The Daily Amoeba

N-N-N-NEW YORK GIRLS COME ON YOU KNOW YOU'RE HOT.

Haylooooooo everyoneee! im so happy people are posting on here again i felt like the only one for a while.... ahahaa so i havent updated in a while cos ive just been reallyyy busy...right now i should actually be writing a paper due tomorrow ahahahaa....but im blogging so here we gooo

so kristen visited me here at uclaaaa!! she was beautiful as alwayss and i got to see pepperdine which is soo different from ucla in a good way. it's so peaceful, you guys should visit her there!! i cant wait to see you guys im so excited for break I CAN HARDLY CONTAIN MYSELF WOOOOT!!

so ive been really busy with a lot of frat stuff tooo... I got my Big a few weeks ago and we went to dinner after Revelations and they made us take an olive oil shot...which is supposed to be bad but I thought tasted really good!! the people here are so great! i went to tina's bday party and everyone was so crazayy it was so fun to be able to hang out with them outside of official frat activities!! I've been doing a lot of fellowships and service too. tomorrow im going to sushi at yamato's which is supposed to be really good and cheap! i went to LGN too which is called looking good night. basically you dress up and eat dinner then there is an afterparty... i chaired an interchapter event at the getty last week which was purtayyy hectic but okay and then the day after went to UCR for Miss APhiO, basically a fundraiser where guys dress up in drag and dress in lingerie and dirty dance ahhahaahaa that was fun!! we're also doing something called airband, which is pretty much a 6 minute dance routine. we're doing hip hop, swing, chinese dancing, cheerleading, and a lot more! it's super fun and physically taxing. yesterday i got dropped on my head while doing a backflip i thought i was going to pass out but thankfully i didnt >"<

the picture of my knees up above is a pic after ice skating last saturday! i went ice skating for the first time and i fell A LOT but all my brothers helped me to learn to skate and so im so grateful!! you cant see the bruises but they are pretty baddd ahahaaa the morning after it was so painful to move my legs.

i signed up for courses last week! next quarter im taking math 31b, chem 20b, and intro to american film!! that's a 4 hour long class twice a week, so its pretty grueling but im sure it's gonna be great. its for my film minor. my next pass is on friday at 7:30 am so i have to wake up early the day after thanksgiving!!!

for thanksgiving my usual family get together isnt happening cause the usual hosts are gonna be in sanfran so im going to a sushi bar instead how sad, huh?? anywayyss what are everyone's thanksgiving plans?

im going to be doing my nails reallyyy crazy soon, so ill post pics! im so exciteddd

so i cant wait for winter break! college is great and everything, but i just need a rest. there are always people everywhereee and always stuff to do. lately ive had absolutely no time for studying or homework because by the time i get back to my dorm its really late and im exhausted...above is a pic of my calendar! its crazayyyy

what does everyone want for christmas? please respond i want to start shopping now!

i love everyone and i hope you're all doing well~
xxx
ashton

Labels: a phi o, Ashton, courses, thanksgiving

9:45 PM

The Most Amazing thing happened today

The most amazing thing happened today, no, it wasn't an opportunity to transfer out of here... but it was something almost as awesome! Starbucks spelled my name right! WOWOWOWOW. It says Estevan! No Esteban, Estefan, Esteven, Steven, Estaban.

yeah that was it.

I thought it was pretty epic.

That's really the face I made when I got my cup. I'll make it my facebook picture in celebration.

O and by the way, eggnog latte is pretty darn good, it tasted a lot better than I expected it to. Pumpkin spice latte is also very good, it tastes just like pumpkin pie yummmmmm

Labels: Estevan, randomness, screw the coffee

3:19 PM

Saturday, November 22, 2008

Want To Break Free

It's a Queen song! Queen is awesome.

It's been a while since I last posted, three weeks in fact. Wow, I never noticed that. Sadly, not particularly much to fill you guys in on.

The biggest thing that has happened was when I went to Texas with my roommates and our friend Lauren. I drove part of the way there, and it was really nice to be driving again. Texas freeways are nowhere near as clogged as L.A. freeways, but there is some jamming. Arkansas freeways are almost never bigger than 2 lanes per direction.

We got to Alex's house, and his house was massive. And he lives in the small part of town apparently. We passed by a massive house, and it was like comparing Whitney to a normal high school. It had its own fountain. We went to Whataburger, which is not as good as In n Out, Chipotle, which was great, and Luke's house. He visited us earlier in the year, and we stayed the night. We made breakfast that morning!

On Saturday, we went to a giant book warehouse. It was great, like a Costco full of books. I was like a little kid in a candy shop.

We went to an Irish pub, it had really cool music. I didn't drink though. We alos went to a mall that day, and sat in a bunch of massage machines.

I entered myself into a Sword Club assassins game, where you have to "kill" everyone else on the list to get points. I'm not winning.

I'm coming home soon, so I'll see everyone then!

Labels: crisis core, friends, Home, Richard, Sword Club, Texas, travel

4:01 PM

Friday, November 21, 2008

Third Wheel

Har-row!
That's how we greet each other in the hallways. It's kinda cute. We have a cute hallway. But enough about that.

Tonight I'm spending the night in Maryland at my roommate Tracie's house. She brought along her boyfriend Derek (whom i lovingly call Der-Der). Therefore, I am the wonderful third wheel.

