightened, backing away from the soon-to-be-charing malicious-like crowd (Is this really happening?). READY. Some, once very friendly people we took pictures with earlier, I see have their game faces thrown on now, ready to push through anyone in front of them (OMG, this is as real as it gets). GET SET. I take my stand, determined to—GO! (Oh shit…) And we’re off!
Gorilla Challenge is very similar to The Amazing Race, except for it’s not as intense (thank god it was only within a 5 mile radius). We weren’t allowed to use cars, bikes, horses, or any sort of space ships except for public shuttles. We ran and ran and ran for what seemed like a marathon across Downtown Long Beach, looking frivolously for our answers and participating in numerous challenges. I wonder how people must’ve thought of all of us in our outrageous costumes running across town like maniacs. LOL We had a lot of love and support from the citizens of Long Beach and it felt nice to have people cheering us on as we ran by like as if we were apart of some amazing race (Oh wait…!). Everyone in my team asked me where do I have all this energy, like seriously I was quite surprised to see myself running and cheering everyone on the whole day. Like a whole new side of me was unleashed. We all came together and worked as a whole team and in the end it paid off. We placed top 10 out of 66 teams and 180 people racing today. I am very impressed and proud with my team. We all hung in there and kept pushing each other to keep going. Jenn, Jade, Brian & Lucky were really great at cracking down the riddles within minutes. And with my great sense of direction, I felt like I planned our stops out efficiently and guided my team through some helpful “shortcuts” ;P I haven’t felt this kind of team work in such a long time. It felt amazinggg!
I was not out to win the challenge today but during the whole day, I couldn’t help but feel like we could win this… We placed 10 / 66! :D That is pretty legit and amazing to even say so I am very proud of us. Today has got to be my favorite Adventure yet and I’m so glad my friends & I were apart of the Gorilla Challenge’s first ever event in Long Beach. THE SUPER TEAM, FTW! Until next time… ;]
To the memories I’ll never forget <3
Adventure is out there!
It sounded soo good in my head a second ago. But when I finally open that text up, nothing comes out the way I wanted it to be. And I’m left with this blank box with a stupid cursor blinking aimlessly every millisecond at me. Calling and calling me for something to be typed through. But nothing comes. I fuckin’ hate this feeling T_T … DONE. It was a great post—in my head -____-
