spring break~

yay it's spring break XD

so... i guess i'm making it a tradition to get f**ed up after my last final each quarter..... sigh.. haha... so this time i went to lounge dna (at the back of a restaurant called fisherman's wharf) where my friend miji works as a bartender~ i feel like my tolerance for alcohol has decreased by a lot :( i only had 4 mixed drinks + 1 shot and i was gone lol.. thankfully this time i had my good friends miki and miji to take care of me while i was incapacitated (sorry for making a mess XD). i'm sure it wasn't that bad though... miji tells me that apparently 我那個晚上邊吐邊擦地板... lol... i'm so dumb ^^ they had their fun too though... somewhere out there are pictures of them + marker + me passed out.... i'm sure you can figure out what happened then haha...

last time this happened, i was alcohol free for at least a week.. this time, i came home the next night only to drink with my dad and aunt, then the following night with my dad and uncle and cousins, and then the following night with more relatives.... so bad.. haha.. whatevers

it's break time and i'm catching up on the whole quarter's worth of drama bwahhaha~ i finished メイちゃんの執事 [Mei-chan no Shitsuji] which is about this girl, from this poor family, whose parents die and then she finds out that she's actually the heiress to like the biggest corporation in japan or something, so she has to attend this super elite rich school where everyone has their own butlers and stuff... yea... it's really farcical haha but i don't care~ it's entertaining enough. ^^ one thing that annoys me about it is how ugly the evil girl is... she's supposed to be like the perfect, highest ranking girl in the school, but she's just... so... sinisterly ugly haha...

i still need to finish 神の雫 [Kami no Shizuku] and i kind of want to watch キイナ [Kiina] and ヴォイス [Voice]... i'm never gonna have time for them during school.. they're an hour each episode haha, i can only spare time for shows like big bang theory, so i will be busy watching drama these next few days XD

i have no idea what to eat when i'm at home... there's never any chips or other yummy junk food at home... :( except for this! bwahhaha i haven't had this is in so long~ if u havent' had it before, u must have some! they're called "mug noodle" u know, like cup noodles~ but in bite sized form haha
they have these little dog and panda shaped chikuwa (fish cake) things in them too XD... too bad they're only like.... 3 bites each :( but i guess that's what makes them so appealing~ it always leaves me wanting more ^^

i've been trying to learn how to use adobe flash cs4 to make presentations, kind of like the one our school gave us to study for the kidney, but it's kind of sad.. i couldn't even figure out how to get it to go past the title screen lol... everything's so complicated nowadays, especially with this action script crap... it's basically like c++...... bleh... so i kinda gave up on that haha.. i think i can do basic small flash animation type things though.. they don't seem too bad... but if anyone has any tips on flash, feel free to share them with me~ :P

another quarter done... almost ^^;;

it's tuesday of finals week and the harder finals have passed. whether or not i passed is another story though lol... so after running on like 2-3 hours of sleep i came back from my final today and tried to nap, but couldn't :( *sigh* 慘... so here i am blogging XD

recently i've been listening to a lot more of my old-style taiwanese and japanese music... and i wanted to find some more, so i did a search for 台語 on youtube, and the first hit that comes up is... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzIOdYPCzGA haha so funny :P

a few weeks ago, daylight saving time started... it was the middle of the night and i thought it was weird when my computer clock suddenly said 3:30 when i, only moments before, recalled seeing it at 2 something... i totally forgot about changing the clocks so i was like wtf is going on... :( sleep deprived...

lately, i've been looking at www.fmylife.com...... some of them are quite dirty lol, but they're pretty funny. 人家真的很ㄙㄨㄟ.... i must've spent half a day looking through all 100+ pages of that site. this one too: failblog.org haha why is it so amusing when other people encounter misfortune? i dunno either.. it just is XD

神の雫 kami no shizuku! my latest drama obsession... about the son of a famous wine critic who has to battle it out with this other famous wine critic over his father's inheritance. makes me want to drink 0=) i wonder if people can really taste all the subtleties in wine like they do... i'm sure it's a little over the top with their reactions... at least it's not like.. yakitate japan style reactions haha... but the sound the wine critic makes is so annoying -__-;; sounds so retarded.

hrmm besides that, nothing really interesting has happened lately, so i'll just leave you with a picture of my little study area i set up after i decided not to go to the library... i felt like i was getting sick, and wu's lecture on viruses just made me want to stay away from crowded indoor places. so yea, i end up studying just like the sticker on my computer does ^^;;and yes, that is soy sauce on my desk haha

