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i wonder if it's common practice for other blogs to randomly change their blog names once in a short while. because i did it first and then connie did it and we both do it now to a ridiculous degree. so i'll just go rename my blog now again.
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Friday, August 31, 2001
i'm in japan! okay, so it's not that exciting, at least not yet. it's around eleven in the morning, i'm about to go to some japanese restaurant for brunch, i'm going to go many places today hopefully, i want to get free posters, i want to see huge metropolis-ey areas, i want to find cool japanese high tech things. i can't believe i went to high tech for a year. anyway, non sequitur. that reminds me of how mrs. hart -- at high tech, my english teacher freshman year, mr. hart's wife -- called me the "king of non sequiturs". apparently, i would just raise my hand and say random things to her and the whole class. but i didn't do that at holmdel. high tech was a place where you could say anything you liked. and the other people wouldn't care because they would be doing something strange too. it was a strange place. okay, i really wish i went to summer camp. i just read this e-mail from allison -- however short and pointless it was -- and she kind of described camp and a little little bit of the talent show and then i saw pictures from ellie's site. i really like maybe one or two of the pictures. did you use a digital camera? okay, i'll ask you some other time. and it's time for me to go. i can't believe i missed summer camp. it's like four years ago, when i missed it because of the same reason. taiwan was hot and humid.
welcome back, caitlin! hehe, i'm glad you had fun in upstate new york with your family and all those kids. and i don't want to go back to school either. uuuuuunnnnnnggggggghhhhhh. i'm already starting to feel it.. the lack of sleep.. the loads of homework.. yeah. we're juniors. we'll be able to handle it. we're TOUGH. haha.. =)
i just came back from a friend's house.. we filmed another "field hockey video." well, i guess it's a field hockey video because all the people making it play field hockey. but it really had no relation to the sport. haha.. it was so weird. somehow, ashley coppola became an abusive boyfriend named ashley angel parker [yes, the one from "making the band"] and deidre gorman was the abused girlfriend. and carly was the concerned friend, concerned guidance counselor, and concerned mother. she was very concerned. well, long story short, deidre's character ends up dead from too many crunches. hahahaha.. wow. it was so messed up. in a funny way, though. hahahaha.. :o) okay, i'm off to do something else now. hee hee.. bye! :)
hi!!! i'm back! anyway, i was in upstate new york with my family and all these kids i hang out with up there every year. it was so fun! i wish we could just hang out with our friends all the time with no parents telling us what to do and no real work to do either. although it does get kind of boring sometimes. but it's really fun usually. okay, hmmm.. so what did i exactly do up there? i ran a lot.. that's basically it. we just hung out all day and played cards and did climbing walls and stuff. i really don't want to go back to school.. i really really really don't want to..
Thursday, August 30, 2001
ok, so sorry about that last blog. i...had to leave. quite abruptly. so, yes.
how come i can never come up with really smart and stupid creative blog titles? i must go and think of one. sorry, derek, for this short and pointless blog. i'll make it up some other time.
hmm. no one is blogging on my blog, so i think i will blog on derek's. i'm eagerly awaiting my schedule for school this year. i probably won't get it until monday. phoo.
Tuesday, August 28, 2001
mmm.. finest sliced pineapples i've ever had.
ah, anyways. camp was very fun. i don't think i've ever been around more bugs in my life, though. ew. ugh. ick. just thinking about them gives me the shivers. that dragonfly was huge. and those daddy-long-legs. and those moths. and that cockroach-ish thing. AHH!! i can't help it. ::shivers:: okay, let's not think about those bugs. the rest of the camp was very fun, as i said before. the talent show was the best! appoh!!! [ ever see rush hour 2? ;) ] hmm.. and the speaker was hilarious in a corny sort of way. haha.. =) so i've found one article that might work for that stupid 1984 assignment. ONE. how sad.. i'm sad. :( i think i'm being too picky. *sigh* all the college people are leaving. i told my mom that it was sad, and she was like, "well, that's how it is." hm. well, the fact that it's sad is how it is too. i can't believe we (the juniors) only have two more years. and the seniors only have one. we must cherish these times together... [cue sappy music].. hehe. i want to stay young forever. Monday, August 27, 2001
we just got back from summer camp (ok like ... two hours ago now) ... i'm pretty hungry. oh wow my parents just pulled in with my food. anyway, it was good. i liked it. my last summer camp ... so odd.
sorry i haven't blogged in a while, i've been running around or something, i don't know. yeah, i'm leaving friday, i'm going to probably pack like everything on thursday, heehee. oops, this was crappy, but i'm going to go eat now. my new site is up ... it's at http://pantheon.yale.edu/~elc23/ or http://rentedspace.cjb.net. Sunday, August 26, 2001
oh hm. no one blogged since last time i blogged. at least .. not really anything that resembles a real blog. which i don't know exactly what is. anyway, um .. so i'm here listening to "bye bye bye" on winamp at my friend jean's house in hsinchu still and using her computer. taiwan people have this thing about using some kind of bbs telnet thing to chat with each other. and they have these weird song dedication things .. except you don't hear the song, you just read the lyrics and it says "from so-and-so to whoever". so that's kind of weird. i still haven't found the videos i want to record on mtv chinese. they keep playing the extremely poppy or hip-hop or rap or american videos .. which are really annoying. there's some new french three-guy boy band group called "2be3" .. they don't seem as bad as the other ones. and they were breakdancing in this interview thing -- it was amusing. they have a song called "even if". tell me how it sounds.
Saturday, August 25, 2001
hey i read watership down for my optional haha. i figured they'd like it if i read something from the list... hey you guys, give me the links to your websites if you want me to link you from my site... mine is still under construction, but i thought i might as well do that part now... hehe
what the heck are dave wei blogs. anyway, okay .. now i'm in hsinchu with a computer that actually connects pretty quickly to everything. i did chinese school camp last year .. and cullen's sister is a monster. okay, not really a monster. she's like some kind of little chinese girl mafia ringleader, and whoever she starts chasing and grabbing onto, her minions attack too. so during lunch for a few days, she and her little gang would sneak up behind me somehow and then latch onto my limbs. as in, arms and legs. and one of them would try to grab my head. okay, i'm going to blog later. watership down is not required reading, what are you talking about. what's "seasons in the sun"? yes, valen hsu reminded me of van halen too the first time i heard it. actually, i probably read it. my aunt asked me if i wanted her to take me to get a haircut and maybe get my hair highlighted or whatever .. except i have not very much hair right now. i kind of want to grow it a little bit longer. like a fob. maybe i can get my mom to take me to find glasses for me again. i'll find the artsy cool type this time .. but then again, i might not get the chance to, so. oh, i found a twenty-year-old guitar on the third floor of my grandparents' house. it was dirty.
Friday, August 24, 2001
so uh, hi everyone. i haven't blogged for about a month, due to my incredibly frenetic and peripatetic schedule with princeton review, tennis, work, xc, and chinese camp. so gee, um being a TA at chinese camp was fun, and i think i had Cullen's sister in my class of supposed third-graders, and she and her accomplice friend kept chasing me and pulling at my shirt and asking me where Sheila was. and i got yelled at for rolling around the halls in one of those wheelie chairs. oh and i saw Dave Wei from the Dave Wei blogs there! and he was showing off his Chinese top skills.
hey, i'm going away for a week tomorrow too, caitlin. i'm going to maine so i'm probably going to run around in the woods and get lost. then i'll sit down next to a tree and do SAT problems and summer reading. and then i'll start a game of Weakest Link like we did in princeton review today, and i'll make everyone vote me off in the beginning so i can get back to the hotel quickly and take a shower and not get sick. does anybody know if Watership Down is required reading?
aw shucks...new guitar shopping today = unsuccessful. no place i went to has the guitar(s) i would like to get. but i did get to play around with lots and lots of very very nice and expensive guitars that i would never be able to buy and then i...put them back. =)
hahaha...i thought of "bye bye birdie" too. hehe...can anyone imagine a chinese conrad? and...i would be ok with a rent movie as long as they had at least SOME of the cast members in it. justin timberlake = a nasal-y too much falsetto using guy. hehe.. and he should grow back his afro. it was cool!! ...ok anyway. do you know what song bothers me? "seasons in the sun". something about it is just...too too happy. no matter what version you hear. although the punk version isn't too bad. gosh it gets on my nerves. ok that was random! i think i'll just leave now. this = the second pointless blog today.
