Learning Things Every Day :)

The Bi-co newspaper wants to use my pictures from the Rhythm and Motion dance show for their next issue. I'm very excited!

But I've learned a lesson through this too... Next time, I need to be more proactive. My friend was the one that uploaded my pictures, and thus they contacted her instead of me. If she hadn't told me about it, they probably would've credited her for the pictures. Which would've been bad cus... She's a dancer, not the photographer.

Next time, I'll post these pictures up myself! For Sure!

I think I'll put some of the pictures up on my flickr account.

Mmhm~

Just went to the ASA Culture Show... Very nice indeed~! Highlights were... The really good singer who sang Davichi's 8282... And... The male half of Magnetic North and Taiyo Na!

Wowww, exciting for sure~! Hahahaaa. I haven't had that much fun in a while, getting pounded down by work. Eh, that's college life, right? Wooh for BMC I guess...

Mmm... What else? Ah, I liked the music they played. Lots of G-Dragon and crap. Hahahaaa, KPOP FTW, yes? I wish I went to Haverford with the others, instead I'm stuck here typing on this blog that no one reads. XD

Story of my life. D8

I might be able to see Wongfu at UPenn~~~~!! We'll see, yes?

I PERSEVERED

AND I WON. AGAINST MEGAUPLOAD AND YOUTUBE.

UHM. HERE'S A YOUTUBE LINK BECAUSE I REALLY WANT TO CELEBRATE BUT THERE'S NO ONE TO CELEBRATE WITH. ...SO I'LL CELEBRATE WITH... MY INTERNET BLOG.

LOOKIT THIS.



THAT SOUNDS REALLY SAD.

... Should I be working on my essays now? Hummm...

Working...

I should be working on college things but... I'm working on other things instead...

And no matter how aggravating uploading these videos are being, I'm gonna persevere hahaaa... Hopefully...

Must work hard!

Less than a week left!

I'm heading back home soon, and I'm excited to say the least.

But also, today, I did some Capoeira. It's an Afro-Brazilian combination of martial arts, game, music, and dance, according to Wikipedia. VERY good work out. I am pleased with myself. :)

My abs kind of ache and I can't bend down to tie my shoes. That's a good sign imo. LOL. Things I've learned today through Capoeira: I can't do cartwheels, I have no upper body strength, and I'd totally get butt-whooped if I ever got in a fight with someone.

Woooo! I think if I ever do have time, I'll take up some taekwondo.

Yesterday, we went to a Japanese tea ceremony. Will post more information on that later.

... I can barely walk up and down the stairs to my dorm... MY MUSCLES ACHE.


On a side note: I AM SO EXCITED FOR COSPLAY <3.

I'M GOING BACK TO CALI. WOOOO.

College

So, I fell off the face of the earth. Again. Ummmm. Nothing much, just college started at Bryn Mawr College. Very fun indeed! We've just gone through our first week of classes, and to say the least, I'm already flooded down with work. D8

The food here is awesome, which is a bad thing because I'm sure I'm going to be gaining weight. Some friends and I are planning on going out this three-day weekend to go buy some stuff, so hopefully I'll be able to buy some running shoes by then. It's kind of sad though that while others are going home for the long weekend, I'll be stuck here lamenting that I live far far away from Pennsylvania. Ah well, that's life, yes?

I'm missing home a little, but I'm enduring. :) I've made lots of SoCal friends, not so much NorCal though. But Californians are Californians. Meeting so many people though has only made me realize more and more how wonderful my home life is. All of my SoCal friends come from poor neighborhoods and were only introduced to this college through a special outreach program. We google mapped all our houses, and to say the least, their houses were tiny compared to mine. For books, etc. for college, my friends have to rely on money from outside sources while I mindlessly use my parents' credit cards.

It's times likes these when I really realize for sure how amazingly blessed my life has been.

What amazes me is that even if we have class differences, we can still be such awesome friends. We joke about how much money I have and stuff, but in the end, we're still the same, and we're all on equal grounds here at Bryn Mawr.

I'd like to recount what I've been doing these past few weeks, but life's getting kind of hectic. Instead, I'll just share some of the pictures of my private life here at Bryn Mawr. :)


The entry into the second hall of Pem West, the dorm building I'm staying at. This building's pretty old. In our rooms, there are little name plates of past residences, and it goes all the way to the 1800s.



Our common room. We have one side room connected on either side of this room. I like our dorm very much. :) One of my roommates, Sarah, and I have desks in the common room. The others have their desks in the side rooms where our beds are located.



My desk. Please excuse the messiness. However hard I try to make it neat, it always ends up like this. This is actually after I put away stuff and such... It kind of makes me emo how messy my desk is compared to my roommate's...



A closer look to my messy desk...



