The Daily Amoeba

Sunday, September 28, 2008

it was (proper noun) in the (location) with a (object)...

so i asked a question. the answer...

KRISTEN!

do you see her? she's the one in red!

so ashton won. technically. kristen was first in answering but she guessed incorrectly. she guessed jerry seinfeld. JERRY! SEINFELD!

the winner will eventually get something fun!

Labels: Jerry Seinfeld, Kristen, Timothy, winner Ashton

10:57 PM

Stranger Things Have Happened.

So, not much at all has happened to me this week. Really, practically nothing. The title this week is a Foo Fighters song, since none of the Muse song titles particularly fit. Calm week, and stranger things have happened.

Had a good week, took a test. The test was much easier than expected. In fact all the tests are comparatively easier than back at Whitney, no idea why. Had a chemistry lab, and took an hour and a half longer than we should have. Did laundry because my judo gi seemed freakishly weird.

This weekend was Parent's Weekend, and one of my roommates parents came. Really nice people, their interactions remind me of how my parents interact. It did make me miss the folks a little, but I keep in contact enough, so I didn't mind.

I went to an Asian club meeting for the free dinner. My first supposedly Asian meal, and it was not very good at all, and I've had much better. The tables were split into two rows, instead of being continuous.The Chinese natives sat in their own group, speaking Chinese, and the rest of us sat at our own table. Met some cool people.

Went to Toadsuck park with my roommates and his parents. Had a picnic and threw stones for a bit. Came back, and now this.

Hope you guys all get a break like this every once in a while.

Also, I sincerely need new sandals

Labels: asians, First, food, Richard, shoes, Tests

5:02 PM

a whopper of a week in review

UWAAHHH SO MUCH HAPPENED THIS WEEK! i'm very happy, you guys. i'm so happy, i could burst! :D this is going to be super long and even longer with pictures, so please bear with me! more pics on fb :D
lun

es
i watched heroes for the first time! i went to a season premiere potluck/party at an upperclassman's apt. a lot of friends from gardenchurch/PASA were there - i didnt like the show itself. i didnt know who anyone was, and it was kind of overly melodramatic. yeah. but i hear tell that season 1 beats all. so i'll try it one day! after the first hour, some of us left to go to a PASA activity! BOBA RUN! we went to LA, a street called sawtelle, where theres a bunch of asian places. we went to volcano tea for boba, then a tokidoki store! <3, then a japanese discount boutique ($2 DS case!), then the market where jennifer stocked up on asian foods. (shes from chicago)
martes
after my math class, sarah (senior, gardenchurch) took me out for lunch! we went to this thai place called cholada, because everyone raves about it. it was pretty good! my personality is pretty similar to sarah's, so that was nice. just to talk honestly about college and life and faith. she said i could go to their apt for dinner anytime :) (she hosted the heroes potluck!)
miercoles
i found out that i got a 97% on my Western Culture midtermmm yayyyy!!!
jueves
handwritten part of my math test. i did pretty good.
viernes
excel part of my math test. I FAILED SO BAD ZOMG. excel was being stupid and it crashed and i lost all my work, and it wasnt working like it was supposed to! so... :/ oh well. it was victorias (roommate) birthday! so she went home and i got the dorm to myself all weeken

d :) friday night i went with gardenchurch people to broomball! i KICKED BUTT!!! i was pretty gooood. i even scored a goal once! the freshman/junior team beat the sophomore/senior team by 1 pt! and jennifer was crazy. as in.. she was crawling around on the ice, on her stomach, and then she would run up to me and try to hug me! i was like 'uhh i like you but dont touch me!' haha yeah she was pretty high off herself. mann broomballing made me sooo sore though. and as of now its worse than yesterday. back, legs, arm... bleh. but soo funn!
sabado
i rolled out of bed, heated up some french bread pizza from costco (yayy ashton!) and then left for USC. it took me like 40 minutes and studying maps all week totally paid off! i made it there without incident. well, i did miss the entrance, but it wasnt too bad to turn around and come back haha. i snuck up on timo, movie-style. (this is too complicated to explain.) we got odwalla's, and went to his room. i mostly lounged on his bed as he worked. but we did take breaks to...
- super-videochat with bernard and richard with both our macbooks

- play yoshi's island on my ds. - -'
- talk about life
it was really chill and i enjoyed being around tim again. it does hurt me that he's so overwhelmed by all that he has to do. his workload really is unreasonable... but he's dealing with it the best he can. a few hours after i arrived, derek and calvin arrived. we tried to sneak up on them at tommy trojan. i forgot about the tommy cam, so i did some weird stuff... i hope nobody was watching it at the time... calvin raided tim's food and derek went to visit someone else. calvin tried IMing bernard pretending to be me, but i tried to type random stuff so that bernard would know something was off. "they always know somethings wrong when you do that" but calvin covered it up well, and then physically restrained further participation from me. - -' then calvin napped and i helped tim with some of his work and we talked a little. at 6, we went to dinner, and met jeremy (very good friend from church) there. the food at usc is okay. more variation than peppy, but i'm not crazy about buffet style. we also met the 'girl with the meal plan' haha. i had dessert! i never buy dessert at peppy! after dinner we left timothy to go work more, and we went to jeremy's dorm. then we left calvin there to spend time with jeremy, and derek and i went to whisky a go go, this nightclub in west hollywood. my first time at a club! i put some makeup/earrings on in the car. i like silver eyeliner :D. anyway, it was dark and we were moving and all i had was the kitty mirror ashton gave me - so i had no idea how it turned out. but it DID turn out good! i'm very proud of myself. i applied everything with such natural ease... and then derek turned and went "WHOA!" it was a total transformation! (lol) some of the people around the club were creepy, but it turned out okay. we were on the guest list so it was free. 8) i got carded! haha i was just going to tell him i'm under 21, but i just showed him my license. and then the next guy was like are you carrying anything? and i was like 'uhh i have my camera *pats pocket* and my cellphone *pats other pocket* ' and he let me through. but i saw some other guys get pat-downs. when i got in i was VERY pleased to see Tim Mok, a church friend who just went to SD. i wasnt e

xpecting to see him so soon after he left! quite a few other church friends too. i also saw lauren modus and marvin cho! brian fang and arthur (church friend) were playing 4th. the other bands were eh. loud. haha. we cheered for brian (the only acoustic act) and then we left. we went back to usc to get my car and we both drove to park closer to jeremy's dorm. he HAD said that we wouldnt need to talk to the guard but we did. i was first. the guard said 'what are you here for?' 'um... a visit. to...fluor? (where jeremy lives)' 'i'm going to need to see some ID' (twice in one day! my ID has never gotten so much air) so i handed it to him. 'how long are you going to be here?' 'um... like

an hourish?' and i showed him my parking pass from earlier 'i was here earlier, i'm just parking closer!' he walks back to dereks car and i guess finds out that derek is basically the same as me, so he comes back and says 'you can park right here in this little lot, you dont need to feed the meters because they already had dinner.' i laugh and act cute and innocent (like i have been the whole time!) and then he hands me my license and says 'youre not smiling in this picture!' 'uh... i was nervous!' 'well next time i guess' 'yeah...' haha so then derek got stopped but not for as long as i was.

at jeremys place, jeremy and calvin were playing chess on macbooks, after watching pans labyrinth. we waited for tim to get there, and then derek took tim/calvin home and i drove back to peppy, with NO traffic and singing at the top of my lungs to the Wicked soundtrack all the way!
domingo
woke up even more sore than yesterday! went to church and it was fun! they opened a new garden/lounge area so they had free lunch in celebration. right now i am going to write my international programs essay for my application!

i love you guys!

