~ The Little Things In Life ~

Native American Zodiac

2007-11-05T04:38:54Z

Brown Bear
Dates -> Aug22 - Sept21
Element -> Earth with Water
Function -> to modify
Personality -> Industrious, unassuming, practical, fastidious
Feelings -> Warm and analytical
Nature -> Considerate
Intention -> Practicality
Positive traits -> Modest, discriminating, meticulous
Negative traits -> Faultfinding, finicky, hypocritical, fussy
Conscious aim -> Sifting and striving
Subconscious desire -> Perfection
Should cultivate -> Optimism and tolerance
Should avoid -> Skepticism, faultfinding, procrastination

Wow.. fits me so well. XD;;

Bunraku~

2007-09-16T09:39:51Z

http://www.jaccc.org/bunraku.htm

JACCC - Bunraku The National Puppet Theatre of Japan
Date Musume Koi no Higanoko / Tsubosaka Kannon Reigenki

Thursday October 18, 2007 8pm
Friday October 19, 2007 8pm
Saturday October 20, 2007
2pm & 8pm

Anyone interested? =O
Tickets are kind of expensive though. x.x

One wish granted?

2007-09-16T06:42:49Z

Hmm.. I guess I got my wish from last year? I remember missing Chinese so much and hearing it around me sometimes, made me wish I could actually talk to someone in Chinese... crazy? ^ ^; But now that I've got my small intro to using pinyin(sp?), I can talk with one of my friends online in Chinese. He can actually type out the characters, which would be better for me in practice, really. I should figure out if my laptop has the ability to type in Chinese characters.. I think my old one did, but then, I didn't use it much cuz I didn't know what keys were for which 'letter' of the alphabet (still don't)... oh well, main point - it makes me happy to be able to use a language I know instead of letting it 'go to waste' >.<
Oh! I had my 'first' Chinese test on Tuesday. Also, my first time writing a composition all in Chinese characters. We were doing a chapter on dorms and apartments and I had to write at least 100(?) characters on the good and the bad parts about where I lived, haha~

Birthdays and stuff~

2007-09-09T08:43:59Z

My real birthday was interesting (not to mention the dim sum party the weekend before~). It started in the late hours of the night, pretty close to midnight (on the 5th) I was just laying/lying(??) on my bed, listening to some HY music, trying to finish the long reading homework for the IR class (which I never finished...) when my RA Dallas comes at the door saying she needs to talk to me about something....
So then I walk out.. to see a bunch of mini cupcakes on a plate, lit with candles and my suitemates and Aisling standing around singing Happy Birthday to me! >.< I didn't realize it before, but they rushed me into making a wish ( I never made.. sh.. XD; ) and blowing out the candles so we wouldn't set off the smoke detector/fire alarm. That led us to a rather interesting story of one of my suitemates Andrea(sp?) who actually slept through a real fire alarm in a hotel and only woke up when she realized she was wet from the sprinklers. It was scary.. o.o Then we started chatting about random things; I listened and read the construction paper birthday card they made for me >w< It's really cute and made me smile, I'll have to scan it sometime and post it somewhere (the same thing with Steph's card too, XD; ) They also got me a birthday balloon and , it was most likely unintentional but the weight thingy for the balloon was a butterfly, I found that incredibly amusing, haha~
After that, I ended up putting off my reading homework to help Aisling with her Chinese homework~ XD She's learning through simplified and her current books didn't have traditional in it too, so sometimes it took us a while to understand some parts. XD;
Something that I was thinking about while all this was going on - I definitely like this suite more than last year. They just seem more... actively friendly, I guess. At first, coming to dorms, I didn't really feel like getting into a big party mode (still don't..) but the I (maybe selfishly?) like how people here are making the effort (haha..) to be friendly to me. It could also be that more than half my suite has some kind of Chinese background, but I'll just say that I like the people this year more than last. XD
Hmm.. but it could also be because I don't really interact much with people my own age/year/grade/whatever as much as with people who are younger.. This goes as sort of an incomplete thought since I wrote this about two days before I started typing this up. The sentence before this one begins present time.. (at least, while I'm typing..) Meh.. I guess that's all... My walls of text just don't feel like coming out much anymore. XD

Oh! I finally finished the Twilight trilogy yesterday~ Yay vampires! XD

First day of work....

2007-06-01T07:28:36Z

Now who'd've thought that my first job would be in an office. x.x I can't believe people actually work like this for so much of their lives [/exaggeration] Even someone like me (read that however you like) could barely stand an 8-hour workday in an insurance office.. doing.. office stuff.. @.@ And Argh!! Architecture follows me everywhere! still! TwT The guy probably didn't even know I was in architecture for a little bit, but yes, the work I did today involved some architecture.... and it was pretty frustrating work too. @.@" And I still have to relive the torture for about two more weeks. I guess the good thing about this is I'm getting $8 an hour (if I speed up in the work...). And *sigh* I have to wear 'nice' shoes for work.. good thing Fridays are casual wear days though~ I'm so used to wearing sneakers/athletic shoes it feels weird to wear something else..
I know there are things I should be grateful from this. For one, I'm getting paid to help out at the office. (I had originally just offered to 'help out' since I thought I wouldn't be doing much in the summer) Second, other people have to go looking for jobs. My mom offered this job to me, from her boss. Even if I wasn't looking into this kind of work, I should be considering myself lucky. And finally, work experience. I think it'd be kind of weird though, if say, I wanted to apply to a gallery or something, and for work experience I mention a brief couple weeks of working in an insurance company (with data entry(?)).. @.@

Ooh, more news about the summer. Apparently, my mom has signed my sister and me up for a "Fun Camp" in Taiwan. *dreaddread* =.= I forget the time period of this 'camp', but my mother refuses to tell me who told her about the thing in the first place.. or where this camp is taking place.. or what the flip we'll be doing at this camp. One other small thing that she told me, besides the dates, was that it's for people of ages 14-19? I already have a bad feeling about this.. TwT I was just hoping to be able to walk around on my own when I'm in Taiwan.. not to be shoved into some environment where I know I'd feel uncomfortable. Oh yes, my mom also claims that there will be lots of other people who speak English, but I keep feeling that there will be some sort of language barrier happening over there...... I DON'T WANT TO GO!! TTwTT

*sigh*
.. can't wait to just go to Japan and take pictures of lots of stuff....