I caught my roommate, Sarah unawares when I snapped this shot, to say the least she was not pleased.



Even as college students, we're still not very mature. We had a picture-taking battle. I think I won. 8D



My closet, also located in the common room. Possibly the cleanest/neatest thing I have here because I actually try to take care of my clothes.



This is one of the side rooms, the one I'm rooming in with Sarah and Tiffany, my other roommate. Notice how neat Sarah's bed is compared to the other two. I blame my messiness on the fact that I got the top bunk, so it's hard to reach. :(



A closer look to my bed. I really like the sheets. I think I'm going through another purple phase...



I brought four stuffed animals with me, a Turtwig, a penguin, my tiger, and a Torterra which is supposed to be a VERY late birthday present for a friend who is currently going to college in Pittsburgh. (Can you spot my Torterra in the previous pictures?) I realized that Pittsburgh is very far from where I am right now. D8



Picture to keep me from getting homesick. Ironically enough, none of them are pictures of my parents or dog. But I <3 my friends from back home. :)




Also, things have been pretty hectic on the Haverford College grounds. (Haverford is Bryn Mawr's brother/sister college... thing.)

Last night, there was a college party. And like all college parties, there was alcohol. Long story short, police came in and gave citations to lots of people. This is actually really uncommon though from what I've heard. Apparently, the policed weren't even campus police but state police and they were looking for high school kids that said they were going to the party on facebook. Lots of acquaintances/friends got citations that night...

Earlier this morning, a car exploded in Haverford's parking lot. A man in his mid-50s was in that car and passed away in the incident. There's not much information on that... They say he had no connection to Haverford or Bryn Mawr College.


Also, Parade Night's tonight. It's where freshman run down some road, get pelted by water balloons from the sophomores, and get pelted by candy from the juniors, while the seniors just watch. (Someone told me usually the seniors get so drunk they can barely stand before Parade Night, so it's actually really funny to see them...) But I'm really worried about the candy. Those juniors better not throw hard candy at me... :x

Yellowstone 8/6/09 San Francisco to Jackson Hole

From the sixth to the tenth, I went on a family trip to Yellowstone National Park with my parents, a distant cousin, and my grandparents. It was exhilarating and fun all wrapped into one more than satisfying trip of weird grandparents and childish glee.

So, here's a little recap on what happened, starting from the first day, August 6th, 2009:

We got on a flight using Delta Airlines (one of the worst airlines imo from the flights that I had to deal with to and from Yellowstone) to Jackson Hole.

First, we transferred from San Francisco to Salt Lake City. The plane arrived on time, however it landed late. Because of this, we literally had to jog towards our next transfer flight from Salt Lake to Jackson Hole. We had intended to stay in Salt Lake City for the supposed one hour in between flights to eat dinner, however that plan was dashed and we had to instead rush towards our next flight.

The sucky part? Apparently, the Salt Lake City airport has A LOT of terminals. We had to transfer from Terminal B to Terminal E (each having around 20-30 gates each?) in... A short amount of time. With luggage. It was an adventure.

Can you sense my bitterness towards Delta right now? Feel the angry energy waves floating off of meeeeee.

Once in our plane, the flight was delayed again. This time, however, I admit it was not the fault of Delta, but the wildfires that were filling the surrounding air with smoke. The planes ended up filing in a sort of single file line in order to transfer to a different terminal (ironically enough, I think it was the terminal we had just run 2348937243 miles from, Terminal B) and after about an hour or so, we finally took off.

Because of our lateness (we arrived at 10, but in the world of Jackson Hole, that's really late apparently), our rental car services were not available. Instead, we paid about $200 more for a different car.

While we were waiting for the rental car thing to get ready, Liao (my cousin), and I explored the REALLY small airport. It was so small, it only had ONE security checkpoint and one line. Pretty spiffy.


The airport was like a mini museum with lots of small artifacts.




Liao, my ballerina cousin. :)


The grandparents. They're really hard interesting to travel with... :x


I got really bored and started taking random pictures...




Why hello thar.


Creepy airport exit is creepy.


Note to self: Taking pictures while running usually causes blurs.



Instead of a small dinky white minivan, we were handed the GIGANTIC MONSTROSITY OF A FULL AMERICAN VEHICLE. Yay for GM Suburbans!

After figuring out the car and how to get out of the airport, we drove for a really long time to get to the small tourist town of Jackson Hole. I entertained myself with slow shutter speeds and the moon.




Nananananananana Batmaaannnnnnnn~





Our first day/night in Yellowstone was destined for complete fail. My mom had reservations at an inn listed online as the "Days Inn." After following the directions of the receptionist, we ended up driving in front of an inn not called Days Inn. We drove in circles, hesitated at the inn that was not Days Inn but was in the spot Days Inn was supposed to be, and finally my mom stepped off the car and went inside to ask for directions.