Labels: Kristen

3:15 PM

Saturday, September 27, 2008

he posts

oovoo... whoa...

in other news, i used to love my nephews...

haha jk. aidan and trevor, since i last saw them, have developed a god-awful shriek that makes me wanna [deleted], but other than that i still love them dearly. :D

ucirvine is oober great! i joined four clubs during welcome week, but plan to commit to only two because i still wanna carpool with thien tu and steven, and general meetings would otherwise get in the way of our carpooling schedule. there's a metro stop near my brother's house in irvine, so hopefully i'll be able to hitch a ride back to the station after meetings on wednesdays. i'm gonna do taiko drumming, hoo hoo hoorah!

i got through the first two days of class with relative ease. had lunch at pippin commons with jamie and aram on friday. i figured, since the optional meal plan (for off-campus ppl) cost me a freakin 400 bucks, i'd get my money's worth. sooo... i stuffed myself. result: i was sleepy during bio. i gave up my aisle seat to make a fellow classmate happy as a result; she really wanted "to be with her friends!", and our bio seats are permanent apparently, each group with six ppl. i kinda feel good about myself… but i also think i'll regret it later on test-taking day when i'll be really cramped. i blame the sleepiness.

i like studying outside. i haven't ventured to the other floors of the Langson library, but the first floor seems really stuffy. i can't concentrate well if it's stuffy!

oh, and i got my driver's license! that means i can start visiting ppl! …but until the braces come off, i'll settle for a laptop and oovooing with you guys.

until next time…

Andrew

Labels: Andrew

8:52 PM

get oovoo cuz i love you

or get oovoo cause i love talking to you guys.

www.oovoo.com

we can do up to 6 person videoconference *shock*
why you ask?

that's why.
cause it's amaaazing :)
and because richard and ashton are super people, and you know you wanna videochat with super people like them (mmhmm)....and kristen and tim too who did the homebrew version of a conference videochat with TWO LAPTOPS. amazingness.

more about my life. it's fun, even though this week will be killer. i have a math test, a chem test, a paper due, two quizzes, and the following week i have a paper, midterm, and presentation for the same class (chinese politics). gaahhh i hope i survive. but, while i'm distracted and procrastinating, i might as well talk about the happier aspects of life.

i went to the farmer's market yesterday! it's this tiny little half a street with like 5 vendors...tiniest little place ever. i got apples and apple cider. i pledged that since i was at the farmer's market i would eat "healthier" and get more fruits so that my diet would be more "balanced". then we ordered pizza. there were three of us (me, tom, and dani), and we ordered 3 $5 large cheese pizzas (yeah, that's honors college students thinking there for you--we couldn't think about sharing food unless it was retrospective thinking, which is *always* the best situational help) then we went for a walk while our pizza was being made, and out of nowhere, it started drizzling and sprinkling, then it was pretty much raining, and we ran back into the pizza place. right when we got in, it stopped raining. figures. i think somebody's trying to send me a sign from up there that i shouldn't eat such unhealthy stuff like pizza. haha.

here's us inside the pizza place making sad faces cuz we were wet...except for tom.

oh yeah and here's my lil' group of friends over here in pittsburgh...sandy on the right decided not to look at the camera -_-"

hope all you ucers are having fun starting school!
kristen, i hate excel too-we have to work on it in our programming class :( ---tim, try to get some shuteye :)--- ashton, i loooove your new hair--- ilean, gluck with your job search--- andrew, have fun with your new laptop once you get it--- richard, gluck finding some thai food...or at least some better chinese.---gelly, let's meet up one day during a break and make asian food XD---
everybody else: you guys are awesome and i have to talk to you soon! we have to catch up! yes, we must! download oovoo so we can videochat, cause that's the cool thing to do these days.

平安

Labels: Bernard, farmer's market, oovoo

7:36 PM

you're a womanizer, baby.

hola everyone! i got the most overwhelming urge today to cut my hair, so i went and got it done right then! I actually got a loooott cut off it still looks pretty long but its most def like 4 inches shorter and a tonnn of layers. I just wanted a change so i told my korean hairdresser just to cut it and she did it any way she wanted. it looks like such a korean haircut hahaaaaaa!!! but I went home and styled it myself and i love it! there is a picture right there! it actually makes me look a bit like a bobble head cause it's so voluminous...

anywhoo, I'm feeling a lot better than my last post. i really appreciate everyone that gave me advice it really encouraged me and helped me a lot. i met up with some old elementary friends and i've met a lot of new people through old friends etc. etc.. i'm also getting to know some whitney people better now! my floor in sproul is so unsocial though partly because there are a bunch of 2nd years there who aren't interested in making friends and partly because everyone else is really shy. my classes are good except calc is MUCHO boring i almost fell asleep on the first day -_____- my communications class is really weird cause all he did was give dating tips the frist day like... pick up lines and types of kisses.......

i joined an env sci club and a fencing club, but I'm thinking of dropping the fencing even though i haven't taken it yet cause i have so much to do already! on top of school i have a new job in campus catering for special events and i'm going to rush a coed fraternity next week that i might join if they're nice people, which so far they seem to be.

i really miss everyone and i hope you're all doing well in college. i was talking to bernard and i said we should have a reunion during winter break where we all ahve a potluck. the theme should be: the cool carefree caribbean islands! what do y'all think?

Labels: Ashton, hair, ucla

4:21 PM

guess who is here?

i'll give you four guesses.

a) andrew!

b) kristen!

c) my brother!

d) jerry seinfeld!

the first person to answer correctly wins...something!

hope everyone is having a good first couple of days of school. VISIT ME!

