The One With The Tower

i'm a construction worker, working on some building i guess. i'm going up in this tower that's being constructed, in an arm in a brace - bubbled wrapped in fact, then i hear construction & went to check it out.

flash back to the college years. not University of Waterloo. i was trying out for the football team. similar to those of Smallville's when Clark Kent tries out for the Smallville Crows. i meet a few veteran players, a few players were nice, a few weren't. normal i guess. got a bad impression of the coach first-hand 'cuz the coach was being a hard ass on me 'cuz i wrote my number on my locker whiteboard, but then the coach erased it & assigned me a new number (15 to 3).

we all leave the locker room & the senior team comes in. we go outside & the first batch of players complete their laps around the field. second bad impression of the coach is when he starts to make fun of me, so i was determined to show him up. we were doing laps in heats, so i wanted to win the heat badly, & did so, gaining his respect.

then in the distance, plus a weather change from like fall to winter & and age change to the childhood years, i see a friend of mine, Mark, being blind-sided by another kid with a skateboard, so the whole football team goes out & confront the perpetrators, & beat them up. we were all children btw. lol. ensuing that was a snowball fight that kinda turned into a game of "high catch". a childhood game i used to play in elementary school with my friends.

then another seasonal change, & i notice a baseball diamond. i have a glove for some reason. i see Steve hitting batting practice & i run over to the diamond & ask if i can join them. so i joined a bunch of guys in the field just fielding the balls & stuff, some ppl from my old baseball team were warming up their arms by playing catch. i was so off on my throws that i completely overthrew my first throw, but after a while i was able to throw normally again.

now, the weird thing was that there were some hot girls there as well, all of whom i don't know. but they were in sweaters & miniskirts. they were also there playing catch with the baseball. :S another weird thing is that i was only able to throw accurately to them, but not to the guys. :S

later on, we find outselves at a party. me, the girls, & then the football team again. the baseball guys kinda disappeared. we were all just mingling & stuff, making small talk, finding out what's going on & all that small talk stuff. oh & btw, i'm not a kid anymore, i'm actually a graduate from university now, & the girls were still undergraduates, most of them i believe were cheerleaders 'cuz they knew a lot about cheerleading, so i guess they were the football cheerleaders or something since they were pretty tight with the football captain. whoever he was!

then the girls wanted to play some game, & tried to explain the rules to me, & during this time i was throwing two foam balls at them. yeah i was being annoying, what else is new?

flash to present day, the arm in the bubblewrap was a result of that party & that game, & Don Cherry for some reason sponsored my trip out to this tower...don't know the significance of the tower.

...and that's when i woke up.

The One With The Fat Kid

this dream happens with me as an observer.

we were in a school, in a classroom. it was a very typical classroom, but a boring one at that. it was white, with rows of desks, big squared windows, & a huge blackboard. teacher's desk sitting in the front.

for some reason, there wasn't a lesson going on, but instead, there was an eating contest. i also noticed the main character in this dream, the fat kid. standing alone, losing badly to the other kids. i don't know what they were shoving into their mouths.

but i noticed that this fat kid was the kid that everyone picked on. why, we don't know. but not only does the kids pick on him, but so does the teacher. what a bastard!!

furthermore, the fat kid's father was also a teacher at the school, & he was always picked on by the head teacher there. the head teacher just happens to be the fat kid's teacher. there was just no respect for the family.

the fat kid's father had enough of the disrespect, so he finally quits his job & disappears, which is kinda a bad thing for the fat kid 'cuz he was essentially abandoned at the school fending for himself for a couple years.

fast fwd a couple years. that's the cool thing about dreams! :P

the fat kid is still the fat kid, & the fat kid is still the kid everyone picks on. they would always punish him by making him stare out of the window at a reflection of the lake in the school windows. i guess as a sign that he has no hope of going anywhere? i don't know.

so then, one day, the father finally comes back to take him back, asks for forgiveness, but of course the kid accepts the apology as he cries for his father & runs to him. his father takes him out of the school that has treated him so cruelly for a couple years.

fast fwd again.

the fat kid returns. he's still fat, but has a renewed self-esteem & plenty of confidence. he no longer takes the abuse from other kids, & when he returns he is more witty. when it came time to participate in the eating contest again, he dominates. this was his revenge..

