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Tuesday, May 20, 2003 07:42 p.m. Okay! found myself a Japanese children's book, and will do extra study by translating it... Mukashi, aru kuni de, oosama ga onakunari ni narimashita. Long ago, in a certain country, a king became... ('onakunari'? dead?) became dead? died? Do I even have the grammar right? Ato ni wa, san'nin no ooji to, kin no kura to, gin no kura to, himo no kura ga nokosaremashita. Later, three people's uncle...a storeroom of gold, a storeroom of silver, and a storeroom of ...string?... ('nokosaremashita'? 'saremashita' is 'was done to him(unwillingly)'... but then, what's 'noko'? relationals?) ...Eheheh. (Aiya, min'na tasukete kudasai!) I comfort myself that I can read hiragana/katakana with relative ease...ignoring the fact that I usually haven't understood a word of what I'd just read. *grumble* and Chinese people have an unfair advantage--they already know/recognize a lot of the kanji... *sigh* Well, anyhow... I'm off now to go study for my Jap midterm tomorrow... (counters in Japanese /suck/! --hitotsu, futatsu, mittsu, san'nin, yon'kai, blah, blah) Monday, May 19, 2003 11:09 p.m. "When I have been asked who caused the riots and the killing in LA, my answer has been direct & simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame." ...George W. Bush "[It's] time for the human race to enter the solar system." ...Governor George W. Bush "The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century." ...Governor George W. Bush, 9/15/95 You love it! Read more! Christ, how /did/ this guy become President? I wonder that anyone in his staff lets him say anything unscripted. On another topic, congratulations to Kalyan, Shane, Mick, Bborie, Alex, and everyone else who is graduating at the end of this quarter! Wow, it doesn't seem so long ago that we were all in high school, ne? And now we're all legal adults, wending our ways through the uncertain world... *hugs everyone* Saturday, May 17, 2003 11:15 p.m. Ummmm... Some spoilers in this one. Not much; I think I'm vague enough, but be warned just in case. Watched Matrix:Reloaded. High cheese factor, and it reads like an RPG game-- go here, talk to this person, go there (annoying useless battles all the way, leveling up), wierd FMV, cheesy romance story interposed, walk, walk, walk, talk to this guy, find the keymaker, fight some more, and then BOSS FIGHT, then FMV, FMV, Squall/Rinoa-esque drama, dun dun dun, the end. But, cgs and costume design very pretty. Keanu Reeves in long, sleek, whirling, black. Mmmm. I don't particularly like Reeves, nor do I want to watch him getting it on all hot n steamy with anorexic Carrie-Anne Moss, but he /does/ look pretty damn good in black. Add lots of Hong Kong-kungfu-type fighting (and swirling black overcoats), and the movie's (I wouldn't call it worth watching) very pretty eye-candy... The directing was fairly annoying however; while the slow-mo thing was new and original in the first movie, now it's old and very overdone. Every fight scene had an extra ten minutes added because the director had to just slow-mo /everything/! Gargh! Heehee, wouldn't it be funny if, in the next Matrix, Neo finally defeats the Matrix by finding a gigantic keyboard somewhere and pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del? Friday, May 16, 2003 11:13 a.m. And here I was gonna comment on Drew's LJ that he never journals about anything but APO... (Which I'm considering joining at Irvine, should I ever get into a 'help the community for no money' mood...) From Kalabarian Philosophy: Your first name of Bbora has made you a sociable person who appreciates the beauties of nature and the refinements of life, and is moved by music and the arts. You are very idealistic and romantic within yourself and may have tried to express your beautiful thoughts through poetry or writing. Crudeness and vulgarity are very repulsive to you and you are very particular about little things. You suffer greatly with lack of confidence and self-consciousness. You crave affection and understanding, yet because you can be so easily and deeply hurt, you have learned to keep your true nature hidden; therefore people do not really know you. You always wonder if you are doing the right thing, desiring to express yourself but afraid to. People may consider you haughty and aloof because of your sensitivity and reserved ways. You may find some expression abut it would usually be light conversation, rarely daring to reveal your deeper thoughts or take others into your confidence for fear of criticism or ridicule. You have a very kind and gentle nature, and although you may be in a position in contact with the public, you will still be a lonely and reserved person. Thus, you live much within your own thoughts, often finding your escape in reading, which