viernes, diciembre 13, 2002:
song of the day:
justin timberlake feat. clipse - like i love you
people are so phony,
nosy cuz they're lonely,
aren't you sick of the same thing?
- wow, this is terrible. i'm actually blogging on saturday, but because i saved my spot last night, you all THINK i posted on friday night. xD yesterday ended up being quite a nice day for a number of reasons - one of which has to do with the song of the day (no, i'm NOT a fan of justin). here goes:
- okay, so basically i woke up around 6:30 and did some last-minute cramming for my math 2j final, before rui swung by my house around 7:30 and picked me up. it was so embarrassing though, because we thought we arrived pretty early. . .and when we got there, everyone had already started taking the final. so we rushed to start taking the final, which was basically a sheet of paper (we had to use our own paper). and only an hour and a half into my day, i managed to screw up: i started doing the problems on some blank pages in my notebook. . .when my professor, who was proctoring, passed by and pointed at me, saying in his thick russian accent: "you! put the notebook away!!!" how could i be so stupid - my math notes were in that notebook!
so basically, i should have been caught for cheating. =.=
- i'm such a klutz. ok, so then i tried to work on my final again, but my nerves were totally frayed and i couldn't get ANY of the problems. all i did was write down the problem numbers and stare blankly at the questions. . .finally, on the VERY last problem, i realized i could do it, but it was insanely long and would be one of those tedious long time-wasters. i was about to despair when. . .
guess who comes to the rescue: mr. timberlake. *ugh*
- out of nowhere, this voice creeps into my head. "i gotta notice somethin' one night. . ." and lo and behold, all of a sudden i start flying through my math final, inexplicably. and the ENTIRE time, this song keeps flying through my head. that's TWO HOURS of "like i love you", people. on the positive side, tho, i felt like i nailed my final afterwards. =) *knocks on wood* i guess pop music is good for SOMETHING.
- and the fun doesn't stop there. somehow, our professor left the room early, so when rui and i left at 10, we had to get our pass signed by the TA. he was funny about it tho: "i didn't know i was this important. . ." okay so then, upon leaving the building, i get a call on my cell - from jeNn!!! this was crazy - she actually found out what time my final was and drove over to try to find me afterwards!! i was really stupid tho - because i carpooled with rui and didn't want to make him late to school (i had a spanish test to take myself), i couldn't ditch school to see her. . .but tell me that's not the most thoughtful thing in the world. *feels special*
- speaking of taking that spanish test, i rolled into spanish with plenty of time left in the period to take my test - or so i thought. i totally forgot that we had an extended lunch on friday, so all of the periods were shorter - as a result, i had to postpone the test till monday. *great* another reason to hate mondays. so i just wasted away the rest of the period chatting with shyla. at snack, i went to turn in my pass with rui, and ran into kim, who promptly stole the note from us. how EVIL. later during snack, i found out that jack made harvard early - congratulations!! harvard is lucky to have him.
btw, don't EVER park in the parking lot in front of the 200's. you won't believe how DESTRUCTIVE those people who play football can be.
- on to stats, where we got our tests back. and i was happy!! got a 99. =) that kept me in good spirits the rest of the day. incidentally, i've come to the conclusion that it's literally impossible to get a 100 on want's tests (at least if your name is neil). in two years of having her, not ONCE have i gotten a 100. whatever tho - my grade DEFINITELY got pulled up; i needed that. =.=
- physics was insanely boring. malin gave a little shpiel on this frank lloyd wright exhibit at the local museum, and then put on an incredibly boring video the rest of the period. the only interesting news: jeri told me later that night that she made it into wash u. of st. louis!! that's terrific, it's a really reputable school. ugh, i feel very pathetic among all these college acceptances. . .