haha, stephanie, i saw you today!! it was kind of scary. i showed up at field hockey practice since i was taking carly to the beach and all of a sudden there were all these voices going, "hi caitlin!" i was like, yikes, holmdel people overload. it's weird when you've hung out with like 4 people all summer to suddenly see a bunch of your school friends again. anyway, it was nice to see you steph :)
and hmm, that chinese punk band sounds so funny!! for some reason, derek, i just started laughing out loud when i read the part about them breaking up to join the army.. hahahaha does anyone else find it funny? it's soo.. conrad birdy. but the punk version. hahaha. and derek, the first paragraph of my blog was lyrics to "light my candle" from rent. you should see it some time. you all really should. although i think most of you have. ACK, but michelle told me the other day that they might cast justin timberlake as mark or roger in the rent movie!!! i almost threw up when i heard that. no offense to you nsyncers. haha, justin is so NOT mark or roger. especially mark. and why are they making a rent movie anyway? stupid corporate america, always trying to squeeze the extra dollar out of anything good. yeah, that thing about the tape on your glasses is funny too. what kind of tape? and don't you think it's weird.. that you're IN taiwan, and you're like, "oh, i want serious glasses, maybe i'll get some the next time i'm in taiwan.." just get them now, since you ARE in that neck of the woods. and i'm going away for a week tomorrow so i better get packing as well..
hello everyone. i really have nothing to say. not that i ever have anything interesting to say. hah! i'll just blog anyway. :o)
ellen, you got your hair highlighted!? that's so cool! i can't wait to see it. this summer has been the summer of hair. except... not my hair. but lots of other people's hair. haha.. =) hey, you should leave "scoop" on your glasses.. don't cover it up. it'll be a nice conversational piece.. you know, people'll ask you why you have "scoop" written on the side of your idiot glasses and you can tell them your story. not that you have a story... but i'm sure you can make one up. and make it interesting. :) summer camp tomorrow! yay! i have to get packing..
the name valen hsu reminds me of...van halen. i think i've said that before..? but hey, if you don't know who she is, it's not too much of a loss. i...don't like chinese music much. especially the poppy stuff...however i've never heard any other type of chinese music. hm...i don't have much to blog about. i have weird tan lines now from tennis -- sleeve tan(wehn you roll up sleeves), collar tan, sock tan, watch tan, sports bra tan...i'm striped now. =) oh, and i got my hair hightlighted (!!) so my hair is...striped too. sorta. *shrug* ok. i'm out. (sorry, this blog was totally and incredibly pointless.) oh, i go new guitar shopping today!!! i'm very excited. =)
my modem at home is 28.8. ALWAYS. so STOP COMPLAINING.
that word looks really weird. especially in all caps. COMPLAINING. complaining. is it a word at all? the more i look at it, the less of a word it looks to be. and i still don't know who valen hsu is=( yes! i'll give my one week notice today=)
hi. i'm now in uh, chiayi .. i really don't like this city. there's only two main roads that have really anything on them, and the rest is really like a country dumpy dirty kind of place. there's garbage all over the place, it's dusty like anything, i never really understood what that phrase meant, tobacco stains are all over the street, it smells like something rotten everywhere. anyway, caitlin .. what was with your first paragraph of that blog? i don't get it. and if i do go back to pratt in the spring to take some kind of class, it'll probably be the architecture classes -- the class where you learn and the class where they give you time to work on your stuff. like architectural studio or whatever they call it. anyway, i did get glasses .. but i picked out a pair of fob glasses that make me look really nerdy. and they said "scoop" on the sides, so i decided i would cover it with tape. haha, you'll probably laugh when you see them .. they'll be my "i'm an idiot" glasses. i'll get some real artsy glasses later. probably next year when i come back to taiwan .. because they're really cheap here to get. like my idiot pair was only around eight hundred nt .. which is what, maybe a little over twenty dollars. that's including the lenses too. i know .. wow, right? maybe i can convince my mom to take me back next week to find a pair of more serious glasses. but i probably don't think so. mm. so who went to the concert? it was what, matchbox twenty and seven mary three and train? i only have the first cd from matchbox twenty and then i only know "wait" by seven mary three and two-three songs by train. i want to go to a concert. tonight's the mtv video music awards in taipei. i wanted to go. i think it was free admission too .. isn't that cool? all the chinese popstars are going to be there, and some from europe too. oh well. i bought a lot of cds. caitlin, there's this chinese a little punky band called "mayday" -- in chinese it's translated to "wu yue tian", isn't that cool -- and i bought two of their cds. they've just broken up because they have to go join the army .. the whole taiwan thing with all boys required to be drafted into the army for a year. or is it two years. anyway, even the president went to their last concert. i'll let you borrow the cd sometime, if you want. haha, they have a song called "okay la". i've bought way too many cds. and i'm not done yet. and i want to record chinese music videos. i got a bunch of music video vcds. mm hm. i'm probably going to hsinchu tomorrow, and maybe i'll be online again. right now i'm at my mom's friend's house .. on a twenty-eight point eight modem. gah.
Thursday, August 23, 2001
i'm so tired. and i'm only blogging so i can put off going back to those darned magazines. stupid assignment. it's really taking too much brain power. and i'm so tired. . .
hm, anywho. i saw 'the wedding planner' last night and 'rat race' this afternoon. 'the wedding planner' was okay.. i don't think it was put together very well. and jennifer lopez and matthew mcCoughnehy (yeah, that's definitely not it..) didn't have much chemistry. i liked the italian guy! she should have gone with the italian guy! hehe, yes. oh, and 'rat race' was pretty funny. it wasn't "really good" .. but it wasn't just okay either. i guess you could say it was.. really okay. haha, that makes no sense. oh well.. bottom line, it was a funny movie. now, 'american pie 2'; that is a hilarious movie. oh man.. very profane and very funny. hahaha.. =) i saw a trailer for this movie called 'zoolander' and it looks very, very funny. it's a ben stiller movie and he plays this male supermodel named derek zoolander who must save the world by getting rid of the conspiracy in which male supermodels are unwittingly used as assassins. hahahahahahaha.. it looks so funny. either that or incredibly dumb, but i prefer the idea that it looks funny. :o) poo. i guess i'll have to go back to finding articles now. or maybe i'll take a nap and procrastinate even more.. (insert manical laughter) okay, bye! :) Wednesday, August 22, 2001
man i still have to do 2 articles... why did i check this blog twice in one day? hmmmmmm i have no life, yes that must be it. derek, sorry about my short blogs, i don't have that much to say, i'm a boring person ;)
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i feel jealous. :( i really wanted to go, too. bleeeeeeh. i think the lead singer to train is pat monahan.. or something like that. he's really cute, but he's got some funky stuff on his face. like this scar by his.. chin? i don't remember. but facial imperfections like that can sometimes be attractive. haha.. i've never seen the seven mary three guy. and, of course, rob thomas has always been really cool and hot. it's funny how opposite words are both positive in the slang meaning. anywho.. i agree about the 'singing/piano/guitar/goofy guy = cute guy' thing, too. hahaha.. i guess guys like that hold a certain appeal for girls. =o) hum. i need to write a summary for 'a prayer for owen meany' (good book!).. i guess i'll go do that now. Tuesday, August 21, 2001
!!!!!!!!!!!! the concert was totally completely absolutely AWESOME!!!!!! I love Rob Thomas. Something about a guy that can sing and play piano and guitar and hop around the stage rediculously is so hot lol- and Seven Mary Three and Train were good too, both the lead singers were hot! The lead for Train (Pat?) was really cute, kinda John Stamosy and he did this really stupid thing where he opened his arms and stood on one leg to simulate flying or something, whatever but it was still cute. yes, so now I'm gonna go blow 50 bucks and buy everyone's CDs. Matchbox did every single song i love, it was so cool- but the ppl in front of us...one groups of girls were like feeling each other up and slapping each others' asses and these two girls on the left of me got wasted, one was practically passed out on the floor and the other one was butt-dancing all over the place until she passed out too. But yea, it was still a really really good concert. I would give anyhting to be one of those ppl up on the first row who got to touch Rob Thomas's hands (insert girly scream) oh well, off to another physically numbing torturous practice tomorrow...