人生って何？

皆さんご無沙汰しております。。。

things have been pretty busy lately... この前から色々な事があって、何か、wtf am i doing with my life と考えさせました。

まず、一人のいとこがジサツで亡くなりました。it's the kind of thing that you'd never expect would happen, much less to someone you know... 雖然我不是跟他很熟,我越想那件事越難過...
so, as a result, 学校でも人生でも今より頑張りたいと決めました。

改變自己 pt I
俺はいったい何やってるの？歯学生として、my foremost responsibilities should be to study... 所以我為了這個考試,超認真的讀.
since, as you know, i don't really like to study... but i like to write things out, so i took it upon myself to make notes for my systems lectures leading up to the midterm, so that i would somehow get the information through my head before i took the exam ^^ i filled a whole book with just the lecture material from the first week.... you can see volume 2 of the notes behind the open pages of volume 1 XD needless to say i wasn't able to finish all the lectures before the exam, since i started making my notes like the week before the test haha
but i must say i feel much better about that test than i think would have had i not made the notes =P

改變自己 pt II
so after studying systems, and learning all about heart diseases, atherosclerosis, myocardial infarctions, and other causes and reasons for heart failure, i have to admit i was feeling a little guilty about treating my body so badly haha... so i ran turtle rock (ok more like ran for 5 mins and then walked the remainder of the way) twice. i'm also doing exercises in my room too, and eating slightly more healthfully... hopefully it will pay off... but i have a feeling i'll probably get over it and start going back to my bad habits soon enough lol

anyway, due to 表弟的事, my cousins came over. it's funny, cuz even though one's a grad student and the other is an undergrad, they're in the same chinese class at school, so they just share their answers when they do their homework haha... they were doing their homework at my house that weekend, and it reminded me of the times when i was in chinese school as a little kid. most of the time i'd just copy whatever my mom wrote out for me, but somehow, for this essay i'm pretty sure i actually wrote it myself... or maybe my dad helped me lol

in case you can't see it clearly:
『媽媽的頭髮
　　　媽媽的頭髮是黑色
　的，也有一點白的。她
　的頭髮不是那麼長。我
　媽媽的頭髮很亂七八糟
　因為我的弟弟愛玩她的
　頭髮。但是我的媽媽還
　是世界上最好的媽媽。』

if i actually was able to do that all on my own back then, i'd have to say i'm pretty impressed haha

on the side, i thought my new 1.5tb hard drive crapped out on me, giving me error 51's...... but replacing the usb cable that came with it seemed to fix the problem ^^ i have so much free space i don't know what to do with myself lol

oh! last weekend i went to this japanese restaurant called akasaka. it seemed a little out of place by itself in this mostly residential area. supposedly it used to be a single house, and then got converted into a restaurant. i got their chirashi bowl, which at $27 was quite pricey... the most expensive chirashi i've seen before this was like 18.. but i must admit, it is huge..... refer to pic :P i took the picture after giving the unagi away, but you can still see it's filled to the brim with sashimi XD
anyway, it was like two meals in one.... actually, it was two meals in one since i only ate half of it and then packed the rest, and ate it after i got home from mahjong <3 the next morning at 5am lol... speaking of mahjong, i got a 清一色 and a 混一色 the last time i played, banking $28 wahahhaha~ obviously they wanted revenge, so i played with them again... this time i only made $5... oh well ㄎㄎ

それじゃ、until next time~

犯太歲

*sigh* this year is supposedly 犯太歲 for oxes.... (myself included), meaning we're not supposed to be very lucky unless we go and appease the jupiter god or something... i'm feeling the bad luck already haha

first off, i failed one of my classes... well... i guess i saw that one coming lol... but i'd like to think it's because of 犯太歲... especially since i found out right after my bracelet with the buddhist beads snapped apart on me in class... :(
i decided to clean my desk the other day too (see~ so clean XD), i was enjoying a nice cold drink at my desk and i accidentally knocked the can onto my keyboard... i wasn't used to my desk being so clean, cuz usually i have to maneuver around all these obstacles to grab things on my desk, but it's too neat now... nothing to avoid, so i let my guard down and knocked my drink over =( that makes this the 3rd keyboard of mine that has been ruined by a beverage.. *sigh* at least that last one i've been using for about 6 years so it was about time anyway ^^;; i must say this new keyboard is nice~ the only things i don't like about it are how there aren't a windows key and a right mouse click key on the right side... all there is is a stupid fn key... and i don't like how they played with the design of the del key and made it so big... i guess i don't use insert that much besides in photoshop, but still i'd like to have it where it usually is... oh! and this keyboard is cool because it is backlit!! <3 probably not as useful as it would be on a laptop, since it's usually pretty bright in my room when i'm using my computer, but still... it's nice to have XD