- it's a friday lunch!!! that means MUN meeting. =D as always, that was a ton of fun, except MAYBE the part at the end when i realized that a lot more people signed up for mission viejo than i predicted and i got stuck with a slightly lame committee. kaidi's done it before tho, so she said she'd help =) (how sad, a first-year MUNer is helping out the president). getting another gavel is going to be a TAD more difficult this time. . .hit home for lunch before stealing off to uci, where i paid off my winter quarter fees and then went to sell back my physiology book - only to find a HUGE line. since friday was the last day to sell back books, there was this crazy line to the bookstore, and i was actually contemplating leaving because i was going to be so bored when:
out of NOWHERE, kaidi shows up!!!
- it turned out her parents were selling books back too, so they ended up getting stuck in the line of eternity as well. sosososo i chatted with kaidi for almost 45 minutes waiting in line, but the time flew by. =P as it turns out, she's also amazing at french - she's taking french 4 as a sophomore. why? only cuz she wants to have a free spot in her senior year so she can take chinese lit. =.= trilingual AND a science goddess!! woooooooow.
- so around 4, i headed to tiff's house for a CSF meeting - and barely anyone came!! only dahlia, leslie, julia, and sanam were able to come, since everyone else was busy. the next hour or so encompassed a lot of screwing around, and a lot of lecturing by tiff (i was being mischievous, as usual >.>). after everyone else left, i stayed for a while and chatted with dahlia and tiff, concocting this excellent horror story:
"and then tiffany opened the door, only to find the most hideous, terrifying creature she had ever seen: 'NEEEEEIIIIIIIIIILLLL!!! GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!!!' "
- funniness. actually, tiff thought i was making fun of her, and started feeling really bad about always appearing mean. . .but but but deep down, she's of the most genuinely nice people i've met in my life. she's incredibly thoughtful, never forgets a special occasion, and always makes sure things are fair (she wouldn't even take my $5 to pay for the csf operation holiday helper gift. . .). after some screwing around with dahlia's car (actually, it was her mom's O_o), i sped off to rui's house where i was SUPER-LATE for the science club meeting. actually, we just mostly assigned events for science olympiad, which ended up being a ridiculously tedious job. after toiling for almost an hour, we finally cranked out a tentative list - so far, i get to work with si hyun, julia, aditya, and jennifer. very cool. quote of the day, once again courtesy of everyone's favorite korean math god:
christine: "which one's yours?"
si hyun: "mine's the topless one."
- incidentally, they were talking about water bottles - but who cares, right? so i finally got home around 7:30, and then i went out to dinner with my dad. by the time i got back, i didn't feel like doing any work (not that i ever feel like that), so i just chatted the rest of my night away with jeNn and kaidi, with a nice long phone call from anya to top it all off. a completely unproductive friday, but then again that's why it was an awesome friday, too. tomorrow will be a looooong day tho. =P
Neil Biswas dreams on at
10:43 p. m. //
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jueves, diciembre 12, 2002:
song of the day:
kylie minogue - come into my world
And I've been such a long time waiting
For someone I can call my own,
I've been chasing the life I'm dreaming
Now I'm home. . .
- whee. another lovely day in the life of neil. ooh! i added a guestbook/comment type thing - it's at the end of the post, next to my name. actually, i find myself a bit tired tonight (and not a WHOLE lot to say), so i'll try to be as concise as possible (which isn't much). woke up at 6 this morning. . .and promptly fell back asleep. woke up again at 7:20, and it hit me right then that JENN WAS COMING OVER. *ugh* i took a shower in as little time as i possibly could, and somehow managed to look somewhat presentable (i.e. clothed and not foul-smelling) when jeNn came - after not seeing her in almost a month, it felt absolutely awesome to see her again. =)
- onwards to poli sci, where i immediately managed to make a gigantic butt of myself. for some inexplicable reason, i told ms. jacobsen this slightly lewd joke anya threw at me yesterday - baaaad idea. she went crazy on me, demanding to know why i just HAD to tell her. =.= actually, she wasn't mad or anything, mostly just embarrassed (as i should have been. . .). class itself went by very quickly, and i continued my evil scheme to take over the presidency when i become secretary of the department of veterans' affairs:
basically, if i kill the prez and vice prez, as well as the next 16 or so people who succeed them, I WILL BE PRESIDENT!!!!