...and that's when i woke up.

The One With All The Cats

so we lived in this regular house, but apparently i haven't been living in that house for quite some time since there were a lot of changes.

the first change i noticed was the number of pets. mainly cats. apparently my mom worked at a cat shelter for some time now.

there was this one really fat cat that i played with. never got the fat cat's name though. so from now on, she's known as Fat cat. then there was the smaller grey cat, a young one, maybe a couple months old. she was named Ginger. Fat cat & her would play all the time, she was almost like a mother figure to her.

Fat cat liked to lie on the couch, belly-side up so that ppl would rub her tummy, & sometimes she likes to randomly roll off the couch, & then do the same belly-side up posture on the floor again.

Ginger likes to hide a lot, she was small. she was playful. she wasn't in my dream much.

before i learned of Ginger's name, i thought her name was Honey. when i went to look for Ginger in the living room, we were in the family room at the time, i saw another cat, but this time a young tiger. so i asked, if we had a tiger in the house just to make sure i wasn't hallucinating. indeed we did, her name was Honey. Honey looked like she was chained to a corner in the living room. she spotted me, & tried to charge since she didn't recognize me, so i ran. but Honey never showed up again. instead i see my sister walk out of the room laughing, then she started to play with Fat cat.

when i returned to the living room, my mom returned from the kitchen eating some sorta meat. she asked if i wanted some, & i declined. she said it was good, it was cat meat. i was like :S. then i remembered that Ginger was still missing! so was like, "that's not Ginger is it?!" my mom gave me the weirdest look, & told me that she doesn't kill live cats, but sometimes she'll eat the ones that die at the shelter. :S that's kinda disgusting.

then my family began to transform. my family wasn't MY family anymore, but instead it was the Baker's family from Cheaper By the Dozen. but my parents were the same. we moved to the new house the Baker's moved into in that movie, with tons of room. i had a glimpse of every room, but i never settled on a room. before i know it, us kids were being called down for dinner.

anyway, i went to the kitchen, & i found Ginger hiding in a bowl, with a pot lid on top of her. haha, aww so cute! i just left her in there.

...and that's when i woke up.

The One With The Cartoon Mash-Up

my brother & i were playing videogames, & he was showing off all the points he got in this wrestling game we got. for some reason, it also had a part where he entered sewers, & he was particularly proud of his sewer score since he had entered & invaded all the sewer manholes there are. he just missed a couple.

all of a sudden i got sucked into the game as a Ninja Turtle. so my fellow Ninja Turtle brothers & i explored the streets of New York, looking for crime, like in a video game. then we got to a manhole, & went down (Super Mario style). down there we discover it to be like some hidden laboratory. we walked around & tried to make something of it, what was going on down there.

so we get to this metallic room with lots of hot generators & metal panels on the walls & floors. i decided to experiment, so i lifted one of the panels & it exposed a heat generator. there were 3 on each wall, & there were a lot of walls, there were also panels on the floor that i lifted. then we left for another room.

then we discovered that those generators & metal panels were some formula to create an army of bad guys, albeit they are almost harmless. we took another walk around to where we were before & behold, we saw some heads forming. the rock soldiers were being made out of potatoes apparently. we walked around some more & found clones of ourselves. they looked as real as us, but they were made of glass.

we were actually able to talk to one of them, & seemed to be good in nature. we were all naive to think that, "Hey, he's a ninja turtle, we have more allies." but we were wrong 'cuz once we found out that they could shatter easily, they will turn into our enemies.