hey, michelle branch is a halfie? hehe, that's pretty cool.. i really like that song, too. yup =)
i hurt. and i cannot walk. well, i can, but with very small steps. how sad. =( hum, anywho. my mom finally let me drive out of the neighborhood. i drove to the holmdel towne center (or do they spell it 'centre'?), to the khol's plaza (it still feels like it should be caldor..) and back home. and to the school this morning.. and back home. oh yeah, it's quite exciting.. haha. every time i do something [almost] dangerous, she gets all uptight and starts yelling at me and i get all uptight and start yelling at her. and then i go and do something almost dangerous again and the cycle continues. *sigh* i hope she stops yelling. or i get better at driving. haha, whichever comes first.. it's all good to me. i want to see rat race! and jay and silent bob strike back! (although i should probably watch clerks or another one of kevin smith's films so i can get the jokes..) and.. yeah, there are probably other movies i want to see, but i can't remember. oh well. ooh, and i want those corduroys from the gap. (is that how you spell it? that word never made much sense to me.) Monday, August 20, 2001
hm......i haven't been here for a while.....so anways...whats is new......hmm......o i'm listening to some song by michelle branch. its called everywhere. i saw the video too. she's like half asian and half... something else. it was on the mtv trl countdown. hmm....i watch mtv too much, but then again i don't even have cable. odd. well its a pretty good song. well i have nothing else to blog about so yea...maybe i should start early on my summer reading =Þ.......laterz
Sunday, August 19, 2001
bah! i had to "show last 100 posts" in order to read all these blogs. bah! :o)
so i got in from california at six o'clock this morning. red-eye flights SUCK. i couldn't sleep and it was really bumpy and there was no food. well, except for this puny little bag of party mix that came with the beverage cart. yeah, so by the time i got to newark, i was about to pass out from hunger and fatigue. and i had a close-to-massive headache from reading too long. when i got home, i ate a hot pocket and a bowl of cereal and went to sleep. my sleeping/eating/living schedule is *really* messed up right now.. i had dinner at four o'clock today. yum. =) california was really fun. although i didn't do much of anything. but we did go to hollywood and santa monica the first day i was there. we went into urban outfitters at santa monica and they had these hilarious tshirts. there was one that said "space disco suckers" and another that said "i love your mullet." and they had this hat that said "howard" and my brother and i tried to convince my uncle howard to buy it. but, alas, he did not. hmm.. yeah, mann's chinese theater is overrated. the area that it's in is really run-down.. we must have seen about ten sex shops. although the whole trip was worth just seeing steven segal's hand and footprints. ;-) i did a lot of hanging out with my cousins. all we really did was watch movies, rent movies, play cards, and go shopping. it was fun though.. this one night we went to my cousin pattie's house and played taboo. i love taboo. remember taboo? haha, what a game. pattie has a new baby.. his name is garett and he's eight months old. he's half jewish, a quarter german, and a quarter chinese. cool, eh? he's SO adorable.. and he wiggles and drools a lot. he's so cute! :o) babies have such soft skin. it's great. ;) i don't want summer to end. but i love the fall. i feel torn. haha.. *sigh* i don't think i'm ready to be a junior yet. hey, derk, you should get weezer glasses! i love his glasses. ;P
what'd you forget? got a light? i know you.. you're.. you're shivering.. it's nothing, they've turned off my heat, and i'm just a little weak on my feet.. would you light my candll-ll-le?
derek, what kind of classes are you taking at pratt this spring? i thought you didn't like it, so why are you going back? oh, and get arty-weezer glasses(!) or not. i have a new favorite band. okay, not favorite - but i'm quickly becoming obsessed with them/him. dashboard confessional. see, it's not really a band - just this one guy on his guitar. but for some reason, he still made a band name instead of just going by his name (chris something). anyway, their/his music's really good - it's like acoustic/emo/soft-core punk. download "again i go unnoticed."
oh guess what. i got that jessica cd for 50 NT. there was this place that sold cds set up on the side of the street. any cd for 50 NT. and i got Max 8 and bsb black and blue with extra tracks on it. but...i messed that one up cuz i got sticky stuff on it, so now the end tracks sounds weird. and actually, jessica is singing in my bedroom right now. on shuffle, of course;)
i stayed in chiayi the whole time i was in taiwan, and the place i stayed (grandparents house) didn't have internet access. but they have computer stores all over the place, and i mean computer stores in the sense that it's a big room with lots of computers that you pay to go on. and so i went there everyday to check email, blog, go on aim express. actually, there was this convenient store about 2 minutes from "my" house and it was 10NT for 30 minutes. which was REALLY good. other places was like, 10 nt for 20 minutes. or 30 nt for an hour. which is the same. but anyway, i went to three different comp stores there, but mostly i stayed in teh convenient store. my cousins took me to this really really big one and we stayed there for two hours while they battled each other over three different computers and i downloaded aim onto my comp and downloaded tetrinet but couldnt' get it working. yeah, i wasted 60 nt that day... ok i'm going to sleep. Saturday, August 18, 2001
and okay, i'm here again at nine-thirty in the morning, but this time i'm at my aunt's house and my two cousins here are a lot more well, nicer than the other ones. the other ones were mean. i bought quite a few cds and other things yesterday, but i already described that in detail on connie's blog, so. go there and read it if you're interested. why you would be, i have no idea. er, what else. i'll be in chiayi tomorrow and for the rest of my life, so i probably won't have internet access there. unless i go to some library or school or somewhere like that. i'll be watching a lot of music videos in chiayi. and doing sit-ups. while my blog slowly dies.
so i've been listening to a lot of light my candle. so...light my candle?
i know this was short...i have to jet. haha ok bye. Friday, August 17, 2001
hi, i'm back. it's almost ten in the morning. which would be ten at night for you guys. that means i'm all the way around the world! anyway, i've been kind of making a list of what i want to buy here in taiwan .. i think it's pretty much just music, vcds of movies and music videos -- i love the music videos here, they're so what's the word, kind of sappy and romantic and not all strange like the ones by american and european artists -- and then i want some clothes and stuffed animals and stationery. fobby things. i'm getting glasses in chiayi. i'm not sure what i want yet, though. fobby. i've been thinking a little bit about college things too. and governor's school next year. it's going to be such a frenzy with people trying to hurt each other and push each other down. but i'm thinking if i don't make it in or i don't go for some reason, i'm going to come to taiwan and study chinese! so i can be really bilingual! so i can live in taiwan! so i can be a vj for channel v or mtv chinese! yeah, okay. all of them seem to be american-born. being shot with a hot glue gun would hurt. you know, like it'd just like totally burn through my skin and it'd be like sticky and dry and like really hard to get out of my hair. i want to take spring classes at pratt.
so it's about 3:20 right now and i'm sitting in front of my computer at work blogging on derek's blog. i put that into a link because everytime i say "derek's blog," i put it into a link. so why stop now? even if i am on derek's blog. so i haven't really done anythign at work all week cuz the boss isn't here. instead, i've been surfing the web, downloading useless messaging things (useless because the firewall blocks everything), and doing my calc summer homework. and it's not even real calc. we learned all this stuff in precalc...though it was actually calc stuff. he teaches us calc in precalc cuz we have the same teacher for both years and why not get a nice one year head start? and the sucky part is that i don't remember this stuff. so i look online for tutorials and examples and whatnot, and i even have my math notebook from last year with me here at work. at least i'm halfway done with my math. i wish i were a quarter done with my english. i really should start reading my books.
so i went to the city on wednesday. that was fun. i hadn't been to the city in several years...and that doesnt' even really count cuz they were for stupid class trips where we're pretty much chained to the teachers and can't go anywhere by ourselves unless it was the bathroom. but wednesday was really fun. i like nyc, it's such a cool place. i wouldnt' mind going there more often. you pratt kids must have had a lot of fun this summer. anybody want to take me again sometime before school starts? =) so we watched rent in ny. and it was GOOD STUFF. the actors/actresses were amazing. i want to be like them. i want to sing like them. *sigh* i want to sing like mimi. hey ellen, now you can go see rent. and then go see it again=)
hi, it's around 10:19 in the morning.. or it is exactly that time.. or it is now.. oh wait, 10:20.. okay anyway.. how are everyone's summers going? yay, back to school time! (some people say that they can't tell when i'm being sarcastic online - to clue all you guys in - that's sarcasm). hmm, so what's new. i went to pratt this summer. yes, i think most of you knew that. and i'm finished with it. and it was fun. oh, and today i'm going to reglue all my (architectural) models together that fell apart and get slide film and photograph them. for my portfolio. and i have to redo some of my drawings and plans on vellum so they will come out better in pictures.
