It's been a while since I updated. I've been so busy this whole week. I got back to north cal on sunday night and had classes at 8am all week. So tired. I've been unpacking and trying to find summer jobs. No luck so far but mom just gave me a list of state jobs hiring. Hopefully I'll find something that makes enough for a laptop.
I knew that city college classes were easier than UC classes but i never thought it'd be this easy. My professor goes through every answer on the quizzes before we take them and the essays we had to write are only 2-3 pages each. They do't even have a prompt. I don't think he even reads them. However, my philosophy class turned out to be much more difficult than I thought. We don't have much work to do. But the thinking level is super high and I often find myself distracted from the lesson because i can barely understand what he is trying to say.
When I got back from college, I realized my family is not the same. Not that it's gotten worse or anything. It's just... different. I feel like my family treats me with a type of stranger-like respect. The only person who hasn't really change is my mom. My dad totally lets me do anything i want and he doesn't get mad at me at all. He even complains to me about mom. On monday, dad and i were strolling around and he suddenly said "Do you know that feeling when you are attracted to other people other than your spouse." I was shock... I just asked him what is he tryng to say. But as soon as i asked that, he changed the subject. Maybe he's saying that he is no longer attracted to mom. Usually i would find this bad for a family. However, mom is thinking of a divorce anyways, so this will probably make it easier for the both of them anyways.
Sunday, June 22, 2008
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Surprise Final
It is just as the title suggested. Yesterday I was surprised by my professor's e-mail cause he decided to just sent everyone an e-mail that the math final had been moved from thursday to monday! So I freaked out yesterday and studied like crazy. Which is also why I didn't write anything yesterday... I studied until 4a.m. and then went to the library to find my friend Billy, who was going to help me study the questions that I don't understand. Thank goodness he came with me to my college now!
After I finished studying, it was 7a.m. So I went back to my dorm and went to sleep.
In my dream, I dreamt that some rich guy everybody loved had been murdered. This was a big case for the police department of my city because the rich guy had always been loved and that he was never known to have any enemies. Anyways, the morning after the guy was murdered, I went to work as usual. And I found out that I actually work a desk job at the police department. Not that I'm useless or anything. It's just that they didn't need me to be on patrol that day. And I wasn't any high positioned chief or anything. So that day I was working a desk job signing people in whent they come to report crimes. So, as I was working at the front desk, a man around early twenties came in. I didn't notice him until I saw the other girl working at the dest stare up at the approaching man with lovey dovey eyes. So I look up at the man and found out why. He looked and was dressed like a Asian celebrity. Not that he was like designer brand about everything, but he looked very handsome and dressed very stylishly. It was like a effortless type of stylish. Anyways, he looked at me and asked for our chief. So I went to get the chief. He and the chief went into the office to talk. Everyone started buzzing around hoping to find out who that guy was. I went back to doing my work, I mean, a cute guy is not gonna stop the world from turning right? After a while, I, along with 2 other guys were called into the chief's office. Turns out, this guy was the son of the rich man who was murdered. He had just flown in from another city after hearing the death of his father. It also turns out that he is a homicide investigator in another city and he wants to join our investigation on his father's death. Our chief said no because of protocol but he is willing to lend him some police to help out and we were chosen.
So after that, we started investigating and we were led to a parking lot structure where there were some peopl we wanted to question. However, when we entered the building, we witness another crime right before our eyes and had to go stop it first. By the time, we got to our targets, they had already left. The only thing they left was a turkey. Yes, it was a turkey. For some reason, everyone made a big deal about it and thought of the turkey as a important evidence. So they spent lots of time and turkey to try to figure out how that particular one was cooked. During this, I heard a faint whistle sound. So I asked if anyone hear the sound. One of the officers said, "Isn't that Mr. Ho's whistle?"
For some reason, I knew exactly who Mr. Ho is and started running to him. Buring my run, I figured out that Mr. Ho is one of the people that lives in my usual patrol area. He is a very old Chinese man that has a mentally retarded son. By the time I got there, there were alot of Chinese people saying stuff like "There was a big fire", "Mr. Ho burned his hands", "If only that patrol officer was here." I started feeling really guilty for not being there. I went up to Mr. Ho and asked if he was ok but his neighbors pushed me away and said that I was a useless cop. Feeling really upset, I left the house (cause they were chasing me out) and tried to walk down the street without crying. I felt tears coming out and immediately headed for Sydney's house.
Sydney's house was actually not a house at all. It was just a giant bed with lots of pig stuff animals. This is probably due to the fact that Sydney took me home many times and I felt really comfortable at her house and also because I knew Sydney is crazy about pigs. Sydney's mom came and informed me that Sydney is off to college. I then broke down and cried on the giant bed. Behind Sydney's giant bed was a down slope. At the bottom of the slope was a giant farm field with a mansion next to it. It turns out that was the rich man's mansion and the son saw me from his house and asked me to go have dinner at his place. I didn't see any road connecting from Sydney's bed to his front door so I climbed throught the only thing that did connect, his window.
I crawled through the window and into the mansion. I then went to the nearest door, thinking that it would connect to the living room. But instead, I opened it and found the guy just walking out of the room which turned out to be a bathroom. I was about to shout in surprised when he covered my mouth and said, "don't scream, I don't want my mom to think I sneaked girls into my room." I agreed and we bothsat down on the window sill. He said he saw me crying earlier and asked me waht happened. I told him the whole thing with Mr. Ho and he began to comfort me by saying that it's not my fault. Then we heard people calling from outside the first floor of the window sill. We looked out and found that it was a high school down there. The guy turned to me and said "I have to go to class. Tak to you later." With that, he jumped out the window and was gone.