but before they turned bad, April O'Neil walked down. no idea how she found out where we were. we sent the glass turtles to go and see what she wanted, while we went back & found ourselves confronted by a clone of Callisto, & another bad guy from the cartoon show C.O.P.S. we were just about to leave when they tempted us to battle by saying, "Why are you guys running away, you can't beat us potato chips?" 'cuz some of the bad guys were as cripsy as potato chips. so a battle ensues.

later on, we find the X-Men down in the sewers, presumably after the Morlocks, who knows. then we find some clone X-Men. these were actually tougher foes, since we couldn't tell the real X-Men & clone X-Men apart. luckily us Ninja Turtles didn't have to fight them.

so the X-Men & fake X-Men were doing battle, back & forth. Gambit finally found a way to neutralize them by using his powers to "charge" them, but delayed the explosion that normally follows the charge. i don't think he can really control when things explode, but it's my dream, so whatever! so all the X-Men had to win their battle & pin them or knock their clone counterpart out so Gambit could charge them.

...and that's when i woke up.

The One With The Double Cross

i'm at home just minding my business, when i get an unexpected phone call in the morning. it was my boss at the agency saying that i have like 15mins to get packed 'cuz i was going on a mission to Orlando, Florida.

so i was scrambling to get packed & i didn't even know what airport or anything i was going on. i don't even think i got briefed on the case.

anyway, so i had to scramble to pack my clothes & my laptop (which proves to be useless anyway). i had a chauffeur come pick me up & we sped off to the airport.

on arrival to Orlando, i meet my partners. actually there were four of us. Matt Damon I, Matt Damon II (yeah i dunno why this was played by the same character & we never noticed), Eddie Griffin (google if you don't know who he is), & myself. we made friends with each one another & yeah we go on with our mission.

our mission required us to kinda just live there & live normal lives; however, one of us double crosses us with a 2x4. Damon I kinda just took the 2x4 & just knocked us out.

but then suddenly, we get rewinded to relive that moment again. we just got off the bus & was just about to hop a broken fence. this was the scene of where Damon I decides to attack us. but we already knew this ahead of time, so we kinda just ducked out of the way. when he swung his 2x4 it hit the fence & back at him. so essentially he knocked himself out. then we just took off.

so we find ourselves in the city, looking for jobs & a place to live. we find a nice place, kinda like a basement apartment with a nice backyard view. our driveway is also in the backyard. we were able to get 2 old Corollas, but of different models. we found jobs at a firm. i have no idea what we do. we were still undercover too, but we have no idea for what. & i don't know why we never called our boss to let him know what went down.

then one day, out of the blue, we bump into Damon I once again. he is seemingly a changed person. we were pretty cautious with him as he befriended us once again. he seemed pretty genuine too. so we're like alright, he can hang out with us.

big mistake.

he knocked on our door one day. & in his hand was the same piece of 2x4 that he tried to attack us with. we thought he was gonna attack us again! but in a surprising move, he handed the 2x4 to us as a sign of, i guess forgiveness?! this will be explained. so then we go to talk outside, & he talks about how he needs some way to get some money fast. he knew about our rising stock value that we had in our company, so he asks us if we could get him a couple shares in the company. so Griffin was like, "Yeah, we can help you out, just give us the money, & i'll invest it first thing tomorrow." but weirdly, we kept on giving Damon I pennies. don't ask, i have no idea why this is. also, we talked about the 2x4 & how he knocked himself out with the piece of wood. apparently he thought that we knocked him out with the piece of wood. so i guess that's why he gave us the piece of wood, to bury the hatchet. water under bridge.

during this whole thing, i was just kinda in the background behind Damon II & Griffin. just minding my own business, but i had reason to be suspicious. my prediction was right. as we were leaving a few minutes later to the office. we were all in a car, when Damon I comes running down the stairs to our backyard & pops a couple into Griffin through the windshield! Damon II & i immediately put our hands up. Damon I orders us out of the car. Damon I tells me to lie down on the grass to the side & don't move, while he orders Damon II to go with him. Damon I has a car in the front, & if he sees me move or get into the other guy to follow, he'll shoot me.

so they get into the getaway car, & i was able to climb to the top of the hill in the backyard just enough to see the getaway car. but this whole thing already attracted the cops & they were on his ass already. i get into the other car...

