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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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Tuesday, December 31, 2002
congratulations to derek for the rutgers acceptance and scholarship and stuff. man, you try to congratulate a person for their achievements. =P
Monday, December 30, 2002
why is it taht i can't see any posts past december 9? so weird! you didn't change the link again, did you derek? anyway. about a boy is a great movie! haha, it's really cute. kinda. but the bestest movie ever is Lilo and Stitch!!!! ahhhhh, i've seen it like 10 times already. i've watched it 3 times in the past 5 days so far. and then multiple times before that awhile ago. yeap. it's soooo cute!
hmm, so i haven't been here in like...a REALLY long time. and i feel quite, not here. say hi to stitch. he's sitting here next to me. stitch says hi to you all. mm, derek, i haven't really talked to you since sometime in june. i've only seen you once since june actually. WHERE ARE YOU?! ok bye! and as zi nicely put it, happy new year you filthy animal! =) Friday, December 27, 2002
so our (frank, srik, christine, me) zero impact vehicle is turning out pretty nicely. in fact it's beautiful, with its lovely foamy whiteness that we got at Michael's, bicycle training wheels from Toys R Us where Christine walked around clutching a big fat pink Carebear, and random steel rods that we bought at home depot and cut with a saw. but it has this eerie resemblance to the twin towers, which i noticed when I was documenting our project on film. ahh... anyway, i want to give it a cool name. like Fat Machine or White Menace or the Annihilator. hopefully it'll actually work and not fall over on its fat face.
i'm usually not a link person but: urban dictionary, strong bad emails, real ultimate power (this is old), robot frank, and i have more but i don't feel like typing out this stupid html anymore. okay good night.
Thursday, December 26, 2002
congratulations for what? so i found the ski gloves, ski mask, and the remote control for the stereo in my room. all i need to find now are the house keys that've been missing for a month. i feel such a sense of accomplishment.
congratulations derek!
"about a boy" is one of the greatest movies ever made! merry christmas...and a happy new year, you filthy animal! Wednesday, December 25, 2002
we rented insomnia yesterday, and it was in the case, so we watched it. i never want to live in alaska.
skiing was super fun. we had 9 people in our group, though we lost andie and eric. there was frank, howard, eric, andie, timmie, andy kung, jon liu, bernard (from jacksonville, florida, but really from marlboro), and me. i can say that I went on a vermont black diamond now, though it was pretty short. oh on the car ride back jess was too fat and we couldn't get the car moving for like 2 hours. heh j/k. you can check jess's x*ng* for some other vesano stuff that occurred during that four day period.
i don't know. anyway, i borrowed a "vanilla sky" dvd from allison but it wasn't in the case, and when i wanted to see it in the theater a long time ago, everyone was like "no way!" .. or something like that. bye.
how odd. when i go to derek's blog i only see entries from the 9th, but then on blogger lo and behold there are more.
well anyhoo, merry christmas! Tuesday, December 24, 2002
i just saw vanilla sky. very, very confusing (but good) movie. penelope cruz is so pretty. it's so artsy. i think derek would like it.
i think i'm going to go finish that last penn question now. then i'll be done! yay!
shoot, i can hold my breath for only 56 seconds. i need to go for a minute. so i got this letter from rutgers the other day, and i'm accepted. and with a fifty-something thousand dollar scholarship, which i think is full tuition scholarship with seven-something thousand dollars worth of other things. anyway, at least i know i can go somewhere next year, even if it's filled with people from new jersey.
damon gough or whatever his real name is other than badly drawn boy looks like a hobo from the streets. and i read that he was good enough to try out for manchester united, but then he dropped out because it was too much work. and i read he dropped out from music school too. anyway, i want to go see "about a boy". but i have to get all these applications done first before i do anything (anything) else, according to my mom. happy christmas.