- office hours i spent once again in ferazzi, where i basically chatted away with kaidi and rui. also, i got this ridiculous idea to try to take the physics olympiad test, so i pathetically approached malin and asked him if there was miracle of god that might allow me to take the test - he actually was really nice about it all and told me to come look at his pc, where he showed me one of the past exams from semifinals of physics olympiad - it was physics c stuff. *ugh* needless to say, that was motive enough to convince me NOT to do physics olympiad. xD
- snack today was probably the most notable of the year - i took anya to kim's car in the parking lot, where a large audience gathered for a stirring rendition of sir mix-a-lot's "baby got back", performed by shyla and pooja. it was quite touching, to be honest. afterwards, we all erupted into a ridiculously kiddie version of rudolph the red-nosed reindeer:
"they never let poor rudolph (rudolph),
join in any reindeer games!
(like monopoly!!)"
- riiiiiite. now imagine me being that giddy as i walked in to stats. . .to take a test. and now i am officially convinced want reads my profile, because i honestly thought it was the HARDEST stats test of the year. perhaps not impossibly hard, but definitely time-consuming, and i barely had time to check my answers. *ugh* this should be a not-so-fun test to get back. . .lunch was fun, tho, as anya and i got lazy and just had lunch at my house. only one problem: there's nothing to eat at my house. so we ended up having:
chocolate chip cookie ice cream and waffles. FOR LUNCH.
- now you see what happens when there's no female in the household. bad, bad things indeed. around 2, i headed off to up library where i met up with rui and andy and we tried to study for our math 2j final tomorrow, only to end up getting bored and playing a lot of basketball instead. and may i announce that rui soundly crushed me at 21 TWICE in a row. how shameful. by the time i got home around 4, i was as hot and sweaty as a wildebeest in the sudan. there's a lovely analogy for you (don't bother asking where that came from. . .). once i showered again and studied a little bit more for my math final, i found myself suddenly recruited by my dad to finalize the travel plans for our trip to india in december. over the next four hours i rapidly alternated between playing this excellent computer game shiyue lent to me called pandora's box, frantically rushing to finish my northwestern and stanford apps, and trying to make sure we're not stranded in bangkok once we get there on the 21st (lovely).
- so anyways, by the time i got back on AIM, i had 47 messages received from 11 people while away. damn. that was a lot of fun to sort through. i managed to glean a few interesting things out of it all tho. first, lebron james is a STUD. he is honestly absolutely amazing. for those of you who don't know, he's a high school basketball player in ohio who many consider to be better than most COLLEGE prospects; so tonight espn actually broadcasted his high school game, and he put on a crazy show. . .talked to chissy and told her to do a math project on the golden ratio. funny, because i actually have no idea what the golden ratio is. told you i suck at math. meanwhile, varun toils along his path of SIX finals, while emmo and kim are both stressing over stanford (one has finals, the other has apps =D), and anya/jay/kunal/seemingly everyone has a chem test tomorrow - GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONE!!!
- and to end my night, i got a really sweet e-mail from jeNn (and i just saw her too!!), and then i talked to kaidi till 12 - which is horribly mean, cuz she's one of the people with the chem test tomorrow. it was cool tho, cuz i found out we both like this fantasy series called "the lost years of merlin" by t.a. barron. if you've never heard of it, i strongly recommend you read it some time - it's really well-written. oh, and mad propz to my bro steve, who showed me this wacked out baby christina aguilera as well as the ubercool strong bad. those two put me into a rather lighthearted mood as i go to bed. . .wish me luck as i ditch school to take my final. xD
p.s. on a slightly more sentimental note, remember the thing from yesterday that was bothering me? well today my friend actually told me himself, only because the issue randomly came up and he couldn't really escape it. he didn't seem to make too big of a deal about it tho, which left me wondering if it doesn't really matter or if he just doesn't like talking about it. whatever tho, i shall respect his privacy - still wish i could do something about it. nite everyone~*
Neil Biswas dreams on at
11:16 p. m. //
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miércoles, diciembre 11, 2002:
song of the day:
default - wasting my time
Months went by with us pretending,
When did our light turn from green to red?