can you believe we're juniors? (that's directed at people who are juniors this year) since like 7th grade i've been fascinated with colleges and getting in and what-not and everyone always told me that i was too young to worry about it but i wanted to, because, you know, it seemed so fun and everything. except now i AM old enough and it doesn't seem that much fun anymore. it seems kind of boring. like, i have this feeling that our entire grade is going to be super-stressed out this year. not to mention really competitive. well, at least it's going to be interesting when the not-so-serious students are all like: dude, did you know we have to take those SAT test-things this year? oh man, and i have to, like, study and sh*t because my mom said colleges like it when you have like, a high gpa or whatever. yeahh, i'm gonna be like, really focused and do my homework sometimes and stuff. okay, i'm going to go check if the hot glue gun is heated up yet. doesn't that sound like a vicious weapon? hot glue gun? ouch. it would be like silly string, except really really hot and really really sticky. that would be a cool weapn. for like a cartoon to have or something. Thursday, August 16, 2001
hi, it's around nine-forty right now in the morning and i'm sitting here at this computer where i was two nights ago, and it was pouring before but now it's stopped. i'm a little not thinking clearly now. uh, i went with my mom to yi-lan, which is this village thing on the northeast coast of taiwan, and there was this incredibly boring "international folk game festival" going on with a lot of chinese people. chinese people are weird. i'll write more about that later. but anyway, i'm going shopping soon .. for music and clothes and maybe magazines for my friend who wants them. so, yes.
all right, hi derek! i just did nothing for like an hour. i guess i did a little html and a little content for my (new) website but really nothing. really. my eyes are closing though.
anyway, just wanted to say, um, hi derek! and hi everybody else! and, where the heck is the summer going to? i'm leaving in fifteen days, fifteen days!, quinze jours (french for two weeks which is odd b/c, as we all know, fifteen days is not really two weeks, but that's what the french do). that's insane! why am i using so many exclamation points? anyway, seriously, i don't know what's going on. fifteen days, i have way too much stuff left to do, or at least it feels that way although i actually don't have *anything* to do. people to say goodbye too, i guess. i don't want to leave! Wednesday, August 15, 2001
well it's good to hear from you, derk. *shudder* i really don't like being on planes for more than...10 hours. i don't know what i would do if i were to go and visit taiwan again. san jose...i remember going there. one of my parent's friends lives there. all i remember is that everything looked the same -- kind of like what you said, all brown and earth tone colors and stuff. really dry. oh well.
today..today. i saw off (that sounds weird) will connie emily etc at the train station; they went to see a matinee of rent. hm, i'm in the mood to watch that now. maybe i'll just listen to the bootlegs. *shrug* after that, i went to michelle's house as part of my father's cheap and ingenious SAT study program. we do an SAT together from that 10 real sat book (in separate books?) and we can help each other out with any problems. after a good few hours of that, we can go play or go out or whatever. well ok so that plan REALLY worked out. i did 2 math problems..and we went to watch a taped episode of gilmore girls, she curled my hair, we belted out songs in her house, and we acted .. like little kids i guess. i love that; it was great. =) hm..i'm listening to over the rhine again. tomorrow they'll be playing an acoustic set in hoboken -- no one wants to go with me to see them!! and shucks, it's still an 18+ show. derk, i'm trying to think of things i can get you to buy for me in taiwan. frightenly enough, i can't think of anything. oh well. note to self: tape the wayne brady show tonight for *ahem* somebody. hehe...=P
wow, no blogs since i left. that's such a nice .. i don't know. feeling, maybe. anyway, so i'm in taiwan in taipei at my mom's friend's house and i was travelling for a really long time before. twenty-four hours somewhere between new jersey and taiwan. we stopped at chicago and san jose -- hm. san jose was really ugly. it was all brown with little clumps of grass everywhere .. well. i'm going to be buying a lot of chinese cds, whee. i bought one an hour or so ago -- it's this japanese guy named yuki something and he's kind of hip-hoppoppy and sings some slow songs, i guess. i saw his music video on the plane. three times, because they kept cycling the programs. and so i'm going to look for the music video too .. does anyone know where to find music videos on vcd? anyway, i was listening to a lot of other cds -- there's somewhat of a list i'm making. it should be fun watching mtv chinese and channel v all day ..
Monday, August 13, 2001
you know what, my cousin can't play piano. at all. she doesn't concentrate or really practice and all she does is play her pieces really fast and slow -- depending on how many notes she has to play in a certain time, if she has a lot of notes, she plays slow, if she has one or two notes, she plays them really quickly -- and she's horrible. i can't stand listening to this. if i had a kid who was playing like this, i would be very angry. oh, and she tried to hide her bag of candy today when i walked by the kitchen. and she tried to hide the two bowls of ice cream she was eating. and she tried to run up the stairs, but somehow halfway ended up doing some kind of crawl up the stairs on her hands and knees. interesting.
yes, so i didn't say anything at all about what happened this morning. my mom took me -- along with my grandma and my cousin -- to this taiwanese lady's house in new brunswick and she cut my hair. it was what, maybe nine in the morning .. we left at around eight-thirty. and it seems like everyone who cuts my hair always enjoys cutting it shorter than i would like. oh well .. it'll grow out. next time i'll tell her i want it long, and maybe she'll not cut it as short. i told her "not too short" -- but apparently that's a matter of opinion. anyway, then my mom and grandma had to get perms and so i told my mom to drop me off at this huge barnes and noble store. haha, it had sofas .. i sat down and read the first two books in the "a series of unfortunate events" um, series. that's kind of a not-so-good sounding sentence because i used the same word twice, but i didn't know what else to call it. anyway, it's kind of like the anti harry potter .. with all the bad things happening to the main characters, who are these orphans. go check it out sometime -- it's by lemony snicket, which is not the guy's real name. and notice the dedications in each of the books .. it's always for someone named beatrice who seems to be a long-lost dead person. um, what else did i do. oh, that store had a really cool music section where you would go up to this little box with headphones and like a telephone keypad and you would punch in a three-digit code for a cd, and then you could listen to the whole cd. there were about four hundred to choose from .. it was pretty cool. and they all loaded right away too. i think it was digital. i was listening to the "swordfish" soundtrack, which is produced by paul oakenfold .. i kind of liked it. i'm always liking electronica but never really getting into it. and then i was listening to some other things -- train, mandy moore, depeche mode, moulin rouge, and so on. okay, i'm going to see if i should start packing ..
oh .. actually, i'm going to be chiayi -- that's how you spell it officially, by the way -- for a week or two. that's where my mom and dad are from .. and then my mom's parents are there, so. i'll be there. &nbps;i'm not going to get my picture taken. actually, i kind of do want my picture taken .. but not like posing for anything. just me doing some normal things i do, walking around, sitting in my room staring at the floor looking for a cd, yes. but i mean .. like candid on the spot whatever i happen to be doing pictures. like that. yes, my list is in alphabetical order .. i'm going to list all the people i can think of for now, and then i'll start writing descriptions. except i don't know how i'm going to write them -- like a profile kind of thing, paragraphs about the person, little phrases .. i don't know. and oh darn, i left my big cardboard-plastic portfolio carrier bag thing at pratt. it's still in the room at the manhattan building, unless someone took it out. gah.
Sunday, August 12, 2001
o.....umm yea i knew that it was in alphabetical order *looking around*.....................duane reade is like a pharmacy store.....its EVERYWHERE! that store is the one i saw the most. and i've never been to taiwan so i can't compare to the 7-11s
norman, i think derek put the people in alphabetical order.
anyway...i haven't been to the city in a REALLY LONG TIME. and the times that i did go...i didn't do much. though i have seen a few shows. ok, two. scarlet pimpernel (al?) and ragtime. both were pretty good. i'm looking forward to seeing another. what's duane reades? is that a store or something? do you see them as often as people see 7 elevens in taiwan?! 1984 was an interesting story. i do'nt even think i read the whole thing tho...i believe i read sparks for the second half of the book...cuz i didn't finish it in time and we were gonna have a "pop quiz" on it that day. and EVERYONE carried around a copy of sparknotes printed off their computer. that's what high school english does to you. *sigh* and i used to be such a good girl -- i used to read the whole book!! by the time we got to great expectations (last book of the year), i read the first 180 pages and sparked out the rest. and did i gigantic full class period presentation on videotape with outline and quiz and discussion and bulletin board...and managed to pull off an A- =) one of my prouder moments. yeah, let's see who's the better slacker. wow. it's in abc order...but i'm actually on the list this time! i was on it the first website, then i wasn't on the second, and now i'm on it again! la dee da for me. that show "dead last" looks so dumb. i just thought i'd comment. hey derek, have fun in taiwan. find lotsa cool vcds and let me borrow them all=) go take fobby pictures=) i went to the place in "jah-yi" by the big "idee" department store. go there and take some fabuloso fobshots and then go shopping at idee. and then there's a "giordano" store right next to it. that place reminds me of gap. it's like...chinese gap. i got a shirt there. and my sister got two pairs of pants...it's a pretty nice store. ok, just clueing you in in some random places in taiwan. you're probably not even gonna be in jah-yi anyway. nevertheless...have fun;) nevertheless? hmm...
