- moonlit memoirs -

MCAT = done :D

Thu, 16 Aug 2007 22:19:28 GMT

Whew...
It's finally over...but then again, I really messed up on the verbal section and might have to take it again (another $230 and another 200 hours of studying, which would suck). We'll see in another month or so, when the scores come out...

sigh

Wed, 19 Jul 2006 01:31:34 GMT

I've pretty much lost interest in LJ, since I realized that I don't really want or have anything interesting to say. I guess it was fun in the beginning, but maybe I'm getting a little more cynical and depressed nowadays...
Games are blah, anime is blah, weather sucks here in NJ, < insert another random excuse here >
Maybe I really need to get some sleep (lol, yeah, I know that goes against my name) and think some things over.

Feel free to un-friend/remove me, since I probably won't be posting much on other people's LJs.

I sometimes lurk around on IRC on #beastslair @ mint.sayuri.ca:6667 and you can always send me a message over AIM (lemmingz01) or MSN (lemming34@hotmail.com).

Things might get interesting once my internet starts working again (it's been really on-and-off for the past month) and school starts again (early September).

D:

Fri, 23 Jun 2006 19:29:07 GMT

Fate/Stay Night anime was depressing...even though it's the "true" ending (where Saber leaves and doesn't become king) instead of Unlimited Blade Works (where Saber gets to stay)
D:

...and then I played Planetarian ~the reverie of a little planet~ (a kinetic novel by Key)...which was also depressing
D: D:

...and then I realized that there are only 2 episodes of Haruhi left
D: D: D:

Fortunately, I started watching Shakugan no Shana and realized the artwork looked awfully familiar, yay. And then there was Haruhi pop-idolness, which cracks me up :D

In other news, East > West in CS and I was there to watch the ownage live on HLTV :P

Yes, I know it's illegal to paint the orange tip black..

And I shot my hand with my friend's airsoft rifle, which hurt a lot and left a swollen welt on my palm :(

Too bad there isn't a speed loader for the gun...

And our general physics professor is awesome. He actually sat on a bed of nails today in class to demonstrate how pressure works...which definitely proved his point (pun intended)

physics class and major headache...

Sun, 11 Jun 2006 16:23:15 GMT

Finished my first full week of physics classes at Rutgers. Lecture isn't so bad, since the professor rocks :) (http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=60663)
Physics lab sucks though because it's utterly worthless and useless. Lab = TA gives you a packet of procedures and says "follow this," then you hand in a bunch of graphs as your lab report...That and the fact that the TA doesn't even speak English very well...

Wow, I just realized that majoring in Biochemistry means taking at least 2l chemistry courses every semester (241 to 454) until senior year , when I have to take an advanced lab course (Chem 480, Biochem 416, or MCDB 429) D:

Currently watching:
- Demonbane (TV, not OVA)
- Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
- Utawarerumono
- The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi

Demonbane:

I'm not sure why they made it so that she goes chibi when he transforms...but whatever...

The arch-nemesis :(

This part is hilarious...and it clearly hints towards the fact that Demonbane is an H-game :P
"I'm Kuro's property" o.o

Higurashi no Naku Koro ni:

A screenshot from the opening scene. Brutal, isn't it? :P (He beats them both to death with a baseball bat)

Mion is scaaarrry...

:(

Poor Keiichi... :(

Had to go volunteer for the Beach Fete 2006 (http://www.princetonhcs.org/page2603.aspx) yesterday. I was hoping to get there at 9AM, but one of the volunteer managers decided that I should wake up at 5AM and get there at 6AM instead. Well, at least I got to direct traffic and got a free t-shirt...
Volunteered at the auction booths afterwards until 1PM, then went home and took a 3 hour nap. For some reason, I woke up with a horrible migraine and couldn't eat/walk for a few hours :(
Took two Tylenol, got a little to eat, and went to sleep early...

some game-related thoughts...

