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Thursday, September 1, 2005 »
[10:43 am] ::: ummmmmmmmmmmmmmm...I really really really want to play RO again! But I must resist the temptation...for the sake of school...and apps. T.T But, auuurgh, it's so SO hard, LOL.
Got an e-mail from Katie, saying that we were going to have 2 participants coming in today, so I need to be dressed up and ready to lead. I guess I'm lead RA again...but I like being assistant RA better. That way, I don't really do anything, but scratch on my clipboard and stare at the poor participant. xD
I just realized I needed to fix the links up there. x_x; I guess you all miss the taggi, too...should put that up soon, hopefully.
Need to pay rent. And the water bill. x___x; blah.
Wednesday, August 31, 2005 »
[9:25 pm] ::: BOO! :)Haha, I bet you all weren't expecting an update were you? I even put up a new layout and everything (which I will go into further detail later on). Long story short, Ann, my lovely hostess at enrai.net, did not renew her hosting plan. Thus, all my files ever stored with her became inaccessible to the public, and my blog basically turned to dust. Not that it hadn't turned to dust already, haha.
After long thought, I realized that I didn't want to rely on the graciousness of people willing to host me for free, since there's little control over exactly what I can store and how much space I am allotted. I, therefore, decided to splurge and buy some hosting space of my own. And I did. Bananahosting.com baby. For S36 a year, I get 100MB of space and 1Gig of monthly bandwidth. Am I happy? Very.
I just bought it all yesterday, so I'm still moving in very slowly. The least that I wanted to do was to revive my blog at Pitas, so here it is, up and running, for your enjoyment.
And, before I end this entry, and for your further enjoyment, here are some random pictures of our newest furry memeber to join our 1448 crew. Presenting our baby cavvy, Louie!
Monday, April 4, 2005 »
[7:48 pm] ::: Long day of classes. My head was pounding since this morning because I hardly slept last night. I'm tired. I'm hungry. I'm sick. And I'm sad because--to top it off--I didn't even get to see Anth. =\ I ran up to the library, wanting to tell him what I did at English today, and he wasn't there. =\ And I waited till 11:30, and he still didn't come. =\Walking home at 6:30pm, it was cold and windy, too. =\ Depressing day. =\
And curse the MCATs because I still need to study for it tonight. Curse it, I say!
Wednesday, March 16, 2005 »
[11:07 pm] ::: ...they're all leaving me. I can't stand it. I can't bear it. I keep telling myself that I'm childish to treat this matter so seriously...but it's breaking my heart, and...i just don't know what to do.what am i going to do?
Monday, February 28, 2005 »
[9:18 am] ::: Haaaaaaahh, I haven't updated in a really long time, but nobody can bug me to update because my tagboard is out of commission, hahaaah!LOL, just kidding. ;) Although the tagboard being out of commission is actually true. Something's up with the code...I need to fix it soon. :x
Man, this month went fast. Last day of February already!
Wednesday, February 16, 2005 »
[11:21 am] ::: Shereen is a slacker! You silli silli girl. x3 ahahaha!*runs off*
Tuesday, February 15, 2005 »
[10:45 pm] ::: Because I have nothing better to do...except study for my midterm tomorrow, of course...which you can clearly see that I'm NOT doing:
Yes, behold the weirdness that is me! /gg
Sunday, February 13, 2005 »
[7:45 pm] ::: I had my first shift at MBU yesterday, and I absolutely loved it! It didn't start out so great in the beginning, however. I left the apartment at ~6:30am, with it still being dark and wet outside, not to mention cold. When I arrived to the floor, I went to introduce myself to the charge nurses and the PCAs, but they didn't seem very interested. When I explained that it was my first time on the floor, and asked them if there was anything I could do to help them in any way, they told me they had nothing for me to do. NOTHING! Haha. So I wandered around for a bit, trying to memorize where the nursery was, and the codes for the kitchen and supply room (they have two different codes for each). After maybe an hour of wandering around, I became incredibly bored. I started going into patients' rooms (well, only the ones that were actually awake), and distributing breakfast trays and water pitchers. This took awhile, since there were so many rooms! And sometimes, patients would ask me to bring diapers or wipes or pads, etc. for them, along with their pitcher of water, their breakfast tray, and a cup of cranberry juice. ~_~;Well...two hours later, I found myself at a break, so I wandered over to the nursery to watch the nurses make their rounds amongst the 20+ babies lying in bassinets all over the room. One nurse caught my eye, and asked if I was the CCE helping them today. When I told her that I was, she smiled in relief and pointed to a crying baby, asking if I pick up the babies that were crying and rock them until they were either silenced or asleep. I complied heartily!
