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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, January 28, 2003
i got a suit today. i feel so cool. =D
anyways, while i was at the mall, i checked out banana republic. and they have niiiiiiice spring stuff out already. all the clothing is very.. nautical. that's what my mom called it. with the whole.. navy/white color scheme and those pea-coat-type jackets (ooh, they have a baby pink one that's preeetty). and i think they should put women's clothes on better sale prices. sheesh. mm, ethan embry. he was in sweet home alabama, if that means anything at all. heehee, he's cute. he tries to look too tough and cool in the ads for dragnet, though. he wrinkles up his face and you have to wonder if he's angry or just has an itch on his nose. or has to go to the bathroom really bad. harhar. speaking of ethans.. ethan hawke is going to be on next week's alias. how hot. and again, the conversation has turned back to alias. hahaha. well, my end of it, anyway. :)
amusing: while every network channel is broadcasting bush's state of the union address at nine tonight, wb11 is going to be showing an episode of "smallville". also amusing: there's a new remake of the tv show "dragnet", starring ed o'neill and ethan embry. as in, al bundy from "married with children" and the main character from "can't hardly wait". i liked that movie, i don't know why. i think it was just the freeze-frame yearbook-style profiles in the beginning. and the happy ending. okay you're right, it was kind of a stupid movie.
richard has resorted to posting completely irrelevant and stupid things on the blog.
RockinRichbert: yo
th ec RAZ y star: hi. th ec RAZ y star: did kevin tell u to IM me? RockinRichbert: yes th ec RAZ y star: HE CHEATS RockinRichbert: i mean RockinRichbert: no RockinRichbert: who's kevin? RockinRichbert: kevin bacon? th ec RAZ y star: TOO LATE BUDDY th ec RAZ y star: he couldve gotten a blow job. oh well. RockinRichbert: what did i tell him about sexual activity? RockinRichbert: that boy never listens th ec RAZ y star: if you had imed me on your own accord he wouldve gotten one th ec RAZ y star: too bad for him Monday, January 27, 2003
i am petrified, mortified, stupified. by you.
serena, at first i thought you were talking about the Bucs' defense, but then i noticed "ALIAS." doh! yea, i feel completely out of the loop of this blog. but i like it out here. i'm not coming back!
"alias" was good. i need the past episodes.
so while looking for scholarships, i find that chinese organizations are so cheap -- while everyone else offers at least $1000, i have yet to find any asian group that gives away more than $300 at a time. how stereotypical. anyway, if any of you are like me (i hope at least some of you are) and want to find merit scholarships because you can't possibly qualify for financial aid and it would probably help if you offset the cost of your post-secondary education, you can go to fastweb, fastaid, and there are some more that i can't remember. but i was looking at them before. anyway. i don't know if anyone cares.
:-O <-- that was me after alias.
yeah, so i came into school today and mickel attacks me kind of like this: *grabs onto my backpack* *screams like crazy person* DID YOU WATCH ALIAS?!?!?! now i understand why. holy guacamole. i don't think i've ever held my breath for that long watching television before. :-O!!!!!!!
how was alias on? wasn't abc broadcasting the super bowl? man, that game was vesano. but latin was vesanoer. srikar and i decided that Simeon Rice (Bucs DE) and Joe Jurevicius (Bucs WR) had to have the two coolest names in the world, but amani toomer, tiki barber, and derek tsai are also up there.
ooooohhhhh my gosh, alias !!!! why ??? aaahhhh!!!! francie!!! and sloane!! he's crazy!!! aaahhh!!!!!
it's not a drought -- it's like a something else. i'm too tired to think of an appropriate analogy. um, i watched "alias" today and it's the best episode i've ever seen. steph, i want the tapes (dave said he'll ask his brother). i'd just like to reaffirm my belief that sark and sloane are the best two characters on the show. sydney's a close third, i guess. all right, i just studied physics for maybe half an hour while watching the jimmy kimmel show (snoop dogg was his co-host, and it was amusing) and waiting for coldplay to come perform -- but then i got bored and wanted to sleep. so logically, i come online to blog. time for bed.