you love to do. This name could cause you to suffer through a sensitivity in the fluid functions, causing female disorders, swelling of the legs and ankles, or general blood debility. There is also a weakness in the region of the heart and respiratory organs. *snort* I don't know about the 'kind and gentle' nature thing (try imagining me dancing through the woods, petting bunnies and sparrows like Snow White)...Romantic? haha! Although the comments about the hobbies and what I like to do is certainly true.... *goes to find out what the name analysis would be had my parents spelled my name just a /little/ differently* Your first name of Bora has given you inspirational, idealistic, and dramatic qualities. You have a clever, deep mind and the talent to excel in highly inspirational lines of endeavour as a dramatist, musician, writer, or artist. You can be lifted by beauty in all forms and are at the most creative when inspired. Your expressive, affectionate nature responds quickly through your feelings, but you must guard against being possessive and jealous. Your delight in mystery and your sensitivity to things you do not understand could draw you into occult studies or religions. Unfortunately, it is difficult for you to retain emotional stability, for you can easily swing into moods of depression and self-pity. Your quick temper can flare up suddenly and be over as suddenly, leaving you very sorry for any suffering you have caused. Inner turbulence can deplete your vitality and cause heart, lung, or bronchial trouble, as well as nervous disabilities. ...I think the second one is perhaps more accurate. What do you guys think? Thursday, May 15, 2003 12:39 p.m. Life lesson #1: Saran-wrap sticks only to itself. Tuesday, May 13, 2003 12:08 p.m. Yesterday there was some sort of 'Asian Pride week' celebration going on campus, featuring Asian rock bands, rappers, and the like. I sat outside in the nice weather, studied my Japanese, and enjoyed the music. I miss doing that sort of thing, like I did at UC Davis. They were also passing out grab bags filled with Asian appreciation goodies. I took one and what I found inside made me laugh hysterically: a wooden backscratcher, reminiscent of the one my dad used to whack me with in my childhood when I was bad. Asian heritage for you! HAHAHA! I think I'll keep it and whack kids with it. I was talking with a coworker/friend the other week and discovered that she'd read most of the books I've read, and we had a very stimulating discussion of Tale of Genji (Genji Monogatari). Then, yesterday, we were talking again and she complained that there weren't any good museums or cultural centers around here. She likes art museums! Japanese gardens! SF cultural events! I barely restrained myself from tackling her and screaming, "MARRY ME!" Dropped off my car today to get the radio and dash fixed. I'm happy (but the deductible's made me broke) cuz I do miss listening to music...esp with my computer broke, too. I began the laborious, expensive process of replacing my cds by buying Sumi Jo's La Promessa album the other day again. (Whoever stole my cds and deck, I hope they like trance and opera, cuz that's all there was, wanking bastards)... Wednesday, May 7, 2003 10:06 p.m. Nowadays, every time I see an image loading on Alex's livejournal, I cringe. Nekkid hermaphrodite, lech though I may be (not /all/ the time, contrary to popular belief) I do not relish. Yes, Alex, I have been permanently scarred. I bet my Arts of Asia professor dislikes me intensely lately--but it's really not my fault that I always fall asleep in the first half of the class--not even I was made to survive a four hour art history class unscathed, right? To my credit I wake up after about thirty minutes and begin to pay attention, but then I get extremely hyper and begin fidgeting. It's a combination of boring Neolithic pottery/sculpture, dim lighting that hurts the eyes, and low drone of professor's voice. I'd read a book and ignore her if I could, but it's rude. ...Heh, ruder than falling asleep, shaddup. :P I'm holding out for when we reach Tang China/Heian Japan and later... My other art history teacher is much more interesting--and we're also covering the Baroque period, a period I've always liked, so that probably has a great deal to do with it. Why do the new neighbors upstairs insist on doing some sort of carpentering/hammering only early in the morning or late at night? Although I suppose it's an improvement from the /previous/ neighbors, who did a whole other kind of hammering, at all hours of the day... with loud sound effects. >_<; Monday, May 5, 2003 09:47 p.m. As I finalize my UC Irvine registration paperwork (does anyone else find financial aid forms extremely confusing?) I find myself getting a bit frightened and excited. I'm restless, but so far I've been