Labels: Timothy

12:42 PM

Thursday, September 25, 2008

So hello everybody. I hope my post gets read as much as the others do. helloooo. ok. so i'm at school at UCSD with ilean and katherine. and... a bunch of other whitney people. i didnt really like that whole idea of having so many people i know around, but it turns out it really helps when making new friends. people like to join people who are in groups. I'm posting during the end of welcome week which is the time when people try to get to know each other the most and all that. i'm sure you all had your respective welcome weeks. move-in was pretty fun and scary. the idea of living on my own, oh da so cool. but, meeting new people isnt my strong point. i've joined a couple clubs and i'm waiting to hear form the through email. i went to my major's orientation thing, my major being physics. oh em gee... it was nerdfest -.- not only was it 40 people out of the entire freshman class, but the fact that out of the 40, like 20 showed up. sooo not enough girls.... kinda pisses me off. Oh, i've met some new friends like Vikrant and Andrew. they're really cool people that have my kind of humor. no not dirty humor. i know you were all thinking that. and... i've had time to think about what i've accomplished. time to reflect upon my day. i've realized... we are sheltered in unimaginable ways. things, unreal things, occur outside our protective school walls. needless to say, i was speechless. so i hope college is a time to become less judgmental, annndd a time to type with less spelling errors. haha -.- no more emoticons. k, so this was my first post so, Kristen, make only minor grammatical corrections... =] Oh, before i forget, college is hella cool. hella... no david no.

Labels: David, David's, First, Post

2:42 AM

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

First couple days

So... Finally decided to post stuff up. YAY. :P Anyway, so move in day was quite a pain cuz my Res Hall has no elevator. My brother Allen ended up moving a 66ish pound mini fridge up three flights of stairs and then down one cuz there's a random trapezoid thing in the middle of the hall. Quite hectic but fun. Forgot a few things like my alarm clock and a camera charger. Whatevs. I'm going back to Cerritos/Arcadia every weekend anyway so I can pick it up then. Uh. Spent some money shopping for sd stuff and went to the Westfield Mall to get job apps. Uh...... and random hanging out with people. I think the hecticness of SD at the moment has managed to keep me from missing you guys too much but I still think of you guys randomly in the day. Anywho, speaking of hecticness, my post today shall be short. I have to call the academic advisors cuz I just might have gotten fucked over with classes. Will post later and Love you all.

Ilean

Labels: Ilean

1:20 PM

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

first college post

I know college is supposed to be the time in your life where you open your mind to new things and such but I'm finding it very hard to do here. The people are so different from how I'm used to, and the absence of classes until thursday leaves everyone with nothing to do but socialize. I'm a pretty social person myself, but sometimes I just feel like getting in my bed and spending the night catching up on internet news or reading, you know? but here there's something to do 24/7 and I feel like if I don't join in I'll be branded as some sort of antisocial loser. The fact that I haven't found anyone yet I really click with also leaves me feeling alone a lot. You know how they say you can feel alone in a crowded room? I sort of feel like that. It makes me just want to go back home this weekend, but I'm not going to because my floor is going to have a bunch of activities and I should probably do them. Do you ever feel like you're just going through the motions of doing something but not really there at all? I'm supposed to be happy right now and I'm really trying. But here my personality feels stifled and I can't help but fall back to the doubts I've been having all summer about if I made the right choice. I'm sorry for this post being so depressing but I thought it might be better to write what I actually feel than sugar coating it and not telling everyone the truth.

Labels: Ashton

11:44 AM

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Monday, September 22, 2008

first couple of days in SD!

wowww, college is overwhelming. ><
hm SO i finally have etime to write in this! there's actually a dance going on right now.. but there was a dance last night too, so i'm kidna pooped :[
anyway, i moved into my dorm room on thursdayy the 18th! mm, it's actually a little bit bigger, yet a little bit smaller than i expected... the closet is bigger but everythign else is kinda ehh. ahha oh well ! i'll get used to it. the showers are.. gonna take some time to get used to, andd everythign is alright. had orientation the next three days till sunday, so that was composed of a mock lecture (WHY! we're gonna have them already!) annd like speeches from faculty, games, and all taht good stuff. i met a lot of people (i've gotten peoples names wrong already) and i'm trying to find a group taht i can fit into, but its been pretty difficult xD today there was a fair and there were clubs and fellowships so hopefully i can find somethign there:] besides taht, its been an awesome expereicen and the next coupel of days will be WELCOME WEEK! so yay free foood! i saw ilean and david (sorry ilean for not calling you sooner:[ its been crazy >< but i will soon! we gotat play!) annd a bunch of whs people! :] exciting, but nervewrackign! im iss you guys a loot. take care!

Labels: Katherine, SD

10:34 PM

Sunday, September 21, 2008

Come Right Out And Say It

its a song. because i like how richard uses muse songs for his titles haha.

I haven't posted lately. I dunno. It doesn't seem like there's much to post, honestly.
I went home 2 weekends in a row. Last weekend I ate a lot of chinese food, yogurtland, etc. because I hadn't had any of it for like 3 weeks. Ohhh so good! I also went to 99 ranch to stock up on asian junk food. :D I bought some chinese tv dinners to try and they turned out really good! they tasted like real food :] unlike american tv dinners.
This weekend I focused on writing my 5-page paper due Monday! Augh I had such terrible writers block and performance anxiety. I hadn't written a paper in eons. But I did finish :) I got to go shopping today, to reward myself lol. AND GUESS WHO I SAW COMING OUT OF ULTA.
the bold
and beautiful
ASHTON YOON.
(lol i was walking behind calvin and suddenly he goes 'is that ASHTON?!' and we both kind of looked at each other at the same time and it CLICKed and we were like AHHHH!!! random parking lot hug fest! She had forgotten stuff at home so she came back from school already - -')
Both weekends, I spent a lot of time with Calvin (of course!) Our favorite relaxing activity is playing Brawl together, all the co-op things. We finally beat subspace emissary today! He hangs out at my house and we have meals together and enjoy air conditioning. Last weekend he bought me sushi :D (but we try not to go out too much. i dont technically have a job. lol) I didn't tell him I was coming home this weekend, because I wanted to surprise him! AND MY MATH CLASS GOT CANCELLED ON FRIDAY!!! so i got home early! But I called him and he said he was stuck at work till 2. I said 'you wanna have lunch with me?' and he said 'YOURE HOME?' and i said 'yeah!' and he said 'why??'. and i was like "WHY?!" haha so i starved until 2. i kept myself busy by... cooking! I made tortellini and marinara sauce, stir-fried green beans, and i chopped up some asian pear and a peach. It tasted... alright. Poor calvin had to be my guinea pig. And then today I showed up at church and he's walking around with another girl! (he had to show her around cuz she was new lol) We also washed my car today because it was so dirty, it was dangerous.
School has been

somewhat more difficult. Than

kfully, econ on thursday and math on friday were cancelled. what luck!!! But yeah. I had a Western Culture midterm on Weds (I over-studied. it was like a civics test.) and of course that stupid paper to write over the weekend. on weds, my great books class went to see Agamemnon at the getty villa. it was weird. but entertaining... i guess. the guy sitting next to me fell asleep. its the story of how agamemnon returns from troy to get murdered alongside his mistress by his wife, who is mad that he sacrificed their daughter to be able to sail to troy. yeah.
Driving home tonight, I was getting so sleepy! So I blasted the AC at my face. It was freezing. But it worked! There was traffic on PCH because there was an accident on the other side and everyone was stopping to look. It WAS a crazy accident though. 6 or 7 car pileup. I felt bad for the people waiting on the other side, being re-directed into the canyon.

i miss you all and i am DYINGG to hear about move-in for UC peeps! (now UC me, now you dont!)