=.=

2007-05-13T06:50:52Z

.. This is the third day in a row that I've had a bloody nose.. and this is the second time today. x.x
Why am I having a bloody nose all the time?? I thought it was just a cough and runny nose.. TwT
Thankfully, they don't last very long, but there was a lot of blood loss in the last one, it kinda scared me.. @.@

((Random: well, now I know what Kagrra looks like. Kind of different from what I expected, truthfully, but still interesting. ^ ^))

Ooosakaaaa~

2007-05-10T07:03:28Z

I never knew baths could be so relaxing~ XD; I haven't had a nice soaking bath for a while.. just showers with broken showerheads. >.<; Finally going to see a doctor tomorrow about my cough.. which has now developed into horrible (but less frequent) coughs with stuffy runny nose ALL THE TIME. TwT I really couldn't take it anymore.. my nose was killing me the whole day.. At my history final at 2 in the afternoon, I just decided to screw it and turn it in... *sigh* I probably could have studied more.. more things probably would have stuck better.. but now it's passed.. and I really regret not having changed the class to pass/fail.. TwT" What happens if you've declared a major and you're not allowed to get anything below C's, but then you get a D in a class?? x.x
I really should be sleeping now, but I'll go soon, I promise! Right now is already pretty early for me anyway.. >.> Though I should hurry and get better, otherwise steph might get mad at me during the weekend when I have to put off the playtime... DX;;;;;

Hmm.. stuff to do by the end of this week..
make more of the secret present.. >.>
avi art prize for TMV
put away all my stuff I've just brought back from the dorm.. @.@
finish (an) art contest entry(entries?)
edit a new kitty
read more getbackers~
watch nana movie?
dl some dramas? @.@

Oh, I told my mom about the waiting in line thing for j.rev, and she said people are crazy~ XD;
But I think she'll let me do it. ^ ^
Japan in the summer is now being seriously considered~~ >w< Osaka is a main place being considered and I suggested the shrines at either Ise or Izumo (both?) Anywhere else people would recommend? I'm mostly in it for the sight-seeing though.. >w> Oh and Kyoto was another main place being considered~

Hm. I guess that's it. I can't believe I used to write so much more not too long ago.. @.@

akihabara@DEEP ^o^

2007-04-29T00:05:49Z

I know I really shouldn't have (since I'm supposed to be preparing for finals) but I just finished akihabara@deep~! ^o^ I watched the first half last night after coming home from school, and now I finished the rest of it~~ The ending (close to) was so sad, I cried at many of the parts. TwT It's funny how you can get so attached to characters in such a random funny series. >w< Haa~ I think I might watch it all over again sometime~ Though maybe I should watch it from something else.. when I bought the dvds, I didn't realize the subtitles were in simplified chinese.. or, apparently the dvd box says "cantonese" subtitles.. @.@"

Hm. So, last night was also the first time in.. I think it said three-hundred-something days that I turned on my old ibm laptop. Still love the mouse (XD) but I realized the buttons were a bit small, since I've been so used to this vaio one (when I first saw this, I hated how it had such huge buttons.. =.=) But at least now, I appreciate the vaio's wide screen. @.@ I also noticed that all the icons and stuff on the ibm seemed so big, but that might be because of the screen shape? And then... even now, I hate how loud it is to type on this laptop. =.= This was another reason I didn't take much of a liking to this laptop when I first saw it..

x.x.. Well.. onto another subject... like.... .. x.x;
I feel like making my own backpack accessories.. @.@ .. buttons, patches, keychains.. I wish I knew how.. and I know that I'd really really get into it if I ever learn.. >.>
*sigh*.. can't wait for the summer~~~

@.@.. TwT

2007-04-23T01:49:11Z

So weird... last night.. I dreamt of Ancafe. @.@ Specifically of Kanon and Bou. I remember a part when Steph and I were walking up some stairs with(?) Kanon and Bou, and they just started taking pictures of/with us (I don't even remember why..) Hmm.. yeah.. that's about all I remember.. And after waking up, but going back to sleep again.. I had another dream that made me remember I dreamt it, but I couldn't remember what the dream was made of... I think there were some people from my elementary/middle school in it.. though I'm not sure if we were older, or if it was during elementary/middle school.. *sigh* I've been having a lot of dreams recently.. and they've been making me wake up late/go back to sleep. TwT

Short entry for today.. who knows, maybe I'll come back and add some more.. >.>;

I want the summer to come faster~~ TwT;;

((Ah. I should probably go look for some more Jrock.. I guess to get ready for the festival.. >.>))

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I'm back XD;

I could have said this before, but anyway, I love Ayabie - Meefisshu no uta... >o< I think I heard it in Steph's car once? and I liked it when I heard it, I thought it was really pretty~ >w< But now I know the name, and have it on my laptop, soon to go into my mp3. XD I will definitely have to somehow search for some Ayabie cds when I go to Taiwan~ and just a place to buy Jrock music in general.. *sigh*
On another subject.. my mom keeps asking me if I want to go to Japan @.@ Of course, I say yeah; then she goes on to ask where.. x.x But the main point is that Japan is being considered this summer? o.o My camera will definitely be having some action if we do go. But knowing me, the camera will be having some action whenever I'm going on a trip somewhere, I just have to remember to bring enough batteries. XD;;

*sigh* Grrr... I still have that stupid Japanese history paper to do.. STILL. But I have no idea what else to write.. it's already pretty bad.. =.= I just want to turn it in and get it over with.. but, I can't do that.. not until I get some more pages in.. (Pages full of useless crap that doesn't even make sense.. )TwT;;

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((Listening to: Alice Nine - Corona))

v.v

2007-04-17T00:49:33Z

(41507)
(I don't remember if I've written about this before but..) It seems like.. as we grow older, we start to notice more and more death around us..

((On a very unrelated note, I was walking back to my dorm from cinema class, when I passed by someone on the path who reminded me of someone I couldn't think of.. For about 2 more minutes of walking, I remembered who it was, but ending up spending probably another minute racking my brain to remember the name of the person I was thinking of... I said to myself that I seem to be forgetting a lot of things now, things that I wanted to remember, and the things I didn't want to remember were always coming up somehow. It was like more and more unwanted memories were squeezed into my memory box, while the loved memories were being pushed out to the edge of the box; at that last minute, I'd pull those memories back in and try to shove them all back in the box (trying not to care about the unwanted memories).. *sigh* My rambling thought of that day..))

(41607)
Well... as if my (unwritten) thoughts from yesterday weren't enough, news about the shootings at Virginia Tech really struck me today.. What's more is that when I saw someone sort of mention it on DA (I was just browsing through people's pages, but of course, I was reminded of the Columbine(sp?) shooting..) I didn't bother to go find out what happened.. (I even used the word "apathetic" when I was talking about it on Gaia.) When I saw the mention, it was probably around 7 hrs ago until I finally decided to go search for news online. Then I saw a frightening phrase.. "33 dead in shooting" It might be bad of me to think this, but I thought.. of all places.. I expected a school like USC to be the worst place in terms of safety.. My teacher was even worried about me walking home to my dorm (on the other side of campus) close to 9.00 at night.

.. And now I've just lost my train of thought so this short wall will just have to end here.. *sigh*

On another very unrelated note... I got a DA (in case it wasn't implied before), got it sometime at the end of March.... so if you want to visit just ask me for it.. 9 9"