mostly a local girl. I'm really looking forward to moving and getting started somewhere else, but there are, of course, worries: what if I can't find a job in time? What if I haven't saved up enough money to make it in the time it takes to get myself a job? Also, there's an element of sadness for leaving all that is familiar and leaving my aquatic coworkers. Etc, etc. Faithful harddrive, asphyxiated by energy-guzzling Voodoo 5 video card. O that thou hadn't taken so many hostage files with thee! Alleluuuuia... Anyways. My mood is better since last week... Um, am going to get my car fixed fairly soon (with some creative ride-mooching from friends and bus-rides), Bborie is giving me some harddrives and a new power supply (I wub having a computer geek for a brother) and whatever else he feels like sticking in there... school reg fees are paid for, and the rest of the tuition is going to be paid thru loans (will /not/ think about five years from now O_o;;) and the ticket? Eh, the court date is in June, at which time I'll go and plead my case and hopefully knock off some of that bill... And, all is not lost; I was cleaning out my car and in my computer cd-rom wallet, and discovered several trance and opera cds, which contain most of the tracks most important to me. Also, several friends at the Y have been very nice and have offered to loan me all of their trance cds once my comp is up and running. (Which it probably is right now, but my brother has it with him in Davis, and god knows when I'll see him again.) Wednesday, April 30, 2003 12:28 p.m. The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Seventh Level of Hell! Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
Take the Dante's Inferno Hell Test Oh, and also did not get into UCLA. Am not very surprised. Also had childcare job performance review today. Not bad, not spectacular; at least there were no surprises. No raises, though, since they froze the pay back in April. Monday, April 28, 2003 09:55 p.m. Correct that: bitterly amused. To cap off my absolutely wonderful week, this morning I got up to go to work and discovered that someone had jimmied my car window and made off with my car stereo and all my cds, after making a total hash of my dashboard and scattering all my car papers all over. And then later, I got my first speeding ticket. Right. Am not so upset over the loss of my deck or the ticket or the damage so much as the loss of my cds. My deck and dash can be replaced (I'm also not very surprised, considering that I drive a Civic and I don't live in a very good neighborhood); the ticket will be paid.... but my cds are not quite so easily replaced. I don't listen to mainstream music-- most of the cds I had were gathered from various friends and are not easily found again, if at all. Not to mention that I'd been planning to restock my mp3 collection with burns off my cds, but.... Minh says that (jokingly, of course) perhaps God is sending me a message that I should stop listening to ebil trance and should start listening to Vietnamese music like him. *snerk* If I hadn't completely lost faith in God already cuz of this shit, I might've taken him seriously. I'm swinging between finding all of this humorous (think of it as a wonderful tale to tell your kids) and itching to KILL something. And on a sidenote, I did not try to flirt my way out of the ticket, though the cop was very nice. I have my pride... My pride is worth a $200 ticket. Long live feminism! Sunday, April 27, 2003 07:28 p.m. What a crazy day today at the pool. First, when I started my shift at about 12, I checked the pool chemicals. Not only was the bad chlorine (the stuff that makes your eyes and skin itch and bleaches your swimsuit, as opposed to the good chlorine which doesn't) astronomically high, the pH level of the pool was at 8.0. It's supposed to be between 7.2 and 7.8. So we had to close the pool for about 45 minutes to dump muriatic acid in to lower the pH... after which it went down to 7.7--not much better, but workable. Then I was guarding at the bottom of the water slide when a parent came up to me and said, "Excuse me, but my little daughter (about 4 years old) is going down the slide for the first time, and she also can't swim. Can you keep an eye on her?" I said, "What?!" and started to tell him that she really really doesn't belong on the fucking slide, but she was already on the way down. And lo and behold, she began to splash around and drown. Sigh. So I fished her out and took her over to the side, and the parent knelt down (very casually, like this was just a walk in the park and he didn't just see his child have a near brush with death) and said, "Oh, you didn't need to do that; I was about to jump in anyway. I just needed you to keep an eye on her." *twitch* I repeat: Some people turn stupid when they have children. And