My Stupidity Doth Exceed To a Level

Today, a maths test. I woke up at 4:45 instead of around 1 because apparently I didn’t set my phone alarm right. So of course I go “fuck”, and then proceed to play games until around 6. Oh yes, the wisdom of Gary Li, brilliant, no? >>;

So after cramming for half an hour, I shower, then cram in the car while my mum drives, then walk to class, cram in the the lecture hall, and then the test starts.

Surprisingly, I felt like I did relatively well! And we all know, that is a BAD thing, because things usually turn out opposite to my expectations, something like that. Well…fuck.

Right when I started the test, I noticed a couple people coughing. And a couple of sniffles. And then a whole torrent of little coughs and sniffles and sneezes that I COULD NOT DROWN OUT. For a good while, at least. Goddamn, it reminded me of that time when I couldn’t drown it out during that one AP test. I forgot which one, but damn is that not annoying.

I saw a GSI getting all huggy with the professor. Or at least, it looked like it, with the GSI having his own arm somewhat wrapped around his front, going upwards, and the professor standing on the elevated stage, leaning over to the GSI to listen. For a moment there it looked like the GSI was on the stage and grabbing the professor. And then the professor straightened up and it all made sense again. >>;

I need a new mouse. And some hair ties.

Listening to: 天音-Fill Your Heart. I like Kirby music, don’t you?

PRAY TO YOUR GOD

The Kite, It Flew

So I went out today for something other than class, it’s been a while since I’ve done that. In fact, I didn’t even go to class today, since it was another walking tour, and Elvin was busy, so it would probably suck without good company. So, I got to sleep in until 2 or 3, which was glorious, but I wish I had awoken earlier though…And then I showered, ate, and then Elvin and I went out for some animal fries. I haven’t had those in a good while either, and they were deliciously unhealthy. Of course, I probably walked off most of it later…

After the eating, we went to fly the kite. There was soccer practice of some sort going on at the moment, which took up most of the field, but we were able to find a small spot to launch our kite with a wind untampered with by the trees. We got it to its full height soon, and we thought it would be smooth sailing. Furthermore, we were feeling lazy, so we decided to weigh down the spool with Elvin’s backpack…and we found out how easy it is to detach the handle from where the string is wound around. Oh, but the string didn’t slip off the spool, although it looked quite easy to do so. No, I felt his backpack was unsafe, so I took it in my hands again…and the string broke. No, not where we tied the old string to the new string, that would have been too easy, because I’d still have the new string. No, it broke off right at the spool, at the tie that was manufactured to keep the last of the string around the spool. Goddamnit, next time, I’m retying that shit so many more times ><.

So, once the kite started flying away, I tried chasing after it. Of course, the wind blows a hell of a lot faster than I can run, so now it’s somewhere in the golf course at the Marina. Or perhaps further in, somewhere in the marshy area. After the kite flew away, Elvin and I decided to walk down the bayside trail which I’ve never set foot in, to see if we could see it in the golf course areas near the track. We didn’t see crap of course, which sucks. So now, I need a new kite, and perhaps much longer lengths of string, if we’re going to start anew…*sigh*. And it was glow in the dark too! Well, nominally, it’s really hard to see in the night >>;.

Perhaps it will show up in the newspaper, if it’s a slow week. “Kite Found on Golf Course; Terrible Paint Job On It”

Listening to: Isamu Ohira-The “Real” Motorious City. Gran Turismo 2 OST….it’s been a while.

TWO MEN ENTER, ONE HORSE LEAVES

Walking Tours

This is a poem
I decided to write
But nah, I don’t want to
Fuck you

With that aside, today I went on some walking tour of Oakland’s Uptown, since my English teacher loves her walking tours, and I don’t know what’s up with it, but so  the class went to the tour. They discussed the Art Deco architechture of the area, including the Paramount Theatre, Fox Theatre, and various other buildings. Elvin went too, since I wanted company and it was right after his class. So, I got to hang out with him the day before he leaves for SD with his family and I will go deep in my hole to be reclusive, unless someone would like to drag me out screaming bloody murder. Isn’t that an exciting prospect? So, the tour was rather hard to listen to, since we were near the middle or back, and what with the cars and trucks and other noisy stuff in a busy city, the tour guide’s voice didn’t carry very well. But, apparently the colorful exteriors of Art Deco buildings were from glazed terra cotta tiles, which were apparently very hard to care for as the color would wear off or something to that effect. Obviously, built for looks, not built to last. The Fox Theatre was actually pretty interesting, apparently there were offices built right adjacent to the theatre that wrapped around the block to obscure the plain sides that the theatre would have (no windows, because theatres have to be dark, yeah?) and apparently wrapped around some school.