anyway, i hope my luck will be better from now on, especially after i went to 安太歲 last weekend ^^ so far so good... i've passed all my other tests/midterms besides that one, and hopefully will continue to do so *crosses fingers*

wish all u other oxes good luck, since we, along with sheeps/goats, dragons, and dogs, managed to anger or annoy the tai sui for this year ^^;;;

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~

881 2008

wow... it's been a while =)

i bet you're all wondering what i've been up to recently (yeah right haha). so~ here we go~

last i left you, i had just moved into my place here at school, which, while quite spacious, is starting to feel much more cozy after moving all my furniture in ^^ one thing i can never seem to have enough of is desk space though... i don't know why, but i just like keeping stuff on my desk... easy access, i guess, just like how i used to have about 200 icons on my windows desktop haha

i'd like to say that i was busy studying this whole time, which is why i haven't really updated, but i'm sure you all know that that really isn't the case :P the first quarter of school has gone by already, and i (barely) passed my classes with the exception of anatomy, for which i will have to retake the first midterm since i failed it by 1 question the first time around.... 討厭.. haha
speaking of anatomy... one of our professors for anatomy was the editor for gray's anatomy (the actual anatomy atlas, not the tv show) and he was having wayyy too much fun dissecting dead bodies.. -_-;; it was kind of eerie how comfortable he was with them. tell me if i'm wrong, but most people would find touching their face (with gloves) after touching a dead body (with the same gloves) kind of nasty... and licking your fingers to turn the pages of an anatomy atlas that's open on top of a dead body..... not ok right!?!? well... our professor is most likely in his 80s by now, so i guess it can't kill you... but it still grosses the @#*$# out of me.

so anatomy was probably my biggest concern during the fall, but with that (kind of) out of the way, i went into winter break with a bang. or rather with a blehhhh ><

i got drunk (drunk) for the first time... ever... and i totally did not expect it, even though i should have since i didn't eat anything at all that day, but not like i've ever gotten drunk because of that before... so after our last final, me and some classmates went out to drink... around 6pm we go to damon & pythias's happy hour... i downed about 2.5 beers... 6:50ish we leave to try to go to some other place's happy hour, but some of us (myself included) head to tomodachi zushi to get some food, or rather, sake bombs... by this time i am feeling it.. a little more than i usually do, but no alarms go off in my mind... 7:45ish we go to brew co where i have a kamikaze.... and at this point, i honestly have to admit my memory is failing me. i only remember bits and pieces of what happened after that... i guess by around 8:30 i was feeling pretty tired or whatever, and i decide to go home. apparently i can walk perfectly fine... and i remember walking a friend back to his place before heading back to mine... and honestly i have to say i don't remember what path i took to get back home. all i remember is fumbling with the keypad to enter my room. apparently, i called a friend too, and, apparently, i talk in taiwanese when i am drunk. i guess i'm a true fob at heart haha
so.... here is where all hell breaks loose, i get into my door and wow... i can't stand up anymore... and i honestly don't remember much except puking and taking a bath and.... i guess that's about it... let's just say it was not pretty the next day... worse yet is nobody knows i was so messed up haha, so they all think i can still drink the next day ^^;;; nope. didn't happen =)

so after about a week or two of abstaining from alcohol, i seem to have recovered (or rather, better than recovered =P) from my fear of alcohol. haha

winding down to the end of 2008... i cannot believe how easily my parents spend money now compared with when i was a little kid haha... over winter break, our family bought... 2 tvs (52" and 40" LCD), blu-ray player, ps3, rock band ii for ps3, a hd camcorder, and a computer. probably none of which we really needed... gosh... it's not even his birthday and my brother reaps the benefits of all these gifts haha... when i was little i'd be lucky if i got a lego set on my birthday :P

this is getting to be a really long post... so i think i'll cheat and backdate this one so it looks like i have more posts in my blog :P

merry xmas!