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a while, once again

I haven’t posted on this blag in a long time because I’ve had Horace as an outlet for my daily happenings. And Project Horace. Well, they’re basically the same thing lawl. Anyway.

Because I am a Mac whore,

Within two days I bought an iPhone 3GS and a MacBook Pro (13.3″). adsfkjwlkejrkwer. I need to earn a lot of money in the future so I can give back to my parents. A jillion dollars. A jillion dollars. So expensive. But sooo worth it.

Unfortunately I wanted to connect my external harddrive to the MacBook but it was like oh lalala Apple decided to use the Firewire 800 and f-ing change the port size on me. So I had to go to Fry’s and get a converter from the 6-pin to 9-pin. Oh dear. At least it was like $10 cheaper than it would’ve been from the Apple Store. Misers.

Started learning Python from this Intro to Programming course at UCI. Fortunately it is a lot easier than Java, and there are a lot of concepts about programming that I already understand. I really like this kind of stuff. It’s very interesting. Hopefully I can just start off doing EECS at Cal instead of having to wait an entire semester to transfer from Environmental to EECS. Blargggg.

I kind of miss everyone because I’m not going to all these grad parties and I’m looking on facebook at all of the pictures that I’m not in. Yes. Alas, if I’m going to be in California, why not go all the way? lawl but I will keep in contact with all my NJ people. Or at least as many people as I can. For example, Horace and Greg. Best friends ever.

Mochi passed away yesterday. He didn’t even make it to his first birthday, but he was able to celebrate all the birthdays of the rest of our family. Mochi traveled all the way to California even if he couldn’t walk, even if at the end he couldn’t even close his left eye because his entire left side became paralyzed. He was such a soft, cute cat. I cried when he left. Rest in Peace, Mochi; you will live a good afterlife/have an amazing reincarnation. Because you were so good to us, and we tried to reciprocate that as much as possible. We loved you, Mochi, and we still do.

I’m actually typing this during a Programming lecture. Fortunately I have already read the chapter and I understand it because it is so very silly. Or basic. Yes, basic.

Fiddling around with a new computer is so much fun.

I miss you all!

Horace, I have yet to type you like five billion emails. I will get started on that after I look through my class schedule for Cal.

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oh wow. but in a good way.

These past couple of days have been awesome.

Besides my ultimate failure of facebook hours logged (4? 5? cumulatively), I’ve been decently productive. Of course, any sort of productivity is a stark contrast to my lack thereof during spring break, hahahahaha.

I think having a best friend as a boyfriend is the best thing ever. ‘Cause seriously, we act exactly the same just that we have our cheesy moments. Chris Ma and Kris yelled “class couple” during their cooldown at me. Later when Horace was waiting around for me they were spying so I flipped them off. …In an endearing way; I love Chris and Kris. Such awesome people.

Holmdel Relays on Friday and Saturday! I’m not running any on Friday, so me and Horace are going to go to b&n afterwards to stock up on AP Physics studying because god, we really need it. Or at least I do. He probably needs some physics business, too. Jumping TJ and possibly HJ (if Dorrie can’t make it) on Saturday, as well as the 200 in the sprint medley. I think if I can run really really really super fast in the second 100 I’ll be good. I’ll try my best. Cole was debating between me and Laura for the 200 and I was like dude. Totally put me for 200 and Laura for 400 because she actually has the drive to run the 400, albeit I may have the stamina or whatever lol. …Yes.

I’m pretty much on an emotional high right now. Now just to worry about prom…probably going to ask Danielle for permission to join their prom group ’cause I think that’s Niti’s, too, so it’ll be all chill. Ala said yes! =) Also, Cody’s trying to get Cahay and Horace into that group, which would be the win for me. Hahahahaha. Hopefully I can catch Danielle after Psych or before or something.

Eeek! I am happy. Study date fridayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

orange

p.s. – Horace check out the tags lololol =)

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stress

Between college and prom, I’m getting kind of stressed.

I’m not exactly quite sure what to do with this stress, either. I can’t paint, because I’m done with that shit.

