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.