Japan Nite =D

2007-03-21T04:51:54Z

Soooo... Sunday night~ pretty cool night. =D I found out the guy from 50 kaitenz who reminded me of Ellegarden's singer (takeshi? His name has suddenly slipped my mind yet again..) his name is Danny. I wonder if this helps in knowing why he knows English "so well"? 6 6 Well, aside from having to stand for hours (until the end when we got to sit down), the show was pretty cool. And we got to meet and get autographs from some of the people who played. ^ ^ I only bought one cd (and then a shirt) because I didn't bring enough money.. otherwise, I would have bought more. x.x Hy, the very last band to play was really good (I thought; except in some (rare) parts when Izu(sp?) was singing, she has a nice voice though =D). So after the show, and the next day, I looked online and found Hy's website, then found they put up some cuts(? I don't know the word.. @.@") of some of their songs, so I downloaded them and listened to them all. They're really nice and Hy has a pretty big fanbase. o.o Oh, back to 50 kaitenz (haha..), they were crazy XD and we were standing in front of the stage too, so I wasn't so blind when the craziness was going on. XD; They make funny face expressions, and they say funny things in English too~ they made me laugh! XD Their music was good too, and loud. =D Oreska Band(sp?) was pretty cool too, until a "mosh pit" was started by the guys we happened to be "standing in line with".. *sigh* I didn't even think they were that kind.. but whatever.. after we got in we were pretty much avoiding them the whole time. Ah, and of course, there was the very very drunk lady (ok, I think she said she was 23 or something when she was talking to some guys, at which time she ordered a kamikaze from the bar.. o.o... because I think a guy was buying her a drink.. I think I notice too much around me.. x.x") And we kept running into each other around that little room, even just that one little space in that little room. DX All the other music was ok.. but that's probably because I'm not really "that" into ska music? (Is that even the right term? @.@")
*sigh* So I ended up getting home around 2am.. x.x and last night I came back to school.. =.=
Oh! I've decided that I'm going to teach how to fold the turtle as my performance art XDD; ~ Way to get out of doing something even remotely in the drama department ~ And for the potluck, I was just thinking about bringing some chips... I can't cook.. x.x" What else, what else?
Oh! Right when I came back to my dorm (in the elevator) from the library all the way across the campus... I realized I forgot my paint brush in the library.. ToT" Curses... and the library was about to close... so I have to check tomorrow to see if they might have seen it... If I can't get it back.. I'm probably not going to be able to paint for thursday's night class.. and we only have like 3 weeks left too. TwT" And speaking of the library, I'm in big trouble for my Japanese history class.... I'm supposed to turn in my topic thursday and I still don't know what I'm going to write about....... I can't seem to find enough sources, otherwise the source is all in Japanese TToTT and like.. the old Japanese that you have to be really smart to be able to read..... *rant rant*

*sigh* I'm going to go do something else now... Oh right, homework. x.x""

x.x

2007-03-12T20:09:19Z

@.@ Just spent some of last night and this morning watching some 10+ eps of Akazukin Chacha.. (Still watching XD) and only recently realized it had 70+ eps. x.x But that's okay, downloading 26 eps is enough to bring back memories and let me watch some eps I'd missed. XD;

I forgot to look at when the last time I wrote was.. @.@" *sigh* Oh well..

My art craze just keeps going x.x I wonder why I wasn't this into art contests before?? oO And now that I've started reading some comic strips online, I feel like starting one of my own~ (haha) But. I wouldn't know what to make it about, or who to make it about.. but I guess I should finish all my other stuff I've already started first, huh? Which reminds me, I've started remaking the "element art" I had done.. I think senior year? @.@ Yeah.... my art's changed a lot since then. Photoshop was definitely a big help with that~ =D XD

...

-dread- I don't want to go to my freshman seminar next Wednesday.. TwT" Homework - "performance art" and I have no idea what to do...... only easy idea that ever came up was a monologue.. but I want to do anything else that I'd feel more comfortable doing.. =.=" I went with my mom yesterday to a hand bell lesson that my former piano teacher/mom's friend was teaching, at a church in Walnut. @.@ It was interesting to listen to 9 9 maybe better if I sat a little bit farther away from the bells. >.<" So, and idea came up to do something like the hand bells for "performance art"? But what..... x.x" *sigh* I think I might as well just do the monologue... =.="

*sigh* Time for lunch...

Sometimes I wonder if I..

2007-02-07T05:32:36Z

.. should just get a DA.. @.@ This shall be an attempted, very stress-free wall of text~ =D Maybe one other reason I haven't been updating much is cuz for one of my classes, Self-expression and the Arts, we have to keep a journal.. and it's not like a journal that we just ramble about our lives in.. ( like here~? XD; ) we have to take some kind of experience from the week, and be creative with it.. @.@ Not surprisingly, most of mine have been some form of graphic art. In fact, there's only one I actually wrote something about... it was about having to wake up at 8am for a discussion.. it was kinda weird.. but I ended up "decorating" the page with doodles and other stuff anyway~ XD;
Hmm... I would say my art shop has been a success so far~ =D I've almost reached the 100k mark just in shop funds~ ^o^ And I could already just install Photoshop CS2... but I don't feel like changing out of Elements.. just when I get used to it.. o.o" And when I saw Alex using Photoshop in Seattle, I couldn't figure out where some of the stuff was.. TwT" Of course, installing CS2 would definitely be worth it.. but I'm just too lazy.. >.>" Hmm... other stuff, other stuff.... I've recently been in a big art contest craze.. @.@" I don't really know why.. For the past couple weeks, I've just been looking through art contest threads, working on art contest entries, thinking about future contest entries and now, I've got the Gaia Art Contest Listing Thread sitting in my subscribed list. o.o And it's a good thing most of these contests I'm interested in don't end until some months later~ XD Hmm... some of you people out there have probably seen all of these~ But I'm going to post them anyway~ XD

Kitty Love
- The first completed contest entry to kick off the obsession~ =D Nope, not really much to say about this. XD; except that the entries of the contest are currently being judged~ >w< ( characters belong to LizzyMoo (I think? @.@" Otherwise, Kojiro Wateregurasu.) )
Connections
- The second completed contest entry to continue the obsession~ XD Two cousins, an elf and a fairy? But they can't meet each other because both sides are at war against the other.. @.@ ( characters belong to Allychan90 )
Raven
- NOT a contest entry~ but it was homework for the Self-expression class, I'm not really sure how to describe it as the subject of the assignment, but anyway, my goal was surreal art, and so far, I've gotten good feedback about it~ >w< I must say though... it looks a lot better on the computer than it does printed... I had to lighten the original picture a lot before you could even see anything that clearly, but now there's not much contrast... *sigh* Oh well, I'm happy about it~ ^w^

That's all for now.. @.@ I did an all-nighter last night and my right eye has been hurting the whole day.... But I have to study for a midterm now. ToT
(Good thing the exam is on Thursday.. though it's at 8 in the morning.. TOT)

An artistically productive day~~

2006-11-14T07:31:44Z

@.@ I've been neglecting this place again already.....