Fri, 26 May 2006 04:17:43 GMT

Final Fantasy VIII is soooo slow.
- I mean, the GF animations take forever (yes, I know you're supposed to use boost during the animation) and the junction system is annoying. I thought transferring materia combinations in FF7 between characters was bad...now I have worry about transferring spells/GF between party members so they can get the perfect arrangement.
- And what's with the use of the "Draw" system for magic? It's retarded and makes it so you waste hours of time just stocking up on spells. And without Haste, it takes forever. Innovative, but not very attractive.
- It's even worse when you have characters that can't Draw a certain spell, but you don't want to kill the enemy (so you can Draw until your hand breaks), so you just skip their turn over and over again. No universal Defend command = NO
- Oh, and I finally won my first few card games...yay, I'm not a total noob now :P

Back to watching Haruhi 08...

random update

Thu, 25 May 2006 06:06:36 GMT

Wow...House MD season finale was fuckin insane...And Daniel Powter sang "Bad Day" live on American Idol, which was cool except for the fact that he sounds worse live than on CD :(

In other news, I finished FF7 in 45 hours and started playing FF8 (so far, 12 hours).
I also started running and playing piano again. Good for me...

And hopefully I can get a job so I won't waste more time on FF8 and actually contribute to the omfg-high tuition for college...<_< Also, it has come to my attention that Bleach is t3h sux0rs and that Haruhi is still random and entertaining, yay.

some random meme thingy...

Sat, 13 May 2006 06:20:28 GMT

Once you've been tagged, you have to write a blog with 8 facts/things/habits about yourself, saying who tagged you. In the end, you need to choose the 6 people to be tagged and list their names. No tag backs.

1) I attend the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor (in case you didn't read my profile). I'm currently a Biochemistry major/pre-med

2) I absolutely loathe washing dishes...just a random thing that really annoys me.

3) I'm a Type-Moon fan, as you can probably tell from my LJ background, icon, and title :P

4) I'm also an I've Sound fan, although I've started listening to more English music lately, so I haven't gone through my entire I've Sound collection in a very very long time.

5) ~~I have no pants.~~ Actually, I just had to throw away a pair of $35 jeans since I ripped a huge hole in them from falling off a roof (see previous entries)

6) Haruhi is simply awesome. Utawaremono is quite entertaining as well. (I'm currently watching those two anime series, as well as Bleach, Blood+, and Fate/Stay Night)

7) I'm not an alcoholic, though I was retarded enough to get drunk on the same day that my parents came over to take me back home...at least they didn't skin me alive...

8) I love to play CS, especially on Iceworld and Deathmatch servers. I used to be in team -= dB =- but I decided that having to play CS regularly was pointless and a waste of time. But if you ever see someone with the name "ascendant13," "recallx," or "by a lemming"...say hi to me :)

Well...even though I'm supposed to list 6 names, I doubt that anyone will even read/follow these instructions, so I'm leaving it open to anyone. Just leave a comment on this entry to show that you're going to perpeutate the randomness :D

yay for not having to wake up early...

Mon, 08 May 2006 10:02:14 GMT

Note: The new userpic is a photoshopped picture from the Fate/side side materiale fanbook (for Fate/Stay Night). You can actually find it on the Type-Moon website, under Downloads.

My my, look at the time...it's about 6AM (and yes, I've been awake the whole time :P )
I basically started playing Counter-Strike, and was doing extremely well (getting AWP aces, ridiculous reflex shots, double pistol headshots, etc.) so I was glued to my laptop until 5:30AM. I was mostly playing Deathmatch servers and then fy_iceworld maps. At that point, I realized that my parents would get very angry if they woke up for work and I was still awake. Decided to take a shower since I feel dirty and I just bought new bedsheets (100% Egyptian cotton <3 ).

Random thought: Haruhi is like happy, sugary crack. Except that it's slightly more legal to take XD

I also bought a new pair of headphones, the Sony MDR-EX51LP earbuds (Amazon.com reference). Since I had some BestBuy gift certs from a while ago, I had to spend a whopping $40 for the headphones (when I could have bought them much cheaper online). Overall, the earbuds do a nice job of blocking off external noise since they fit nicely into your ear canal, and as usual, the sound quality is very good. Too bad it doesn't come with a full headphone case...

And I'm currently also hooked on Final Fantasy VII, which took 3 hours to figure how to work on a Windows XP/Radeon X300 laptop...but it's sooooo worth it.

Need...to...sleep...

1st year of uni done!

Mon, 01 May 2006 04:05:45 GMT

Finals are over. woot.

No more orgo chem, evolution, and Chinese philosophy :D
(It's going to be Japanese culture, research, physical chem, and calc 3 for me next year though :( )

In other news...

Yes, I know they're rather unremarkable...