After all the Art Deco theatres and such, we walked down to the lake and admired Snow Park and the Schilling garden, once belonging to two rich dudes that lived in Oakland next to the lake. Yeah, I don’t know how Art Deco segues into gardens, poor listening skill here. After those, we went to the roof garden of the Kaiser Center (NOT Kaiser Permanente, there is a difference, apparently this Kaiser dude was a steel/concrete/aluminum/gravel/something magnate, built the building  to show off his materials and power and such). I thought it would be at the top of the skyscraper. Apparently, it’s only on top of the parking garage, which is substantially less impressive, but its a garden. On a roof. It still holds  that charm of “nature” being in a completely unnatural location. Also, there are trees there. What happens when the trees’ roots bust through the ceiling of the mall below? >>; For it’s location, it sure is a bitch to get to, apparently you have to go into the elevator for the garage and press RG for roof garden. You can’t reach it from the main Kaiser Building thing itself apparently. Confusing deal.

On our way to the lake, we saw “Oaksterdam University.” I do believe its a portmanteau of Oakland and Amsterdam. The school shield has “CAN-NA-BIS” on it. Charming, no? >>; Training for the cannabis industry, offered rather openly. The moar you know….

Afterwards, Elvin and I went to eat at some cafe in Chinatown. Portions there were rather…lacking in girthiness. *sigh*

A couple of days ago, I decided  to wear my hair in pigtails, because I needed to keep hair out of my face after shower, and I had the time to experiment for stupid’s sake.  And so, why the fuck not ? Goddamn pigtails are hard, I completely fail at them. Elvin has photos of me failing. Isn’t that wonderful? >>;

Listening to: T-Square-Thought Steady. From their new Discoveries album, it’s an ok one, I like this song particularly, among several.

Buttfuck Country, Montana

Now I Know What It’s Like to be a Pornstar >>;

So, today, I saw Elvin and Richard for the first time in the bay, for summer. A pity Richard couldn’t come over earlier today, but we still went kiting with Gloria and Joan as well. This time, my kite decided to behave and not spin constant circles and instead actually got pretty high. A damn pity I did not bring my extra long coil of string, to get it even higher than it would, but I did not have high expectations for that kite anyways, after last time’s bungle. >>; Afterwards, we looked a bit at a sunset, then went to Denny’s for dinner. I consumed a lumberjack slam, and now I know – start with the pancakes first, those things will murder if I eat them last like I did last time.

While at Denny’s, I did something really stupid…look down the barrel of a gun. The gun being a bottle of ketchup. The barrel being the spout. I wanted to see if it worked, and didn’t think I had squeezed hard to enough to land a shot right on my glasses. And down my sweater. *sigh* What a dumbass move that was. I had to go to the bathroom to clean up, and since I’m blind like fuck without my glasses, I thought the paper towel dispenser was automatic, from its shape. It took a while of waving my hands in front of it thinking that I hadn’t activated the sensor to realize that it WASN’T automated. The soap dispenser was, fat load of shit that did me well. >>;

Afterwards, Elvin and I went to take a look at the new house, take a few pictures of it, look suspicious in front of the house, and then go home.

Listening to: Robin Beanland-Rock Solid.

a real lumberjack slam right there

MY PENCIL AGGGGHHHHHH

My pencil just fell on the floor. This wouldn’t be such a big deal, except I’m on third floor…and the pencil is somewhere on first floor or below it because I’m sitting right next to some rail in Stanley Hall where it’s overlooking the first floor. It just fell right off third and plummeted down…and it’s my only good pencil ><. Now, I will have annoying trouble finishing the crossword. It’s already hard to solve the crossword because they decided to omit the down clues for the first couple of rows >>;. Brilliant, no? I’m pretty sure it would have been easy enough with the down clues, but hey, it’s another challenge.

