sunday. april 30, 2006
music| reinhold gliere - symphony no. 3
yaaaay ^_^ went down to princeton this past friday to visit chrissy and see the orchestra concert. twas lovely! it was so nice to see chrissy again ^^ and wander the campus... i feel bad i didn't see any of the charter juniors but i plead lack of time...
so friday, i left after work and met up with chrissy at the dinky station and basically talked all night, catching up on stuff. in the middle, we tried to go to murry dodge but some silly people had an event going on so it was closed.. no free cookies ;__;... but we really wanted something sweet to eat and tea so we ended up going to cafe viv. while we were there, this guy wearing only his boxers (seriously!) went up on stage and started talking on the mic, which was on. quite amusing... while it was going on, i was thinking, where else but in college would this happen?
saturday, chrissy took me to brunch at colonial (not as good as charter!) and we met up with jon and mark. yay ^_^ after brunch, chrissy had meetings to go to so i tagged along with mark and jon to communiversity. i had no idea it was happening that weekend so it was a happy coincidence. it's quite amazing how much it's changed since freshman year. a lot more elaborate and much more organized. anyway, we wandered for a bit before jon left to go do work.. the poor boy still had his thesis to work on... for that matter, chrissy does too ;__;... anyway, mark wanted to go on the chapel tour so i figured, why not and went along. now i'm glad i did because it was fascinating. i never realized how thought out the stainglass windows were or the interesting history behind the chapel. for those people going to reunions, if they have another tour, i highly recommend it
after the tour, mark and i loitered in front of firestone, eating kettle corn and just talking until we finished off half the bag. then mark decided he wanted a bag of his own to take into firestone with him so i tagged along again since i really had nothing better to do ^^;... after mark went off to do some work, i went by pins and needles, just for old times sake ^^, and found some nice varigated mohair ^^ .. not that i really need another project in the queue but i hadn't seen that particular type of yarn anywhere else so i figured i should seize the opportunity.
i headed to chrissy's room afterwards and read/napped while she worked until dinner, for which we went to zorba's brother's. as always, the gyros were wonderful ^_^ then it was time for the concert
while the music was wonderful, the most memorable part of the concert was the lost bassoon part. what happened was, after the intermission, we were all waiting for pratt to come out and start the piece when we see people in the bassoon section running on, off, and all around the stage. now, that's fairly unusual so that caught our attention. seeing a lack of parts on one of the stands, we hazarded that they'd lost a part and, bingo, after a little bit, one of the richardson people come out and tell us that a bassoon part was missing and, if anyone had picked it up, would they please please return it (i guess it was sitting outside on one of the side tables during the intermission?) so we're waiting and they're looking some more, and pratt comes out to say that they've sent for the score and that they'd start in a little bit. now, i'm finding all this very humourous cause it really is rather absurd. anyway, after a bit, music is brought out and the concert starts. the weird thing was, as far as we can see, the music isn't large enough to be the score... getting the scoop later from one of the violas, it turned out that one of the audience members had picked it up and didn't realize until a while later that he/she had the part, even after we were all asked if we had it.. i don't understand how someone could be that dense but whatever...
following the concert, i headed to the reception but chrissy ditched me to go do more work ;__; how sad... but i hung out with the violas and ran into jamie and tom, who had come down from connecticut for the concert. after the concert, i headed to the party with a group of orchestra people. entering holder, we were going up the stairs when we see everyone heading down... turns out, public safety was outside watching and the party had to break up. i still can't get over the fact that the orchestra party, of all things, got broken up. 1) we're not that many people 2) we're not that loud 3) we're *orchestra* folks. we play classical music and are positively angelic compared to most other groups holding room parties... why us???? .... not that i really like room parties but the injustice of it all!!.. bah
anyway, people still wanted to hang out together and so we all headed to tower... where nothing was happening. next was quad... where they had a man auction... oh goody.... by that times, i was tired of trying to find a place to party since i hadn't really wanted to party in the first place so amanda, a fellow violist, and i cut out.. after talking for a bit and hearing all the orchestra gossip, i called it a night and headed back to chrissy's room
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|wednesday. april 26, 2006
music| .hack//sign - mai
so i was reading the nytimes and came across this article about ridiculous 16th birthday parties and i found this one quote that just blew my mind
hello, reality check. i would say regardless of whether the parent can afford it or not, the parent has to be crazy or completely idiotic to spend that much money on something as transitory as a simple birthday... of course, i never really understood the point of the entire sweet 16 thing...
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|wednesday. april 19, 2006
i think i'm going stir crazy... i want to be outside!!! it's 70 degrees...bah...
um. anyway, i've been rather occupied with beutifying the house. more planting and painting, and of course, more aching.. :P i'm almost done with the front garden but the nursery still didn't have all the plants i wanted in so i'll have to go back this weekend. i just hope when it's done, it looks somewhat harmonious and not like a random mishmash of plants. i guess i'll find out come a month or two ^^;
so this friday, we're doing our monthly birthday celebration at work and i'm getting cake from lulu's. i'm really excited cause their cakes are completely addicting. i hope people like it. i'm blowing a larger part of the budget than the other birthday celebrations have so i'll feel bad if people don't think it's really good... however, i'm pretty sure people will like it ^^
perhaps my tastebuds have been spoiled by places like olives, chez alice, and now lulu's but i just don't think grocery store bakery cakes are very good so it just doesn't seem worth it to buy those mediocre grocery store cakes, which are what we've been having, when with just a little more money.. ok, maybe more than just a little more... you can get something that's soo much better.. anyway, call me spoiled :P
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|tuesday. april 11, 2006
music| final fantays VII - one winged angel
this past weekend was a really busy. of course, i ended up doing a lot of things except update the atlanta photos, which i know i told stef i'd try to have done... ^^;
friday i was at work until 8.5-9-ish.. not the best way to start the weekend. i was working on trying to update a macro for a report that needed to be sent out. of course, despite staying late, it didn't get finished so i just sent out the old version... i'll get it fixed by next time...
saturday was rather uneventful, except for the 3+ hours i wasted at the vw service shop... i don't know why i ever believe their estimates for how long maintenance checkups will take. it always goes over. bahsunday, the weather was beautiful so i decided it would be a perfect day to do some gardening ^_^ but before anything else, i went over to the animal shelter and played with the kitties for a bit. then it was gardening time ^^ all i can say is, digging holes is really hard and dirt is really heavy...now my legs hurt (why, i don't know since i would have thought my arms and back got more abuse) and i feel like such an old woman :P if sunny wasn't there to do most of the digging, i don't think the planting would have gottened finished on sunday... as it is, all 6 roses, 2 lavenders, 2 poppies and 1 weeping cherry blossom tree were planted. they all look really scrawny and dead but i can't wait until a few weeks in when they'll look pretty. what really excites me are the poppies. they're called 'princes of orange' ^_^
i just hope my body has recovered by saturday. i plan on doing some more gardening then...
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|friday. april 7, 2006
omg, please tell me i didn't just spend a huge chunk of this month's salary on yarn.... darn yarn sales. darn pretty colors ;__; ... i would say i have no self control but all the yarns were 50% off!!.. aaaanyway, i think this means i better start knitting like mad ^^;...
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|sunday. march 19, 2006
music| paul mccartney - anyway
whoa...minor meltdown at work this week :P if you want to know details, ask me directly. i hope it's mostly over when i go back in on monday but who knows...in more intersting news, i'm soooo close to finishing the sweater. just need to trim the neckline and tidy the loose ends. the only problem is, it seems rather small ^^; i hope the measurements i received at the knitting place was wrong or it's suppose to be really short? otherwise, it means i grew in a bad way since a few months ago ;__;
other than more knitting, i went to the volunteer orientation at the local shelter on saturday. that means i can go in whenever i want to help walk dogs and play with the cats there.. as if i don't get enough cats at home! ^^ then at night, i made some shortbread. yummy!!
today, i finally got tired of the piles of books in my room and spent some time organizing them and now i'm pretty much out of shelf space and me with so many more books to bring home/buy ^^;.... now, i'm going to try and finish the neck so i can wear the sweater tomorrow ^^
only 5 days until i head down to atlanta!! *^_^*
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|wednesday. march 15, 2006
music| full metal alchemist - warmth
ho hum, while i wait for a silly report to run, i might as well do a little update ^^
so last saturday, fan and i went seal watching with the nyc audubon society. perhaps i should have expected it seeing as it was a trip by the audubon society but we spent 95% of the trip birdwatching and 5% seal watching... if you can count seeing only seal noses as actually seal watching, which really wasn't the organizer's fault since the weather was a little too warm for the seals to come out... not surprisingly, i was a bit disappointed that the time wasn't proportioned the otherway around but it was fun seeing so many different birds. we must have seen at least 50 lifebirds (for those unacquainted with birdwatcher terms, that means a bird you're seeing for the first time in your life). i think the fact that we were with people who were really gungho about birds helped make it that much more interesting because they were so willing to share their knowledge. i never realized how diverse a population lives around us.
after getting back to nyc, fan and i went to this great hidden old fashioned french restaurant on 60th (called le veau d'or, between park and lex). i have to say that it was quite an experience. it's soo soo old fashioned ^^ the decor is 30-40 years ago and the host and waiter speak to each other in french (which i can't say happens at other french resaturants in the city.. but only cause i've never been to anyother ^^;) and the menu offers things like organ meats and frog legs. i think when we first went in, the host might have thought we made a mistake cause he seemed really confused. considering i think we were the only people under the age of 35 in the place the entire time we were there, i guess that's understandable ^^; the food was good, tho i don't know if fan really enjoyed her french tripes, being use to the chinese variety. their seafood casserole was excellent. the prices were also reasonable. while the entrees were pricy, with appetizer and dessert included in the cost of the entree, the prices aren't bad at all. i definitely plan on trying the place again ^^
having had our high culture moment of the day, we then went to cavort in the sugary goodness of dylan's (like ricky's in princeton but bigger) talk about the nostalgia. poprocks, cigarette gums, all those goodies of yore. we spent way too much time and money in that place... putting all that sugar in one place ought to be illegal ^^;...
