So now I'm sitting at home, full of pie and cookies while watching Jeopardy!. I hope everyone had an enjoyable holiday. Looks like the rest of my week will be pretty busy as well.

Love you guys! Muah! =D

MidoriChi fell down and made @ 12:02 a.m.!

I can't believe that it's already Christmas Eve. I've wrapped a total of one present. I've barely looked at the all the Christmas decorations around the house and I've gone Christmas shopping only once with my dad. =T

For some reason, I just feel dejected from the whole holiday spirit and it makes me sad. I should be excited that tomorrow's Christmas and that I get to see my cousins and spend even more quality time with the family. How come I feel so...empty? It's probably because I just got home from college and I just finished all my finals. I don't think I've had enough time to settle down and realize that it's December...a month of joy. Oh well...it'll kick in eventually, I hope.

In other news, I realized that our last and final goldfish died while I was gone. =( My parents didn't even tell me. They just left the tank sitting there and waited for me to notice while I was brushing my teeth. ::sigh:: Farewell, Goldie. May you rest in peace in domestic pet heaven.

I probably won't have time to make any last minute graphics for the holiday. I feel bad, but the majority of today was spent either cleaning up my livejournal or cleaning up my house. Oh well. I could always make after Christmas gifts for everyone. ^^;;

Happy Christmas Eve, everyone!!

ETA: And as Luffy so nicely pointed out, I demand a longer Christmas season!! Just one more week or at least half a week!! ::slams fist on desk:: I'm not reaaaaady~! T.T

MidoriChi fell down and made @ 07:30 p.m.!

So, you might be wondering what I've been up to for the past week or so, ne? Or not. Well, I'm going to blog about it anyway so shut up. =P Just kidding. You know I love you guys. ♥

Wednesday, December 13: The majority of Wednesday, I believe, was spent studying for my Calculus II (21-122) final on Thursday. I really really don't like approximations. x.X

Thursday, December 14: I slept in until maybe 10am, ate breakfast, and then went to take my Calc final at 1pm. We had the two obviously foreign TA's proctoring our exam and the guy who was giving all of the directions spoke in this very English accent. It was so English that the Asian girl behind me decided to imitate whatever he said. XD It was quite cute. So then after my Calc final, I ventured off to the UC with Mike to perhaps grab some food. We ran into Andrew who was waiting in line to get a free massage. Mike ran off to get food and I stood around waiting for Andrew and grabbed some free tea and cookies while I was at it. ^^;; After eating, I relaxed a bit by playing Super Smash Bros. for the Nintendo 64 and watching Andrew play Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. Majora's mask is a very interesting game. I like all the different masks you take on because depending on the mask you can transform into someone completely different or you take on different attributes. It was the birth place of the bunny hood (I think) that we see now in Super Smash Bros Melee. It made me really want to play Kingdom Hearts again. I miss my Playstation. =( The parents wouldn't let me bring it to college. ::pouts:: Anyways, I don't know if I would do well with Majora's Mask due to the time limit. You only get three days until the moon falls and that's just scary. Haha.

Friday, December 15: I finish writing my final draft of my Contribution Paper for Interpretation and Argument. The first day where I will not see the sun. After finishing my paper, I hung out with the Pis to celebrate Rich's birthday. I finally get to play Cranium, although it was kind of a cracked up version of cranium. Haha. We got hungry, so we left to eat at Eat 'n Park. While waiting for our food, we started talking about Captain Planet, Power Rangers, and I forget what else. It was cute. Happy Birthday Rich and Will!!

Saturday, December 16: After all of that studying, I literally slept the whole day. I got a call from Jae asking if we were interested in coming over to finish off the rest of the Janice's Korean food that she left behind. Commence the second day that I did not see the sun. Janice's mom makes the best Korean food. Mmmm... I'd tell you what we ate but I don't know how to spell it. ^^;;; After eating so much food, we played Super Smash Bros on Andrew's Nintendo 64 and watched Fantastic Four and Harry Potter Narru Totter (Alex says he got it from China...) and the Goblet of Fire. Jae helped Andrew with finally getting the hookshot on Zelda and I found a formidable opponent in Super Smash with Alex. ^^b Christine leaves to go watch a movie with Yun, and the rest of us end up sleeping over.