Monday, December 23, 2002
Friday, December 20, 2002
ellen! i'm so proud of you. :) now all we have to do is go and watch a taping of conan o'brien and/or a coldplay/badly drawn boy concert. :o)
i just stuffed half a clementine in my mouth. i'm feeling a need for mccc.. monmouth chinese clementine club. i wonder when they'll start bringing them for snacks again.. MUST. SEE. TWO. TOWERS. and two weeks notice. i think i want to go for a back to back on saturday. i am so hard core. winter break in t minus one half day. sweeeeeeeet. Thursday, December 19, 2002
lotr totr was crazy. but i guess i totally lost the feelings of suspense and sense of surprise because i already read the book. still, it was a pretty darn good movie, and it was kinda funny too. i also noticed a few referrences to latin literature that i just can't wait to share with you all tomorrow!! whoooooooo!
i saw ellen today at b&n. and i did all my christmas shopping. yea i'm done!
mm...someone posted a grendel quote. what a god forsaken story.
i saw richard today in b&n. i said something like, "derek's blog, hey!" the guy working the music section was cute. he had the cute semi ruffled up hair and was kind of soft spoken. adorable. anyway. i bought the coldplay cd from best buy (FINALLY). after waiting for the price to go down, it went up. so i bought it. steph would be proud. i also started christmas shopping. how exciting. this is like the holmdel senior's college blog. i should just not blog here anymore. like ellie. two towers was amazing, no? Wednesday, December 18, 2002
yea we're gonna watch LOTR TOTR after school tomorrow! that's Lord Of The Rings - the TwO ToweRs. and Fellowship Of The Rings was LOTR FOTR.
then i need to go to the mall to do all my last minute christmas shopping. Tuesday, December 17, 2002
pattern? what pattern? haha. yeah, touma totally stacked my team for no apparent reason. it wasn't my fault! it was all andrew and howard and coyle. and occasionally me with a stupid answer. yeah, go quiz bowl. :) and alex's mom makes the best brownies. EVER. awwww man..
this week is killing me. killing me softly with it's song. today felt like a thursday.. but then i realized it was only tuesday and i became very, very sad. :( and all the teachers are being so lovely and nice by giving us tests right before we leave for break! they're like early christmas presents! right. sigh. you know what i saw at barnes and noble today? RISK.. the lord of the rings version. craziness. i almost considered buying it before the lady told me it was forty dollars. eew. i'm too broke for LOTR risk. =D
i was in chen's room the other day for a har project, and the current box of tissues on her desk has my name in huge marker letters on it. but only on one side, so i wrote in "DEREK" on the other side too. i wonder if anyone notices. anyway, i haven't talked to dr. chen in a while. maybe i should try speaking to her in chinese. then she can say "der-lei" instead of "derEHK".
don't worry jessica, the mit coach probably isn't the only one. you'll receive hate from many different kinds of people: people who hate gymnasts, people who hate chinese girls, people who hate people whose names start with the letters H, I, J, or K, people who hate gymnast chinese girls whose names start with the letters H, I, J, or K, and wear yale sweatshirts and refuse to share their food with derek when all he has is boring teriyaki chicken. you must understand. i wonder how many rejections are handed out.
dr. chen is awesome. i told her today about my deferral, and she said, "Reechar.....don't worry. you will have lot of college!"
so all my fellow Deferral Club members, don't worry. we will all have lot of college! oh yea, serena. i got the same letter. it seemed like mit didn't even care, not that they should, but i felt like i've gotten the cold shoulder from them since i first got the app in the mail. so it kinda ticked me off that i waited so freaking long to get a puny deferral letter that i could have rolled up and used as a straw. "Nevertheless, something will come of all this." - Grendel
so i have all my college things in order. i just have to finish up a few essays, send it out, and then i'm done. i know what my top choices are, i know what i want to study, i know what i want to do, et cetera and so forth. now i know i should've applied to mit instead. anyway. i'm going to take a nap and then wake up.
I'm in the deferral club too... I think I would have felt worse had I been deferred last week amidst the plethora of acceptance letters... but alas, I have been spared much disappointment and shame, not to say that I'm not disappointed... because I am, but like my dad kept saying over and over last night, that's life. Yeap. THATS LIFE. So I think what annoyed me most about the deferral was the way in which MIT informed me that I was deffered. Such a high tech school couldnt post the decision online or send me an email; I had to rely on good ole snail mail. How lovely. The letter was also heartfelt and sincere.