Sunday, January 26, 2003
Thursday, January 23, 2003
oh oh, study study study. i can't see the links because of my slow connection -- what two asian guys doing what? anyway, zi: be proactive! im me! then i'll im you! then we can im each other! anyway, i think i'm going to look at bio while watching "my sassy girl" .. i really want the korean director's cut dvd. i want to see "il mare", "joint security area", "friend", "all about lily chou-chou", "ping pong" .. and so much more. anyway, that's enough links.
serena, i wasn't specifically referring to you. honestly, maybe you were included, but it's not like you're the only one. and it's not like i'm bothered too (too) much about this. okay, now i'm going to spend time with "my sassy girl".
yo richard... you sooooooo stole our band name! But I guess you can be an honorary latineer... just cuz you came up with that awesome rhyme =)
I fear that derek speaks of me.
hahahahahahahahaha..
no matter how many times i watch those two asian guys, it's still funny. hahahahahaha... okay, that's enough. time to get back to studying.
Derek, you have asperger's syndrome? And obsessive compulsive disorder? And how come you never IM me? Why, Derek, why?
I like this link: http://www.gamedesigner.net/news.phtml?id=41. I also like this link: http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/dah18/america/. Oh, and this one: http://www.hellonetwork.com/demo/toysclub/video.asp?speed=hook300. And of course this one: shameless. Wednesday, January 22, 2003
we're the latineers!
you can be one too cause scanning those lines is the thing to do. forgetting those essays is not the way. hear what Captain Latin has to say. with your cases combined........I am Captain Latin!! Captain Latin, he's our hero gonna bring our brain cells down to zero.... nominative! genitive! dative! accusative! ablative! GOOOOO LATIN!!.. wheeeeee i suppose captain latin would look like a cross between aeneas and cicero. and he'd have to be green, the color of laurel leaves, or at least wear a toga. ::shudders:: Tuesday, January 21, 2003
something i find annoying: people who are avoidant and pretend they're not. if you don't feel like talking and instead want to ignore me, at least tell me something like "i'm busy" or "you're stupid and boring and i don't want to talk to you". hm.
okay, i don't usually do online quizzes (or at least i don't post results) but look at this:
 i think that's accurate to some degree. i have asperger's syndrome.
yo all you latineers. time magazine has a whole article on mel gibson and his movie "The Passion," which is about Jesus and will be spoken entirely in aramaic and LATIN. score!!! unless you guys really want to review tomorrow, i'll see if i can get her ranting for half the period. btw its supposed to come out easter next year. yea i can't wait.
we're the latineers! you can be one too cause scanning those lines is the thing to do... i'll come up with the rest later....
this is the complete screenplay for "the two towers", complete with screen caps. i think it's from some legolas fan site. pretty soon i'm going to be one of those bloggers who post only links.
I BOUGHT THIS SUIT 2DAY AT TEH BANANA R3PUBLIC IN DA GROVA1!1! OMG WTF LOL ELEN WAS THEYRE1!1111! LOL DA ONLIEN SIET DOESNT SHOW DA SAEL TAHT WAS IN DA S2RE BUT HER3S WUT I SAEVD BLAEZR ORIGINALY $298 SAEL $9 PANTS ORIGINALY $18 SAEL $19!!!!1 OMG WTF LOL WAHAHA IM V3RY PLZ WIT MYSELF1!1!! WTF I SAEVD ABOUT THRE HUNDR3D DOLARS AND ANDAD UP WIT A NIEC SUIT FOR $1201!!!1 WTF MOD3L UN AND OTHER ONCA-IN-A-WHIEL FORMAL OCASIONS HER3 I COM3
!!11!1! OMG WTF Monday, January 20, 2003
this is funny. try taking samples of good literature and putting it into this .. it's hilarious. let's try one of the norton reader essays:
"IN LONDON HE WROTE IN DA LARGE ROM WIT THRE LONG WINDOWS AT TEH 2P OF TEH HOUSE!1!1!! HE WROT3 LYNG ALMOST RECUMBNT IN A LOW ROKNG CHARE WHICH HA TIP3D 2 AND FRO AS HE WROTE LIEK A CRADLE AND AS H3 WROT3 H3 SMOKAD A SHORT CLAY PIEP AND HE SCATERED BOKS ROUND HIM IN A CIRCL311!11111 OMG"
i bought this suit today at the banana republic in the grove. ellen was there. the online site doesn't show the sale that was in the store, but here's what i saved: blazer originally $298, sale $99, pants originally $118, sale $19. wahaha, i am very pleased with myself. i saved about three hundred dollars and ended up with a nice suit for $120. model un and other once-in-a-while formal occasions, here i come.
guess what boys and girls? it's rant time!!
