summer~

It's been a while since I last updated i guess... i can't believe it's june already. the cold weather isn't helping me think it's summer either. first year of dental school has ended... it went by so fast haha... another sign that i'm getting old :(

i had one really eventful weekend last month where i went to the dental school commencement ceremony, music of china class concert, and miki's art show =]

on saturday morning, the commencement was pretty cool~ they had it in Royce and it was packed, surprisingly. it was pretty crazy... there were people who flew in from all over the world like africa just to see it ^^ (those people even dressed in their traditional attire... crazy headdresses and stuff) according to vivian, the dean gave the same speech last year, with the same corny jokes hehe

leaving commencement took a while because everyone wanted to take a picture with everyone.... and then when we finally got to the parking lot, we found tickets on everyone's cars who parked in that lot... even though they told us that we could park there when we showed them our permit as we entered... ucla parking enforcement is evil ==

saturday night i went to watch the music of china concert... it was nice seeing people i haven't seen in a while.. but i have to admit, i think they don't sound as good anymore... must be because i'm not playing XD (just kidding ^^;;) or maybe it's because professor li recycles all the songs that we played before years ago, so it doesn't really sound all that interesting to me anymore...

sunday! i think i just bummed around the whole morning before going to miki's art show at night. she made some pretty cool stuff =] her glass chess set that she got like a gazillion cuts from... was like the centerpiece of the show almost haha. you could definitely tell she put a lot of work into it; though i don't think anyone will be using that chess set anytime soon... unless they want to get all cut up too haha... there was some other pretty cool stuff at the show too, and some really weird stuff as well... after checking out the whole show, we went to dennys where i proceeded to pig out and study for a while... since i hadn't done any of that all weekend haha

this last month at school.. the only kinda cool thing we did was the saliva lab for our cariology (study of dental caries aka cavities) class... we did things like measure the pH of our saliva, measure how much saliva we produce and how fast we produce it... so if you're wondering, the pic on the left is how much saliva i produced in 5 minutes. tmi? i know haha ask me if i care =P

i think i improved a lot recently on my teeth-drilling skills. i thought i was actually pretty decent before.... but then my dad showed me his preps from way back when he was in school and it just put me to shame lol... his looked like.... machine made.. his pulpal floors were so flat and he had no burn marks and ughh... just too perfect == but then again, he did make those preps after having gone through dental school in taiwan... so maybe i'm not that bad after all ^^. anyway, i took a few pointers from him and now my preps are actually not half bad =] i will put some pics of these up when i remember to take photos of them...

one thing i'm looking forward to is google wave~ it looks like it'd be really fun, and it definitely looks like another productivity killer to me lol.. i would be on it alll the time ^^;; for more info watch the video.. yea it's an hour+ long, but it's pretty interesting, watching the things it can do.

some of the dumb things i've done this quarter just made me think of how much a genius i was when i was little... so the dumbest thing by far i did this quarter has got to be when i was getting one of my cavity preps checked off... the instructor started working on it a little bit and then he told me to blow it out to clean it up... he was blocking the air/water syringe the way he was sitting and i was like wtf how am i supposed to blow it out?! and he says "go on, blow it!" and i was like o_O;; so i just started blowing air out of my mouth lol.. only then does he tell me to use the air/water syringe from the bench behind me ==

contrast that to my intelligence in like... first grade or something... we had a spelling test, and one of the words was fruit. i didn't know if u was before i or if i was before u..... but what i did know was that i was wearing fruit of the loom underwear lol so i just turned around and looked at the label of my underwear... and aced the test of course haha

yea i know, i'm weird =]

OH! almost forgot to rant about the current retard in charge of taiwan. sigh.... mr ma, being the suck-up to beijing that he is.. says that we should use simplified characters, like the ones they use in china. yet at the same time he also says "It is also our hope that the standard [traditional] characters can be listed as World Heritage by the United Nations one day". wtf? giving off mixed signals as usual... sigh... blah ok done.