Dear Serena, We have completed our early review of your application and have decided to hold it for further consideration in January. Please do not feel too discouraged by this. The Admissions committee is very conservative in its early admission offers and therefore the majority of students who applied under Early Action were deferred. Of those deferrred over the years, several hundred have subsequently been admitted in March, so we know that we are deferring many excellent apolicants who will be admitted later... etc. etc. Sincerely, Marilee Jones, Dean of Admissions. See! They were sincere! They wrote Sincerely... uh huh. I would have much more preferred a large deferral stamp or email... Hey rich... did you get the same letter? I'm also interested to how Ivy league deferral letters read. If no one minds... I'm sick... I'm going to pass out in class soon... I hate being sick... I should list all of my complaints and tell them to jess first thing in the morning because although this won't make me feel better, I know jess wants to hear them =) Toodles. Monday, December 16, 2002
so i joined the deferral club today. i think instead of our usual "Denied!" i'll just say "Deferred!" from now to april. sound good? good.
on a happier note, i'm still feelin pretty good cause i submitted my Stanford app yesterday. score! hopefully in april i can tell mit to kiss my Cardinal butt. quiz bowl was a blast today. and steph won. again. i think i'm seeing a pattern here. i think i'll do my princeton essays on the road trip to vermont.
by the way, i've seen the word "avuncular" in almost every book i've read so far. it was in "about a boy" by nick hornby, "the hours" by michael cunningham, "waiting" by ha jin, and i can't remember what else -- but it's always exciting to see one of your favorite words used by award-winning authors. it's like a prerequisite for becoming critically acclaimed.
thinking about college is starting to get really annoying. lately i've been feeling like my half full glass is spilling all over. or like i'm reaching for something i can't get, and i should aim lower so i don't end up with nothing. i don't know why i keep thinking of an analogy with icarus and wings made of wax. he focused on the sun, he flew too high and his wings melted, he fell into the ocean and died, the end.
anyway, my mom borrowed a typewriter for me to type up my applications. before, she'd been hand-copying my drafts onto the real forms, because she said my handwriting was completely illegible and anyone who saw it would throw the application forms away. haha yeah, that was a nice thing to say. it's really fun to type. i wish i had my own typewriter. yesterday i typed "the greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved in return" because i wanted to pretend i was ewan macgregor. then i typed "THE END." i want to try writing a letter with the typewriter. Sunday, December 15, 2002
ah, so i forgot to say what happened. it was a deferral, which i almost completely expected but i didn't all the way. and even though i kind of mostly expected it, i still had a bit of that sinking disappointed feeling that seemed to grow more and more into last night and today. oh well. it's not like an acceptance would've changed too much .. i would just be applying to two fewer schools. but it would've been very reassuring to me. all right, good night.
Friday, December 13, 2002
CONGRATULATIONS, JESS!!!!!!!!! you are my all time hero. teehee. =)
mm, well, deferral for me. at least i wasn't rejected! hahaha. it's good, though. it was meant to be. :o)
seriously, i'm looking at my email inbox and it says harvard college admissions and the subject is "admissions decision". i am scared now.
Thursday, December 12, 2002
hehe =)
(on phone): allison: hello? me: hi..allison? allison: yes, hi... me: it's zi allison: ZIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!! HIIII!!!!!!!!!! OH MY GOSH, I GOT IN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I GOT IN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i'm so very proud of my allison! =D =) Wednesday, December 11, 2002
OH man... I have this urge to jump up and down for joy! Congrats to both girls! AWesome, just awesome. And tomorrow, I'm sure there will be more congratulatory postings for peoples acceptances into Penn!!!!!!
