Its finally here! My golf clubs are out, my dress clothes are on, and the golf course is open :) I played my first round of the season at Rivershore Golf Links. I bought a membership there this year - they have a really good deal for students. Considering I will play somewhere around 100 rounds this year, $900 for a season pass is a pretty good bargain.
My tee time was for 12:08 pm on friday, and I ended up joining a guy named Jeremy. I found out that he just graduated from BCIT and is now a broadcast journalist working with NL radio. Considering I chose that as a potential career path, I was very interested, and I had a lot of questions for him. I found out that while he was going to school, he was volunteering for CBC as the Canucks reporter, so he got to interview all the players, and sit in the press box for every home game the Vancouver Canucks played. Wow. I have never been so jealous in my life.
Anyways, back to golf. I got up to the first tee, and took out my 3-wood. The 1st hole at Rivershore is a fairly short par 4 with a small dog-leg left.
For those of you that don't play golf, a few points:
1. A 3-wood is like a driver, but it is smaller and doesn't hit the ball as far as a driver does
2. A par 4 means that the amount of shots it should take to get the ball in the hole is 4
3. A dog-leg left means that the hole curves from right to left
So I took out my 3-wood, and i hit it perfectly, right down the center of the fairway, leaving myself with about 120 yards left to the hole. It felt real good. No matter how hard I try, I always get a little bit nervous about the first tee shot. It really foreshadows how the rest of the round is going to go. Especially since it was my first round of golf this year, I definitely had the jitters, which made hitting a great shot feel even better than it usually does.
When I got to my second shot, I counted it to 136 yards to the pin. The wind was into me a little bit, so I decided to hit a soft 9-iron. I hit it pretty pure, and it ended up about 10 feet from the hole. The round was looking good. Got up, 2 putt for par, and the first hole of the year was over.
Later on in the round, Me and Jeremy ended up joining another group of 2, and it ended up being two guys my parents know really well, and I know them too. Then for the back nine, Harry Bicknell joined us as well, so we were breaking golf etiquette by playing with 5 in the group. O well. Me and Harry play a lot of golf together, and we are fairly even in terms of playing ability. So we decided to play for $5. We got to the par 3 17th hole, and Harry had a 1-stroke lead on me. I somehow decided to choke, and hit a ball out of play. Ouch. Harry took a 3 stroke lead into the final hole. My chances were crushed. I ended up birdying the 18th, hitting my approach shot to 6 inches, however, Harry 2-putted for bogey, and took my 5 bucks.
With the birdie on the last hole, I ended up shooting 83, 11 over par. I wasn't satisfied, but considering it was the first round of the year, I was ok with it. I definitely still have a few kinks in the swing to work out, but I have a feeling this is the year where my golf swing can really take me places. And with that, it's time to go practice. See you on the course!
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Friday, March 18, 2011
Being a True Fan
As much as I love how good the Canucks season is going this year, it doesn't come without some difficulties. These are the types of years where every bandwagon Canucks fan comes out. If you don't follow hockey, the Canucks are known having bad if not the worst bandwagon fans in the NHL.
I'm not one of them. There is nothing I hate more than being called a bandwagon fan. My whole life revolves around the Vancouver Canucks, and I have been a die hard fan since I was really young. I was just starting to watch hockey when the Canucks went on their magical '94 run. Then I started watching every game, during one of the worst periods in Canucks history. They were awful, rarely made the playoffs, and when they did, it was ugly. But even through the bad times, I couldn't get away from my love of hockey, and my love for the Vancouver Canucks.
Now, having their best season in their 40 year history, it's pretty easy to be a Canucks fan. They boast a 47-16-9 record, have already clinched the division title, a playoff spot, and are well on their way to winning the franchise's first ever presidents trophy (most points during the regular season in the NHL). With all the success, all the "I'm only a fan when they're winning" fans start to come out, and then all the Canuck haters start to complain about all the "dumb, bandwagoning Canucks fans".