oh, right after I got out of the pool and started wringing my t-shirt out, a kid blew chunks all over the deck. Sigh. And while we were cleaning that up, I had to reassure various Asian parents that the kid didn't have SARS. Yes ma'am, I'm very sure. Kids do that a lot especially when they ate a lot before and then swallow a lot of water when swimming. No, ma'am. I'm sure he wasn't sick. In the meantime the mother of the kid who threw up was trying to hide the evidence, busily sweeping the chunks into the gutter as the other lifeguards, running around frantically with bleach and scrub brushes and gloves, said, "No, don't do tha--argh!" Sigh. Later: And just now, Minh came home and looked in the turtle tank and said, "Where's the other turtle?" .... ....huh. As the theme from Indiana Jones played in my head, we searched the room and found him behind Minh's computer. Bastard turtle tried to run away as Minh reached for him, and clawed him good. *lol* St00pid turtle. Sunday, April 27, 2003 12:14 a.m. I must be on crack. Cuz I'm listening to a Vietnamese singer singing 'La Bamba'with the refrain in Spanish and the rest in Vietnamese. And it's not too bad. Update: main harddrive is dead. (surprise, surprise)... other one is okay, but will die soon. Will have to make a trip to Fry's sometime and put more money on my credit card or spend the money I've saved up to move to Irvine/Los Angeles. I'm more or less resigned to the loss of all those files, mostly cuz I don't have a choice about it--either cry about it, or move on. In the meantime, I've taken Minh's suggestion of putting the hd in an airtight bag and sticking it in the freezer overnight in the hopes that it'll preserve things?? Or will force it to behave long enough for me to salvage a few things? (notably, all my scanned artwork, since I've misplaced the originals...) Eh, it's just a theory that Minh's heard and it's worth a try. Ran out of work today after setting a record on how quickly one can get subs cuz of a friend's crisis. Long story... will not elaborate, but prayer and hopes are in order to whatever god is up there. It's been a long day. It's really great to see how quickly The Group can pull together to show each other support. :) Read Kalyan's lj for more info. Saturday, April 26, 2003 01:23 a.m. "Detecting.... Primary master hard disk fail. Primary slave hard disk fail." FUCK. I think I'm getting an ulcer. On the brighter side, since both hds are wanking out at the same time, it may /not/ be my harddrives--it may be something else, like my motherboard? Which would be better news.... *eyes startup screen, which happily detects motherboard without any issues* ...Maybe not. Perhaps it's as Steve suggests, and is a virus. Lovely. Oh, well, will scope it out in full tomorrow, when I hook up the hds to Minh's comp and see if they are the problem...tho if it is a virus I'm gonna have to figure something else out. Right now it's too late and I have to sleep, but I'm too keyed up to do much of anything. Saturday, April 26, 2003 12:18 a.m. When I got home from work, the following message was waiting for me on my computer screen, on a blinking blue screen: "Unable to write to disk in drive D: Data or files may be lost." I raised an eyebrow and said, "..Okay..." and went on with life and mucking about online. Ever so often, however, my harddrive would make a "I'm thinking" sound repetitively and ever so often the blue error screen would pop up. I went mucking around with ScanDisk. The computer froze. I said, "No. Oh, no, no," and tried to restart my computer. It turned on okay, then went to ScanDisk like it usually does when I haven't shut down my computer properly, and then scanned my first harddrive perfectly (C drive, on which I have my basic Windows programs), and then tried to scan my second harddrive (D drive, where I have everything else-- three years' worth of images, mp3s, my story files, all my game files, you name it)....and came up with nothing but more of those harddrive "I'm trying to think" spinning noises and nothing else, and then another blue error screen popped up, telling me that Scandisk has encountered errors on my harddrive and cannot fix them. *coronary* *cries* My Sims.... My FF7... My FF8.... My mp3s... My story files, thankfully, I'd backed up already onto my laptop, so thank god for small favors.... and I didn't use my computer for much else than games and writing, so it may not sound quite like so much of a tragedy to you, but I finally had everything organized the way I like it, and GODDAMN IT, HAD A BUNCH OF MOVIES I'D JUST FINISHED DOWNLOADING OFF KAZAA AFTER A MONTH OF TRYING----argh, everytime I get myself more or less resigned to the idea of my hd's loss, I remember one more file or program that's gone forever... So... to all my computer-techie friends (and there's a lot of