I rarely, or make that never, update my LJ anymore. I mostly use it to post on LJ communities and keep connections. I do have another personal journal site out there, and I did post the link here before. But as I move on into the real world of danger and chaos and more academiasNOOOES, I feel more comfortable if I put the link behind a f-lock. It's nothing personal; I just want to keep a tab on who reads it.

If you want to know my updated journal site, just drop me note here, there, anywhere. It was pretty much a public journal to begin with anyway. That's all. You can now go back and enjoy your day :)



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Anyone know who's teaching the chem 118A lecture from 12-1? MWF?

Thanks!

Integrated Studies Shakespeare Show @ UCD Wyatt Pavilion

June 11th and 12th @ 7:30PM (Door opens @ 7:15pm)

FREE ADMISSION

COME ONE, COME ALL!

Ok, it's that time of the year again.... APARTMENT HUNTING TIME!!

Now, I'm sure everyone's been asked this question before, but how WOULD you start looking for them? Aparts, homes, duplexes... etc.

Me and 2 of my roommates (3 total) are looking for a place to live next year, since we'll be moving out of the dorms.

So do you recommend newspapers, online, or just randomly ringing doorbells?

We've tried calling around, and they're all taken... HOW COULD they be taken? =_=;;

Sigh... so yeah... please help a frustrated soul here, thank you so much!

ps.
oh, and when is it TOO late to start? or TOO early to start? I thought now would be too early... but I guess wrong. BLah.

**edit** what's the difference between sublease and lease? and if i want to rent an place NOT this year but for next year, is there some sort of agreement/waitinglist I would have to be on?

I couldn't resist these quotes.... (Orlando Bloom): "Vig used to call me
'elf boy', and I'd call him 'filthy human'. As an Elf, I never got a
scratch on me, never got dirty. And Vig would come out with blood and sweat
all over him. And he'd say to me, 'Oh, go manicure your nails."

"We have these digs at each other. Viggo will go on about Elves and how
they're always doing their nails and brushing their long, blonde hair, and
being all prissy. And I just say: Well, at least I'm going to live forever!
Got that? LIVE FOREVER!"

Random factoid on Viggo Motensen: Got so into his character of Aragorn that
'The Lord Of The Rings' director Peter Jackson once addressed him as
Aragorn for over half an hour, and Viggo didn't even realize it.

Birds

He was a bird. He soared freely, feeling the wind caressing his face. Like an eagle, he aimed his goals at the endless azure sky. Everything was within reach; nothing was reachable to him. He would stop, perch on a branch, and take a deep breath, taking in all what Mother Earth had to offer. He would smell the rivers, hear the forests, and touch the pulsing life forces surrounding him.

The sun shined on him with glory.

Flying was his passion, his way of life. To be trapped within the cage of soil was to strangle his very life out. Nothing could offer what the sky possessed. Nothing at all.

He disliked confinement.

Yet he knew. One day he would not be able to soar any more. His wings would age, his energy drained, the sky would become just another cage for him. The clouds would mock him. Everything would still be the same; nothing would be the same.

Why, he had often pondered, why...

Why must it end this way?

He sought comfort in the realm between heaven and earth. Too close to heaven or too close to earth brought him only sadness and pain. Fly. To fly. That was his only mission in life. He lived on the addiction of freedom. For that instant, when in the air, he could sense himself. Only when in the air.

So he wasn't surprised when that day came.

He fell silently.

Today I found out Mr. Brown's 25-year-old son committed suicide due to bipolar illness.

Today I found out life's not always pleasant without ripples.

Today I found out maybe life's not all peachy and happy.

Today I found out I might not be as strong as I believed myself to be.

Today Calculus is actually kinda fun ^^ Since there's a calc chapter test tomorrow, Mr. Brown is doing a review for us. And for the first time, I can understand the words coming out of his mouth, instead of some foreign language! So we reviewed for 20 minutes, and Mr. Brown just told us to do what ever we want.

