Tuesday, October 10, 2006
okay, it's past midnight, i've been working on my drawing homework since four thirty...besides eating dinner i've been working straight through, so i'm taking a well deserved break. my roomate's talking on the phone, so i have only a few minutes to type away this entry before she comes back...

wat a long-winded, thought-processed sentence.

every weekend of october's gonna be something interesting. this friday is the Campus Crusade retreat. The friday after that i'll be going home and visit my old faithful high school [and practically every c-hall member but grace is coming home as well]...and the friday after that, is SAN FRANSISCO.
two days ago i was reunited with gracey, lucy, shelly, and a little bit of ben. i decided to come home friday night and leave that saturday morning. since grace is just around the corner, and to save her six dollars of bus fare, she came along with me and we toured around campus. for some odd reason, she adores the cannoneer dorm, marveling at how we have sofas in our lounge, and our room has high ceilings. i guess the only problem was that the cannoneer security woman was such a bitch, complaining that me and grace were going in and out, and i had to continually sign her in. pshaw.

after spending a couple of hours with me, we finally traveled to times square and met lucy. our plan is to meet at port authority at two o'clock, get some ice cream [cuz lucy doesn't wanna eat REAL food o_O] and chat. once shelly leaves for home after an hour or two, gracey, lucy and i will tour around new york, from rockefeller, to union square, to china town. ben will then arrive at penn station between six and eight, so as to pick up lucy, leaving me and gracey by ourselves.
when gracey and i learned that we would be together...we decided to do a 'spur of the moment' situation, and buy tickets to the 8oclock show to avenue q!!!
this so called concrete plan didn't go exactly that way, but close enough that we all still enjoyed each others presence. sigh, i really missed catching up with these lovely ladies, gossiping about people i dont really care about, and complaining about roomates [i can't complain about irina, she's my architect-angel >_^] and describe incidents at college.

ice creaaamm

see how lovely gracey and shelly look? eating their cookie cookie and chocolate chip ice cream!

time square!

and of course, us at times square. i really really like the pic cuz gracey shelly and lucy look so gorgeous...if it only wasnt for that damn lady's head! bleh.

so after exploring the rockefeller AREA, we walk shelly to port authority, then travel onward to chinatown. as tradition, we go to elizabeth center...though i've been there a trillion times [i went there the day before], this was the first time for lucy, and she and gracey were fascinated by all the jewelery and cheap but nice bracelets being sold. gracey proudly bought a few.

then we traveled to penn station...i'm quite exhausted since i haven't eaten anything since the ice cream, and it was already around seven. when grace was eating her croissant, and i was taking a five second nap, we finally met ben, embraced, then tried running eleven blocks to the Golden Theater. sadly, gracey and i were walking like mad, while ben and lucy trailed behind. the distance between us grew bigger, to the point that when gracey and i reached the theater, ben and lucy were a few blocks behind...so we didn't even say good bye *sniff sniff*.

so...avenue q! the broadway show that beat Wicked in the tony award for best musical! here's a blurry picture of the stage before it began...

avenue q stage

gracey and i were able to sit behind each other, and though we were in one of the last rows, the theater is quite small so we could see pretty clearly. unfortunately, one of the ushers spotted gracey with her camera and yelled at her that pictures were 'strictly prohibited'. sigh, but oh man, was this performance absolutely amazing! even though i've seen this show on youtube, and even though i've listened to the soundtrack a trillion times [about as much as the times i go to chinatown XP], i still laughed and applauded like crazy. mary faber, the actress who played Kate Monster and Lucy T Slut was very good, she sounded almost exactly like Stephanie D'Abruzzo, the original actress. Evan Harrington and Ann Sanders, the ones who played 'Brian' and 'Christmas Eve' were also very good, especially Ann Sanders...i believe she's even BETTER than the original Christmas Eve. Well when i looked at the playbill, Ann Sanders was also 'Belle' in Beauty and the Beast, so obviously she must be good. what i was most happy about was that Trekkie Monster/Nicky was played by Rick Lyon and Jennifer Barnhart, the original cast members, besides Rick Lyon was the one who DESIGNED all of the puppets, so that was awesome to see him. Howie Smith, the guy who played Princeton/Ron was good...however, NOBODY, and i mean NOBODY plays Princeton/Ron and beautifully as John Tartaglia. sigh.

