Hobbies

So I saw a quote the other day that I dont remember word for word, but it was to the affect that the things you do while you procrastinate are the things you should most likely be doing instead of the job you have now. I believe this to be a pretty clever thought. I mean normally when you procrastinate you are putting off something boring for something you like to do. If you are procrastinating at work then clearly you do not enjoy your job enough. For me I am realizing more that I picked a field where I can potentially be put in a position to where I can do some of the things that I do when I procrastinate, which is basically be creative. Whether is music or photoshop or something to that effect. Those are the kind of things I do when I dont want to do what I m suppose to be doing. Recently I have found myself spending multiple hours a day trying to learn how to use photoshop. I ve never been that good at it but thankfully there are tons of people who are and post videos on youtube. I have to add...youtube is the greatest site on the planet...you can find anything there...thats where I learned how to tie a tie.

Anyways, recently I ve been interested in turning pictures into comic book style photos. The reason is that I am working on a video for the USG Anthem that a couple of friends and I made and released last week. I figured it would be fun to do a comic book theme with some photos and then mix it with some video clips of us in the studio.

80s Game Recap

Glory was in the air.

The temperature in Copenhagen has been dipping well below the freezing point this year so the USG men decided do heat the city up. The USG Dome was the venue for their game against Jægerspris and the only choice was to do it 80s style. The Dome was blazing hot causing the USG Men to strip down to some short shorts. This game was the final piece of a glorious weekend with the USG Anthem entitled “It Feels So Good” also being released. The plan of attack? – Of course, beat these guys by 20 points!

After William finally managed to get a pair of customized short shorts the game could start. USG got out to a 12 point lead in the first 6 minutes with help from Nic Wetaz, who scored the team’s first 7 points. At this point their intentions became clear and all the 80s hype was not just for show. Jægerspris did however not give up, yet and closed the first quarter with a 7-point leeway. USG 18 – Jægerspris 11.

Spurred on by the crowd, USG continued their fast game now, but was only slowly extending their lead. Jægerspris, with two of their 9 3-pointers in this quarter, prevented an early decisive lead. The lead came back to 8 points when The Philler geared up and successfully completed an AND1 lay-up plus one of his 3 3-pointers in the following offense. The crowd went bananas! USG’s lead now at 41 – 29.

From the USG perspective the next quarter almost entirely belonged to Wetaz, scoring 9 (3x3) of his 21 points significantly helping the USG team to establish a decent 22-points in the 7th minute. Game closed? – Far wrong! While the crowd still celebrated upcoming rap star Mr Wetaz, Jægerspris had a 9- points run til the end of the quarter leaving USG with no points scored in the last 3 minutes of this quarter. Result: USG 55 – Jægerspris 42.

Needless to say, coach Olin was on the verge of losing his mind. Good that William “the tank” Brenner started to show his excellence under the rim. With 4 points and various fouls drawn, it looked like USG had finally closed this game. Along comes the 7th minute, again! Out of nothing, Jægerspris hit an amazing 4 3-pointers and two field goals almost tying the game within 2 minutes. A fragile 1-point lead was between USG and a disaster. It was then when Air Hagelund took the game in his hand making a lay-up followed by an amazing 3-pointer only seconds before the end giving USG a 4 lead to the final result of 70 – 66. “The 7th minute was definitely our Kryptonite today. Our defense just completely broke down. On top of that, it seemed like none of them would miss a shot anymore. I couldn’t let that happen!” says Asger commenting on the team performance.

Thanks to all supporters for a great atmosphere.


USG Line-up: Wetaz, Kasper K, Niels, Ander W, Søren, Jeff, Asger, Philipp, William

USG Anthem - It Feels So Good

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=657812556398&oid=336619625022

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJ_KzLqutLU

This will take you to the result of me and a couple friends fooling around in the studio. I think the song is quite catchy

I am officially not a fan of unemployment. Officially it has been 19 days since my contract ran out on my student job and since then I have been so bored. Dont get me wrong I have been able to do a couple of fun things that may have been harder if I had a job but really the overall experience of having no real reason to wake up is not one I hope continues. I like having my day filled with some sort of accomplishment or know that I am working towards something and on top of that...I like working. I may be weird in that aspect but for the most part I have liked most of the jobs I have had throughout my life. I feel fortunate to be able to say that because I know people who feel completely opposite.

I think the part that drives me even more nuts is that I have so much free time to think about things I would otherwise be less consumed with if I had other responsibilities to occupy myself with. I m talking about stressful things...like a lack of income and student loan payments being due, the constant application rejections stating that I lack experience in a certain area, and most importantly is my pending Danish greencard application. I feel pretty much suspended on really pursuing anything until I figure out if I can start making any type of long term plans. Currently I do not have the right to work full time because the visa I have is an extended student visa. Getting a greencard would essentially give me the same rights as a danish person with the exception of being able to vote. This means I will be able to collect unemployment insurance money through the Union that I am a part of. If I were to be able to collect this then I would feel more at ease because then I could volunteer with companies to gain more experience to make myself more marketable in the business world. I could go back to the kind of normalcy that I am craving.

Thats a (w)rap!

So I ve been working on a rap song with a couple of friends the past few weeks. We decided one day after a friday open gym with some beers that it would be a pretty awesome thing if we created and Anthem for our basketball club. A couple visits to the recording studio later and it is nearly completed. I laid down my vocals today on some of the verses and also the chorus. I m pretty stoked to hear the final result. We also had a video camera so we were able to record some footage for a video we plan on making. I would just like to thank unemployment for allowing me to have the time to do this. Sooooo much fun!

I m back

Danish started up again yesterday. I have 3hrs of class two times a week and about 9hrs of homework. Thats the intensive course for ya. My class was only 7 people yesterday and I m hoping that there are more tomorrow because I was the odd man out during the partner exercises. That was not much fun.

Overall though I m glad with the level. I think I can regain my footing before climbing to the next module. I hear its pretty tough. Really though I think my conversational skills will get better and now that I m forced to relearn some key vocabulary then I ll be more inclined to speak with some of my friends. The added benefit is that it will look good to companies I am trying to work for that I am making the attempt to improve my abilities to read, write and speak the language.

Six for Six

This past Wednesday my team had a basketball game. The second half of the season has been a bit rough but we finally got back on the winning track. Our coach missed the game due to some business in Switzerland so I, along with another one or my teammates, were put in charge. Officially I was listed as head coach for the game.

Since I was in charge I decided to sacrifice my game minutes in favor of some guys who throughout the season hadnt really gotten much playing time but have worked really hard in practice. I think it actually paid off well. One of the guys who had maybe played 5 minutes all season scored is first bucket of the season and shot with confidence ending up with 7 points. Another of our big guys, that has also barley seen time, clogged up the middle and grab some rebounds and drew a couple key fouls to get the other team in foul trouble. I was really pleased with the effort they gave and I think they really appreciated the court time. Towards the end of the game when it got close the normal starters ended up finishing the last 5 minutes.

I ended up subbing myself in which turned out pretty well. I stole the ball on the first possession and then got fouled and hit 2 free-throws. A couple possessions later I drove to the basket and was fouled again and hit 2 more free-throws finishing the game six for six with 15 points. Defensively we stood strong forcing quite a few turnovers and only giving up a very deep 3 pointer. The game was finally put out of reach with about 10 seconds left in the game when one of my teammates grabbed a rebound after a missed free-throw, was fouled and then hit both of his shots to put the game out of reach.

I was really pleased that it was a team effort and everyone was quite please with my coaching, which was nice because a year ago when I tried coaching it really didnt turn out so well. But really there was too much I in that team.