I must have rocked at least five different babies during my shift. And fed and burped two. And allowed one to suck on my finger. ^^; Everything was just too cute for words. Of course, every now and then, I would run back out into the main halls and bother the PCAs if they needed help. The nurses at the main desk had me discharge 4 of their patients. But, after all said was done, I'd always wander back into the nursery to check if any babies need to be coddled or wrapped or comforted. I finished my shift off making baby hats. ^_^ T'was a good first shift. I'm defenitely going to love working at MBU.
I spent the rest of my day with Anth. :3 He treated me to dinner at The Curry House. I wish I could learn how to make the type of curry sauce they make there. It's really rich and good! I got a hamburger cutlet with curry, and Anth got the beef curry. We sampled each others' entrees throughout the meal, and both were equally yummy! :9 So...if you guys are ever in the mood for curry (not Indian curry, Asian curry...there's a big difference!), and happen to be around Irvine, I suggest dropping by The Curry House! You won't be sorry.
And, no, I'm not being paid for advertising this on my blog. :p
Afterwards, we dropped by Mrs. Field's next door for dessert, and then headed off to the Edward's Cinema at Michelson for the 7:35pm showing of Hitch. Really cute and hilarious movie! Will Smith was awesome, as usual. ;)
Hung out at Anth's apartment after the movie and napped a bit on the couch while he played on the PS2. His roommate, Chen, came back from work, too, and gave me a bag of Skittles. :9 Hehe. I left around midnight to go back to my apartment. Silpa was gone, off to a party, so I went to sleep alone that night. I woke up at 9am the next morning (today) the the sound of Silpa's fan and the sight of Silpa's sleeping figure on her bed. I didn't even hear her come in...shows how tired I was that night. ^_^;
Anth and I went to church that morning, ate brunch at Denny's, and now I'm back at my apartment, having just finished my Physics lab webwork and writeup. And now I'm about to eat dinner. :)
I'm sore everywhere and I have no idea why. lol.
Saturday, February 12, 2005 »
[12:00 am] ::: No, your eyes do not deceive you, for it is indeed a new layout that you see. This is my first HTML/CSS layout (and my first time coding in CSS), and I must say that I'm rather pleased with how it turned out. Sure it took me at least 10 hours to do all the coding and graphics editing for this sucker, but it was well worth it.I do still have my work cut out for me, though. I have to do something about the massive list of links underneath the "Readables" section, and I need to update some of the sections that haven't been touched in over a year *cough*photo section*hack*. My immediate concern, however, is that the site in general: I do hope that this layout works out for you all. If, for any reason, you're getting script errors, or the design looks funky on a different resolution, or just whatever, please leave a comment on the tagboard or e-mail me, and I'll try to fix it asap.
On a totally different note, I had a rather unpleasant conversation with my mom just this evening. It didn't even have to do with me, but it was still quite unpleasant. Part of it has to do with the fact that whenever my parents fight, my mom tries to get chummy with me. She and I have never gotten along very well, and I hate it when she starts being nice to me just to try to lure me to her side. Why can't she just be nice all the time? I'm like a friggin' pawn in whatever game/argument she and my dad are playing.
Today's topic was about Jen. Guess my mom wasn't too happy about Jen's grades this semester. Supposedly, both of them got into an argument last night (I'm imagining a screaming battle), with my mom throwing such phrases to Jen as, "What is wrong with you? Why can't you be like your sisters?" and "You're nothing like your sisters--they got good grades, and you aren't. Why are you so lazy?"