& that's when i woke up. damn cliffhanger!

The One With The "X-Men" vs. "X-20"

one team was called the X-Men. the other team X-20. team X-Men consisted of 3 team members, while X-20 had 5 members.

i was on team X-Men along with my brother Jason, & Lawrence. at first we were always trying to hunt down a member of X-20, but we could never catch 'em. he took us all over the place. turns out this member of X-20 was Kevin Nash. he was using those grapple guns that you'd see in Batman, where you shoot a rope & it'll latch on to something so you could just fly up. he shot one at a powerline & started to escape that way. we tried to use the grapple gun ourselves, but i didn't know how to use it properly.

then we tracked him down at a department store. he was with his 4 other team members. i recognized that 2 of them were Rebecca & Eric. the other 2 i have no idea who they were. so, we started to develop a plan to hunt them down. we ran into one, but we couldn't take him down. i told my teammates that next time we see someone we gotta use the stun gun to knock them down & take control of them.

the other team was able to regroup, so my team just kinda lounged around in the entertainment section of the department store. apparently there were Nintendo brand soft drinks, so Lawrence bought one for a dollar. we were gonna play video games, but then we saw X-20 devising a plan to capture us. we waited a while before we made a "defensive" move on them. but they were smart, they knew that we were watching & shot a netting at our general area. they got all 3 of us into the netting, but we didn't move to pretend that they didn't get us. as they closed in, we all separated quickly with some covering fire.

now team X-Men was split up, but we were trained to defend ourselves independently in combat so we weren't overly worried. Eric was team leader of X-20, & Rebecca was 2nd in command. anyway, things started to get pretty bloody.

our guns were special. they could interchanged between machine, semiautomatic, automatic, laser, grapple, & stun guns. we were also provided with an automatic handgun in case we lose out big guns.

i was able to hide behind a shelf when i took down one member of X-20. point blank, i just kinda blasted him with a couple shots to the chest. 1 down, 4 to go. somehow, team X-Men were able to get the edge on X-20 by establishing the outside perimeter. so we surrounded X-20. as we closed in, we were able to take down 1 after the other until there was only the 2 leaders left. they put up a pretty good fight. they just wouldn't die. i guess they like to die hard. :P

so yeah, with Eric, we were able to finally trap him in a room, & Lawrence threw a grenade in the room just as i was closing the door to trap him in. KABOOM. room blows up, but to our amazement, Eric walks out of the room, seemingly unharmed, but then he just falls over. X-20 team leader is out.

Rebecca was a hard kill, actually she didn't die at all. she was able to take anything we threw at her. it was almost as if her skin was rough & tough. she was actually able to escape with few bullets lodged in her body. but in a weird twist at the end, i sent her a basket of red roses.

in the end of it all, it turns out it was a training exercise. everyone lived, & all the blood that was shedded was fake.

...and that's when i woke up.

The One With Kanye West

i was playing video games with Vince at an arcade. it was like something out of Star Wars. there was definately some lightsaber action going on, as well as Jedi jumping/floating or whatever. & it really felt like we were IN the game & not just playing it! anyway, i sucked at the game.

so yeah, we were playing the game & we got stuck at this one part. i kept on leading more & more enemies towards us, & eventually we were overwhelmed, despite our vast Jedi powers, & died.

then we went to see some movie.

later on, i was on a field trip of some sort & i was taking a lot of pictures of the other bus. Sylvia was on the other bus, so i guess i was trying to get a clear picture of her posing for my camera. haha. it was night time too, so it was harder to get a good picture.

so, i guess i took a bit too many pictures with the flash on. the bus driver pulled over & starts lecturing the bus that pictures are not allowed to be taken 'cuz it's dangerous for other drivers on the road. so picture taking was banned. BOO!