AHH!H!! and helen is going to CORNELL!L!!! ahhhhh i'm sooooo sooooo proud of those two girlies!!!! yayyY!!!!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH..! i'm so excited! janet is going to college! wah, dartmouth! YAY!!
we (caitlin, christine, and i) went to her house after she called us. it was fun. we wanted to bring her a carvel cake and some pretty balloons, but the ice cream store was too far away. so we just drove there and ambushed her and screamed a lot. her brother rushed over because he thought someone was dying.. yay! our class is now officially 1 for 1. niiice.
score one for h0lmdeli0 on Whacked Out Wednesday!!
so i guess we're all waiting on early D-Day for upenn tomorrow (aka Thundering Thursday) then yale on Monstrous Monday. and mit is just "mid-december".....dang. Tuesday, December 10, 2002
you guys are nuts...ABSOLUTELY NUTS. But I love you guys despite. Even thought it took me 2 years to find out what Bisonboy means.
so how perfect cool is this? after latin, as bisonboy (grabs, for all those uncultured out there) and I are walking down the hall towards the vestibule, we're suddenly hit with a blast of cold air. and we say, "what the heck? why is it so cold?" and guess who comes around the corner at that very second? ICEMAN!! (john)
then after school today, as I was leaving holmdel library after returning my english project book, guess who pulled up in front of me to return his books too? yea it was bisonboy! and you all thought this triumvirate thing was just a joke. it's PERFECT COOL
i read a quote today that i really liked. it's from "the little prince" ..
"Good-bye," said the fox. "Here is my secret. It's quite simple: One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes." "Anything essential is invisible to the eyes," the little prince repeated, in order to remember. "It's the time spent on your rose that makes your rose so important." "It's the time I spent on my rose ..." the little prince repeated, in order to remember. "People have forgotten this truth," the fox said. "But you mustn't forget it. You become responsible forever for what you've tamed. You're responsible for your rose ..." "I'm responsible for my rose ..." the little prince repeated, in order to remember. i don't know why i like this passage. "the little prince" is one of my new favorite books. i've moved on to "how to be good" by nick hornby. hm, i wonder what it would be like to have all your books picked up and made into movies. i'm sure this new one will be too. so i got my avon order from jessica today. it's a rip-off of the actionsampler by lomography. it's an okay fake, i guess. i hope it works. i wonder if the lenses are messed up. it says each lens has exposure intervals of 0.22 second at a shutter speed of 1/100 second. i think that means they work one after the other, like they should. anyway, i want this supersampler. it seems to take much better pictures. Monday, December 09, 2002
i don't have a working television in my house anymore. well okay, that's not entirely true -- i have that portable casio walkman-sized television that i use to watch "alias" usually. so i don't watch anything else. i feel so out of touch, like an old man who's paralyzed all along his left side because of a stroke. i've decided from now on to infuse all my writing with inane similies, just like a boy who wants to write stupid things, just like a dog running for its life from the dogcatcher. i'm the dog, the dogcatcher is --
my dad is watching tv right now, and I just overhead the gateway computer commercial. I HATE THAT COMMERCIAL!! "do you know the WAY? see the sky and milky WAY. a better WAY. my WAY. or the highWAY. i can do it any WAY. with gateWAY. blahblahblahblahblahWAYWAYWAYWAYWAY!!!!!..........." gosh, you can just go rot in norWAY. can you get any more annoying than that? unless you're in Latin, no WAY.
what a completely useless rant....except for that last latin part. i think that had some meaning/truth to it. i guess i'm too occupied/stressed with these vesano apps to rant. Sunday, December 08, 2002
are you stressed.. or stressed out?! i keep asking myself that. sigh.
this week is going to be fun and exciting. i love work. =) Saturday, December 07, 2002
if anyone has the scifi channel, watch Taken! It's so cool! and its addictive. my mom watched most of the 8 hour marathon they had starting at 1:00, and then I started watching around 3:00 when i got back from columbia....while multitasking of course. can't waste 5 hours just watching tv.
Friday, December 06, 2002
no, i think richard's driveway is pretty long. that's why my mom never wanted to drive up when dropping richard off after tennis: "richard, can you walk up?" "okay." anyway, i didn't have to shovel anything because the mexicans come and do it. they come in a truck. we pay the stupid condo association money for them to hire services like this. apparently the mexicans also do the floral arrangements in front of "the orchards" sign. and no, i'm not being racist, i wouldn't call them "mexicans" if they didn't all seem hispanic .. okay i should say "hispanic" or "latino" or something. actually, i did go outside and get all the snow off our car. it was cold.