After I finished studying, it was 7a.m. So I went back to my dorm and went to sleep.
In my dream, I dreamt that some rich guy everybody loved had been murdered. This was a big case for the police department of my city because the rich guy had always been loved and that he was never known to have any enemies. Anyways, the morning after the guy was murdered, I went to work as usual. And I found out that I actually work a desk job at the police department. Not that I'm useless or anything. It's just that they didn't need me to be on patrol that day. And I wasn't any high positioned chief or anything. So that day I was working a desk job signing people in whent they come to report crimes. So, as I was working at the front desk, a man around early twenties came in. I didn't notice him until I saw the other girl working at the dest stare up at the approaching man with lovey dovey eyes. So I look up at the man and found out why. He looked and was dressed like a Asian celebrity. Not that he was like designer brand about everything, but he looked very handsome and dressed very stylishly. It was like a effortless type of stylish. Anyways, he looked at me and asked for our chief. So I went to get the chief. He and the chief went into the office to talk. Everyone started buzzing around hoping to find out who that guy was. I went back to doing my work, I mean, a cute guy is not gonna stop the world from turning right? After a while, I, along with 2 other guys were called into the chief's office. Turns out, this guy was the son of the rich man who was murdered. He had just flown in from another city after hearing the death of his father. It also turns out that he is a homicide investigator in another city and he wants to join our investigation on his father's death. Our chief said no because of protocol but he is willing to lend him some police to help out and we were chosen.
So after that, we started investigating and we were led to a parking lot structure where there were some peopl we wanted to question. However, when we entered the building, we witness another crime right before our eyes and had to go stop it first. By the time, we got to our targets, they had already left. The only thing they left was a turkey. Yes, it was a turkey. For some reason, everyone made a big deal about it and thought of the turkey as a important evidence. So they spent lots of time and turkey to try to figure out how that particular one was cooked. During this, I heard a faint whistle sound. So I asked if anyone hear the sound. One of the officers said, "Isn't that Mr. Ho's whistle?"
For some reason, I knew exactly who Mr. Ho is and started running to him. Buring my run, I figured out that Mr. Ho is one of the people that lives in my usual patrol area. He is a very old Chinese man that has a mentally retarded son. By the time I got there, there were alot of Chinese people saying stuff like "There was a big fire", "Mr. Ho burned his hands", "If only that patrol officer was here." I started feeling really guilty for not being there. I went up to Mr. Ho and asked if he was ok but his neighbors pushed me away and said that I was a useless cop. Feeling really upset, I left the house (cause they were chasing me out) and tried to walk down the street without crying. I felt tears coming out and immediately headed for Sydney's house.
Sydney's house was actually not a house at all. It was just a giant bed with lots of pig stuff animals. This is probably due to the fact that Sydney took me home many times and I felt really comfortable at her house and also because I knew Sydney is crazy about pigs. Sydney's mom came and informed me that Sydney is off to college. I then broke down and cried on the giant bed. Behind Sydney's giant bed was a down slope. At the bottom of the slope was a giant farm field with a mansion next to it. It turns out that was the rich man's mansion and the son saw me from his house and asked me to go have dinner at his place. I didn't see any road connecting from Sydney's bed to his front door so I climbed throught the only thing that did connect, his window.
I crawled through the window and into the mansion. I then went to the nearest door, thinking that it would connect to the living room. But instead, I opened it and found the guy just walking out of the room which turned out to be a bathroom. I was about to shout in surprised when he covered my mouth and said, "don't scream, I don't want my mom to think I sneaked girls into my room." I agreed and we bothsat down on the window sill. He said he saw me crying earlier and asked me waht happened. I told him the whole thing with Mr. Ho and he began to comfort me by saying that it's not my fault. Then we heard people calling from outside the first floor of the window sill. We looked out and found that it was a high school down there. The guy turned to me and said "I have to go to class. Tak to you later." With that, he jumped out the window and was gone.
Sunday, June 08, 2008
Ugh! Finals... :(
Sigh... It's finally finals week. At the end of next week I'm gonna have to move back to North until October. Not that I hate North Cal, it's just that where I live is kinda boring and I'll be under the control of my dad again. I hope we don't argue....
That night, I read a manga about investigators busting illegal drug businesses. I guess I was thinking about it too much cause then I dreamed that I was a newly arrived investigator and that my department decided to send me undercover as the leader of a drug ring to bust this really big blackmarket of illegal drugs. But before I did anything in my dream, my friend called me and woke me up. It was Sydney calling me to remind me we have to go do recycle. Although I was fully aware that I had just been sleeping, I didn't realize that I was dreaming. And I thought that I was still an undercover cop. However, I thought that in addition to that identity, the black market group had create another alias for me and that I'm undercover for them as a college student so I can sell stuff on campus. So I thought i was like a triple undercover identity. It took me a full 5 minutes to realize that I had been dreaming and that I'm not undercover for anything. LOL. Sometimes I think I'm crazy.
Since I didn't post yesterday, I want to go through stuff that happened yesterday. I ACTUALLY WENT TO CLASS!!! It's been weeks since I have gone to my morning classes! But I woke up and went. Can you believe it? And guess what, Tom sat in front of us, Anna, Angela and me. Wow, that has never happen in lecture before. Anyways, after hum I started walking back with Angela. Tom walked so fast that I didn't see him until I was almost back to my dorm. As I was heading to go get breakfast, I caught Tom walking towards my direction. He saw me see him so he smiled and walked next to me. He didn't say anything and it was getting awkward so I ask him whether he got the papers that I had borrow fro him.
"Papers? What papers?"