ok, it is not only african americans that benefited from the efforts of martin luther king, jr. and the civil rights movement. without king, other minorities (like hispanics and asians, that's us) might also be left without civil rights. hence, there would be no asians to take over holmdel and skew its SAT scores and college admissions, making it one of the "top" public schools in the state. so, i don't see why our school doesn't take a day off to appreciate what king has brought to its community. enough of that crap about "well i'm sure if king were alive he would want the kids to attend school." geez...it's one day! king was supposed to be a pretty darn cool guy. i'm sure he wouldn't mind letting some little children have a day of fun and giving us some more time to study for midterms and write essays for illinois. i don't really care that we didn't get a day off, but it's our boed's rationale (oh no, we need one extra day for construction?!) that i don't get. i wonder if they have one. ap econ is fun, but incredibly obnoxious. hey guess what? jennifer garner plays a prostitute in Catch me if you can. i forgot to mention that to you guys when i saw it a couple weeks ago.
So did Colin Farrell. =D
Yesterday at church they did a promo video for the upcoming retreat, and they spoofed "The Ring." It was so good!! So funny!!! They had the opening title graphic and everything, except instead of "The Ring" it said "The Retreat." Ahahahah. Notice how I'm capitalizing properly and stuff? Think of it as a throwback to a softer, more innocent time.
awww man. coldplay tickets are SOLD OUT. oooh. that hurts. it would have been SO COOL to see them. so cool. :(
anyway, so i was watching the golden globes last night. when i should have been studying, of course. i couldn't get my lazy butt off the couch after i sat down. it wasn't even that thrilling.. although it did make me want to see many many many movies (chicago, gangs of new york, catch me if you can, my big fat greek wedding, the pianist, the road to perdition, perhaps the hours...) but alas, midterms are in the way. sigh. and eww, none of the dresses were pretty. lara flynn boyle was wearing this whacked out tutu with pink ribbons wrapped around her legs.. and it was scary because she's really really really skinny and she kind of looked like a large, skin colored praying mantis. *shivers* the only dress i kind of liked was calista flockhart's. mm, oh well. on another note, jude law looked very very good. teehee. :o) okay, off to write that personal narrative. yaay.. ;) Sunday, January 19, 2003
that last one took me about 7 minutes.
i think holmdel is beginning to suffer from the curse of the physics olympics. what else can explain the ridiculousness of our gut-wrenchingly pathetic performance in all aspects yesterday? 1. fermi questions....well pretty decent, considering half our team was asleep after pulling an all-nighter to work on the bicycle.. 2. grab bag...objective: pop a balloon with a pin from 2 meters away. we ended up poking the balloon with the pin twice in three tries, but for whatever reason (maybe the fates would not allow it?), the stupid balloon didn't pop. doh! 3. tower....during a practice run, our tower held the weight for 20 seconds....during the official run, the weight fell right off the side of the tower. we should have placed second in that competition b/c our tower weighed only 12.3 grams. the winning tower weighed 12.1. doh! 4. zero-impact vehicle.....we were over the weight limit by half a pound (stupid us), so we had to cut off the car's nose and drill holes all over it, thereby reducing its structural stability (stupid us). we actually got the car to survive its first run, in which it recoiled by half a meter and we ended up falling short of the wall by 2.59 meters(stupid us). but as we wound the car up for another run, the main axle, which was the heaviest piece in the car and was made of the strongest wood, snapped in half (stupid car). and with that went over 50 hours of work and literally, blood and sweat. at least we got one run in....doh! 5. bernoulli ball......objective: guide a pingpong ball using bernoulli's principles towards a ringed target, but not in it or touching it. so on the first try, i hit squarely on the edge of the target...score: 0....doh... then my confidence in anything going right for us was completely shot, and i blew the second try. doh! 6. bicycle...ok by this time we didn't even care anymore...but of course, something still must go wrong. as we practiced riding around, the stupid bike chain kept falling off the gears, and by the time we fixed it, our hands were all covered in grime. i think we got dead last in the bicycle. doh! yea...so don't ask any of us about what happened on saturday, or we'll go into a rant for a couple of hours. i feel the need to go to another physics olympics. ahh i can't wait for the 4th marking period proj..
wonderful. how long did that take you to write? i have this song running through my head (running through my head running through my head) and i can't see how it's so catchy -- it has practically no melody and the most overused chord progressions in dance music. so annoying.