I’m eating Townhouse crackers. They are some awesomely buttery and flaky crackers. Sadly, I’m down to my last roll of them, so I need to get more.

So, I winged the presentation for the Chem 1A reserach project. I really should have put a hand into the physical creation of the poster…I am horrible, no? There was some crap I would have wanted to alter on the poster, but it’s too late to do crap about it, oh well. It was pretty much a huge poster board covered in duct tape and silvery grey spray paint, simple and logical. I totally assumed that duct tape bonded with London dispersion forces and gave up looking any further beyond the Handbook of Adhesion. I did not think there would be so much work done on adhesion and tapes and such…but the articles rarely refer to “duct tape” or any sort of tape specifically, just “pressure senstive tapes.” And for some reason, the pdf articles from the Handbook couldn’t be searched with Acrobat Reader. That is loads of fail right there, loads of pure fail.

And now that the essays and the projects and the presentations and such are over, I get to study for finals…I need to wrap my mind around electrochemistry, actually take a look at the math problems that I’ve neglected for the last couple of weeks, remember my British history, etc. etc. The end is coming in so soon, but it still feels like there’s more, there isn’t a sense of “year is over”, unlike high school, I don’t think.

And summer, I will be failing English 1B, more essays and fail WOOOOO. I will also visit Elvin and Jennifer and Charles and SD right after my last finals, and I am looking forward to…the food >>;.

Listening to: T-Square-Truth, from the Wonderful Days concert, which I have yet to find a DVD or mp3 rip yet…*sigh*

how is babby formed
how girl get pragnent

Just Some Stuff

An odd dream, a dream of rows and rows of plush chairs in a sunlit auditorium for an assembly at Cal, except the place probably doesn’t exist in Cal, and the subject matter probably wasn’t very important. Otherwise I would have remembered it, right? People showed up that were from high school, but weren’t going to Cal, and I only knew their name and face. And then there was some family dinner thing…except none of the people I recognized at all. And there was some faceless girl that intrigued me for some reason, but I didn’t get her name, or her contact info, since…no idea why. It’s been a while since I had an interesting dream, yeah…

Some other woman in religion had a dream about having lesbian sex with a white woman, but had been straight all her life. Rather random…until a week or 2 later her daughter came out as a lesbian. In a relation with a white woman. Dreams are crazy…

Oh, and I tried wasabi powdered dried seaweed. I didn’t think it would be so bad, I’ve eaten some spicy foods before, right? Except it’s not only the tongue burning with wasabi, no, that part was just slight. Then some fiery shit comes right into my nostrils, and no, I am not enamored with wasabi.

Why aren’t dreams ever funny? Funny dreams would be nice. I wonder if I’d laugh if I had a funny dream? Or is it an impossibility?

Listening to: Coldplay-Square One.

fuck the dean

The End

Been VERY lazy again…

So classes are over now, and many lasts were had. I got a yearbook! I forgot my parents bought me one at the beginning of the year…things slip my mind much, yeah? >>; It’s not got as many signings as some other people, but I’m happy with it. Some people write pages worth of words…some people have pages worth of signings that they have to add new ones…I have to say, it’s quite astounding. I could never write these sentimental things like others, and I suppose I haven’t really efforted in collecting everyone’s signatures, just those who bother to sign.

Last recycling went smoothly, and afterwards we went to Quiznos to eat, seeing as Richard’s parents didn’t want to hold the party. Last recycling…I won’t miss the manual labour, but I will miss the people…

Thursday, Smart and Doan had emotional speeches for us. I didn’t think it would be so saddening for them…and for others as well.

Friday was the last day…and it was poorly organised, I have to say. Staff finally herded us into the tables behind the cafeteria after a long while of confusion and limbo of what to do…rather boring there as well, there wasn’t much to do for me, I later went out to get Chopsticks for lunch. After that, Quizbowl had a a party, and I stayed there for a while.