Trekkie photoop!

so gracey and i spent a heap load of money [especially grace] on Avenue Q merchandise. gracey even bought the trekkie monster puppet! now her stuffed Cookie Monster has company!

so yeah...to all u avenue q lovers out there who are addicted to the soundtrack...i strongly recommend u seeing it...its worth EVERY penny.

alright well its past twelve thirty...i think my breaktime is over. adios amigos!

PS: yeah i decided to link them instead of just displayin them in this entry...that's cuz for some reason, when they're uploaded, the pictures are butt huge, and no matter how i shrink them down, the pictures get pixelated, so yeah u need to click on the link in order to get the full affect. ha ha.

Monday, October 2, 2006
hellooo, how are we all today? its the second day of october! i cant say whether i'm happy, becuz september has been one long-ass month, or be frustrated, cuz May is sooo far away.
hmm i guess i should fill up this entry of how my classes are like. i don't think i've done that yet have i? i just gave a pretty detailed account to nardone, so let's see how much i remember...:

monday is 3D design. i used to dread it but now i think this class is quite interesting...its also the class i usually talk/laugh the most. we just finished a body-extension cardboard project. this means that we had to create a cardboard sculpture that can be functional to the body ie a sculpture that can be worn on the head [like chases' cardboard hat LOLZ] worn on the arm [like sanders' long mechanical arm in which he swings his whole body just to make the sinister hand to move], etc. i'm probably making it sound complicated, but its really not that bad. or maybe it is, becuz this project was due this morning, and yesterday afternoon, some retart threw it out, resulting in me spending several hours recreating it. ><
our project now is to create a wood intervention; our class went around the studio building, lookin for an interesting space...then we need to create a wood sculpture responding to that space, and that sculpture must be attatched to that space. yeah that sounds pretty complicated too, but hopefully it wont be too hard/scary. the last time i touched wood was seventh grade tech class, so i'm afraid of losing my hand to those loud cutting machines, or getting bad splinters. yeesh.

tuesday is drawing. i'd enjoy that class more if my hands weren't completely covered in charcoal, and if i am not lazy with the homework. there are times when nude models would come in, and using our newsprint pads, draw an action line and create 'atomic balls' and 'spirals' out of compressed charcoal, depicting the model's energy. i dont mind the drawing, but after doing about a hundred of these drawings, my fingers would get sore, and the charcoal under my fingernails would take forever to wash out ><. recently our homeworks have been drawing our rooms in one point and two point perspectives. the outcome is cool, but the actual work is long and boring. problem is, our professor KNOWS if we didn't put six hours into our work...he looked at my one point perspective and immediately knew it took about 3 hours to make. damn. so this week, i decided to start my project about six days earlier, giving at least one hour a day. that'll show him. >_^

wednesday is LCD, which is probably my saddest class, becuz everybody [including me] is always dead tired. this is usually becuz the day before that, drawing, requires a lot of time and effort, so on tuesday nights, everybody is scrambling to finish the 48239042 pieces our LCD professor assigns. i found out that most of my classmates would prefer to do just one homework that requires a lot of time, effort, and thinking [like drawing], rather than do a lot of small assignments [like LCD]. i truly believe that, becuz i noticed that in LCD, i dont have much room to be creative, becuz i'm worried about getting that artpiece done and then starting on the next. bleh. and in addition, since this is a 'color' class, we've recently been looking at all sorts of color-aid paper, figuring out how to make one color look like two different colors, and to make two different colors look like one. i dont like the fact that after awhile, ur eyes begin to hurt from all of those colors.
i know that that class could be more interesting, if only she didnt assign so many small homeworks, AND if she didnt make us carry a trillion pounds of stuff, when we only use like, six things. [and usually, the things she WANTS us to use, such as specific colored pencils or glue, those are the precise things i leave in my dorm ><]