I took a chance and left you standing,
Lost the will to do this once again. . .
- btw, if you haven't heard this song before, i definitely encourage you to download it. it's a slightly depressing song, but the lyrics are really deep and the lead singer has a great voice, plus there's a nice guitar interlude after the second verse. a few sad things today prompted this song. . .
- alrighty, so i got up bright and early at 5:30 JUST to study some more for my bio final. *ugh* ap english today went pretty quickly, and we got to watch the final scene from mel gibson's version of hamlet. it actually ended up being kinda funny, because hamlet ran around trying to stab laertes, then claudius, then. . .yeah so basically, mel gibson is a mass murderer. after that, i realized something i completely forgot to mention yesterday:
bui and i have managed to prove that hamlet is gay.
- that's right. perhaps shakespeare's greatest hero is actually homosexual. how so? well let's see: it's obvious why hamlet kills polonius - clearly, he wants to be with laertes. and ophelia? she was duped the whole time. hamlet just used her so he could get to know laertes. . .okay, so maybe i'm wrong. but bui and i certainly did a decent job of convincing half of our ap english class. xD then, near the period, stearns passed out essays of past ap prompts, and the prompt for 2001 was about madness "with a discerning Eye." and of course, being the incredibly literary genius i am, i suggested writing an essay about. . .fellowship of the ring. it's so obvious!! the eye. . .and frodo's apparent madness. . .yeah. . .one slightly sucky note: stearns asked me to play the dad in a play we're doing friday, but i can't cuz of the math final. bleah. T_T;;
- office hours i spent mostly in ferazzi, helping kaidi find sodium bicarbonate (ferazzi's lab is insanely disorganized) and studying some MORE for bio. actually, in the middle of it all, i talked to someone and picked up the news that caused me to be sad for the day. for privacy, i can't say it explicitly, but i will say that it doesn't involve me, nor was it linked to anything i did directly. and yet it still affects me greatly, partially because it destroyed my perception of true happiness between two people, and partially because i found out not from my own friend, but from a third-party friend. oh well, such is life. sometimes you can't stop others from suffering the same fate you have.
- not that it was got any more upbeat in spanish. yesterday, when calkins played my tape, he also played tanuka's tape - and proceeded to say some rather mean things about her, like "i'm surprised. i expected worse from her." needless to say, she was definitely not happy, so we talked about it for a while. in the end, she realized that she basically showed calkins up by being a lot better than he thought she was; to be honest, tanuka has better spanish pronunciation than most of the people in our class (especially me). only one other note of interest: we had to make up spanish sentences on the practice test, and one of the phrases was "to be embarrassed." so naturally, i wrote "i'm embarrassed to know shyla." mwahahahahaha.
- lunch i spent in the library, where i talked to jay, jack and ely about random stuff. somehow, the conversation trailed off into flaky college majors (you know, like "basket-weaving" or "american studies"), when jay brought up "gay and lesbian studies." and of course, i comment on how i'd write my thesis on jay =P which prompts this:
ely: "you know, i've always been interested in spending a night with jay."
- god help us all. note how both of my big quotes so far have related to homosexuality. this blog is starting to get pg-13. and unfortunately, physics wasn't get any cleaner. . .malin told us this story about this one former teacher who really liked physics and gave malin a firing chute which he played with for a while - until he realized it was a cannon and therefore quite illegal. lol! later on then, while we were doing the lab, i was studying my physiology book - in particular, this diagram of oogenesis on the right page. after a while, tho, i noticed that jeri and brenda kept giving me these really uncomfortable looks, and i kept thinking they thought i was nerdy for studying in physics or something. . .and then i realized something:
on the other page, facing them, was an enormous illustration of the female genitalia.
