domingo, abril 13, 2003:
song of the day (right click title to download):
dana glover - thinking over
and i can't really tell you what i'm gonna do,
there are so many thoughts in my head,
there are two roads to walk down
and one road to choose. . .
- sweeet!! how's this for a useful trip to apple valley - got up a tagboard, and redesigned the right column a bit. . .tell me if you like it! anyways, regarding the sotd, i think i first heard it on jenny wan's website, and then i heard it again at my professor's lab (one of the grad students had it on her playlist). i guess i thought it was pretty good, and the lyrics are really. . .relate-able (wow, my vocabulary is going DOWN the drain - i should have said something like 'easy to relate to'). besides, it's new - at least i think it is - and that's always a good thing.
- anyways! rather stupid day. last night, after going to a wedding reception, my parents were too tired to go straight to av, so we delayed that till this morning - after getting there, i went to steve's house to watch the lakers lose to the blazers (stupid wallace!! >=O) before getting insanely bored and working on this blog for a bit (hehe). only interesting quote of the day came from my dad:
your wife should make AT LEAST 100K.
- great. . .something tells me i'm gonna stay a bachelor. . .
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sábado, abril 12, 2003:
song of the day (right click title to download):
foo fighters - learn to fly
think i'm done nursing the patience -
i can wait one night,
i'd give it all away if you give me one last try. . .
- mornin' everyone. ugh - i hate sleeping. my boredom last night induced me to collapse on my bed - tho if i'd just stayed up till midnight, i could have actually chatted with some ppl. =.= ah well, at least i got a ton of zzZZZ. . .
go mighty DUCKS!
- afternoon update now, and i just finished watching a brilliant game by the ducks - came back from 2-1 down to win 3-2!!! w00t w00t. the anaheim goaltender, j.s. giguere, is absolutely amazing, and just like game 1 (a triple overtime thriller), he came up super huge. meanwhile, in new york, hideki matsui goes nuts again. . .actually, he blew like three chances to put the yankees ahead, but ended up scoring the game winning run in the ninth inning. take THAT ichiro. =D let's see how my car's doing:
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viernes, abril 11, 2003:
song of the day (right click title to download):
wayne wonder - no letting go
got somebody - she's a beauty,
very special - really and truly,
take good care of me like it's her duty,
want you right by my side, night and day. . .
- here's something interesting about this song: if you've heard it, you might notice that it has the same background as sean paul's "get busy" - that hand-clapping syncopated rhythm. well, in fact, it's called the "diwali riddim" - a pretty common background motif, so common that there's an ENTIRE cd of songs with the diwali riddim in them. . .oh, just for you indians who recognized the name diwali, the rhythm was inspired by indian festival music, so that's pretty cool. =P
- anyways, enough of my stupid rambling. woke up this morning a tad early, not to study for my english midterm but rather to finish writing my environmental poem, "escapade" (which ended up being about a leaf riding the wind through a valley - inspired by a drawing jeri did!!). oh yeah, i was also stupid enough to NOT have read "a rose for emily" until this morning, so i had to read that really quickly too. as it was, the english midterm went okay, although i realize now i missed a few stupid questions. . .hopefully it's not *too* bad.
- econ was literally a completely free period, and seager didn't make us do anything - so we all just screwed around and chatted. seager, jon horowitz, neil rock, and i ended up getting into a "where are they now?" with former uni sports stars (like ted peck, yohei fukuda, etc.). it was pretty interesting to see how where people ended up after high school - meanwhile, bui was off in his own world, rapping about hamsters to lyrics that matt wrote and a rhythm produced by a rather hyperactive josh. basically, a typical day in econ.
guess what we did in spanish? harry alfarero!!!
- granted, i've seen the movie in english before, but it's so much more fun in spanish. besides, subtitles were ON today, so i learned how to spell "wow" in spanish (it's guau, just for your information) - you know what's rather curious? the spoken words in the spanish translation DON'T MATCH the subtitles. freaky. hung out with kaidi and anya during snack, before heading off to want - or rather, skulsky, who was filling in for mrs. i'm-too-cool-to-teach-the-day-before-spring-break-so-i'll-go-windsurfing-in-the-mediterranean-instead. basically, another free period during which i mostly chatted with connie, and then onwards to physics, where i confirmed the fact that i did terribly on physics bowl (or at least not in top 5, according to malin) - but i did get a 46/49 on the mc test with feffi!!! WOOT!!! i guess it's not as good as the 49 that four other people in the class got, but considering they're ALL B students, let's just say i'm not quite confident that their scores represented their physics abilities. >.> whatever.
i HATE oakes' subs!! they lock off the room for MUN.