whoosh. monday to wednesdays are always my hardcore class days. the last two days are a lot more relaxing. thursday is 4D. of course i love this class, becuz it deals with animation, videos, and all sorts of things dealing with controlling time. only thing i miss, is that my professor does not have the same spunk as mr. iannuzzi. back in high school, it would be twenty to thirty minutes of doing work, and then tenish minutes listening to mr. i making fun of all the other students. now here, since our professor briefly instructs us and then leaves us on our own, i spend about three hours staring at the comp, finishing my work. since nothing much else goes on, spending three hours doing work is quite long, and usually by the end i wanna get out.

friday friday friday. art history, my only art class in which i just sit and take notes. now dont get me wrong, the artworks are beautiful and the backround history is very interesting [especially when we discussed egyptian art...cuz i have such a soft spot for ancient history], but the professors soothing voice, and the fact that the lights are dim, and usually my clothes are comfy [lol], i'd get tired and the hours would drag....

one more class, dont worry i'm almost done. english, and our theme of 'the great escape'. today, our thesis sentence was due, an assignment we were given four days before. four days to think of one freakin sentence. and guess what's due in two days? the rest of the 700-word essay. that's pretty funky.
oh and in addition, my professor pointed our that she LOVES my baby pencil case, saying it reminded her of her french poodle, and for some reason she told me that her poodle's bday was on friday. maybe if i'm in a giddy mood i'll get something for her. ha ha.

alright its past midnight, and i'll end this entry with a lingering thought:

even though i'm living in new york, i still feel 'stuck', like i haven't really been traveling anywhere. once again i watched that matt harding dance video, and it inspired me that i should really save up and travel. my goal, when i maintain a stable job and save enough mondey, is to go to a different place every summer, from abu simbel, to zimbabwe, to moscow, to tokyo, to new zealand. heh, towards the end of october i will be going to san fransisco and i'm already rejoicing.

come with me and together we will fly! wheeee!

Thursday, September 28, 2006

HAPPY BIRTHDAY IRINA!

Friday, September 22, 2006
alright alright, this is the last time i'll rant about i swear...gracey and ben must be soo sick of hearing me say it. ><

alright so i probably dont say it as much as i should, but i am ADDICTED to NBC's 'The Office'. Addicted as in, right after the episode airs, i would download it right away and watch it over and over on my ipod until about 2 in the morning.
while i'm online, one of the website i'd routinely check out is pam beesley's myspace. it was through that myspace i learned of her, jenna fischer aka pam and john krasinski aka jim halpert would come to the today show and afterwards, sign autographs for anybody who purchases the DVD. Two things then came to my mind: 1, Its great to live in New York. 2, What a perfect present for Ben!
of course, in everything that's too good to be true, there's always the catch...only 45 were guaranteed to get their autographs...AND, they would only sign for thirty minutes. knowing my 'luck', i was obviously unable to obtain a pass...however, i decided to take my chances and become a standby.

so that means waking up at 4:40am, taking a shower, leaving at around 5:10, arriving in the city by 5:50am, to find that i'm fourth on the standby line [the three others in front of me were gals who traveled an hour and a half beginning 1 in the morning...and havent slept since] against the NBC Experience Store entrance. i didnt mind waiting, i thought of it like waiting online for a six flags ride XP. and besides, it was cool to see the quiet newyork all of a sudden 'wake up' and become the usual busy newyork. i guess the only part that sucked about waiting was that it was cold, and i could hear the outside audience screaming while on the Today Show [which was right across the NBC store]. finally around eight thirty, jenna and john were interviewed on TODAY, then afterwards i guess they ran over to the store [using the underground passage] to sign some dvds. my heart started racing when the guards allowed the 45 with the pass to enter. i kept looking at the time, hoping that there would be time. thankfully, the standby line was allowed to enter the building around 9:15. PLENTY OF TIME.

