study?

with two midterms and two finals next week, naturally it is time to blog =D

school this quarter doesn't seem quite as intimidating as it did last quarter for some reason... i just haven't felt the same pressure that i felt last quarter to study ^^;;; so here's a little insight into my life so far this year~

school - currently taking microbiology, oral radiology, foundations of pharmacology, cariology, behavioral science, quality assurance, conservative direct restorations, and overview of demography, epidemiology and statistics. microbiology and pharmacology are both 3 week courses which is good because it just means there less material to cram the night before =D unfortunately, the finals in those classes happen to coincide with the midterms in radiology and conservative direct restorations... and so, less than 5 days away from impending failure, i am here blogging XD

classes this quarter are quite interesting... the theory behind radiology (x-rays and stuff) has a lot of physics based stuff, so it's not too bad. in restorations, we finally get to drill teeth~ well.. fake ones... haha... it's harder than it looks. i'll show you my failures when i remember to take pictures of them ^^;; in cariology we learn about caries (the bacterial disease that causes cavities) and a bunch of interesting tidbits that are pretty cool~ for instance, did you know that if you're going to eat sweets, you should brush your teeth before eating them??? that's because when you brush your teeth, you remove the biofilm (the layer of bacteria) on the surface of the teeth and prevent the sugars you eat from being converted to acid, which demineralizes the teeth. according to the research, the sugars are converted to acid almost immediately and begin to demineralize the tooth, but without the bacteria, the sugars can't be processed and your teeth won't be demineralized. good to know, right?? =D

for school, we were required to purchase loupes, which are basically a pair of really expensive fugly glasses with magnifying lenses attached to the front. i finally got mine over winter break, but i hadn't gotten the prescription put in until now... because i am for all practical purposes nearly blind, i need to get special thinner lenses so they won't be like 3 inches thick... lenscrafters wanted like $400 for my lenses so i said no, and went to find some place in san gabriel that would do it for less... and i found....
"ICU Optometry" hahaha pure genius. i must've laughed about that name for a good minute =D

they had my glasses done for me for a mere $150 bwahhahha and now i can finally use them to help me see my fake teeth when i drill ^^

enough about school.. recently, in my ever-failing resolution to be somewhat healthy, i bought power pushups from costco =D they're hard to do... but i have managed to do up to about 80 of them in a day ^^;; i can feel muscles forming already, but i dunno how long this will keep up haha... with any luck i'll be better about it than i am about blogging :P

and since mike didn't want to risk getting me these instant noodles that have meat in them from taiwan... he delegated his friend to do the smuggling for him hahah. if you ever go to taiwan, you MUST eat these instant noodles... (the bag says 滿漢大餐麻辣鍋牛肉麵) they go for like 40nt in a bowl form at pretty much any 7-11 or family mart =D when he gave me the bag, i was salivating already hahah... i finally cooked one today... so good~~ the 花椒 numbing my tongue, the richness of the soup... chewiness of the noodles... ahhh.... writing this is making me salivate some more haha

and now i want to go to taiwan again :(

ok enough screwing around for today ^^;; time to get some studying done~

big bearrrrr

ps (pre-scriptum, in this case :P) i am gonna backdate this post too XD

so, to start out the new year, me and my siblings and serena and her sister and her friend and kimoon went to big bear for a whole 2 days of snowboarding fun =D

we had planned on meeting up with them at a local starbucks before heading out to big bear at 6:30... i should have forseen that they would not be getting their until after 7 :P anyway... we got there at around 10ish and after renting equipment and stuff we were on our happy way snowboarding by around 11.



before i continue, might i say, the last time i went snowboarding, i don't recall being too bad at it... which was totally the cause for my utter defeat by bear mountain this time... i was stupidly not afraid of going fast this time i snowboarded... and just zipped around (ok maybe not as fast as real snowboarders zip around but fast for me!) before finding out the hard way that i don't know how to stop... haha.. apparently i don't learn too fast either, since i must've fell like at least 50 times on my whole 3 or 4 runs down the mountain, in the process probably fracturing my wrist and messing up my knees haha ^^;;; that compounded with a bad headache, i was out of commission by 2 or 3pm and just went inside to bask in the warmth and take a nap.

anyway, kimoon is such a liar... he claimed to be just "ok" at skiing... people who are just ok don't ski down black double diamond slopes!!! -__-;; i should've known when you bought a season pass... sigh.. haha so, sorry kimoon for not being able to accompany you more than once down the bunny slope lol..

at night we stayed at this really nice 3 bedroom cabin at big bear frontier... and for dinner we had a feast! we got take out from that super luxurious place known as... kfc.. -_-;; so after dinner and some rock band (i can't believe you brought the wii, serena...) we went to sleep... the thermostat was wacky though... it was burning in the middle of the night, but freezing in the morning... so cold in fact, that serena's car wouldn't start! (yup... that's mercedes for you :P) the key wouldn't turn at all... and we tried turning it really hard... so they called someone to come help us, but they wouldn't be here for another hour, so i made two trips and we all had breakfast at dennys. i wasn't there when this happened, but apparently when the car person came, all he had to do was stick the key in and turn it... epic fail on our part haha but whatevers, all's well that ends well, right? ^^

so after a day of snowboarding (sans kimoon and myself, of course), we headed to the boiling crab for dinner... i've had take out from there before, but i didn't think it was that great, so this time i wanted to see if eating in would be any better. between the 8 of us, we had like 9 lbs of shrimp and crawfish and like 3 orders of fried catfish with fries... blehhh too much food haha

i have to admit, i was not that impressed by the food there, but i guess people go to places like that more for the atmosphere. and to capture completely disgusting photos of people like my brother after they have decimated a mountain of shrimps and crawfish. i am utterly speechless at the absolute nastiness of this person whom i refuse to acknowledge as my brother =D btw if you found a wallet on the 4th of January, 2009 in either big bear or the parking lot of boiling crab, please return it to my stupid little brother =)

well... i don't think i'll be snowboarding again anytime soon XD but it was fun. happy new year everyone~