And now I'm at home, chilling and looking for a job/waiting for summer classes to start so I can wake up at 8AM everyday....wonderful....

ouch

Fri, 14 Apr 2006 08:36:31 GMT

So instead of studying/essaying like I should have, I decided to go out with some friends to go climb rooftops. So basically we finally found an open door and climbed out onto the roof of the Michigan Union (yay!). We had to climb up some dirty ledges to reach the top of this one tower, which was the highest spot that we could reach. After pretty much wandering around the rooftops of West Quad/Michigan Union, we decided to head back by going through an open window. There was this one part where we had to either jump down or slide down the shingles on the roof to reach the window. I decided that running down the shingles was the best way and I fell onto what I thought was a flat surface. Well...I guess there must have been a sharp object there since I had a foot-long rip in my jeans and a hole in my knee. Like, right down to the bone :(

Went to the University Hospital emergency room, waited for an hour, got some X-rays, waited for another hour, then I got the wound rinsed out with saline solution, then got it all stitched up. 10 stitches. But at least the wound didn't even hurt at all... It was really cool how after they washed the wound with saline, I could see the white fat tissue and the bone underneath. Fortunately, I didn't rip any tendons, or it would have been a lot worse.

Guess I won't be moving my left knee for a while...

#$%(* orgo lab...

Tue, 14 Feb 2006 06:19:23 GMT

I think waking up an hour earlier than I had to and waiting 4 hours to use the freakin NMR machine (which took only ~15 min) constitutes making orgo lab worth 3 credits instead of just 2. All of those clueless people (mostly girls, sorry) who don't know what the hell they're doing and sitting there whining instead of asking for help from a lab technician.
"WTF, I'm not getting a signal" (yes, make all the "all your base r belong to us" references you want...)
[1 1/2 hours later]
"Oh, I was supposed to logoff and then log back on...wow, silly me" <--- #$(*&% noob *stabstabstab*

< chibiryuu > [22:35:44] < chibiryuu > lagwolf
< chibiryuu > [22:35:45] < chibiryuu > support me
< chibiryuu > [22:35:47] < chibiryuu > BE MY BRA
< chibiryuu > [22:35:51] D:
< chibiryuu > [22:36:00] chibiryuu
< chibiryuu > [22:36:02] support me
< chibiryuu > [22:36:05] BE MY JOCKSTRAP

* chau has joined #pronteraarmy
* ChanServ sets mode: +v chau
< chau > I CONNECTED
< Igtenos > OH SHIT
< Igtenos > TISSUE ISN'T HERE
< chau > HEY WHERE IS TISSUE
< chau > WHO IS TISSUE?!
< chau > I HAVE TO SEX HER UP
< Igtenos > That kkscatnip person
< Igtenos > that's tissue!
< chau > OH REALLY
< kkscatnip > what
< kkscatnip > no
< chau > WHO IS TISSUE THEN :(
< Igtenos > I AM TISSUE
< chau > OH!
< Igtenos > I AM ACTUALLY A GUY
< chau > HEY SEXY
< chau > THATS OK
< chau > I AM GAY
< chau > :D :D :D
< Igtenos > OKAY
< Igtenos > :D
< chau > :D!
< Cryxia|doot > chau is gay? :o
< chau > lawl
< Cryxia|doot > !note chibiryuu chau is gay, you could use him as
a model for shota
* chibiryuu changes topic to '14Welcome to the 1Prontera Army14
Channel 1| 6http://img342.imageshack.us/img342/3324/200592829cq.jpg| 2http://rapidshare.de/files/13028549/WoE_5-02-06_Ench_vs_Aeterna.avi.html 1| < chau > I AM GAY'

XD

Time to read more Chuang Tzu and Tao Te Ching...

o.o? i have a LJ? just kidding...

Wed, 25 Jan 2006 03:14:39 GMT

I've been pretty busy lately, especially this week. Therefore, I have uninstalled CS (probably for at least a month) and I didn't even play RO this week so far.

My orgo chem grade is going to shit, since NMR is really confusing and mass spectroscopy is equally as annoying (and it's the reason why I failed my test last Friday). Oh well, first midterm is next Tuesday, which means I better get my act together...