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|monday. march 13, 2006
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|friday. march 10, 2006
music| vampire hunter d - the rocket hall
straight from the bush's mouth, "I did that because I'm concerned about totalitarian governments that are not transparent" regarding why he mde his little speech about the axis of evil so long ago... he's worried about a lack of government transperency?!? maybe he should try practicing what he preaches first...
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|saturday. march 4, 2006
this past thursday, i went down to our warehouse down in maryland to see the place and learn more about how it operates. while the 10 hrs in the car going there and back sucked because i really don't like being cooped up in a seat for so long, the rest of the trip was lots of fun. thursday night, after we had dinner with some of the warehouse people, we played spades. i think what i remembered about scoring was wrong but it was still fun. of course, it would have been better had my team won but tie-ing is fine too ^^; then friday, we spent the day until we had to leave getting a tour of the place. i have to say i was uber impressed. the place is huuuuuge! you could have fit at least 4-5 football fields and it's a few stories high! (think of all the books you can fit in there! awsomeness!! ^_^) anyway, i didn't get back home til 10-ish. then i was really to tired to do anything else other than sleep... ^^;
today, i went into the office in the morning (sad isn't it ;__;) to organize some stuff. afterwards, i met with fan in chinatown cause she wanted to buy this electronic stoplight kit. then we wandered the area, dropping into random stores, tho we really didn't buy much. i did end up getting a pestle and mortar and some lavender, both of which make me very happy ^_^
now, for a random question, for those of you who know my ceramic pieces, if you were to see my pieces at a store, would you actually pay to own any of them? like, 20-50 or 50-100? just thought i'd throw that question out there cause today, at the moma design store in soho, i saw this hideous and completely carelessly made vase. it was basically a cylindrical slab with vertical coils attached to the outside to simulate grass. i wouldn't have a problem with it normally despite how stupid it looks but it's soooo sloppily made!! the base had jagged edges, the coils weren't smooth (you could see cracking at the tip), the slab had little clay bits stuck to it, and they're asking for 98 fricking dollars for the one cylinder model and $198 for the 2 cylinder!! i could have made that in 5 minutes with my eyes closed. it was that bad.. i can't believe there's someone out there who would pay for that nonsense. bah....
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|wednesday. march 1, 2006
read this in the ny times about the patriot act and the senate bill about it just now while waiting for something to run on the computer before i leave for the day
If Mr. Feingold spoke for the bill's critics, Senator Jim Bunning, Republican of Kentucky, offered another perspective in support of the antiterrorism measure: "Civil liberties do not mean much when you are dead."
now, let me think, which nation was founded on the idea of personal liberty quite aptly summerized by patrick henry's 'give me liberty or give me death'? oh riiight, the united states of america...
let's not forget what another founding father said.
They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety... deserve neither safety nor liberty.
how far the seeds have fallen... now mind, i'm not saying i would rather die than have any of my liberties taken away but if a right is being curtailed, i want to know exactly why and have the benefits be actual and more or less enumerable rather than hear 'trust me, it's for your own good' with few dubious to no show of benefits. besides, lots of little steps amount to one large step. it's far too easy to keep on chipping away little by little at personal liberties. i probably wouldn't be so worried if i felt i could trust this administration but from what i've seen, i trust them about as far as i can throw them...
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|sunday. february 26, 2006
so didn't get to princeton this weekend and didn't get to work on the photo site but that's ok ^^ i got 3/7th of my sweater done instead. i recently realized that winter is going to be over soon and if i don't finish it soon, i won't be able to wear it until next year ^^;...
other than that, i added another thing to my list of things i can bake from scratch and still taste good *^_^* now it's chocolate chip cookies, sugar cookies, ginger cookies, lemon and ginger scones, triple berry layer cake, tiramisu, and, the latest, breton biscuits! i know breton biscuit sounds all fancy and stuff but it's basically shortbread like cookies. it's soooo good and they look almost professionally made ^^ what i'd really like to make is lavender scones but i have yet to find a source for lavender... :P
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|tuesday. february 21, 2006
music| the killers - all these things i've done
yay! photo page is finally finished! i know i already let everyone know but just in case there's someone who doesn't check their email but checks this page (not likely but just in case ^^)... it's not totally finished but for now, it's good enough.. after 2 days of staring at the computer screen, i need a break. not to mention, i'll be staring at a computer screen all day at work too! ^^;...
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|sunday. february 19, 2006
doh.. almost finished the photo section. i'm so close but i can't get use to staying up really late or i'll be in trouble come tuesday so i need to sleep ;__;.... i will have it finished tomorrow!
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|friday. february 17, 2006
wheee. i love my department ^^ since we can't do any work, we just had a chinese food lunch and cranium party for the last 3 hrs, courtesy of the fun committee. lots and lots of fun indeed. now i think we can go home but before i head out, maybe i should make sure ^_^
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|bah.. sap is down for the day so i can't do anything and i feel so useless.. at least i had something to do. i moved cubes again today to a larger one on the other side of the building, closer to my im and production, which is a lot more convenient! it's really weird cause it's so spacious and i have tons and tons of empty shelf space. guess i'll just have to pick up more books ^_^ the only downside to the move is, i'm now next to the engine room of one of the elevator shafts so there's this constant humm and rumble but i'm sure i'll get use to it soon and i have music to keep my ears occupied ^^
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|thursday. february 16, 2006
i was reading a nytimes article about women's shoes and health and there was just this one quote that i thought was rather amusing
Simon Doonan, the creative director of Barneys New York, had a simpler explanation for women's ability to wear the shoes they love.
'Women have a higher pain threshold,' he said. 'Men would not do this.'
so true ^^; but that's lucky for the human race.. i can think of another thing that's painful that women do that men have said the same thing about...
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|tuesday. february 14, 2006
oh i like this article from slate.com. possibly, some of the wording is a tad bit strong but the sentiment is there. my favorite part of it is...
The prohibition on picturing the prophet—who was only another male mammal—is apparently absolute. So is the prohibition on pork or alcohol or, in some Muslim societies, music or dancing. Very well then, let a good Muslim abstain rigorously from all these. But if he claims the right to make me abstain as well, he offers the clearest possible warning and proof of an aggressive intent. This current uneasy coexistence is only an interlude, he seems to say. For the moment, all I can do is claim to possess absolute truth and demand absolute immunity from criticism. But in the future, you will do what I say and you will do it on pain of death.
I refuse to be spoken to in that tone of voice, which as it happens I chance to find "offensive." ( By the way, hasn't the word "offensive" become really offensive lately?) The innate human revulsion against desecration is much older than any monotheism: Its most powerful expression is in the Antigone of Sophocles. It belongs to civilization. I am not asking for the right to slaughter a pig in a synagogue or mosque or to relieve myself on a "holy" book. But I will not be told I can't eat pork, and I will not respect those who burn books on a regular basis.
anyhoo... tis all for now ^^;
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|wheee. my company is fantastic. mimosas and (really really yummy) pastries for breakfast ^_^ yeah for getting tipsy before starting the work day.. granted, it was to celebrate winning a grammy but whatever.. i feel liks such a lush drinking before noon ^^;...
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|monday. february 13, 2006
music| x/1999 - yuzuriha
it snowed a lot this weekend. my brother has the day off.. i miss having snow days.. sigh. those were the good old days.. ^^ hehe. i sound so old... i wonder if princeton got the day off? i think it snowed a lot more than it did that time we got the monday off
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|friday. february 10, 2006
i finally found a link to those mohammed cartoons that's burning up the muslim world with rage. the reaction to these cartoons are bordering on the absurd. i've seen far more offensive cartoons about other groups(religious or otherwise). yes, you can be offended, you can even complain/boycott/whatever but death threats and violence are so wrong... when 'devout' muslims act that way, how can they expect non-muslims to believe that theirs is a peaceful religion? it doesn't matter what the teachings say if the followers don't actually act that way.
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|music| yami no matsuei - destination eden
bah.. evil tv. evil reality shows... stayed up until 2 last night because of project runway ^^; and now i'm really tired.. but it was fun ^_^
while the most of host heidi whatshername's dialogue was awwwwwful unnecessarily repetative and the presentation sucked. she should just stick to looking pretty.. aaaanyway, it was strangely fascinating to see what the contestants would do in each challenge. i really liked the garden dress challenge. what a fun idea to try and make a dress using plant material ^^... anyway, my fashion sense must suck cause i rather liked a few of the things that the judges hated. guess this just proves that i'm not cut out to work in the fashion industry ^^
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|wednesday. february 8, 2006
music| planetes - thanks my friend
fiiinally some breathing room.. hehe. just kidding. i was flying solo again the end of last and the beginning of this week but it wasn't as bad as i thought it'd be. probably cause i've been doing this for a few months now ^^ anyway, work is good. keeping me busy but i like it. we've recently formed a 'fun committee' to plan fun activities for our group. we're even doing monthly birthday cakes (how nostalgic.. i miss our charter birthday dinners). fun tho i don't think i need that extra source of sugar. my semiregular weekend baking sprees provide me with enough of that!
anyway, i've slotted vacation time for the last week of march so i'm really hoping the boston people want to go visit stef.. of course, i might just go anyway ^_^ but it'd be soo much more fun to have all of us together. one random thought that just popped into my head is, if we all fly down, considering atlanta isn't really known for it's extensive mass transit system, how would we all get around with only stef's car?.. i know i'm silly ^^;
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|friday. january 27, 2006
read in the new york times about china allowing fireworks for new years, "and, the regulations helpfully note 'when you set off fireworks, do not throw them at people.'"
awww, where's the fun in that?
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|tuesday. january 24, 2006
i got curious and googled myself just to see what would show up and what do i find but that some silly group of people (also called anthropologists) got together and decided yeppie is short for 'young experimenting perfection seekers'... as if it wasn't bad enough when people confused yeppie with yuppie or yippie, now people are going to start confusing it with this stupid made up phrase!! grrrrr... and don't even ask about what came up as hit #1 on the google search... it's so demeaning to have my name connected to something like that. argh!!