you) please help! And a huuuuuge reward (including my eternal love) to anyone who can get it running long enough for me to salvage things! I'm currently on Minh's computer (who is, currently, no fucking help or consolation at all). Friday, April 25, 2003 10:24 p.m. My childcare kids had a fieldtrip on Thursday to the pool. I wasn't working, but I came in anyway and got to horse around with my kids and hang out with my aquatic co-workers at the same time. Does it get any better than that? Two worlds, together! ^____^ Tho my aquatic friends seemed a bit surprised that I got along so well with my kids, considering that I'm usually pretty adamant about not liking children. Well...And then today, I saw a couple of little Asian (Korean or Chinese) kids come in today and they were so /cuuuute/! Their chubby little faces with the big innocent grins... I don't really hate kids, I don't think. (At least, Asian ones.) I usually like them. I suppose I just violently dislike the idea of having my own. Wednesday, April 23, 2003 08:50 p.m. "Bbora, is God real?" "It depends on what you believe." "Well I believe in God." "Then he exists." "You know why? Cuz once I saw some people from heaven." "...." "Bbora? Why did people invent tape?" "Cuz you can't staple everything." "Well, you can glue it..." "But it wouldn't look quite as good and would take too long, wouldn't it?" "Maybe..." Wednesday, April 23, 2003 05:38 p.m. I am so addicted to The Sims once again. I got bored of it several months ago, after collecting all the expansion packs all the way through The Sims: Vacation, when I realized what a sucking cash vampire this game is, as well as the fact that if this keeps up, I'm going to have to get another harddrive. ...Then, Monday, while bored at work... I started poking around Korean and Japanese Sims fan sites, discovered downloadable objects for the game that's hacked and has very, very fun options (for example, I found a Star Trek: DS9 food replicator that makes, among other things, Klingon food) as well as cars, and all sorts of Asian skins (to make Asian charas, of which there's a deplorable lack of in the US fan sites)... So I'm back at it again. *evil grins* Alex says that it's really not that different from Everquest... To that, all I have to say is: In the Sims, I don't go online and marry one of my friend's fictional characters. Unless I get The Sims Online, for which I have absolutely no intention of getting, anyway. /My/ little private universe that I've created is mine alone... And in the meantime, I've got my eye on the Unleashed expansion pack. And another harddrive. Monday, April 21, 2003 05:27 p.m. Sometimes I love my job. Like today, the pool's boiler heating system blew up and the pool had to be closed. As a lifeguard, I'm being paid right now to babysit the pool, which means that I get to sit in the office and read a book, just making sure patrons don't come wandering in and fall into the water (or something). And the reason why I had the day off on Saturday to go to the Cherry Blossom Festival was cuz the chlorine level suddenly skyrocketed (it's complicated) and we had to shut the pool down to fix that...and the whole Y was closed for Easter. XD Like I said, it was a good weekend. ^_^ Sunday, April 20, 2003 10:26 p.m. Wow, what a busy weekend. On Saturday I went to the Cherry Blossom Festival in Japantown SF, which was really more about the name than anything else because SF Japantown has no cherry trees to speak of. I got there rather late (around 12) first because my friend who was supposed to go with me flaked, and then my classmates whom I was meeting at SF gave me wank directions and I wound up in downtown SF instead. However, since I get lost there going to and from downtown and Japantown all the time, I had a good idea of where to go and so arrived in Japantown in good shape without having to call one of my friends and cry for directions. (I'm very proud of myself.) We shopped a bit...watched a beautiful koto performance (it is very easy to see why the koto was the musical instrument of the imperial court), watched some open-air taiko and folk dancing... and ate a lot. My classmate discovered, much to his distaste, what exactly yakisoba was (after shelling out $4 for it). I spent most of my time munching on SPAM musubi (basically, a fist-sized block of rice with a slab of SPAM on top, drizzled with teriyaki sauce, and held together with a thin strip of seaweed--yummmmm ^_^) which is apparently also very popular amongst the Japanese. Then, in the evening we attended a taiko concert featuring the SF Taiko Dojo and various guests from Japan, which made for a very thrilling and emotionally pumping performance. I got autographs n email addies later *evil fangirl chuckle* from this one group from Okinawa who adds a more modern dance style to the traditional