Labels: Calvin, Kristen

9:43 PM

Man of Mystery

I seem to be doing weekly updates, so I'm probably going to stick to that. The title is one of Muse's B-sides. This post is named for our new roommate. He's really quiet.

So, this week, very little happened till the weekend. I've start an exercise program for myself, which is to run a mile or so, then do some upper body work out on Monday, Wednesday, Friday. Judo covers exercise on the two days, and weekends are to rest the body.

Friday, there was a party with a theme "Robots and Sluts". My roommates and I went to it, though we basically stayed for 10 minutes and went back up to our room. We even dressed up! We were all harlots/jezebels/companions (Firefly joke!), though I refused that anyone should take a picture of us.

Oh, and as a side note, we have a Wii and Brawl in our room, so we have a bet set up. If you can win 25 times before Saturday, you get Saturday dinner free. (We have to go out on Saturday for dinner, because they don't serve dinner on Saturday.) My roommate, Alex, has won 3 weeks in a row.

On Saturday, we (Caleb, Alex, and Richard/ C.A.R. and Lauren) went to Little Rock to return the sandals of one of my roommates. They simply didn't fit his feet. After walking the mall, we went to an antique store we found. It was great fun, there was all sorts of things in there. I didn't bring a camera though, so no pictures. I bought some books, a bowler hat, and Pokemon the First Movie.

And our best catch of all was good old Mr. Peanut, our new roommate.

Also, I anticipate the various accounts of UCSD's Welcome Week, an account of UCLA's Welcome Week, an account of UCI's Welcome Week, and Estevan's second post.

Labels: food, Outings, Richard, shoes, travel, videogames

11:58 AM

Thursday, September 18, 2008

SanDiego!

hellloooo everyoneee :]
i decided taht i should finally post somethign on this, since i'm officially in SD alreadyy! wow, it's really soemthing. i'm actaully at my sister's apartment stayign teh night so i wont have to get up too early and drive to SD tmrw morning xD even tho i'm not at the dorm yet, it feels diff already. oh man! well, just letting you guys know that i've left alreadyy anddd will let you know all about my move in and everything :] i'm pretttyy excited, yet kinda nervous. hahah
i really do miss you guys a lot and wish taht i can meet people as a cool and fun and crazy and weird (yes, those are good things) and just plain AWESOME! ;] hahah you guys are really something ! i love you alll <3
will post soon to update you guys :]

Labels: Katherine, UCSD

1:02 AM

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

my last post before college!

This is going to be my last post before college starts! I'm moving in Friday the day after tomorrow and I am very excited and ready! So I choose to dedicate his post to Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII which I just finished today. It was seriously one of the best games I've ever played. And even though most of the time I'm a cold hard stone, I actually cried at the end of this game it was so amazing. YOU WOULD TOO. And it takes a lot to make me laugh/cry at movies and videogames and such. so here is the ending scene in japanese with english subtitles, cause I think this version is more emotive than the english version, which is also good. this is the scene you are rewarded with after 30+ hours of gameplay! please watch! when the credits start, skip to the end there is an extra scene.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HVlAUIboWU

Labels: Ashton, crisis core, final fantasy, videogames

5:16 PM

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Monday, September 15, 2008

Butterflies and Hurricanes.

The past week not much has happened, so that's why there was a slowdown of postage. The biggest thing I've done all week was rearrange our rooms. I'm now on the bottom bunk, in a room with all my roommates. The idea was suggested earlier in the month, but I didn't know them very well, so I decided against it. But now that I know them better, and the fact that it's like twice as easy to sleep in that room were big deciding factors. So now, my former room is now a living room of sorts, because our TV is in here, and all our desks are in here.

We go out to eat a lot, since the cafeteria food really is not filling. We went down to IHOP and had some food. Found out IHOP is only in America, and only called InternationalHOP because of the
different kinds of food, like Belgian waffles.

On Friday, we (my roommates and I) went out to sushi with some of our friends. Three girls, actually, but two are kind of crazy. In a somewhat scary way, not the way Ilean is. The food was okay, nothing super spectacular. They had a roll with cream cheese in it. It tasted good, but it was so weird. It was nice to just eat rice again, really. The ride there was heinous, as it was 6 people into one car, and that was not fun. Well, it kind of was, but I'd really rather not do it again.

Our room watched Equilibrium after, and that was pretty fun. I did have 3 tests on Monday and a paper due, so I spent the weekend studying and writing. There was to be a Foam Party, where they fill an area with foam, and we all go dance in it. But in comes Hurricane Ike, causing the event to be canceled. There was even a tornado siren! We had to go down to the lobby, but we went back to our room after 5 minutes. The next day,the winds and rain had pushed two trees down, and one of them hit at least 3 cars.

Labels: asians, food, Movies, rain, Richard, travel

8:34 AM

Sunday, September 14, 2008

twilight is funny

ok you twilight fans! first, watch the actual trailers. then, watch the spoof. i don't know if i'm just tired, but i found this heelarious!

watch this first:

twilight trailers

then watch this!

twilight trailer spoof

i went to my first football game today. twas fun. sunny and hot, and then cold (oh so cold!) but wow, what school spirit! when we scored the first touchdown, everyone went crazy! some random guy from the row in front of me gave me a high five! i saw his hand go up, and i was like what? then i realized and was like yeah! we totally pwned ohio state!

but now i have work to do, so adios!

Labels: Timothy

12:26 AM

Saturday, September 13, 2008

an amoeba with a blog

OK! (hi guys. i'm home for the weekend and LOVING it. gosh i have the best boyfriend in the whole world ^-^ we played brawl for like 3 hours today)

so i was watching the new windows commercial (its funny but long.. 4:30.) but at the end it was HILARIOUS you must at least watch around 3:55. Basically Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates are staying with a "real" family to connect with "real" people. And as they're leaving, Jerry goes 'so what's next? a goldfish with a website? an amoeba with a blog?' and i was like ZOMG. ZOMG!!!
watch it!

