CaBrewin! & Relay for Life!

So yeah, I know these were a while ago but I’ve been meaning to post about them!

Like a month ago on one of the first super sunny days this quarter about 8 of us Phi Delts went down to the boat area of beautiful UW campus and rented out a couple o canoes to row around Montlake area with the intention of drinkin’ a couple beers and enjoying ourselves.

Well that we did, that we did.

Here’s Peter, Brian and Sean havin a few and about to watch Joe jump off the bridge.

There’s Joe up on the 40 foot high (ish) bridge. Yes He jumps. Yes he was ballsy enough to do it before I was ready to take a picture so I didn’t get one of those awesome midair shots.

In case you’re wondering why we would jump off a freeway… It is pretty much a tradition that everyone go do this at least once in their 4 years at UW. Rent a canoe, paddle out to a certain spot, jump off the old abandoned freeway… I’ve done it like 3-4 times now probably in my visits taking younger Phi Delts there? I’ve only landed wrong once and really smacked my ass. It was a bit painful…. =P

OH BTW. On our way back we were a little stupid and tried to race……………Until 2 of our boats flipped over (mine included). VERY Stupidly, I had my iPod Nano and BRAND new cell phone in my pockets. Peter didn’t know how to swim but had a life jacket. Alex and Julian both had their cell phones in their pockets too ( who knows why we brought so many damn electronics out on the water with us….). Fortunately, both my ipod and my phone made miraculous recoveries and are now working perfectly. Unfortunately no one else’s stuff worked anymore… = \. It was definitely super funny though. I was so shocked we had fallen in I just couldn’t stop laughing my ass off. Hats off to everyone one that came! We’ll cabrew once more!

One more thing, I had gotten a speeding ticket and right when we were leaving to walk down to the boat area from our fraternity, I was like I’ll just drop it in a mailbox. So I stamped it and everything but didn’t find a mailbox. It disentigrated in my pocket in the water. Big hassle. =*(.

RELAY FOR LIFE!!

I’ve done this every year I think for like the last 6 or 7 years! This year was a blast! Sandra organized almost the entire thing and we actually ended up raising a lot of money too which is not very usual for us! Anyways, we spent most of the extremely cold night playing Mafia in one of the large tents. It was amazing.

UW Football stadium at night. Beautiful.

Byong and Kelln in the tent during Mafia. These 2 are hella good!!

Just in case you don’t know the rules of Mafia, here they are. This game is SOOOOO freaking fun! I love that you can play with just a small group of 5-6+ people and how it can keep everyone entertained and involved for a long time! Not only that but it is awesome fun manipulating and lying and convincing and deducing. I think the type of thinking you do in this game is really REALLY good for real life interactions in the workplace or in the classroom where you will often have to be prepared to sound or appear a certain way. Its kind of hard to describe but if any of you have not played, it is super fun and you should try it out!

Hilarious Mafia Music!!
Mafia by Azrael

Everyday Life at Phi Delta Theta!

This week I’ve decided to do a piece on Fraternity rooms at Phi Delta Theta. I’ve gotta admit that one of the reasons I joined a fraternity in the first place was the fact that you could make a room however you like. Want a sweet loft in your room? Make it! Want a swinging bed? Do it! Best friends with the guy in the other room? Make a door! You get the point I hope.

The sweet thing about fraternity life is that you can do that without getting in trouble with the RA’s or having your landlord take your security/damage deposit as a punishment. Obviously don’t join a fraternity for this reason, but you’ll never have another opportunity in your life (unless you are like ass rich) to blatantly lower the value of your room through personalization without any sort of financial repercussions!

Anyway’s, depending on popularity, I might make this into a series and go through everyone in the house but for now I’m going to do mini-MTV cribs-esque tours of certain guys in the house! We’ll start with us seniors, Me (Austin), Joe the president, and Tako/Josh. Enjoy and let me know what you think!

JOE!!!

Welcome to Joe’s room (ignore the heart, they’re from girls from valentines day =P)

Sweet air conditioning (the only one in the house) box spring and mattress on the floor, minimalistic beauty.

Nice lil bookcase full of complex scientific books!

The only remaining built in closet in the whole house. Niiiice!

Big bro paddles…tiny tv, white boards, and postits for remembering complex physics equations…

Computer desk, a little WOW maybe??

Tako!!

Amazing door poster found someone in the house….Adorned with tako chip bag cut outs! Great styles taks.