so yeah...sigh...i was able to meet the beautiful Jenna and John. whom were not only good looking [especially john XP], they were such sweethearts. I gave the dvd to jenna and told her how i was outside since 6, she gasped and sighed at my dedication. then i gave my dvd for John to sign and he smiled and greeted me. stupidly, i looked down and responded...dang i hate it when i'm shy. so after they signed and said goodbye, i went up the stairs and took millions of pictures and videos.
like this:



yeah i know its not the best one...cuz my camera sucks when zooming in at maximum. but there are other websites that have better pictures.
so around 9:30, they started to get up and leave. one girl shouted "JOHN! YOU'RE HOT!" then suddenly a guy yells out "JOHN...YOU'RE OKAY!". John just threw back in laughter and shouted "THANKS FOR THE TRUTH!". then he and jenna waved a last goodbye before exiting. of course, other fans wanted to stalk them...but i decided against it.
so yeah though i only saw them for like thirty minutes, and even though i mumbled and made a fool of myself [as usual] in front of them, at least i was able to see one of my favorite characters on TV. that was all i cared about. and of course...i was able to give Ben 'The Office Season 2 DVD' AUTOGRAPHED, something u cant find anywhere, so that was purely awesome. now i love The Office so much more...XD XD

oh...and here are some other info:
why was i able to go to the city until around 10am? Cuz my thursday class doesnt start until 1pm. XD
while waiting online, around 7am, BILL CLINTON happened to be walking down the sidewalk across from me. apparently he was on the today show. of course i have a picture, but its soo bad and blurred, almost as if bill was a ghost. ha ha, so once he passed by, i thought to myself, 'if i dont see john and jenna, at least i saw Bill Clinton. hmm..who would believe THAT situation?'.
on a different note...Season 3 of The Office premiered yesterday at 8:30pm. however, i check the main lounge, and a group of people were watching some anime. I run to the next dorm, Stabile, and in the TV lounge, some group was practicing breakdance moves. then i run all the way over to Pantas, and luckily, the lounge was completely abandoned, so enjoyed watching the season premiere there, though i didnt watch the first ten minutes.

alright so now...i'm home, in celebration of my mom and dad's 21st anniversary! hooray! we went to applebees and i enjoyed myself to a ribeye steak :). afterwards we went to best buy and bought me a TV! woohoo! now i can watch the office no problem! as well as watch watever show is on to kill time XD.

alright i should shuttup now. i should bring monika back to her room..she fell asleep watching one of the greated disney movies of all time. sigh.



here's my best video of the two. its a lil shaky...but not bad in the long run. oh and what really sucks is that there's no sound. i think thats the only thing i hate about my camera...the video cannot supply sound...which is just, illogical to me.

Tuesday, September 12, 2006
oh wow... pretty eventful days have gone by. both physically and emotionally. and THIS pitas, my sole confidante, and to YOU whoever u are, i get the pleasure of sharing with you! woo hoo