I don't know how many of you have roommates or suite-mates with boyfriends/girlfriends out there or whether you yourself have a boyfriend/girlfriend who comes to visit you/whom you go to visit... but maybe you can understand how I feel. Tracie and Der-Der sleep together every night either in my room, or in Adam's room (Der-Der's roommate). So Adam and I feel like kindred spirits when it comes to sleeping arrangements. It's not that we don't like our roommates, it's just that since they're so.....cuddly.... it's a little bit awkward. It's like sleeping in a room with a married couple. Uncomfortable. We're both afraid of walking in on something (i'll let you use your imagination there) which makes things awkward and uncomfortable for everybody. I need new adjectives besides awkward and uncomfortable, but that's what it is.

The other day Adam and I were talking in the hallway about who was going to get "the kids" that night. He had them the past three nights, so I offered to take them. It was like striking a deal. "I'll take monday thru thursday if you give me the weekend off." "Deal." I felt kinda bad talking about them like that. But that's kinda what the situation has become. It's uncomfortable to be around the two of them because you get the feeling that they just want to be alone and you feel as if you're invading on their private time. It'd be so much easier if they had their own room... But Tracie and I had a talk about it... and honestly it's fine if they sleep together, but it's mostly the walking in on something i'm most worried about. I mean i really don't want to see my roommate in the throes of passion. That's just scarring.

I guess what i'm trying to tell you lovebirds out there is please be respectful of your audience. It's great that you're in a happy relationship and cozy and in love (i'm actually quite jealous that you can be that close), but think about how it makes other people feel too. If you want to make out, get a room. Holding hands and hugging is cute; smacking lips and steaming windows is not. I dont want to be a hypocrite because I know i've been cuddly with my beau, but you've got to understand the boundaries of public and private. If you're one of those with a significant other, talk to your roommate to see if it bothers them. Even if they say it doesn't, come up with a system that'll let them know "i might be busy..." whether it's a tie on the doorknob or the curtains pulled closed. It might be a little embarrassing to admit that you're getting action and your roommate isn't, but it'll save you a lot of trouble in the long run. And don't take advantage of your roommate. I've heard stories of people getting sexiled and having roommate's boyfriends over every weekend with no reprieve... it doesn't make us happy. We just don't bring it up.

Other than that... enjoy! Happy Thanksgiving everyone! It's the holiday season, time for love and happiness and thankfulness all around.

<333 Gealina

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9:11 PM

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Just another rant from the biggest (actually the smallest, lol) whiner in Amoeba

SO I'm back, and I'm ranting. What about? Food. Yes, food. No I'm not going to preach some false PETA driven vegeterian this or that and how all you meat eaters should repent from blah blah.. It's just simply about people taking my food.

So today I went through my standard OCD routine: I wake up at 6:30, go running/exercising, eat my cereal, go to class and then after class I head to the convenience store to buy my vegan hummus sandwich (which is the only real vegetarian option there). So ya, it's 11:00 and it's time for my scheduled meal (i've scheduled meals cuz if i eat when i'm hungry i'd prob go days without eating and because i'm ocd like that and because in rare occasions if i don't eat at the specified times i get super hungry and binge eat and go through hell..) so I walk to the C-store (as it's called here), go in, walk towards the back, and guess what? NO MORE VEGAN SANDWICHES. so in my head i'm like ready to have a panic attack because I know that every time this happens I end up starving, binge eating, and going through hell (i've found that what i call 'hell' closely parallels what most pple call anxiety attacks..). so I think, quick! what are my options? so i look around and I see, tuna sandwhich, turkey cheddar, roast beef, and turkey cheese blt. so im like '...'. but then I remember, the salad bar, there is a freaking' salad bar! so i go over there and like a small salad is like $5.. and I only have like $3... so like I'm already starting to feel hungry and I'm like quick! grab cheapest sandwich before i go into binge-eating mode so i grab the tuna and a banana and get in line... the line wraps around the whole store.. wtf. so while standing in line i ask myself, wait, there are like NO vegans at riverside.. why the hell are we out of vegan sandwiches? and then I start to think back of all the times I bought a sandwich, and started to think about all the other people who were grabbing the sandwiches and realized.. they're all girls! non-vegan girls! (they would always carry a non-fat yogurt, or milk, and a lot of them would have some sort of hot dog or something) so naturally, i came to the most negative conclusion: a bunch of stupid girls who are either fat or think they're fat are taking all my vegan sandwiches so the can feel better about themselves! WTF! so by the time i'm out and in my dorm (like 1 hr later) I am sooo in binge eating mode, so i rip the package off my tuna sandwich and take like 3 huge bites before i feel like i'm about to puke, of course I already knew this because meat digesting enzymes which humans develop after eating meat for so many years disappear when turning vegetarian (because these enzymes are not inherent in human beings cuz apparently when looking at our evolutionary history, meat-eating is a relatively new phenomenon) so I throw the sandwich in the fridge and I down the banana in like a second and then continue on to a microwaveable rice packet which I had stashed in my dorm and when I'm done (like 30 sec later) I still feel hungry, but now I feel bloated, nauseous, and get friendly visit from my good friend, chest pain.

