Homecoming Week- Take Me Down to the Classic City

Last week was our homecoming week (I realize that it's kinda weird to say "we" when I am the only author for this blog. Oh Well).

Basically it's a week filled with events to celebrate our school's history as well as welcoming back the alumni.
Augustana Concert


We had a parade at downtown Athens where different clubs and societies will decorate their cars into floats and just parade down the street. People were throwing candies to the big crowd (since we had a home football game). The exciting thing was even old people and parents of students were being hyped up for those candies. Interesting generation huh!I did not go to the carnival where they set up Ferris Wheel and few other rides because the line was just to long that my friends and I decided to goof around in Target.

"Kelvin...Do they have this in Malaysia?"

Alright! Take a deep breath before scrolling down. It contains maximum exposure of bodies...literally

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Do I look like McDonald? NO!

Do I look like a Red Indian? NO!

Anyway, I was asked by my friends to sub in for one of our friend's place for the body paint up. They do this for every home game here. So, it's pretty wild. I'm "space" in front and "T" at the back

Looking hilarious yet scary to some, we attracted many people especially parents who forced their children to take photos with us.
"GEORGIA DAWGS"
"THANKS TROOPS" as it was our homecoming week where the alumni came to the game.

For each touchdown that we had, we will all do a number push-ups based on the total score. That would be a total of 7+14+21+28+31+38=139 push-ups that we did!

There was this alumni/old man, in his 80's, who got intimidated excited watching us doing it, so he took on the challenge. I will have to say that he's pretty awesome!

Btw, we won the game by 38-0. I feel so sorry for Tennessee Tech.

Relient K

Recently, I went to the Relienk K concert with my roommate which was really awesome and cool.

They decorated the stage in the theme of sailor, specifically, Giligian's Island.

The 2 opening indie bands:
Barcelona. They were good and seemed passionate in their music and performance.

Copeland. Their music sounded the same throughout all the songs they performed which made it kinda monotonous and boring.

And finally, RELIENT K!
Matt Thiessen :)

John Warne

Matt Hoopes

Ethan Luck

Jon Schneck

I would say that they have really good stage performance and drive. The different progressions they played in their songs were just amazing.

Be My Escape


Must Have Done Something Right

They also did a live cover on these two songs:
Island In The Sun


Under the Sea :)


After the concert, we waited for the band to come out and asked for their autographs and photo with them.

I'm so jealous of this photo!
Zach had his phone case signed by the band
I had my hoodie signed by Matt Thiessen. Apparently, it's upside-down.
Anyway, this video was the only video I recorded from the Blink 182 concert. All American Rejects and Fall Out Boys did not perform during that concert, which is seriously not cool and disappointing. However, Travis Barker made the concert whole lot better.

I Miss You

Loving the Homeless

This took place last Thursday. A couple of my friends from the Wesley Foundation small group and I gathered and headed out to Wendy's for the 99cent double cheeseburgers. Random fact, this was my first time riding in a jeep with no doors :) The shop was already closed and the drive-though was the only choice. We ordered 15 burgers and the guy over at the operator replied, "Are you guys serious?"

Fast forward, we prayed at a parking lot downtown and split into two groups. The first guy that we stumble upon, who was kinda old with wrinkled white hair asked if he could use one of our phone to call his friend. Although he couldn't get through to his friend, we gave him a burger after asking if he would want one. "Thank you. Have a great day," he replied.
Halfway walking down a street, we met a group of Christians giving out free water bottles and cookies while playing songs with their guitar. Pretty cool huh? We chatted a while and shared our ideas of reaching out to the homeless.
We passed a couple of people that looked "homeless" asking us to spare a few change. We declined but offered them burgers which they accepted.
There was this guy who was trying to tie a bulldog at a door of a building where he was playing guitar to earn a couple of bucks for the night. The dog seems to be his yet it seemed too clean and healthy to be owned by this homeless guy. We sat down with him and chatted for more than half and hour while we entertained his dog as well. He played some of his self-composed Christian songs and told us the background of each songs. Isn't it a wonder that a homeless guy like him, living under such an unpleasant surrounding and unstable life, would still love God and praise God with his Christian songs?

Bulldog'ness

UNITE- An event where all the college ministries gathered and had a time of worship and prayer together. It was awesome! I could see people being passionate for God.

Phi Slam party. Phi Slam is a so called "fraternity" not associated with the other fraternities in U of Georgia. Phi Slam is considered as a non-profit organization, i think. It's basically a group of Christian guys holding events like non-alcoholic parties on friday night so that people won't get drunk downtown. It sounded a bit weird to me at 1st but i guess they are fine since the party wasn't very wild.The huge dinosaur and monkey they put up. Wonder where they got all these cool stuff from.

The theme was "stuff up" which basically means dress up till you look fat or puffed :)

I dressed up as Homer Simpson with the Homer beanie my sis bought for me and stuffed towels in my shirt(i'm not fat okay)

The cool dance they came up with

Ordering Japanese food which only arrived an hour later and the shop's name is Choo Choo. Such irony.

Tailgate and first home football(UGA Bulldongs VS South Carolina Gamecocks)

My church people

Sam, which is the guy in white long-sleeves, was the guy I contacted before I came to Georgia. He was really nice in helping me settle a lot of my stuff. Kudos

Unfortunately, I didn't get the ticket for this game.

Ticket scalping
When the bulldogs miss their touchdowns

Found this photo online and couldn't stop laughing