I totally agree to some extent. Bandwagoners are annoying for sure, and I agree that there are some awfully dumb Canucks fans out there. But on the other hand, which team doesn't have bandwagoners? You can't get away from it, and no matter how much you love or hate the Canucks, they are not the only team with dumb, bandwagoning fans. Who doesn't want to cheer for a winning team? Yes....I'm a little hardcore, and I've stuck with the Canucks through the good and the bad, and I'm proud to say that. But for the average hockey fan, who wants to cheer for a crappy team?
On facebook, I always see people say stuff like "where are the Canucks fans now" or "I dont see anyone writing status updates about the Canucks tonight" after a Vancouver loss. Question....who writes "Go Team Go!" after their team loses? NOBODY. Nobody wants to gloat about a losing team, that's just not normal.
Being a truly die hard Canucks fan definitely has its challenges, and this is one that really gets to me sometimes. As much as I am loving the success the Canucks are having this year, the bandwagoners are never gonna go away, and people who complain about them are not going to stop either.
I'm not one of them. There is nothing I hate more than being called a bandwagon fan. My whole life revolves around the Vancouver Canucks, and I have been a die hard fan since I was really young. I was just starting to watch hockey when the Canucks went on their magical '94 run. Then I started watching every game, during one of the worst periods in Canucks history. They were awful, rarely made the playoffs, and when they did, it was ugly. But even through the bad times, I couldn't get away from my love of hockey, and my love for the Vancouver Canucks.
Now, having their best season in their 40 year history, it's pretty easy to be a Canucks fan. They boast a 47-16-9 record, have already clinched the division title, a playoff spot, and are well on their way to winning the franchise's first ever presidents trophy (most points during the regular season in the NHL). With all the success, all the "I'm only a fan when they're winning" fans start to come out, and then all the Canuck haters start to complain about all the "dumb, bandwagoning Canucks fans".
I totally agree to some extent. Bandwagoners are annoying for sure, and I agree that there are some awfully dumb Canucks fans out there. But on the other hand, which team doesn't have bandwagoners? You can't get away from it, and no matter how much you love or hate the Canucks, they are not the only team with dumb, bandwagoning fans. Who doesn't want to cheer for a winning team? Yes....I'm a little hardcore, and I've stuck with the Canucks through the good and the bad, and I'm proud to say that. But for the average hockey fan, who wants to cheer for a crappy team?
On facebook, I always see people say stuff like "where are the Canucks fans now" or "I dont see anyone writing status updates about the Canucks tonight" after a Vancouver loss. Question....who writes "Go Team Go!" after their team loses? NOBODY. Nobody wants to gloat about a losing team, that's just not normal.
Being a truly die hard Canucks fan definitely has its challenges, and this is one that really gets to me sometimes. As much as I am loving the success the Canucks are having this year, the bandwagoners are never gonna go away, and people who complain about them are not going to stop either.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Going too hard
In terms of computer science:
if amountSleep < minimumSleep {
colin = crash & burn
}
That's pretty much what happened to me the last week. When I was a little bit younger, I used to tell my sister that she was a workaholic, and that I would never be like that. o how wrong I was. This last week, I went to school full time, did all my homework, logged over 30 hours of work, and drove to Langley and back in a day. Add that with watching Canucks games, eating, playing a video game (Dragon Age 2 - amazing!), and there wasn't too much time in there to sleep. Needless to say, when I got home from Langley on Sunday night, I was exhausted. So what did I do? You might be thinking to yourself, "o he probably went to bed." Nope. I went to a movie, and then played Xbox til midnight. Yea, I wasn't the smartest that night. Live and learn i guess!
Anyways, I get paid tomorrow, and I have somewhere around 55-60 hours on my paycheck. That includes working 8 shifts in 9 days, and working til late in the night and having to wake up early the next morning. On the plus side, I really like big paychecks. So.... now to the point. Do you think you can go too hard, and is it worth pushing yourself to the point of exhaustion? I promised myself that I wouldn't work like my sister did, but now it's almost like I get too bored with myself if I'm not busy enough.