So this brings me to my rant, why the hell would you freaking (i use freaking in place of more colorful vocabulary to not offend you all) take vegan sandwiches if you're not vegan? I mean, eating a vegan sandwich after you downed a giant chillidog is not going to make you loose weight. This applies to the salad bar too, eating a salad after you ate 1/2 lb. steak isn't going to make you skinny you stupid.. person! Stupid people taking my only source of nutrition so that they can feel better about themselves and then have an excuse not to go to the gym and workout. So next time I see a fat (or actually more times than not, skinny) girl taking a vegan sandwich I'm going to be like 'thanks a lot you fat ..person! thanks to you, i have to skip meals. you're fat and hopeless so quit taking my food and go run to your dorm and cry while you eat cookie dough because you're not a frkn vegan and you shouldn't be taking the vegan sandwiches and making vegans starve or how about working out once in a while? why don't you just go to the gym, go on the treadmill for 5 minutes and tell yourself you're making some progress to feel better just like everyone else here and quit screwing over my life?' Of course, I would never actually say that (because the girl would probably eat me on the spot, jk n_n), I would just shyly smile at them and go on about my business and continue going through the same inescapable cycle every frkn week.

so next time you girls are thinking of eating a salad even though you're craving a steak please remember that later on some starving vegan is going to run in looking for his salad and will end up eating the stupid steak and end up puking and... ok i'll stop now. but seriously, none of you are fat, not even close, so quit taking the vegan options and eat your steak!

o that brings me to another thing, I will no longer identify myself with vegetarians or vegans. I'm sorry if this offends anyone but a lot of the vegetarians I meet are hypocrites as in they went vegetarians for the animals yet they still eat dairy products which are a result of torturing cows to a higher degree than they are when they're slaughtered for meat. And as for vegans, they've all just been plain crazy, I really don't understand them. I talked to one vegan who was so don't hurt animals and what not yet she was still pro-choice, I didn't feel like arguing because I know that generally the highly intellectual, open-minded, pro-choice crowd do a 180 and begin to resemble their pro-life counter parts whenever discussing abortion (with the shouting and yelling or irrelevant phrases and all that good stuff), but I just failed to understand why you wouldn't eat honey cuz it kills bees but you're ok with stopping a beating heart. well, as my college experience progresses so does my understanding of the world, although I'm starting to think it's a very skewed understanding, one which resembles that of Holden Caulfield's (which btw, funny story, I was in the bathroom the other day and i found someone tagged 'McCain is a racist!' and other... more interesting stuff.. haha). so with that I will leave you guys again, in my crappy mood, to start on my art history hwk because my calc professor thinks it's funny not to post homework until two days before it's due.

i miss you guys :(

Labels: Estevan

12:44 PM

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

i love proper punctuation

Dear John I want a man who knows what love is all about you are generous kind and thoughtful people who are not like you admit to being useless and inferior John you have ruined me for other men I yearn for you I have no feelings whatsoever when we are apart I can be forever happy will you let me be yours Gloria

can be intepreted in TWO ways...

WAY ONE!
Dear John, I want a man who knows what love is all about. You are generous, kind, and thoughtful. People who are not like you admit to being useless and inferior. John, you have ruined me for other men. I yearn for you. I have no feelings whatsoever when we are apart. I can be forever happy. Will you let me be yours? Gloria

BUT WAIT! THERE'S STILL WAY TWO!
Dear John, I want a man who knows what love is. All about you are generous, kind, and thoughtful people who are not like you. Admit to being useless and inferior. John, you have ruined me. For other men I yearn. For you, I have no feelings whatsoever. When we are apart, I can be forever happy. Will you let me be? Yours, Gloria

wow! oh the powers of little dots, curvy things, curvy things with dots, and capitalized letters. hooray punctuation!

Labels: Timothy

1:27 AM

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

lol.

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jake made this of eiichiro and charles. let me introduce you to my new friends - -'

Labels: Kristen

4:57 PM

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SNOW!!

It snowed today!

just thought i'd share the love. <3

Gealina

Labels: Gealina, snow

2:18 PM

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Good Morning America, It's FRIDAY!

WAHOO!!!

Slash not. It's a Tuesday...but that's what came into my head at the moment.

Soooo... life! Lots of things going on this weekend and last weekend and next weekend and the week before that and the week after that... lovely eh? So what's been going on with life? It's halfway into November but I haven't talked to people in ages... since before Halloween at least! So let's go chronologically shall we?

Halloween:
Fun night. Beforehand I went out to dinner with Keith, Lisa, Tracie and Derek all from my floor. It was so much fun... Lisa's dinner ended up throwing up onto the sidewalk (no she didn't throw up... the leftovers decided they didn't like the bag and proceeded to spill everywhere). And Keith and I were doing high knees and butt kicks on the way up to Main St. What a workout! And then at the restaraunt there were people dressed up and one was Sarah Palin! hehehe funny. Afterwards I went out as a cowgirl with my chicas Kelly and Carley and Edgar Alex Petras (who goes by all three names so I never know what to call him) to Petras' theater party. It was fun. There were several gay guys there and it was so entertaining to see them. Two were Adam and Steve (instead of Adam and Eve. Clever!) and another was Britney Spears. He pulled it off so well! I wish I had more gay friends out here... they're always so much fun. After that us three girls left and headed to the Frisbee House, a major party house. That was all right. There wasn't really any dancing anywhere which was very disappointing... but the next night (Saturday) there was Fright Night which was dancing! So we danced the night away. That was definitely a lot of fun... it's so much more fun to dance with your friends than drinking or anything.