anyway, we arrived at our destination. it was like a house, but a school. so it's comparable to the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning in X-Men. we were there for this special music class, & it was taught by an University of Waterloo professor, Simon Wood. i've had him before for my Popular Music & Soundtracks classes. the class was also beside an arena that was packed with fans who were really loud & rowdy.

so in class, we were being taught & stuff. what was being taught i have no clue. but then the prof gave us a little assignment where some of us had a group & some of us were just by ourselves. we had to give a presentation later in the evening about a hip hop or rapper that was given to us. so yeah, it was like an impromtu presentation with little time to prepare for it.

the first group went, & when they presented, it seemed like they had all the time in the world to put this presentation together. they did rapper Jay-Z, so they presented his albums & some snippets of his biggest hits on each album. then they talked briefly about his history & other things.

up next was myself. i was given no group! so i had to conjure up some presentation on my own. i was given Kanye West. he, by the way, is one of the most influential ppl in 2005 according to Time Magazine!

so to open up my presenation, i decided to come in with some dance routine for his hit, Gold Digger featuring Jamie Foxx. i didn't lip sync like the first group did, i just did a dance routine that i thought was going on forever. at least i tried to dance. don't even ask me how it went 'cuz i can dance a lot better in my dreams than in reality. trust that fact! i even took a risk & used a chair to propel myself into a back flip in the air. the landing sucked though 'cuz i almost fell over, but i got cheers for it. :D

anyway, i cut the song short 'cuz, it felt like eternity for it to end. began the talking portion of my presentation. so yeah, i talked about Kanye West & how he dropped out of college & stuff. dunno how true that is. some stuff i just made up. i even tried to crack some jokes. i think i talked about how he said "George Bush doesn't care about black ppl." i still crack up when i hear that phrase. so yeah, i joked to conceal my nervousness & lack of knowledge.

the class started to get pretty restless & started to talk during my presention. i let it slide at the beginning, but it got really annoying. so i just yelled at the class, "SHUT UP! EARS ON ME!" haha everyone looked stunned & stared at me. so i was like.."that's right!" in my head. i think the ppl in the arena even heard it!

anyway, the arena itself was pretty loud. as it turns out, there was a WWE wrestling event going on there. they migrated over to our classroom & just started mayhem! chair shots, table shots..haha..bodies just all over!

the emergency exits were in the left of the classroom, so most of my classmates who wasn't involved escaped through that door. i just stood there in amazement as ppl were fighting amongst themselves until it died down. since it died down, i thought i'd be a nice guy & help clean the place up a little from all the debris & stuff. i also found myself healing ppl i killed in the video game i played with Vince. yeah, i dunno! this is a whacked dream already anyway! & i told them to be careful next time. uh..yeah..?!

when everything was just about all finished & tidy, i turned to my prof, who was getting ready to go home, & asked him what i should do with the rest of my presentation. i was hoping that he'd let me off the hook for the rest of the presenation. he replies, "next time, be more serious & be less embarrassing." :S uh. thanks. well i laughed at his reponse, but then i looked over to Syv & just gave like a "oh crap!" kinda look. i didn't want to finish it off! dah heck mang!

so the prof left, & then Wilfred & Kev Leung were also there helping me clean up the sound equipment. then everyone left, i saw Syv off as it was the last time i'd see her for a while. watched her pull away driving my van to whereever my parents were in Toronto, while her uncle followed her to the van drop off point so he could drive her home!

in the end, the field trip apparently ended up at my place. for unknown reasons, i didn't recognized the outside of the house.

later one, i find myself back in elementary school & playing with one of my childhood friends, Chris. we were playing catch against a wall, but i got really thirsty, so i asked the principal, who btw looked a lot like Mr. Feeney from the tv show Boy Meets World.

i had a Gatorade in my jacket pocket inside the school. i asked him if i could go get it, but he said no. i asked him if i could get it when recess was over, & again he said no. what a bastard!

...that's when i woke up.