Thanks for reading! Peace
if amountSleep < minimumSleep {
colin = crash & burn
}
That's pretty much what happened to me the last week. When I was a little bit younger, I used to tell my sister that she was a workaholic, and that I would never be like that. o how wrong I was. This last week, I went to school full time, did all my homework, logged over 30 hours of work, and drove to Langley and back in a day. Add that with watching Canucks games, eating, playing a video game (Dragon Age 2 - amazing!), and there wasn't too much time in there to sleep. Needless to say, when I got home from Langley on Sunday night, I was exhausted. So what did I do? You might be thinking to yourself, "o he probably went to bed." Nope. I went to a movie, and then played Xbox til midnight. Yea, I wasn't the smartest that night. Live and learn i guess!
Anyways, I get paid tomorrow, and I have somewhere around 55-60 hours on my paycheck. That includes working 8 shifts in 9 days, and working til late in the night and having to wake up early the next morning. On the plus side, I really like big paychecks. So.... now to the point. Do you think you can go too hard, and is it worth pushing yourself to the point of exhaustion? I promised myself that I wouldn't work like my sister did, but now it's almost like I get too bored with myself if I'm not busy enough.
Thanks for reading! Peace
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Hello World!
Hey everyone!
So, I'm Colin Verbrée (ver - bray). I'm 20 years old, born November 25, 1990. I'm 6'2, dirty blond hair, grey-green eyes, etc etc. Right now, life has me in Kamloops BC, going to Thompson Rivers University as a 3rd year computer science student.
As most of you know, I love the Vancouver Canucks. I watch every game, and if I can't watch the game, I listen on the radio. So if you dont like the Vancouver Canucks, you probably shouldn't read my blog, because I'm most likely going to talk about them. I also love golf, so I'll probably talk about that too.
Another thing I have recently gotten into is recording music. I took a recording class at TWU (amazing class if you have the opportunity to take it) and fell in love with recording music. This is kind of the real reason I wanted to start a blog - to write about recording, and discuss ideas and stuff that I have floating up somewhere in my head. With that being said, it might start out slow, because I don't have a whole heck of a lot of time to record during school, because I work 5 days a week, along with going to school full time. So I'm pretty busy. But this summer coming up, my goal is to fully record a good length EP, or maybe even a demo album. Who knows if that's a reasonable goal, but I'm definitely going to work towards it.
Anyways. If you want to, write a comment, because that would be awesome and totally make my day. I'd love for this to be more of a discussion than me just writing random things, so yea! That's the plan. I hope anyone who's reading this will enjoy it. And if not, then don't read it!
Cheers til next time!
Colin
So, I'm Colin Verbrée (ver - bray). I'm 20 years old, born November 25, 1990. I'm 6'2, dirty blond hair, grey-green eyes, etc etc. Right now, life has me in Kamloops BC, going to Thompson Rivers University as a 3rd year computer science student.
As most of you know, I love the Vancouver Canucks. I watch every game, and if I can't watch the game, I listen on the radio. So if you dont like the Vancouver Canucks, you probably shouldn't read my blog, because I'm most likely going to talk about them. I also love golf, so I'll probably talk about that too.
Another thing I have recently gotten into is recording music. I took a recording class at TWU (amazing class if you have the opportunity to take it) and fell in love with recording music. This is kind of the real reason I wanted to start a blog - to write about recording, and discuss ideas and stuff that I have floating up somewhere in my head. With that being said, it might start out slow, because I don't have a whole heck of a lot of time to record during school, because I work 5 days a week, along with going to school full time. So I'm pretty busy. But this summer coming up, my goal is to fully record a good length EP, or maybe even a demo album. Who knows if that's a reasonable goal, but I'm definitely going to work towards it.
Anyways. If you want to, write a comment, because that would be awesome and totally make my day. I'd love for this to be more of a discussion than me just writing random things, so yea! That's the plan. I hope anyone who's reading this will enjoy it. And if not, then don't read it!
Cheers til next time!
Colin
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