Friends:
Blech... anyway my friend kelly is amazzzzing. with the extra z's too. She wanted me to write that. :D I've definitely gotten closer to a lot of the people here. I've had several nights staying up late just talking to people (Keith, Carley, Kelly, Krissy, Sarah... it's been great!) Kelly has become one of my best friends, we always hug and cuddle and stuff and then just girl talk is such a relief all the time. She's a poli-sci major but very down to earth and very passionate about politics. She's a hard core democrat so she has a lot of the same principles as i do. I've also gotten a lot closer to Keith who's also a democrat. But he's a music vocal major and he's got a beautiful voice. He's funny and such a performer, i love the kid. I've gotten a little more distant with Eddie, he's just too busy all the time and we're just too alike and too different in all the wrong ways. But at least we're still friends. I've gotten to know people through Kelly such as Carley and Sarah and Krissy and other amazing people. It's just cuz Kelly is so cool that i get to meet all these super cool people. But i also feel like i need to go into Harrington B and meet more of the people there. I'm trying to branch out! So the friend life is good. Keeping busy and everything... too busy sometimes!!

Hiking:
Last sunday i went hiking somewhere in Pennsylvania. it was 9 miles of chilly leafy rock stepping which was a lot of fun actually. I went with 7 of the dupont scholars and it was just good conversation, strenuous exercise, and beautiful nature. The views out there were gorgeous and the changing colors makes for a spectacular view. So that was a great day, I felt so accomplished! Climbing to the top of a hill will do that to you.

Legend of Sleepy Hollow:
Last Friday i went back to Tatnall and saw my friends in their show. It was a children's play and very cute. It was definitely good to see everyone again. I also brought my friends (Keith, Lisa, Derek and Tracie again) and showed them our amazing theater. So that was fun! Then afterwards there was a Decade Dance which was even MORE fun than the halloween one because there were more fun people there! Too many people were out partying on halloween but this week the people there were cool and fun! It was great.

Voting!:
Tuesday was voting! as everyone knows... I went back to Tatnall (again) because it's my polling place. It's also Joe Biden's polling place and i had juuuuuust missed him! Such a shame. But a lot of students got to see him vote and go into the booth and everything and there was a whole crowd outside the school cheering for both Obama and McCain. It was fun to watch and the school was getting a lot of publicity what with all the reporters and cameras around. So that was quite an eventful day. To say that Biden voted/s at my old high school! pretty coooool. And then the results of the election? How awesome is it that we get to say that we were a part of that momentous moment in history? It's like being alive for the first man on the moon or Martin Luther King. We're alive (and got to participate!) in the election where we elected the first black man to the presidency. No longer is it a white male dominated field... even women and african americans are stretching that stereotype of American Presidents. Quite amazing. Kelly (aka hardcore democrat) was soooo excited. She was running up and down the hallways (meanwhile i was completely knocked out cuz i was so tired) and there was even a mob going around outside celebrating the victory. Oh not to mention what a landslide! Hopefully Obama can live up to his expectations... because America definitely expects and hopes for a lot from him.

RAD:
Rape Agression Defense class. It's a self-defense class that teaches women techniques to help them protect themselves from getting raped. It's very interesting and while a lot of it seems like common sense, it's still good to know and have these things in your belt. I dont know how usefull it'd actually be... but hey. it doesn't hurt to know this stuff. So we've learned defensive stances, different kicks and strikes and how to throw someone off you if you're on the floor and what kind of techniques to do if someone's choking you and that kind of thing. Next week is simulation and then we're done with the class! So those stalker boys out there had better watch out cuz i'm armed and ready!

Past:
Ahhh... so what else has happened? Well tonight I had a DiScho dinner where we cooked Jambalaya and cornbread (delicious!!). A couple weeks ago i got together with the dupont freshmen and we all baked cookies for the Honors department and Dr. Munson (a chem prof who hosted a bbq for all the duponts and alumni!). That alumni stuff was a lot of fun. All the DuPonts have done so much stuff it's very intimidating what we have to live up to... but it definitely pushes me at the same time so that's one of the reasons i'm glad i came here. Otherwise i'd just be an ordinary jane... but here i have someone to emulate and things to work towards and i have a sense of community i dont think i'd get anywhere else. I love it. <3 Mmmmm... so we made the cookies for them and it was a great success! Hopefully we get even more perks and therefore will make more cookies for them. hehehe. :D I've been working on crocheting a blanket for Drew (also on my floor) but i think i'm going to keep it for myself. Last last week on wednesday i was a UPenn for an interpretive dance company. it was an interesting performance and I wish i had gotten to see Jefe... but it was just not to be. He's coming over to my house for Thanksgiving so that's very exciting!

Future:
I've got a lot of committments and plans for these next few weeks and until the end of the semester. It just seems that everything and everyone's getting so busy! This weekend is Keith's Opera so we're going to see that. Then Saturday my arts forum is going into New York and going to the Met (i've never been there before) then we get the day free before we meet up again to see Osage County. It's supposed to be very good so i'm very excited. And I hopefully get to meet Kelly's friend from Yale and Chris is a New Yorker from Staten Island so he wants to show me around too... excitinggg!! Then I have a lot of things to do for my China study abroad trip... and then the weekend before thanksgiving i'm going with Tracie down to her house to see her high school's show! That'll be fun too. Then there's thanksgiving when Lisa and Jefe will be spending the weekend at my place. How exciting!! I can't wait to hang out with a Whitneyite again... dangit i miss you guys so much. I'm working on being myself and doing what feels right and i'm building a friend base that will let me do that. so yay! And then december there are a lot of things planned too... but you'll have to wait till then!