Hehehe.

Therefore me n' Jon ended up on the other side of the room, along with Muir and the others. Jon's preparing for his Bio final (I pity him) while Muir is helping Kat with Calc. Me? I was happily sitting in my seat, grinning like a Cheshire Cat. Then I started telling Psychology jokes/riddles.

Yeah.

I managed to get everyone in the class involved. Ok, Lily + crowd is NOT a very stable combination. Ohohohohh~~

Oooh, here's one:

A man bought a horse with $60, sold it for $70, and re-bought it for $80, and finally sold it for $90. Question: How much did he earn?

The answer? Post what you think in the comments page and I'll tell ya ::I'm evil::

Anther one:

Pronounce the word S-H-O-P....

Say it as fast as you can for 20 times...

What do you do at a green light?


















Did you answer stop?

Think again ^_^

Ok, that's it for today. 3 big tests tomorrow >_<






Hum.... LJ won't let me upload for now...

Guess I'll type more. Ahem. What was I saying? Oh well, new topic.

As I get closer to the end of my high school career, I find myself finding it becoming less and less important for me to find a boyfriend. Sure, it would really be nice to have someone to cuddle against, someone to talk to, and someone to love... but I just don't think I have the extra effort to deal with having a boy friend.

Or more specifically, the worries, the time, and the uncertainties of having a relationship.

There are some personal things I'm not ready to talk about yet, so I'll leave this as it is, hopefully for now.

On a lighter note, I FINALLY catagorized all of my anime cds. It came out to be a whopping total of 570 CDS!!!! It took up 26 pages of paper, so I ended up putting'em in a folder. Boy am I proud of myself.

Ok, let's see it LJ'll be good and let me upload ---

::sigh::

Still hardware maintainance...

Would Rosa call me... I feel bad cause it's always her calling me, almost never the way around >___< I really should start picking up the phone and CALL HER myself. Ai.... procrastination is evil...

Speaking of which, I have a severe case of senior-ritis. I feel lazy... which is why I'm typing this instead of coming up with a thesis for Oedipus's actions.

Gyah.

Final's week. Next week. Doom.

... and that's what I feel right now *_*

::sighs::

Wow... today is a busy busy day. SO much homework piled on top of each other. NOW I know why the week before finals is called dead week --- not because the teachers don't give hw so kids can study for finals, but kids dying from overdose of extra review sheets etc.

blah.

As usual, here's my Christmas schedule ^^

So I set off to LA right after I got out of school on Friday. I was kinda disappointed about chinese school being canceled... no Rosa for 3 whole weeks >_<

Driving, driving... my dad decided to stop midway and call it a night, and I had a Big Mac for dinner.

Saturday we continued on. I got to stop by UCI and UCLA. Purrrrty! UCLA had the coolest college town, little shops ALL OVER the place! I luv UCLA now ^^ Irvine was... well... quiet. It's set on a hill so therefore the entire campus is pretty much isolated. But the serenity is really nice. VERY GREEN.

We arrived at LA around noon, so my dad took us to this dim sum place and we all ate like pigs :) HAha

After lunch, we checked in at our hotel. I really liked our room, it was really reasonable, too --- at 50 dollars a night, I thought it was great ^^ 3 beds, 1 restroom, a kitchen, and 2 TVs!

Sunday --- Disneyland! California Adventure was so much fun, my personaly fav was the rollarcoaster. Best of all --- NO LINES! for some reason, there was barely any people at CA, so we spend the entire day over there.

Monday --- Disneyland! The Haunted Mansion is now on my top list of things-to-awe at Disneyland. It was completely decorated --- with a special appearence of Jack Skellington! It was really funny, cause my brothers and I were cracking up during the ride cause we kept thinking about Kingdom Hearts ^O^

Tuesday--- took a break and went down to UCSD. It was alright, but the campus was too old and spread out for my taste.