Saturday I helped my cousin move in Oakland. I got a really long cardboard tube from that! After I was finished with the heavy duty work, there was a leather chair in the back of my dad’s truck…so I spent the rest of my afternoon waiting in there in the chair and messing around with my cardboard tube. Easy living…too bad it wasn’t in the shade, although I don’t seem to burn very easily, since I seem to be fine.

Sunday I went out to lunch with Serene, Elvin, and Ms. Smart. Chili’s, I’m surprised there wasn’t so much spicy stuff, or maybe I got lucky >>;. I got a bacon burger, which was awesomeness, although not to the level of the bacon dog which I have yet to try. I also found out that fries DO NOT go well with steak sauce >>;. Ketchup for me, thank you very much.

Monday I went to grad practice. Boooooooooring…and the real thing can only get worse. Double the length and a bit more, because of all the SPEECHES ><.

And now, we’re here. I’ve been playing Age III and reading Naruto all the while….jeez this is horrible of me. Didn’t think it would be that intriguing in the first place ><.

Listening to: Nightwish-Deep Silent Complete.

note: I’ve been VERY lazy, I’ve held off finishing this entry because I’ve been so lazy, and it’s not really too finished still…I think >>;.

Ski Trip

I’m not in the mood to work on anything, GAHHHHH!

The Interact Ski Trip, it happened from Friday to Sunday. I haven’t been up to the cold snow and mountains in a long while, but things happened like I thought…well, the headache part, at least >>;.

We left for the mountains around 6, Friday night, and we played Mario Kart during the ride. We had 7 DSes in the van, so it was quite a large game. However, I got motion sickness a bit so I stopped playing. Good thing we stopped at some Wendy’s midway, otherwise I would have been VERY uncomfortable. Apparently it’s a tradition to flood that very location of Wendy’s with Interactors every year. After junk food, ride continued until around 10. The ride was REALLY bumpy, going and coming back, as well as winding. There were points where we came to a hump in the road where we couldn’t see beyond the hump but sky…I hate those. Crappy country roads, I really don’t want to ride those roads again…we got to the BIG cabin of Ivan’s, who is the Rotarian who seemed to have organised the thing? Eh, I don’t know, he seems to run the show though. There were 3 levels, one of them underground, that being the game room (pool table, a shelf full of board games, chess table, poker stuffs, large ass TV, etc.). The first level had a kitchen and a living room with a fireplace, which seemed to be on very often >>;. The second level had bedrooms and the carpet up there was comfortable enough to sleep on. I didn’t stay there to sleep though, even though I’m pretty sure there’s room enough for everyone to stay there >>;.

The cabin I stayed at was much less opulent than Ivan’s lordly cabin. It was golf themed: there were pictures of golf, statuettes of golfers, golf trophies, golf clubs, a small shelf of golf balls, among others >>;. We played Monopoly until around 1 or so, and I slept badly in a recliner. They apparently aren’t as comfortable to sleep in as I thought >>;.

We woke around 6 and rushed to get ready. We woke early because we had to get to the ski resort early…and of course I held us back because I forgot the money needed to pay for skis, as well as suntan lotion >>;. I wanted a shower, but time was pressing…we rushed to the big cabin for breakfast (muffins and cereal? Is it actually filling? I like rice, it’s filling >>;. Is that really the usual breakfast for people?) Then we went off to Bear Valley Ski Resort, where a couple people decided not to snowboard because it was felt hard in comparison with skiing. Those people included me, so we decided to go pay for a skiing lesson package. Sidestepping for some reason don’t work for me…I think I’m placing my weight on the side of my feet, but I’m not? Eh, I don’t know anymore. Instructor liked to yell…apparently like Lebe. I apparently got a bit better at the end and was able to slide down a gentle slope without much incident…feet were really tired afterwards (no stamina as usual) and in pain (goddamn things are way too tight around lower legs) and so turned in my skis for lunch, which cost 9 dollars for a burger and a drink. Fucking expensive goddamit. Then I just hung around the lounge waiting for everyone to finish off. Lots of butthurts that day apparently…I had headhurts though, though I am thankful that it occured after most of the skiing so I only had to endure during lunch and after. Just like last time I went, except I had it before I went skiing so the skiing itself sucked ass.