But at least I dropped out of my History 161 class and switch to Bio 120 (seminar) instead. I mean, for the history class, I had to read like 200 pages each week and have 9AM class on Tuesdays and Thursdays, which sucked too. Now, with my biology seminar, my first class on Tuesday is at 1PM and my first class on Thursday is at 10AM :D
The only good thing I got out of the history class was that I started reading The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. It's rather well-known in the US, and it's a fantastically revealing and graphic book about the meatpacking industry in during the late 19th century. (Heck, it was so powerful that it lead to the creation of the FDA)

Too bad I still have 8 hours of class every Wednesday (10-11AM, 11-12, 1-5PM, 7-9PM) :(

happy new year!

Mon, 02 Jan 2006 02:47:14 GMT

New Years Resolutions:
1. STOP playing Counter-Strike (So I'm actually good it...too bad it messes up my schedule and makes me really anti-social)
2. Do pushups and crunches everyday
3. Be more social, in general

Well, apparently I got an A- in Calc II, which means that I have only 1 B and won't be kicked out of the Honors program (need to get all A's and only 1 B) :D

I guess that was a good enough Christmas present, besides, I wouldn't want to add anything on top of the $40k/year tuition that my parents have to pay for me to go to UMich. Instead of getting some fancy, expensive Xbox 360, mp3 player, etc., I just got some winter clothes and even then I didn't want a $300 wool coat that my parents really wanted me to get.

Went to the King of Prussia mall on Monday, which took the entire day and most of that time was spent waiting for our table at the Cheesecake Factory (yay!). The food there is really good, although it's pretty expensive. And obviously, I finished the meal with a delicious cheesecake (the Kahlua Creme Cheesecake, in case you were wondering).
Also went stargazing with my dad's (expensive) telescope :P It's actually pretty neat how easy it is to identify stars and constellations and with the telescope, we got to see the rings of Saturn and stars in the Pleiades (7 bright blue stars).

And of course, I played a lot of RO and some CS over the break. Mostly RO XD (FYI: I play on the EuphRO private server)
Yesterday, I was pleasantly surprised when my bro actually called the leader of his guild, who lives over in Canada :P And then, one of my guildmates called our house on my brother's cellphone :D Too bad she doesn't have a cellphone of her own...
<3 <3 Prontera Army, the weirdest, most perverted guild on all of EuphRO XD

*sigh* Have to go back to college on Tuesday... *whines*

lol...

Sat, 24 Dec 2005 06:57:41 GMT

My old guild (Black Rose Order) on EuphRO disbanded so I joined another guild that I actually was thinking of joining earlier, Prontera Army. Definitely the weirdest bunch of people I've ever met...

(My username is Ark_Sol)

< Widowblade > ... D:
< Widowblade > your pron must have no limits :
< Widowblade > o
< Ark_Sol > >_>
< Ark_Sol > lies...all lies
< Widowblade > >_>
< Cryxia > widow demands pron drawings next
< Widowblade > of course they are *pats*
< Ark_Sol > and no yaoi either
< Widowblade > I would tell you I still love you, but I'm not sure
you want that >_>
< Widowblade > XD
< Widowblade > pity :o
< Ark_Sol > i beg to differ XP
< chibiryuu > :o
< chibiryuu > i never tried drawing pron :<
< Widowblade > so long as you're on your knees
< Widowblade > it's all happiness? >:x
< chibiryuu > XD
< Ark_Sol >

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My old guild (Black Rose Order) on EuphRO disbanded so I joined another guild that I actually was thinking of joining earlier, Prontera Army. Definitely the weirdest bunch of people I've ever met...

<lj-cut text="My 2nd day in pront army (convo over IRC)">
(My username is Ark_Sol)