- read: no mun meeting today. ugh. instead, i got an early start on my uci lab research, which i just barely managed to finish before 3, when i left to pick up julia to go to orange coast college for the occ math meet. and we got SOOOO lost. i suppose i should take the blame - or rather, yahoo maps *grrrr* which gave me these ridiculously insane directions that took me down campus and bristol instead of down the 405 like si hyun did. after an amalgamy of u-turns and attempts to go the opposite way on one-way streets, miss liu and i made it miraculously. the test itself wasn't bad at all, and uni (once again) did awesome:
go steve, si hyun, and jackson!
- steve got 2nd overall, si hyun got 6th, and jackson got 8th overall. the bad news? stupid TROY, who actually showed up to the contest, kinda showed us up by picking up the 1st place individual (peter pawlowski =.= who else??). even worse, they managed to tie us for 1st place as a team (which was actually scary for us, because they had the 1st, 5th, and 10th place overall, so we thought we'd get 2nd; but olga saved us). on a personal note, i was an alternate for this competition, and i made the most of it:
i got 1st place out of the alternates! prize: a ti-89!!!
- *beams* definitely happy with everything overall. anyways, when i got home, i found myself incredibly bored, which is where i sit now - on a friday night, with most of my friends either in england, boston, or otherwise mysteriously gone, leaving me home alone, and with nothing to do. someone save me. instead of putting up a photo tonight, i'll leave you with my winamp playlist:
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jueves, abril 10, 2003:
song of the day:
eminem - sing for the moment
they say music can alter moods and talk to you -
but can it load a gun for you and cock it too?
well if it can, then the next time you assault a dude,
just tell the judge it was my fault, and i'll get sued. . .
- hmm. he's got a point, you know. interesting of mr. mathers to incorporate part of aerosmith's "dream on," but then again he's done it before (anyone remember "stan"? that had dido in it).
new layout. . .tell me what you think!
- today was all about TESTS. ugh. took physics bowl in the morning (missing out on sleep in the process *cough cough*), then proceeded to econ where i took ANOTHER test. office hours? calc league math contest - translation, another test. and, finally, fourth period was stats, and guess what? a test. so, count 'em up, FOUR tests in all. the only thing i remember doing all day other than bubbling in answers was jumping on si hyun's back to the horror of ceci. . .and to my own horror, when i realized si hyun buckled under my weight and i wasn't going to stay in the air much longer. =.=
- went to uci lab for research after school, then went and visited jeNn afterwards!! whee - that was fun. other than that, though, i've been spending most of the evening updating my blog - and just thinking. . .contemplation can be bad sometimes - it makes you disorganized:
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miércoles, abril 09, 2003:
song of the day:
linkin park - numb
can't you see that you're smothering me?
holding too tightly - afraid to lose control,
cause everything that you thought i would be
has fallen apart right in front of you. . .
- another awesome linkin park song. . .thanks to shiyue, not just for the song rec, but of course for giving me meteora. =) the entire album is excellent, so it doesn't matter that there's not even an hour total, because the whole cd is just a good listen.
- anyways, went to school and was HAPPILY *cough cough* surprised by a pair of essays, which i'd completely forgotten about. the poem, "poetry of departures," was this WEIRD poem that apparently talked about two people - one who wanted to stay at home and one who wanted to run away. but the poem was so insanely disorganized that i could barely figure out who was talking when, and ugh - it was just a mess. the prose passage was about a woman comparing her daughter to a shirt that she was ironing. 'nuff said.
- my luck wasn't much better during office hours, when marina came up to me and asked about csf scholarships, and i rattled off some dates that i wasn't too sure about, only to be completely corrected by tiff, who had all the dates ready - only i didn't know them. anyways, i kinda went off on her, and ended up making her cry - and THAT just made me feel crappy. anyways, i took a quick stroll with dolli and felt better afterwards, which was good - because we had a spanish quiz and we knew we'd both fail if we didn't review. sure enough, i got a perfect score on the quiz (TAKE THAT, sr. calkins!!), which my grade badly needed. what did we do the rest of the period?
harry potter!!! en español!!!
- you gotta love it. just for your reference, "potter" in spanish is alfarero now you can impress all your friends with your hubbub about "harry alfarero y la piedra del brujo." bwahahaha. anyways, had a csf meeting during lunch, then off to physics, where we had a PSYCHO MC TEST!!! aaahhhhh. . .actually, feffi and i (we were partners) did really well on it (*knock on wood*), mainly because we complemented each other really well. i knew most of the questions, but on a lot of them i was unsure and a few of them i had NO idea at all - luckily, feffi with her mad physics skills had a really good grasp of centripetal force and got the answers. =)
- after school, i dropped by my professor's lab for research, which was *so* tiring that i FELL ASLEEP during neurobio lecture. oi. that's sad. . .oh well - hopefully i didn't miss much. =P when i got home, i was quite pleased to find no parents (my dad's in av doing taxwork), so i mainly finished up homework and chatted a little before i found out that anya was having a rather bad day. . .so i picked her up and we went to university center! hee hee - actually, i mainly helped her study for physics, but it was just nice to be able to go out in the evening - which i almost NEVER do. by the time i got home, i had to scrounge up a quick dinner, which was surprisingly good (and surprisingly edible), and studied a tad for physics bowl before heading off to bed.
new blog addition!!
