sábado, junio 28, 2003:
hiatus:
- okay, i'm putting my blogging on hold until i can actually ACCESS the web consistently. . .i don't move my cable to my northpark house until saturday (as in a week from now), so unless i have time to blog from uci, i'll see you all then. . .(btw, right now i'm blogging from home, but we have to move the computer soon. . .*ugh*)
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8:58 p. m. //
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jueves, junio 26, 2003:
song of the day (right click title to download):
liz phair - why can't i
get a load of me, get a load of you,
walkin' down the street, and i hardly know you -
it's just like we were meant to be. . .
- this song's been getting a lot of airplay on STAR - and even though the chorus gets repetitive towards the end, i thought the guitar background throughout the song was pretty well-done. incidentally, kali pointed out a rather jarring fact about this song - it seems pretty soft, but pay attention to the lyrics while you're listening to it: "here we go, we're at the beginning. . ." don't say i didn't warn you!
lexy word:
autodidact (greek, "ott-oh-die-dact")
a self-taught person (those physics geniuses like robbie and jackson)
1000 words:
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11:41 p. m. //
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song of the day (right click title to download):
fabolous feat. ashanti - into you
that's why the same bar, while the villa being painted,
just so we can get really acquainted,
the love is real - there's no way you can feel like it's tainted,
but i can't really explain it. . .
- far less annoying than "rock wit u" - this song's a lot more mellow, and the chorus is placid too. . .just like can't let you go. the original version of this song was actually by tamia, but apparently fabolous saw fit to steal the chorus and rap along to it. =D
5000 hits!! CRAJIE.
- gah. . .i'm posting under thursday instead of wednesday. that can be attributed to blogger's updating, which basically took all the way until midnight (i was close though! check out the time at the bottom). to be honest, tho, the new blogger is DEFINITELY worth it. the first thing i noticed what that they added NEW languages - including hindi!!! i was gonna use that for the date font, but since internet explorer defaults to western european encoding, every visitor to this page would have to switch in order to see the hindi properly (not that they'd understand ANY of it), so i ended up sticking to good 'ol español. . .
- on the plus, tho, they added an invaluable option that prompts you to save your entry before you leave the blog page - so i'm NEVER going to accidentally delete my blog entry again (that's the most god-awful annoying thing in the known universe). *breathes calmly* i actually have QUITE little to report today (even less than usual - you KNOW you're in trouble now):
i got SO bored that i played my old ap comp sci project - a starcraft wannabe called eclipse.
- i should upload that some time, for all of you to laugh at. . .that was basically my morning, along with continuing to add nifty stuff to my dell laptop. incidentally, i also spent a lot of my morning optimizing my laptop - i'm thinking of writing a small guide to do that so that everyone can read it and speed up their PCs a little. basically, every time the typical person's computer starts, about a dozen utterly necessary programs open at the beginning of windows (start-->run-->"msconfig") and make EVERYTHING run slower. on my desktop, there are only two programs at startup, and on my laptop only six - so they're MUCH faster than usual.
- a nice surprise around noon - BUI stopped by!! we ended up starting a random game of civilization iii (he chose the EGYPTIANS, inexplicably) and played until he left. . .which was about the time i left to drop by uci. i had a slightly annoying dental appointment at 2:15, but the good news from that was that i'm gonna get my braces off in july - YEEEEEESS!!! i was pretty euphoric from that for the rest of the day, which i mostly threw away chatting (although emily called!!). i'm starting to feel like i'm wasting WAY too much of my day, but i figure one day off from "work" isn't gonna kill me. (right?) oh, in the evening i caught a pretty decent disney movie (no, that's NOT an oxymoron) - the color of friendship. it's based in the apartheid era, and it's about a south african white girl who accidentally ends up being hosted by a black family in america - so there's a bit of racial tension. . .for once, disney actually tackles some of the MESSIER issues in the world. almost as messy as this:
waterlili24: i asked rui what his 2 abs were
waterlili24: Hadron23: it's like down the middle
waterlili24: Hadron23: i'm hoping to cut them horizontally later
waterlili24: that's really weird
Neilymon: um. . .