My heart fell at his response because I thought that maybe I left the papers in the wrong room. But after I explained what papers, he realized what I was talking about.
"Oh, those papers. Yea, Someone just slipped them through my door."
"Yea, that was me. I didn't know if you were in or not."
"Oh, You should've knocked. I would've opened the door for you."
"O. Haha..."
I'm so retarded. Anyways, I told him thanks again and he thanked me for bringing them back and that was it. I don't think I'll be seeing him much anymore...
After I ate breakfast, I just stayed up because there was the Annual Watermelon Drop going on. I went with my friends to go see it. The watermelon queen this year was actually a guy named Ricardo. He was half naked and wearing socks and shorts that made him look like he was part watermelon. The funniest thing I saw was that he wrote watermelon in Chinese on his back. Anyways, he dropped the watermelon from the seventh floor. As I move back from the from the front of the crowd (cause I didn't want watermelon bits splattered on me), I saw Tom riding by on a skateboard. My head followed his direction until I had turned back toward the watermelon drop site. It was then that I notice I was staring striaght into a video camera of ABC news and was probably broadcast live the whole entire time. With my bubble space invaded, I freaked out and walked away from the camera as quick as possible. After the watermelon was dropped, my friends and I went to get free watermelon. To my surprised, the plaza was filled with people from TV stations, families, and different businesses. For that day, our fountain was not turned on. Instead, it had been turned into a gaint cooler for the watermelons.
That night, I read a manga about investigators busting illegal drug businesses. I guess I was thinking about it too much cause then I dreamed that I was a newly arrived investigator and that my department decided to send me undercover as the leader of a drug ring to bust this really big blackmarket of illegal drugs. But before I did anything in my dream, my friend called me and woke me up. It was Sydney calling me to remind me we have to go do recycle. Although I was fully aware that I had just been sleeping, I didn't realize that I was dreaming. And I thought that I was still an undercover cop. However, I thought that in addition to that identity, the black market group had create another alias for me and that I'm undercover for them as a college student so I can sell stuff on campus. So I thought i was like a triple undercover identity. It took me a full 5 minutes to realize that I had been dreaming and that I'm not undercover for anything. LOL. Sometimes I think I'm crazy.So then I got ready and took my recycling to the recycling center with the help of Sydney. Although I usually recycle, I have never actually gone to the recycling center before. And I was totally amzed at the giant pile of recycle that I just had to take a picture.
My recycle turned out to be about $14. Sydney had $7 dollars worth but the lady at the desk made a mistake and gave her $57!! Isn't that crazy? After that, we just left and I've been in my room doing nothing. Around midnight, my college was holding what they call "study break>' The study break tonight was to relieve stress from finals by screaming at midnight and eating Krispy Kreme. I was hoping to see Tom there but no luck. After donuts, I went on my computer and tried to find jobs for the summer. I applied to Wal Mart and am planning on applying to a pet hotel. I like pets, and so I thought this would be fun. I hope I don't have to deal with too much poop. I was also thinking about this "Tissue Renewal Assistant" job. But the job requirement said that I have to deal with people dying everyday and that I will have to becable to endure "turama and invasive surgical operations." What the hell? I wanted to do this because it was medical related. But they made it sound like such a creepy job. I think I might still call in to read about it though.
My recycle turned out to be about $14. Sydney had $7 dollars worth but the lady at the desk made a mistake and gave her $57!! Isn't that crazy? After that, we just left and I've been in my room doing nothing. Around midnight, my college was holding what they call "study break>' The study break tonight was to relieve stress from finals by screaming at midnight and eating Krispy Kreme. I was hoping to see Tom there but no luck. After donuts, I went on my computer and tried to find jobs for the summer. I applied to Wal Mart and am planning on applying to a pet hotel. I like pets, and so I thought this would be fun. I hope I don't have to deal with too much poop. I was also thinking about this "Tissue Renewal Assistant" job. But the job requirement said that I have to deal with people dying everyday and that I will have to becable to endure "turama and invasive surgical operations." What the hell? I wanted to do this because it was medical related. But they made it sound like such a creepy job. I think I might still call in to read about it though.Friday, June 06, 2008
Tired...
This week is the second to the last week of Spring quarter. Next week I'm gonna have finals. Therefore this week is the last week of classes. Today I had my very last humanities discussion. As I have mentioned before, I was suppose to present a topic with Angela and another guy. So I did and our group ended up having the best presentation. As I have predicted, I ended up doing most of the work in the group. O well, it's the last time anyways. I went to class late today so I didn't sit next to Tom or Angela. I ended up sitting next the the shyest guy in class, the laptop geeks, and straight across from Tom (we sat facing each other). After doing our presentations, the T.A. grouped people according to where they sat to answer a few questions regarding a reading we were suppose to have read this week. Everybody started looking down and smiling to themselves because we all knew nobody had read any of the readings. When everyone started trying to figure out how to answer the questions, my group stayed quiet. The shyest guy kept looking away from me and the laptop geeks stayed glued to their computers. So, to start the discussion, I asked how far have they read. They all told me they haven't read. Sigh.... So I asked the one of the laptop geeks what they were looking at.
"Wikipedia!"
My face lit up, "O great! What do they say?"
"I don't know, it doesn't really answer our question."
My face fell, "O Shit."
Tom saw me looking around my group helplessly and I caught him trying to hide his smile... Sigh... So then the T.A> asked us to give our answer. Nobody said anything so I just explained something I have read (which was only the preface and intro). After I finished, it looked like the T.A. was still looking for more. So I whispered to my two sides and kept asking them to say something. Again, Tom was smiling so hard that he had to fake cough and hide his face behind his notebook. Sigh... and today was the last time I would see Tom too... Great way to leave a memory.