Whew what a long post. I should post more often so the entries aren't as long... but there's just no time! I'll try again next month at the latest.

GOOD NIGHT AMERICA, IT'S TUESDAY!

--Gealina

Labels: duponts, friends, Gealina

6:58 PM

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ok. ok. ok. ok. ok. ok...... ok.
so i'm posting yayy. Amoebans rejoice because I'm so important!!
so it's been a while and through Kristen's wrath, I've been convinced to post. UCSD is really interesting. you know, university of the socially dead. So big events past.. halloween, midterms, stuff. well i've been listening to a lot more music. so many types out there i've realized. i kinda miss a lot of people. new people are great and all, but yano... i've also realized i'm getting worse at formulating sentences as my writing teacher pointed out when he gave me my grade on my last paper. frick... Oh. i've practically stopped cussing, random slips here and there but it's to be expected, i may be Korean but i'm only human. I owe thanks to Tim Mok who'll never read this post but might as well. k so halloween, i dressed up. yay. half-arsed costume i wore. See, my initial plan was to dress up as Kim Jong Il. Then I needed a jumpsuit of the right hue, more fat on my face, glasses, poofy hair, etc. Too mach wark. So instead I went as an abused husband. Had a bruise under my eye and sunglasses to wear during the night to cover it up. ahahahah =D. comment on this post congratulating my creativity!

Midterms were fail. that's all I have to say.

Ey guys, remember how i posted a blog once that one time long ago? well if you don't remember I don't really care. What I DO care is I can't find it again. ok random rant.

SD is really chill. Not only is there nothing to do, I also get to meet hobos! at bus stops! at night! yay! he tried to talk to me. i have this tendency to make eye contact with random people, even when i don't want to. ok. ok. ok. ok.

well i know this was a horrible post. and.... i should think stuff through before i type. k night.
knight ahaha. -.- i'll post a more coherent post soon enough.

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2:42 AM

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Monday, November 10, 2008

strange things go on around here...

this is just random but I had to post it. SO today I was like going to the restroom and I go and well ya know, grab the wax paper cover or whatever when I hear chewing. yes, chewing. WTF? there are only two toilets in the restroom (what I always hate about guy's bathrooms) and they're right next to each other so I'm there and i can see from the guy's feet that he's sitting down.. and he's chewing.. quite aggressively... so I kinda walkout quickly. who the hell eats while they're... sigh, nvm. sometimes I think I'll never understand other people.

that reminds me of another thing, I think that vegans should get their own restroom. I seriously don't see why I have to suffer from the smell that meat-eaters produce in the restroom. seriously. wtf. it's amazing what comes out of these people..

O another weird thing that happened today some random girl (/woman? she looked kinda older) went up to me and shook my hand and told me that i looked like someone she knew (haven't heard that one before...) and then she said 'nice to meet you' and walked off without even introducing herself..wtf? you can't say nice to meet you if you just exchanged two words and didn't give a name..

so yupp, strange things.

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4:52 PM

Danza Nohtenki For Clarinet, Harpsichord And String Quartets

what? thats a perfectly legitimate song title. from ouran soundtrack. ouran ftw.

sighhh. i feel really icky right now!!!! like i remember i was a very happy person yesterday... i dunno what happened. today i just feel blah. i miss home, i feel like crying, i'm bored, i dont want to do any work, not hungry, my mouth hurts from my huge kankersore, i feel lonely.... sighhhhh. maybe i'm just being moody. but maybe its good. ive been having so many good days lately, maybe i need a bad one to encourage me to appreciate the good.

i had a good week/end.... scored some brownie points with my great books prof by visiting his office after class, figured out next semesters schedule (no morning classes. period.)

friday i went home, took calvin and my sister to the mall, and scored free underwear from aerie (that place is POSH. the dressing rooms are SO nice!!! ofcourse its ridiculously overpriced too.) because calvin/my sister bought stuff at american eagle. (using gift cards, and buy one get one 50% off for sweaters. heck yeah! what a good deal :D) watched scrubs with calvin. that show is teh awesome. so is pushing daisies. WATCH PUSHING DAISIES OK.

on saturday i took calvin and his brother to the la palma parade. parked at my aunts house and saw my cousins (cuties.) whitney placed 1st cg, 1st dm, 2nd band. they are good! mr england recognized me - once i said something to him. i sat next to mrs kesinger during competition block. also passed jensen and verrett as i walked next to the band. walked them allllll the way down to kennedy! said hi to adrian, tirona, andrew j park... caught arcadiaHS - have a friend from church who plays trumpet. they are good! ate lunch in the park.