< Widowblade > ... D:
< Widowblade > your pron must have no limits :
< Widowblade > o
< Ark_Sol > >_>
< Ark_Sol > lies...all lies
< Widowblade > >_>
< Cryxia > widow demands pron drawings next
< Widowblade > of course they are *pats*
< Ark_Sol > and no yaoi either
< Widowblade > I would tell you I still love you, but I'm not sure
you want that >_>
< Widowblade > XD
< Widowblade > pity :o
< Ark_Sol > i beg to differ XP
< chibiryuu > :o
< chibiryuu > i never tried drawing pron :<
< Widowblade > so long as you're on your knees
< Widowblade > it's all happiness? >:x
< chibiryuu > XD
< Ark_Sol > <_<
< chibiryuu > <3 widow :D
< Javs > ryuu lies
< chibiryuu > what
< chibiryuu > D:
< Javs > she drew basil pr0n
< Javs > I remember
< Ark_Sol > O.o?
< chibiryuu > D: i did?
< chibiryuu > i don't remember o_o
< Ark_Sol > in uni, we usually attribute forgetfulness to getting
drunk
< Javs > ryuu doesn't drink
< chibiryuu > but im a freshman in highschool >_>;;;
< Javs > I SURE HOPE SO
< chibiryuu > i don't D:
* chibiryuu is 14 >_>;
< Ark_Sol > maybe some people are innocent...
< chibiryuu > D:?
< Widowblade > yes :o needs more tasting of forbidden fruit? :o
< Widowblade > and I don't mean apples ._.
< Cryxia > ryuu? innocent? she's pedobait.. how can she be
innocent? >_>
< Ark_Sol > O.o?
< chibiryuu > >_>;;;
< chibiryuu > 14 isnt as pedobait-like as 13 >:O!
< Widowblade > though I guess it does bring a sort of knowledge...
>_>
< Widowblade > pedobait is pedobait because it's innocent :<
< Cryxia > i beat you were pedobait when you were 13 too!
< Widowblade > do you see lolicon with people who look like they've
been around D:
< Ark_Sol > does widow have any...ah...pedobait pictures?
< chibiryuu > shota pictures? :o
< chibiryuu > im pretty sure he does :o and if he does, he should
send me cute ones >:x
< Widowblade > yes I do ._.
< Widowblade > I'll dig them up later XP
< Widowblade > not really any loli though :(
< Widowblade > loli scares me
< chibiryuu > when i think of loli i think of old scary pedo men :(;
< Widowblade > indeed
< Widowblade > not the sexy young ones :( <3
< chibiryuu > shota = sexy young ones<3
< chibiryuu > young ones and younger ones, too :D
< Ark_Sol > O.o?
< Javs > ryuu scares me sometimes D:
< chibiryuu > :(
< Widowblade > xD
< Widowblade > I like the way she thinks >_>
< Widowblade > <3
< chibiryuu > XD
< chibiryuu > <3 :D
< Widowblade > maybe that's why it scares him :o
< chibiryuu > XD

No comment XD (and yes, Widowblade is quite the pervert, isn't he?)
And apparently, the Haddaway song is the unofficial "theme" song for the guild...which is really random...
</lj-cut>

(I'll post a real update later when I get more sleep :P)

w00t!

Thu, 15 Dec 2005 15:21:19 GMT

Had my calc final exam from 8-10AM today and I think I did pretty well. Aside from two questions that I think I might get only half-credit on, I don't think I made any mistakes :P
(one was a question about center of mass, the other was about the work done by moving a charged particle towards a charged metal rod)

w00t!

(Many thanks to the_l0st_s0ul for the new Eiko album...I highly recommend it to anyone who likes I've/Jpop in general)

yay for windowblinds...

Tue, 13 Dec 2005 17:02:43 GMT

Not bad, isn't it? You can also change your desktop and Windows to looks like Mac OS...which is neat too.

first update in a very very very long time...

Sun, 11 Dec 2005 03:13:39 GMT

(Been really busy and preoccupied with games and homework so I haven't updated in a while)

Aside from getting a B on the math midterm and sleeping at 4AM more often than I should, life's been pretty good.

Got a 109/140 on my 3rd chem midterm (yes I know, it's less of a "midterm" and more of a "really big test"), which actually translates to an A (since the average was 63% and that is considered a B-). I must have worked on the coursepack for a good 10 hours, and my room became a 3-day nonstop chem study "party" that usually ended around 2AM.
And it didn't really help that I had chem SSG (Structured Study Group) homework due that Wednesday, which was to make a podcast. It's actually more complicated than you think, since I had to format all of my ChemDraw slides so that they would be visible on an iPod screen (which meant super-sizing everything according to a specific set of instructions).

But now, chem SSG and chem lab is over, so that's an extra 6 hours of free time in my week, which actually doesn't matter since classes end on the 13th :D

Well, at least the week ended well...
Yesterday, after math class ended at 2PM, I went back to my room and watched some episodes of GTO with my roommate and some friends. Apparently, his Japanese teacher had the 1st GTO DVD, which was pretty cool. Took a nap afterwards and went to the CCF Christmas Banquet, which was awesome. The people were really nice and the skits that they performed were hilarious. The food was good (anything is good compared with dorm food) and it was great meeting new people and hanging out with friends from my hall.