Hm maybe this is a sign that I have to hit the books. Homework,  I mean. I think it’d be nice to study a little bit to get my mind off life right now.

Regardless, it’s loads of fun being all gossipy and shit with prama. ‘Cause it’s prama.

Hopefully I’ll go with someone. Hahahah the future looks bleak but I’ll ask again after all this college shit, aka next week. Just to make sure.

The bad thing about prom is that it’s screwing with my feelings a lot and I’ve become very like ASDLFKJWLKEJKRJE DICTATOR shit. Yeah I don’t think I like anyone that way. At least today.

Welllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll this has been a vague post.

BIG BANG + 21 = LOLLIPOP?!?!?!?! asldkfjlwekjff this song is SO good. It’s Big Bang PLUS REPETITION!!!! YAYAYAYAYAYAYAY KOREAN SONG CRAZE OF 2009~~~~ besides TOP is absolutely amazing. And GD has his hair crimped like wtf hahahahahaha.

Yay the fact that I mentioned big bang in a post is a sign that I get to use the tag “g-dragon is the hottest guy ever second only to top” again!!!! It’s been a while since I’ve used that one. lawlawlawlawlawl. Eeeeeeek I love TOP’s hair in this commercial because it’s the same as it was in Uhm Jung Hwa’s D.I.S.C.O which is SO HOT. Like ohhhhhhhh my goddddddddd.

Yeah I’ve missed fangirling. A lot. Time to get into the mode agaaaaaainnnnnnnnnnnnn

excessive use of repetition of consonantssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

I realized yesterday that I have been able to triple jump for the longest time, just that my energy has been put in the wrong place for my jump. So now I feel like I can jump 30 consistently even without trying. ‘Cause I can jump like 26 from just jogging, which is fucking sweet. =DDDDDD

BYE TIM….iloveyou

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fucking sweet

UC BERKELEY
Caltech
Cornell ILR
UCLA
UCI
NYU Stern

eeeek I’m so happy I got into Berkeley. At this point it’s 85% sure that I’m going, but I’m going to wait on the Ivys to come out on Tuesday and Stanford on Wednesday and make my choice from there.

Cal gave me the Regent and Chancellor’s Scholarship, which means I get guaranteed housing for all 8 of my semesters, priority consideration for summer interns, a faculty advisor for school and career counseling, and $1000 at least for the first year. Also if I go I’m pretty sure I can pay in-state the first year because dad pays California taxes. Awesome.

Going to visit Cal the last day of Spring Break into the Monday we get back. Also going to the new student orientation in NYC Sunday, April 5th.

Wow everything seems kind of like a dream. Makes me really want to finish these two scholarships (which I haven’t even started yet) that I need to hand in to Mr. Kowalczyk by tomorrow if I want everything submitted on time.

500 word autobiography and a 250 word scholarship essay.

Psychology.
Spanish (two nights’ worth).
Econ.
Whitten.
Italian.

Whatever homework isn’t important right now; I should concentrate on finishing those scholarships. Although I do need to study for psych because my grade is complete fail in that class right now. Spanish I could care less about but I feel like I might not get an A this MP if I slack off too much. Screw Whitten. Econ is silly. I didn’t even bring home Italian.

Ohhhhhhh my gadddddddddddddddddddd yay.

International Dinner was amazing. Mom’s chicken parm was SO good. Sat between Cathay and Horace and across from Niti (aka god with her empty lighter) and Dave. Gregg sat nearby. Greg was MIA because of the sick. =(

Cathay and co.’s telenovella was SO LOLOLOLOLOL. Connie in a dress and wig was the funniest thing since ever. Spanish was a little bit of fail but the sombreros and sunglasses were awesome. Chinese was fail. Latin was slightly lol but paled in comparison to Italian. I’m happy IHS regained some of its pride after last year’s fail. xDDDD Pinocchio. Yes. I used ‘fail’ like twenty times in this paragraph.

Okay. Now to work.

My sleep hours are dying.

Mood: Glee.

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difficult

Trying to help others resolve their problems is difficult. It makes me feel like an uncaring and overbearing but very practical bitch.