Neilymon: that's REALLY gay
waterlili24: dang i was hoping u'd say that's so rui
Neilymon: so gay, so rui - same thing.
yikes - the record companies are gonna come after mp3 downloaders. . .
lexy word:
autodidact (greek, "ott-oh-die-dact")
a self-taught person (those physics geniuses like robbie and jackson)
1000 words:
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12:03 a. m. //
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martes, junio 24, 2003:
song of the day (right click title to download):
jars of clay - worlds apart
soaring on the wings of selfish pride,
i flew too high and like icarus i collide
with a world i try so hard to leave behind -
to rid myself of all but love. . .
- i'm not an avid fan of christian music, but this is an amazing song with a really soothing background. interestingly, i was reminded of this song by jennifer an's xanga - many thanks to her, even though she'll probably never read this. . .broken, on my knees. . .
- another fairly humdrum day - didn't really do much. i got up fairly late, around 9 - but that's because i didn't sleep until three thirty (i couldn't really get to bed last nite, so i wasted time playing civilization iii). . .i managed to get my act together and pick up anya around 10, where we embarked on a three hour search for harry potter: order of the phoenix. it wasn't at target OR barnes and noble, but when we found it at albertsons (of ALL places), it was selling for 19.99, which of course is WAAAAY too much.
did someone say costco??
- so that's where we headed next, and after getting slightly misdirected we found a HUGE stockpile of books there, selling for SIXTEEN - way cheaper. incidentally, if you haven't figured it out by now, this isn't for me - it was for anya's insatiable appetite that we went on the whole goosechase. . .i swear she has a mental age of FIVE. on a cool note, we spotted lauren and julius at barnes. =) i ended up skipping lunch at heading straight to uci at 1, where i was supposed to tutor cecilia. . .
- but, conveniently enough, she was running half an hour late. =.= from a positive vantage point, tho, i got uci's wireless network to run on my laptop, so now i can surf the net at psychotically high speeds on my OWN pc!! w00t w00t. when ceci DID show up *cough cough*, we went over some calculus stuff for three hours, all the while listening to random songs on my laptop (which has some impressive battery life) - although the crowning achievement for me was finding out her middle (vietnamese) name, which i can't even pronounce. great.
tongue gwine.
- i swear that's what it sounds like. *whistles* stopped by del taco afterwards and had three chicken burritos (was STARVED), and barely had any time to rest at home before getting a call from rui to show up at university park around 7 for some tennis. don't ask how, but that ended up turning into a 5-on-5 basketball game with kevin, steve, dan, kim, and i vs. brian, aditya, rui, leslie, and jeff chen. after the girls left, most of the people ditched (wth?! females possess overly influential presences) - so jeff, rui, and i headed over to the mesa courts at uci to play some more 5-on-5 there with ani, dchin, jon, and kevin. i got home a little late, which is worrying my dad into thinking i'm going to party all night at northwestern. . .
lexy word:
rustic (latin, "russ-tick")
characteristic of country people; lacking in social graces or polish (e.g. rui)
1000 words:
Neil Biswas dreams on at
11:17 p. m. //
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lunes, junio 23, 2003:
song of the day (right click title to download):
lifehouse - take me away
i try to make my way to you
but still i feel so lost,
i don't know what else i can do -
i've seen it all and it's never enough. . .
- the followup to spin, and although it's not quite as good, the lyrics are really poetic. thanks to cecilia for recommending this song to me, which i've only heard on the radio a few times - i don't know why it doesn't get more air time. . .
- updated blog that was long and tedious, but i felt inexplicably incomplete without doing it - that's pretty disturbing. i couldn't update it this morning in any case, because i found myself crazily busy. after i got up, i insta-showered and cleaned out the fridge into my stomach before running out the door to wal-mart to get my green civic an oil change. (grrr - i was seriously considering asking julia to do it for me, to save money)
- while that was happening, i shopped for a few light bulbs that i needed for the irvine apartment, and checked out some of the electronics - the oil change ended up being really cheap, only $20 for the 18-point checkup. . .