Uh huh. Way to rub it in. Let's encourage Jen to study more by telling her how dumb she is compared to her sisters...which she isn't! But of course, you'd never hear that kind of thing from my mom. She...just never seemed to be the encouraging type. Just the criticizing type.
She didn't have to do that, though. I hate it when she uses me like that. My getting good grades does not make me a better person. I'm no better than any of my sisters. If anything, I'm pretty sure that I'm worse.
And while she's gushing all of this to me over the phone, not paying attention to my unhappy silence, she suddenly turns on me and yells at me for not calling Shereen. Talk about mood swing. I was going "wtf?" the whole time. Fortunately, it didn't last for more than a two minutes.
I'm thoroughly pissed off now, so I'm going to bed. Hoag tomorrow at 7am...yay.
Someone make the rain go away.
Friday, February 11, 2005 »
[11:00 am] ::: Daniel didn't come! *grr* Yesterday's assembly didn't go quite as well as the last one. For one thing, neither Dr. Shoup or Dr. Heidbrink came with us. But that wasn't the thing that bothered me. What bothered me was that Daniel didn't come! He didn't even e-mail or call any of us in advance that he wouldn't show up. This mean some last-second substitutions for which the rest of us were responsible for.So what ended up happening was that the three of us drove to Mariners Elementary in Newport, where we rushed to get everything unloaded and set up. It was craazy, mainly because there was only three of us (well, Nick corrects me and says two of us, because Jimmy spent the majority of the time trying to find a parking spot for the van ^^;;) unpacking and setting up. And taking into account the TON of crap we have to unload, unpack, and set up...it was a pretty daunting task.
As for the actual show, we couldn't get the Power Point Presentation to work, neither could we get the singing rod to "sing", neither could we get the glass to break. It was terrible, and yet funny at the same time. ^_^; After the show was over, and the auditorium had emptied out again, Jimmy and I tried to break the glass again with a 161 Hz. square wave, which was 10 Hz over its original frequency. And it still didn't break. *grr* (again)
I guess it wasn't too bad overall, though. The show ran smoother than last time, despite all the things that didn't work. Plus, these 3rd graders were less roudy ^^; although they DID ask a lot more questions, and they were very much more observant than our last bunch.
We returned to Irvine pretty much exhausted, and I met up with Christina on campus for a bit that afternoon. Afterwards, met up with Anth, where we walked for a bit around Ring Road, surveying the stalls that were set up for the Vendor Fair. He then went to class, and I spent the majority of the afternoon in the library, studying chem. And then, once it hit 7pm, Anth and I met up again for Anime Club, where we stayed until ~9pm.
And that was my whole day yesterday in a nut shell. It started raining around close to midnite, and it's still raining now even as I type. I hope it stops by the weekend. :x
Gyah, that reminds me...I have to drop off my timesheets this afternoon. x_x; Buu, more errands.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ERIC LEE! You're legal now...I don't know if I should be scared or not. Haha, j/k ;)
Man, I'm getting old. :(
Wednesday, February 9, 2005 »
[10:41 pm] ::: ...well, that was interesting...yes...very interesting... *goes off to ponder in her little corner*I'm off to Newport tomorrow for Assemblies. Here's hoping it goes well.
Tuesday, February 8, 2005 »
[8:39 pm] ::: I AM SO FRIGGIN' ANNOYED AND PISSED OFF RIGHT NOW!And I don't know why.
DAMMIT.
Sunday, February 6, 2005 »
[9:22 pm] ::: Last week was long. Incredibly so. It was midterms, Assemblies, quizzes, Hoag, and CSUCI events all mashed up into 5 days of torture. Even now as I write, I'm trying to place the memories of last week into the furthest recesses of my mind. ...No, just kidding. In all honesty, though, I would have enjoyed the week much more if not for the midterm.I had my first day of "work" last Thursday, although I wouldn't really call it work. :) I recall waking up 6am that morning just so I could have enough time to walk to campus and be at PSLH by 7am. I arrived at the same time Daniel did, and we both waited for Nick to pick us up. We both didn't wait long. Nick and Jimmy came driving up, and we packed to go. We stalled for maybe 20 minutes to wait for Professor Shoup, but when he didn't show up, we proceeded with the drive to Santa Anna toward Franklin Elementary.
