The Geek

Here I am, in a golden colored cloth plastic wrapped couch.

All happy and goofy as always!

At that age, which i dont remember exactly the age... possible 3 maybe, I was already playing video games.
The magical atari system!!!!!
First video game system i ever played (and that huge console... fell on my head once... OUCH!!! its also how I discovered my hard head), From that moment back in the mid 80s, it was evident that video games were going to be in my life!

Who knew that it would motivate me to study computer science... I mean?
Geek at 3? is it possible?
My momma knew already, she knew that I was destined to become an educated man...
She always said, "Brian, I would have known if you were stupid... and you aint. So no excuses and finish your work."

Hence why she pushed me so damn hard toward my studies and be able to finish college.
She also knew that I wasnt the most athletic boys around, I mean... I was able to play sports, but I wasnt built like a football player or a basketball player, or a legitimate athlete...

Not being athletic wasn't the only problem...... I was always short for my age when growing up. It wasn't till the early highschool years that I actually had a growth spurt! Otherwise I was normally one of the short kids in class...
Even the girls surpassed my height!!!

Yikes...

Even as a pre-teen kid, didnt really look like a fighter or anything violent for that matter.
Just a happy skinny kid!

Very nice Tropical shirt huh?
I know, i should definitely wear that shirt now! Christmas gift anybody? LOL

As i got older... the skinny kid kinda got a little heavier... Not to much!
But definitely a little round.
I didnt care, you know why? Because cheese "empanadillas", "pastelillos" of whatever, and every fried food product in Puerto Rico is damn good.
Combined with a Sprite! YUM!!!

That was an empanadilla of seafood. had 3 of them in that sitting! hahahahah

Anyway,
To not go on tooooooo long!
I moved to chicago back in 2001 to get my computer science degree at depaul university...
and who would have known that the freshman 15 that people talk about, is actually freshman 30 in chicago!

Thank you Al's Beef and cheese fries... YUM!!!!

I graduated from depaul and continued to live in chicago, and ive done nothing but web related work since.
Ive been a Java developer, software engineer, education specialist in Java development, a technical writer, and web developer/front-end developer. Not the most active jobs in the world you know.

Peeked at a weight of 198-202 pounds never really stabilized, you know the water weight! LOL!

I thought sitting by a computer, typing away code was good enough workout to keep you fit. I mean
you burn calories right? That means I needed to get me some good energy to keep me going!
And a cheese burger seemed reasonable!



Now, this geek over a year ago.... DECIDED...
Lets practice boxing, I want to fight one day.  Why? Something in me decided to do it.... to prove to myself that this athletically challenged kid can accomplish it....
The more i thought of it, the more fire and drive i got....
Bought some gloves, started to do research on boxing spots, took boxing bootcamps.....

Slowly the itch to do a real fight was getting bigger and bigger.

My buddy Khoa was the first buddy to hear that i was ready to kick some ass.
For those who dont know khoa:

He is the guy giving the peace sign.

That man was all for it, but at the same time called me a fat ass! LOL!!!!!
Always told me as we were eating in the chinese buffet "You eat too greasy you know that"
Of course I agreed, because I love me some chinese food with them fried goodies (wontons and such!)

SO!
After hearing his ass call me a fatty quite often, i thought... hmm... fat fighters... dont do well in the ring...

I mean take a look:




Chubby man got a but whooping.

Then I decided to take matters a bit further.
And i went to jabb boxing, took their boxing bootcamp and almost died in the process....

Tried my best, but I wasn't in good enough shape to handle it.

So then came to me working out a little more to make it to that level....
Which thanks to my ma,
p90x came around.

For those of you who dont know this 50+ year old man that looks like this:

That is just messed up... man could do a crap load more than I could... and he is 50+

So after getting dizzy through his workout sessions, i went back to jabb boxing... but with 1-on-1 training and with a mission to fight.

I have been able to handle the training a lot better, lost of a lot of weight so far. Almost at the goal weight of 152 pounds. Soon I will be there and i will be ready to fight in March of 2011 for the Golden Gloves.

So there you go, a brief little history of myself.

There is one more thing that happened... BUT!
That will be the next blog... HEHEHHEH