After hum, I didn't have classes for the rest of the day. So I decided to go to the gym with my friend. I taught her how to play a bit of tennis (I used to play first doubles for my high school team) and we rallied a bit. Then we decided to go into the gym and get on the treadmill. We worked up quite a sweat and left after 3 hours. I'm so tired right now....
"Wikipedia!"
My face lit up, "O great! What do they say?"
"I don't know, it doesn't really answer our question."
My face fell, "O Shit."
Tom saw me looking around my group helplessly and I caught him trying to hide his smile... Sigh... So then the T.A> asked us to give our answer. Nobody said anything so I just explained something I have read (which was only the preface and intro). After I finished, it looked like the T.A. was still looking for more. So I whispered to my two sides and kept asking them to say something. Again, Tom was smiling so hard that he had to fake cough and hide his face behind his notebook. Sigh... and today was the last time I would see Tom too... Great way to leave a memory.
After hum, I didn't have classes for the rest of the day. So I decided to go to the gym with my friend. I taught her how to play a bit of tennis (I used to play first doubles for my high school team) and we rallied a bit. Then we decided to go into the gym and get on the treadmill. We worked up quite a sweat and left after 3 hours. I'm so tired right now....
Thursday, June 05, 2008
Gloomy Day
Nothing really happened today except someone threw a hairband that has been on the bathroom floor on my toothbrush... I was pissed!! Anyways, after that I went to chem. The T.A. had not brought back our quizzes, again... After I went back to my dorm, I didn't feel well. I always feel ill when the weather is bad. It's not like anything hurts or anything. I just, i don't know, feel moody. Gabriella came over today and we just hung out at our dorm watching TV. After a while, Gabriella wanted to go downstairs. We told her we'll go in a little while because we wanted to know what happens on the TV. She became impatient and just told us the ending. I didn't really care but Anna got upset and said "I think I'm gonna have a problem with this next year." She said next year because Gabriella will be living with all of us, Sydney(I had previously called her Paula but she mentioned today that she would 've like her parents to name her that), Kelly, Anna, and me, next year. I was slightly surprised at Anna's comment because she is usually very tolerant of people. Idon't know, maybe the weather upseted her too.
That's about it for my day. I didn't really do much except work on my presentation for hum and wrote a bit of fiction when I should've been paying attention in class. lol. I hope I will feel better tomorrow and wake up earlier.
That's about it for my day. I didn't really do much except work on my presentation for hum and wrote a bit of fiction when I should've been paying attention in class. lol. I hope I will feel better tomorrow and wake up earlier.
Wednesday, June 04, 2008
1st Ensemble
Before I go on talking about today, I want to inform you guys of some changes around here. After looking at how long my post was yesterday, I realized that I blab on too much and that my blog is really unorganized. Since I know that I get obsess about stuff and blab on for a really long time, I decided that I would make a new blog for just that purpose. So may I introduce you to my 2nd blog: "Hayley's Entertainment Corner" (http://hayleynogorakukado.blogspot.com/) That place will be reserved for just comments and thoughts regarding whatever interests me at the moment whether it'd be anime, music, movies, or video games. So yea, if you guys are getting bored of reading about my life, how about checking out the entertainment stuff there? If you feel like sticking around her instead? No problem, I'll still talk about things that interest me lately, just not to the level where I'm about to write an essay on the topic or something. lol.
So, it's time to talk about my day. My day started at around 4p.m. today. Why? Because I didn't sleep until it was 5a.m. that morning. Anyways, my first class of the day was Humanities discussion. Right when I walked in, things started going wrong... Lately, Tom has been sitting at the seat on the left of me all the time. Just when I thought I would be able to sit next to him today, I actually ended up sitting on the corner seat because Angela decided to skip a seat. Since there weren't anymore pairs of empty seats, I ended up sitting where Tom usually sits. When he walked in, he immediately started for that seat I was in but stopped when he saw I was in it. He then swept his eyes towards my right looking for a seat but didn't find one until he was 5 seats over. So he ended up sitting really far from me. Oh well. It's just for a day. Towards the end of discussion, my T.A. decided to give us a project to do. Not only did I not get the topic of my choice, I also ended up in a group with Angela and another lazy guy. I don't particularly like being in a group with Angela because she often says "I don't know." to everything and then asks me to answer. Sigh... I can't really refuse her because she just turned over towards me and started suggesting what topic to do, meaning she already decided that I'm in her group. After that was done, I hear Tom said from the other side of the room "we need another person." I looked up and found him staring straight at me. Now, you might think that I say he is staring straight at me because I have a crush on him and am probably imagining it. However, he was looking at me. The reason for this is because everyone in the discussion knows that I'm a hard worker and whenever we have group presentations I am often the leader and speaker of the group. So that is why I know that Tom was looking straight at me and I'm not imagining it. Anyways, the T.A. heard what Tom said and before anyone else could say anything, he immediately elected on of the people who didn't have a group to be in Tom's group. I don't really blame him. It was the best thing to do in the situation. I only blame Angela for assuming that I will always do her work for her. After class, I asked my group what they wanted to do for the project and guess what they both said "It's only for 5 minutes right, we'll just B.S. it on the day of." I couldn't believe this, I'm in a group where people will not even try to earn a better grade. I have a feeling I will be doing everything.... On the way back to my dorm, I wanted to stop by the Humanities office to get more info on my topic. As I walk towards the dorr, guess who I see. Tom walking out of the office, holding the papers that I wanted to get. He came up to me and asked if I was going to the Hum office. It turns out that he managed to grab the papers just before the office had closed. Seeing my chance, I asked him if I could borrow his papers to scan and then give it back to him later. He said yea and I ran back to my room to scan the papers quick. I knew which suite and building Tom lives in because my friend also lives in the same place. However, after getting ther, I realized that I didn't know which room he lives in. So I asked a guy who had his room door opened. He pointed to the door and watched me as I walked up to it. Feeling uncomfortable, I slipped the papers underneath the door and walked out. STUPID!!! I should've knocked on the door so I can see Tom and say thank you or something. Maybe even ask him what he plans on doing for his topic. Anything but walking out without seeing him! Sigh... I'm retarded....