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12:14 AM

Friday, September 12, 2008

raindrops are falling on my head

hey-low!

it's starting to rain. here comes the rainy season. this morning there was thunder, and apparently it's going to rain for the weekend and most of next week as well. i dunno if i'm going to be used to all this rain--have we EVER had rain in september for more than 2 days in LA? if so i dont remember...i'm not a big fan of rain though. it's annoying cause it gets everywhere, but apparently, i'm pretty pro at fast umbrella opening and closing (at least i think so) because of typhoon season practice in hong kong :). so maybe i am used to it.

work has been really really tiring. hours and hours of work. college life for me right now sounds like an oxymoron. ok, not really, but there is a heck of a load of work, and i guess that's what i get for taking 18 credits, but it's not like i had much of a choice.

pictures!

yesterday afternoon there was a fundraiser called 'beat the crap out of cancer'. you get to pay $1 per hit with a sledgehammer to a car. it was pretty cool. i didn't go for it, but my friend tom did! he even got the sledgehammer stuck when he rammed it entirely through the car and through the insulation.

this is the stuck sledgehammer pic

i also got my computer desk in the mail (so that i more space to work on my desk...it was my parents idea). that was like the best moment of the day...being able to work with my hands on something rather than writing and writing and writing! i'm proud that i assembled it, even though it was super easy. i take pleasure in the weird things of life.

yesterday was my friend sam's birthday, so we made this cake based on the board game called 'snafu' (if any of you know about it...XD) we went shopping at the local grocery store. we were so proud of ourselves for making that...yeah that was fun too.

ironically, right now i'm not in a too terribly anecdotal mood, so i'll leave the stories for later, if i feel like retelling my stories later...but, on the other hand, i want to hear from you guys! there are some of you whom i haven't called or heard a voice from since i left...expect a phone call (if my head isn't stuck in a book)

(-<)+<3
~bernard

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1:23 PM

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Thursday, September 11, 2008

Umpire, Stately Copious

yesterday, i slept at 6. am. i will post my sleeping times here. don't show mis padres!

architecture is frying my brains. seriously, i feel like i'm dying. i'm working all the time. my suitemates are having fun and taking it easy while i sit and work at my desk. one girl from another suite didn't even know that i was in this suite because she didn't even know i existed. thats how much i stay in my room. its not that i'm antisocial or anything, but i'm SO DARN BUSY!

well, i would say more, but i have class in half an hour, it takes me 15 minutes to walk over, and i need to use the restroom, if you know what i mean.

some of you will. heh heh heh...

Labels: Timothy

11:59 AM

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Who is eddie?

So people have been asking "who is eddie?" Eddie's a guy who lives two doors down from me on my floor, and he's an awesome guy. We've been hanging out a lot. He's Chinese so he's been helping me with mine, and he's from Maryland so he's not too far away. He's in some of my pictures, tall skinny asian guy with glasses and short hair. He's a ChemE major and is trying out for the varsity swim team. So he has practice like 9x a week (that's morning practices at 5am too) and not to mention his engineering classes. Plus he manages to find time to help me with my chinese, Tracie with her CompSci, and me with my math. He's awesome. He makes fun of me all the time, but he walks me to class and is definitely overprotective. Actions speak louder than words, they always say.

So tuesday i was totally excited about my Arts Forum class. We waited there for about a half hour and the teacher didn't show up. The people in my class are all awesome, they're DiScho's (Distinguished Scholars) and one is my chem buddy! We had a great time talking and after a half hour (of a 1:15hr class) we decided to leave. So i walk back to the dorm with two guys and apparently everyone gets the notice to come back... except me. So i am the only one who missed meeting this awesome teacher. But you should see our syllabus! It's amazing! We learn to crochet and part of our requirements is to crochet two scarves or something. How cool is that? Like we'll have whole classes dedicated to crocheting. Granted we'll also be talking and socializing and commenting on the elections and everything... but that's so awesome! And we get field trips to other places... oh man i am so excited for this class!!!

Labels: arts forum, eddie, Gealina

9:35 PM

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

why can't all guys be yummy french boys?

Labels: Ashton, boys, french

7:01 PM

My rise to geekdom.

So I joined the Sword Club. Not fencing or kendo or anything, but a club that does events with PVC pipes, PVC foam, and duct tape. (Thanks Bernard. Though you guys always slurred the V and I've always thought it was a B.) The club has two practices, one in the afternoon on Friday, where everyone watches you, and one at night on Monday, where the only people who see you doing Sword Club are the other Sword Club people.

I stayed for like 5 minutes at the first Friday meet, but couldn't stay. I simply couldn't bring myself to do it. I did stay for the night one, seeing as no one would really know.

There are rules, like torso hits mean you died, and you can't aim for the face. They play games based around this type of thing, like Free For All, Capture the Flag, Duels, etc.

It was the geekiest thing I've ever done.

Labels: Richard, Sword Club

2:04 PM

my super awesome weekend!