last saturday was the most eventful of all. so i run over to the pratt store to buy a can of fixative, so as to not spread all of my charcoal mess over my white clothes. the cashier swipes my visa and tells me its declined. now normally, i would've been pissed off and yelled at someone...but i did that the thursday before...when i went to soho to buy a shirt to find it was declined. instead, i was pissed off and confused, cuz dad deposited a hundred bucks in response to the first card-decline incident [for lack of descriptive words]. once i got back to the dorm fixative-less, i decided to sign up online banking and check my REAL balance. and waddya know...i owed the bank over 300 fricken dollars. why? becuz two of the checks louise gave me fricken bounced without my knowledge. after discovering this, and after realizing that i wont get help from louise for awhile...i just cried...and cried. its one thing when ur broke...but its another thing when ur broke, u still need to get more fricken supplies, AND in LARGE debt. thankfully dad transferred enough money so that i dont owe any more, and the bank wont charge me anymore for my debt. but just the fact that my boss hasnt answered any of my calls for the past few weeks when i needed her desperately, especially in regards of money...its quite painful. i love u jess, for supporting me and for trying to contact louise! i really needed a shoulder to cry on, even though it was over the phone.
so after i wiped my tears, and convinced that things would get better, i went to the city and met up with...BEN! out of all of us high school peeps, he is first one to find a group of friends that bear resemblance to C-Hall. ha ha, they were all awesome and have personalities that matched bens. after meeting them in penn station, they wanted to eat in little italy so i lead them to take the train to chinatown. it may have not been the best idea, since the trainstop and little italy were a couple blocks apart, and i dont think bens friends felt too comfy walking in congested streets [i forgot the fact that most of them were not from the metropolitan era ><], but we arrived nonetheless. it was a great experience, since i havent really explored little italy before, and the food was [expensive] good. [one guy, i think his name was joe, was pouring water then for some reason, there was a loud clash and ice cubes were everywhere. i didnt know whether to laugh at the sudden sound or his embarassment in distubring the italian-atmosphere]. sigh, so after the dinner, they took the train uptown to watch hollywoodland [staring adrien brody's nose lolz] in times square, while i went back to brooklyn. parting was indeed sweet sorrow, to the point that i was tearing on the train. but we shall meet again in time. hopefully at the seaport downtown =)

alright so sunnnddaay. i contacted pratt's christian group leaders if i could tag along with them. we went to Ressurection, a traditional presbyterian church. when i mean traditional, i mean they sang hymns every so often and would perform the lords supper with actual wine and bakers bread. it was interesting, but i was too used to seeing an alternative band lead worship. oh well. the pastor [or at least i think it was the pastor, cuz there were like four guys who spoke to the congregation alternately...maybe they're the deacons. ha ha look how new i am to all of this!] preached the first five verses of the gospel of john. it was especially intriguing, not only becuz it was a blessed message, but his voice projection and his gestures are what kept me interested. hee hee.
did i mention that like 99.9% of the church consits of whites? im not being racist or anything...but u notice these kinds of things when u've been growing up in a church that was like 90% filipino. so i ain't criticizing...im just making observations [gosh, i sound like my mom].

alright so...monday was a trip to the Modern Museum of Art. and all i got to say is...as much as i LOVE art, modern art is just not my thing...i mean, kate, a classmate of mine, both agreed that we had a very difficult time appreciating Dada. i dunno, i'm more into those traditional, renaissance-like paintings. some modern art i can tolerate, but for kate, it just makes her mad. for example, there was a 'gallery' in which the ceiling lights turned on, then turned off...every like, three seconds. is it my idea of art? more like an industrial invention...but watever. after kate left i decided to explore one more museum floor, and guess what! it was a gallery filled with paintings and sculptures of artists whom ive studied during high school! i saw all sorts of matisse, joan miro [which i have to tell mike nardonie], the THREE MUSICIANS by picasso, and, which i REALLY hafta tell nardone, dali's PERSISTENCE OF MEMORY, which disapointingly, is a REALLY SMALL oil on canvas. ha ha. i have pictures of all of them, but i'll post them up when i go home [wink wink]

and today was...the first transFORM christian fellowship meeting! pratt's christian club. all i can say is...dang...i cant wait for every club meeting. they all have such an awesome sense of humor, and when i shared to them my money problems [><], they prayed for me and advised me on what i should do if there was anymore problems. it was soo cool cuz when i was in the meeting...i didnt feel so lonely anymore, like i am right now in the dorm. sigh, i really pray that i can grow closer to this fellowship, and through them i can continue to grow in GOD.

sigh and thats all i should write for now...my 3D project awaits me. away i go! wooooosh!