In any case everything has its roots in fanfiction.

EEEEEEK G-DRAGON IS FEATURING IN W-INDS. NEW SINGLE MAY 13TH EEEE I HOPE HE RAPS IN JAPANESE EEEEEEEEE

AND I CAN’T WAIT TO WATCH SEUNG RI’S MOVIE BECAUSE HE LOOKS REALLY REALLY REALLY CUTE AS A SOCCER PLAYER EEEEEEE

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Wahoo!!!!

Yay running makes me happy even though I want to die during the 400 workouts. Cole and Kaci both said I did really well, although that’s because I stuck with Paula (and failed; came in like 2-4 seconds slower than her in every run. That’s okay though.

Went home and jumped rope, because I need to lighten up my step in like, life. Can’t triple jump or run without being less heavy on my feet. Also, it kills my knees and my general joint areas.

I finally have time to do the eco flyer!!! YAY!!!!!!!!! I am so happy to do this and get it over with. I just have to find a way to make it legible now hahaha. I also have to sketch out the career day canvas, but that takes a little more time so I think I’ll do that after I do some physics homework and feel more comfortable before taking Thursday’s test.

AIME was beast today. I could only answer 7 out of the 15 in a total of 3 hours. Whatever; at least I got to miss >50% of the day. It was great. I think I need to go to more econ; I’ve seriously missed it like 4 times in the past seven days. xDD

I find Farenheit 451 to be a pretty interesting book. However, I’m preoccupied with The Chronicles of Chretomanci: Witch Week right now, so I think I should finish that first. Diana Wynne Jones is an awesome children’s fantasy writer for the win. I need to start reading more educational books.

Wow ever since I got into college I’ve been feeling so much better about myself. That’s good.

On the Border on Friday with Niti and company. I am ridiculously excited. It is good.

Greg started calling me Lisa. Yaaaaaaaaay. Not that I have any objections to the name Paco. Calling me ‘Lisa’ just makes me feel more special, even though there’s no other Paco in the school.

I need to get around to rereading Shaman King in order to read Shaman King KangZengBang (the alternate ending) and get the full effect. It will be good time.

Okay now to work. I’m so optimistic about the rest of this week, too.

orange

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Good

I finished my Pygmalion paper at around 12:30, which was good timing for me. Went straight to sleep after that and slept like a log for six hours.

Woke up ridiculously tired this morning. However, overall I had a very satisfying day; Horace, Dave and I (and Kathy, to some extent) made jokes in Econ the entire period by drawing in Horace’s APE. Every time Motz made a joke, Horace and I took that as our cue to burst out laughing because our sides (or at least my sides) hurt from shaking with laughter. I think we were all a litle tired from the research paper.

Best news ever today was that Whitten won’t be here for the rest of the week because her grandchild is getting born (yay!) and she’s going down to DC to wait. Oh, I am so happy. So, so happy.

I don’t understand why I don’t like her so much. Well, I do, but I’ve never felt odiousness for any teacher, let alone a teacher for English. Maybe it’s the amount of work she gives? McDonald gave a ton of work, but it was useful work, because we actually would go over it and she would write constructive comments. Whitten gives me a 42 out of 50 and tells me to change my writing style. My style is fine as it is.

It’s not that I’m just being stubborn, either; I really do like my writing style, and it’s perfectly clear, unlike what she may think. According to her, my style renders the text imprecise, and by  changing it I can convey my ideas better. Well, considering I didn’t want to waste paper, I confined my answers to one page. I used enough words for me to be able to look at my responses and relay them to my discussion group, to be clear to myself. I wrote down clear quotes that I could build upon if I needed to write a full-blown essay on any one thing. I’m not going to waste time writing explanations if it’s just a homework assignment, and I’m going to build on it through discussion anyway. Which I did. And she gave me a 40 out of 50.

I did put effort into the assignment. It’s not like I BSed it. I just put down key points that required little elaboration, and she accuses me of not being clear enough.

I don’t care that I got a 42 out of 50; it’s that my style was the reason for my 8 points off that irritated me. I can write. She knows I can write.