Thursday, January 16, 2003
zi and steph, i appreciate your praise,
and perhaps i might continue my days speaking in rhyme and driving you crazy till you're inclined to sue. then steph can use her lawyer skills, and leave me with no money to pay bills. but then to the constitution i shall resort, and uphold free speech in the supreme court. still, i have decided to save your souls so this last line won't rhyme. THE END
hahahahaha.. that is such a cool canterbury tale. such randomness but somehow, such connectedness at the same time. you are a rhyming master. :)
so anyways.. i think i'm doing mock trials now. how interesting. mr touma randomly asked me to do it because he needs seniors on the team. of course i said okay, but then he tells me that the competition is on february first. riiight. that's in about two weeks. and we have midterms. isn't that lovely? but it should be fun. and if not, it should be funny. hahaha.. i get to go to the freehold courthouse and talk lawyer-talk and get judged by real live lawyers. the mere idea of me pretending to be a lawyer is amusing.. to me anyway. :) i think i'm beginning to unravel. i was so good at the beginning of the week.. kind of on a high. but now.. mm. well, at least, i think this is what unraveling feels like. ha.. on a brighter note.. tomorrow's friday. ahh, hooray for fridays.
yay, that's the BEST canterbury tale ever. bravo, good family fun all around. i cannot wait until the day i will be able to meet you, richard li.
Wednesday, January 15, 2003
HAVE FUN!!!
The Business Man/Shepherd's Tale: There once was a hunter trekking through the Congo, Who carried at his side only food and a bongo Drum that he would often beat to scare Angry gorillas roaming with coarse, silver hair. A large round nose pointed out his way. With only food and sleeping bag, he covered miles a day. He proclaimed, “I need no flashlight or tracking device, And I can survive a week on three cups of rice!” As he meandered through jungle with machete in hand, He spied a human quite unfamiliar to the land. He crouched in a bush as footsteps were heard, And a young man appeared whistling like a bird. Waves of brown hair drooped down to his shoulders. His arms and chest were built like boulders. Muscles rippled as he bent down to retrieve The beeping contraption he dropped earlier that eve. “My poor radio, I have found you!” he cried. “If I had lost you, then I would have died!” The hunter appeared and began to boast. “I need no machine to find the coast! All I require is to breathe the air, And my nose will take me anywhere!” Replied the man, “And if your nose does fail, This GPS would help recover your trail.” The hunter cackled and declared, “We’ll see Who can be the first to reach Nairobi. I’ll wager all I won at Caesar’s Palace And these packs of cheese I bought in Dallas!” The thought of cheese excited the young man so, A firm handshake and they were ready to go. But sprinting into the trees the hunter soon met A pack of gorillas that seemed quite upset. He frantically beat his bongo drum, Hoping not to lose his bum. The gorillas however were quick to irk, And they set upon the hapless jerk. They pulled his big ears right over his eyes And knocked him out and bit his thighs. The hunter lay dazed like a pile of dirt, Though, rejoicing in his nose unhurt. Yet he stumbled on a root as he reached for his pack, And broke his nose on rock with a resounding crack. Now the young man happened upon the same sleeping Gorillas who did not appreciate his peeping. They awoke with a start and proceeded to Strangle this man ‘till his face turned blue. But the smart young man was much too quick, And with tranquilizers he was quite slick. All the gorillas were felled in a flash. Savage gorilla mouths groan and teeth gnash. Suddenly, the young man noticed a little pack Of American and Swiss cheese in a stack. He thought, “I must be dreaming. This cannot be. A gorilla munching cheese one would never see.” But he spied the hunter sprawled against a tree. Clutching nose and bleeding from knee. The hunter groaned, “I accept my defeat. With my broken nose, I am good as dead meat. Now take me home so I may retrieve The lot of money that you shall receive.” “Money is not an important matter. What I seek is merely cheese on my platter And perhaps I shall ask this favor of you alone To try your hand in some shares of ImClone.” The hunter cried, “Invest in stocks? Can you be mad? With this awful economy that we have had? But you seem to be smart, so tell me your name And perhaps I shall join in this speculation game.” “My name is Wally Waksal and soon you shall see How to become a powerful man such as me.” Yet as the two plotters spoke, they never saw The gorillas inform this matter to the law So, in three months and with little debating, The two men were convicted of insider trading. Tuesday, January 14, 2003
secret of mana is interesting. i thought the sprite was a girl for the longest time. until we went online for some cheats and found out it was a boy. it's a he she!!
=)
derek thinks about clothes too much. you know who else thinks a lot about clothes? cher from "clueless." just kidding! oh man that's funny.