i had such a fun weekend, i didn't finish all my homework! (yes thats how you can tell it was so awesome haha)
FRIDAY: Campus was deserted! haha everyone went to the Dodgers game. I stayed in. Friday night I went to fellowship with the garden church people and it was fun! There was worship time, and game time. We played Electricity, where 2 teams both sit in a line and hold hands, and the people at one end have to watch the coin toss. if its heads, they can squeeze the next persons hand, and it goes all the way down the line! My team lost but it was a close game. Afterwards, they had snacks and socializing. The snacks = cereal. I thought that was so weird, but cool. I talked to a lot of people and some guys did some bboying on the floor.
SATURDAY: I woke up super early (6:30) to do Step Forward Day. Basically it's a school-wide volunteer day. You sign up to volunteer with a group (dorm, club, class) of your choice, but nobody knows WHERE they're volunteering until they get there. I went with PASA (asian club) since a lot of the garden people are involved with PASA too. We went to the LA Food Bank! I was really glad - some groups had to pick up trash or weed a garden. I worked/hung out with a girl named Jennifer who is part Canto and part Shanghainese - she's a freshman too, and we got along really well. We were on the assembly line, putting cans of veggies in bags. I got kind of sore after 3 hours straight. When we got back to school, there was free In-N-Out! (oh i forgot to mention we got a free t-shirt too) I saw the Trio and said hi to them, but I ate with PASA. I was squatting, so later the Trio walked by and Eiichiro pushed me backwards (eliciting an Ashton-esque squawk from me). I chased Jihan because I thought he did it. - -' But when I found out it was Eiichiro I chased him down - good thing his foot isn't completely healed, because I was able to catch him and try to knock him down. I also threatened to break his foot. But um... I know it sounds violent, but it really was playful - -'
In the evening Jennifer and I were invited to the surprise bday party of someone in the fellowship! We went to someone's off-campus apartment for it. (They have rock band + wii! <3) One guy made shaved ice :D We played the craziest game of mafia EVER.
- You don't find out the identity of people who die, until the game is over/all mafia have been killed
- There are 2 teams of mafia as well as the civilians. The different mafia are trying to kill each other as well.
- Each mafia team has 2 people. One of the gets the actual mafia card. Then that person chooses a partner. That means the partner can have a cop/doctor/civilian card. It's possible to have a dirty cop or a dirty doctor.
I was super tired from Step Forward day, but I got mafia :( So I picked the guy who explained the game to be my partner, expecting him to do all the work. But he ended up killing himself to take the blame off him. At the end, civilians won but I was the last mafia (with like 5 other people? We started with like 15-18) and everyone was very impressed with how I played. x.x I was pretty good. I asked mafia to kill me because I was tired, offered to kill myself off, used the excuse that I didn't know anyone... and the dead people kept making all these surprised noises! gosh. Anyway I put up a pretty convincing act, so now everyone at the garden mentions it - I'M GOING TO BE REMEMBERED LIKE THAT FOREVERR! manipulative freshman D: But it was an intense game and I had fun - and learned more people's names :)
SUNDAY: Went to church at the garden. Service was pretty normal. Afterwards we all went out to this Korean supermarket with a Korean food court. SOOO DELISHHH. (chinese is better but who am i to complain?) Then I got jamba! because school smoothies SUCK. Did a litle bit of hw that night, then went to a Regents Scholar pool party in the faculty condos. It was awkwarddd. But hey, free pizza and ice cream sandwich. :D My roommates' bf was over from like 1-10 pm so it was a little awkward but... hey. again, who am i to complain haha. I know what it's like to miss a bf. And mine doesn't have a car :/

Last night Jennifer came over and we watched gossip girl/one tree hill. Cuh-raaazy episodes.
I'm going to write some letters today. :)

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1:50 PM

Most awkward moment since arrival.

So on Tuesdays, I get to sleep in because I have lab at 1, and it is my first class. My roommates, don't get to, and I am fortunate for this turn of events.

Today, while one of my roommates was napping from having early morning classes, I left to use the restroom. Now, one must understand that I had more or less been sleeping or lying down in bed until this point. And being rather lazy, I hadn't bothered putting any jeans on, seeing as it was an all male dorm.

I left the room unlocked, and hadn't brought a key with me. When I come back, the door is locked. I had to go find an R.A. whilst only wearing relatively minimal clothing.

My roommate thought I had left for class or something.

In other news, they had gone home for the weekend, and I had the room to myself. It was a bit lonely, but awfully nice. So why doesn't anyone visit me? I'm not that far away.

Labels: Funny, Richard, travel, visit me already

10:04 AM

BOOM chika BOOM

BOOM! It's totally thundering and lightning here right now... summer storms. They stink. Because you still have to go to your classes in the thundering rain and walking that far just isn't fun. *sigh*...

So i've finally been in college for more than a whole week! Things are going great. I get to go to my forum for the first time today, i'm so excited. :D The last few days have been awesome... Tracie went home for the weekend so I had the room to myself which was really nice. It sucks that she wasn't feeling well... but having the room to myself and not having to worry about whether i wake someone else up was so liberating! So eddie and i would stay up till like 5 in the morning just talking and watching movies or playing games and stuff. He's helping me on my chinese so i've definitely improved so far. yay! So far i know my colors (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, white, black, gray, brown, and pink), working on my directions, and then just random phrases. He's such a good teacher and he's funny (altho he makes fun of me all the time... jerk) so i like hanging out with him.

I'm making so many more friends! In my classes i've started hanging out with people from my chem class and chinese class which is great. Especially since my chem lab is so late and i do NOT want to walk back by myself. Eddie said he'd walk me there and back if he had to. What am i... a flashing target for muggers?

The other day we had "Breaking in the Turf" which was Olympics for our complex: Harrington A-E, Lane and Thompson and we played games like basketball, kickball, flag football, and all that good stuff. it was a lot of fun. but poor eddie was going to catch the ball but it was thrown too far so as he was going for it he crashed into a bench! >< style="font-style: italic;">still going to swim practice. jeez... oh and he introduced me to another chinese girl, Jing, on the 3rd floor. so hopefully i can practice with her too. I definitely need to work on my tones and my vocabulary... that's the most important part. Vocab... sigh... why am i chinese-illiterate? whyyy??

So we had a meeting this past week for duPont scholars (people who won the full scholarship to UD) and to initiate the 9 freshmen, they had a sprite chugging contest. I was awful. i'm going to blame it on my asian-ness and inability to drink. Whether that's a good thing or not, i dont know. And then we walked to Cafe Gelato to get gelato! Yummy. Then we just hung around and talked. I met my mentor family (my mentor and her mentor and then my half-grand-mentor and his mentee [half-uncle-mentor?]) and hopefully we're going out to dinner tonight! They're all so nice. Some went out to party, but I don't think i would've liked that. but who knows. i had enough fun talking. And then the other day i had dinner with my mentor and her friends which was fun. She likes to laugh a lot... she's a cognitive science major and neuroscience minor? Something like that. but that's awesome cuz those are totally my interests!

Last night we had speeches for leadership positions in our complex... but i didn't run for anything. i dont think the residence people do much... i'd rather be an RA or Honors Fellow cuz they're cooler. :D our people are amazing. Last night we had a hall party during quiet hours, and they just let it go cuz there was so much unity in the hallway. We were singing along to Adam's laptop songs and just bobbing our heads while some people did their homework... and then i beat eddie at slide but lost to keith... That's okay though. i can live with that.

There's just so much going on! Sorry for not keeping up with this more often... i should that way the entries aren't so outrageously long. I miss everyone! My hubby and my buddies... i hope everyone's doing well. i'll post again soon!

--gealina

P.S. I have pictures posted up on my facebook of my dorm and people and stuff. go take a look!