Maybe I’m bitching about this because I’m a 3rd MP senior and I can’t take criticism like I used to, because I think I’m close to perfect and ready for college. Or maybe the whit is not as passive as she makes herself out to be. Which she doesn’t.

Regardless, idk why I was kind of pissed at the assignment in general. It’s not like she took off half credit.

…she insulted my style in an effort to improve it.

Enough about that class…I care enough to not completely BS the entire thing, but I don’t even know what she grades anymore.

I love 2PM. Like…they’re nothing compared to Big Bang, but they’re so…awesome I can’t take it. Taecyeon is by far my favorite right now; he speaks ENGLISH! Yee!!! So does Jae Beom, and he is seriously black but not really but he lived in Seattle. Woot. Woo Young is probs my favorite Korean Korean member, because he’s so LOL in the 10 points out of 10 video. Which I have watched almost as many times as Haru Haru. I can’t wait for them to release their new single…IN DECEMBER. GAHHH FUCK.

I also found Super Junior’s comeback song “Sorry Sorry” quite catchy but the rabidness of ELFs (SuJu fans) repulsed me. Besides, there are 13 freaking people. It’s a colony.

TOP’s family was rated the best looking family in the Korean celebrity world of today. Yay. His sister is really hot, though. Yes that was not a creepy statement.

I have AIME tomorrow. It’ll be good time, because idk what I’ll be doing. Hahahaha I got 3 out of 15 questions. The good thing is, I’m pretty good at the geometry questions so I guess I’ll just focus on those.

I’m kind of giddy about getting the rest of my college decisions back now, since I know I can go to perfectly good schools even if I don’t get into Harvard and Yale and the like. Although UC Berkeley would be freaking awesome. I want Horace to get into a good school, too.

Thinking about prom but still haven’t decided when’s the right time to ask. Because prom IS in three months. That is quite a while. Maybe April.

Holmdel drama is loldel drama. Especially when it doesn’t concern me and when it is Asian drama.

The hurdling juniors need to stop acting like they’re badass and ignoring the rest of the group when stretching and doing drills  because they’re just looking like people who just disrespect. And that ain’t cool. Plus it makes them look like bitches and hoes.

Kev’s video was rather funny after I got the general gist of where it was going.

I’m just writing until I get enough inspiration to finish my poem for Lit Mag. Haha I am such a procrastinator.

I need to find some time to make a rough sketch of what I’m painting for Mrs. Butler. I also need to lose these five (or eight?) pounds that I still have from winter break. God fucking dammit. I know it’s all fat, too.

Wow now I feel kind of depressed. Dumb Whitten.

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whitten

Fucking pygmalion paper can go die in a hole

Running on four hours of sleep for very good reasons…including talking to horace and greg about life in general and how fucked up the three of us are in various ways.

Surprised to find that I am faster than I was in sophomore year, which was the last time I raced. This is good; means that I’ll get some running in this season instead of only doing triple jump, although I love TJ immensely.

I have done a shitload of homework this weekend. I am commending myself.

Still have econ articles to do. GAH. *pine!mope*

iPhoto kills my computer. I need to find a new way to transfer shit because like…my computer dies whenever it turns on. rather sad. oh nvm I just found out that the only reason that happens is because I had a hugeass WG avi on my sd card so it would just kill everything in general. Everything’s good now. yay.

Back to Whitten.

I have no idea how I’m going to sleep at an appropriate hour today; I also have to do some stuff for Indian Hill’s career day (painting?) and the freaking ECO flyer. Gah.

orange

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What I have done this weekend to procrastinate and not do my Presidential Scholar application

1. sleep (Friday 9pm – Saturday 6:30am, Sunday 12:30-9:30am)
2. Harvard interview (Friday 3:30-5pm)
3. draw (Friday 5:40-6:40pm)
4. youtube DBSK videos (Friday 7-8pm)
5. read death note fanfiction (Friday 8-9pm, Saturday 8pm – Sunday 12:30am)
6. work (Saturday 11am-4pm, Sunday 12-4pm)
7. play tennis (Saturday 7-8am, 4-6pm)
8. do homework
9. watch Family Outing episodes (Sunday 4-6pm)
10. download, organize, burn music (Sunday 6:30-8pm)
12. write this useless blog post (Sunday 9:15-9:30pm)

The Presidential Scholar application is totally due on Thursday at 5pm (which means I have to finish it on Wednesday, given I can’t get home on Thursday before 5, and I should get all my first drafts done by tomorrow so Rose can have a look at them) and this week looks like another hell week in terms of schoolwork, homework,  and afterschool activities aka tutoring.