mechanic's report:
driver front tire needs replacement
driver rear tire needs replacement
passenger front tire needs replacement
passenger rear tire needs replacement
air filter replacement not in stock
oil pan damaged
transmission leaks oil
- good god. that's pathetic. i need to ditch this car VERY soon, before the last of my three friends figure out that i drive this heap of metal sushi (steel covered in rice and trademarked in japan. . .). after wal-mart, i fled to my mom's office to fix her phone lines, and to play secretary for a while (cross off another career option for me, please) until 11:30, when i actually did something fun - i met up with my friend versha at starbucks. granted, i was fifteen minutes LATE, but my mom wouldn't let me leave until 11:25, and her office is on the other side of town. versha and i had a really long nice chat, and even though i got *slammed* for my outfit (errm. . .let's just say i have a VERY limited wardrobe in apple valley), it was nice getting to see her bright face again. . .
- back to work at noon - dropped by my mom's office one more time before heading off to my dental surgeon's office and planning out my wisdom teeth removal: july 17 is the planned day of my doom. that's going to suck QUITE a bit, i'm pretty sure. . .after an excruciating 90 minute drive back to irvine, i balled it up in the evening with andy, ani, rui, jay, and si hyun - and proceeded to chat away the rest of the night. great.
 
lexy word:
agog (middle french, "uh-gog")
full of intense interest or excitement; eager (illustration below)
1000 words:
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11:49 p. m. //
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domingo, junio 22, 2003:
song of the day (right click title to download):
pink - feel good time
we know how to pray, party everyday,
make our desolation a play,
riding in a rut till the power's cut -
we don't even have a good name. . .
- i like this song quite a bit, but the lyrics don't make any sense. at ALL. i swear pink just babbles on the entire song (akin to the rest of her songs), rattling off meaningless phrases like "now our time. . .real good time!" what does that mean ANYWAY? i wonder if it applies at all to the new charlie's angels movie (it's supposed to be on the soundtrack). . .
a highly musical day.
- the morning was mostly a blur, but i wasted most of it taking care of my dad (who had a terrible cough - ack =/) and transferring some files to my laptop (cool toy - bwahahahaha). around 1:30, i left for joy's senior recital, which was in newport beach. i was a tad disappointed by the kinda low turnout, considering the number of people she invited, but i still saw james, rui, ashkan, and brian there among other people. in ANY case, joy was wonderful, both on piano and singing. after it was over, i fielded a few terribly mean comments from james - basically, he was going to an on track party afterwards, and he was implying that i would want to come for an unspeakable reason. and THEN he accused me of going where i was for ANOTHER unspeakable reason. remind me to non-fatally stab him some time. . .
- we now resume your regularly scheduled programming. i high-tailed it over to concordia for julia's and irene's concert - it was the community (*cough cough* chinese, as james so wryly put it) youth orchestra of southern california annual concert, although the concertmaster was actually white (she was pretty good, of course). i hate to be mean, but they were kinda BAD towards the end - not that i'm going to blame julia or irene, both of who are terrific. =D betsy was wonderful on the piano, even tho i didn't expect her to be there - she was one of the better aspects of the orchestra. . .actually, si hyun, kali, and alex tam all came too. at the very end of the concert, the audience all rose to sing "god bless america" - and to si hyun and alex's utter disbelief, i started singing about two octaves above the rest of the guys. while they were cracking up, i sang opera-style (and QUITE loud, i might add T_T) through the entire song until the very last note, when alex's guffawing finally broke me down and i couldn't help but laugh at my own stupidity. si hyun, of course, was just staring with his mouth gaping wide. . .
okay, so i'm not the next andrea bocelli. or even clay aiken, for that matter. wait - that's a GOOD thing.
- after greeting googlia and irenium after the concert was over, i dropped off alex (managed to tailgate irene's car along the way - and mock her snail pace, much to alex's delight) and then packed up to head off to wonderful apple valley in the night. i actually got back by 9, which wasn't bad at all, and had enough time to install some software for my digcam and palmpilot on my laptop. . .and sneak in a few games of civilization iii on top of that. ROFL. on a happy note, my mom was happy that i came. =)
lexy word:
gape (old norse, "gayp")
to gaze stupidly or in openmouthed surprise or wonder (rofl, man i wish i were a dictionary writer)
Neil Biswas dreams on at
11:25 p. m. //
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