Apparently, Days Inn JUST changed their name to "The Point Inn." In fact, it was changed so recently, that the online website hadn't even been changed yet. Go figure.


The front desk of Days Inn The Point Inn.


Very nice room, but no internet. :(



Thankfully Days Inn, now named The Point Inn, was located right behind an Albertsons. So we went to buy lots of chips and a late dinner. (half-frozen microwaveable burrito and potato salad FTW)

Once in our respective hotel rooms at around midnight, my cousin and I watched TV until 2AM. (2AM NOWAI.) I watched this interesting scary movie about some woman who goes to some house to take care of some old guy who had a stroke. But lo and behold, the stroke was actually this weird curse that only works on you if you "believe" and had started from years ago when this slave couple cast the curse on the master and mistress of the house and blah blah blah. End of story is protagonists get cursed. The end.

Nothing Much Has Happened

Ah, life is its usual monotonous drawl of nonsensical things.

I've been MIA for the last three days on the internet world because I accompanied the grandparents to Houston in order to watch my perfect-ballerina-cousin and her concert. It was beautiful and enchanting, yet I couldn't capture any of it on photo because we weren't allowed to take pictures. :(

I will have a more elaborate account of my journey in Houston later... For now, let me transcend into flowery, nonsensical ramblings about how my life is, compared to those of individuals I stalk know.

Lately, it seems many have fallen into a large, inescapable abyss of misfortune, sadness, and harsh/negative introspection. And lots of loneliness.

All I can say is, suck it up, because I'll be there for you! As cheesy and corny as it sounds. So for those I can't contact (whether it be because of the time difference, or my own fear that you do not want to talk to me), I'd like to say, never worry it'll all be clear soon.

To Julia, because I really do love her like a little sister/ best friend and she's really kind of been an integral part of my life since my memory takes me even though I know she's not always been in my life:

DO NOT WORRY. I know we always seem to miss each other, I sign on when you're just about to leave and you come on when I'm not even fully awake, but remember that I'll be there no matter what! Whether it be through an unconscious wave of sympathy sent through our superbly awesome connected brains or from my random comments of "BAWWW I MISS YOUUUU," I'll always be there.

Of course, I know physical being, like actually being in your lonely apartment in the middle of god-knows-where in China is totally awesomer and cooler different than me just being their online to cheer you on, I hope you know that I'll try my hardest to make it seem like I'm there for you. Even though I'm not. D8

This loneliness that you are enduring, where it seems like no one is there to be there for you, it will soon wash away. As I see you talk to your wife and Alan a lot hahahaaa. I wish I could stay online longer, but unfortunately the parents often come and demand me to sleep. And I am forced to bow to their tyrannical rule of bedtime. I will try my hardest, however, to come online as soon as possible the next day, and so on and so forth.

Um, I lost my train of thought, and I had a whole meaningful thing to write to my awesome possum friend, but it's getting late and my brain has rebelled, and decided to shut down on me. :( I just hope this post, if you happen to read it, brings a smile to your face and gives you a little bit more courage. Remember, this is but a small part of your life, and soon enough September will roll back around. So right now, do what you want to do with the time you have left, think positively, and don't forget that there are others (Me, your wife who I have yet to meet D8, Alan, Skyle who I met for like... five seconds, and many more individuals) who will always be there to pull you back when you're precariously tilting over the edge of insanity caused by this insane and stupendously unpredictable world.


Remember Julia, I <3 you lots and I hope to see you soon online... We should video chat as we haven't done that yet? :O

Delirious and Kinda Cold

Soooo I had all these super-exciting-awesome-possum plans for Thursday, but I acquired something known as the common flu.... or some type of virus with flu-like symptoms. Thankfully, not the swine flu of course 8D. So I've kinda been in and out of consciousness these past few days and I've been really really weird. Dozing in and out of dreams, dreaming up weird stuff I don't remember, etc.

I can't even eat properly without my hand shaking 139823749837 mph fosho. D8

Besides that though, I've been feeling okay. As seen in my last conversation with mybfffffffff (because one forever is definitely not enough):
TOTALLY SCARED MYSELF LAST NIGHT
CUS MY FEVER KEPT RISING
AND I THOUGHT I EITHER HAD THE SWINE FLU
OR MY BRAIN WAS GONNA FRY UP
FROM RISING FEVERS
PSYCHED MYSELF OUT FOSHO
LOLOLOL
BUT THEN IWENT TO THE DOCTOR TODAY AND THE DOCTOR WAS BASICALLY LIKE
"LOL COMMON FLU-LIKE SYMPTOMS GO HOME"
AND.... SO NOW i'M HOME... GETTING HIGH OFF MY ASTHMA INHALERS
8D

(Note: Above is an abridged version of what has been happening these past few days.)