Thursday, December 05, 2002
hi guys! i just realized that i'm connected to this blog too. how are u? hi michelle! lookin forward to meetin u and hangin out with u on the ski trip! =) STEPH! i heard u're goin too! awesome. i'm gonna sign u up.. just... make out a 139 dollar check to them. u too michelle! ok, sorry. i feel like i'm some travel agent. =P i hope u're all enjoyin the snow. sorry for intruding this blog =X HI DERK! =) tata
something very strange: when i was doing applications and had to enter "high technology high school" as one of the secondary institutions i've attended, i found out that there's one other school in the country with the same name, and it's in san antonio. hm.
it's snowing. i am so lucky.
so i'm reading this book "the accidental asian" by eric liu and during this one passage suddenly it hits me that i've read this before. but not from this book. so after thinking a bit, i realize that it was from one of the two sat-i tests that i took, either march this year or march last year. the thing about being "1.5-lingual" and being a second-generation chinese immigrant and everything. come on, someone has to remember this. anyway, it's in the second chapter "song for my father", part 4. edit: i found the post. it was may 2001. Tuesday, December 03, 2002
well, i can't watch it unless i have it. and i don't have it. :) but it sounds interesting. i like guy ritchie-ish films. they are very cool. :)
anyway.. i was referring to whitten when i said that in my fit of rage. yup. i'm beginning to dislike her more and more these days. but enough of my brain cells have been wasted complaining about her. i should find another hobby. ;) if it snows tonight, i will be incredibly happy.. Monday, December 02, 2002
oh and i watched this korean movie saturday called "guns and talks" and apparently it's one of the top-grossing films in korean movie history (i guess it would be behind "my sassy girl" and this other movie called "friend") and it was kind of in a guy ritchie "snatch" style but a little more serious with four ordinary guys who work as assassins and have all these quirky habits like having an infatuation with the television morning news anchor and strange things happen like a girl asking them to help kill her teacher or one guy falling in love with the woman he's supposed to kill and anyway. go watch it.
that's not necessarily true. i wrote funny history essays for three years. today i wrote a lot of boring meaningless responses to essays from the norton reader, which i originally thought was a pretty cool anthology, but now it's getting increasingly annoying. especially when we have to analyze each and every point of each and every essay. and then compare them to each other in countless combinations. you love my alliteration.
i found a pecan pie from dearborn farms in my refrigerator yesterday. i felt no urge at all to eat it. i don't know, it just looks so ugly. like this brown sticky thing encrusted with disgusting-looking nuts. pecans look like shriveled lychee. or something like that. i want some good lychee. the large red ones, not some dinky fruit with the seed taking up almost all the space inside the skin. i need to go back to taiwan and eat good sub-tropical fruit. or would that be super-tropical? tomorrow i'm going to ask gothelf for a recommendation, once and for all. i wonder what'll happen.
i love how school and teachers suck all inspiration from our brains and replace it with a psychopathic obsession with the rules of grammar and style. curses.
anyways. i think that's all i had to say. this is going to be a long three weeks. :o/ Sunday, December 01, 2002
i like writing. but not for whitten. i read "about a boy" sometime this week and couldn't stop thinking about what whitten would write all over the book about the author's extremely unorthodox use of parentheses and run-on sentences and just breaking all the rules, yet telling the story in an extremely casual and amusing tone. that's how i kind of used to write for english until gothelf eliminated the parentheses and whitten eliminated the creativity and thoughtfulness. lovely.
writer's block sucks. writing sucks in general...so i'm going to promote another song now, go check out jason mraz - the remedy ; so on his website this guy is interviewing mraz and there's one part: any pets?
"just toca.. no, not anymore. times were tough once. we got hungry." btw toca is his drummer or something other. hehe, well anywho i thought it was quite funny. back to essaying and the devil's homework. |