oh, and another thing....i look at your page(derek) again and i look at the people section. i'm number 9?! how is that? suddenly i just descend to a lower number, like i'm not important anymore? hehe
so i went to the city today and walked around manhattan for a bit and theres only one conclusion i can draw out of my trip there...........there are duane reades, payless shoes, and starbucks EVERYWHERE!!!!!!
anyway, i just spent a pretty long time looking up articles that fit into the themes on that sheet, the ones that supposedly are from "1984". and in the middle of my search and conversations and word processing, my computer suddenly goes "poof" and the screen goes black. i need a new computer. okay, i'll be back soon.
uh what, "oldest brother"? what does that mean -- you have more siblings? or maybe you mean something else, but that kind of threw me off just now. um, new york was okay .. except we totally missed the market i wanted to go to. and what's really annoying is hearing "i don't care" and "i don't know, you decide" when you ask people where they want to go, because you know that they _do_ want to go somewhere and do something specific. oh, and we missed the bus. and i got on the wrong train. okay .. well, i have to go clean up a few rooms in the house where a lot of my books and magazines and newspapers are lying around, and then i have to go start my summer reading assignment, and i'll have to record some mds for myself to listen to in taiwan. not that i think i'll need them .. mtv chinese, whee!
so we went to the city today. the weather was so gross, let me tell you that. i don't mind a little rain, but it was..humid. and i wore my flip flops, so like the area between my big toe and second toe is a little sore from walking. weird? yeah. we spent most/all of the time in soho, which wasn't bad for me since i've only passed through soho in the past. michelle t and i bought an outfit together (joint custody) -- this gold kinda shimmery tinted dark denim skirt thats kinda...hard to explain and a top to match ($9 at H&M!!). =P hehe...and i bought another denim frayed skirt for myself. oh and i bought a vinyl record as a gift for someone (same used bookstore derek got his grease records).
and then we missed the 8 o clock bus -- derek i apologize again. i'm so so so sorry. you definitely deserve some sort of compensation for all the time you spent sitting around in clothing stores you didn't like, going from shoe store to shoe store looking for that one pair of shoes, walking around with indecisive/directionally retarded girls, and for another unused one way bus ticket. wow, i just realized that you, my friend, are very tolerant. thank you very very much. i think i would still be stuck somewhere in nyc if it weren't for you. but anyway, we ended up having to take the train back home. then we went on the wrong train, so we had to switch at newark. then we got home. whew. so you used to eat whoppers every sunday? every time we're in sparta (northern nj), my dad tells me stories of how every sunday before the church's night service, my family and my god family (is that..what its called?) would go to a burger king to eat a quick dinner. my oldest brother and eugene, then little little guys, would say "cheeseboubou" (ok, ask me and i'll say it out loud..) asking for a cheeseburger. of course, i wasn't born yet, we don't live there or anywhere near there anymore, and today the burger king is gone. it turned into a chinese restaurant, then into roy rogers, and now i think it is currently a wendy's. ok this story had no point whatsoever. but, hey, ok. i think i'll just go to sleep now. =) Friday, August 10, 2001
ahhhh, it's another two sentence short short blog. anyway, okay. i just redid my site colors .. go here and look: derked.tripod.com. it's kind of a burnt orange now. the entrance page is going to change soon .. i just remembered i have two versions for two browsers, and i just whipped that up really quickly. i just said "whipped" -- okay. i'll be back soon.
is there a hope road in holmdel or...middletown or something? i was wondering about that...
i didn't know there was a real hope road, and i think it's a weird band name=)
you're a weird band name. um, kepano green (now broken up) is named after streets. there were two guys in the band, and they each took the name of their street from their hometown, and called themselves "kepano green." i think "hope road" is ok for the people that ... don't know there's an actual hope road.
Thursday, August 09, 2001
"hope road" is actually kind of a weird band name. i don't think i know any band that has a road for their name. like it's always some kind of object or the person's name .. i can't think of anything with a road in it. anyway, okay. i'm going to to go sleep -- maybe i'll say something more tomorrow.
props. i must say, i don't remember ever hearing that before. you're giving me props? anyway, i think i'm a little bit tired .. i'm going to go sleep for a bit. i should probably start summer reading sometime soon. that was a lot of "s" words.
ah..i must give props to derk for the "fifth ave" thing. (yo yo yo props to derk. u mah dawg, wut?!) although, i make it sound better. oh, and wow i'm blogging again. i guess this will be the sixth non-derek feminine blog. hm...ellie you're done with work tomorrow?? congratulations..take me driving in your car. I MEAN...nevermind. =)
hm..i don't have much to say. when i was in eatentown today, i was very surprised to see the chili's up. last time i was there it was ..nothing. so when i passed it, i was like, "woah! new building with giant chili! coooooool *with two thumbs up*" ok, maybe i didn't say that..but something like that. people in the car looked at me funny. oh shoot -- my mom told me to start dinner tonight. i've never really...cooked a meal for more than two people? or actually..just a meal that included my parents. hm...interesting. alright, i'm out.
hey, ... wait a sec ... you made fun of my band name. ... it was pretty funny though.
you know what else is funny? that there have been like five blogs today and they were all girls and none of them were from derek. hm, that's not a funny-ha-ha thing, more of a funny, like, ... hey ... okay ... trailing off into imperceptible mumbling ... NOW. so i've been thinking of new layout ideas at work, and i don't know why b/c i already have one new layout that i'm working on. but i really need to figure out how to make cool graphics, because ... that's ... what i need to do. ALRIGHTY THEN! goodbye.
ellie ur so lucky ur quitting...i wanna stop soooo bad...and technically my work ends on monday cuz i was only signed on for 4 weeks but my boss thinks i'm here for 6 weeks and if i have to stay here 2 more weeks i am literally going to die. She's making me print out all these websites, plus every link that they sites have and if the link has more links inside i have to print out all those. and then she wants me to drawher a diagram of all these sites and links and which one goes to which site and if that site goes back to the original site and yada yada yada. I don't even know how to do this, it's so crazy, and then she wants me to make a whole binder of this so i don't know if i'm supposed to only make a binder on a specific set of websites/links or do i have to do a binder on the whole schpiel which has a buncha categories of websites/links and how do i do that in the first place. want to quit...want to quit...
um, ok you're cool connie. =)
i just came back from the dmv getting my permit. finally...i should've gotten it back in february. oops. =P anyway, so in my car was a girl from my school that i haven't seen since 6th grade (hey, i have a big class) and two girls from holmdel. one of them was annoying. hehe, uh, i didn't say that. my driver person was wearing ufo pants, listening to techno and trance mixes (reminded me of ellie..), and was in her 4th year of brookdale (is that...possible?). all in all it was very interesting. ellie...ok, two gushers isn't all that filling. at the med forum, i took a seminar on body perception and stuff like that. the speaker was...uh, yeah. she was like, "if you're bulemic, you THROW UP your inner feelings of turmoil. if you're anorexic, you KEEP AWAY your inner feelings of turmoil. if you binge eat, you STUFF your inner feelings of turmoil down." hm, ok i don't know why i just thought of that. who's going to summer camp? i think it would be ironic if someone did weezer's "island in the sun" (also theme of camp) for the talent show. *shrug* i picked out the chords and stuff. soo...yes. hehe..does anyone want to do it with me? i want to be a rock star. er, or something like that. i'll start a band called "fifth avenue". hehe, sorry ellie...;)
do you know what the opposite of zenith is? (i actually always thought it was xenith) but anyway, i think the word is nader. if i remember correctly from sophomore year. oh, and another thing i remember, my friend's book (death of a salesman) was the "epitome of dilapidation." yeah, i liked that phrase. it was...catchy.
i think my hair is getting lighter. the dye is fading or something...and now my hair looks all bleachy. i think i'm gonna streak it purple of blue someday. this was totally pointless. i'll come back when i'm dying of boredom.
i am starving. i want food. i just had two gushers but for some odd reason that didn't satisfy me.
