Hectic!

Monday

1. 10am physics lab (read ws beforehand)
2. 1pm letter due
3. 2pm quiz in bio discussion
4. 4pm meet guitar group

Tuesday

1. 1pm class
2. 2pm project
3. 4pm guitar performance

Wednesday

1. 10am physics disc
2. mastering physics?

Thursday

1. 1pm lesson 5-7 written exam
2. 4pm guitar performance

Friday

1. 9am lab practical
2. 12pm class
3. 1pm project
4. 11pm mastering physics

Day 07 — 10 Years Ago..

"Sometimes we put up walls, not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to knock them down."

So I don't really have old photos on this computer, so I'll just get one later? In the meantime, please enjoy this picture of my dog! :D He's a Boxer, probably about 9-10 years old now. He's never had a girlfriend. :[ Sure, laugh now, but back in his prime my parents (more like my dad) always wondered if he should get some puppies since he apparently has a great family background.

"Map out your future, but use a pencil."

Anyway, there's a list of things that I want to do. Things that I regret not doing, and things that I wonder if I'll ever be able to do. So, here goes:

1. Study abroad. Spain, some other Spanish-speaking country, China..
2. Continuing ballroom. I think they only accept freshmen girls, so I don't think I can do this anymore. I'm sad that I quit by second semester of freshman year.. Sighhh.
3. Join a club and get active.
4. Take classes that I enjoy. Nutritional Science, Psychology, Integrative Biology..

"Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets so love the people who treat you right, forget about the ones who don't and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get the chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said it would be easy, they just promised it would be worth it."

On another note, I had a nightmare that I had missed my bio1a final. I found out it was today, and I started studying like mad 30 minutes beforehand. I thought it'd be fine if I was an hour late since the test was 3 hours. An hour into the final, I realized that my final was 7-9 PM, so I only had an hour left. Then I woke up. Craziness! Better get my butt in gear!

"Dedication is working hard even when no one is counting on you."

I keep waking up really late. I need to get used to waking up earlier and going to sleep earlier. Well, this is what I get for sleeping at around 4:30.. Sigh. Time to shower and get the day started!

"And even if we never talk again, please remember that I am forever changed by who you are and what you meant to me."

Day 06 — An Invention from a Novel

Maybe it's the HP hype right now, but I'd love to have a timeturner.

A Dream

I woke up half an hour ago. Very late. But I had some pretty epic dreams. It's already starting to fade, so let me try to remember. It's really interesting because I mixed my dreams with reality, so I didn't realize these were dreams, just memories of the past. Anyway.. First, I came up with a good song to perform (guitar + lyrics) but I forgot it now.. Second, I saw my eldest brother, whom I haven't seen in forever. Some other things happened also, but it's all slipping away now.

I tried to look for that brother of mine on facebook, and I found him! But apparently "it's awkward" for me to add him on facebook. Sigh.

I feel sad. Things just aren't going my way.

1. I was pretty excited to see HP7 tonight, but my ticket was lost or something.
2. It's cold and the heater is broken.
3. I'm alone in my room because roomies left/didn't come back last night. o.o
4. I miss old friends, but it's awkward to reach out since I didn't talk to them when they needed it the most. I don't want to be a friend of convenience.
5. I miss eating fruit.
6. I miss the simple life and the way things were in the past.

I wish I had worked harder in the past. Things definitely would've been different now..

Day 05 - Favorite Superhero

Um. So did I mention how I don't have favorites? Why are all of these questions asking for favorites?!? I really have no idea. Whenever I think of "superhero" I think of the typical American cartoons like Batman, Superman, Wonderwoman, AdjectiveHominid..

I guess my favorite would have to be a superhero in a different sense of the word, kind of like CNN's segment on everyday heroes. People who work hard to help others are really admirable, imo. (Well, of course. Not many people would say they're disgusted by their efforts..) I guess what I'm trying to say is.. I wish I could make this post more epic!