- after being inspired by one sam yam, who probably doesn't even know me =P, i think i'm going to start putting photos in my blog entries - somehow, i COMPLETELY forgot to mention that my dad got me a digital camera for my birthday!!! check it out:
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martes, abril 08, 2003:
song of the day:
santana feat. musiq soulchild - nothing at all
and so i walk to try to find a space
where i can be alone to live with my mistakes,
and the fear that will come from knowing
that the one thing i had left was you. . .and now you're gone.
- i had a bit of a "revelation" last night, only it was more of a confirmation of suspicions i'd already had. nothing earth-shattering, i guess, but i think more of that has to do with the fact that i've had it happen to me before, and i'm just not going to let it bother me all over again. and you thought my sotds were random. =P
- okay, so let's see. . .blah blah blah, went to english, got a 19/20 on my lit terms journal because i didn't put one freaking page number on one of my entries, then off to econ where i mostly zoned out. spanish was just ugly, i found out i BARELY had an a- in a class i usually cruise in, and then in stats i think i had a little too much fun because i found myself madly rushing to finish the classwork in the last 5 minutes before the bell rung. physics, at least, brought me some peace of mind because i got sweeeeet revenge on yesterday's abomination of a quiz by nailing today's. and, finally, i got screwed over by CML, getting a horrendous 3 out of 6, in large part because i don't think negative numbers are integers. =.=
whatever, though! that doesn't matter. for today, i officially accept northwestern as my school of choice.
- nyeh heh heh. oh, some leftover comments from yesterday and some thoughts for today: GO CARMELO ANTHONY!!! w00t w00t. i feel bad for hinrich and collison, but i really did want syracuse to win the national title - and i hope 'melo stays at least ONE more year in college, too. and, while you're at it, GO GODZILLA. bwahahaha. that's right, hideki matsui hits a grand slam to start off what should be a very nice yankee career. good stuff.
oh, and get this: there's a robin hanging from my rearview mirror now, courtesy of (who else) julia. go figure. =)
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7:26 a. m. //
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lunes, abril 07, 2003:
song of the day:
bbmak - back here
are you thinking of me?
'cuz i'm thinking of you. . .
and i wonder,
are you ever coming back in my life?
- whoa. haven't blogged in four days, which freakily enough means a ton of catch-up blogging to do. on that note, i'll make today's entry concise. . .a quick note on the sotd, tho - i'll admit it's kinda random, and not TOO motivated by any feeling i have right now, but if i stretch just a tad i think i might be able to fit myself in the mood. . .but hey, i'm just overreacting. right?
- woke up at 6:00, but was INCREDIBLY groggy before i realized it was "actually" 5:00 (damn that daylight savings time). for the first time in recent memory, i actually didn't have any homework to do, so i basically just read over beloved before heading off to school. ap english was mostly typical, except stearns owed me a candy bar from friday (lol, she always celebrates people's bdays =) but forgot mine) and so we did that really quickly before going over beloved.
oh!!! i got two poems up on the wall of fame. yay!!
- wow, i'm easily amused/excited. econ was typically routine (but yilin gave me a bday gift!! =D), and spanish was at least slightly "animated" in the sense that we were watching pocahontas (nice pun, eh?). john smith seemed to have a nice time "descubriendo los colores del viento," although i wasn't quite sure what the stupid hummingbird (flick?)'s motives are. ah well. meeko's kewl. stats was rui-less (and hence INCREDIBLY FUN!! j/p), but m&m-filled; basically, we did a repeat of the ap bio lab from last year, when we compared m&m distributions in bags to the website claims. pointless, and yet incredibly fulfilling. and finally, physics - physics, physics, physics. i made a stupid mistake on the last problem of the quiz thingy, and i prolly cost our group a few points. ah, whatever.
- rest of the day was humdrum, i went to uci to do research, then went to neurobio discussion, and THEN neurobio lecture. by the time i got home, i was rather pooped, so i mostly read up on physics for the rest of the evening and helped my dad out with taxes. nice day overall.
final note: holy nuts!! i have a THOUSAND hits already. . .
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