anyway ... my last day of work is tomorrow ... YIPPEE!!!!!!!!! oops ... that was a little childish. oh well, it's going to be so great to sleep in, and have time to myself, and get to see people, and go shopping for college, and ... stuff like that. hm ... that doesn't sound too great ... oh well, i'll make it fun. hey derek, is art school over yet? i can come to your house and we can HANG OUT!!! ... ok i'm getting too excited about quitting work. goodbye.  woah lookie at that you can post pictures! Can everyone see that?  ack...you probably can't unless you go to the picture file and then go back and look here at the pics...that didn't make sense. if you wanna know what the pictures were: http://www.geocities.com/doiderduh/hobbes.gif and http://www.geocities.com/doiderduh/calvin.gif already i am reaching the pinnacle of boredom, the zenith of torpor, the....Wednesday, August 08, 2001
so what happened today. well, i already said that i was in brooklyn at the pratt campus in a building which was unbearably hot, and i put all my stuff on the wall. that was boring and stupid. i'm just going to have to take it down tomorrow. i hope i don't get home too late tomorrow -- anyway. i ate lunch at this so-called coffee shop next to the campus .. actually, i just had some fries because i'd eaten a sandwich earlier. what else. oh, there was this girl who somehow kept randomly appearing wherever i was -- it was probably just a weird coincidence -- but she was really pretty .. i was wondering who she looked like, and i think it was maybe claire forlani but with bigger eyes and fuller lips. something like that. it was just strange how i kept seeing this girl maybe four-five times the whole time i was in brooklyn, each time in different places. on the subway ride back, there was this group of kids who were doing dances and acrobatic things in the subway car .. like they were jumping around and doing flips and making human wheels and rolling through the car -- it was amusing. and then this guy comes with a harmonica and plays these two chords over and over again .. i think he was blowing and sucking in, blowing and sucking in. like you expect me to pay money to hear something like that. like in the times square subway station, there's this old asian man with this chinese cello-like instrument who keeps playing "ode to joy" but really disgustingly off-key and with this note wrong every single time that makes it sound so horrible. i think if i grow up and become pretty well-off before i get too old, i'm going to take some kind of instrument -- guitar, keyboard with speakers, harmonica, something -- and go play music in the subway station. that should be fun.
i'm still wondering what michelle does for her job...she's said so much but i still have no clue! =) hehe michelle, i'll send you flowers!!
michelle tai came over today, we watched can't hardly wait, which was your typical chick flick but that's all right. when we were waiting for her mom, we could hear destiny's child at the pnc...all in all it was fun =) nice to finally see people =) anyway, i'm out ~ leaving for IL on saturday mornin! =) whooop dee doo dah. sigh.
so have you actually seen the girl? and where do you work, anyway? okay, i was wondering what the guy and girl are like .. but then you probably haven't seen them anyway, so. i was in brooklyn today in a building without air conditioning, and it must've been a hundred degrees outside. it was horrible. and i hung up all my stupid color diagrams, which are what i have to show for my foundation art class. meanwhile, all the other classes have drawings and paintings and observational things and pencil charcoal paint crayon .. i have color charts made from acrylic paints. i want to take more art classes -- maybe brookdale has some. it doesn't have to be a great teacher, but anything would be better than the one i had. and graphic design, too. i learned nothing .. i could've just assigned myself some mini-projects for fun, and it would turn out the same way. grr, grr. at least i got the chance to take some fonts (shh) from their computer lab .. except only helvetica works, i don't know why. i think it's because i have to get two kinds of files, and then i have to put them together, and i only got one type of file -- should i go back and get them. maybe. mm, we'll see. i'm looking for lubalin graph, officina, avant-garde, and meta.
wow this girl is lucky. there's this whole thing at the receptionist's desk. a basket the size of practically my body if i curl up, and it's full of food or soemthing, and then an even bigger vase of gorgeous orchids and sunflowers and all those nice flowers, and then a whole buncha balloons. honestly. give it to me, not her! i could make u so much happier! lol. alright that's all.
yea, i've been getting a lot of random people messaging me too recently.. the other day some guy filipe started talking to me. so he told me much more about him than i needed to know.. he's 18, brazilian, not born in the usa, plays tennis and soccer pretty good according to him, lives in matawan, thinks 16 is the perfect age (almost pedophile.. eww.. haha)... he sent me his pic and everything, it was kind of strange... i blocked him after awhile though. haha. he lives too close for comfort.
Tuesday, August 07, 2001
okay, so i'm getting a lot of random people messaging me lately. if they start out with "a/s/l", i just block them, and if they have a really ugly font and type really ghetto and ugly, i block them too. anyway, so this girl just imed me, and her font was yellow ten-point verdana on a greenish-blue, and her profile seemed okay, and she didn't say "a/s/l" .. so i just started talking to her. and it's really strange .. let's see, she's from california, she's asian, her parents are from china and taiwan. it's just a little bit weird, i think.
wah, hello again. i was going to go look for my summer reading things, but i fell asleep instead. anyway, the weird things that happened today. um .. let's see. so crystal finally called me yesterday, except i wasn't home, and she left a message with my mom -- and then i called her at her hotel-motel, and she was out, and then i called her again and i guess it was her dad that picked up. he told me to call her at someone's house .. except i was a little hesitant about calling some stranger's house and saying "hi, is crystal there". so i didn't call. i called this morning just as i got on a bus at around rockefeller center and went uptown the wrong way. and she says that she has all this stuff da da da .. maybe we'll meet up. but meanwhile, i was going the wrong way down fifth avenue, because i forgot my map and didn't know where moma was -- moma is an acronym, it's not my mom. museum of modern art. so i finally got back downtown and got to moma just in time. i saw this razor scooter that i kind of wanted to buy .. it's forty dollars down from a hundred! oh, and before on the subway. so it was a really complicated thing to get from the blue a-c-e line to the f train, and i took one of them downtown from forty-second to west fourth and then transferred to an f to go back uptown to around fifty, fifty-third. so the stop before mine going uptown on the f is broadway-lafeyette, which is close to soho and chinatown, and there were so many people. i had to wait for the second one that came, because the first one was packed. i couldn't even step inside the car if i wanted to. and so i got on the next one, and while i was standing close to the door holding onto the vertical pole (icky) in the middle of the car, some asian girl just leans back really hard on the pole and my hand. i mean, she was practically sitting on my arm .. and i said "uh, excuse me". i don't think she understood english, so i pried my arm from between the pole and her body without pushing her away too much -- it was really strange. can't you feel it when you're leaning on someone? when i got on the bus at three today, it was this whole crowd of what, i guess they were construction workers. as in, they were really loud and dirty and stupid-looking .. those kinds of people really annoy me. anyway, the whole bus was full of them, with the exception of maybe six-seven people including me, and the air-conditioning on the bus wasn't working. so you hear all these grown men saying things like "this sucks" and "turn on the f___ing ac" and "i want my ticket back" and "put another fire on the log, why don't you" and "this bus f___ing sucks like f___ da da da da" .. and so on. i really thought these stupid people would get up and start to have some kind of riot. the bus driver seemed to be from some foreign country and kept saying "it does not work, i'm sorry, my friend" and "please, stop complaining, there is no air-conditioning, it does not work" -- and so, mm. what was the point of this blog.
don't worry ellie ur not alone in ur boredom-before i closed my door, faced my chair to the wall, and just took a nap to pass the time, and now i'm actually resorting to doing my SAT homework. it's a sad sad world.
my personal site? you mean that new one green page which has absolutely nothing on it except links on the side and a bunch of nonsense that i wrote at the bottom? that's here: netscape | IE .. but don't go to it because i haven't updated in a while. and i probably won't get the chance to until i come back from taiwan, so. i should go start my summer reading assignments. i read so many books this summer, but then i never did the assignment for my required reading .. i have to look up articles on themes and write some kind of thing for each one. um, yes. weird things happened today .. i'll talk about it later.
derek where's your personal site, i'm making a tour of everyone's i know b/c i am SO BORED I WANT TO DIE and i don't remember yours anymore.
you eat *blogs* for breakfast?
anyway i'm really bored, my job seems to have gone into limbo. not only am i quitting this friday, but i did literally nothing yesterday (i sort of avoided my bosses so they wouldn't give me any work) and today one of my bosses came over and was like, "oh hey, where've you been?" so she gave me some stuff to do but i don't have the right programs on my computer and i have to wait for someone else to give me some information so ... it's not working so far. so i've been working on my (new) website from work, only i can't upload it so i'm just ... not uploading it basically. i'm just fooling around with it. i need more content.
man i am blogging waay too much but anyway, this guy walks into the main receptionist area wearing a red tank and red shorts/boxer types and carrying a vase full of gorgeous roses and a big heart balloon that says "I love you" it's so pretty! i'm not really sure who it was for..(well obviuosly for his girlfriend but i dunno who the person is) but anyway. so yea. i hope one day some guy will do that for me. don't u just feel like swooning?
wow....fascinating title...anyway, if you guys wanna see Matchbox 20/Train at PNC on the 21st, I think i can get 3 more tickets (no that doesn't mean i'm paying for u guys...i'm cheap, remember) which are 37 bucks each and if you get it from me u can save 3 bucks from shipping and handling (yay!) so just email me and tell me if you wanna go but you have to be absolutely positive you can go, i don't wanna get stuck with an extra ticket- the concert starts at 7 and i'm assuming goes until 11 but we might go there an hour or two early to get good seats and maybe we'll have a picnic there or something (unless they don't allow us in that early, does anyone know?)