Monday, September 11, 2006

Wednesday, September 6, 2006
hmm...i haven't updated in awhile...sorry about that, its cuz i'm soo wrapped up with gmail, and facebook...YES facebook, i subjected to this college conformity.

last friday i went home [again] for labor day weekend. i met up with gracie in penn station and we traveled home together...this included passing by the 'spooky' blue house that's halfway between our houses.
that saturday and sunday i hung out with gracey, lucy [who hasn't gone to college yet] and mike [back from tcnj as well]. sigh...and as usual, we talked, gossiped, laughed, and took kah-razy pictures. unforunately i cannot post up these pics up becuz i don't wanna take up room in this laptop...since it ain't mine.
so...have i made new friends on campus? hmm, maybe: irina, lillian, trang, rachel...i guess the rest are 'acquaintances'. i'm just too darn lazy to become outgoing and have friends dropping by my side. or maybe its cuz i'm usually swamped with hw, secluding myself in my dorm instead of venturing out at campus.

alright sorry that this is a rather weak entry. i can't really concentrate becuz of the stupid people in the hallway running back and forth with heavy feet. at this moment i cant recount what specifically happened in the last couple of days...only random stuff are sporadically running through my mind [gosh i sound like a stoner].
so wat am i thinking?:
- little miss sunshine is now offically part of my TOP 5 FAVORITE MOVIES
- somebody is playing the guitar either next door, or two rooms down from me
-irina's laptop is placed upon this high drafting table, so my arms hurt from reaching up
-its freakin cold in here
-WHY DO ONLY A FEW PEOPLE READ THIS PITAS? i'm TIRED of constantly telling everybody how college life is...most of what I WILL SAY will be written here.
-i'm disappointed that the cafeteria chef didn't add teriyaki sauce to my mongolian bbq
- i don't think i can finish this nestea
-stop it!
-i think i'm going to attend the 'paintball festival' at kidrobot tomorrow
-i think i'll drag lillian with me
-i also wanna go to 'yellow rat bastard' and buy some tokidoki
-SoHo rocks.
-i think i should end this entry
-now.

Tuesday, August 29, 2006
how can u tell that you are studying in an art school?
ur surrounding classmates, when bored, would sketch on the margins of papers or take out their own sketchpad and doodle...lolz

i'm gonna be brief with my description of my pratt classes so far...cuz i'm craving for chocolate cake but i dont wanna eat it all over this laptop...and cuz i just got off the phone with apollo and the laptop is on the brink of losing its battery power

monday, 6 hours of 3D design. [btw, six hours is not entirely that bad...unless the teacher is all out boring and u hate the subject]instead of prof hochhausen i get professor lehman, an blonde-haired blue-eyed teacher who, like us, is new to pratt, which i think sux, cuz i'd rather have an 'older' teacher who knows what they're doing and how to deal with pratt students. anyways our first assignment is to create a collapsable, abstract object out of a 40 x 60 inch cardboard [in which we had to go to the prattstore and buy ourselves]. every part of the cardboard must be used. now obviously, i had no clue on how to begin, but luckily, i remember a neat design monika used to do, in which she would cut folded computer paper in a certain way so that when unfolded, 3d boxes would appear. well, at least i had a plan, and prof lehman liked the idea. sigh...its too early in the year to think creatively...at least since i only have 3d once a week, and next monday's labor day, that assignment wont be due in a while...

that night was english with professor Lol Fow [yes, lol as in 'Laugh Out Loud'], a chipper, plump british teacher. she instructed us to do 'reading journals', in which we would read a passage she hands out, write a formal summary, followed by a 300 word freeresponse. its like AP english all over again...only simpler. and waddya know, the first passage we read is written by kafka, so i tried impressing fow by relating the passage 'before the law' to 'metamorphosis'. hoo ha.

today, 6 hours of figure drawing with professor sloane. a very interesting class but its a BITCH climbing up the four stories to the room. whats worse was that i had to climb up and down those stairs about three times [the first time to get to the class, the second time cuz i came from the prattstore, and the third time from lunch break] hmm, how can i easily sum up the class? i can boldly say that i drew around 200 sketches of nude models. woohoo! well not actually sketch their features, but more like, capture their pose energy and express it through an action line and a spring wrapping around the line. by the end my fingers were charcoal-black, my fingers stung, and my legs ached from all that standing. good thing is...my professor liked my drawings...he [oh yeah, prof. sloane is a HE] emphasized that in order to show contrast to our action springs, we must push HARD on the paper, and learn to pull back, so as to show depth. so whenever someone's drawing paper ripped [mine ripped like 50 times], he would applaud.