We found the school with little trouble and proceeded with the unpacking of all the stuff we'd be using. And it was HEAVY stuff. For the first time since I learned my group assignment, I was happy to be in a group that consisted of all guys (well, except for me, of course :P). The unpacking proved to be daunting, but we eventually got everything out of the van and into the small auditorium. Prof. Shoup walked in just as we were setting up all the equipment (speakers and everything), and he helped us set up for all our demonstrations. It was just as well, too, because the principal walked in at that moment to tell us that 150 3rd graders would be filling the seats in less than 10 minutes. This brought us all into a slight state of panic as we rushed to get everything working at the last minute.
I thought that I would be nervous beyond belief to be standing in front so many 3rd graders and talking, but I wasn't nervous at all. Everything came naturally to me, from the moment I opened my mouth to introduce myself: "Hello, my name is Michelle, and I study Biology at UC Irvine. I'll be teaching you about Frequency today." Prof. Shoup intervened after all the introductions to ask us what we wanted to be when we grew up. Jimmy, Nick, and I exchanged glances (us all being biology majors) and almost laughingly admitted simultaneously, "We want to be Doctors," to which all the kids responded with "Ooooohhh"s. ^__^;
The rest of the two hours was almost a blur. Prof. Shoup spoke to me 5 minutes before my presentation and asked me to show the kids how to calculate frequency from a line graph. After seeing the graph (imagine a multiple sine-wave graph...yeah), I argued with him that perhaps the graph may prove to be far too advanced for the kids to understand. However, with just 5 minutes before the show, I could do little else to convince him to drop it from the show.
When it came time for me to present the graph, I did all I could to simplify everything. I asked for a show of hands for people who had ever seen a graph before. I counted the curves with them, holding fingers up with my hand while pointing with the other. I introduced the Frequency formula F=V/T to them, jokingly telling them how scientists are too lazy to spell out the words, so they just use the first letter of each word in the formula. Then, after all that, I told them to calculate the frequency of the graph with me: I held up 4 fingers and told them to divide by my two fingers. They all shouted with glee: "Two!" and I let out a breath of relief. From the corner of the stage floor, Prof. Shoup smiled at me and gave me a thumbs up. I continued with my presentation by showing them an even harder Frequency graph, telling them to give me the frequency value. It took a few minutes, but they finally came up with the universal--and also correct--answer of five.
Third graders are so eager to ask questions about everything--I wish I had their enthusiasm with my own studies. ^_^; When I showed them a microphone connected to an oscilloscope, they inundated me with all sorts of questions, which I promptly threw back at them. I had them scream at the microphones to see what kind of waves it would produce on the Oscilloscope, and asked them why it made huge waves. After that, the kids took the experiment on their own terms, whispering at the microphone, making high screeches, or low moans, and seeing the kinds of waves they could produce. They were absolutely ecstatic about everything!
When the show ended two hours later, I was packing up the projector when a group of about 3 girls and 2 boys shyly crept up to me. Before I could greet them, they all belted out a simultaneous "Thank you for coming!" and ran away, pushing against each other playfully as they rushed out the door. That was probably the one thing that made my whole day, if not my whole week.
Forgive me if I've ranted about this for the past 4 paragraphs or so. ^_^; I really like being a part of FOCUS, now that I've actually gotten my feet wet. I can't wait for the next assembly (coming up this Thursday).
I had Hoag the moment I came back from Assemblies, so I had to rush to Newport the moment I arrived at the apartment. I was absolutely dead on my feet by the time my shift ended, but somehow managed to continue my Immuno studyage all through the night and into the next morning, when I trudged to campus to finally take said midterm. I must say, however...the midterm wasn't bad at all. :) And considering that I'm at a B+ after my report on the three articles I had to read two weeks before, I think I'll be all right.
I hope I never go through another week like that. Ugh. I put all my events with Christian Students on hold just to get all my studying and crap done--and I'm sure they must all be annoyed with me by now, haha. :) Well, I hope they aren't too mad.