Afterwards, went back and chilled in my room until 11PM, and then we went to go sledding with friends. I was thinking about the fact that none of us had sleds.
Fortunately, we had:
-plastic garbage bags, which actually worked
-dining hall food trays, which proved to be even faster than normal sleds
Tried to surf down the hill on the trays, and hit my knees and elbows in the process since I kept falling off (trust me, it's really hard).
Went back to my room around midnight and relaxed and drank hot cocoa, since it was below freezing the whole time we were outside.

And then we watched the Sound of Music until 3:30 XD
So many good songs...

finished my 2nd math midterm...

Thu, 17 Nov 2005 03:31:10 GMT

...and yes, that means that I'm really really happy since it's my last math midterm until the final exam. I didn't even eat dinner and ate only a little lunch today since I was doing chem homework and studying for the midterm...
Also got my 2nd chem midterm back and it's a solid 107/120 (and considering that the average was an 84/120, I have to say that I did rather well) :)

Anyways, I think I did alright on the math midterm. I know I made 2 careless errors (one involving natural log and one involving proving e) but at least I was correct in assuming that the normal distribution graph is symmetrical around the mean [/feels smart]

However, I still have to read 100+ pages of Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War as well as study for yet another Chinese quiz tomorrow. Oh well, at least I was pwning in CS today (24-4 record on cs_italy and I got called a "hax0r" :P) and my mage in RO is level 62/47 and has uber equips.

Watched Bleach 58 (which was a totally kickass episode since Ichigo's bankai is omfg#%$@ awesome!) and hopefully I'll get to sleep ~~a bit earlier~~ today.

whew, got through another two weeks of hell...

Sat, 29 Oct 2005 06:29:58 GMT

*cracks his knuckles* I only got 3 hours of sleep last night and I've been running on chewing gum and a bottle of Code Red for the entire day...so bear with me.

Well, finished my Great Books midterm (Odyssey, Iliad, Oresteia) on Tuesday, a two-day test for Chinese, an orgo lab quiz, and an orgo lab demo (on using the separatory funnel).
And the week would've been perfect had it not been for the fact that Chem SSG (from 5-7PM on Wed) was a bitch this week. Not only did I get a "U" (unsatisfactory) on my work because of this:

Ege, S. Organic Chemistry: Structure and Reactivity, 5th Ed. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2004; p. 723

What's wrong with it? Oh yeah, I forgot to put a period at the end of the citation...gah...
Plus, the in-class quiz was so fuckin hard and I think I failed it.
It goes something like:

Draw the two chair conformations of cis-1-(tert-butyl)-4-methylcyclohexane. Rank them in order of stability (label them A and B). Then substitute the hydrogens on the 3rd and 5th carbons with oxygen atoms and draw these new structures (label them A' and B'). Then predict why A -> B has a Keq>1 and why A' -> B' has a Keq<1. Then explain why the removal of the tert-butyl group on A' and B' further decreases the Keq of A' -> B'.

Blah blah blah blah blah...

But yeah, we just started reading Herdotus's The Histories and it's a damn hard read. But at least it's somewhat interesting, and even funny sometimes. But it's such a hassle to reference maps of Ancient Greece, Asia, and Africa and the 60-some footnotes in Book I.

Bleach 54 is f*cking awesome! Ichigo totally 0wn3d the vice-captains... As you can see, I love to watch Bleach :P There's even a girl in my roommate's Japanese class who lives in my building and does fansubs and has a Bleach poster hanging in her room :D

And now that I've started watching Team compLexity (coL) totally kick ass at the ESWC 2005 (Electronic Sports World Championship) in Counter Strike, I've been getting so much better. 35-15 on de_aztec and 32-13 on de_dust today. Almost got kicked and banned from a server for "hacking" :P Lol, that guy was such a n00b cuz I clearly heard his footsteps before I nailed him with my M4A1...oh well. Maybe me and one of my hallmates will make a team and go to CAL-o (CAL open) if we get good enough.

hehe, first update in a while...

Sat, 15 Oct 2005 03:18:10 GMT

First and foremost, I must advertise my bro's RO artwork post on the Imperial's (a EuphRO guild) forum. Simply amazing work...I'm actually working on CGing his work when I get some free time.

So yeah...I've been pretty damn busy lately, and it got so bad on Tuesday night/Wednesday morning that I got somewhat depressed and extremely pessimistic. It's definitely a horrible feeling and I feel like shit treating myself like that and acting all pissed off to my friends for something that was my own damn fault.