drove to UCLA to see ashton! had some trouble finding parking. (FYI, the way it works is u go to information/parking booth and buy ticket. then u use said ticket to park in any parking structure. ok i didnt know that. so i got a parking ticket for my overexpired meter. should i pay it? :P) ashton and i walked to westwood and shopped at buffalo exchange and urbanoutfitters. i got a michael kors vest and an american eagle collared shirt for $15 total. what a steal! (estevan, the shirt is guys xs - i dont really need it, do you want it? haha) i tried on this xl rvca guys shirt, and it didnt look right. instead of looking like a dress that i could cinch with a belt, it looked like i got knocked up by a fat guy who wears rvca. haha gag. poor ashton still getting over being sick.
walked back and had dinner at a dining hall. so tasty! imo, better than USC. and there is no such thing as a 'guest swipe'. a swipe is a swipe! UCLA has killer apple pie, btw.
then i took a nap in ashtons awesomely decorated bed while she packed her overnight bag. then i took her to peppy with me. we did hw and she ended up knocking out on the floor. i covered her with a blanket once i realized it wasnt going to be a "nap". this morning i showed her more of campus and we ate lunch in the caf with eiichiro charles jake and mirim. ashton is the first of amoeba to meet them! then i took her back to ucla. (its much closer than USC actually)

ugh i still feel like crap. i'm going to try and sleep it off.
seriously lets play. thanksgiving. you down? :P i think we should iron chef potluck. (its college! the best time to experiment with cooking! and it will be funny because i KNOW we will end up with some fail-dishes.) anyway - we dont have to. we can always meet up at yogurtland, because you know you miss yogurtland the most.

songs of the week:
muse - supermassive black hole
boa - girls on top
mutemath - spotlight

PS - i hate aristotle. well i hate having to read nicomachean ethics. its literally his lecture notes. never meant to be published! and now i suffer greatly. ask andrew, he knows this pain.

Labels: Calvin, Kristen

1:10 AM

Sunday, November 9, 2008

random rant?

Hi there people, I'm posting cuz I never post yay. Soooo for those of you who are wondering under which rock I've been hiding this whole time, (I've been hiding under a really ugly hot one by the name of riverside) and what I've been up to, I've been doing nothing (yay?). So ummmm yeah, I took the re-take of the first calc midterm and got a B on it :( (I was pretty sure I had mastered the material..). The average this time was like 60%, so I guess we're keeping these scores eventhough I'm pretty sure the average was brought up by the AP calc kids in our class who don't belong there... Umm my other classes are boring (art history and anthro >.<). People went crazy over the whole new half-white president, happiest bandwagon I've seen in a while. As for me, I was quite indifferent seeing as how McCain sucked too, I was just amused at the fact that the first time america elects a president in terms of their skin color they choose black haha. So I don't know what Obama's victory will mean for me, as for now I'm hoping he doesn't screw up the whole healthcare thing up because I'm really tired of the idea that how healthy I'm allowed to be is entirely up to how much my parents earn (hey maybe I'll finally get to see a specialist for chronic chest pain? yay). Ummm what else... O, according to my parents I am getting better at looking homeless and shady (no fair, super sensitive skin+ shaving= ouch). It smells here, like it stinks like hell and I'm kinda ocd so this isn't working out. I think it stinks beacuse people don't vacuum or clean, even eugene kinda keeps his trashcan (which is a giant cardboard box) completely full for like a week before he throws it out... I have three Midterms this week, and they all suck... O and people at Riverside are crazy cheaters (even better than whitneyites! *gasp*) I mean it's so smooth and casual, it's like they've been doing it for years (probably have..) and they like to cut the lunch line (which ticks me off... like large groups of people cut at one time). Ummmm O another thing to rant about, so on the first day of class i went to dining services to apply for a work study job and they said they were already full but i've been noticing that there are atleast 2-3 new people every week working at our dining hall so the other day I go back there to ask them if the have jobs and they tell me the same thing and i tell em' "o ok.. cuz i've seen atleast a dozen new people" and they say 'o maybe your schedule didn't fit in then' which is a bunch of bull because I only hav 12 units (the least i can possibly have) but whatever, the word is a lot of pple already in dining services are kinda putting their friends in there so I get owned. The good thing is that my loan is running out thanks to the university thinking that it's funny to give $2,000 short of funds to someone who has an expected family contribution of $0, and even better news is that the university will give me less and less money as time goes on, so thank God for good old american ideal of screwing the poor (an oh so very christian ideal, of course).

haha beyond all the sarcasm and ucr hating and what not I'm actually doing ok haha. I miss you guys though, A LOT. and ignore my flawed politics/hating, I mean it isn't really reasonable that the government force the rich to give to the poor (i mean it's not the rich's fault that the poor didn't make it big), and I shouldn't really expect the government to pay for a specialist when I really didn't do anything to earn it. and McCain doesn't suck, palin does (jk.) and I don't think people voted for Obama cuz it was the cool thing to do (they just did it cuz everyone else was doing it haha) or cuz he's black (they voted for him cuz he's light brown). and.... ok i'll stop now haha. but i seriously don't mean it. ok, i should be studying for calc. I'm so failing. ugh this sucks. it really does stink here. hey when are we hanging out?

o and to tim, i've become a fan of van gohg, the man who shot himself with a shotgun out of the frustration of inferior art (jk haha). but seriously, his stuff is pretty insane, I like his sketches a lot better than his real paintings.

i didn't bother to check spelling or grammar. tired.

Labels: Estevan

10:40 PM

Saturday, November 8, 2008

A: in the barn with pa's cow!