- how EMBARRASSING. oh my gosh i felt so stupid - they must have thought of me as the biggest pervert ever. physics is slowly taking all my dignity from me. . .lab ended really quickly tho, so by the end of the period i was playing this freaky finger game with dolli and exchanging riddles with michelle and nessa. ah yes, physics is much fun. right after class ended, tho, i headed straight home for my final cram session. *sniff sniff* at 4, i went to uci to take my final - and OH MY GOSH. actually, it wasn't impossibly hard, but i ended up missing a few gimme questions, while getting some questions tthat i thought i missed. overall tho, i don't think i did well enough to get an A in the class, which kinda demoralizes me cuz it lowers my uc gpa - even before i get into college. lameness. whatever tho, got to hang out with jay at del taco afterwards, and we ate and talked - felt refreshing, we hadn't hung out since the angels game back in september. . .
- when i got home, i received some of the most frightening news ever. i don't want to dwell on it, but i just find it shocking that someone who was thought of as a really nice man could do such a thing. the worst part was that everyone thought he left because of family problems - not because he was charged with a serious crime. *sigh*. . .on a bleakly positive note tho, i talked to joyce for the first time since last year - some jerks at usc keep stealing her bike, tho. oh! also talked to cathy this morning for the first time in a while as well, and helped her pick a ski jacket. xD (basically, i'm re-bonding with uni graduates from years past)
- and the tail end of my night was basically another session of the 1337 room, where i actually revealed to shyla the one person who i consider to be anything close to a romantic interest (and as much as i love you for reading this far, don't even THINK i'm going to tell you). . .played some literati with jeNn, only to be absolutely crushed. =.= on a happier note, she's gonna come see me tomorrow!!! ^_^ all in all, a rollercoaster of a day, but overall i think the slightly negative nature of the final plus the disturbing news i got in office hours cast a shadow over the day. oh well, tomorrow is anew. nite everyone.
oooh, ending note: dolli made this brilliant layout for virtual insanity. *drools* ayu is definitely gorgeous. remind me to actually adapt a layout like this some time. . .damn i envy dolli~*
Neil Biswas dreams on at
11:33 p. m. //
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martes, diciembre 10, 2002:
song of the day:
dashboard confessional - screaming infidelities
I'm reading your note over again,
There's not a word that I comprehend,
Except when you signed it:
"I love you always and forever. . ."
- i really like the guitar background during the part above and the interlude right after; this song never got enough playtime. oh, new trend! from now on, i'll make the song of the day available for download (click on the song title). if anyone wants an old sotd, just e-mail me and i'll post it. . .
- don't have much time to blog, and i have this feeling i'm going to fall asleep studying, so here goes. went to sleep really late last night, so i got up around 6:45 this morning and just had enough time to shower and head to school. english was rather uninspiring after we turned in our take-home essays - just watched some more hamlet on video. actually, this one version of hamlet had billy crystal playing a gravedigger, and he did quite a funny job. who says hamlet's not a comedy? onto poli sci, where i ran into some more funny stuff. ms. jacobsen called on me to give my opinion of the duties of the president. . .and i responded with like a five minute speech on the nuances of the presidential office. hmmph. that'll teach HER to call on me. =P just like in malin yesterday, i have no explanation for my garrulousness. . .in other news, bui fell asleep and i almost stuck his pencil in his ear, and later while i was trying to whisper something to kim i nearly toppled over my entire desk, prompting this:
kim: "neil, what's wrong with you?"
kunal: "what's right?"
- spanish time. oh boy. after doing some listening ap practice, sr. calkins does a most terrible deed: he pulls out tapes of people from period 4 spanish and begins to play them for the entire class, pointing out people's flaws and giving them scores. great. in fact, for the second person's tape, he sat at the board and counted out 8 mistakes the girl made (in only twenty seconds). ok, so why does any of this bother me? it's not just that i felt bad for the period 4 people; oh no, no, no. i found out from nessa in physics that in period 4: MY tape got played. WHY? why do you read my blog, god? (or sr. calkins. . .) it's a conspiracy, i tell you - i bet sr. calkins mocked me horribly and pointed out all my mistakes to period 4 and embarrassed me and and and. . .