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|thursday. january 19, 2006
yaaaaay. got back home a few mins ago (had a vendor party tonight) and now we have light and heat!! ^_^
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|music| full metal alchemist - brothers
thanks to the stupid storms, we've been sans power since yesterday. thanks to that, i spent the most miserable night in recent memory... i sort of enjoyed doing everything in candle light. felt like i was in medieval times or something ^^ all rather exciting, though i know it's going to get exceedingly annoying in a day or two if i have to keep on living only by candlelight. it never really hit me just how many light sources are around. i've never seen the world so dark (even when we were in blairstown and i thought the place was really empty). i didn't help that it was couldy and we couldn't really see the moon either, which really sucked since that meant during the only time i could have seen the stars from my house, i couldn't :P
anyway, i'm just hoping the electricity is back when i get home tonight cause without it, our heating doesn't work and it's soooo cold ;___;... and i'm not a fan of cold showers either...
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|wednesday. january 18, 2006
music| dido - hunter
ick. the weather sucks and i'm sooo jealous of julie. meh.. oh wel, maybe this summer i'll have a chance to go someplace...
speaking of weather, today's has been pretty bad. it's overcast and wet and so very windy. while i love windy weather, it's easy to forget just how dangerous really strong winds can be... a tree almost fell on me while i was waiting for the train O.o... trees are down all over the place so this morning when we get to the train station, we find out that the train isn't running. of course, they can't be efficient and make an announcement so that we can all try to find alternate transportation. instead, the train comes but, when it stops in front of us, the train won't open the doors and so we all just stand there waiting, completely confused. that's when a 30+ft tree, growing on the hill right next to the tracks starts falling. thankfully it fell the other way. otherwise, i probably wouldn't be in much of a shape to do much ^^;...
after that, some poeple left. everyone else sort of waited, nervously eyeing the trees around us, collectively edging away whenever a tree seemed to be swaying a bit too much... after 15 mins or so of that, mom and i gave up on the train and drove in... which resulted in me arriving at 10:30 instead of my ususal 9... stupid mta... i have to say that the tree falling was pretty scary... if it hadn't fallen away from us, a lot of would have been hurt (from the tree and the rush trying to get away from it), though maybe the train car we were next to might have been strong enough to support it...
anyway, lunch for me! ^^
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|friday. january 13, 2006
music| backstreet boys - incomplete
first off, yes, i'm listening to the backstreet boys.. i should hang my head in shame but really, i rather like this one song ^^; anyhooo, onto some substance.. or something of marginal more substance...
so i haven't been following the supreme court confirmation hearings at all but yesterday, at the s&b lunch at work, heard that alito was a) a princeton alum (yeah.. i didn't know that either. another thing for me to hang my head in shame about..) b) a member of concerned alumni of princeton. not know what concerned alumni of princeton was, i searched the news and found out and decided, in spite of school pride and all, i really don't want him in a position of power like that...meh..
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|friday. december 30, 2005
wheeeee. i'm in atlanta with steffie!! ^_^ yesterday was fun with looking for vaccuum cleaners and cookie tins. we ended up going to what felt like 20+ stores in the process, and finally found everything ^^;... stef seems slightly stressed with all this townhouse stuff... hopefully it works out today and the stooopid builder got everything fixed! if not, steffie has a bunch of lawyery documents to show them what for ^^
aaaaanyway, better finsh breakfast so we can get to her final (hopefully!) walkthrough of the house and then off to the closing...
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|tuesday. december 13, 2005
music| van halen - pretty woman
my my. i haven't done this in a long time :P... chalk it up to work. now i'm bringing stuff home to do and that makes doing other things after work not so possible.. or i could but i'm so sleepy at the end that all i want to do is sleep
anyway, it was unpleasantly cold today... not that being cold is ever really pleasant but there's something i really enjoy about a moderately chilly day. of course, because it was so cold, i really didn't want to go outside today even though i had planned on doing some holiday shopping during lunch... oh wel, it'll get done somehow ^^;
one thing that's really been bothering me with the onset of the cold is all the fur i see on people... and it's not even like a little bit of trim. there are a lot of people wearing full fur coates.... it really bothers me because we have sooo many other options in synthetic fabrics that do a much better job of keeping people warm and yet people still insist on fur!! don't they know that they're wearing the skin of a dead animal on their back? what's so glamorous about that? bah...
thursday, i'm meeting up with fan and shannon to see the triangle show. i hope it's good. the last one i saw wasn't that great.. ^^ but either way, school pride necessitates me going.. not to mention it's sooo close to work that i really have no excuse ^^; anyway, better get to the work i brought home. meh..
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|saturday. december 3, 2005
i'm such a klutz... but damn lucky too ^^;...
anyway, i'm going to attempt to make some shortbread to die for ^_^ let's hope it turns out edible!
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|monday. november 28, 2005
yay. got to see greg this weekend. but no nicole ;__;
today was my first day going solo at work. nothing went terribly wrong. i didn't cause a massive world shortage but that's cause i had only a day. wait until they put me in charge for a week. mwahahaha... ^^ hehe
but yeah, life is so much busier. i have to take work home now! O.o but it's still good ^^ anyway, better get to it before i forget or it gets too late. night night
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|thursday. november 24, 2005
wohoo. the turkey turned out ok ^_^... anywhoo, i smell like bird... gonna shower and take a well deserved rest. hope you all had a happy thanksgiving!
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|wednesday. november 16, 2005
music| ai no kusabi - oracion
in an column in the washington post today, i read this one phrase and just had to comment... pollster john zogby is quoted to have said "It's kind of like virginity... it is hard to get back." .. i don't know what his definition of virginity is but, last i checked the dictionary, once you lose your virginity, it's gone and you ain't ever gonna get it back.. i mean, it's entirely a one way process. what an idiotic analogy and shame on the washington post for using it..
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|friday. november 11, 2005
music| initial d - kiseki no bara
can i say it one more time? politicians suck! what is the problem some people seem ot have with recognizing that torture to anyone/any creature is bad?!? bah.
anyway, movie fun tonight. pride and prejudice will be watched. i hope it's good... otherwise, i'll just have to get upset at fan ^^
searching for chronos @ 2:45 pm
|thursday. november 10, 2005
music| the strokes - between love and hate
there's this article in the times about a 12th year college student. and all i can say is, that's news? why are we acknowledging/celebrating this guy and the sad fact that he can't grow up? yes, undergrad was wonderful and i'd love to still be there but only if my friends were there with me and time just stopped. what fun is it to still be in undergrad when all your friends have moved on and joined the real world? or when you're 5-10 yrs older than everyone else? doesn't he feel the urge to do something with his life? i mean, the article says he loves learning.. wel, guess what? if you go to grad school, more learning comes after undergrad. imagine that! .. i can't believe the nytimes is wasting paper on something this stupid...
searching for chronos @ 10:33 am
|wednesday. november 9, 2005
music| bare naked ladies - breakfast at tiffany's
politicians make me mad. most of the time they just seem so stupid. take the hearings on the oil companies today. ok, as a consumer, i don't like the high gas prices. however, as anyone with even the most piddling knowledge of economic theory knows, supply and demand does work. it makes no sense to punish the oil companies for high prices caused by a tightened supply and little or no slack in demand (ok, and maybe a little price gouging too... i wouldn't put it past them. but still, i'm sure it's about 99% supply and demand driven). what use is retaliating by punishing oil companies now? oil prices will only keep rising with the quantity of oil in the earth decreasing and getting harder and harder to extract. punishment for making a profit will most likely only make people less willing to invest in oil companies and potentially tighten the supply even more without decreasing demand any. politicians should worry more about finding ways to try and decrease demand.. but why should they care about long term effects? they're just worried about the next election. grrr...
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|monday. november 7, 2005
oh.. and darn nicole. she knows why ^^;
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|music| boa - duvet
sigh.. this last weekend was wonderful *^_^* the days off weren't so specical cause i ended up spending most of that time running errands that i just didn't have time for on the weekends :P.. at least i got to sleep in on friday. that was niiiice ^^
but the best part was definitely the trip to boston. soo much fun. fan and i drove up friday night and stayed until mid sunday afternoon. we all spent a lot of time just talking and eating... like most of saturday and sunday...
friday, we arrived rather late so we didn't do much other than just hang out like we use to at charter ^^ then saturday, we all woke up fairly late, around 11 or so and got together for lunch at a greek restaurant.. yumm gyros ^^.. afer we ate, we walked around boston for a while. during the trek, 1) eryck bought a foot tall plastic penguin ^^ sooo adorable 2) saw the christian scientist headquarters... what a pretty but weird building.. it's like they ran out of materials or thought that mixing colors/building styles would look nice.. tho i have to say, their reflecting pool is beautiful. 3) found a nice little tea store in the prudential building. and tho i wasn't too big a fan of the actual tea they were selling, the free samples were nice ^^
by that time, we were getting cold and tired so we sat in starbucks for a while trying to plan dinner.. (we got much too easily distracted as always ^^;).. leaving starbucks, some of us split off to pick up meatballs from nicole's place and, on the way, visited the stata center/building at mit.. all i can say is, i really really hope our new science library will be nothing like the stata... tho it did have some cool chainmail curtains ^^;... afterwards, the meatballs in hand, we went over to the er*(c)ks' place and had a fantastic pasta and meatball dinner while watching football (what else?). had some yummy port after dinner, and fan really really wanted to go to a bar so we went out. twas fun, as anything is when the bunch of us get together... tho by that time, i'd had a little too much alcohol so i just stuck to tonic ^^;
sunday, we woke up late again, then met up for dimsum. good stuff... mostly. i tried duck feet dimsum and didn't like it at all.. a little too grease and cartilage filled for me.. then we headed back to fort somerville, saying byebye to nicole on the way ;__;. when we got there, erik wanted to take his gigantic package (which had been flipped over the handrails by someone after sitting out on the porch all weekend) up but the box had a hole in it and the packing beans were starting to fall out. so we were going to open it outside and carry whatever it was sans box. that turned out to be quite an endeavor. no one had considered that the outdoor trash bin might be too small to fit all the beans so when the guys upended the box to pour the beans into the trash bin, a lot of spilled out... that wouldn't have been too much of a problem except, one, it had rained overnight and, two, the packing beans were made of corn starch... in the end, most of it ended up smooshed on the groud and ben, eryck, and fan's shoes ^^;
that was pretty much the end. now it's back to my hohum life. tho if we're lucky i might get to see them again in a week and a half ^_^ *knock on wood*
oh, pictures from the weekend will be put up soon as i can motivate myself to make a temp page for them.. not that there are that many pictures... i'm just not a picture taking person..