Labels: Timothy

1:37 PM

Friday, November 7, 2008

ha ha you such a jokah!

Q: where is moscow?

Labels: Timothy

1:13 AM

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Wednesday, November 5, 2008

rainy san diego :[

GUYS.
i haven't posted on this thing.. since.. the beginning of school . oh bother. woow so i've caught up on the previous blogs and it seems like everyone's having fun in college:] ahh we're all so grown up. hahah kristennn! sometime during witner break we shoudl finally record so close.. ahhaha like we were suppoesd to in the summer.. >< ahh. haha
anyway, i should catch you all up with waht's going on here with meee.
hum.
we just finished round 1 of midterms annd i actually did well on econ.. but pretty badly on math.. even though it was all pretty much ap calc stuf.. sigh :[ but its ok i guess.. hopefuly it'll motivate me to work harder for the upcoming tests. ahha oh but i ahve another econ midterm this friday. wowow that went by quick. annd! enrollment for 2nd quarter is coming up soon.. or they've been sending out emails for that. so that was pretty quick. anwyays, academic life is aaalright.. oh i got a B on my first paper which is actually pretty good buut. i duno if i just got lucky on that one xD OH and i stayed up till like 8 olcokc AM to finish my 2nd graded paper (my class is at 3:30 so i still got sleep no worries xd) AND THEN i get to class and she's liek oh actualy its due thursday. im like WHAT your'e kidding me. :[ but yeahh. i had to walk back in the RAINNN and i got super soaked. buut it was all in good fun. :]
social life.. i relly cant wait for winter break and cant wait to see all you guys:[ i do miss having people who've known me for .. forever.. around. ahha but its pretty fun too .. to meet knew peoplee and stuff. xD so yeah . hmm i havent relly told anyone but some of you proly have heard it but me and joel have broken up so thats pretty tough.. its been over 2 weeks but yeaah. aaanyways..
home life!.. i've been home about three time since school's gotten in i think. or was it twice. but yeah i jsut went home last weekend and i brought my laundry (wahahah) annd i brought more to sd than i brought back to home.. its like i was moving in again. -_- but yeahh. i shoduls top takign stuff from home.. OR i shoudl jsut bring my tanktops and shorts back home since its gonna be cold soon. i cant wait for witner! i love it xD
church.. i've been church hopping, visiting a diff church every sunday but since my sister's here already her church makes me feel the most welcome xD wahaah but we'll see how that works out:] its always fun. oh! i went broomballing with a fellowship not too long ago.. that was pretty fun xD
halloweeeeeen.. i dressed up as a gangstaaaaa xD it was pretty spontaneous since me and my sis were supposed to be going home but we stayed for friday so i dressed up as taht XD OH . and the weekend before halloween a couple of whs people (mark alwood justin) come down to SD and most of the WHS people from SD ( DAVID CAME! :] ) got togehter adn we went to HAUNTED TRAIL .. its like knotts scary farm but better i think.. and without the amusement park thing. its liek a foresty thing and they scare you adn you go through different structures/houses (like a meat factory.. or dollhouse..or schoolbus) . but yeah it was pretty carzy xD ilean was supposed to come but she was busy:[ so only david came from amoeba people haha
WINTERBREAKKKKK. AMOEBA GET TOGETHERS kayy? dude i miss you guys and i'm relly sorry taht i havent been on this thing since forever :[ it is one of my tabs so i'll be on it moreee:]
i love you guys to death and it feels good to know taht theres always you guys that relly know me.. that have been with me since forever! haah i know i havent been online as much or on this blog as much so i dont relly talk to most of you so much anymore:[ but i'm relly glad i do have you guys<3
you guys are awesome and one of a kind<33 and it suonds like everyone's having fun in colegio:] YAAAY .
winterbreak is waht i'm looking forward toooooo <3
oh it sucks that i didnt go to the krn bbq thing :[ siigh.
anwyays, you all take careeee I LOVE YOU GUYS

Labels: Katherine, life, SD

10:25 AM

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

politically depressed.

sorry its dark. if you cant tell, its a row of deerbutt.

i'm sad about the way our country is going. theres so much democratic majority its scary. president, house, senate - and then the president will be appointing a bunch of new justices (for life zomg.) it makes me very fearful because our country needs checks and balances!!!
i also fear that i will be poor. change and equality sounds good, but it doesnt work out. the reason the doctor gets paid a lot more than the gardener is... because the services the doctor provides are worth more. if doctors get taxed so much that they can only keep what a manager would keep, then there is no point in investing tuition and years of study into being a doctor. might as well be a manager. so right now i feel a lot of despair for the next 2/4 years. i think that the country will change in a lot of ways i won't agree with.
hence my political depression. i am glad i can say what i feel to you guys even though you may not agree.

i'll feel better if prop 8 passes. if not, i think i'll go to bed early today....

what have i been up to? getting good grades, partaying with the trio+jake... we went to six flags and topanga mall. i went to H&M and bought stuff - i love EVERYTHING this season!!! i want to buy the whole store. <-- poor college student. no job. :P calvin and i were salt and pepper for halloween. i was surprised some people couldnt figure out what we were. it was an easy costume :D also lunched with tirona. oh i got into the shanghai study abroad program for next year! i'm looking forward to it