Labels: boom, eddie, Gealina, mentor

8:28 AM

Saturday, September 6, 2008

sad picture

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12:31 AM

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Friday, September 5, 2008

field trip!

hello all you lovely, beautiful people whom i hold most dear...
This week has been pretty good! I left on Tuesday, so... Wednesday. :D
Wednesday was CRAZY! I went to convocation at 10am to get my convo credit for the week - some cool black guy read this modern poetry and it was so good! and funny! I had a 3-hour class from 11-2; Western Culture. AUGH! I'm glad I use my comp to take notes, or I would die f'sho. It is a LONG class. And I start getting super-hungry. I had lunch in my room (leftovers from the weekend finally ran out Weds) and then at 3, my RA, Taylor, showed me where Ralph

s/CVS is. So now I can drive there without being scared :D
At 3:45 I picked up Eiichiro, Charles, and Jihan, and we went to Santa Monica

to get Eiichiro's foot x-rayed. He has hurt it while attempting to wakeboard. - -' I was really scared because it was my first time driving there and you guys should know by now that I freak out in unfamiliar areas. But Eiichiro knows how to drive too so he helped direct me and we went there and came back without major injury. :D I survived! and I'm very proud of myself for it! When we came back, we ate dinner together and then Jihan/Charles went to play pool and I walked Eiichiro/carried his backpack up to his

room so he could go nap. <- even though he already napped in the car. so cute when he's sleeping! I tell Jihan he's cute when he's not talking. Jihan likes to insult/mess with people - it's like having David/Estevan around, but... not. Because he's a tad bit meaner - than even Estevan (i know right?). Santa Monica was really pretty - I want to go again sometime. Wednesday night (i'm telling you! crazy day!) I went to a fellowship meeting with the garden church. It was in the upperclassmen towers (ooOoohh) and it was pretty fun! Thursday

I had class pretty much all day, and then I ran into the Trio (what i'll probably call them from now on because i'm lazy) for dinner. Today I ran into them AGAIN at lunch, but I sat with a couple of people from my math class.
I'm not going home this weekend - and I expect my weekend to be PACKED! So expect a juicy update in another couple of days.
Pics are of our field trip to the Santa Monica Imaging Center (SO FUN! x.x) Especially because Ashton wanted to see the cute japanese boy with the earrings. har.
eiichiro is the loser with the crutches. charles is the whiny one in brown. and jihan is the jerk in blue.

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4:24 PM

Update (Super Cool)

hola muchachos y muchachas!

first of all, i'm sorry i didn't call you back last night bernard. i was talking to my parents when you called.

sooo...i've been super suuper busy with projects. its like, one RIGHT after the other and projects pile up between my architecture design class and drawing class. i've been sleeping past 3 every night, and on wednesdays (the night before my projects are ususally due) i sleep past 4. whoa! one of these days, i feel like i'm going to wake up late and miss class.

this is one of the pictures i took for my first project. it was fun taking the pictures; i put black construction paper on the ground and against the wall, turned off the lights and used a flashlight. lots of pictures turned out blurry, but the ones that didn't. wow. i've never taken pictures like that in my life. it was so fun. this picture is my happiest shot.

imagine a happy face on the orange. or maybe a shocked one, seeing as it has been undressed. :O

today, i went out to eat dinner with my parents. oh! ashton visited today! tanks ashton, the half hour i did see you was very fun! so dinner. i've started to grow weary of the food at Parkside cafeteria. i mean, they have basically the same foods only made in slightly different ways, and they put the same foods out for lunch AND dinner! so i went out to eat dinner tonight with my parents. we went to chinatown and ate chinese food (duh.) but maaaaan, it was so good! i was never crazy about chinese food, but it was so nice to eat it. it tasted so wonderful.

i wish i could show you guys all the projects i'm doing. too bad i'm not a camera fanatic like kevin is; taking pictures takes too much effort. its all fun, but so tiring.

i love mail. i really do. unlocking the little mailbox and seeing letters inside brings such a joy to my corazon. i like the little mailbox. its like perfect size for letters!

well, if you want to know what i'm up to at the wee horas of the morning, just look at kevin's facebook!

hasta lluego, mis amigos.

Labels: Timothy

1:37 PM

Thursday, September 4, 2008

the hottest shoe ever invented

so these are like THE most amazing shoes EVER. I think they're from marc jacobs fall 2006 rtw collection. I remember seeing them back in '06 and thinking "OWAHHHH!!!" but IDIOT that I am I didn't shell out the money to buy them and now they're prolly impossible to find so I'm still kicking myself over them. If anyone ever sees anything that looks like this, please please please buy it! I am a size 7 but I like my shoes big and floppy so I prefer a 7.5

Labels: Ashton, fashion, marc jacobs, shoes

1:49 AM

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Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Black Holes and Many-Asians.

I based my title after my favorite Muse album. So, apparently, I am one of very few Asians on campus, as has been apparent to me from day one, and has become all more so apparent when I walked into the Asian-American/Asian Student/Faculty get together. They were mostly exchange students, except for one girl I already knew. Nice people, mostly from China, and the moment they started talking in Chinese, it felt like back at home when everyone starts speaking in a dialect of Chinese, and I stand there thinking "I wonder what they are saying."

I meet with guys from Burma, Japan, Vietnam, and China. I also met an exchange teacher from China, who had me say all the Chinese I knew, and apparently I have pretty good pronunciation (Thanks, lady!). And like Mr. Tseng, everyone thought he was a student, I certainly did for a bit. He also had really good English. One of the people from China, was very glad I knew the Chinese food they brought for us was not real Chinese food.

The Japanese guy, whose name I sadly cannot remember, was surprised at how I could tell he was Japanese. He had a somewhat Japanese look, and think it was a combination of the glasses and his messenger bag. Also his clearly Japanese name.

I met the Thai exchange student! She can understand my Thai! Happiness! So we were talking for a bit and she was apparently very happy to be speaking with someone else in Thai.

Overall, it was fun, and I find that most of the exchange people were somewhat surprised by my un-white-washed-ness.

I got my Judo gi, which is really heavy. Also, the food here goes through my system in like 30-45 minutes. Within that time frame after eating, I will always use the restroom.

It's raining a lot. It's so weird.

Labels: asians, food, Judo, Richard

6:54 PM

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

depressing blog

ok i didn't think i was going to write another blog so quickly, especially since it's so late at night, but anyhow...

this is really random, but i just felt like sharing. feel free to ignore if you don't want to hear stories. two somewhat sad stories.

1) remember that discussion that one day at TC about dreams? last night i dreamed. there's this really huge building that's called the cathedral of learning that's like the trademark of the school. Visual:

anyhow, last night, i dreamt (spell check says i'm wrong...but dreamed and dreamt are both acceptable...whatever) that i was on the like 36th floor (home of the Honors College), then i went up one more floor and there was this guy with explosives (aka terrorist bombing). so i ran out the building. i don't remember much more from that after i awoke, but in any event, i think i'm going to avoid the cathedral for the rest of this week. not that i think anything will happen, but it's just the kinda thing that creeps me out.

2) the catalyst for why i'm writing. i'm really kinda sad right now, and that's because our chem teacher (the one who wrote the book specifically for the class and is the same book that's used at berkeley), dr. siska, sent us an email. he has cancer and is going through chemotherapy and radation treatment, and he sent us an email saying that tomorrow (actually, today for me now) is going to be his last lecture :(. he's too sick to continue teaching, and that's really sad, cause he's such a nice guy and he seems like a great teacher.