searching for chronos @ 3:11 pm
|tuesday. november 1, 2005
music| planetes - the confession
wheeeeeeeee! tomorrow i'm off ^_^ 3 glorious days of freedom.. to run errands .. oh wel, at least i won't have to sit all day..
searching for chronos @ 1:37 pm
|monday. october 31, 2005
music| vampire hunter d: bloodlust - sunlight
wheee. the weekend was lots of fun. more excitement over those last three days than pickels in a barrel ^_^ hehe. friday, i went with some people for dinner and then to see "march of the penguins." if you haven't seen it yet, see it. it's very good and i think i'll have to get the dvd when it comes out. it does have some sad moments.. life and death are never far apart. some of the scenes are so gorgeous... it made me rather melancholy to think that it has a high likelihood of disappearing in less than a hundred years... the saddest part is, we probably can't do anything to save it.. and the idiots in power aren't likely to do anything to help.. i mean, who cares if the environment goes to pot? only our kids will be around to live with the mess.. oook, enough of that... anyway, that was friday
saturday, i went apple-picking with fan and shannon.. the day started out with me meeting the two at the station. then we wandered the village, had some really good pizza and then visited lulu patisserie, which i have to say has the most amazing cakes/cupcakes/brownies. *biiig sigh of remembered pleasure* then we headed to outhouse orchards for some apple picking... wel, it wasn't really apple picking cause after we went, we realized we didn't want to pay $20 for only a shopping bag full of apples so we just walked around the orchard for a bit... before we went to the actual orchard, we went to the pumpkin patch that the place had and picked up some pumpkins for some fun later ^_^ then after deciding that the apples were way to expensive, we looked around the country store and just enjoyed ourselves.. it was mostly all fun but poor fan hurt her shoulder again throwing an apple :( but thanfully she seemed ok by the time we left the orchard.. after that, they came over to my house for dinner ^^ and we carved the pumpkins while watching scary movie moments! yay (for the pumpkin and not the scary movie moments)!
then sunday was really quiet. i slept a lot.. like really a lot.. until 2pm.. but it was soooo nice ^^
now i'm looking foward to wed, thurs, and fri when i'm taking some time off *^_^* yay, my first official vacation!
searching for chronos @ 1:48 pm
|tuesday. october 25, 2005
music| bjork - i've seen it all
the random stuff that comes out in the editorial section of the nytimes is sometimes really funny.. today there was one on how an executive Robert McCormick was at an ultraexpensive strip club in ny, paid with his corporate amex and is now refusing to pay the cc company cause he says he was ripped off by the club and how this was a ridiculous thing for the guy to do. and i completely agree... um.. hello? as the op-ed writer points out, strip clubs are a luxury item, not a right. no one made him go to an expensive strip club. it was a choice and his complaint is completely ridiculous.. like if i had bought a louis vuitton handbag and then refused to pay up for it later cause i thought they were ripping me off. if you think the item/activity is too expensive, then don't get it!! why are people so stupid?
searching for chronos @ 10:21 am
|monday. october 24, 2005
just reading more nytimes and came across this quote by william clay ford jr., chairman and chief executive of the ford motor company
"We know that the days of unlimited, inexpensive gasoline are over"
all i can say is, duh!... it's been many many *years* since gasoline was seen as limitless. we all knew it would run out someday! and ergo, by law of supply and demand, the price will only rise in the long term!! what i can't understand is, until recently, and maybe even now, the fate of most car companies rested solely on the availability of oil. knowing that oil will run out at some definite time in the future, how could anyone half-way intelligent assume "unlimited, inexpensive gasoline"?? it boggles my mind...
searching for chronos @ 2:06 pm
|music| hoobastank - disappear
the world bank sucks. gold sucks...this article in the nytimes about the cost of gold mining is very troubling and now i don't think i can buy new jewelry anymore... at least not unless the mining industry changes or i know exactly where the stuff is coming from and how it was mined. i never thought about that prior to reading the article.. gold i couldn't care less about cause i don't really like the way it looks but i do like silver and other shiny shiny things ^^;.. and while the article only talks about gold mines and i'd like to think that silver mines aren't environmental disasters as well but, realistically, i'm sure silver mines are just as bad ;__;.. as are shiny stone mines ;___;
the problem is, what difference as i going to make by myself?.. answer, not much but hopefully, other people who read the article will reconsider too.. i mean, on average 30 tons of earth for an ounce of gold?!?! that's ridiculous and so short-sighted..
other than the awfulness of the mines, i'm having problems with the world bank. i always thought the world bank would be more sensible in their investments to contribute to world development but it seems like they care less about sustainable world development than making a profit.. i'm so disillusioned ;__; what happened to helping the developing countries? destroying their land for a non-sustainable method is not the way. they're not suppose to act like a for-profit-only bank!!
searching for chronos @ 1:49 pm
|friday. october 21, 2005
music| angelic layer - be my angel
yay ginger snaps and carrot cakes for lunch ^^ how little it takes to make me happy. but they do happen to be some of my favorite-est desserts ^_^ .. maybe if i get really ambitious, i'll try making some over the weekend! but only if the kitchen sink gets fixed... it's disgusting enough in the kitchen after a week of non-functional sink without me adding my baking mess ^^;
searching for chronos @ 1:41 pm
|monday. october 17, 2005
just read a pretty good article on sunk cost. not that i have a set opinion on what direction the country should go with the war but the principle of sunk cost is important to remember and one that people don't seem to think about too much...
searching for chronos @ 4:37 pm
|music| scryed - home lost ground
.. ok. i have my answer now. red rull tastes awful... the closest comparison i can make is that it's like liquid sweettart with a strangly nauseating after taste on the tongue.. anyway, curiosity safistifed, the rest in going down the sink.. .. and i need more tea to wash that taste out.. ick...
searching for chronos @ 3:31 pm
|what a weird coincidence.. over the weekend, i read an article about all the various energy drinks on the market and had a moment of regret for never trying redbull on those numerous free-giveaways they did on campus. welladay, today come lunch time, outside the cafeteria, who do i see but the friendly redbull man handing out free samples. so to make up for my youthful foolishness, i took one.. i mean, why deny myself the pleasure of lowering their profit margin by $.00001 and of satisfying my curiosity? ^^;
anyway, i have yet to try it. maybe after lunch.. around 3-4ish when i'm in desperate need of something to keep me awake .. tho caffeine doesn't seem work on me as i have no trouble falling asleep at night after my usual cup of tea :P
searching for chronos @ 1:18 pm
|saturday. october 15, 2005
whee ^^ i made mashed potato from scratch! i'm so proud of myself.. yeah i know. it's only mashed potatos but it's a lot more involved than anything else i've cooked prior.. wel.. and still tastes good. i don't count the myriad of inedible dishes i've tried as actually cooking ^^;
searching for chronos @ 9:19 pm
|thursday. october 13, 2005
music| .hack//sign - awakening
bah. i hate being wet. and it's been doing nothing but rain rain rain for the last week!! grrr. damn this blasted weather...
searching for chronos @ 8:57 am
|wednesday. october 12, 2005
aaaaah!! stoopid lynx! he scratched up my new carpet ;___;... granted, mom probably shouldn't have bought a carpet that feels so much like their scratching post.... at least i was able to fix it. the list of things one can do with a hairstick just grew. latest entry: can use to fix carpets
this just proves, hairsticks are awsome ^_^
searching for chronos @ 9:12 pm
|music| wolf's rain - leaving on red hill
so i was reading the washinton post online and i come across this...
"[Bush] smiled after observing that Iraqis are "paying a serious price" because of terrorism."
...huh? what kinda statement and body language is that!? something is seriously off kilter in that man...
searching for chronos @ 12:22 pm
|tuesday. october 11, 2005
music| beauty and the beast - the beast lets belle go
drove into work and the traffic was insane... bumper to bumper for most of the drive. yuck.
i'll never understand the dynamics of traffic flow. one minute the road is open and i'm going 60 and, 30 secs later, the roads close up and i'm crawling for the next couple of miles and repeat. i can understand when there's and accident or construction or an exit or a merging of lanes but there was nothing of the sort. so the number of cars is constant(more or less), the flow capacity is also more or less constant... *shrug* i just don't get why the traffic works the way it does... needless to say, i was a lot later in getting into work. but still not late! ^^
searching for chronos @ 9:28 am
|monday. october 10, 2005
yay! talked with steffie on the phone tonight. happyhappy ^^
anyways, time for me to sleep!
searching for chronos @ 10:03 pm
|friday. october 7, 2005
music| e.s. posthumus - ebla
wheee. i love drugs. i almost feel alive again now that i've taken some dayquil and able to breath ^^;
but really, i need to go get some winter shoes. chilly feet always made me get sick easiest and i've been spending all my days with barefeet at work cause i have yet to buy any close-toed shoes...boots would be nice, i think... big fluffy furry ones ^^.. maybe orange and black? or pink. heeeheee
searching for chronos @ 10:28 am
|wednesday. october 5, 2005
music| initial d - night of fire
i really don't like mornings.. especailly when i need to wake my bro up or have to hear mom try and wake him up 30-40 times. i mean i know i'm hard to wake up but, at least, i'm not obnoxious about it. especially when i'm the one that requested it. is it too much to ask that if he really can't wake up because he's too tired, that he go to sleep instead of talking to friends online or playing games? i would think the answer is 'no' but apparently being sensible is too much for the idiot i have for a brother cause he does it every f-ing night! i could understand if he were working since then you can't help it but noooo he's just goofing off. grr.. family. i really wish there was a way to exchange family members...
searching for chronos @ 10:05 am
|monday. october 3, 2005
music| initial d - aoi kaze no naka de
so i was reading over some news/opinion things and found this article on slate.com hilarious..
in summary, "The Arab press thinks the United States is a woman of ill repute. The American press thinks the nation of Jordan is a topless model."