- MY period 4, of course, was stats. and yet again, i pretended to take notes on want's lecture while doing the hw for thursday; not only did i finish, but i ALSO did the evens for extra credit - all in a class period. *beams* stats is turning into a free period nowadays. finally, physics, where malin didn't check hw so my computerized hw got the day off. =P class went by pretty quickly again, altho malin did show this excellent demonstration of a newton's cradle - with penguins check it out if you wish. it's actually wildly entertaining. really, it is. . .
- after a lunch with mun board and then ycy (we had a pizza party with TWO PEPPERONI PIZZAS - damn you beef-eaters xP), i headed to up library to tutor natalya for thursday's stats test. and then from 2:30 to now (around 10:30), i have sat at home frantically trying to learn something about the human physiology class i've taken for eight weeks now and yet feel like i know nothing about, of course, studying is always more fun with a few phone calls and a bit of chatting interspersed throughout. a few highlights:
- anya actually got hold of the mission viejo guy. this brought great joy to me, since i FINALLY got a few better committee spots for the mission viejo mun conference. . .i still can't believe we're stuck with sweden. oh oh oh, and i got to talk to chissy for the first time in a LONG while today. among other things, she taught me to poke the bunny. major suckiness tho: the day she comes back is the day i leave for india. *sigh* i swear fate wants to make me wait as long as possible to see her again. life is unfair. . .g'luck to all you REAL college students with finals: in particular emmo, jeNn, and leah. emmo and jeNn had finals today, and jeNn has her last final tomorrow - i envy them both. i must be the only loser with a final on friday. *ugh*
- and finally, WHILE typing this blog entry up, i found myself in another 1337 room: tonight, nessa joined the mob of kim, bui, shyla, pooja, kunal, and me. i think we scared her off tho, cuz within fifteen minutes, kim/nessa/i all ditched the room. YES, i'm actually trying to study, especially with shyla continually trying to convince me that calkins didn't completely mock me in 4th. other than a convo with shiyue, who i also haven't talked to in a while, about jobs and the such, not much else. . .except for a depressing conversation i had with anya in which i realized:
anya is moving in six weeks. life sucks.
- depressing stuff, at least for me. it's funny how during the summer, i spent almost all my time with chissy and anya. one thing we all had in common: we all moved to irvine from different places. now, both of them moved away, which leaves me slightly. . .well, alone. oh well, i s'pose i'm getting a head start on graduation time, when i'll have to say bye to ALL my friends. bleah, sucks to end my night on a dejected note like that. . .
Neil Biswas dreams on at
10:06 p. m. //
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song of the day: exile - style
if you're gonna take a chance believe in your dreams
never give it up, never give it up. . .
- if you haven't heard of the song of the day, i'm not surprised. credit this one to dolli's asian music site. it's actually very catchy, and despite the fact that i can't understand a single word in the song except the refrain above, the members of the group have very good voices.
- new convention in my blogging: since i usually do a quickblog at some random time of the day and then edit it to do my full blog at some ungodly hour of the night, the finished product usually ends up having the timestamp of the original blog, which isn't quite accurate. so from now on i'll just delete the quickblog whenever i get around to doing the real blog on a given day (yes, i know some of you are wondering why i don't just post a separate blog entry, but i like to stick to one post a day. pet peeve xD). . .one last quick note before i start: i'm still trying to screw with the blog layout, and i've actually succeeded in removing a few unnecessary tables and giving myself more freedom to move things around. expect another change by tomorrow. . .
- on to my day. so on this lovely monday, i basically just got up and sped through my spanish hw (i know, i'm terrible for procrastinating - get used to it) before running off to school. english went by pretty quickly, although i kinda saved stearns' butt at the end of class by innocently asking her if the essay rewrite was due tomorrow. . ."oh my GOSH. i almost forgot to tell the class!". . .not that i'm excited about that essay one iota. we had a sub in poli sci, which basically meant more screwing around by the flagitious (vocab word!) four of kunal/bui/kim/me. actually, there was this one hilarious part in the video where they were talking about a military anti-aircraft gun called DIVAD that was doomed to failure; the military, determined to make it a success, put it through tests where the targets were actually remotely destroyed, so it was impossible to tell if the AA gun had shot them down or if it was just a guy with a control. and you wonder why we can't find osama.