...and that about sums it all up. caketime! lol!
oooh i shouted my english professors name XD

Sunday, August 27, 2006
yeehaw! i'm home for the weekend! why? well its a mix of my family missing me too much, and me missing everybody. it all works out =)

so this entry is yet another one filled with pictures. the first one for this archive actually...enjoy:



behold! my humble pratt dorm. i've got the pink side, my roomie's got the green. kinda like galinda and elphaba in 'wicked' ha ha.



so yeah this is my side, my closet, and my shampoos, facial cleaners, contacts, retainers, toiletries, and alarm clock...all atop my drawer. fun stuff indeed. oh...and that box right atop was where my bed sheets were packaged in. i think its a complete waste of space, but mom insisted i keep it, in case i have an art project that may include a huge cardboard box. psshaaw.



the pretty-full fountain in mainstreet six flags.



of course after daffy poked me with his bill...i just HADDA take a pic with him



that guy who's inside the sylvester suit! he's just too awesome! he just strolls up to the garbage, put the top on his head and kneels down, as if he's popping out of the garbage! cuteness!

...and that's all i have for now. school starts monday! wahoo! and so my days of staying up all night surfing online...are coming to an end...

Saturday, August 26, 2006

Wednesday, August 23, 2006
alright...i'm a little better from my last entry. these past few days have been a lot more fun...so THOUGH I STILL MISS EVERYBODY, i miss u guys a lot less.
i am also getting more sick as the days go on, its cuz the way this damn dorm works, we don't get our own air conditioners, so all of us are freezing in our rooms and there’s nothing we can do about it! so if i come back home, and i’m practically dead, you’ll understand.

alright so yesterday night was recreation night...well, more like dodgeball night. now i'm not the kind of person who likes to be massacred by hundreds of gym balls, so i decided to spectate instead. it was indeed a hysterical sight: two one side, was the orientation staff, comprised of sophomores and graduate students...and to the other side, scrawny frosh.
no doubt the orientation staff won, but wat made it hilarious was HOW they one. in the first game, one frosh was left versus the strong orientation players, at the end, the frosh threw one ball, and in response, the orientation staff through thew the rest of the balls...and the poor frosh was slain. the second round was more pathetic, one frosh vs ALL the orientation players, a truly sad defeat. afterwards, the movie 'DODGEBALL'played, while two more games of dodgeball went on.

that night, my roomie and i bonded a lot more by recounting our friends...so yeah, i explained to her my beloved c-hall gang, and our unforgettable crazy moments. she in return told me about her friends, and how they can, as well be crazy and indesicive. i believe that that convo not only brought us quite closer, but it also made me think of how blessed i am to have such a variety of friends, from movie freaks, to intellectuals, to just plain insane. so i guess THAT'S wat made me miss u guys less...sigh, i love u all sooo much.

and thennnnnn today was six flags day. the cost was only thirty bucks, so i didn't care if i only got on one ride [besides, we arrived at eleven thirty, and had to be at the bus by four thirty...so technically, i have enough time for only ONE RIDE]. so of course, i hoped that that one ride would be KINGDA KA, but as always, kingda ka was closed down due to technical difficulties. so then i thought, maybe superman:ultimate flight would be my ONE RIDE. i walk there, to find the wait is ninety minutes.
now here's when my thought process does not make sense...i was too lazy to wait that long, so now it was between nitro or medusa. medusa was too far away , so i traveled across the theme park to nitro [that was when i realized that medusa was much nearer]...the time for nitro was 2 hours...yet i decided to wait in line anyway.

