Mesozoic Era

There were a lot of choices to choose from to go back to a time period but if I had to choose one time period it would be the Mesozoic Era. The Mesozoic Era is where the Dinosaurs began to expand and rule throughout the world.  It seems like it would be a dangerous time period to travel back too, but it would be interesting to study the Dinosaurs. Some adventures I might encounter on this trip back to the Mesozoic Era are Dinosaurs chasing me and finding new animals. It would be interesting to see if we could have used Dinosaurs as pets like dogs or cats. If you think about it, if you could make one dinosaur your pet you could easily make other dinosaurs your pet, but it really depends on what type of dinosaur. It would also be interesting if I was the only human and too see if they treated me as a leader their pack. Could you imagine being the leader of all the dinosaurs of the world? You wouldn’t have to really worry about anything. I would also like to experience the impact/explosion of the meteoroid hitting the earth and whipping out all the dinosaurs in the world. What if there was something that we humans could have done to stop that meteoroid from hitting the earth? Would we be ruled by dinosaurs if they survived the meteoroid hit or would we rule them? These are all questions I would want to know if I went back into this time period. This adventure would be very scary and stressful, but if we could answer some of these questions, maybe it would help us with other studies that have to relate with dinosaurs.  Overall this trip would be a fun one I would never forget.

Changing the world

I am sure there are many ways in changing the world, but one way I would like to change the world is that I would like to help the poor and give people more education in the other foreign counties. If I had more power in the world I would definitely do these things by setting up charities, foundations, and reach out to other powerful people.  I think all people deserve an equal chance in this world today. Everyone has potential has in something. It may not be sports, but it may be something to do with education. Some people that are poor could either be lazy or they may just not have basic tools of life, like reading, writing, and talking. Sometimes lazy people would just claim well fair and just call it a day. That is not how you succeed in life. You have to work hard at everything to get what you want. Some of these lazy people get this chance, but they obviously don’t take advantage of it. Now on the other hand, if you don’t get to learn the basic tools of life then that’s not fair. Everyone should have some type of an education some way. Especially to read, write, and talk. Another way I would change the world is to give free health care to people or families without a criminal record. Health care is expensive now days. That is why people cannot get treated and goes to the doctors if they have something seriously wrong with them. If we gave free health care to people there would be lesser chance of people getting sick and spreading diseases. Diseases and sickness are getting worst every day. I really hope that this blog will give some people ideas about changing the world for the better.

Philip Bifulco III

For our next blog we got a random person to interview that was part of the bulldog newspaper, and we needed to interview them. This time though I had to interview myself, because I had no one to interview. We asked each other random questions about each other. Many people ask why my name is, “Philip Anthony Bifulco III?” Well my grandpa name was Philip Bifulco Sr. and then my dad’s name was Philip Bifulco Jr., because he’s the second. So I am the third then because I am the third person in my family and third person of the generation to use my name. Some hobbies I like to do is hangout with my friends (Corey Barczykowski, John Ridlespurg, and Gabe McNamara) and play Xbox. Some games I play for Xbox are Modern Warfare 3, Madden 2012, or NCAA Football 2012. My favorite sport to play is basketball, because I just love watching crazy athletic plays happen. I also am pretty good at basketball as well. Some goals that I would like to achieve by the end of my senior year is too be 205 pounds and be in way better shape than I am now. Another goal of mine in the future is to move down to North Carolina on an internship for some sports team too work on my sports management career with. My favorite color is blue.  The most important person in my life is my dad. My dad has been in my life through thick and thin and has never been less than the great person he is today. Some life lessons I learned in my life so far are to never trust anyone. Do everything on your own if you want it. Don’t wait on other people to do your work for you. This concludes my interview about myself.   

My Holiday Break

This is a choice blog and I get to write about anything I want. This choice blog is going to be about my holiday break coming up. This year’s holiday break is not going to be as fun, because there is absolutely no snow on the ground! It is crazy how there is a snow storm in Kansas and there is no snow in the Great Lakes where we usually get a lot of snow. I was looking forward to using my brother girlfriend’s snowmobile, but now I can’t because there is no snow. This Christmas should be fun. I think I got most of the stuff I wanted this year. This year I asked for a pair of Timberland boots, dress clothes, and some money from my parents. I cannot wait for the food during Christmas break, because my family makes a lot of food during the break. MY mom makes at least 6 different batches of cookies. The different cookies she makes are called Oreo balls, peanut butter chocolate balls, Italian cookies, almond cookies, sugar cookies, and last but not least normal chocolate chip cookies. Are Christmas dinners usually consist of steak, mash potatoes, and cheese burgers. During New Years we have crab legs, peas, steak, chili, and chicken wings. During the break I will probably be getting up early, because I will pretty much have basketball every day during the break. I really hope that I make it to the year of 2012 too, because I would like to enjoy the rest of my life. I don’t really think the world will end in 2012, but that is definitely one wish I would like to come true. This break will be very fun overall. I really hope I can post another blog to you guys updating my status in 2012.