As soon as I got back to my dorm, I began practicing my guqin because I had a concert tonight. Guqin is a Chinese stinged instrument(look it up on wiki). At 7p.m. I walked over to the music hall and watched as the people run back and forth to get ready for the concert. I, alone with 6 other students, practiced with our home-made qin as much as possible (we had home-made ones because a real one costs about $300-$1000). Then we practiced on the real ones because we were going to perform with those and we have never played a real one before. Fortunately, the real ones turned out to be even easier to play than the home-made ones (see below).
This concert was put together last minute as a fundraiser for the Sze Chuan earthquake victims. Since everything was rushed, I never knew what the program awas before tonight. It turned out we had professional players from China and even a world famous guain and pipa player, Lui Pei-Yuan, coming to play at our concert. One girl that I have never seen before brought an instrument call a yang qin and started playing. For those of you who have never seen a yang qin before, it is one of the most amazing instruments I have seen. It has so many strings and it sounds super middle eastern. It was really awesome watching her play this instrument. The concert tuened out fine, even my part of it. Only thing that was a bit disappointing what Mr. Lui's grandduaghter's performance. I kinda feel bad for her, she had only been learning guqin for about a month, which was a shorter period than any of us, and she was already expected to play this piece that none of my fellow students can play perfectly because she was Mr. Lui's grandduaghter. All of us could hear that she messed up alot and was trying to rush the song. I just hope the audience didn't know. After the concert, Mr. Lui came up to us, thought he didn't speak English, and asked to see our home-made qins. He examined it very throughly and played with it as if he was a child who had found an interesting new toy. After playing a song on it, he gave us suggestions on how to improve them next time and even signed our home-made qins. HAH! The price of my crappy qin just went from $30 to $300! LOL! After that, my professor took us all out to dinner at a Shanghai restaurant. I don't really eat Shanghai food so I told the other people to order and that I'm open to any food. Because my ride and I arrived late, we ended up sitting at the vegetarian table. Although, I was disappointed that there were no meat, the food was still really good and I wouldn't mind eating it again. This is the first Chinese place that I have approved since coming to South California.
So, it's time to talk about my day. My day started at around 4p.m. today. Why? Because I didn't sleep until it was 5a.m. that morning. Anyways, my first class of the day was Humanities discussion. Right when I walked in, things started going wrong... Lately, Tom has been sitting at the seat on the left of me all the time. Just when I thought I would be able to sit next to him today, I actually ended up sitting on the corner seat because Angela decided to skip a seat. Since there weren't anymore pairs of empty seats, I ended up sitting where Tom usually sits. When he walked in, he immediately started for that seat I was in but stopped when he saw I was in it. He then swept his eyes towards my right looking for a seat but didn't find one until he was 5 seats over. So he ended up sitting really far from me. Oh well. It's just for a day. Towards the end of discussion, my T.A. decided to give us a project to do. Not only did I not get the topic of my choice, I also ended up in a group with Angela and another lazy guy. I don't particularly like being in a group with Angela because she often says "I don't know." to everything and then asks me to answer. Sigh... I can't really refuse her because she just turned over towards me and started suggesting what topic to do, meaning she already decided that I'm in her group. After that was done, I hear Tom said from the other side of the room "we need another person." I looked up and found him staring straight at me. Now, you might think that I say he is staring straight at me because I have a crush on him and am probably imagining it. However, he was looking at me. The reason for this is because everyone in the discussion knows that I'm a hard worker and whenever we have group presentations I am often the leader and speaker of the group. So that is why I know that Tom was looking straight at me and I'm not imagining it. Anyways, the T.A. heard what Tom said and before anyone else could say anything, he immediately elected on of the people who didn't have a group to be in Tom's group. I don't really blame him. It was the best thing to do in the situation. I only blame Angela for assuming that I will always do her work for her. After class, I asked my group what they wanted to do for the project and guess what they both said "It's only for 5 minutes right, we'll just B.S. it on the day of." I couldn't believe this, I'm in a group where people will not even try to earn a better grade. I have a feeling I will be doing everything.... On the way back to my dorm, I wanted to stop by the Humanities office to get more info on my topic. As I walk towards the dorr, guess who I see. Tom walking out of the office, holding the papers that I wanted to get. He came up to me and asked if I was going to the Hum office. It turns out that he managed to grab the papers just before the office had closed. Seeing my chance, I asked him if I could borrow his papers to scan and then give it back to him later. He said yea and I ran back to my room to scan the papers quick. I knew which suite and building Tom lives in because my friend also lives in the same place. However, after getting ther, I realized that I didn't know which room he lives in. So I asked a guy who had his room door opened. He pointed to the door and watched me as I walked up to it. Feeling uncomfortable, I slipped the papers underneath the door and walked out. STUPID!!! I should've knocked on the door so I can see Tom and say thank you or something. Maybe even ask him what he plans on doing for his topic. Anything but walking out without seeing him! Sigh... I'm retarded....