Hm. My favorite superhero will be the person who ends the AIDS/HIV pandemic. :P

Vitamin D and Strokes

So apparently a lack of vitamin D in white people is linked to increased risk of death due to stroke when compared to blacks, who are not affected in this way. What I find interesting is how these news articles always seem to compare whites, blacks, and maybe latinos, but there is hardly ever a mention of us yellow people or native americans, or any other minority. And yet in a recent article about % of households that have high-speed internet, the values were:
77% Asian
68% white
49% Latino
48% black
And then they promptly said that minorities quite obviously suffered the most. Asians aren't a minority now?

Unfortunately, I forgot the source for the internet article, but the vitamin one is linked here.

Day 04

Ah, I'm not even in sync anymore. Oh well, the challenge continues! My favorite quote? I actually rarely have favorites, so whenever I have to answer a question like this I'm almost always stumped. I guess I could go with the interesting fortune that I got a while back that I slipped into my wallet: "Tomorrow will be a productive day. Don't oversleep." I got it when I went out to dinner with my floor (and ex-floormates) to celebrate birthdays at Great China. Ah, memories. At the time I was much more content than I am now, though I was starting to get more and more tired/stressed out from how my life was going (what with schoolwork, tests, drama, etc.). Hm, that quote wasn't particularly interesting, though. I also got another fortune the Friday before Halloween: "You will bring sunshine into someone's life."

I guess the best place for quotes would have to be my awesome calendar that I have hanging from the framework of my bed. (I'm too lazy/tired to check the quote at the moment, so I'll put it up in the morning.)

On another note.. sometimes I wish I could turn back time and redo things. It's like how I play Magic: sometimes I don't think things through and I end up wasting time, and once I see my mistakes I want to take back what I did. But it doesn't work that way. Life doesn't work that way. Sometimes these bad things may facilitate other good things from happening. Sometimes not. I guess I'll just have to see how things pan out for now. As Teresa would say, "Don't fight it. Embrace your destiny."

Bee-tee-dubs, check this out.

Day 02/03

Since I'm late, I'm going to combine days 2 and 3: a song that makes me happy, and a song that makes me think.

My collection of songs is really eclectic, since it just accumulates from friends showing me stuff. I rarely have full albums of any one artist, except for Nicholas Teo (and Jason Mraz, Imogen Heap, Sara Bareilles). I really like his music, even though it gives me a 90's feel. I tend to feel happier when I listen to his songs; this song seems to be the exception, though.

I also really like stuff by Epik High and Younha. Here's a collaboration that they made! "1 Minute 1 Second" is also really good.

But here's a song that really cheers me up. :D

Day 01

So I'm finally going to get started on completing this 30 Day Challenge thing that I said I'd do sometime in August. This first one is going to be about a book that I've read more than once. Honestly, I'm not sure how many books I've actually read more than once. Usually I just read a book once and leave it on my shelf (or scattered somewhere on the floor). I've read Journey to the Center of the Earth multiple times.. I've read The Giver a bunch too. I've read the 1st Harry Potter book a few times as well. I guess the book that I'm going to talk about is going to be a childhood favorite of mine, back before I discovered how juicy real novels are. (Haha, gross..)

Monster Road is about a kid who goes on a road trip with his clueless uncle (or some other family member). As they go on this road trip, they encounter monsters from many different.. stories. For example, there's Medusa, Dr. Frankenstein's monster, the Blob, etc. It's actually a really entertaining read.. maybe I should read it again sometime!

an indescribable feeling..

What's up with me? I feel a bit lost. Things are just spiraling out of control. I can't grasp onto anything to stop myself from tumbling away. My emotions have ensnared me..

Someone said I was "emo" recently. I don't think I am. Am I? Why aren't things simple anymore. I guess I set the dominoes into motion; who knows where this thing will go. But back to my main point.. being called "emo" is pretty annoying. What if I am?? Ugh, I don't want to be.

I don't like this feeling, that I'm sinking into negativity. I want to be carefree. Well, not completely, since I still have a physics midterm tomorrow..!

I'm just going to rant, since it seems like this post isn't heading anywhere anyway. There are so many things annoying me right now:

1. memory loss
2. confusion
3. inability to act
4. caring too much/not at all..

That last one is pretty paradoxical.. I don't know what to say about that!

On another note, I've been having nightmares lately. I can't really remember what happened, though. Ack, gonna try to study some more..