Women and Love

This is a choice blog so I get to write about whatever I feel like. This blog is going to be my opinion about women. Women remind me of Aliens, because they try to brainwash us men. They are hard to figure out. Women don’t know what they want at my time and age, but I understand that because your young and you are in high school and you do not need to stress out about boyfriends, because you have other stuff to worry about. But as I get older I think women will have us believe that they are the victims; that we break their hearts for sport. That’s’ crap. They say they want romance, they say they want true love, but all they want is a check list. Is he perfect? Is he handsome? Is he a doctor? For you men who fit the criteria, don’t kid yourselves, because they are not sleeping with you, they are sleeping with a carefully calculated set of venal choices. Money over substance, looks over soul, and polished over principles. No gesture, no matter how real or romantic will ever compensate for a really impressive list of credentials. Do I believe that there is that one girl out there for every guy? Yes I do, but sometimes it could take years for us men to find them. I really hope one day I will find that one girl that I could go to anything with and have kids of our own that we could raise together for the rest of our lives. I do believe in love, but not at age 17. This is what they call puppy love. Loves is where you will do anything for that one person or were help them when they need you the most. This is my opinion about love and women in this day and age.

My Plans After High School

This is a choice blog so I get to write about whatever I feel like. I am going to talk about my plans after high school. If I don’t get a scholarship to play basketball somewhere, I will probably end up going to GCC to get my GPA up to transfer to a bigger college. I will major in Sports Management. I am leaning towards transferring to Medallie after I get my GPA or transfer to a school down in North Carolina. Eventually I’m going to live in North Carolina and hopefully get a job with a sports team down there. I’ve always wanted a 2010 Camaro with black tints and a system. That is one of my goals to accomplish after I get my job and get established myself in North Carolina. Once I am around 25 or 26 I would like to get married and have kids of my own. I am really looking forward to graduation, because it will be a new chapter in my life. I will no longer be able to make excuses for myself if something isn’t done. This new chapter will require me to work hard and do whatever I can to be successful. I would like to thank my parents for my support. They have taught me how to be a man and how to be a successful person. I would like to also thank my coaches throughout my high school career in sports. They have taught me how to work hard at whatever it is and don’t ever settle at achieving one goal, always try to have more than one goal in life. I would also like to thank my friends. Without them I would not be who I am today.

NBA Free Agency

This is a choice blog so I get to write about whatever I feel like. The NBA free agency starts today and there are a couple good NBA players that are available like Nene, Tyson Chandler, Caron Butler, Shannon Brown, and Tayshaun Prince. Some of these players though have made deals with teams. Tyson Chandler signed with the Knicks, Caron Butler signed with the Clippers, Shannon Brown signed with the Hawks and Tayshaun Prince resigned with the Pistons. I am a big Lakers fan and there was a trade rumor going around about the Lakers getting Chris Paul and Dwight Howard for Pau Gasol, Andrew Bynum, and Lamar Odom. Now that would be awesome. We would have a new and better big three then the big three in Miami. Kobe, CP3, and Howard, would that be even fair? Well later today I found out that the NBA denied a deal that would send Paul to the Lakers, Gasol to the Rockets, and The Hornets would get Kevin Martin, Luis Scola, and Lamar Odom. The reason why they denied it is, because they said they are trying to make the NBA fair. David Stern said that there trying to limit superstar basketball players to team up on teams, which I think is bologna, because it’s the team’s decision on where they could be traded too. The team who is trading the superstar player should receive more players, because a superstar player like Chris Paul is hard to replace so you will probably need more than one player for a superstar player unless you trade a superstar player for another superstar player.  I really hope the Lakers make a push for some key players in the free agency so we could make a run for the title against the Miami Heat this year.

Alden vs Iroquois

In this blog I have an option to talk about whatever I want. Today’s topic will be about my basketball game tonight against Iroquois. We will need to run the floor a lot and get rebounds. Rebounds are a big part of this game because they have 2 6’7 kids, but they are skinny, so if we box them out properly we will have a chance to win this game no problem. Paul Matuszak will have to have a strong defensive game against Madison today. If we shut him down and keep him cold, Paul will gain confidence and take him to the hole on the offense end and hopefully foul him out. Corey will have to play scrappy. He needs to get rebounds steals and assist. If he gets 5 rebounds, 5 assist, and 3 steals, that is a game for him. I need to hit my shots if there open and drive to get to the foul line and get the easy points. Are bench needs to play good as well. If Brian and Dylan both have 5 to 10 points, I can see us winning this game hands down. Eric will need to play good defense and give us energy off the bench as well. If we do win this game we will probably have to play an athletic Kenmore East team. I know that there will be a few bumps in the road in this game, because it’s our first game, but even if we do lose this game we will learn a lot about each other and about us as a team. If we do get out rebounded this game, we will just get after it in practice, because I know that everyone on this team does not like to lose. This game will probably test are heart as a team.