Let's see....
Lots of stuff's happened already and I don't remember if I wrote about it or not.. So I'll just start wherever without any point I'm aiming to get at...
Like a lot of other people out there.. I'm starting to get sick of school.. =.=" Oh, I just started listening to hyde's 666 album that I downloaded a long time ago, then forgot, and found it again while trying to figure out how many hours of music I have on my laptop.. @.@" (Hours still unknown, I gave up~ XD;) Soo... after I dropped the studio (design) class.. at first, it seemed like I still wasn't getting much of free time, still doing papers and assignments at the last minute, but my reason for explaining that is with the thought (and act) of dropping the class, which then freed up 11 hours of classtime each week, and then all the other hours I'd spend working on the projects.. I guess this made me feel like I had an extremely large amount of time freed up (while still true) but then I put it as "I was more prone to procrastination than before".. I just wasted away those free hours and didn't take advantage of it.... Why do my history and writing classes make me hate them so much... TwT" And for history, I have a 10-12 page essay due next Tuesday! TToTT about family history and wars....... Both my grandfathers who lived during the second world war died.. so I couldn't interview them... last weekend, I interviewed my grandmother from my mom's side, it was actually pretty interesting.. @.@ And I don't know if finding out that the Taiwanese actually liked it when Japan ruled was shocking or not.. My grandma said that when Japan ruled, everything was so peaceful and basically good when referring to crime. Well... the problem for my project was I found out during the second world war.. newspapers that ran through Taiwan were Japanese newspapers.. but they were also censored/controlled by the government.. I'm not sure if that would help my report much.... >.>" I also wasn't sure whether to be shocked when she said that they practically had daily bombings.. obviously a scary thought, but when you think about wars, it's violence everywhere. The thing that was strange though was my grandma wasn't completely sad throughout the interview.. like when she was talking about the bombings, it seemed more like a "just telling" kind of tone, then when asking how she felt during the bombings, towards the end of talking about it, she'd make a comment and laugh about how crazy it was.. I guess I just expected her to be really sad when she thought about experiences during the war.. maybe it's just that no one in the family died during the war? And even for that I don't know whether it's true or not.. I didn't ask. Well.. now straying away from militarism and war, I opened an art shop on Gaia~ =O I didn't realize how fast you could earn gold through art shops (even though that was the point of opening it in the first place >.<) In a week, I've earned 27,500! and I'll be expecting at least 13100 by tomorrow~ ^o^ Obviously, I'm not going to be earning gold that fast. It was only because I had the auction (which seem very crucial for art shops~ XD). I didn't think people would bid up to 25k though~ >o< Big thanks to the online friends and fans of my art~ >w<o
Recently finished auction art piece: http://s83.photobucket.com/albums/j307/lunarmysteries/Kiri-1.jpg
*sigh* Just three more weeks and then finals and then winter break~! ^o^

This shall be all for today then~ ^w^

The mysteries of the world..

2006-10-15T02:29:51Z

Have you ever had those moments where everything seems to be telling you to do something? After making a decision (to myself) to finally drop the architecture major, but not yet deciding to either completely distance myself from architecture in the future or minoring in architecture, I keep getting hints everywhere.. and in such random unexpected places too...
Out of boredom.. I decided to listen to NPR's live news stream.. thing.. and the first thing that came up was a speaker on architecture =.= I ended up listening to the rest of it until they moved on to another speaker...
Just yesterday, I was waiting in the lobby of the dorm tower, for my mom, because I stupidly left my cellphone at home.. and I had to let her in (the doors are locked with the key being our student ID cards..) So I sat on one of the sofas in the lobby, next to it was a table with a stack of newspapers (The Onion? I think... >.>") and I was flipping through to a music section... one of the bands featured had a song called Architecture in (name of a place I can't remember..) =.=... Other random references to architecture just kept popping up everywhere.......... Last night, I ate at House of Louis (sp?) with my mom.. and my mom's fortune cookie said something like "Assert yourself, your ideas are worthwhile." Or something like that.. I'm making up the last part >.>"" Not a direct reference to architecture.. but it did relate to the kind of situation I'm currently in..... =.=" I can't remember specifics but basically... Architecture is Everywhere Now!! ToT" Oy... Someone's trying to tell me to stay in the major.. but I'm not listening... well, I'm listening, but I'm not going to do what they're trying to tell me to do-- 9 9
Well.. that's it for this little entry.. 6 6 Now back to work.. =.="

[~7:30pm] Geez... another one @.@"
[[>.> Since tinypic has just deleted the picture for some reason, it was a screencap on msn, something about top 10 and architecture or something.. I'll have to see if it's still on my other laptop.. @.@]]

ugh....

2006-10-09T07:51:01Z

-sigh-.. still feeling crappy.. It's just hit me that I have twenty diagrams due tomorrow on a building on campus that I rarely go to and am kind of sick to see now and another one that's in Tokyo.. =.=" and I haven't done any of the diagrams... plus the teacher is recommending that we buy another book because it's really helpful, but why didn't they just list it as one of the required text since they listed another one by the same author.. I'm supposed to be drafting right now >.> But at least I got the homework for tomorrow's first class done.. finally, just have to go to the library to see if they have any books.. the last time I researched, the online catalog said the book I needed was missing TT" So most of my info came from the internet...
Oh yeah-- drafting 9 9" soo... this entry will just be whatever random thoughts I think of while working -> meaning not much of these thoughts are going to continue from thoughts written right before 9 9"
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Oy... I don't even know how long that was.. I finally finished one(two) out of four drafts.. I could say I've finished one.. simply because I don't want to revise one I did before 9 9" But he assigned a simple house so I don't think it matters that much >.> -sigh- .. moving on to no.2(3)..
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Haa... =.=" whatever.. I'm finished with the four drafts.. but I don't think I'm gonna do those diagrams.. I don't know why they ask for sooo much.. they say to start out with a bunch of things so that later we can limit it down to a small group, or even just one... It'd be a lot easier if he assigned some house that we can actually visit.. or one that actually had enough pictures to use.. I hate having to deal with foreign languages in research because most of it isn't translated... and my laptop can't even read any other languages.. =.=.. To make it worse.. the library for architecture doesn't seem to have much in terms of what we get assigned.. well.. this shall be the end for today.. gotta review for a quiz and get started on my writing homework... crap.. I've got a bunch of 105 homework too.. I hope he doesn't check our sketchbooks....

o.o"

2006-10-06T03:41:51Z

Soo... proof today that the cooks down in the cafe next to the dorm really like me @.@ Or at least one of them especially does.. Keep in mind that these are old asian guys that speak cantonese all the time @.@ Yea.. so tonight, when I got my dinner (fried rice with pork) the guy decided to "hide" the vegetables under the pork and fried rice (Fried rice w/vegetables and meat cost some cents more than just fried rice with meat >.>)
At first when he was changing the order on the receipt thingy and I asked him about it, I heard it as I put too much vegetables? or something like that.. @.@ Then I realized when I was in line, looking at the receipt that he changed the order so it only said fried rice w/pork o.o" I think it was only like a dollar difference or less.. but to think he went to the trouble of hiding the vegetables..... I don't even know why they're so nice to me.. I didn't do anything special @.@ Unless they usually don't see someone go there pretty much ALL the time and order like the same stuff most of the time >.> (One time, one of the cooks was taking orders behind the counter (it was later in the night so no one else was there (students) and he pretty much knew what I was going to order 9 9"") Hmm.. what was I saying? @.@ Oh! Yea.. I didn't do anything special but say a little "thanks" everytime they finished cooking my meal.. but other people do that don't they? @.@" *sigh* ... So now the "hell week" of architecture seems to have ended, even though I still never finished every single thing I was supposed to for this project..... but oh well, for the first time I used charcoal, I had to do 3 perspective drawings using shade and shadow 9 9 I could've just used pencil, but I figured charcoal would be faster, but dang! smudges are indeed the bane of any architect's existence TwT"" Working with charcoal is kinda messy too o,o'' but the pictures still come out great~ ^w^ Though after looking at other people's perspectives, I wish I did more with mine ^ ^" I feel like mine are really simple but last night I had to cap myself to a max of two hours per perspective or else I wouldn't have finished much of the project =.=" And other people spent like three to five hours each perspective o.o" They looked really cool though~ 6w6 Urgh.. and I'm already doing two allnighters in one week =.=" I did get half a day of sleep between the two days.. but still.. I couldn't help myself from dozing off all the time all of today... and today was full of a bunch of boring lectures =.="" Haa.... I wanna go to sleep now.. but I have a WHOLE bunch of reading homework to do TwT" I don't even know why we have to read this much for an essay on whether females should be able to be drafted as well as males.. @.@ ...... Well, here's another short wall of text then 9 9''o
Tomorrow: writing conference at 1, lasts twenty minutes, but I have to be in pasadena at 2 for a field trip.. I don't have a ride, haven't figured out how to deal with the schedule.. and I'm just really tired.. =.="