drumming. I also bought a cd of the SF group, which features their famous track, "Tsunami" which is supposed to illustrate the power of the tsunami and hence depicts it in awe-inspiring beats using the largest taiko drum, which is at least 7 feet tall, stand to top. After that, I met up with Cindy (who'd driven up from LA for Easter w/ family) and we went and hung out with Inky and her roommate, and had a very long, engrossing conversation about the Japanese and Korean languages and cultures. Today was just as filled, if not quite as fun. I met up wiht my mom and my brother from Easter Mass (I shall not rant about the annoying busy-body old lady next to me in Mass, no I shall not), and afterwards we went to my mom's place and helped her out with some landscaping so she won't have to pay exorbitant prices to her contractor. There was a good deal of dirt shoveling and more crawling around in dusty, spidery crawl-spaces looking for things she needed but stored away in the furthest possible corner, so needless to say I'm very sore and blistered right now. It was a good weekend. ^_______^ Oh, and Kalyan? Cuz I don't wanna call you this late and to keep you from worrying too much.... I AM NOT. Okay? *LOL* Don't believe everything you hear. :P Friday, April 18, 2003 04:36 p.m. I got into UC Irvine! XD XD XD No word yet from UCLA or UCB, and the online sites won't tell me their decisions until April 30/May 1. So for now, it looks like I'm going to Irvine! ^________^ Wednesday, April 16, 2003 11:27 p.m. As I study art history, I get the sense of yawning time... a sense that I as an American do not feel about America. One gets the feeling of how small and insignificant one is when looking at, for example, Chinese history, which spans at least 9,000 years. What is American's paltry two hundred compared to that? Perhaps it is this sense of rootlessness and lack of claim on the past as well as the future that makes America behave like an uncontrolled teen--young, brash, forever assured of its immortality...whereas every other country in the world can tell a sad tale of dynasties risen and fallen--of the strong suddenly crumbled under their own arrogance and decadence. America has no such lessons learned, yet. Tuesday, April 15, 2003 12:24 p.m. Media Manipulation on a Grand Scale Isn't it lovely? Sunday, April 13, 2003 08:05 p.m. My curiosity had been piqued enough to overcome my aversion to the title of 'Bulletproof Monk' to make me want to watch it... but just now I saw the tv commercial in which a Middle Eastern taxi driver turns and says in a heavily accented voice, "It's the bomb-diggity!" Right. There goes that.... Sunday, April 13, 2003 07:15 p.m. Hmm. Can't find Farewell My Concubine on Kazaa... ah well. Will make a trip to Blockbuster or Costco later. Unless anyone wants to donate...? Major craving for Indian food. No money. Damn. Went to party last night. It reminded me of the old frat party days of UC Davis. I still haven't figured out why a lot of beer and a lot of randy guys makes a "fun party", but apparently it does. Friday, April 11, 2003 11:25 p.m. Actually, I stand corrected. My mom and I actually went to go see the ballet by Tchaikovsky, (thanks, Alex, for supplying the spelling) Sleeping Beauty. I was rather relieved... I wasn't looking forward to seeing a musical. And if any of you have ever gone to see a wonderfully costumed and choreographed classical performance, you will understand when I say that it was absolutely beautiful. ^__^ We had pretty good seats, right in front, a couple of rows back from the orchestra pit. Barring a very tall man's bald head directly in front of me blocking my view (the effect was like watching a split screen tv) we had a very good time. Friday, April 11, 2003 11:34 a.m. Join my army! Bwahaha! http://www.kingsofchaos.com/page.php?id=207784 Yes, I've succumbed. But Kings of Chaos is unbelievably fun. Friday, April 11, 2003 10:50 a.m. Looks like the war is "winding down"... and then on tv I saw some comments by journalists that afterwards the UN will come in and take care of post-war Iraq. Anyone see something strange about that? Why should the UN take care of the messes the U.S. makes, that they didn't even sanction? Guess someone's gotta do it... Anyway. I'm going to see the musical Beauty and the Beast with my mom. She was originally supposed to go with someone else, but it appears she had a bit of a spat with that person... so she asked me. Oh well. Minh went camping this weekend at this triathlon training camp around King City. I'll probably spend most of the weekend with my PS2. If I had money and a well-stocked refrigerator, I'd be a hermit. Ah well, dreams... Japanese is getting a tad harder, not helped by my knowledge of Spanish. When I'm trying to formulate a sentence, Spanish words keep floating up in place of the proper Japanese ones... Wednesday, April 9, 2003 04:52 p.m. Let's see. I saw this on someone's page, and decided to bogart it for myself. I tried to make it shorter since my journal has an annoying tendency to get too long, too quickly. 