Monday, August 06, 2001
wapah. last time i was in taiwan, i was in my aunt's high-rise apartment on the tenth story and they have this little balcony outside with a glass door .. so i hear this "whump" sound. and there's this big crow thing laying on the balcony. it was a little weird. there was a school next to the apartment building, and i would take water balloons and throw them down at the students in the playground -- that was amusing. or wait, maybe it was something else. paper airplanes, maybe. or something, i don't remember. i wonder what's going to be playing on the airplane.
ah, the woes of hemming pants. ;) just kidding. hm, its been a while since i blogged. oh well. lately i've been trying to sing gospel...um, yes. michelle t, connie, and i have a killer rendition of "lean on me" that we kind of throw out of whack..cool, eh?? you guys will hear it if you go to summer camp. we're silly. oh, and i also started a "new guitar for ellen fund"...no, i don't mean i have other people donating money..hehe. but hm, now that i have reached a pretty good number, i'm wondering whether to spend it all now on a good MD player/recorder or...wait for more money for a good guitar. ah, the woes of such tough tough important decisions.
aiyo, caller 99 for matchbox 20/train tickets?? i think seven mary three is there too. but...what?! wow, that's close man. this thursday there's an over the rhine show in hoboken (acoustic set!!) at this place called maxwell's...i want to go so badly!! its an 18+ show though. i wonder if i flash em my...high school id really quickly they won't notice. hahaha. i wish i could go...oh poop. ok, i think i'm going to leave now. wow, i woke up late today...
oh my goodness ... that's traumatic. i hope i never see a bird fly into a window.
anyway ... this is my last week of work! i'm quitting on friday! :-) oh, and, "does anyone like candies sandals," ... derek, i don't even know what to say to that. hmph. i'm never going to see you again after sunday.
this tiny little bird just flew into my boss's office window...it just...there was a little bang and when i turned around a bird was fluttering on the floor near the window and then it dropped off the ledge into the bushes below...it's only like 6 iches down but for a few minutes it kinda layed sprawled out in the bush and i could see it's heart beatingand i really wanted to go out and help it but i think ppl might then i'm weird when they see some random girl bent over in the middle of like a 50 sq ft field of brush...besides the bird might try to peck my arm off or something. but now it's upright and looking around, just not moving. are birds supposed to have their mouths hang open like that? hmmm...i hope it can fly away!
oh freak ok this is the second time my blog disappeared!!! and i wrote a lot too!!!ok let me summarize. i want to see rush hour 2. it got the biggest opening ever for a comedy. i don't know when i get off work. i bought a pair of pants and spend the day hemming slits in the side so it wouldn't bunch up over my shoes and look bad. they are still too long on me so now i have to go back and take in 1 or 2 inches. i need a sewing machine. ok that's about it, but u know, it just doesn't give off the same emotional effect that my first blog did.
Sunday, August 05, 2001
hey michelle, when do you get off work? i've been trying to figure where you were lately...hmph i guess i just forgot you were working and all....anyway, when do you get off work?
(this is turning out to be completely random) rush hour 2 was really funny...now i want to see rush hour one. okay, byebye!
mm, i just remembered today. does anyone like candies sandals? i was looking in this ten-dollar shoe bin the other day -- it was wednesday or thursday, i don't remember -- and over to the side beneath a few shoes was this pair of really nice platform sandals. i don't think i know how to describe it .. but they had these wooden or plasticky-wood platforms in the back and then it seemed to be this black leather piece over the top where you put your feet in. i was thinking "hm, what a nice pair of sandals for ten dollars" but i couldn't really um, buy them. and it wasn't like i wanted to. maybe i'll see if sheila or caitlin want to go see if they're still there.
arghish...caller 99 for train/matchbox 20 tickets and a chance for VIP/backstage screening! missed it by...one...call...oh well i'll just pay the money even tho it's a lot...derek, you should come live with my family for a while, i think u'll go back to ur own family being very happy. my mom is unnecessarily butting into me n my friends' lives and i'm just like why are you doing that and she just turns around to my sister and is like "look how ungrateful michelle is" and it's like just stop interfering in my life and i'll be grateful! and it's not like healthy interfering to make sure i'm doing work or not doing drugs or i'm happy with my life (well the only thing she really cares about is if i'm doing work, nevermind the other stuff) oh blurgh i don't know how to explain it she's just doing totally crazy/random things...like the other day janet came over and my mom was like "me and michelle were talking and we're going to Hong Kong for christmas and you can come along" and i'm like no...i never talked to u about that... and then just before she's offering my grandmother's apartment as a place for my sister's friend n family to stay and i'm like, you can't offer her house, it can't fit that many ppl and she doesn't even speak english, so how is she going to be able to tell them where to go and stuff...and it's just like all this totally implausible (unplausible, inplausible, i don't know) stuff that i don't understahdn what she's trying to do. Whew i usually complain about stuff when i blog...but then the only time i overcome my laziness and decide to log on here is when i'm really pissed off and need to vent. wow, derek, ur blog is my savior. i love you. hah. ok... i think i need to get out more or something. i can't wait til my work ends.
haha, right .. it's amusing how they have these weird things about them. but then it gets annoying sometimes. hm -- why don't you come live with me and see if i'm impossible to live with?
Saturday, August 04, 2001
whee, i just got back home from the dentist. and no one blogs anymore. it's like my own personal blog now .. kind of like how it was at the very beginning. well, a little bit. my mom and dad and grandma are watching chinese television on channel fifty-something -- it's very interesting how they broadcast that here on saturday nights. i think my grandma's going a little "dai dai" -- that's a chinese phrase, meaning like "a bit senile" or "empty-headed" or something around those lines -- because she says and does the most inane things now. like today my dentist's husband asked me if i wanted more noodles, and my grandma said -- in chinese of course -- "he's eating tofu, hahahaha" .. which makes no sense at all. first, it has nothing to do with the question, and second, it's not funny. i don't get it. or maybe i missed something. but she's starting to seem like one of those people who think they're the authoritative figure on whatever they talk about -- like maybe she's the all-knowing fountain of wisdom from her experiences all these years -- but then she doesn't say the most intelligent things. today she asked my dad if my teeth hurt when i eat .. i was sitting at the table too, and she said it in taiwanese which supposedly i can't understand. i mean, why don't you just ask me when i'm right in front of you. anyway, my dad told her to ask me, which she did two or three times. i guess she did it to make sure it was my final answer. or maybe she was making sure, but it's not like i'm going to say "yes, no, i mean yes, of course, not at all" .. okay. i'm going to go to sleep soon. hm, crystal should be in new jersey. i wonder where she is.
um um, i hate you too. anyway, so my cousin is a greedy fat pig spoiled brat. she's loud and annoying and really kind of um, stupid. this may seem like a mean blog. so right now, she's maybe twenty feet behind me in the piano room eating some junk food out of a plastic bag, and she's trying to do it sneakily because she's not supposed to eat there. and meanwhile, she's shoving as much food into her mouth at a time, and then hiding the bag behind her while she chews really loudly. at least, loud enough so that i can hear it from where i am. but so why is she stupid, hm. well, my mom just told her to open the clothes dryer door to stop it from running, and she doesn't know the difference between a dryer and a washing machine. use common sense .. ! and anyway, it's the only one that's running. and then she can't even wash herself by herself -- my grandma has to wash her. i remember how i took my first shower in kindergarten. she's in third grade, going into fourth grade. i think. and she's really kind of fat .. my mom was saying that supposedly she's the biggest one in her vbs class, and my mom was telling her in a nice way that everyone commented on how she put on weight and she should stop eating so much food. like last week at the dentist's house, she ate four bowls of ice cream. she's always sneaking ice cream in our house too. her favorite phrase is "i love to eat _____" -- insert some kind of fatty junk food. and it seems like she's too weak to climb the stairs in our house .. by the third or fourth stair, she plops down on her knees -- this happens every single time -- and uses her hands and knees to crawl upstairs. and she likes to crawl around the house. she's already what, i think she's nine years old. she's always making comments and getting really excited about incredibly dumb things. and she's loud. she has one of the most annoying high squeaky voices i've never heard elsewhere. okay, i think i'll stop now and go eat some lunch.