Yes, cool people always talk in CAPS. .... I had all these cool, profound things to say that would make me seem awesome and on drugs, but my brain just died. Must be the constant 99.5~100.4 fever I've been experiencing today. Oh well, when I get struck with more inspiration (or when I suck up more unnatural steroids from my ProAir HFA albuterol sulfate Inhalation Aerosol) I'll spout some SUPA COOL METAFORS. (Yes, I know it's spelled wrong.)

I'll leave you with the SUPA COOL METAFOR I gave my bfffffffff:
IT'S LIKE
A REALLY BAD GAME OF TELEPHONE
WHERE AS THE WORD TRANSFERS FROM EAR TO EAR
IT GETS LIKE MUTILATED
INTO THIS EVIL MUTANT WORD

(Note: This was on recent Dramuuuu that happened. It was all, like I said, a really bad game of telephone.)

DO U LIEK MAH METAFOR?

Back to Back?

Yesterday was fun! SO FUN! It was definitely an experience that I'll never forget, hanging out with old friends, and coming together again, something I had feared that we'd never do again. It only proved to me that the bond we had created in the beginning was too hard to break, as cheesy as that sounds... I'm glad we all took time out of our lives to enjoy ourselves in the company of friends in a very stress-free environment. (But it's way too stressful to drive certain people around... People that I have to keep threatening to kick out of the car... >_<)

Is this a new start for a new cosplay group? I have no clue. I doubt we'll ever totally be the exact same as we were three years ago, but I still love how we're getting together again! I want to do group cosplays, but will anyone else want to do one?

And Sam brought up a good point when we were driving to his house... We didn't really do any deep conversations, so we weren't able to catch up on each others' lives... However, I thought the gathering was a good start, no?

I'm sure there's only good things that can come up... We were discussing One Piece cosplay, but Tonya seemed hesitant about it. Maybe we shouldn't force a group cosplay just yet then...

EDIT: BTW I GOT SUPER SHOTS THAT ONE DAY I WENT TO THE DOCTOR. AND ARE TB TESTS SUPPOSED TO LOOK LIKE WEIRD PINK RASHY HOLES? I FEEL LIKE THAT'S BAD?

Ho Hum...

So I was kept up last night over reminiscing about super dramuuu... And a deathly stomach ache... But this past month has been a blissful month of just forgetting/burying past issues deep in the recesses of... nothingness. And that bothers me.

I hope that we're all still friends, even though I kind of fell off of the face of the earth when it came to contacting them. Maybe we'll say "Hi" in passing, or some crazy stuff like that. We'll see, I guess.



Anyways other stuff... I'm going to the doctor's today... My last check-up before I go to Bryn Mawr :O. I don't like shots though, and I have to get like 234234234235345454 shots by the end of today because I need to get all my vaccines and crap. I dislike that. A lot.

Also, I just spent 126 dollars on scrapbooking stuff. I should get to work on that actually, considering the fact that I spent a BUTTLOAD of money. I hope it'll end up as pretty as I hope it'll be... But I lack artistic sense when I don't have directions... Maybe I'll look up scrapbooking tutorials or something. D8 (My mom better appreciate the effort :x)

Notice how I tend to use lots of smilies when the issues I talk about are a lot more lighthearted...

First Entry = First Big Change?

I've been meaning to have a little blog, a little record of the going-ons of life. What a better time to start a blog - when I've just finished high school and I'm going to a totally different place.

High school... It was four years in all-too familiar settings: Pleasanton, California, a two-story house with my two parents and my 1500 dollar dog.

College, only three months away, one measly summer break away, and I'll soon be finding myself across the country in Pennsylvania. There, I'll have close to no friends or family, an east coast historical building to live in, and definitely a new start. That'll be interesting, for sure. We'll see how it goes.

I want to start all over again, as if I'm a totally new person. I fantasize about new clothing, a new attitude, and a new group of friends. But I can't help but realize I'll most likely revert back to my original self, kind of reserved but outgoing at times, sarcastic, undeniably nerdy, and a constant back and forth of introversion and extroversion... We'll see how things go, I guess.

Graduation was fun though. Of course, I expected at least one tear to be shed, and I was almost certain I should've felt the finality of it all. But instead, I find myself not really feeling the end. To tell the truth, part of me still expects to go to high school tomorrow and part of me still feels like staying in Pleasanton forever. I've never truly expected college so soon, and I have yet so many plans with my friends, secrets to share, and unknown things to unearth. Obviously, time did not wait for me to finish up all of my plans.

I'll just have to fill my summer schedule up to the brim with activities and get-togethers I suppose.