3) i wasn't originally thinking about putting this up, but...i've made a couple of good friends here, and one of them, julie, is a really smart person, graduated 3rd out of like 500 in her high school, full tuition scholarship here, etc. and she liked this guy for all four years of high school, and went out with him for senior year. and during 'senior week', which is like our retreat/grad night dinner/awards night/ditch day combined, his friends got him into trying stuff. like drugs. and now he's a pot dealer. they broke up. it's really sad.
and not that i'm thinking that you guys will go into drugs (i really hope not!), but it's INSANE how transformations can occur so quickly. from what she said, he was a really nice guy, and he was clean (drug-wise) and smart. so please, i beg and i plead that you guys don't change. not like that, at least. like, try and experience, but don't change for the worse. cause it would break my heart, and i'm sure it would break others' hearts too :(

so yeah, sorry that i had to share not-so-happy news (like polar opposite from my last post...), but i'm glad that i got to write and get that off of my mind.

as usual, i'm thinking about you guys and how awesome you are.

peace (-<) and love <3
~bernard

Labels: Bernard, sadness

9:25 PM

Go Blue Hens!

Yes... i know we have a lame mascot. Apparently blue hens used to be some fighting machines in the olden days of cock fighting. At least that's what i've heard. I have yet to receive official confirmation. But who am i to dispute.

So i'm all moved in and settled into my new room at Harrington A. I have a pretty cozy room. My roommate Tracie is really nice and we've been spending a lot of time together the past few days. Our room isn't gimongous, but it's just enough for the two of us and a few more people to chat and hang out. it's nice. and through the window we get a wonderful view of the beach (not a real beach... it's turf and a beach volleyball court) so i can watch people playing frisbee or basketball or something.

So far, there've been a lot of fun activities and the people on my floor are amazing. Myself and another chinese guy named Eddie are the only asians on the floor... so we've been trying to stick together a bit. you know... asians unite. But i've been getting along with all the people on my floor too, of all colors, so it's definitely a lot of fun. We've had floor bonding, club signups (omg so many people in one building!! ><), and a lot of talking. So i got to sign up for the clubs i wanted to like circle K and the chinese club... and yeah. Last night some people went out to a party, or at least looking for one... and we managed to find a keg party but it was really boring. like you had to wait in line to get beer and stuff. lame... i went just to see what it was like and i guess i've learned that they suck! So no more parties for me! At least not without good friends (which i feel i still lack) and good drinks. Beer just doesn't taste good. I know i'm probably going to be the odd one out in this group in terms of trying out drinking, but don't worry i'll be smart about it. It's not about the getting drunk, it's about the socializing. And you can do that without drinking.

So classes start tomorrow and i'm really tired... going to bed late and not getting good sleep... sigh. Hopefully i find people to go with and don't get mugged when i to go my lab tomorrow night at 7pm. :D

Just keeping life updated!

--Gealina

Labels: delaware, Gealina

7:37 PM

i spoiled myself too!

I saved so much money on books by buying them online, I figured I'd spoil myself too! By buying this bag! It's made by the same people that made my green snooty bird bag. Twas expensive. BUT SO DARN CUTE! And so ME, don't you think? ;)
BTW, this post is dedicated to Stephenie Meyer. Even though she'll never read this. I'm sorry for downloading and sharing the leaked chapters of Midnight Sun! Please keep writing it :/ I want to know what happens! (But please stop talking about Bella's skin, and the burning thirst. It's already getting tiresome.)
AHEM. anyway. I guess I'll round out my first week of school.
Day 3 part 2: I went to the free BBQ hosted by the Garden Church in Calabassas. KRNBBQOMG! And RICE! Twas amazing. I met the friendliest people, and felt so free to be myself even in front of all these strangers. asian strangers. :D I'm going to join the church. They have carpools! If any of you LA people want to go too, let me know! <-- i'll get to see you!!! *incentive!* Day 4: Wow I have no idea what happened this day. I went to class! Um. I think that's pretty much it... Day 5: I woke up early to go to chapel but chapel was cancelled so I waited in the library for my mom and calvin! They came to help me drive back - I'm still learning freeway. My mom went to my dorm, and calvin stayed with me. He almost went to class with me, but we decided against it. It's a small class, and my math prof is a mix between terrorist, ninja, and comedian. So we played it safe. But I got out early :) *anecdote alert* So my math prof was telling the story of how exponential functions were discovered. The rice on the chess board - if you double the grains from squar

e to square, after 64 squares you get billions. Anyway someone asked what that 64th number is, and he said 'is so big, you cannot even put in the calculator. your calculator would bomb.' hehehe! he has a breik accent. then calvin walked with me back to my dorm where my mom was napping on my bed. calvin took some of my twix. That's what the picture is of. Then I went home!
Over the weekend I wasnt actually HOME much, I went to a church retreat at murrieta hot springs. more white people food. :/ but it was nice to sit with people who wanted to sit with me - i didn't even have to ask! :) it's so nice to be loved. I was actually invited to go karaoke with eiichiro/jihan/charles but I was home so I couldnt! i really wanted to go! I was originally going to drive back to school with amanda shen on tues morn before our 11am class, but she jacked me (ie she apparently forgot she was going to drive up with me) so i had to drive up monday night. i actually like night driving better than day - i can see more easily with all the lights! weird huh. i missed out on sleeping in my own bed, doing things i needed to do without rushing, and watching the gossip girl premiere and the one tree hill premiere. but... it's okay, life's not always fair. At least I got to see/talk to David and Ashton before coming back to school.
I think I'm getting used to school - I don't feel nearly as miserable. Victoria (roommate) and I set up our new flatscreen tv (thank you dad!) last night and we have free cable! i've never had cable so its pretty awesome.
Today math was bad because we had a quiz and nobody definied 'polynomial' or 'f

unction' correctly. :/ oh well. but the rest of the day was chill - i didn't do much. watched the episodes i missed yesterday, returned some books, bought a smoothie... Victoria is watching Azumanga Daioh on her laptop right now. it makes me miss tim. sorry this post was so rambly...
Oh. BTW! Can USC/UCLA people take the train to santa monica? it's an easy drive for me to go there, so we can totally meet up some time! I included a pic of deer walking outside my dorm window. :D
I also posted a lot more pics of college stuff on facebook so go look!

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6:20 PM

so I have a lot of time on my hands but all the chairs in my house are extremely uncomfortable (specially my computer chair) so I'm not getting anything done. So I'll complain and/or make fun of other posts whenever i get the time.

by the way... the Spartans would not approve of this blog layout haha

ow back pain.

Labels: (label this post).. don't tell me what to do, Estevan

3:02 PM