nuff said. now i better finish lunch but with a little more caution. tho, note to self. will no longer drink tea while reading something potentially amusing (at least while without a change of clothing near by)...
searching for chronos @ 1:30 pm
|friday. september 30, 2005
music| fushigi yuugi - mizukagami
so got a cel i was waiting for in the mail today. i open it and the cel is gorgeous but it's in this ugly thick plastic sleeve that i know from experience is *not* good for cel storage... i think 'oh crap' and guess what? yup, bits of the paint has stuck to the back of the stupid plastic thing!! grr!! the thing that *really* makes me mad is i ordered the cel from a dealer who should know better! not to mention, the cel wasn't a cheapy either so you'd expect that the seller would want to take better care of it!?! the only savings grace in the matter is that all the paint that got stuck and pulled off is black.. so hopefully, when (if ever) i get it restored, the color matching should be hard. but grrr... i'm still really mad at this dealer and, unless something radically changes, i'm not purchasing from them again
on a happier note, it's lunch time. maybe i'll give fan a call ^_^
searching for chronos @ 11:58 am
|thursday. september 29, 2005
okie. comments are possible again ^^... and yeah, it's still haloscan... i got lazy :P
searching for chronos @ 10:14 pm
|music| garbage - special
sweeeet! haven't gotten it all working quite yet (no comment section) but here's my first entry using the php thing i made where i no longer have to write out the date or time or anything nitpicky like that ^_^ now to start working on getting my own comment pages. hehe
searching for chronos @ 9:54 pm
i was just reading last night's entry and boy, i was either really tired or my writing skills have deteriorated from only staring at excel all the time... either way, you'll have to excuse me..
tomorrow is friday ^_^ that means it'll be a quiet day and, time depending, i'll have lunch with fan! while i'll go to shannon's b-day thing tomorrow, that'll be all for the weekend. this weekend will be dull, unlike last weekend when i got together with fan, wandered the city for a bit and then saw an opera at the met ("manon" <- not bad. the music was great but the story sucked) then i got sick sunday -_-.. not exactly the way i wanted to spend my sunday.
anyway, i wonder how everyone else is doing? hope they're having fun. course, i guess i could go online and find out but i think i'll work on this instead cause i really want to get it all finished... sorry guys! (for those who read this and might feel slighted)
searching for chronos @ 8:44 pm
music| tokyo babylon - kiss kiss
i really dislike thursdays only for the fact that i spend half the day (and sometimes even longer) waiting/buggin people to get me files, then, once i get them, get them all reproed(thank goodness i don't actually have to photocopy it all! just need to print out, organize and take down to the copy center) and then highlight names for distribution... it just all seems like a big waste of time that could be spent on other more productive stuff... bah, oh wel, if they want to pay me to spend my time in such a way, who am i to argue?
all in all, i'm still having fun.. a bit tired cause i keep on going to sleep too late. but that's cause i keep on getting distracted by various things, leading me to conclude that i have too many hobbies...
searching for chronos @ 11:34 am
wednesday. september 28. 2005
music| ai no kusabi - oracion
i finally finished! now i can add to the blog even when i don't have access to ftp. yay!! ^_^ php is harder than i thought.. but i somehow managed to cobble something together that sort of works.. now i just need to learn more about it so i can make a more efficient photo page and stuff ^^ while coding sucks (cause i'm sooo not good at it) it's fun to figure out how to make it do something.. no matter how wrong the way you're doing it is ^^;...
i would have finished a lot earlier but i was alos finishing a little assignment i got to read some manhwa. yeah, i know. assignment? more like pleasure. hehe. but it's cause no one else knows korean there so even tho it's not really my job, i volunteered to read them over and see it they're worth considering :P the only bad part is, now that i've read vol. 1 of a couple manhwas, i want to read the rest!! but it's only in korea.. bah ^^;
wel, it's late and i still need to shower and get to sleep! in case you're wondering what happened to the comments section, i haven't gotten the php to write it properly so that'll have to wait til tomorrow. night!
searching for chronos @ 11:31 pm
monday. september 19. 2005
music| fushigi yuugi - perfect world
fiiiinally finished updating rhapsodia serenitatis. now the goal is to try and learn php so i can do some fun stuff and make the other sites i want... the only problem is, i don't have the necessary concentration or time anymore ^^;... everytime i try, i either start too late and need to go to sleep or raenef sits on either my lap or the keyboard and that's then end of my concentration!
other than that, work is getting really busy! they want me to do all sorts of extra stuff with the data from the weekly reports i run and while i'm ok doing it, it all seems to fall on my head at the same time! bah.. must get better at multitasking! .. nyways, me thinks it's shower and sleepy time for me
searching for chronos @ 10:32 pm
|friday. september 08. 2005
music| chage & aska - on your mark
ok, so she's old, maybe she's senile, but that's no excuse to be *this* disconnected from reality... guess it runs in the family
searching for chronos @ 11:46 pm
|thursday. august 25. 2005
music| fushigi yuugi - kaze no uta
yaaaay. a second update in the month of august!! how exciting ^_^... hehe. nyways, it's scary how fast time flies when you're busy. not only was i occupied with work, we also had crazy moving issues... i won't elaborate cause i think i've been complaining too often as it is but complications resulted with us living out of the basement for a week. not only is the basement not very pleasant (the last owners didn't take good care of it.. or the rest of the house for that matter..) with tons and tons of bugs and other creepy icky things, we had to somehow fit *all* our furniture down there and because we had to stack stuff, i ended up sleeping on the couch for the week ^^;... not that the couch isn't comfy but unlike the couch i had at school, the couch was not made with sleeping people in mind so the cushions sink down waaaaay too much. that made my back hurt and thus made me really really cranky for that entire time(especially with everything else going on!). now, almost three weeks since we've moved, my room is almost habitable... finally got a desk and a bookshelf in the room so i can organize and recover the floor space that was eaten up by boxes.
nyway, last weekend (can't believe the week is almost over!), went over to nicole's house for some yummy food.. oh, and the company was nice too, i guess... hehe ^^ fan went with. twas much fun. nicole broke out the bocce ball set and it was the italians against the asians. guess who won? we did, of course ^_^ hopefully, i'll get to meet up with nicole tomorrow before she leaves for boston but, if it doesn't happen, boston's not that far. nothing like china or even atlanta where the other x-roomies are ^_^
one thing i've decided, no bringing books home from work for keeps until i've read it... so if i don't want my cube overflooded with books, i'm gonna have to start finishing more books.. somehow that doesn't sound too bad ^^
searching for chronos @ 11:57 pm
|friday. august 05. 2005
music| wolf's rain - stray
it's been a while since i last updated, ne?.. during that time, a lot's happened... graduated, started a job, bummed, visited chicago, spent lots of money on clothes, got more books in the last month than i have the last year, stopped being nocturnal, went to a lucky cheng's and got amused and throughly shocked (if you're curious, try googling but i take no reponsibility for any moral decay or cheek burns that may result), played a lot with the cats*... and now we're moving to a bigger house.. i won't say nicer cause it needs lots and lots of work.. but the extra space will be nice, specially since i think i'll be living at home for 2-3 more years.. it'll be hell on my social life but so much nicer on my bank account.. and goodness knows i'm not getting paid very much. bah ^^ hehe but that's ok. i'm enjoying myself entirely too much and am very glad i tried so hard for this job, despite what the family members had to say
but effort will be made from now on to update a bit more regularly... tho i guess if i were to update every 3 months, that would count as regularly... so i'll amend that to more often ^^ .. tho realy, i was kinda waiting until i got the main site up and running before i started updating anything... but i'm still not finished and i have no clue when i will be, so i decided i might as well update
*list not necessarily in order or importance or occurance
searching for chronos @ 7:27 pm
|saturday. may 07. 2005
arrrrrrrrgh.. why is nothing in ceramics going the way i need it to?!?!... today the angel fell off her pedestal and broke into many pieces... granted, i was able to fix it so that now, instead of an angel, i have a venus de milo-esque statue of an angel sans head instead... i could have attached the head but it looked better without. it's not all a disaster cause i rather like it better. it's more interesting. the thing before was pretty but kinda bland.. now i have art ^^;
but then, on my way back, i wasn't watching my feet and i tripped and fell down the stairs next to feinberg.. nothing hurt, so i think... my left ankle kinda hurts. i hope nothing's wrong with it... i feel so stupid. clearly, i have yet to master the art of walking..
searching for chronos @ 4:12 am
|friday. may 06. 2005
music| the shins - girl informed me
busy day. played with kitties in the early afternoon. then spent much time in 185, taking a break in the middle for dinner with jessica and sarah at teresa's. yummy food. ate too much ^^ then headed back to 185 and came back late.
but even though i spent so much time there, i'm still behind where i was yesterday.. how? wel.. 7 out of the 8 items i put in the kiln yesterday got destroyed... i had no idea that you couldn't stack items even in a bisque firing... bah ;___;... so i had to remake them all today... and i didn't even get to finish remaking everything i lost... so sad.. but yup, i'm gonna be living in 185 for the next few days ^_^
searching for chronos @ 1:49 am
|thursday. may 05. 2005
music| .hack//sign - awakening
woohoo, just put in a solid 6 hrs in 185! .. too bad one of my things exploded.. i knew i shouldn't have dried it so quickly.. but i wanted to get back and sleep ^^;.. hopefully the others all survive
today was thesis presentations. i'm finally done with the entire mess. yay... cinlar seemed to be content with what i did... i don't think he's looked at the thesis yet.. otw, he wouldn't be so content, me thinks ^^;
after presentations, i went with fan and john to kornhauser's house for his cookout. he's such a nice guy ^^. i didn't think i'd enjoy it but it was fun! and his sausages were tasty... i normally don't like sausages but this stuff i liked ^^. carmona, cheridito, vanderdei, and sircar were all there too. very amusing seeing carmona and vanderbei playing soccer/frisbee ^^ not bad for professors ^_^ twas also fun seeing how much enjoyment carmona got from the weird french alcoholic drink kornhauser had... really awful stuff. tastes like liquid licorice.. ick
tomorrow, i'm headed to the shelter to play with some kitties... it's called volunteer work but it's really all selfish on my part. i miss my kitties ^^;
searching for chronos @ 3:51 am
|tuesday. may 03. 2005
music| vampire hunter d: bloodlust - opening
what fun ^^ played softball for the first time today. wasn't very good but whatever. it was enjoyable... however, i was terrified all throughout the game of getting hit.. those softballs aren't soft at all. very deceptively named.