- onwards to spanish, where sr. calkins actually calls on me for the first time in eons. up to that point, i was actually seriously contemplating not doing my spanish homework for a while. =P oh, and for some random reason i gave shyla my car keys. literally just handed them to her. . .then found myself begging for them back at the end of the period. don't ask. . .another oh-so-stupid day of stats - or was it? she ACTUALLY taught us some combinatorics (see yesterday's blog):
god reads my profile!! him, or mrs. want. . .
- well maybe i'm stretching it just a tad - she only cursorily discussed combinations and permutations and their applications, but that was enough to confound the class. in the meantime, she committed the tragic flaw of posting the homework assignment at the beginning of class, so i actually finished my homework while pretending that i was taking notes (ha! taking notes on mrs. want's lectures is like transcribing the thought processes of a five-year-old). WOW i hope she doesn't read this blog anymore. but the fun didn't stop in stats - oh no, no, no. in physics, i somehow managed to be out of it long enough for malin to pass me by while he was checking homework - in a desperate attempt to grab extra credit, i moved back a row and pulled out my homework. bad idea:
"you TYPED out your homework? do you have NO life?"
- embarrassed by the fifty-year-old physics teacher. my life is ruined. and just in case i had any dignity after that one, he referred back to me two more times in the period, once to inform the class that so far he understood that i was good for researching song quotes and for typing out physics homework. . .then again, he's not that far from the truth. the funny thing is (i didn't realize this at the time), i subconsciously took revenge on malin by answering people's questions. like, marshall asked a question and i answered it out loud before malin got to it. and i don't even know why, it wasn't to pretend i was smart or had any idea of what we were talking about. come to think of it, perhaps it was a feeble attempt to regain grace. ^_^
- i actually spent lunch in the library, looking up stuff for science olympiad and science bowl. talked to kaidi and jean there too, and found out kaidi is this amazing poet. you guys all know about Blue Mountain, yes? kaidi has a poem on that site. amazing. . .after lunch, i trudged home and found myself plunging into my human physiology book for a few hours, frantically trying to avoid the inevitable failing grade i'm going to get wednesday. (oh! on that note: on friday i'm going to miss three classes cuz of my math final. stearns/jacobsen/calkins are gonna have my butt on a platter). . .around 7 i ran off to uci for a bio final review session, which lasted around an hour.
- and then i sent myself to the guillotine of productivity known only as. . .AIM. yes, the work stops here. a number of interesting convos here, where my newfangled apprentice jean managed to ask if there was any cussing in 8 mile. anya, in the meantime, calls me and begins to rant on her continued failure to contact the mission viejo secretary-general. . .AT HIS HOUSE. wonder what THAT guy does all night. yet another interminable session of the 1337 room led to more meaningless conversation, although the great Welcome to India was brought up. check out the counter on that page. . .kunal strikes a gold mine. and to end my nite, brian and jeNn discussed hentai and g-strings (oh boy) and jeff tried repeatedly to convince me to do something which a lot of you have mistakenly suspected me of. a valiant effort from my good WA friend, but inexorably i was inclined to reject his proposal - i've already tried it twice before.
- vagueness is such a tool - you can say so much and yet say so little. kinda like this blog. or my life in general. ANYWAYS, nite y'all, and i'll leave you with this quote from the great SHK:
sihyunie: do i way Ts'ai Yen is or was kidnapped by barbarians
(if that made no sense to you. . .that was the point. also, anyone notice that my blog skipped monday? it's cuz i'm posting past midnight, so it's technically already tuesday. . .there goes the one post a day rule. >.>)
Neil Biswas dreams on at
12:46 a. m. //
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domingo, diciembre 08, 2002:
song of the day: john rzeznik - i'm still here
And I want a moment to be real,
Want to touch things that I feel,
Want to hold on, and feel I belong. . .