So this is how my week went:

Sunday: Wake up at 2PM b/c I slept at like 4AM, work on my Chinese essay for most of the rest of the day. Then finished most of my math homework and went to bed ~1AM (couldn't sleep that well)

Monday: Classes from 10AM till 2PM, then I went straight to the library to read Aeschylus's Oresteia, which took a while and was pretty difficult. Then I worked on my essay straight from 5PM till 11PM (took an hour to eat dinner and shower). Then helped out some of my friends, and because I'm definitely too nice to them, I ended up giving math homework help until ~2AM. Then, since I had made absolutely no real progress on my essay so far I went up to the 9th floor study room and worked on my essay till 4AM.

Tuesday: Classes from 9AM till 2PM. I basically locked myself in my room with a large sign saying "DO NOT KNOCK IF THE DOOR IS CLOSED"...and people still knocked for math help since the midterm was on Wednesday. I had a Chinese test the next day where I had to memorize two paragraphs from a dialogue in our textbook, so I did that for about 1 1/2 hours. I also had Chem SSG homework that took an hour to finish. Finally finished the essay at 1AM (yes, it took me that long) and my awesome roommate did an edit of my essay. I was so tired that I only got through 1/2 the edits. Then I read the Oresteia for discussion class the next day, which I finished ~3AM. And I still hadn't studied for my math midterm

Wednesday: Classes from 9AM till 2PM. Skipped my orgo chem lecture so that I could finish the rest of the Chem SSG homework (some acid/base stuff). Finally got around to studying for the midterm, did that until 4PM. Went to dinner and then I had Chem SSG from 5-7PM. Had to leave SSG 45min early because the math midterm started at 6:30PM. Was pretty confident about the test but I fucked up on some work problems and that messed me up. Test finished at 8PM and I chilled in my room until 11PM, continued reading the Oresteia and then I played CS until 2AM (cuz I was so relieved at this point)

Thursday: Overslept through half of my 9AM lecture (about the Oresteia), came back, finished my calculations/prelab for orgo lab and then took a nap until 12:30. Ate lunch really quickly and went to lab from 1-5PM. Turns out that I'm on clean-up duty in the lab, so I got out at 5:30PM. Came back but had to leave again for a meeting at 6PM to work on my oral presentation in Chinese for the next day. Finished at ~9PM. Grabbed some dinner on the way back and practiced my dialogue until 11PM, then started reading the Oresteia till 1AM.

Just finished watching the movie Audition (it's a Japanese film with English subtitles)...and I have to say that I may be mentally scarred for life. Ugh, I can't believe my roommate watched that film 2 times already...it's so fucked up and like "HOLY SHIT WTF?!" near the end. Lol, just thinking about one of the parts makes me cringe...

Oh, and I got an 83% on my math midterm. Crap.

Fri, 07 Oct 2005 06:16:55 GMT

Gah, got a C on my midterm and another C on my chem lab test. What a disappointment...I mean, it's even worse when you think you're done well but you turn out worse than expected.

So basically, I left off all of my homework (which just consisted of studying for the Chinese test that I have every freakin day of the week) and watched Bleach up to episode 51. Also went out to get some bubble tea at ~10:30 cuz I get distracted easily when I'm tired :P So yeah...maybe I'll just finish me homework early tomorrow and get some good sleep over the weekend.

well well...

Sun, 02 Oct 2005 15:46:00 GMT

Hehe, nowadays, I'm usually too busy to update my LJ (even though I'm not abandoning it like my Xanga :P).
Right now, I'm studying for my orgo chem test on Tuesday...which I heard is pretty hard. So yeah, I'm doing all the problems in the coursepack (probably around 30 pages of questions pertaining to the first 3 chapters (resonance, hybridization, organic acid-bases...half review but still confusing).

Plus, my sleep schedule's getting seriously screwed up. Slept at 5AM on Friday night (Saturday morning) and last night I went to bed at ~4AM, even though I should have really gone to bed earlier so I could work on problems today.
Still have to to my math, Chinese, and reading homework...but I bet I'll be leaving off the math and reading until tomorrow.

On a less serious note, I've started watch Bleach, which is definitely an awesome and entertaining anime series. Definitely glad that the creator of the manga didn't quit writing when he got got initial bad reviews...I would highly recommend the anime (and probably the manga too once I read more of it) to everyone.