20 Years Ago, I: 1. Was one year old. I hope I peed on someone. 2. Was universally loved by both sets of grandparents 3. Was probably hated by my older, 2 year old brother 15 Years Ago, I: 1. My 1st grade teacher committed a horrible act of child abuse and dumped my messy desk over (with me in it) because I took too long getting a workbook out. 2. Peed my pants because I was too scared of my teacher to ask to go to the bathroom. 3. Fed strange mushrooms and berries to my teddy bear. 10 Years Ago, I: 1. Transferred to another school. 2. Discovered my thighs were fat. 3. Became the class bully. 5 Years Ago, I: 1. Got pissed because everyone else squeaked through before the new "wait six months and 60 hours before getting a drivers' license" law but I didn't. Damn. 2. Discovered just how many propositions wearing a Catholic school-girl outfit on the street and on the bus will get me. 3. Dumped my first boyfriend. 2 Years Ago, I: 1. Swore to myself I wouldn't succumb to Elflust, like all those /other/ girls. 2. Became a lifeguard. Guess all those summer swim lessons designed to get me out of the house and out of my mom's hair finally paid off. 3. Transferred to DeAnza from UC Davis. 4. Got my first turtles. One died. So sad. ;_; 5. Met Minh. ^__^ 1 Year Ago, I: 1. Succumbed to Elflust. Sigh. 2. Went to Korea. Decided I'm glad I'm American because we have comfy sit-down toilets, not the squat-n-flush-it-yourself deal. 3. Discovered my mom and I /can/ get along, provided we don't spend more than 5 hours in each other's company. 4. Decided I don't like children or the YMCA very much. Yesterday, I: 1. Discovered some cheat codes for the LotR: TT game. TAKE THAT, YOU WANKER ORCS! 2. Had only one class and no work, so.... played LotR most of the afternoon. 3. Redid my web journal. 4. Washed my car... two washings still didn't get rid of the dried bug corpses from the trip to LA. Today, I: 1. Will have wild monkey sex. I hope. 2. Have to go back to school at 6pm for Art History class. Am very excited. 3. Had/have class for most of the day, from 12pm-10pm-ish. 4. Met my coworker at school whom I hadn't seen for a long time (I work mornings with just me and m'boss) and we sat for an hour and bitched about childcare. Tomorrow, I: 1. Have to work in childcare. Augh. 2. Have to sub at some other childcare site after that. Double augh. 3. ...But I'll be making extra money. Not so bad. 4. Will have wild monkey sex. I hope. Five Snacks I Enjoy: 1. Special K with strawberries. 2. Red Hot Flaming Cheetos 3. Bananas. 4. Papayas. 5. Chef's Chocolate Salty Balls. Five Songs I Know All the Words To, Even Without the Music, but will never, ever sing: 1. Britney Spears "Hit Me Baby One More Time" 2. Village People "YMCA" 3. Bon Jovi "It's My Life" 4. Creed "Arms Wide Open" 5. Soul Asylum "Runaway Train" Five Games I Like: 1. Final Fantasy X 2. Final Fantasy VIII 3. Lord of the Rings: Two Towers 4. X-Com: UFO Defense 5. Kingdom Hearts Five Things I Would Buy With $1000 1. ...Orlando Bloom. *ahem* ..Though I think I'd need more money than that... Sigh. 2. I'd buy Minh something nice. 3. Loan it to my mom so she can finish remodeling her damn house. 4. Invest it. 5. Put it into a savings account. Top Five Musicians Lately (or Last 5 CDs in the CD Player): 1. Christopher Lawrence 2. Selena Paris 3. Paul Oakenfold 4. Watergate 5. Rollergirl Five Things I Would Never Wear: 1. Capris 2. Pink 3. Stillettos 4. Spandex 5. Thongs TV Shows I Like Now: 1. Simpsons 2. Queer As Folk 3. General nature or documentary shows on Discovery Channel 4. Powerpuff Girls! 5. Invader Zim Five recent shows I love that got canceled: 1. The shows that get canceled are the ones I hate, but I can give a list of those I wish /would/ be canceled.... Old shows I loved: 1. Exo-Squad 2. A-Team 3. Transformers: Beast Wars 4. Robotech 5. Highlander 6. Bonanza Places I've Lived: 1. Milpitas 2. Davis 3. San Jose 4. Campbell (I'm pretty local, eh?) My Top Five Biggest Worries at the Moment: 1. Money 2. Grades 3. St00pid fucking Bush doing something stupid again 4. St00pid fucking Hussein doing something stupid again 5. Car--and its attendant expenses My Top Five Biggest Joys at the Moment (in no particular order): 1. Minh 2. Turtles 3. I like my classes--all of them, a lot. It's a new thing. 4. I passed my Trig class! 5. ...I wuv my PS2. Tuesday, April 8, 2003 04:32 p.m. Well... I suppose this'll have to do. I should really teach myself XML n all that, but I'm really rather lazy. Still haven't ironed out all the bugs... so if you see any, let me know. |
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