Three Wishes

Usually wishes don’t come true, but if I had 3 wishes and I knew they would come true I know exactly what I would wish for. My first wish that I would wish for would be to find a cure for any cancer. My grandpa, that I never met, died when he was 49 due to lung cancer. My dad was 18 or 19. My dad was devastated and he misses my grandpa more and more each day. I have never met my grandpa and I always wanted to. Imagine if the world today was cancer free? More people would be alive and most of all more people would be happy. I give the most respect to anyone who has any type of cancer. Some of the treatments they have to do are crazy. My second wish would for my family to be more financially stable. We are having a rough time with money, because now days everything is much more expensive then it was 10 to 30 years ago. My family works hard for their money too. My dad is 57 and he still work 45 hours a week. He bends over backwards for my family and I think if we had more money there would be less stress on him. My third and final wish would for me to have a family of my own. Sometimes people don’t have the chance to have a family or they don’t have time to have one. I know that I will make time for my family. I will make all my kids sports games or significant events and most importantly I will be there for my wife and kids when they need me the most. If any of these wishes came true it would probably mean the world to me. It probably would be the best felling in the world.

Favorite Genre of Music

My favorite music genre has to be either rap or country. Yeah I know that’s an odd combination, but oh well. Rap music has a lot of history. Rap music goes back to the 70’s where there was LL Cool J, Biz Markie, Beastie Boys, etc. Now you hear Lil Wayne, Eminem, Drake, and etc. on the radio. These are some of my favorite artist. They affect me both in a positive way and a negative way. When I play sports I mostly listen to rap, because it gets me ready to play. It puts me in a zone where I feel that no one could stop me when I play any sport. Usually I listen to rap music when I’m in a good mood. Some of the music makes me want to dance and party with all my friends and of course with some girls as well. When I’m in a bad/sad mood I’ll listen to some songs where I just listen to their lyrics and see how they relate to my life. Sometimes it could put me worst mood or it could make me feel better and I realize that my life could be way worst. I haven’t really listen to country music long enough to know all the artist but I’m slowly starting to like it. When I listen to country music it makes me think a lot. I listen to the lyrics and I could compare some of my life to the song in any country song. Sometimes there are some really sad songs like “Whiskey Lullaby”. That song makes me tear up inside a little bit, because I could relate to that song with one my cousins killing themselves from drinking way too much and committing suicide. Music has an influence in everyone, sometimes it could be bad and sometimes it could be good.

Top 3 Movies

I have watched a lot of movies on the weekends with my dad and Mr. Altieri and I would have to say my 3 favorite movies have to be Tommy Boy, Bad Boys, and Click. Tommy Boy is one of my favorite movies is, because Chris Farley is very funny and my dad and Mr. Altieri always imamate some of the parts in the movie. Tommy Boy is about a guy named Tommy who had to take over his father’s business which was an car factory where they made parts for cars. It was called “Callahan Auto”. The company is going under, because no one has the money to buy the company after Tommy’s dad died, so Tommy and his friend Richard go all over Ohio to sell brake pads to companies. For about 2-3 weeks. They end up selling all the brake pads they have, but one night “Tommy’s dads’ wife son” decided to be a money hoarder and changed the quantity amount of brake pads they sold so they would end up with less. Later on they save the company and Tommy has a successful life. My second favorite movie is all the Bad Boys movies. It is about 2 cops they try to crackdown on the biggest crimes and in the mix somehow their family gets involved and they have to save on of their family members in the process. This movie has a lot of action and comedy as well. My third favorite movie is Click. It’s one of my favorite movies, because I make a connection with me and my dad in that movie. The movie is about a Family dad who falls asleep and sees his future with his family and it turns out bad, but when he wakes up he makes it all better.

My Favorite Book

I don’t really like to read books. I do believe that they help you with your education, but it’s just not my thing to do. I have read about 10 books in my lifetime and I have to say my favorite book has to be “Through My Eyes” by Nathan Whitaker. This book is about Tim Tebow’s struggles with transferring from playing college quarterback to being a pro NFL quarterback. Tim Tebow deals with many critics in his life. They said that they don’t think he has what it takes to be an NFL quarterback and his mechanics are very terrible. He has too long of a release in his throw and he is very inaccurate. Well if you don’t know Tim Tebow already he is a very driven person. He always tries to prove his critics wrong. Ever since the senior bowl game he has worked on his mechanics as a quarterback. He had to work on putting his arm up higher and get a faster release. When he was in college he would look like he would wind up and throw it. He worked 30 straight days on it and it improved a lot. He worked out from 7 in the morning to 8 at night. He would work out like an animal whenever he did. This one workout he did was that he pushed a SUV down this road for a couple miles all by himself. You can tell he loved football so much. His desire to prove his critics wrong was incredible. In the 2010 NFL Draft he was either going to go to the Bills, Broncos, or Miami. Well with Tebow still on the board, the Broncos moved up in the draft and snagged him with the 26^th pick. Tebow was happy but he knew he still had a lot to prove as a quarterback. Once he got drafted he still worked on his mechanics and just got better and better. Now Tebow is the starting quarterback for the broncos and he has a 5-1 record as a starter.