Sunday, December 17: Wake up. Eat egg cream steamed buns for breakfast, courtesy to Alex. Then we pigged out on some more Korean food. Andrew and Jae attempted to study for their final on Monday, while Alex, Christine, and I go play tennis. The third day in which I don't have direct contact with the warm rays of the sun. XD And by the way, I suck at tennis. XP We come back to cook more food and I play some more Super Smash Brothers while Christine gets addicted to this cute little site that has adorable computer mini games on it (anayufan's played this stuff before). I think I got a lot better with Kirby and Link and especially Captain Falcon after all of that SSB practice. Watch out world. =P

Monday, December 18: I study for my Introduction to Civil Engineering final and once again, don't really see the sun. haha. Margaret's RA gives me free ice cream. Yum.

Tuesday, December 19: Wake up early and ate breakfast at Pamela's. Yum. Although I'm not a huge fan of pancakes/hotcakes. =T Studied a bit more before my final, took my civil final, and left after one hour and a half. =) DONE!!!! Afterwards, I did a bit more shopping at Squirrel Hill before coming back to campus to eat dinner for the last time before they stopped our meal blocks. I wanted a gyro...and they made it so big that I had to pick at it like a salad. Haha. I also got free sushi and cookies. Then Andrew and I called up Jae and Harry to see if they wanted to go bowling with us. =) We missed the bus, so we waited a bit more for another bus. And while waiting, I saw...
Two people, when the street was clear, run out into the street to see how many push ups they could do before more cars came before dashing back onto the sidewalk. One car driving by on the opposite of the street applauded them (I don't know if it was out of humor or stupidity oO). Then the police came. Pulled them aside, asked for their school id's. Then she took them to the street corner and pointed out a memorial for someone who was hit by a car earlier that year. As she lectured them, another cop car pulled up and joined in. Then another....then another....They pulled over four police cars for doing push ups in the middle of the street!!

Our bus finally comes and we walk to the bowling alley. It was a fun night. Harry's crazy good at bowling. Jae's new nickname should be Mister Spare or something because he'd almost always get a gutter ball on the first try and then knock over all the pins on his second try. O.O Andrew does crazy well when he makes the balls curve before hitting the pins. As for me...I got maybe one or two strikes, a couple of spares, and a lot of nines or misses. XD Highest score was 103, though. Yay! Go me! Not bad for someone who had a bleeding thumb while bowling. ><;;; It was weird. After bowling mostly everyone was hungry so we headed over to Eat 'n Park. We shared little games like when you tell the ending and try to figure out what led up to that ending (like a murder mystery). Then we headed back to campus.

Wednesday, December 20: I finish packing and take the bus to the airport which takes a lot longer than it was supposed to. The line at United was soooooo long. Half the people for my Denver flight arrived almost late for the flight. I slept the entire way to Denver. When I wake up, everything's white. Denver's completely covered in snow. My first reaction is COOL! Then after looking at all the departing flights..CRAP! The snow storm was canceling flights one by one. I thought I was lucky because my flight was canceled. We boarded the plane a little late and then I fell asleep. Almost two hours later, I wake up...and we're STILL IN FRICKIN' DENVER!!! The airport's closed. I don't have my check-in baggage which has practically all my stuff like my cell charger. So I sit at the same terminal waiting for the next. The airport announcements declare that we might be stuck in Denver until the following Tuesday due to holiday flights. THE HELL?! I'm not spending almost a week in frickin' Denver!! Anyways, I watched Lucky Number Slevin and slept for the most part of Wednesday.

Thursday, December 21: The Denver International Airport was closed. In other words...no incoming or outgoing flights. I felt like a real life rendition of Tom Hank's "The Terminal" (of course...without Catherine Zeta Jones as the love interest since I don't swing that way). I've made several friends at Gate B38 even though we're all so different in age, destination, background... it's like a Denver Blizzard Support Group. XD We even made the password to be "The Flight to Hell" because sometime during the day, since there were limited personnel working this random guy walks up to the counter at our gate. He grabs the microphone for the airport announcement/pager thing and starts saying stuff like, "The flight to Hell will be leaving momentarily at Gate 666. Last call. There will be no talking, sleeping, eating, cellphones, laptops...etc." It was so funny. And he didn't get in trouble either since all we were looking for was something to entertain us. =) Angelina took me to concourse A to get Panda Express. I think out of the whole group I was the youngest, although Lily, from Indonesia might be younger than me. She looked young at least. And then there was Erin who was a Senior at a college/university whose name I can't remember. ><;; Then there was that lovely Indian(?) couple heading to Hawaii from Virginia. They had such a wonderful sense of humor, making everyone laugh. There was Linda from Hawaii going to Colorado Springs. She was lucky because her family drove up Thursday night to bring her home. Nickolai was going to Hawaii. And then Paul who was going to San Antonio. And three lovely ladies going to Ontario I think. Linda got the genius idea to steal the mats from behind the counters at the gates and then put cardboard on them and use that as our beds. It was waaay more comfortable than sleeping on the concrete floor, but either way the airport is still bloody cold at night. T.T Even the National Guard came and delivered granola bars. XD Also, I stood in line for two hours at Customer Service to get a standby ticket for a flight leaving at 1:20pm and a confirmed ticket for a flight on Sunday, Christmas Eve.