then there was a recording session with the orchestra. we were recording dan truman's 3 pieces for the hardanger fiddle... soo tedious. there was one funny moment that left me quite embarrassed... as part of the recording process, after a take, we need to be silent for 5-10 secs so that the audio people can play with the recorded music later. wel, after one particular take, as soon as we finish playing, my stomach makes hungry noises... ^^;... all the violas heard it.. i don't know if people further away heard it (and if the microphones picked it up... i hope not! ^^;).. thankfully, we did another take because of other reasons and my stomach stayed silent for everything else... but um.. i had quite a blush going...
picking up the flower centerpiece from the swe lunch made me realize how many flowers we actually have in the room (8 vases full in total!). all the flowers in the room makes me happy ^^ i never realized until this year what a difference having pretty plant things in the room made. i always thought gardens/plants were a big pain but now i want a place where i can have lots of them.. but that's waaaay later in the future
now me go beddie-bye... otherwise, there's noo way i'm waking up early tomorrow. ^^;
searching for chronos @ 1:07 am
|sunday. may 01. 2005
music| ai no kusabi - midnight illusion
after a week of putting it off, finally finished choosing colors and things for the new design ^^; the design was easy.. but the text hues were so difficult to decide. still need to get the main page to match but a little later... i'm sort of lost at the moment on what theme i'd like to use... but whatever it is, it should color coordinate with this page.
houseparties was nice. ben was a good date. but one of these days, i'd like to have a date who can teach me how to dance... it's fun to dance and i would have actually liked to do more but i probably looked really silly ^^; the highlight (or the lowlight?) of the weekend was the trip into t.i., cottage, and tower, adding to the very short list of clubs i've been in... i still think it'd be fun to do the prospect 11 with water but now that i've been into most of the clubs, my original motivation is gone ^^;
searching for chronos @ 2:36 am
|monday. april 18. 2005
wheee. i'm gonna go to sleeeeep. i'm gonna go to sleeep ^^ happy happy dance. life is good... now if only it could have been perfect
searching for chronos @ 12:57 am
|friday. april 15. 2005
music| gundam seed - yami no tsuiseki
;___; i wanna sleeeeeeep... but i'm not where i wanted to be at this point.. why the hell does it take so long to type? it's partly my advisor's fault too for changing stuff on me .. i didn't get to work on anything new cause i was busy editing all the old stuff... but even that's not done either ;___;
searching for chronos @ 9:29 am
|wednesday. april 13. 2005
music| rurouni kenshin - war of the last wolves
i'm so silly... i knew i was gonna stay out in friend all night and i knew my eyes would get really tired in the contacts so i'd want to change to glasses and so i brought my contact case and fluid with me.. but i completely forgot about my glasses.. now yeppie, how are you suppose to see anything, miss blind as a bat, when you take out the contacts if you don't have your glasses?!?!... sigh.. anyway, so now i still have my contacts on and tho they don't hurt as much as they would have in the past .. guess my eyes are getting use to having junk on them ^^; ... they're still stinging and slightly painful.. bah
i'm so sad my nomad zen died today ;___; ... granted, i did drop it two timess ^^;.. how was i suppose to know that the zipper to my bag was open?.. it was 9am!... but.. i've dropped it before and it was fine ;___; .. alas, not today. the poor poor harddrive died. now, i can either get it fixed by having the hard drive replaced for $146 or i can go get a new version (of the same thing) for $189.... considering if i do get it fixed i would need to pay shipping and everything, that would come close to $165, i'm guessing... if i get the new one, $189 is what i pay with shipping tax and everything.. so i've decided to say byebye to my old one and just get a new one... for a $24 difference, i'd rather have the one that i can use in a week than one i'd have to wait who knows how long to get back... but what shall i do without music? O.o
i was also thinking an i-pod would be nice but for the same harddrive space, i'd have to pay about twice as much and wel... i like pretty, but not that much.. nyway, why the heck am i rambling about this? i should be working ^^;
searching for chronos @ 5:01 am
|friday. april 1. 2005
music| x japan - scars
i've done it! i've done it! i have my first draft finished ^^ the work of staying up all night yesterday and working on it today!! wheee ^^
...hehe. happy april fools *^^*
searching for chronos @ 9:57 pm
|thursday. march 31. 2005
music| laputa, castle in the sky - carrying you
had an really messed up dream last night... i'm at frist with julie, nicole, and stef. the place is all dark and there's a karaoke party going on and mr. you-know-who is the one directing the maddness. so i'm standing behind julie near the front and he's the first one to volunteer to sing, except he wants someone else to come sing with him and he keeps staring at me. i pretend to not notice and just stand there but he insists and finally i give in and head to the front. so next, we're standing in front of the tv. he has the mike and he puts his arm around me and cuddles me (i wish ;___;) and the song comes up... it's a pepto bismal ad song O.o... (do those even exist?)... so we're singing and i have noooo clue what the song is. not the words, not the tune, anything! but he seems to know it so i just pretend.... when the song is done, he leaves frist with his parents (what are they doing at frist?) and i look around for julie, nicole, and stef... as i notice that julie is gone and nicole is stilling in a corner talking with softball people, stef comes back from the bathroom where she was trying to get this blue dye/powder/stuff(?) off her face (what happened? no clue..). next, there's a scene change and i'm outside our door. (i guess i left frist by myself and came back to the room) anyway, i open the door and am a bit taken aback... the hallway is empty (no shoes or anything) and half the floor is really shiny, kinda like it's been waxed, but it has a blue-ish tint. i walk in and head to the bathroom. i peek in and notice that the bathroom is sparkling.. the tiles look like they've been glazed, and the walls shine like they're polished marble.. and there's a small pile of cleaning products on the side... if that's not disturbing enough, the soap dispenser has little flowers painted(?) on it now (.. wtf.. O.o) so after seeing this new weird bathroom of ours, i head to my room and julie and greg are sitting on my dresser. apparently, julie was the one who cleaned the room because she felt like it. while we're talking, greg starts singing. "something something okuni something something" .. he then stops and asks me if okuni means crazy cause that's what john had told him it meant in japanese..(why is greg singing japanese words in my dream and why is john teaching greg japanese words?!?!?!). and i nod and say that yes, it does mean 'crazy'.. (ok.. i have nooo idea if okuni is a real word, much less know the meaning).. after that, i woke up... i'd love to know what's going on in my head that i would have a dream like this... too bad there's no way to accurately interprete a dream ^^;
searching for chronos @ 2:11 pm
|tuesday. march 29. 2005
music| record of lodoss war - eternity
hehe. planned on getting a bit of work done earlier.. but instead got sucked into playing broomball again ^^; oh wel, twas fun again. too bad we lost. but it was exciting. 0-0 for both halves and overtime. then we lost in the sudden death.. boo
nyway, sleep.. soon ^^
searching for chronos @ 2:06 am
|monday. march 28. 2005
music| noir - secret game
wheeee ^^ played broomball for the first and (probably) last time tonight ^_^ it was fun... i was kinda nervous of falling and of getting hit cause i really don't like pain but not much of that happened. the ice was really rough and not very slippery, tho the ice got slicker as we kept on playing .. or maybe i was just moving faster as the game progressed and just had more momentum? anyway, we won! 6-2 yay! ^^
.. oh and erik is a punk. he said he'd show up and didn't
now for ps time!! boo... at least i have my tea ^^;
searching for chronos @ 10:40 pm
|saturday. march 26. 2005
music| yami no matsuei - my all
meep... i've stayed up waaaay too late. i shouldn't have started that book but it happened. bah... at least it was a good book ^_^
anyway, ocean's twelve tonight was fun. it was more confusing and disjointed compared to ocean's eleven and it had a few moments that were just silly (like the entire thing with tess) but otherwise very enjoyable ^^ but i think i like 11 better... more eyecandy time there. hehe *^^*
happy easter :)
searching for chronos @ 4:40 am
|friday. march 25. 2005
music| saikano - track 9
interesting happenings abounded today... woke up early cause i wanted to work on thesis some more.. i was worried that i would nod off while working cause i had gone to sleep rather late yesterday but no worries! the school was kind enough to provide me with a giant alarm.. or what we would otherwise call, a fire alarm... bah.. so while i would have loved to stay inside, nicole and i were rudely interrupted from sleeping and nodding off, respectively, to stand outside in the cold at 8am... that alarm didn't last long but that wasn't the last...
when we got back in the room, nicole noticed that the room smelled like natural gas... needless to say, we were a bit worried. so while we're calling housing to figure out whether we're in danger of dying anytime soon if we stayed in the room, the alarm goes off again. so we trudge back out. before we can get very far, the alarm stops.. but now we don't wanna stay in the room because.. wel, the room could still be dangerous... so much for sleep and work
later, i head to cinlar's office to meet him at 11... when i show up at his office, the secretary looks at me blankly when i tell her i'm there for a meeting at 11. turns out cinlar is away at a conference... why wasn't i told about this earlier? i don't know. i wasn't in the secretary's appointment book so i was worried that i might have been hallucinating or something but i *was* in cinlar's appointment book afterall.... oh wel.. what can you do..
the afternoon and evening was rather normal. lots of time in 185. spent far too much time makingthin slices to dry... seems like such a waste of time, but it needed to get done.... then dinner, and a little bit of putzing...
after that, way later tonight, i went over to 232 to watch kurosawa's first film.. i forget the name.. but it was awful!.. no plot coherence, choppy cinematic technique, and boring as hell fight scenes.. you'd think a judo movie would be exciting right?.... not at all. the fights can be best described as looking like two middle schoolers meeting at a dance trying to dance the waltz while keeping each other at arms length... *that* bad!!.. tho it's badness made it amusing...
