Emit Remmus' Summer Time

Hey there. It's Fernando once again; no longer a high school student, but up-n-coming college student. But of course there is always the summer vacation between school years for people of all ages to enjoy. For me, summer thus far has been a full of awesome trips and outings, as well as a few downers. But that is life, not everything is sunshine and smiles. Albeit that sounds pretty gay, everyone would love to have that in their own not-so-fruity way.

Once I officially graduated, I've been goin' out a few times with some of my good friends. Take the day after, where I helped out Ms. Lauer (or Ali) move into her new room. Once all the moving was done, I went out for tacos with Jennifer Tso, Ryan, Minh, and Andy; at the same time introducing the sope to Jennifer. Then there two beach trips in the same week; the first was with most of the "Smarties", which include Luis, Elias, Sifredo, and Alfred. We where there the whole day!!! Then there was the one with my siblings and Francis, who bought a couple of kites to fly. Of course you can't have summer without goin' to see movies. On 4th of July my family and I went to see "Live Free or Die Hard," where I left the theater with a huge smile on my face. I also got to see "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" with Rosalia (just the two of us), who looked very pretty in her yellow dress. That same day, which was this past Thursday, I saw a 1920's take on Shakespeare's "A Midnight Summer's Dream" with Ali. It was such a good show! Most importantly, I finally went to UC Irvine for placement testing. It's such a beautiful campus; it is SO green!!! And they have a Jack in the Box!!! I can't wait to go!

Then there are the downers... first the fact that I haven't found work. It's sort of makin' me a discouraged worker. Still lookin' for work though; I'm still keeping the faith. Then there is my mom leaving to El Salvador for a couple of weeks. It's just that I'm gonna miss seeing my mom, also the chance that we might starve or kill ourselves from our own cooking. The day she left was also lame, as my friends went to go see "Transformers." Bastards! The bright side though was the bike ride with Francis and Jennifer Lew, which was fun.

Now the biggest downer for me was the Benoit Tragedy. At first I was so upset that he died, since it wasn't long ago that Eddie Guerrero died. Then a wrestler with ability similar to Eddie dies too. However, I was even more upset, as well as confused, that it was believed that Chris Benoit killed his wife Nancy and 7 year-old son Daniel. With that in mind, I cannot watch a match with Benoit in, without thinking this bastard, with such great wrestling ability, murdered his family and then himself. I just don't know what to think; perhaps time will help me heal from this tragedy. But what upsets me even more is the damn media and how they handled this, bringing up the possibility of roid rage. Does this tragedy sounds like a quick outburst from steroids (note that both Nancy and Daniel died over one whole weekend). Then old wrestlers from five-ten years ago come in talking shit just to get their five minutes of fame. I don't recall such chaos when Eddie died; it's so stupid!!! I'm glad I have a friend in a girl named Melody Li to helped me with this, who reminded me that all these emotions makes me human. It just sucks that Benoit, one of the greats, is a murdering bastard. Before anyone found this out, they had a tribute show to Benoit on Raw. The final match they showed was the Wrestlemania XX Triple Threat Match with Triple H and Shawn Michaels for the World Heavyweight Championship. When he won that and cried, my brother started to cry. Then when he celebrated with then-WWE Champion Eddie Guerrero, I started to cry. I wish I could remember Benoit the way I do Eddie, but that cannot happen at this moment, if not ever...

That is how my summer has been. A lot of fun with a hint of sadness and confusion. But I do hope things will get better, as I'm sure they will. There's still plenty of summer left, then the big step into adulthood with my freshmen year of college. But I shall approach it one step at a time. That's all from Emit. Peace, bitches...