Wednesday --- Disneyland! watched the xmas parade, electric prarde, shook hands with Jim from Treasure Planet and Alladin. OMG, they're soo hot :-) I wanna go hug them ^^ Merry XMAS!

Thursday --- coming home. arrived at around 9pm. the house was really cold -- 52 degrees. burrrrrr

Friday --- home, sick ::sweatdrop::

my trip in a nutshell.

well well well, it seemed like I made it back from Maine in one piece. It was actually really fun... even the part where I tripped and slid down the entire friggen hill. It was snowing, mind you #_#

So anyways, here's my trip in a nutshell.

Saturday--- 10:50pm
I flew from SF to Washington state. Skipped dinner, thought there was dinner on plane, almost died of hunger and stupidity, starved the way there, slept, drooled, arrived at Washington as a zombie.

Sunday------ 8:00am
3hr time difference. Arrived with Fred Lin, Met up with Jon from Bakersfield. Checked on the screen for flight transfer info

FLIGHT CANCELED TO MAINE

uh...... panicked, jon took control, managed to catch a shuttle from gate F to gate A (btw, WHY does Washington SPILT the gates? it's so hard to get around >_<) and met up with the other 12 perspective students. That makes 15 of us all together, the best of our schools, panicked. again. Jon got us a transfer at 1:20pm.

Called Colby, turned out they want us on an earlier flight. yeah sure, no prb, we can just stoll on in and demend another chance.

jon, using his awsome skill, almost got in a fight with the counterlady (DO NOT USE US AIRWAYS, THEY ARE BAD BAD BAD), but ended up getting us all on a plane at 11:30 to Philadelphia. so we ran down the exact same hallway the kid in home alone 2 ran down. VERY COOL.

-------------- 1:30pm
arrive at phili. they have the coolest shopping area. too bad we had to get on the transfer to Maine in 20 mins.

------------ 3:30pm
arrive at Maine, finally met up with Jamie (colby rep) ------ and a heap of snow. 28 DEGREES!!! god, it was snowing so hard. claimed our bags, piled onto the vans as popsicles, and set off for colby college --- 80miles away.

-------------5:10pm
finally. arrive at colby college. got settled down, got a fancy dinner with show. very good play and very good acapela performence and very cute guys. the grass is always greener on the other side ---- or the other coast.

-------9pm
met out host, took a shower, watched legally blonde with teh entire dorm, went to a party (i didn't drink, thank you very much), returned to dorm, got out sleeping bag, and fell asleep on my calculus book with a puddle of drool.

Monday--------- 8:30 am
breakfast. i had the best chocolate milk of my life.

---------- 10:00
attended intermediate chinese class. they're using the exact book we used in chinese school. fun, read the shonon jump they had in the room. SMALL class, like 7 people.

11:00
attended elementry japanese. understood couple words, including chicsho. ha

12:00
lunch, they had pushpops!!!! @_@

1:00
giftshop, got rosa a keychain

1:20
return to office to return to airport to return to sf

3:00
arrive at maine airport. got a DOVE icecream

6:30
arrive at chicago. hell of big airport, took 20minutes to walk from gate A to B. very cool walkway though

10:50
arrive at SF. HOME SWEET HOME

Tuesday ------ 8am
flunk my econ test >_<

so yeah, that;s my all-expance paid trip to Colby. i'm so dead tired now ^_^.;;;;

later.

wow... how long has it been since I wrote in here? ^^;; Well, since I just got off the phone with Rosa, I just want to which her GOOD LUCK with her tests! And don't get too stressed out, cause one day we'll look back at today and laugh our heads off at our "stress."

hehehe

oh oh oh, here's a site that might help you:

www.chemplace.com (username: sanrstudent, password: web)

www.hotmath.org

sparknotes.com

pinkmonkey.com

http://mediaviewer.ign.com/ignMediaPage.jsp?channel_id=70&article_id=99124&adtag=network%3Dign%26site%3Dps2viewer%26pagetype%3Darticle&page_title=TGS+2001%3A+The+Continuing+Adventures+of+Kingdom+Hearts

Alrighty, remember to relax and take a deeeeeep breathe -----

and SMILE ^_^

Hum... got this question in my philosophy class:

If nothing ages, does time still exist?