Ack.

In other news, I got into my first college, UC Irvine!!! This means that I will NOT be going to Brookdale, contrary to my stat class’s popular belief. Thank goodness. I feel much more relieved now that I know that at least my UC app was submitted corrrectly.

While I was on my DBSK youtube spree starting on Thursday and ending on Friday, I found DBSK’s entire Korean discography on my hard drive.  Yunho was really really hot until I realized that from a certain angle he looked like Keith Lin, which just made me really disturbed. It’s okay; he’s still hot, just not so much anymore. Good time.

I am dreadfully sick.

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well, this sucks.

So I decided to start actually writing down journal entries…instead of blogging. Yeah that failed completely. I guess I might as well; when I’m eighty and dying, it’s probably easier to read a book than to go on the Internet, which might be obsolete by then.

Procrastinating on my essays! Because I got deferred from Penn. Nothing I can do about it, but it still pisses me off a little. I still have like 3.5 left to write and edit and finalize, then I’m done. The rest of my colleges seem pretty good; all my short answers are decent, and the caltech essays are the only ones being frickin annoying. Like, the Stanford one I just can’t bring myself to write, and the Cornell one I’m procrastinating until I finish all of my other ones (because I decided to apply to Cornell on a whimsical note…yeah idek).

I downloaded a bunch of like random crazy anime movies and jdramas and live action movies that I plan to watch over winter break. Plan to. Actually, at the rate I’m going with my college essays, I should be done with them by Friday (no lie, seriously) then I can send them out over the weekend and be DONE WITH THEM, fucking shits. Sorry; that profanity was unwarranted.

Then after that I can go hang out at Greg’s house every day, after I complete my anime/jdrama/movie sprees. I mean I obviously re-discovered FLCL so I have to watch it. Have to. I also d/l-ed ergo proxy (the manglobe effect) and samurai champloo, so I have to watch those. Well, samurai champloo not so much, because I love that series to death and I’ve watched it more than twice. All the way through.

My christmas presents sucked. Like I feel guilty now because they suck so bad. aslkdfsldkem. Like I’m working now so I have money, but I’m not even using it ’cause I’m saving it for college spending money. How is Christmas in like friggin three days and we still have this school business going on? We’re not even doing anything anymore.

Goals for break:

MON. 12/22: Finish (at least) Caltech prank essay, get 75-80% through Stanford-specific essay.
TUES. 12/23: Finish Stanford-specific essay, do Caltech engineering essay (4 hours?), research Cornell’s Human Ecology and ILR schools.
-11:50am – school ends. Go coffee with Horace and Greg? Mom probably won’t even let me T__T;
-1:00pm – get home (hopefully? most likely earlier), finish Stanford-specific essay
-3:30pm – bus for basketball game against RFH.
-7:30pm – get home, do Caltech engineering essay
WED. 12/24: Edit all essays, do Cornell-specific essays.
THURS. 12/25: Christmas woohoo, finish editing and shit, do more Cornell-specific essays.
FRI. 12/26: Finish essays, damnit.
SAT. 12/27-SUN. 12/28: Send out all college stuff.
SUN. 12/28: Watch Waterboys and Go!, read La Casa de Bernarda Alba.
MON. 12/29-TUES. 12/30: Watch Ergo Proxy. Do some homework.
WED. 12/31: Watch The Cat Returns. New Years’ Party? Yes please. Start reading Pinocchio.

If I can follow this roughly, I will win my own life. Oh please, Paco, do something for once.

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