As soon as I got back to my dorm, I began practicing my guqin because I had a concert tonight. Guqin is a Chinese stinged instrument(look it up on wiki). At 7p.m. I walked over to the music hall and watched as the people run back and forth to get ready for the concert. I, alone with 6 other students, practiced with our home-made qin as much as possible (we had home-made ones because a real one costs about $300-$1000). Then we practiced on the real ones because we were going to perform with those and we have never played a real one before. Fortunately, the real ones turned out to be even easier to play than the home-made ones (see below).
This concert was put together last minute as a fundraiser for the Sze Chuan earthquake victims. Since everything was rushed, I never knew what the program awas before tonight. It turned out we had professional players from China and even a world famous guain and pipa player, Lui Pei-Yuan, coming to play at our concert. One girl that I have never seen before brought an instrument call a yang qin and started playing. For those of you who have never seen a yang qin before, it is one of the most amazing instruments I have seen. It has so many strings and it sounds super middle eastern. It was really awesome watching her play this instrument. The concert tuened out fine, even my part of it. Only thing that was a bit disappointing what Mr. Lui's grandduaghter's performance. I kinda feel bad for her, she had only been learning guqin for about a month, which was a shorter period than any of us, and she was already expected to play this piece that none of my fellow students can play perfectly because she was Mr. Lui's grandduaghter. All of us could hear that she messed up alot and was trying to rush the song. I just hope the audience didn't know. After the concert, Mr. Lui came up to us, thought he didn't speak English, and asked to see our home-made qins. He examined it very throughly and played with it as if he was a child who had found an interesting new toy. After playing a song on it, he gave us suggestions on how to improve them next time and even signed our home-made qins. HAH! The price of my crappy qin just went from $30 to $300! LOL! After that, my professor took us all out to dinner at a Shanghai restaurant. I don't really eat Shanghai food so I told the other people to order and that I'm open to any food. Because my ride and I arrived late, we ended up sitting at the vegetarian table. Although, I was disappointed that there were no meat, the food was still really good and I wouldn't mind eating it again. This is the first Chinese place that I have approved since coming to South California.
Tuesday, June 03, 2008
Finally....
It is now 3:45 a.m. Why am I up this late? I'm up this late because I have been working on getting this blog up! Yay! Success! I finally have my own blog! The hardest part was trying to figure out a user name that kinda relates to me but will not give me away to the whole world. I'd say it took me about a whole hour just to figure it out.
Hm... I don't really know what I should talk about for my first post... Well, how about I talk a little about what I will be posting on this blog. You can probably tell from the blog's name that this blog is basically a little place for me to rant on about things that interest me or maybe just about my day. As you can tell from my layout that I'm an anime fan, currently a big, huge, giant Code Geass fan. So I will be posting lots of stuff about how I feel about the series and such. I also like to write fiction. In fact, I'm hoping to get a major in writing so I might be able to get a job creating story plot and character designs for a game or anime company, maybe even a screen-writer or something. Another one of my hobbies is to day-dream. I do it alot: during lectures, when I'm on the toilet (lol), in the shower, or even when I'm sleeping (though I guess that would be actual dreaming). With day-dreaming and fiction writing as hobbies, I like to spend time just thinking about different story plots or changes to movies, books, or anime that I'm watching. One thing I do alot is to create my own character and put him or her into an already existing plot and add my own twist to it. I like to then tell people about my plots. However, now that I have my own blog, I will be telling you guys about them instead.
I often have weird dreams. Some people might think I'm crazy when I tell them about my dreams as they often include me doing weird things that are action pacted. For example, I once dreamt that I was a knight fighting a goddess that shot beams out of her eyes.... Yea... you get the point. Believe it or not, I actually really like these dreams. Although some of them are stupid and not useful, most of them actually inspire me to develope new stories. Unfortunately, I forget most of my dreams as soon as I wake up lol! So I will be posting up some of the interesting dreams that I have.
So... now that I'm kinda done talking about what will be in this blog (most of it anyways...), let's talk about my last few days huh?
I spent the whole last Thursday night to friday morning working on a essay for humanities... Thank god that was the last one I will have to do for this quarter... By the time I finished my essay, it was already 5a.m. So I decided that I'll just stay up because I know I won't get up once I fall asleep. After I finished my essay, I went to my roommate, Anna, to see how she was doing on her essay. And no, Anna is not her real name. Incase you were wondering, Hayley is not my real name either. So... back to the story. After checking up on her, I went to surf on the web and didn't really find anything interesting. With so much time on my hands, I decided to look pretty for that day. One of my roommates, suggested to me that I would look nice if I curled my hair and wore this new dress I got (to tell you the truth, I don't even know why I bought that dress... Probably won't be wearing it much...). So I did as she suggested. By the time I was done, it was time for chem (8a.m.). I went to class for the first time in weeks... I feel so bad for missing all my chem classes, but I can't help it.... I just get so tired.... Good thing I've been doing well in chem this quarter. Hopefully I will end up getting a B or above. Although I went to class, I was actually not paying attention at all... I stared writing a fiction right under where I started my chem notes. I'm such a bad student lol. I will not discuss what I wrote now cause it's gonna take a long time. After chem, I went to Humanities. For the first 5 minutes of class, I was texting Anna continuously because I thought she had overslept. That's not even the problem. If she had given me her essay to turn in before I left for chem we would've been ok. But she didn't give it to me and I thought maybe she couldn't get up for class... Much to my relieve, she showed up late and was able to turn in her essay. After that we spent the rest of the class doodling random stuff on our hum notebook lol.