blehh~... =.=

2006-09-24T06:10:51Z

*sigh*.. I'm supposed to be writing a report right now.. but looks like this place is already dying =.="
I can't believe it's almost going to be the sixth week of school.. I don't know if it feels longer or shorter, but it
just doesn't feel like six weeks... and for six weeks, I've already had to do so much in these classes. For each individual day
in each individual class, it already feels like so much.. It's hard enough when I stupidly sign up for a class that I honestly don't have
much interest in.. but I guess, now I know.. At least with this semester, I can get my history GE overwith, I was never much of a history

person anyway.. =.=" Well, today I found out about my sister's shocking way of seeing guys, when referring to relationships, I think it best not to write.. 9 9" But yea.. so yesterday she broke up with someone.. But I don't really feel like writing about her dating life 9 9" Then today my mom was bringing it up so much, I guess to hear what I had to say about it, Throughout the time that my mom and I were talking about the general topic, we ventured off into talking about men in general, to talking about my grandfather how before he was very.. possessive about the family, I guess, *not very good with wording* how he thought of my grandmother, my dad, my aunts as property.. how the chinese/taiwanese had very.. dominant male ideas about how society is run.. but that it's not so much like that anymore.. For dinner, we went to the 99 Ranch Market.. area... I was just going there to buy snacks [pineapple cakes~! =D] and we went to Garden Cafe, where there were so many people... and I think it was around 7:30 to 8... and it seemed like today, there were a lot more children at the restaurant than I've ever seen while eating there @.@ We (mom and I) then got into talking about...... (how should I spell it ^ ^") um.. jong chyou jie? and mooncakes, but my mom couldn't remember what the exact date was.. At the end, we figured it might be today since everywhere it seemed so busy @.@ Well, I can't talk much more about my days since I really should be doing my homework now >.>" So this small wall of text shall now be dubbed "a mound of text" =D

* Hopefully, I'll be able to write about my days more often~ ^w^ *

ramblings help form a rough draft? @.@

2006-09-03T21:01:15Z

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*sigh* So I have to write up a rough plan for an essay in my writing class.. but I can't think of anything to write... so supposedly, just writing anything in general would help me think.. or I guess be inspired to write what I'm supposed to write @.@.. Well... whatever... I can't really analyze the ad that well in the first place, so how could I possibly come up with paragraphs for an essay about the ad... The topic: What is the message of the military recruitment advertisement and how does it speak that message to its target audience? @.@ If you're still reading this, you can stop right now~ I'm just using this as a way of.. brainstorming I guess 9 9a Though I doubt it'll get me any farther than where I am now.. which isn't really that far either >.>" So yea.. probably another wall of text, but this will be a lot more boring than the other ones @.@" -back in focus- So, the ad is trying to convey a message of strength, but it's not really good at it.. the only way you can tell is that it states with text that it'll give you strength.. other than that, the picture just shows a guy holding a gun.. and supposedly, as I've been told by someone who knows their military guns (>.>") that usually a person doesn't hold that gun up to your eye.. and it's a pretty big gun, but he looks like he's holding it up effortlessly... mm.. why you're not supposed to hold it up to your eye? I don't know @.@ maybe knowing this might help a little @.@" Hmmm... so.. ways that the ad actually does show a message of strength- "Being a part of that team has given him more strength than he's ever known." Soo... training/enlisting in the army can help a person get stronger.. Mmm.. "Find your strength at goarmy.com"- I don't think it needs an explanation.. "STRENGTH FOR NOW. STRENGTH FOR LATER." Mm.. Become strong through training, use that strength during wartime service, then use that strength in later years for who-knows-what.. @.@ Could be... strength to voice out opinions.. strength to stand up and do something for your beliefs.. strength to.. take action to help in times of need or danger.. strength to endure tough situations.. strength to live through scary situations.... Ok.. um.. the timeline- "NEVER STOOD UP FOR ANYTHING" -- "BECAME A SOLDIER" becoming a soldier means you have something to stand up for and you actually stand up for it.. family, friends, nation, beliefs, the list goes on... but that's all I can come up with right now @.@" mm... Jan '04 -- Mar '05, in about a year, developed sense of strength to stand up for something..
Umm... new thing, I'll try the "Sheridan Baker Thesis Machine" @.@

topic: joining the army
issue: Joining the Army will make one stronger.
position-rationale: Joining the Army will make one stronger because the hardships of Army life and training with a team awakens one's inner strength that is needed to fight for something meaningful.
polish-qualify: Although some people may be overwhelmed by the rigorous Army life, the hardships of training awaken in most people their inner strength that is needed to fight for something meaningful.

This.. needs to be worked on... and I didn't answer the second question.. =.=" but I don't know who the target audience is TwT" I'm guessing probably men... mainly teenagers, but I guess between teenagers and early twenties? @.@" This I'm getting from Bob Garfield's "Army finds its feet by hinting..." 7th par. More men than women I guess because I don't see any women in the picture at all... In the text, it says "His team only consists of five men." not "men and women" or even just "people".. But it could just be the small number.. that chances of a woman being on the team wasn't so good. And I don't know if the term "men" being used was generally just people, or specifically only men.. Ok, so now this is my guess for the target audience, since I don't know what magazine this ad was mostly published in... I got it from the website and I don't know who actually goes to the website before they see the ad >.> Usually you'd see the ad first, that says what the website is, and then go on from there... ... My train of thought ended.. I don't remember what I was thinking about @.@"
Well, I guess back to the beginning, where I don't care about the topic, or thinking of ideas relating to the topic, just writing down anything at all... So, for some things I've found before-- In the main picture, it looks like he's almost smiling, so it could probably mean something like he's proud to serve in the army? happy to serve in the army? some kind of good feeling about serving in the army @.@".. thenin other pictures, it doesn't look like he's in the action, but more like he's posing for the camera.... the ad doesn't show much of the action commonly believed to be involved in war.. In the small top left picture, the only one with someone else in it too, he looks more like he's scared to act.. he's in the back of/away from the action supposedly taking place. His facial expression doesn't look like he feels ready to be in the war action. Only weapon seen is the big gun he's holding.. maybe it's symbolic and literally that most of the power used in wartime service depends on inner strength that was built up during training. If that gun was the only weapon, one would need a lot of inner strength to go overcome fear and fight with that inner strength.

[9/3]
Soo.. The thesis I came up with ^ there, turned out to be pretty much like half of my thesis now, because after the conference, I had a little more of an idea of what I'm writing @.@ But now I have to write a rough draft.. and I don't have eleven things to talk about yet TwT"... *sigh* These will be my words for today...