- damn! i was so obsessed with screwing with the blog layout (guess where it's from =P) and fine-tuning it. . .that i completely forgot to actually blog. brillant, no? anywho, let's see - i actually had a little bit of trouble falling asleep last night and so around 3 am, i went online and downloaded this old school game called "commander keen" that i remember from my wonder years. believe it or not, it actually kept me entertained until 4 (boy i lost track of time). . .so, needless to say,. i didn't wake up this morning until about 9:30. and the moment i got up my mom (who was still up in irvine) put me to work. . .*nag nag nag* "do the laundry NOW! help me cook NOW! clean the house NOW!"
- but that wasn't even the extent of it. no, then my mom made a point of it to attack my appearance:
"why do you have so much hair? why is it so messy? why do you have acne? why are you so skinny? why do you need braces?"
- by the end of the morning, i felt like dosing a few prozacs. =.= no bother, though - talked to versha a little bit, and realized how little i actually care about my high school love life now. =P. . .also talked to christina (my chair from tustin mun, and a really cool girl) on her cell phone (that's just ubercool). in this manner i spent most of my morning; ah yes, i also worked furiously on my blog layout too, and time flew by until:
- noon! which meant ARML time. of course, being the idiotic me, i thought the math practice started at 1. which it did. . .but it's in LONG BEACH. gawd i'm stupid. so yeah, si hyun gave me this angry phone call and i raced to school, where i engaged on a death trip with rohan in young-wook's subaru - definitely a trip. ARML itself was actually pretty fun: for power round i worked with steve, jackson, aditya, olga, and christine among other non-uni pplz (somehow si hyun and rui found their way into a different room), and we got all but two of the problems. and then came individual round -.- and i only managed to get 3 out of 5. stupid probability!! why can't want teach us anything about combinatorics? it IS an ap class after all. >.>
- by the end of it all, i had a fried brain and a stomach full of chex mix and oreos (food is the best part of ARML). while we were leaving, rui and i engaged in another brilliant discussion of martial arts; once, when he tried to kick me, i caught his leg - and then, stupidly, asked him what he would do in a situation where his leg was caught. and, of course. . .he promptly kicked me in the groin. nice. i retorted by saying how if i ever caught someone's leg, i'd spear them and drive them to the ground. . .of course, first rui protested by claiming that i could never do that (damn), THEN he said he's shove a knee into my head if i tried that. . .but wait: if i caught his leg, and he tried to lift up his knee to hit my head. . .what would he standing on?!?! to sum it all up:
"it's not like i'm going to go: 'roaaaaar. i am going to get you! bleaaaaarrggh!!!' *charges wildly* "
- enough nonsense. actually, if i were really serious about that comment, i'd just close down this blog. . .from ARML rui and i went straight to YCY board meeting, where among other things i tried to convince jeff to make harry potter our club's spokesman. >.> even better: i tentatively pledged to do THREE volunteer events next weekend. oh boy - let's hope the teachers go easy on the hw or i'm majorly screwed. aren't these supposed to be VOLUNTEER events??? =P j/k. . .
- the cool thing was that no one was home when i got back, so i was free to. . .to. . .do homework. damnz0rz. a few wildly entertaining conversations with anya kept me from driving myself crazy with phyics hw - which i actually TYPED UP. xD wow i'm a computer slave. and finally, here i am, at 12:45, blogging quickly before i go work on my mission viejo mun resolutions. another long night for the neilymon, but it's all good. . .i'm still in love with my layout. yes, i know it's primitive and highly lacking of any vestige of creativity or skill, but but but but i still think it's neato. expect a lotr theme in the next week tho, as two towers appraoches. =D see y'all tomorrow~*
p.s. - oh!!! who thinks i should post the link to my hc pic? *snickers* that would be incredibly evil. almost as evil as posting anya's senior pic. or this wacko pic of my bro that i have on my pc. or. . .
Neil Biswas dreams on at
11:31 a. m. //
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