! :) so i discovered that i act strangely with the trio/jake. most of the time its because of jake though. crazy white boy. last time we hung out at his dorm, we played the cup game. and then

last night in eiichiros dorm we danced. the macarena. cha cha slide. jake taught eiichiro some of thriller. jake taught me ballroom cha cha. we also did weird things with our hands, tried to cross our legs in weird ways/do a pretzel... and it was totally fun! i stayed until like 11. i really like how its so much fun and its 1. not spending money and 2. totally clean. makes me feel like i do with you guys. so chill 8) and weird. and random.

calvin and i found a cheap, fun activity to partake in together! old photo albums! i was a weird kid. like WEIRD. i made all sorts of strange faces. but yeah i was also adorable, well-behaved, and funny. i noticed this time around that darin is in a lot of my preschool pictures. (darin lam.) hahaha and channing is seriously grumpy in ALL of them. what a bitter child. my mom wonders why i befriended her. and tim ho is in a couple. he was much smaller than i at 3 yrs old. :P jaundice babies ftw! it was fun going down memory lane. i probably had more fun than calvin did.... ^-^'
miss you guys! lets get together over thanksgiving and christmas break, neh?

Labels: Kristen

7:21 PM

Monday, November 3, 2008

COMPUTERS WIN

you guys are spooftacular as always :)

so as i promised ashton, i would post, because nobody had posted in a while, and lo and behold, ashton, richard, and tim come to the update rescue! but here's mine as well.

hope you guys had a fun and safe halloween. i'm a little bit sad that i won't be joining you guys for thanksgiving break, but i'll be back home 2 weeks later :)

haha well i guess i'll post some of my little things here too.
so many things have been happening lately. i almost want to describe it as overwhelming, but it's not.

fallingwater was amazing. i loved it. awesome scenery, amazing design. awesome.
and there was a bunch of other things. michelle obama rally (our physics teacher canceled class so people could go). homecoming (we lost to rutgers. it was sad). bday dinners (yummy italian food). halloween (didn't dress up or go partying--but i watched 'the shining').

ooo yeah and rearranged my entire room on saturday all by myself and now i'm sore. apparently moving furniture around is more of a workout than i imagined XD.
but the reason for moving everything was this:

i have a 19" LCD Sony flatscreen monitor in my room now (dual monitor with my macbook), because this rich kid on my floor didn't want it anymore cause it was old. soo...woot. :) what can i say? i'm a techie, i'm happy.

OH YEAH go vote tmrw! no matter what/who/where/why/chunky you're voting for, do it!
OUR FIRST ELECTION-- GO VOTE

Labels: Bernard, vote

10:06 AM

IT PROCESSED!

in case you don't have a youtube account and never upload videos that are large, the happiest thing ever is when your video is done processing. seriously, that step, the FINAL step, i might add, takes fooooooreeeeeeever. and you know you're so close to it being done, but its just that one gigantic elephant that refuses to cross the street and completely blocks all traffic, you know what i'm saying?

but this is my project for architecture. i mean, besides a report, but i don't think you'd want to see that. BOOOOOOOOOOORING. :D

if you watch it, i will be happy! hooray!

video go!

i was so confused at what to do, i really didn't know. i mean, i wanted to do the whole stop motion drawing thing, but i didn't think i could do it! and wow! i'm so pleased with the result. i really hope i get picked for most creative. at least in the top 5. that would make me so happy, you know? would make me feel like its all worth it. because seriously, some people just talk and put pictures on a slideshow using the ken burns effect (WHO IS KEN BURNS?!) but i really put in a lot of effort. a boatload, i might be so inclined to say.

now i can sleep.

my sick status: coughing. eyes still a bit red, but don't hurt (i went home yesterday and put some eyedrops in, but i didn't go home just to put eyedrops in) coughing. uuuuuuugh. -_________________-but i'm done! and i'm sleeping now, so adios amigos!

Labels: architorture, Timothy

3:50 AM

Sunday, November 2, 2008

One of a Kind

It's a Breaking Benjamin song, dedicated to my costume choice of WARIO! NYAH~!

Not much has happened between this post and last post. I was supposed to go to Texas with my roommates on the Halloween weeked, but that plan fell through, and I needed a costume fast. So some of my friends who were going as Mario and Luigi (they're twins) lent me some overalls, and I tried my best for the rest. It turned out decent, I think, for a short notice costume. The idea of being Ryu didn't work out, I don't have the large and defined amount of muscle mass to pull it off. Ended up spending Halloween in a dorm lobby with friends watching Dr. Strangelove, as I didn't like the dance music or atmosphere. I don't think I'll ever full out dance without you guys.

I bought some stuff from ThinkGeek, a mini crossbow thing and irregular Rubik's cubes. The crossbow thing is a bit of a rip off, as it was only 100 yen. The cubes are ridiculous hard, and can not solve it.

I've found someone who will want to watch Chinese Kungfu Dramas with me, my friend who always wears the Domo-Kun shirt. There's a picture of him in on e the earlier posts.

I've been playing my Susan G. Komen DS, as I just got the screen protectors (I've supported the breast cancer thing! It's a white ds with a pink ribbon on it). It's great, but it is such a distraction. The new Castlevania is fun!

Thanksgiving is rushing up real fast, so I hope to see everyone again then.

Labels: asians, Drama, halloween, Richard

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