but now it's late and i'm running off of little more than 4 hrs of sleep for the last 48 hrs.. i need to sleep. goodnight
searching for chronos @ 2:12 am
|monday. march 21. 2005
so i was asked an interesting question today. what am i passionate about?... i think i answered it badly or not as well as i could have. i need to get over this need to be painfully honest when answering questions like that... i know they don't *really* care what i say but, as a matter of principle, i feel like i need to tell the truth... yeah, i know. i have some really strange notions in my head. but to me, if i'm passionate about something, it's something i'd be willing to die for.. right. that sounds cliched and stupid.. but that's how i feel and so, as of yet, i have nothing that i'm passionate about. i like or love things, like friends or family or my cels or books or music or my kitties... i would cry and be depressed for ages and/or be really really angry and at the cause if bad things happened to them and i'd go out of my to make sure bad things don't happen or good things happen but would i die for them? mm.... not on your life... wel, maybe friend and family but that would have to be some extraordinary circumstances... the same thing goes with hate.. i don't hate anything... i may dislike things but hate?.. nothing and no one has been that bad for me to hate... it's such a strong word.. i mean, i know i say it in casual conversation.. you know, like 'i hate it when x happens' or something like that but i don't really mean hate.. just a dislike...
reading over what i just wrote, wow. i sound like such a lukewarm individual.. but enough of this deep thought nonsense. i should save that for my j-pop essay ^^;
searching for chronos @ 5:10 pm
|friday. march 18. 2005
i've always wondered what would happen if the fire alarm went off while someone was in the shower... but i never expected to find out first hand! what's the probability of that? really damn small, i bet. i had just stepped under the water when the stupid alarm goes off. grr... so i had to go out in the cold all wet... i did take the time to change before running out. i was *not* going to run out in my bath robe with nothing underneath... that would have been *cold* and uncomfortable, to say the least
searching for chronos @ 2:55 am
|thursday. march 17. 2005
yume (dream) by kurosawa is beautiful. watch it. i'm really glad i bought it. it's worth every peny i spent on it
on an unrelated note, the flowers are opening and are really pretty *^_^*
searching for chronos @ 2:37 am
|music| hitomi shimatani - garnet moon
yay. we have our julie back ^^ i was afraid she wasn't going to make it back tonight but she got in at 1-ish
searching for chronos @ 2:09 am
|tuesday. march 15. 2005
music| joe hisaishi - white island
today was a good day... that somehow surprises me. why? don't really know.. .. perhaps it's the combination of seeing an episode of friends, getting something done in ceramics, having fresh flowers in the room, having had good chinese for dinner...but anyway, didn't get much actual work done but i did get a bunch of little errands taken care of. also have an interview for random house (which i hope works out!)
ben came by the room. hehe. he's good for my ego even tho i know it's all in fun ^^ .. but he just reminded me how much more i need to work on the thesis... eep.. but first, need to finish the little things! like this book for j-pop.. it's rather disturbing and i don't know if i really want to read it ;__; but .. it is for a class and it's a book... why do people need to write such disturbing things... man, i'm such a wimp
searching for chronos @ 2:09 am
|monday. march 14. 2005
music| zetsuai - moonlight eternal mobieus
the weekend was so nice but one phone call had to ruin it all... the punk...
searching for chronos @ 1:44 am
|saturday. march 12. 2005
music| guster - rainy day
amazing... i was the last to go to sleep and not i'm the first to get up... o.O .. ok, the last to sleep ususally happens but the first to get UP?! that *never* happens .. oh wel, i just hope they get up soon so we can go to lunch
searching for chronos @ 12:13 pm
|friday. march 11. 2005
music| hoobastank - same direction
wheee. today was great ^^ actually had something to show cinlar (no matter how silly it was), then went into 185 for the first time since monday, saw volleyball and then some friends, played pictionary with made-up random phrases, and now i'm watching mark, nicole, stef, and greg play euker while julie naps ^_^ such a busy busy day
tomorrow i'm going home for a few days. it'll be fun to see the kitties again ^_^ apparently raenef has chilled a bit
searching for chronos @ 1:49 am
|thursday. march 10. 2005
music| garbage - cup of coffee
so i feel like i just spent a week showing something really really obvious.. i don't know which is worse, the fact that i spent a week+ on it and got crap or getting nothing and still having the hope of getting something better... bah. i'm going to sleep
oh yeah.. and i died... but i'm not very upset about it. ben did try really hard to get me and after three really good tries in one day, i think he deserves it ^^;... he just proves that saying 'third time's the charm' is true
searching for chronos @ 12:43 am
|ooooh... this is rather interesting ^_^
now off to midterm where i shall conquer with my mallet of DOOOOOOOOOOM!! bwahaha ^_^
searching for chronos @ 10:42 am
|woke up early for the econ midterm.. i really wish i were back in bed... soft, cuddly, warm... sigh. i want it now now now!! silly midterm and life *grumble grumble*
but oh dear, cinlar isn't gonna be happy with me tomorrow. i definitely didn't work on the thesis enough.. mayhaps i can make it up today but i still need to do more 'worry about long term future' thing.... i feel like i've wasted too many days on that already but it does have to get done. *shakes fist at father time.. jerk!*
i really do hope dean w lets me pdf j-pop.... i don't want to have to start worrying about that class now. i can't believe the registrar got my grading option wrong.. i also can't believe i didn't realize my academic record had grading option info until yesterday... that's embarrassing ^^;
searching for chronos @ 10:34 am
|wednesday. march 09. 2005
music| legend of dragoon - royal capital
oh noooo.. not 'chinese' for dinner ;___; i was hoping dinner would be something good so i could get myself to stop snacking but now i just want to snack more... bad bad bad.. not that i'm complaining about the eating. the eating is good. eating is fabulous and the snacks in the room are tasty but this constant get up to get food and tea is making it awfully difficult to get anything done!
searching for chronos @ 4:01 pm
|tuesday. march 08. 2005
music| elvis costello - i'll never fall in love again
wow. today was kinda nuts. first, woke up early-ish for once and could have made it to class buuuut... i just really didn't feel like getting out of bed so i just went back to sleep... ^^; ah wel, what's another class missed.. good thing the class isn't very important ^^
so j-pop was the only class i went to. twas interesting tho i still think people take it too seriously.. and in a way, the class is more about critiquing/analysing/saying random stuff about the films we watch than a coherent discussion about the week's topics. nevertheless, it's interesting enough to keep me awake... but man, some of the movies are so.. er... unpleasant. like battle royale and suicide club.. definitely not movies i'd watch on my own for fun.. and yet they are interesting. i need to finish suicide club. i hate the death stuff but the mystery has hooked me in
then i spent the evening working not to get killed. managed to avoid death and got my mark. now onto the next victim. oh yay! ^_^ i really didn't think i'd survive for so long... partly a matter of not being at charter very much, getting lucky with my assassins, and having faaantastic roommate bodyguards *^^* .. nyway, let's see how much longer i last *looks around frantically and knocks on wood*
searching for chronos @ 3:14 am
|monday. march 07. 2005
music| .hack//sign - fake wings, bitter sweet
yay, the problem set was finished before it got ridiculously late ^_^ maybe i'll even make it to class tomorrow O.o
i've been awfully disorganized lately.. i forgot to respond to ryan's email, didn't send out the viola dinner email so that someone else did it.. there're more but it's too embarassing to list them all
nyway, i should go to sleep so that i'm not even more out of it from lack of sleep
searching for chronos @ 3:17 am
|saturday. march 05. 2005
music| castle in the sky - carrying you
may tommorrow be a good day .. productive would be nice too ^^ sometimes i feel like i have the attention span of a gnat ^^;
searching for chronos @ 3:54 am
|friday. march 04. 2005
music| narsillion - 13
grr.. there are some really stupid people out there. i'm so mad that some idiot(s) had to mess up our evening. if it's someone i know, boy are they gonna get it!!
searching for chronos @ 2:29 am
|tuesday. march 01. 2005
yare yare. it's late. i forgot how great m*a*s*h* is.. i meant to stop watching it at 3 but i just had to finish it ^^; oh wel ^^ i'll get less done tomorrow but i enjoyed myself tremendously tonight... i needed it. not that i haven't been taking time off to do things i like lately (a little too much of it actually) but let's just say the laughs were very appreciated
searching for chronos @ 4:03 am
|sunday. february 27. 2005
music| sting - until
welladay, didn't get much done today... what's new. should get back to ps-ing soon. but before i do, i thought i'd do a little bit of procrastinating ^_^ i give myself 5 mins!
so.. not much happened today other than my target got immunity from me.. drat. foiled in my evil megalomanic plans of world.. er.. charter domination with my scary assassin skills... ^_^ teehee. anyway, i guess i won't be doing much more in this game. ah wel, it was fun while it lasted
so.. oops 5 mins is up.. but i don't really need to get to work right now, right? i'll just... *good yeppie beats bad yeppie over the head with a bat.. owww* .. ok, maybe i should get back to the problem set...
searching for chronos @ 10:14 pm
|saturday. february 26. 2005
music| saikano - yumemirutameni
hehe. spent tonight and last night just talking in the common room ^^ twas fun but.. didn't get anything done. bah... but finally, stef and chrissy are on princetonmatch! ^_^ yay hehe.. not that it matters but it's fun just to see who's on everyone's list
but i really did want to get stuff done.. maybe i should start working in the room? hm.. naw.. that's too hard. and i like curling up on the couch/futon.. besides, i can't work late at night when i'm in the room.. i feel bad having the light on when julie's sleeping ^^; so i'll just be here... kinda weird tho having greg and julie napping on the couch/futon both nights O.o... don't quite understand.. beds are so much nicer
anyhoo, tomorrow will have to be econ problem set and ceramics.. but problem set first!!