Nice lil papa san (tako started it), a sweet curtain that I lack, you can also see the bed in the back of the room. Mattress on the floor, simple. Clean! Sugoi Tako.

Tako and his “big rig”. Amazing 24 inch lcd from dell, the sweet dell flexilamps, Joshua Svidriface. Beautiful, just astonishingly GORGEOUS!!

Fridge full of healthy snacks, awesome sound system, nice lil 360 there in the back. Nice work tako, looks familiar.

Wow, after all that intense stuff you’d expect a break when looking at the clothing corner but no such luck. If you look closely you can see the towel that tako uses on his RIPPED body after showers. Lucky!!

Austin

My favorite X-Man on my door! Thanks HUB free color poster printing!

My sweet Ikea “Beddinge”, my sweet TV, my life plans on the left, movie posters galore!!

Extended view of the picture above…

I copied tako and got a popa san. Best decision ever! My cork board, my clothing racks, and whatever!

My computer station. Very comfortable workplace, I’m actually siting there right now at this very moment! Spectacular!

Well there you have it you all! Some rooms in the house! I love living here and I love customizing my rooms when I first move in. Its like a tetris challenge cramming all the stuff you want in your room in there and have it look good an be comfortable and its so much more “nice” living in it knowing you did it all yourself (or with your Frat bros!!)

Let me know what you think of the post and maybe I’ll continue the series!

My favorite Beer: Mac and Jack’s African Amber

Hi all,

You probably don’t know this but I’m actually a huge fan of beer! Last year I even considered starting a small home brewing company and creating my own beer but this idea was rather short-lived as I was still fraternity president of a DRY fraternity! I may still do this someday and I’ll keep you posted for sure! Anyways….As I’ve progressed through the last 4 years of University I have gone through an immense number of different beers and recently I’ve finally gotten a very firm idea of what the best one is…

First though! Let’s go through and see the history – These are all the different beers that I would consider important in my life. They’ve treated me well through the years, we’ve had some damn good times, and well, their not all top tier, but they all hold a special place in my heart….

Budweiser – Can’t go wrong with the king. This is the first beer I had at my buddy Jake’s cabin where I officially got drunk for the first time. It was a fun time. Never liked the taste all that much and don’t like to just drink this the whole night ever, still good though!

Budlight – I love Bud light. You can almost never go wrong having a cold one of these and they are available pretty much anywhere. Sounds a little weird but I would even prefer one of these over a Heineken!

Keystone - Ahh freshmen year…. You can get 24 16oz cans of these at the Dawg pound for like 11 bucks… The official “frat party” drink, pretty watered down but still tastes pretty good (progressively better if you get my drift).

Don’t be fooled, Keystone is never in a glass….

Natural Ice – See above…

MGD - Pretty good tasting beer. I really liked this stuff my sophomore year and I’d often just buy a forty of this and hang out but it was replaced by the following beer.

Mickey’s - Absolutely positively my second favorite beer. I love this stuff (only as a 40oz) and I’ve had a lot of good times with this particular beer. I know its “malt liquor” and therefore “not classy” but shit, it tastes great, it’s cheap, enough said. One bad thing: bad gas the next morning.

Alaskan Amber – My girlfriend bought me a six pack of this for my birthday. Super meaningful because she usually doesn’t like me drinking beer but she made me a delicious 3-restaurant picnic and a 6 pack of beer. What a darling! She knows the way to my heart! I still keep one of the bottlecaps in my car to remember!

HG800 – Also known as bum piss. This shit is digusting and probably the strongest beer that I’ve ever dranken. Drinking a 40 of this is almost like drinking 2 40s. Even at the height of my “drinking career” back a 2 years ago i thought this stuff was disgusting. My friend Xuan once drank some of this and got hives the next day….. and yet we always seemed to keep drinking it…….interesting…

The WINNER: Mac and Jack’s African Amber: Word’s cannot describe how delicious this beer is. I’m actually not like some sort of expert on all the fineries of tasting or drinking beer but I can just say that I love the taste! It’s REALLY like those beers where in the commercials the guy comes home has a beer and is instantly relaxed. It’s a strange but awesome feeling and I feel kinda like I’m finally starting to understand what the fuss is about with enjoying beer instead of just drinking for the sake of it. I think this particular beer is a local favorite or something so definitely go to a bar or restaurant and try it out!! It’s MONEY!!!

There you have it! A beer documentary from someone who loves his beer! Have a great mother’s day everyone! I’d appreciate comments as usual and btw, Go have a beer in the sun!

Beer by Reel Big Fish