Friday, December 22: Woke up early around 5:30am and saw a huge line at Customer Service. Woke up again at 7:30am when Angelina tells me that they canceled the 1:20 flight that I was on standby for and that I should probably get in line to get on the standby list for another flight. Stupid United. It sucks when the flight gets canceled because your standby status doesn't roll over...NOOOO you have to get back in line all over again. It only rolls over if you didn't make one flight to another later one. ::sigh:: I ended up standing in line for four hours!! T.T So right now, I really really don't like lines. I stood in one line, moved to another line, and then got in one more line all to accomplish one thing. XD But in the end it was good because the lady at Customer Service was able to get me on standby for the first flight out of Denver AND a confirmed ticket the same day at 2:55pm although it was not direct. =D In other words, I was going to leave Friday no matter what (hopefully). Angelina and the Indian couple were fortunate enough to get seats for the first SFO flight at 1:00pm. The guy I sat next to on the flight was really nice, too. He also slept at the airport and I think he had a pair of boxers folded into the back pocket of his jeans. I really didn't want to ask. XD Everyone would cheer for the pilots when they walked or entered the gate because we knew they were going to get us out of that "hell hole". ^^; Didn't get back home until a little before 8pm. I ate at In 'n Out and then took a excruciating long shower. And then slept for a long long time. It's hard to sleep well in an airport. Yay for a bed!! ♥

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In other news, I bought Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories and Andrew bought me Kingdom Hearts II on Tuesday at this place called the Exchange that sells games, movies, and music for cheap because it was either used or traded. MY COLLECTION IS COMPLETE. And as anayufan said, "I can now finish Kingdom Hearts I!!!" Hahahahaha. Yes, sad I know.

New layout!! on my livejournal. =) I made this while living at the airport. I wanted a new header anyway. The code for the actual flexible squares theme is from Refuted.

I feel pretty sad though because I already missed three really good parties/get togethers due to the stupid hold up at Denver. ::sigh::

Reviews for Crash and Lucky Number Slevin: I watched Crash twice. Once without sound and the second time with sound the whole way through. It is a really good movie. Of course I had no doubts in my mind. It is kind of like a darker version of Love Actually (which I still have to return to Skyler). And then there's Lucky Number Slevin. I really liked that one too. A bit violent for the wee hours of the morning, but still enjoyable. A bit predictable, but I like how the plot flows.

Going to see if I can make some last minute graphics for the holidays. We'll see how that turns out.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ANA!!

MidoriChi fell down and made @ 11:12 p.m.!

I'm so exhausted. Finals ended on the 19th and I was supposed to fly back on the 20th, except I got caught in that nasty blizzard at the Denver International Airport. >< I ended up sleeping on the concrete floor for two nights and living in the airport for three days. I feel like Tom Hanks now (or a homeless person). I think I felt way more stressed trying to figure out when and how I'm going to fly home before Christmas than during actual finals week.

Crazy.

So I just got back home this evening and I feel sad because missed out on three parties held by my friends already. Stupid Denver. Ruining my life. =.= Haha.

I have a long post that'll I finish editing and I'll probably post tomorrow. But right now, I'm going to sleep. ::yawns:: I also have graphics and PICTURES!! Now that I'm home, I might actually be able to post stuff here. ^^;;

And to keep you preoccupied while I sleep...

'What will your obituary say?' at QuizGalaxy.com

Stolen from anayufan who stole it from...