Any comments? ^__^

Rosa, here's your icon! click on the link!

http://www.geocities.com/passionfruityum/CUD.jpg

enjoy!

To Rosa:

It's funny how you're always able to cheer me up with a simple gesture of friendship --- be it a letter, a phone call, or the mere fact that we care about each other. It's like this warm feeling; somewhere, sometime, someone is thinking about me, and that she'll always be there for me.

Only you can fit in that role.

When I use the words best friends to describe our friendship, it always seems like something's missing. We're not afraid of outside interference, and I'm going to bravely say that our friendship can withstand any obstacle in the future. Though... there were times when I just wish we can see each other more often. I would be walking down the school hallway and suddenly have this urge to take to you ^__^, gossip about the daily lives, or just have a true friend next to me.

All in all, I would have to thank Chinese School for giving us the chance to meet each other. I don't even want to begin visualizing what it would be like without ever knowing you. [shudders] You go to Northgate, and I go to San Ramon, there would be no way we could've known each other without that fateful Chinese class. This may seem childish, but sometimes I cannot control myself from comparing us to anime situations. It's like a speck of Tomoyo/Sakura, a pinch of Makino/Yuki, a dose of Marron/Miyako, and a bit of Miki/Meiko thrown in together.

Hopefully our friendship stay as strong as we will it.

Forever friends,
Lily

Rosa,

The one that should say sorry is me [groan]... When I look back, it's always you who calls me, cheers me up, and is here for me. I cannot find any word to describe the feeling I have after reading your letter.

You know, I could not find anyone else that's like you. You were my first true friend, and my best friend too. But just like you said, there is no way to define our friendship. Call it best friends, true friends, or "soul sistas," I think we'll always be more then that. There's that special bond between us that no one could break.

And I thank you for that.

It's weird... how did I survive all those years without knowing you. Now that I remember, I've always felt empty, like a part of me is missing. Even back in Taiwan, in my native country. But now I know. YOU filled up the void.

Words are secondary to our communication. We can feel each other's heart, and there is no need to fill the peaceful silence between us. It's like we're true soul sisters. Who knows, maybe in our past life we were sisters... [hehe]

I still remember the first day I met you in Mrs. Chang's class. Back then, I was still afraid to tackle the world. And seeing you chatting happily among your friends made me a bit envious [^^;;]. You're always so nice, so kind, and always seen with a smile on your face. I think it was sometime during the 2nd term of CS that we finally got to know each other. And here we are, friends to the infinite power.

Anime became the starting bridge between us, and slowly, that bridge disappeared, only to be replaced by an invisible bond. Be it chatting together at the CS cafeteria ::wink::, talking on the phone, or simply remembering each other's presence, it's the best feeling I could ever have. No one else has the ability to make me feel like that. Whenever I'm in need, you're there. Whenever I need a shoulder to lean on, you're there. We see the world as one, and face life's challenge united.

Somewhere down the path of our futures, I'm sure we'll meet lots of obstacles. But I'm not worried at all, because you'll be there for me, and I'll be there for you too.

After this hectic month of May is over, we definitely need to get together and chat ::smiles:: And don't forget that I need to visit your school at the end of the school year~~~! It's going to be so fun, I can see it already.

Once again, thank you for being such a super friend, Rosa!

Yours Truly,

Lily

::sighs::

I'm feeling depressed right now for no apparent reason. Maybe it's because of my dad's comments on my academic skills...

Or maybe it's because of all those years, all those frustrations... adding up to today.

I'm having a VERY bad day, as you can see.

Ok, I won't complain anymore, I'll just focus on my "future..." and the SATs... and colleges... and grades....

Oh dear, I'm getting more depressed. This is not good.

::sighs::