Birthday in 3 days~ ^o^ Not like I can really celebrate though... my birthday's on my homework day.. =.="
But my sister gave me a present yesterday >.< She did that thing with the box in a box in a box 9 9" only the last thing was a bag with the opening taped up.. with masking tape... She taped up everything with masking tape and made me open the present without scissors.. only my fingers @.@" I eventually got to the present~ >.<o

Also, my aunt gave me a hong-bao with $200 @.@ and my mom just wants me to pick whatever for my bday present, I told her I don't know but it'll most likely just be books~ >.<"
Ok, noowww, that's all for today~ ^w^o

Mixed emotions in a very eventful day~ @.@

2006-08-30T03:59:37Z

*sigh* So today is the tuesday after the first week of classes, and by now, I don't have to keep looking at the campus map to know where I'm going anymore~ ^o^ And I've sort of made friends, more like.. acquaintances (sp? oO) But still, at least I've been able to talk with people. @.@ Let's see, just today, I randomly bumped into (not literally >.>) a person from my floor. Her name is Ashlynn.. um.. something like that.. I can't remember how to spell it but that's how to pronounce it.. ^ ^" I think she said it was of Scottish origin? @.@ But she was nice to talk to~ We walked together back to the dorm since we were both heading there anyway. We ended up talking about classes (which ones we just came from, where we're going next, which ones are the hard ones....) She's still undeclared and she's gonna wait til next year to see if anything math-y or science-y will motivate her to pick a major @.@ I learned that she's a christian, I forget if she was Catholic or not @.@" but she just went to a bible study group.. yesterday? I think. And I learned that she's getting along well with her roommate, Lynn (not sure about spelling @.@"), who also happens to be archi major, but I pretty much never see her in classes.. ^ ^" Hmm.. so anyways, there's also two other guys in archi with me, in my same discussion group, 102 group, and 105 group.. aand they're in my same writing class, which also makes them in my same history class @.@ So basically, we have all our classes together. @.@ (I don't know if they took another 2 unit class or not >.>") Oh, but they're not in my history discussion group though 9 9 And one of them, Ryan, lives in the same dorm building, just one floor below mine.. @.@ What else, what else.. Oh! Today was really like drawing class with Mr. B again @.@ We spent the day on perspectives... but I guess doing perspectives here was more interesting than doing it in the art room at SL ^ ^" We had to make boxes.. then we had to draw those boxes in one-point and two-point.. then we had to bring six objects (3 manmade, 3 natural) and draw them with those boxes... Torture. TwT We had to be able to draw some within a minute, and others, well, the last one, we had 30 minutes @.@
6 6.. I think I'm noticing that I make this @.@ face a lot... o.o maybe I should just type a row of them...

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XDD That was fun, and if you know me, or any other person for that matter, I cheated and used copy+paste XP But of course, you still have to spend some precious energy on pressing the ctrl+v 9 9" Moving on.. I find that I still procrastinate as much right now as back in the high school days.. =.=" Look~ right now I'm procrastinating and not doing my homework, even though I have pretty much the whole day tomorrow to myself.. but I justify it with the simple fact that I'm eating right now, and while I'm chewing, I can type.. so.. why not? >.<" Also, I find that I rarely know what the date is anymore.. I just know what day of the week it is @.@" And with different classes being on different days of the week with so many different due dates to deal with.. I'm constantly flipping back in my organizer to remind myself of when certain assignments are due and I have trouble figuring out what homework to work on and what to save til later.... *sigh* I guess eventually, I'll get the hang of it.. but it'll most likely be around the last couple weeks of the semester and then spring semester, I'll have a list of a bunch of new classes.. and I'll have to start the process all over again =.=" I'm really hoping that it won't be that bad... I'm really glad I have the free wednesday though @.@ I can't live without it.. it gives me tuesday from 6:30-ish at night to the morning of thursday to do all my homework o.o I feel like this will turn out to be a relatively short wall of text, but I still have more than half a bowl of fried rice.. so I've got nothing else to do but ramble >.<" Hmm.. I've noticed before but never actually wrote it and now I'm reminded that my roommate types really fast o.o And she types a lot on her laptop, I think for notes in her bio classes.. It's really amazing how much she types too, maybe because she types so fast that she does her notes on the laptop rather than writing it down @.@ And she tells me that for bio classes she just has to read a lot and take lots of notes.. @.@ *sigh* I don't think I've really ever gotten into bio.. I guess I liked some parts of it because it was interesting, but I probably didn't like the subject because it just had soooo much information... I rather work with math where you learn things, but you still use those things to learn about and do other things @.@ Oh yeah, we met our TA for arch105 today, Matt, a 3rd year who was apparently selected by the teachers as the top person out of his class (about 130 people) o.o and we met our 105 teacher's daughter, who's just going into the first grade but her art skills are crazy good! o.o Early our class had to do a perspective drawing, and I guess she (the daughter) was looking through ours, picked one, and drew a pretty much exact copy of it o.o I was so surprised, but of course, her mom is our teacher 6 6 Still, I was even more surprised when the teacher mentioned she was going into first grade.. but she (daughter) can't wait to join our first year drawing class >.< really cute~ ^w^
TwT" I just remembered something.... for the 105 class today, we did some on-site sketching, so we walked to Mudd Hall, the building next to the classroom/studios.. there was a courtyard, a walkway, some grass next to the walkway... so we decided to sit in the grass to sketch.. I didn't mind it at all in the beginning.. but later, I was just sketching our "assignment" with my knees drawn up a little with my sketchbook against my knees.. when I noticed something moving around my legs.. >.> I look up, and I see a spider crawling around on me!!! ToT It took me a while until I finally flinged it away with my hand... but it wasn't even a tiny black spider, it was like... medium sized, and clear-ish with brown/black specks TwT""" And then some minutes later I saw it on my legs again TTOTT so I flinged it with my pencil... Geh.. that incident made me paranoid for like the next half hour or so.. and I had to sit in the same spot otherwise the view would change, and since we were doing perspectives, it made it worse TwT" *sigh* So that was the excitement of the day.. =.=" Today, I decided to try eating some "new" food for dinner. I walked down to the "dining hall" -slash- cafe next to our dorm building, with my roommate, we decided to just get food together, and we're the same type in wanting to bring food up to the dorm to eat so that was good >.<" I think a place in the cafe was called Wok Crazy? So I got some fried rice with chicken and sesame sauce. It's good~ ^w^ Switching topics again-- god I was soo tired today.. I don't even know why.. Ok, yea, I only slept for about 5 hours last night.. but I've done that on other nights too and I wasn't this tired... or maybe all the tiredness is adding up.. Then I thought, maybe it was cuz I just finished my lunch, and supposedly, after finishing (big) lunches you feel tired later (or maybe stuffed) but all I had was salad @.@" So.. during my 3-hour break between morning classes and the 4-hour studio class I had next.. I had on-and-off naps... just sitting at my desk.... I kept drifting off and I couldn't stay awake for more than probably 10 minutes... I drift a lot towards the end of history classes too.. I can't help it =.=" I can hear the professor and what he's talking about.. it's not really boring, and he doesn't really have a droning voice.. or maybe he does >.>" I don't know.. so while I'm trying to write down an idea.. I just start drifting off for like a couple seconds, come back to consciousness for about 5 seconds and begin to drift off again... =.=" Yup, I'm still eating, so there will be more ramblings still~ I wish I could write this much for my essay in writing class though.... which is due in two day >.>" well, a rough draft.. and we have individual conferences with the teacher to talk about our rough draft.. I just don't get it.. how can you write so much about a US Army recruitment ad that just says strength strength strength and pretty much just talks about one guy... though it was still during the time of the "army of one" ads.. which did NOT go so well with the recruiting apparently.. The ad didn't look so complex either.. so I couldn't grab very many ideas from it to help the slightest bit in my writing.. I think there's a very thick wall.. between me and essays in general.. @.@" *sigh sigh* .. Well, I only have a little more rice to eat, so I'm ending it here... And now I call this, a wall of text. XD
Stay tuned for the next building of.. A Wall of Text.. !! Jaa~ >.<o