After hum, I walked back to my room with my actual roommate who I share the room with (Anna and the previous roommates I have mention are actually suitmates, we don't share a room), Angela. Regarding Angela, you might be hearing some complains about her soon. None of the suit really likes her. Plus, I'm quite a picky person s I complain alot, which I am completely comfortable with admitting. My mom always say, if people don't have high expectations, they would most likely fail in life. I always listen to what my mom says. Not just because she's my mom, but she's like my goal and idol. She's a completely awesome and independent woman. I totally admire her but I will stop here because that is not the topic of our current discussion. So, back to Angela. On the way back, we started walking past Tom, the boy that I have a slight crush on. Angela, being in the same math class as him, wanted to say hi to him, which is completely understandable. But she didn't just slow down to talk to him. She comepletely ditched me and walked back to talk to him. I tried to pretend nothing happened and was next to her. After walking for a while, Tom somehow ended up between me and Angela instead of Angela in the middle which was how we started out. That's totally fine with me :) We started talking about the essay and how nobody slept last night (Tom is also in my hum class and discussion). Then we started talking about this special even the college is holding for the students to relax. Tom asked me what time it starts and whether I was going. I said I am planning on going. Infact, I've been planning the whole week for it! No way I'm gonna miss free ice-cream and games! So Tom left to go back to his dorm and I went to get breakfast. After breakfast, I had planned on surfing the web and finish reading Hikaru no Go until it was time for the event. But I guess I overestimated my energy level and fell asleep. When I wole up, it was 2:30. The event had been going on for half an hour. So I told myself that I should get up. However, as soon as I finished my thought, I feel unconcious. When I opened my eyes again, it was 4p.m. It was too late to get up so I ended up not going... NOOOOO!!!! THE FREE ICE-CREAM!!!!
Saturday I woke up at 9a.m. because we, Paula, Anna, Kelly and I (we didn't want to take Angela), were going to the Zoo. This is the first actual tour place I have been to since I became a freshman in college here in Southern California. I was super excited but really tired as I have not catch up on the sleep I lacked the day before. I was glad I actually remembered to bring my camera and took many pictures of the animals!!! I will upload those later when I have time. After the zoo closed at 5p.m. (yes, we were there for 7 hours), we went to eat at Denny's. It's been so long since I've had actual meat that pampered myslef with a $17.27 dollar meal of steak and a strawberry pucker. I usually am really stingy with money especially when it comes to spending on myself. The strawberry pucker had came with a toothpick size pirate sword that I wanted to keep as a souveneir. But I left it on the plate and the waitress took it with her. :( Oh well. After Denny's, though we were super tired, Kelly wanted to go to the beach. When Paula drove us there, Kelly ended up not getting up to see the beach. We then went to another place that was a smaller part of the beach. Kelly finally woke up and complained that it wasn't really a beach cause it was so small. Sigh... she can be selfish sometimes... So then Paula drove us back to the beach we were at. Lastly, we went to this place called "Mootime" and got ice-cream there. Line were so long. The guy who served me ice-ream gave me 4 scopes although I had asked for two. I was so full after eating the first two scoops that I had to throw away the rest. Sigh... such a waste.
As some Code Geass fans might know, a new episode of Code Geass R2 is usually uploaded online by sundays. So on sunday, I went online as soon as I woke up, feeling super excited about the new episode because last weekend they didn't even show a preview on the next episode. I went online and typed in "Code Geass R2 9" and the first thing that popped up was episode 9&10 combo preview. I clicked it just so I can have an expectation of what is to come in, what I thought, a few seconds. The preview was, as usual, super awesome and made me want to watch the anime even more. So then I proceed to find the episode but was unsuccessful. After being super frustrated, I went on wikipedia (Yes, I'm a big fan of wiki) and tried to find out what happen. I looked at the broadcast day for episode 9 and found that it was schedule for next weekend. I screamed out in frustration and immediately went to rant to my roommates. They don't even know what was going on cause they don't watch Code Geass, but they still sympathized with me... I was so sad.... Eversince then, I have been counting down to when the next episode will come out.... It is now tuesday. So that means I have 5 more days to go... >:( GRRRRR!!!!
Hm... I don't really know what I should talk about for my first post... Well, how about I talk a little about what I will be posting on this blog. You can probably tell from the blog's name that this blog is basically a little place for me to rant on about things that interest me or maybe just about my day. As you can tell from my layout that I'm an anime fan, currently a big, huge, giant Code Geass fan. So I will be posting lots of stuff about how I feel about the series and such. I also like to write fiction. In fact, I'm hoping to get a major in writing so I might be able to get a job creating story plot and character designs for a game or anime company, maybe even a screen-writer or something. Another one of my hobbies is to day-dream. I do it alot: during lectures, when I'm on the toilet (lol), in the shower, or even when I'm sleeping (though I guess that would be actual dreaming). With day-dreaming and fiction writing as hobbies, I like to spend time just thinking about different story plots or changes to movies, books, or anime that I'm watching. One thing I do alot is to create my own character and put him or her into an already existing plot and add my own twist to it. I like to then tell people about my plots. However, now that I have my own blog, I will be telling you guys about them instead.
I often have weird dreams. Some people might think I'm crazy when I tell them about my dreams as they often include me doing weird things that are action pacted. For example, I once dreamt that I was a knight fighting a goddess that shot beams out of her eyes.... Yea... you get the point. Believe it or not, I actually really like these dreams. Although some of them are stupid and not useful, most of them actually inspire me to develope new stories. Unfortunately, I forget most of my dreams as soon as I wake up lol! So I will be posting up some of the interesting dreams that I have.
So... now that I'm kinda done talking about what will be in this blog (most of it anyways...), let's talk about my last few days huh?