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Happy Holidays everyone. And happy travels. ♥

MidoriChi fell down and made @ 11:06 p.m.!

One final down. Two to go. It only gets a little bit easier from here.

Yesterday, as in Tuesday, December 12th, Janice, Ricky, Harry, Andrew, Mike, Jason, and I went ice skating at this outdoor rink really close to campus. We would have aimed for the weekend if Janice didn't have to leave home for break so early. XD But it's alright, definitely worth it even though lots of people couldn't come. ::cough::Jae &Christie::cough:: ^^;;;

I fell so many times on my butt, but surprisingly, it's my feet that are more sore today. I wore the hat with ears that Hanye gave me on my 16th(?) birthday. Mike seemed to really like it. I took it off after a while because my head was getting really warm, and Mike ended up wearing it for the rest of the night. Although, there was this one moment when Mike and Andrew started a chain of people and the random kid behind Mike took the hat and put it on his head. ><;; At that moment, I feared most about the hat. Hahahaha.

Janice learns pretty fast. She was skating faster than me, although I am pretty slow. Harry and Ricky are like super skaters. I didn't see much of Mike, but he's played ice hockey before. Jason does his own fair share of tricks and Andrew can hold his own. So in other words...it was the girls who were left clinging to the wall at some points.

I wanted to take pictures while we were in the rink, but I was too paranoid about falling and breaking my baby. Teehee. =3 I took lots and lots of pictures after we left to compensate for it I guess. ^^;;

After skating, we went to the "Almost Midnight Breakfast". It was like a half hour walk, but anything for free food, right? While walking back to campus, I fell again when we were walking down a hill completely covered in leaves. At least it was cushioned. Did I mention that it was dark? I also almost got trapped by dead bushes. >< The park is a dangerous place...eek!

Wished Janice a good night and a good flight. See you in the new year, dearie! ~♥

Math final tomorrow. Wish me luck.

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On another note, I'm starting to friends-lock my livejournal, so if you haven't already, please friend me? ^^ Send me a comment if you want me to friend you back as well.

MidoriChi fell down and made @ 12:06 p.m.!

So the first semester of college is officially over and finals start tomorrow. Everyone's studying like crazy and campus is practically dead with people filling into the carrels on the third floor of the library. I look around, and all I see are laptops, textbooks, and people holding their cups of coffee studying. So you might ask what am I doing while I notice all this? I'm actually in my room, sitting at my desk, not even taking a step outside. These are all assumptions and stuff that I've noticed when I leave to get food and then faithfully return to attempt to study. XD

First snow fall on Thursday~! Right when I post up a holiday themed layout, it starts snowing. How appropriate. It was so pretty and literally got me out of bed Thursday morning to go to recitation. And then I took pictures on the way and back from class because it was oh-so-pretty. =) Although I had a lot of work to do on Thursday, I really wanted to just sit in my living room with a cup of hot tea and stare out the window. Snow makes me happy. It's super super cold...but so uplifting for some reason. To be honest, at first my opinion of snow that it was just "white crap falling from the sky". XDDD

Friday was the official last day of class. T.T This semester went by so quickly. I feel like I wasn't able to really bask in the glory of being a Freshman. =T Next semester I guess. Goodbye Integration, Differential Equations, and Approximation. Goodbye Physics I for Engineering Students. Goodbye Interpretation and Argument. Goodbye Introduction to Civil Engineering. You shall be missed. Muah!

Played a little on the Wii on Friday, too. It's so cute. =3 And I kicked Ninad's butt on bowling, and he's a pro. Muwahahaha. I got a turkey, and I put this neat little backspin on the ball when I throw it. Although, I will have to admit that he murdered me in all of the other sport games. ^^;;;;; Twilight Princess is very nice though. Kind of makes me want a Wii now, but I know better than to ask for one.

Saturday. Since I'm starting to feel really sick as of late, I literally slept the whole day away. I feel so much better now. I woke up, took a shower, ate dinner, and then went to DS, Dancer's Symposium. Although, we were half an hour late because the stupid advertisement said that the show was at 9 when in reality it started at 8. =.= The second half was pretty good, despite the ravings I've heard about the first half. ::sigh:: Next semester I guess. What is DS you ask? A large conglomerate of dances including, ballet, African, hip hop, classical, pop, raving... After the show, I stole one of the posters on the wall. =P Good job, Sidd!! ♥

Happy Belated Birthday! (You know who you are ^^;)

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My final schedule:
- Tuesday, December 12: Physics
- Thursday, December 14: Calculus II
- Tuesday, December 19: Intro to Civil Engineering

MidoriChi fell down and made @ 04:50 p.m.!