T.G.I.F.~! ^o^

2006-08-26T02:28:30Z

Friday really is like the best day of the week~ ^w^
I think fridays are gonna be my favorite days for the whole semester~ TwTo
Soo.. first up, I don't start my classes until 11am ^o^ Next, the discussion for history class (first class of the day) seems like a really comfortable class, compared to the freaking huge long boring lectures for history class- for discussion, we all sit in a circle and it's pretty much what it's called-- a discussion, but even though I will have to voice my opinions eventually and figure out where exactly I stand in my political views (cuz I don't know what they are @.@"), I still like the feeling of the room, and there's a 25 person limit for discussion.. so, it's more like.. what I'm used to?.. @.@ And the TA who leads the discussion is a nice person too. ^ ^ She's from Japan~ ^w^ Next, I have a two-hour "lunch" break until my second (and last) class of the day. I pretty much did nothing today.. though I could have done homework in the other arch. class.. except I forgot my sketchbook back at the dorm.. =.=" Anyways, that'll just serve as homework time since I don't want to be doing too much walking back and forth.. Then the actual arch. class, which is supposedly the discussion day of the week, not lab, but it pretty much felt like lab, only we walk to other places in the school. So today was like having drawing class with Mr. B all over again~ ^w^
First, the teacher had us draw a page of straight lines.. @.@ then we had to do another page of lines except swirly and curvy and wavy lines of different weights.. @.@ and then.. we had to draw our hand =.=" .. My thumb had a bandaid on it.. and the fingers I drew were really scary.. TwT" And theennnn~ we had to draw a shoe 9 9 (I swear, I think it's like the third class that I've had to draw my shoe for.. and it's the same exact shoe!.. =.=") Then~ we had to do blind contour drawings >.<" of the person sitting across from us! XDD Absolutely horrifying! I've always hated blind contours.. >.<"" And finally~~ after all that, we drew the other person "regularly" except only lines. Like, this time we could look down at the sketchbook and be able to pick up our pencil from the paper~! >.< After each drawing we did, the teacher had us lay out all our sketchbooks on the floor, and we would "vote" based on her question.. like for the last one, which one brought out the most character of the subject. I think I got just a little too into the drawing, so for the last picture I think I got like 7 out of 15 votes. @.@ I shall post a pic of it sometime later~ ^ ^" Though I think I'll just post the link or something, and post the picture in my art gallery on Gaia.. @.@ *sigh* So after that class, while I was walking back to the dorm, I kept asking myself in my head... why I didn't just major in Art @.@ Doing the drawings really made me miss art.. because, well, in all the arch. homework, we've been doing diagrams, not pictures.. I guess I just really miss that.. TwT" But I'm still gonna stick with architecture longer~ I'm not saying I'm thinking now about changing my major XP Oh! But apparently, I think some people have already dropped out of the major, and we hadn't even finished a week yet @.@" Well, I know of one person, she was part of our section (our.. subgroup? because the class is so big) If I'm remembering the same person, when she introduced herself, I think she said that she picked architecture because it was at the top of the list (alphabetically) for choosing majors >.>" .. To me, just hearing "architecture" makes me think of how much work we're going to have to put into this major.. so I don't know why someone would just pick it.. and we had to submit portfolios to get in too.. I wonder why she quit.. @.@" Also, we only just bought all those supplies like a couple days ago.. that's like hundreds of dollars wasted.. o.o" Which reminds me, I finally know what we're going to be using photoshop for 6 6 but since we don't really do much with it.. just editing and stuff.. I went and bought photoshop elements today.. 9 9 Still have to install it.. >.>" Well.. I think I'll end the wall of text here ^ ^" Not much else really happened today~ and it's only 7:30 @.@" So.. guess 'til some other day before you see another wall of text built on this journal~ XD

Edit: I've been copy+pasting entries from word pad and I've come to notice, wow, making the font xx-small really shortens the wall~ XDDD

Second Edit: link to line drawing of the person- http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j307/lunarmysteries/linedrawing.jpg @.@o

Another wall of text~ with breaks! XD

2006-08-25T04:29:09Z

o.o The first week of school is almost over, and the experience has been simply overwhelming. I can't believe how much reading we have to do.. TwT Speaking of which I should be doing right now >.>" but I can do on-and-off typing~ >.<" So.. today was interesting.. @.@" I went to sleep last night around 2-something because I was still finishing up homework.. while I was reading a book for history, unintelligently on my bed, I dozed off @.@" I think for about five minutes before I woke up again and decided I just couldn't take it anymore. =.=" So I went to bed.. then woke up this morning at 7 and tried to finish the reading I was supposed to do.. but I figured it wouldn't matter much anyway since the history class was so big.. the professor does something like a Q&A thing and the students just raise their hands whenever they think they know the answer.. The rest is of him talking about war and us the students taking notes occasionally.. >.> Before that, I had writing class, which I seem to like, despite the fact that we've been writing in-class essays.. @.@ and I'd hardly call the little paragraph of a thing I turned in today an essay.. But there's only so much that I can say about a military recruitment ad in only 20 minutes.. Other than the essays, the teacher seems really nice, well, maybe nice as in interesting; at least I won't be falling asleep in her class~ >.< Occasionally, more often than not, she will say things that you just have to laugh inside about.. >.<" It must be something about english teachers that make them all fun~ XD First, Mr. DoVale, then Mrs. Gonzales, and now, Lucia Hodgson~ ^w^
*sigh* Let me just say, that college libraries can be confusing at times.. @.@ and then frustrating when they don't have what you're looking for =.=" Yesterday, I was looking for an architecture journal; the person at the desk wanted to know what it was called and what number.. I told him.. he went to the back and looked and came back to the desk looking like I told him a journal that didn't exist.. @.@" But why wouldn't they have it if they had numbers around it?! TwT" And I really really really need it too..... otherwise, I have to buy it or something.. but even shipping might take some time and the project would have been done already.. plus, I don't think I should have to spend money to get an article as a resource.... @.@" As if we don't spend enough money already to do the projects... Err.. enough rambling on that part..
Oh right, I'm supposed to be doing my reading.. >.>"
Geh.. I don't think I've ever noticed how loud this stinking printer is.. =.="
*some time later* Finally! It's done printing.. @.@
And I just found out.... the microsoft office I had on this laptop is a trial version.. =.="
I'll have to go home and actually install it so I can use it, for say, a certain assignment(s) that I have due on monday and it needs to be typed.. =.="
And now, back to the old-fashioned reading assignments.. TwT"
*short while later*
I've come to ramble some more.. It seems that.. having a roommate a lot like me, shy, quiet, for the most part reserved, has a bit of a disadvantage- it looks like we're constantly avoiding the other people in our suite and then in our floor @.@" but I'm just stuck in my room because I'm being bombarded by piles of homework to do.. I don't think I ever planned on having that many friends in the same dorm either.. On the very simple survey we were given to match up with potential roommates, a question was asked whether we'd be "using" the dorms for social reasons/ studying/ or both.. @.@ I forget but I think I put studying.. cuz well.. architecture really is demanding.. =.= I guess it's true for my roommate, Katherine, too, because she's doing bio/chem major~ @.@" I guess I heard there's a lot in that class too.. but lucky for her, a lab was cancelled today so she only had one class~ XP Still.. these college classes really try to fill up those hours with the most information they could possibly shove in our fragile brains @.@ except for maybe the history class.. That class will always seem to drag on forever and it's only an hour and twenty minutes long.. We haven't really gone over much, as far as information goes... I guess it's more of an opinion class, but even then, the professor isn't very specific as to where he stands in the idea of war.. Pretty much everything he says is something general.. It's like we're going over the basics of war.. And whenever he asks us questions, he says our answers are too specific.. @.@"
Hee~ My, my, isn't this wall of text looking wonderful~ XDDD
Anyways, back to reading again, so I might as well end it here >.<
You can expect a lot more walls of text to come~ >.

first day of school! first day of school!