Friday, August 03, 2001
so i bought the soundtrack to "grease" today at the used bookstore a block away from the puck building. except it's the original vinyl records, and it's a two-record set with maybe five-six songs on each side. it was three dollars. does anyone have a turntable?
Thursday, August 02, 2001
oh, and on the bus today coming home, this guy with incredibly strong body odor sat next to me. i had to keep from smelling it and keep from showing that i was trying not to smell it for about an hour. it was quite a test of endurance.
hey ya'll, how is everyone's summer so far? i haven't blogged in a while and i come back to find the name of hte blog is teeny pink butterflyu puff fairies... its a little strange, but completely a derek-idea. did everyone run out to get the new nsync album? its completely awesome! i recommend all... um i duno how many people are on the blog... to run out and get it. its better than no strings attached i tell ya. and no i am not jsut saying that because im obsessive... im saying that because i think its brave of them to try and change their sound. anyway... gosh i dont even know what you people are talking about in these blogs cuz i havent read them... excuse me while i read. so after reading the blogs i still dont understand what you all are talking about. therefore i will continue with my mindless babble. i was watching entertainment tonight and i saw that they have a website for the new harry potter movie. so after im done blogging im gonna go and look for it. i cant wait for that movie! right, since i cant wait, im gonna finish my blog now, bye bye bye
eew, i don't like husky voices on girls. husky means deep and raspy, right? i don't like that. or girls who look like guys, that's scary too. hm, do i know anyone like that .. well, i'll have to think about it. where's hopewell? and when i was in chinatown yesterday, i was being really rude and sarcastic and disrespectful of my chinese heritage. all those people in the streets and the food markets were so .. chinese. they were so like, peasant-like or like how you think a poor chinese beggar would speak like, unrefined. their voices were all really weird -- and husky, okay they weren't -- like nasal or just with some disgusting sound. so i was saying things like "i lai to ee chinee foo" and "i feen crouchee tigah goo movie" and so forth. and, yes. i went a little shoe shopping today after class. i found this adidas pair that was fifty dollars and i kind of liked it, but then the store said "no refunds, only store credit" so i'll go back another time and see if i really like it. and then they didn't have my size, only half a size below .. so. it fit, but i don't know if i want it. i was looking for these fifteen-dollar adidas sandals too, except the store that i saw them in last was closed. apparently i should've figured that out from the door that was off its hinges and this huge hole in the front of the store and a cleared out space with gravel and pieces of brick all over in front, but i stupidly walked in anyway and this woman yelled "THE STORE IS CLOSED!" i wonder what happened. and then i found them in another store, but then they said the largest size they had was six. which is um, too small for me. i think i'm looking for retro-looking sneaker type shoes .. like maybe an adidas or puma one. i was going to buy diesel shoes, but then they were a bit expensive. and did you know caterpillar, the company that makes bulldozers .. they make shoes too. and clothing and wallets, which i saw in urban outfitters. which is a really weird store. their clothes and things are all really .. urban, i guess. i don't know how to describe it. it seems dirty-cool .. ? i want one of those cameras that take four pictures at a time.
hi! i just got back from field hockey camp. it was so fun! hehe.. our team actually had a winning record (!). hehe.. the food kinda sucked.. and i got some pretty funky tan lines. i think i must have gotten about ten shades darker in all the wrong spots. the coaches were really cool. especially this girl named jackie! she was so cool! i think allison and i got very attached (and obsessive) -- it was funny. but she was really cool. she had this cute husky, raspy voice and blonde, blonde hair. and she would always make demonstrations of positioning with the balls, and whenever she started to do it, she'd get lost in her own world and whisper really quietly. it was so cute.. :o) the other coaches were really cool, too. this one girl kate gave us 'passions' updates.. and jamie was really nice.
we got into a weird, unspoken feud with the girls from hopewell.. it was so funny. the first night we were there, carly was like, " let's have china night !" meaning, let's order chinese food one night and have a party. well, this asian girl from their team was like, " what do you mean china night?? "..hehe. and then carly was like, "allison, did you bring your lanterns and wok?" and then she asked me if i had chopsticks. hahahaha.. it was so funny. if you know carly, you would totally understand that she was joking.. but that girl probably got even more offended. hahaha.. and after that, it just felt like she kept on giving us weird looks. someone wanted to go up to her and tell her she looked like lucy liu, so we started calling her lucy among ourselves. but her name was sarah. hahaha.. and we weren't just being mean out of spite.. they were pretty mean themselves. they had no sense of humor at all, and i don't think they liked us too much. thankfully, we did not end up playing them. otherwise we would have had to beat them down to the ground. haha ;o) there was some other funny stuff.. maybe i'll update on that later. but.. i'm leaving on a jet plane (tomorrow).. hehe. yeah, so, i'll be back sometime later. bye!
hahaha, you mispelled the character code for the non-breaking space about oh, maybe five-six times. are you copying the first one you do and then pasting it every time afterward that you need it? that must be it. and .. i'm supposed to be doing work.
just so you know, derek, i don't like this title much either.
so the entire morning at work so far (about two hours) i've been browsing websites. i think my boss is at work now, though, so after this i'll go over to her and see if she has anything to give me. anyway, so i'm wondering, like, how all these people know each other and stuff like that. i think they actually all live in san francisco. the stuff is rated a bit more than PG-13, but go check it out if you want (wait i shouldn't be giving you guys these bad links but they are interesting): little yellow different, fury (i don't like his site except the aoliza stuff is funny, but i like his friends and their links), min jung kim. yeah, so it's like these people live online. it's kind of freaky and kind of cool at the same time (much like driving ;-). ok somewhere in that paragraph my boss came over and gave me some stuff to do so later folks. (i still havent seen moulin rouge, although i really wanted to.) Wednesday, August 01, 2001
i don't think i've ever seen ewan mcgregor in any movies. like i think i saw part of "trainspotting" -- was he in that? -- and it was a lot of marijuana or whatever drugs they were taking, and then i never saw the star wars prequel or "moulin rouge" .. well. maybe i'm missing out. i want to learn how to spin the frisbee too. does it just take practice? i would need a frisbee to practice with.
so, i'm going to wake up derek's "comatose blog." did i spell comatose right? it looks wrong. it looks like "pepto bismol" or is it "peptol bismo." i could never get that right... i just alway say "pepto bismo." but i know there's an L in there somewhere. ok. that was totally random. so i drove to church by myself today for vbs. then i hung around. then i drove home by myself. and then i drove to piano lessons by myself. it's such a cool feeling. except it's kinda freaky too...ellie was right. it *is* slightly freaky.
oh boy, i got the spin-the-frisbee-on-your-finger thing down pretty well. i can do it for a really long time now. what a great hobby. "what do you like to do?" "i like to spin frisbees on the middle finger of my right hand! and now i'm working on other fingers, and the other hand!" i don't think i've over-emphasized this on this blog yet. i love ewan. he is beautiful. and he has a beautiful voice. therefore i love him. even more than i did before. and as much as i loved him then, i love him even more now. and...now i'm just being redundant. well, the thing is, what i really mean...yours are the sweetest eyes i've ever seen. and i'm talking to no one in particular. or maybe i'm just quoting lyrics. i should lengthen my sentence fragments so at least they can sound like sentences.
well, i was trying desperately to get online yesterday and the dial-up connection thing would dial and call and almost connect but then it would say "verifying username and password" and just not move at all. maybe i wasn't desperate enough .. okay, so i wasn't really desperate. anyway, it's one of those times again where i think my blog has just died, except then i know that people are away. so, yeah. i went to lunch in chinatown today and every time i looked up, there was this girl looking at me. and then when we -- some guys in the architecture class and me -- were on the street corner after leaving, someone bumped into me and i turned my head and it was the same girl .. which was a little scary. and then what's weird was that later when we were walking towards the pratt building and still in chinatown, someone called my name. i've never really met randomly anyone on the street, so .. anyway. it was gloria and she said she had a later lunch break and maybe we could meet up sometime soon da da da. then i went back into my graphic design class and sat there doing a lot of nothing. i wish i was learning more. ugh, i should've done architecture ..
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