I don't think I've ever given so many speeches/presentations in such a short amount of time during my entire life before this week!!! ::collapses:: Today marked the last of them, but still: Contribution paper presentation, Kappa elections, ASA elections, Civil Engineering presentation... I don't count Spanish 5AP because you just had to read off a paper. =P

Finally made a new layout and archived everything from the past few months. Man, that Notebook layout was up here for ages. I mean, it said "Summer" on it for heaven's sake. It's too cold for pita layout to frickin' say summer on it. haha. Anyways, I'm enjoying my new Photoshop CS2. Thank you so much, Yang. ::hugs:: Took forever to find all my brushes and fonts though. Still not back to what it used to be (on the old desktop), but we're getting there. It's got a lot more handy features. Teehee.

Anyways, the new layout...kind of simple. The longest part was (since I made the background) figuring out how to make the snow stop without just cutting to solid color. I have no idea if that made any sense whatsoever. I'm getting rusty though. Need to photoshop more...during break of course. Haha.

ASA Semi-formal was on Saturday, December 2nd after the Kappa Phi Lambda lunch banquet. I just wore my green dress for both of them since it was the only dress I brought. ><;; The food at the banquet was so yummy, really really small portions though. My secret santa ended up being Angie. I hope Rona liked my gifts to her. Stephanie brought Peter (from Manifest) as her date to the banquet and when she left to use the bathroom, all the girls (Shuo, Lily, Connie) at our table, including me, took a picture with him. Haha. We're such dorks.

The semi-formal: There were limos. Ford Excursions. Just like Junior Prom. Except, picture them stuffing 28 people wearing semi-formal wear into a limo...=.= Not as exciting. The limos were running a bit late, so we ended up eating dinner for maybe two hours. The dating games were cute. Weilin dumped Lily for a guy? oO Christine dumped B for someone shorter than her, too. The couples game was cute, but went a little long too. I had tons of fun at the after party, even though it was at Club Joy (::cough:: ghetto ::cough::). I haven't danced in so long. Jae said that I looked super happy afterwards. It's because I was. Heehee... ^___^

After the after party, Janice, Andrew, and I were still pretty up so we ordered some pizza and played Super Smash Bros. on his Nintendo 64. OLD SCHOOL!

On Friday, Ricky, Harry, Andrew, Mike, Jason, Sunny, Silvia, Janice, and I watched The Fountain. That's the first time I've ever seen a movie without knowing what the heck it was about. I thought it was about a fountain. XD I thought the movie was really well done, but more than half the time I was think that I should've gone to see Happy Feet instead just because I didn't know what I had gotten myself into. After the movie, I left the theater thinking serious thoughts. Haha. We met up with Sarah, Christie, and Christie's brother, in which we ate at Red Robin to also celebrate Christie's birthday.

Good weekend. Now I'm waiting for finals to be over so I can finally fly back home. But then again, I don't want to take my finals yet.

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As an ending note, read this: Japan - Uncyclopedia. Don't read the whole thing since it's really long...but it's funny. =) Props to Ricky for sharing.

MidoriChi fell down and made @ 10:46 p.m.!

...until Winter Break! ^.^ Who's happy? Me!!

Anyways, apparently where I am right now, it's only proper to celebrate the beginning to December with:
a) Snow
b) Pouring rain
c) Super high winds
d) All of the above

If you guessed d) all of the above, then you are the lucky winner. Of course, being that I'm a freshman in college, all I can give you is the satisfaction that you were correct. =P Okay, back to my original point. It was sunny and a little drizzly yesterday....but today, it was INSANE!!! I walk into the clearing and almost believe that I'm going to get knocked over by the high winds while going to class. @.@

Witnessed a cute little Christmas Concert at the black chairs yesterday. Very nice. After that, I celebrated with my some friends for their job well done with a terrible game of pool and yummy Schatz food. XD Oh yeah. That's the way. Uh huh. Uh huh...I like it. Okay, I'm weird.

HAPPY 18TH BIRTHDAY, CHRISTIE!!!

MidoriChi fell down and made @ 11:41 p.m.!