And no, I haven't gotten drunk yet XD

quick update...

Sun, 11 Sep 2005 19:00:06 GMT

I don't know why I crammed so many courses into the end of the week...but I think I might be regretting it later...

[EDIT]: Wow, I almost forgot what day it is today. 9/11. It seems so long ago and yet, there is absolutely no reason why anyone should forget this horrible tragedy. We go back to our daily lives even while the families of the victims still mourn for their loss...I dunno, it makes me kinda sad.

back to normal schedule...

Tue, 06 Sep 2005 00:14:30 GMT

Look how spacious it is (compared to my room for orientation) and the really nice carpet :)

Our beds are lofted so that we could have tons of space on the right side of the room (enough space to put a couch, but I'll probably opt for beanbag furniture)

...and we can enjoy the nice view of the Michigan Union/West Quad

Yeah, classes start tomorrow :(
First class is at 9AM (Great Books 191) and unfortunately, it's mandatory and it's the only time available, which really annoys me...oh well.

Finished taking the Chinese placement test today, and I'm happy that at least I ended up placing into 2nd year Chinese. I was seriously worried while taking the test (which was somewhat hard IMO) that I would end up just in 1st year, which would make all of the wasted time in high school Chinese 1-5 all for nothing.
But they have no more spots in the 2nd year Chinese REC (mandatory review that goes along with the lecture) section! That means that I can't take the entire 2nd year Chinese course unless I get an override from the professor (I just sent out an e-mail requesting for an override). *crosses fingers*

Blah, no partying for me...I actually want to get some decent sleep everyday since I have the 9AM class 4 times a week (Tues, Wed, Thurs, Fri). Plus, I want to join a martial arts club (UMich has several), a couple Asian culture/social clubs, and some form of community service. I heard organic chem (Chem 210) is really hard, so I'll probably be studying a lot of the time. Math 156 will probably be easy, 2nd year Chinese (Asianlang 201) will be okay, and Great Books 191 will be hard (but maybe somewhat interesting because it's focused on ancient Greek literature).

Already spent ~$250 on books, probably need to spend another $200 for my Chem textbooks and maybe $50-$100 for my Chinese textbooks. Ugh...new books are so expensive...

And I have to sleep somewhat early today (yes, today, not tomorrow when it's very early in the morning), which kinda sucks.

having too much fun at uni...

Sat, 03 Sep 2005 02:53:04 GMT

Third day at UMich and I'm already sleeping ridiculously late :P
Wed - 4:30AM
Thurs - 3:00AM
Fri - Probably >1:00AM
I seriously need some sleep, but I'm having too much fun hanging out/doing random stuff...so I hope I can get to sleep earlier today. At least tomorrow I don't have to wake up early for anything like I did today.

Slept at 3, but had to wake up at 8:30 today to go to Honors Kickoff. Basically, we had breakfast (free food w00t!), some lectures, group discussions afterwards, ate lunch (catering service is awesome), and then went to scavenger hunt where we went to stations in our teams and did random, fun "team" activities. My favorite was definitely the fact that we fit 12 people onto half a pizza box (and yes, we didn't use any surface outside the box). Lots of crazy fun and running around.
Afterwards, we chilled at Maize Craze, which was a big social event. Too bad I'm not 18 yet :( otherwise I could've won a T-shirt in dodgeball (I can't believe you have to be 18 to play dodgeball at UM).

Then there was Bubble Tea Bash, where we got free bubble tea (and good quality bubbles and milk tea, if I may add) and socialized a bit.
Hung around with my roommate a bit at the bookstore and them in front of one of the academic buildings, where I was supposed to meet another friend for an event. Talked for a while with some friends that we made from the scavenger hunt and then met up with my other friend.

Apparently, it was some sort of Christian music event, and I'm not a Christian, so I guess it was kinda awkward going in. Everyone was so friendly though, so I couldn't just leave right away. Christian pop music is actually pretty good, and I can see how you can get caught up in it easily.

So now I'm just chillin in my room...gonna meet up with one of my friends, and then we're going to some Asian frat party :P We're probably going to check it out quickly, see how it is...neither my friend or I plan to do anything stupid...yet XD

[EDIT]: People are sooooo funny when they're drunk :P Nerds/conservative people become total idiots when they're high...I'm definitely staying away from that stuff...