searching for chronos @ 2:42 am
|wednesday. february 23. 2005
music| shimatani hitomi - garnet moon
did some organizing with hard drive space and all after my scary experience with the blue screen of unhappiness earlier... stupid computer *grumble*.. not hardly done but little by little i shall have my computer clean and more functional so that i shall never more get the blue screen of unhappiness... at least until after i graduate
you know, i was actually starting to get use to the idea of not having a tendre for someone but then he had to go and confuse me again.. argh.. i thought i managed to stomp that little voice flat but i guess not... wel, i've emailed him. whatever happens, it'll be decided soon. no more uncertainty
searching for chronos @ 3:22 am
|music| metallica - enter sandman
so much for my idea of getting some thesis stuff done this afternoon. i still have time but i won't get hardly as much as i wanted to get done. blame it on worrying about the future. i really really want this publishing job.. tho i don't think mom thinks much of this idea. at least she didn't sound too thrilled about it yesterday on the phone. but she wants me to go to law school, which ain't happening! i would make an awful lawyer... wasn't very impressed with my summer experience
i just hope the career services lady gets back to me today cause i'd like to get the resume and coverletter in today but i don't think it'll happen. i sent her the email asking about the websites a little too late... is it a good idea to put the addys to this page and others on the resume so that they can see design stuff? or is a bad idea considering how silly i am on this? the person did say that i should put the links on the bottom to show that i do do these things but i don't think she knows exactly what type of pages i meant. so i emailed her the new resume with the links on it and asked her 'good or bad idea'.. now i just need to know what she thinks
oh weird! i just got a call from a telemarketing webhosting/designing company? .. i least i think that's what it was. the guy told me he was calling about yeppie.com and asked if i had it up and running...nani?... and when i said i did, they guy apologized nicely and said he didn't want to bother me...so confused.. since when did telemarketers apologize and what was that all about?
now i can't figure out how to manage my time. i could work on thesis tonight.. or go in for ceramics... what to do?
searching for chronos @ 5:10 pm
|sunday. february 20. 2005
music| l'arc-en-ciel - ready steady go
wel, my idea with the feathers didn't work.. i forgot that feathers are covered with oil so that water based liquids don't stick... ^^;.. i'll have to try something else.. maybe paint on a thin layer of thicker slip first? anyway, i should look at the econ problem set some more ^^
searching for chronos @ 11:58 pm
|saturday. february 19. 2005
music| kagrra - kisen
finally charter's stupid plan to try and make charter the popular club on fridays resulted in badness. i hope the idiot who sprayed the kitchen with the fire extinguisher gets caught! thanks to that person we had to fend for ourselves all day. granted, it had it's good points, such as i got to eat sushi for dinner, but i stil had to go out and buy food. completely unacceptable! brunch is on for tomorrow but julie, nicole, or stef is taking me out to eat at mathey.. ah, back to those good old days when life was simple. i'm looking forward to sunday brunch in the dining hall ^_^ mini-pan omelettes! yay!
a good thing. i know what i want to do with life ^_^ .. kinda. if i can get an operations joba at a publishing company, i'll be really happy. if not,.. um i'll be not happy. i've pretty much decided that if i get a job like that, it's that for sure. so that's really all i need but in case i don't, i hope i get something else too.. like grad school or another job.. ^^; ... choices are good.. but a job i like is even better
searching for chronos @ 2:46 am
|friday. february 18. 2005
music| record of lodoss war - hikari no suashi
last few days have been fun.. yet not so fun too. anyway, yesterday was sportsnighter. nicole and i had fun with the human fooseball ^^ did more physical activity in the one-two hours that we played than i have all year ^^;... sad, ne? then today we went to the juggling show. lots and lots of fun. i will miss that come next year. afterwards, nicole, stef, mark, and jon played yuker(sp?) while i updated my website. would rather have been knitting but the update needed to be done. jon and mark are such nutcases together... i don't know how their room managed to get anything done freshman year ^^; .. oh and nicole and julie both heard back from grad schools that they are wanted. yay! i'm so happy for them ^_^
of course, those were the good parts. on the down side, i'm behind on the thesis but i'm terrified to start it, ceramics still isn't approved, i can't sort out my feelings, no grad schools have contacted me, and i have not one clue about what i want to do in the future... ok. some of those overlap.. but all in all, i'm not very happy about all of this... i hate feeling inadequate and, right now, i feel like such a waste of space.. parasite to society.. oh aren't i cheerful...
ok, i'm done being awfully negative... it's still early (or so i tell myself) and i'm thinking more and more that i might want to work in the publishing business.. not as an editor or anything but working on the planning and managing. i think i would enjoy that... but i haven't the faintest about how i would start that. i guess i'll be talking to someone at the career center come the week... *sigh* i'm going to sleep...
searching for chronos @ 3:51 am
|monday. february 14. 2005
music| do as infinity - new world
i finally got the last signature i need to turn in the silly form to do ceramics. finally! that only took forever... *grumblestupidadministrationgrumblegrumble*... hehe. i'm just happy it's all set and all i need to do is turn in the form tomorrow ^_^ but it's so sad how much i've forgotten.. i can't throw worth crap... not that i was really good at it before but everything i make now is bottom heavy (bad) or lopsided (worse)...
i need to practice throwing more but my arms get so tired after a few that i can't throw too many... i'm so pathetic. meh.. also, it really bugs me to leave the forms without any decorations. i'm doing it on purpose so i have stuff to play with glazes on but.. they're so plaaain! my hands itch to do something to them and so i end up spending way too much time working on little details for forms that aren't very good in the first place... need to learn to look at the big picture and not get obsessive over things like that but it's hard... but i'm definitely not getting enough done because of that...
got the best valentine's present yet! ^_^ guess what? a packet of cels!! .. hehe. bet you were expecting something different ^^ yeah, i mean, it is a gift from me to myself.. but no one's stepped up to fill that position so gotta do it myself... now, if i can find someone who would actually get me cels for valentine's, now that would be a match made in heaven *^^* hehe.. just kidding.. mostly ^_^
funny. i told myself i would stop thinking about him i was still hoping something might happen. more fool am i. but it was valentine's...
searching for chronos @ 2:54 pm
|sunday. february 13. 2005
music| burt bacharach & elvis costello - i'll never fall in love again
meh.. happy valentine's... hurrah for another celebrate-my-singleness day...
searching for chronos @ 3:29 pm
|music| boa - next step
wheeee. don't wanna work, don't wanna work. never wanna grow up, i'm gonna be a toys'r'us kiiiiid lalalala~ .... this is what the dreaded t-word does to me.. scary ne?
searching for chronos @ 4:55 pm
|saturday. february 12. 2005
music| angel sanctuary - sorrowful sigh
i'm giving up. there's been too much chasing on my part already and it won't improve... thinking things over, i've been the one asking to do things together most of the time and i'm tired of asking and being told later.. i was hoping that that might change but that's not happening.. so time to move on and have a change of heart. good thing i have so much to distract me... guys really suck. but it's so freeing not to care. hope is a bitch
searching for chronos @ 2:00 am
|friday. february 11. 2005
music| beauty and the beast - belle
went and got more flowers for the room... since i have no one to get them for me *sob* .. .. but i noticed that i tend to do that when i'm feeling a bit down. maybe it's so i have something to cuddle with ^^
just got an email from cinlar's secretary. my midterm progress report is graded and in my mailbox... frankly, i'm terrified to go see my grade... i don't know what to expect ;___; but that means a change of plans for the day. i was gonna work on thesis but until i look at what cinlar has to say, i think i'll hold off on it. i could go pick it up now but i'll wait until dinner... or maybe even after brunch tomorrow.. sigh..
ah, love, let us be true
to one another! for the world, which seems
to lie before us like a land of dreams,
so various, so beautiful, so new,
hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain...
- from 'dover beach' by matthew arnold
searching for chronos @ 2:37 pm
|wednesday. february 9. 2005
music| jo sung mo - piano
i'm highly baffled... i keep on getting a 'returned mail: user unknown' reply from the mail server when i try to send someone an email... i know he exists.. at least as of last week he did... and the address is spelled correctly... i just don't get what's going on.. maybe i'll try calling in the morrow
something that really annoys me, people who won't spell out things properly! granted, i don't mind a little bit. heck i do it all the time with 'wel' and other little things. but some people take it way too far.. like this person who posted on a forum i check "...I should jez sell off most of em an jez keep a few or sell em all...I jez aint a big enough anime fan, cuz I can justify emptyin..." ... ... reading that ticked me off to no end! since when was 'jez' an acceptable alternative to 'just'? it doesn't even sound remotely like it... and the leaving the 'g' off of his/her '-ing's.. is it that hard? ... ok, maybe the person speaks that way. that's ok, people have accents... but one should never ever write in such a manner unless one is writing a dialogue and the character happens to have such an accent... it's atrocious... and he/she even goes through the trouble to capitaliza the 'i'.. if he/she can stretch the finger to do that, i don't see why he/she needs to write the way he/she did...
may tomorrow be a good day ^^
searching for chronos @ 2:47 am
|tuesday. february 8. 2005
music| porno graffiti - heart
oh my, it's been a few days since i've blogged... it's all because the laptop was actually in my room... i lack the motivation to do this when the bed is so close ^^; i'd rather just sleep. but when i'm out in the common room, the bed is far enough to resist for a little longer ^_^ silly me
tuesdays are rather taxing, 4.5 hrs of class all in one day... that's 75% of all my official class time! such bad planing on my part.. or maybe it's good. i get most of it over in one shot ^^ but jpop is such a fun class. i realy enjoy listening to what people have to say about the stuff... and sometimes i can even say 'wow, i was thinking the same thing' .. that never happened in the other humanities classes i've taken til now. i can't see the little meanings from the way some author uses language or the imagery used... waaay too subtle for me, not to mention, i just don't care *shrug*
... and some people just have no patience.. i got an email from someone about a cel a day or two ago. i don't reaply and i've already gotten one more email along with postings at every single cel forum i know about the emails.. jeez... i guess i should get back to her tomorrow
searching for chronos @ 4:17 am
|thursday. february 3. 2005
music| legend of dragoon - in you still believe
wheee. the new semester has started and i've done so little work, it's fabulous ^^ at the beginning of the week, it was because i needed to sleep and get rid of the silly european flu i picked up in portugal. but starting, yesterday, i've been feeling almost back to normal, still a little headachey but the body doesn't hurt and i actually want to do thing ^^ .. but i'm still not doing any work. that's starting next week. hehe
can't wait til this weekend when it'll be opera in ny and then casino night at charter ^^
searching for chronos @ 3:22 pm
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