We went home, cleaned ourselves up, went to big cabin for pizza dinner (Round Table, there’s a store right in front of the mountain maze), played Charades (I liked my idea of Ken Masters, you’d be doing Ryu’s motions since they have same moves pretty much, but Ryu is the wrong answer…), interrupted by adults returning for talent show (some very skillful performances, and others…less so >>;. Brave of them all though) and went home. We waited for pizza by watching Women of Ninja Warrior, which is women going through an obstacle course that very few can complete…both balance and speed are needed to completely clear the course. The big point seems to be women falling in water though, since it’s very frequent that it happens.

Sunday we went off to the snow park (golf course covered in snow, essentially). The snow was hard, uneven, and my snow boots had no grip ><. I spent half of it making snowballs for the purpose of making them, then attacking people that attacked me (yeah, totally backfired on me, asses), then spent the rest of my time there bleeding my nose out. People told me to hold my head forward, then others told me to hold it back, then others told me to hold it neutral. Some told me to pinch my nose, others told me ice my forehead, some told me to drink water. Sadly, since I only have so many hands, I put one hand to use holding tissue into the nose, and another hand to hold tissues/pinch nose. I must thank Judy for holding ice to my forehead though…how nice of her ^_^. I seriously need to know what posture my head should be in…I’ve always held head back/laid down and they all ended quicker than this nosebleed. What’s so dangerous about swallowing blood? After the bloody debacle, my hands were covered with blood (yeah, I murdered something) and my face looked like I dived into a corpse or some such >>;. I cleaned off most of it, buried the bloody snow, and went back to cabin to clean selves off. We then had lunch, packed, and went home.

I still have work to do…and I fell asleep. This is great, you know?

Listening to: Joe Hisaishi-Lady of Spring.

i never even got the chance to respond

Hehe, CP

So, Serene, you tried to censor my lovely comment? As I said, I’d have a much better way of communicating it…here it is: “hehe lol cp=child porn XD” or something along those lines. So HA. Note image is NOT shopped, here is the source.

So, Saturday was a mixed bag. Well, not really, more like two solid subdivisions: quiz bowl and crab feed.  Quiz bowl was utter crap, we lost every single one of our games, though we came close that last one against Menlo Atherton…but we still cannot measure up to the other teams, lacking in knowledge and speed we are ><. It was in general a poor experience…

Then we rushed off to crab feed, my first and last, which brought spirits back up muches. Kids messed around with pool and foosball in the back room and waited for 7, when we sprung into action.  Overall, it felt much less chaotic than the lobster feed; no people screaming out for lobster obviously, but no one clamouring for crab either, which was much better. The group I was in was well run and things ran smoothly, unlike last time where I really didn’t know what to do. Then again, the added experience from last time most likely helped as well.

I just spent my whole night watching Subspace Emissary clips (my god WANT) and have not gotten a single bit of work done. It is 1:30. This senioritis is really raping my ass ><. But I will sleep by 2, dammit.

Listening to: Dedede’s Theme, from Super Smash Bros. Brawl, off of Youtube. Downloading a gamerip of the music now…

[20:12 22] GTEW234: water conservation system: after 10 minutes, showers start spraying HCl

Quiz Kids Redux

Ah, really shouldn’t be here…I’ve only half a page for my thesis…shit. But, it has been another long while since my last post, I suppose…

So, today, our little show of Quiz Kids aired to broadcast to the world abroad our total slaughter, and Menlo-Atherton or something’s complete pwnage. I, as usual, not photogenic, looked poorly, and did some really stupid shit…When I look back at our performance, some questions were SO easy, and yet we MISSED, ARGHHHHH! While we were above the others at the beginning, we began to fail in the 2nd round, and in the 3rd, completely were buried under a volley of answers from the opposition T_T. Reaction time really needs to be UPPED ><. And that interview bit sucked for me, because as we all know, nothing’s going to come of that but embarrassment, and nothing more.

And now…back to work…been a rather shitty weekend, I highly doubt this shittiness will lift itself from me.

And wow, it’s been 2 months since I got the cube…seemed shorter/longer/time’s a bitch!

Listening to: Queens of the Stone Age-Go With The Flow.

hehe, “weaponless”