I spent the whole last Thursday night to friday morning working on a essay for humanities... Thank god that was the last one I will have to do for this quarter... By the time I finished my essay, it was already 5a.m. So I decided that I'll just stay up because I know I won't get up once I fall asleep. After I finished my essay, I went to my roommate, Anna, to see how she was doing on her essay. And no, Anna is not her real name. Incase you were wondering, Hayley is not my real name either. So... back to the story. After checking up on her, I went to surf on the web and didn't really find anything interesting. With so much time on my hands, I decided to look pretty for that day. One of my roommates, suggested to me that I would look nice if I curled my hair and wore this new dress I got (to tell you the truth, I don't even know why I bought that dress... Probably won't be wearing it much...). So I did as she suggested. By the time I was done, it was time for chem (8a.m.). I went to class for the first time in weeks... I feel so bad for missing all my chem classes, but I can't help it.... I just get so tired.... Good thing I've been doing well in chem this quarter. Hopefully I will end up getting a B or above. Although I went to class, I was actually not paying attention at all... I stared writing a fiction right under where I started my chem notes. I'm such a bad student lol. I will not discuss what I wrote now cause it's gonna take a long time. After chem, I went to Humanities. For the first 5 minutes of class, I was texting Anna continuously because I thought she had overslept. That's not even the problem. If she had given me her essay to turn in before I left for chem we would've been ok. But she didn't give it to me and I thought maybe she couldn't get up for class... Much to my relieve, she showed up late and was able to turn in her essay. After that we spent the rest of the class doodling random stuff on our hum notebook lol.
After hum, I walked back to my room with my actual roommate who I share the room with (Anna and the previous roommates I have mention are actually suitmates, we don't share a room), Angela. Regarding Angela, you might be hearing some complains about her soon. None of the suit really likes her. Plus, I'm quite a picky person s I complain alot, which I am completely comfortable with admitting. My mom always say, if people don't have high expectations, they would most likely fail in life. I always listen to what my mom says. Not just because she's my mom, but she's like my goal and idol. She's a completely awesome and independent woman. I totally admire her but I will stop here because that is not the topic of our current discussion. So, back to Angela. On the way back, we started walking past Tom, the boy that I have a slight crush on. Angela, being in the same math class as him, wanted to say hi to him, which is completely understandable. But she didn't just slow down to talk to him. She comepletely ditched me and walked back to talk to him. I tried to pretend nothing happened and was next to her. After walking for a while, Tom somehow ended up between me and Angela instead of Angela in the middle which was how we started out. That's totally fine with me :) We started talking about the essay and how nobody slept last night (Tom is also in my hum class and discussion). Then we started talking about this special even the college is holding for the students to relax. Tom asked me what time it starts and whether I was going. I said I am planning on going. Infact, I've been planning the whole week for it! No way I'm gonna miss free ice-cream and games! So Tom left to go back to his dorm and I went to get breakfast. After breakfast, I had planned on surfing the web and finish reading Hikaru no Go until it was time for the event. But I guess I overestimated my energy level and fell asleep. When I wole up, it was 2:30. The event had been going on for half an hour. So I told myself that I should get up. However, as soon as I finished my thought, I feel unconcious. When I opened my eyes again, it was 4p.m. It was too late to get up so I ended up not going... NOOOOO!!!! THE FREE ICE-CREAM!!!!
Saturday I woke up at 9a.m. because we, Paula, Anna, Kelly and I (we didn't want to take Angela), were going to the Zoo. This is the first actual tour place I have been to since I became a freshman in college here in Southern California. I was super excited but really tired as I have not catch up on the sleep I lacked the day before. I was glad I actually remembered to bring my camera and took many pictures of the animals!!! I will upload those later when I have time. After the zoo closed at 5p.m. (yes, we were there for 7 hours), we went to eat at Denny's. It's been so long since I've had actual meat that pampered myslef with a $17.27 dollar meal of steak and a strawberry pucker. I usually am really stingy with money especially when it comes to spending on myself. The strawberry pucker had came with a toothpick size pirate sword that I wanted to keep as a souveneir. But I left it on the plate and the waitress took it with her. :( Oh well. After Denny's, though we were super tired, Kelly wanted to go to the beach. When Paula drove us there, Kelly ended up not getting up to see the beach. We then went to another place that was a smaller part of the beach. Kelly finally woke up and complained that it wasn't really a beach cause it was so small. Sigh... she can be selfish sometimes... So then Paula drove us back to the beach we were at. Lastly, we went to this place called "Mootime" and got ice-cream there. Line were so long. The guy who served me ice-ream gave me 4 scopes although I had asked for two. I was so full after eating the first two scoops that I had to throw away the rest. Sigh... such a waste.
As some Code Geass fans might know, a new episode of Code Geass R2 is usually uploaded online by sundays. So on sunday, I went online as soon as I woke up, feeling super excited about the new episode because last weekend they didn't even show a preview on the next episode. I went online and typed in "Code Geass R2 9" and the first thing that popped up was episode 9&10 combo preview. I clicked it just so I can have an expectation of what is to come in, what I thought, a few seconds. The preview was, as usual, super awesome and made me want to watch the anime even more. So then I proceed to find the episode but was unsuccessful. After being super frustrated, I went on wikipedia (Yes, I'm a big fan of wiki) and tried to find out what happen. I looked at the broadcast day for episode 9 and found that it was schedule for next weekend. I screamed out in frustration and immediately went to rant to my roommates. They don't even know what was going on cause they don't watch Code Geass, but they still sympathized with me... I was so sad.... Eversince then, I have been counting down to when the next episode will come out.... It is now tuesday. So that means I have 5 more days to go... >:( GRRRRR!!!!
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