2006-08-22T06:05:14Z

Geh... soooo exhausted.. =.=" Why? I ask... WHY?!? And it's a monday too~! ToT"

*sigh* I guess this is what the college academic life is like.. =.=" I think it's evil to put just architecture in one day.. At least I got to move around a little bit during the four-hour second class @.@" but I was living on just a small sandwich that I ate for breakfast around 8 @.@ Something was wrong with my dorm cardkey, so I had to get it fixed within 35 minutes... there was a long line.. time kept sliding on by... 15 minutes left to the next class, I still needed to buy lunch, and eat it, and it was about a five-minute (maybe a little more) walk to the class.... some more people come in the line and my name still hadn't been called to let me know my card was ready... 8 minutes left.. starting to panic.. 5 minutes and I think my name was called but I couldn't find the lady who called my name @.@" ... 4 minutes!.. found the lady, and she gave me my card back.. check the watch: 3 minutes left!!.. without bothering to buy even a small bag of chips, I rush off taking the same path I took this morning to where the studio class is! .. more speed-walking/power-walking/whatever it's called.. and finally, I reach the building! ^o^ But where's the classroom?! o.o" So I walk into the building, looking like a complete idiot who couldn't find "WAT 1", but wait! There's people gathered around a staircase~ o.o There was something about the bottom of the stairs relating to the classroom I'm supposed to be going to~ And so I ask, "Sorry, is this WAT 1?" @.@" Then comes the confusion of "WAT 1-what?" TwT "I don't know.. it's just called 'WAT One'.." ToT So, I go ask the lady in the office, and she tells me there's a staircase outside the entrance to the hall, a door opens to the staircase.. =.=" So I rush out to that dang door and open it to see the Associate Dean coming out~! o.o" "Sorry! ^ ^" " And I hurry down the "flights" of stairs to the basement and see more people gathering in front of the other staircase.. "Oh... .." And then I see some people I recognize~! ^o^ But the room's all crowded.. with no more open seats.. so I had to sit on the floor TwT" plus, not knowing that I'd be sitting on that floor, in the same spot, for another, let's say, 2? 3 hours... ToT" The lectures were interesting ("What is Architecture?") but we had to take all the notes fast.. and do quick sketches of some of the buildings that were shown.. o.o" And after that~ while still sitting, the librarian came and gave us a little talk about, *gasp* you guessed it, the library. o.o And theeennn, we got a little briefing on our first project.. TwT Also, we were later told, that we shouldn't expect much of a Thanksgiving vacation.. TwT" but our Final would be open-book~ (yes! >.<) Some time after that, we were split into sections (which then assigned us to a certain teacher, our studio class has about 134 people @.@") and we went down into the actual studio, where we met our desks.. I sit right where the sun shines through the window TwT" I'm not sure if it was a good thing or bad thing, cuz it was kind of cold in there @.@" Then.. we went around in a circle talking about where we were from, what drove us to choose architecture, and we learned that our teacher was from Israel, came to LA when he was 8 years old, graduated from USC in architecture, went to Harvard for graduate school, now has his own practice, before taught at Harvard I think, and now he's back to teach at USC ^ ^ (his second year of teaching, I believe) Yea.. I realize there's like.. no grammar in this entry, but who cares~! XD At least it's long~ @.@ So.. after that little group thing, we walked to the hall next to the building, which also has a clock tower, and we sketched.. @.@ That's what our homework-slash-part-of-our-project is, to sketch/diagram that building, with some form of composition wherever we cut it off.. And then we have to do somewhat of the same thing with another building assigned to us, mine is of some house in tokyo, japan 6 6 And I have to do research about the building.. TwT" So, after sketching, and class was pretty much over.. (the teacher left before class technically ended ^ ^") I went with my cousin and his friend (who also goes to USC) to some plaza, and ate japanese food for dinner ^ ^ Lots of sashimi/sushi/nigiri.. the one I ordered had wasabi in it (I saw it before I ate it) so I traded with my cousin who just got sashimi (that way, you know the wasabi is on the side XD) and apparently, the nigiri was really spicy! so it's a good thing I didn't eat it.. o.o Hah~ after that I was soo full, I didn't even the ice cream dessert~ >.<" (woah, I haven't spelled dessert in a long time, I hope it's right o.o") And that's pretty much how my day went~ ^w^o (=.=" Gee, I can't wait to start classes tomorrow at 8 in the morning.....)

Well... I guess that's it then... better get started on my homework.. =.="

First entry o.o

2006-08-20T08:02:18Z

Hmm.. this is interesting~ 9 9 Why LJ? I don't know really, I just felt like getting one ^ ^"
Now... what to write? @.@ I guess I'll write more once I make a profile pic. ^ ^"
I feel bad about getting this with no picture to go with it, but it's coming.. soon.. >.>

*sigh* Hectic day today, I realize that architecture is really going to make my college days busy.. @.@ I hope I'll still have some time to read books I bought but never read.. >.>" Right now, I started Magyk by Angie Sage. It seems pretty interesting so far 6 6 I'm very into the magical realm and wizardry and all that good stuff~ >.< I also want to try a series from a "new" author.. (new meaning of whose works I haven't read yet) The Legend of Drizzt series by R.A.Salvatore? 6 6 A friend recommended his works, I have yet to try them out~ ^ ^"

So.... people at school are getting really into FaceBook.. @.@ I don't really see much of it;
I guess it's because I write more than I post pictures of myself (if any) >.>
But I seem to be rambling a lot lately.. @.@ Maybe it's just that I've had so much time with nothing to do but think about things.. and when there's not really any big thing to think about, I just think of whatever randomly pops into my head.. if I'm sitting at a desk, or like right now on my bed, I'd take the effort into writing/typing all my ramblings out, and maybe reading them later when I'm still bored. =.=
Sometimes, it's interesting to read back on things I've thought of in the past, other times, it brings up bad memories.. but I guess it's good to do it anyway.

Oh look~ I didn't even expect to write this much for a first entry ^ ^" I thought it was going to be like a
"Well, this is new. o.o I guess I'll write more later~"
thing.. and now it's turned into this "big" post.. with separated sections.. o.o
Well, now that I really do realize that I'm rambling so much, this will be all for my first entry~ >.<o

'Til later then~ ^w^o