I'm still waiting on the interview for admin position at Hoag...hoping it still goes through. Also, I just realized...Nick is in every single one of my classes this quarter (well, except chem). I remember turning in my midterm Friday, and Nick behind me, murmuring, "Didn't know you were taking Immuno..."
Haha, and now I'm just spitting out randomness. I'm sorry. I'll spare you any more meaningless gibberish, my readers. :)
Just for the record, though--Anth kept me sane this whole week, and for that I owe him...my sanity. lol. Kidding. Thank you for keeping an open shoulder for me. ¢¾ you, ne. Haiiiii! :3
And before I forget, Happy Superbowl Sunday, everyone! Who watched the big game? I certainly didn't. :p
Good night, my readers~
Tuesday, February 1, 2005 »
[5:17 pm] ::: To commemorate the first day of this month, here's a survey for you all to enjoy and pass around your own blogs. Haven't done these in a really really long time. ^_^
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TEN RANDOM THINGS ABOUT ME:
10. I have a purple beta fish named Periwinkle--Peri for short. I spoil him rotten. :)
9. Curry is one of my new favorite foods...thanks to my roomie, who loves to feed it to me.
8. Doing surveys is a good way to avoid having to study for Bio midterms. ^^;
7. I wish my hair were permanently straightened.
6. I've been out of the country only ONCE, and have never been off the continent.
5. I know more Japanese than I do Spanish, even after taking 3 years of Spanish in HS. ~_~;
4. Cows are my favorite animals.
3. I used to eat bugs when I was little. Legos were yummy then, too.
2. I want to study abroad.
1. I've never eaten at Arby's. (gasp)
NINE PLACES I'VE VISITED:
9. Canada
8. Utah
7. New York
6. Nevada
5. Pennsylvania
4. Washington state
3. Washington D.C.
2. Oregon
1. does California count? ^^;
EIGHT THINGS I WANT TO DO BEFORE I DIE:
8. Fly across the [insert ocean here] to [insert any country here].
7. Write a best-selling book
6. Go to all of my friends' weddings
5. Participate in a Civil War battle re-enactment
4. Milk a cow. And then keep one for my own. ^^
3. Meet all my online friends for real
2. Take a coast-to-coast road trip (me too, reen! can i come with u?)
1. Help save someone's life
SEVEN WAYS TO WIN MY HEART:
7. Kindness--to others, to everyone. and to yourself.
6. As Reen said: Laugh easily, laugh a lot, and be able to make me laugh, as well.
5. Be both a good listener and talker, and learn to become either one or the other at appropriate times.
4. Be open. Be sincere. Stay true. Always have faith.
3. Have a good relationship with your family, and with mine, as well.
2. Cook for me! ^_^;; They say that the way through a man's heart is through his stomach--but it can be the same for girls, right? :D I promise that I will forever treasure the meals you prepare for me as long as they are made honestly with your own hands xD
1. I'm a sucker for flowers, chocolate, and romantic candle-lit dinners on the beach. ^_~;
SIX THINGS I BELIEVE IN:
6. God, and the richness and truth in his Word.
5. that we are capable of and can accomplish anything and everything through Him.
4. People. My family. My Friends. Anth.
3. that energy can neither be created, nor destroyed, only conserved
2. gravity (sorry, physics on the brain)
1. the power of words, written and/or spoken.
FIVE THINGS I'M AFRAID OF:
5. Rejection
4. Losing somebody I love
3. Dark closets
2. Polics cars
1. Missing a final/midterm because I slept through my alarm
FOUR SONGS ON MY MIND:
4. Kelly Clarkson - "Breakaway"
3. Myleene Klass - "Now We Are Free"
2. Shin Seung Hun - "I Believe"
1. Lia - "Tori no Shi"
THREE THINGS I TOUCH EVERYDAY:
3. my keyboard
2. my pillow
1. my Immunology textbook
TWO THINGS I AM TRYING NOT TO DO RIGHT NOW:
2. study for my Immuno midterm, haha
1. get on AIM
ONE PERSON I WANT TO SEE RIGHT NOW:
1. my sisters! (err...do they count as one person?)
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...down with midterms! >O