sigh. see? i told u that wouldn't make sense.

after screaming my head off at nitro, i strolled around main street, where bugs bunny, daffy, lola, tweety, and sylvester were. the funny thing is, is that when i entered the looney tunes shop to search for stuff, i heard these footsteps behind me, but decided to ignore them. however, when i walked across the store, there were these two kids near the counter, looked behind me and cried 'oh my gosh!'. curious by their reaction, i turned around and WHOA, daffy duck was right there, stalking me and poking me with his bill. after that awkward moment, he marched out of the store to take more pictures. ha ha, i was too stunned to grab my camera and take a pic with him, but in the end, i found him and we took a pic. i shall post if up soon.

in the end, kingda ka DID reopen, and i was waiting for about an hour, when i knew it was time to go. the part that sucks was, all of us pratt students reported to the buss by four-thirty, except for three students. we waited, and waited...and WAITED for about an hour and a half...and the orientation staff decided to just abandon them. yeah...as cruel as it sounds...but there was nothing else we can do. no who knows just where the hell they are. i can only pray that they find a way back here. sigh.

tomorrow i shall be going to chinatown. woohoo! and hopefully not buy any more useless stuff ><

Monday, August 21, 2006
yay! new archive, and my first entry in pratt.
i...honestly, don't know what to say...i am neither joyous nor bored during Pratt orientation. i usually just stand there, look around, desperately hoping for a familiar face, when deep down inside i know i won't find one. well anyway, so here's how orientation is going:

so miraculously, i was able to get up around seven thirty in the morning on saturday...i pack up my last few items, place all of them into the trunk, and then leave by past eight. we arrive at the campus a little pass nine, so there weren't as many cars out in the parking lot. i saw some teens carrying huge suitcases, duffle bags, desktop furniture, boxes, accompanied by their parents and siblings.
i check in at my dorm, canoneer court [which is known for its sucky dorms, but according to me and my roomate, we find our room quite spacious] to find that my roomie has arrived. we embrace, since this this is the first time we finally meet after exchanging email after email, and our parents just got along very quickly. our dorm consists of two beds, two different-sized closets, two drawers, 2 drafting tables, a mini fridge, and a microwave. when we came in, our beds were at first bunkbeds, but before we unpacked our gear, my roomie and i just watched as our fathers separated our bunk beds, placed our drawers inside our closets, move one table against the wall, and the other table against the window [my drafting table]. it's not much, but it's gonna be our home for frosh year.

i don't wanna go into detail about the proceedings of the rest of the orientation [ie: the luau dinner, the outdoor movie 'back to the future'], because i'm afraid it'll be just too longwinded, and u'll be as much bored reading it as i will be typing it.
last night [sunday night], after the luau dinner, and after walking with 7 other people to the center mall, i started changing into my pajamas for the night. it was at that moment that tears started rolling down my cheek. i felt such a deep pain inside, realizing that i dreadfully miss my family, and my friends. at the same time i felt so pathetic..,here i am, the second day of orientation and only two hours away, yet it felt like everybody was sooooo out of my reach, and i had nobody to lean on. after attempting to dry up my tears i read my bible, remembering that though i am alone, GOD is still around and he lives in me. afterwards i called up my parents, gracey, and my church peeps, hoping that my sadness would slightly lift. i guess it did in a way, hearing everybody's voices and continuing to live on with life.

sigh, gosh this entry is all over the map...i'm still confused of what i'm feeling...like a mixture of excitement, content, and sadness.
so to all ya'll out there, pray for me that this separation anxiety will ease up. write to me! my mailing addy is:
200 Willoughby Avenue Unit 57554
Brooklyn NY 11205
and according to my dorm, the number's: 718 687 5814. or call my cellie. anytime.
and please PLEASE know, that i love u all and miss u endlessly.....<3