Monday, January 13, 2003
so frank, srik, and i spend almost all of saturday doing our physics project. frank and srikar started at 10am and i came at noon, and we worked until 12am. christine came around 8pm. yes we're dedicated. actually we didn't work straight through. we took a break and ordered pizza around 7, and srikar decided to carve an arrow, so we went outside to his backyard and shot arrows at a Pepsi can. i actually hit it once from about 15 feet away. the arrow had no feathers too! then we ate pizza and watched the titans/steelers game until the end of regulation. christine ruined all our fun. heh j/k:) so if you add all the hours total we've spent on our prototypes (White Menace and Triangle Man) and our final product (Cycloptor), i think we topped 50 hours. and you ask, "what the hell is wrong with you?" and i say...........................................
swing, swing, swing from the tangles of...my heart is crushed by a former love....can you help me find a way to carry on again?.... and can srikar and shankar look and act any freaking more alike???????? Sunday, January 12, 2003
some random and miscellaneous things that i'm thinking at the moment:
i need plain white t-shirts. i like coffee ice cream. side parts in girls' hair are pretty. i want to play guitar and sing more. i never finished "final fantasy iii", but i beat "secret of mana". i miss taiwan. my mom is constantly hyper, and i'm not. i should exercise and work out more. i can scratch my back with my left hand, but my right arm can't reach. clothes i've lost or misplaced: a gray short-sleeved old navy t-shirt with blue trim and a yellow box on the front, my fifth grade graduation t-shirt, a white shirt i had to get for body worship at eastern college that one year, a blue-gray sweatshirt by some company called "britannica" and a blue-gray "l.o.g.g." sweater from h&m. my physics project is having problems. revival this weekend was -- well, reviving. i'm still a bit dazed, and i need to sort out some things. Saturday, January 11, 2003
wow is the perfect word. it was definitely wow. pastor stuart was INTENSE and worship was amazing. so many people came from all these other churches and the place was completely packed and it was an incredible feeling to be in that room hearing everyone singing their hearts out to god. simply amazing. wow. god is so good.
revival part two today. yay! :)
this is from tonight:
Im The YAM (1:13:16 AM): is bush a democrat? derlei say (1:13:27 AM): are you kidding? Im The YAM (1:13:27 AM): i forget! Im The YAM (1:13:33 AM): which one is bush derlei say (1:13:41 AM): bush is the guy from texas who's the president Im The YAM (1:13:47 AM): no i'm really that stupid derlei say (1:13:53 AM): okay, let me explain derlei say (1:13:56 AM): bush is a republican Im The YAM (1:13:59 AM): i knowww derlei say (1:13:59 AM): bush's dad was a republican Im The YAM (1:14:06 AM): but is he democrat or republicna okay, it's late so i'll forgive her display of extreme .. i don't know, ignorance of politics and current events. hm, we don't really do any projects in whitten's class. only that one presentation about literary aspects in "cry the beloved country". anyway, i need to finish my position paper -- almost done. i'll mention the revival some other time .. all i can say so far is "wow". Friday, January 10, 2003
sigh...has anyone seen that VW beetle convertible commercial with the guy in the office building? that's exactly what Latin class feels like...aaarrrghhh...arma virumque freakans cano!! (i sing of freaking arms and a man!!)
the first thing i'm gonna do after i graduate and get a job is adopt a dog. Thursday, January 09, 2003
hahahahahaha.. i am a science league failure. holmdel swept every test except bio II (which got second place). and i took bio II. i got a 45. I AM SO SMART. =) afterwards, when we were leaving, us four bio II losers were relegated to looking for the bus. (well, maybe not, but we pretended that we were) that was funny. and then on the way home, we had the most superficial conversation ever about hot guys. i'm not saying it wasn't fun though. :o) science league is cool. :)
REVIVAL TOMORROW! i'm super excited. :o)
WHAAAAAAT? I don't remember this at all! When was this? All of these false accusations! It's not true! It's not true! Jess is a fat liar!
Wednesday, January 08, 2003
i remember in satz school i had football with serena at one point in gym. and scott panzano was on our team. and he thought i was good because i could catch the ball, and the other girls couldn't. and i remember one time the ball got thrown to serena and she caught it. and she was so surprised that she forgot to run and she got tagged.
dave wrote about an executioner. i was going to, but then i decided on a fool. YOU FOOL. i'm actually kinda having fun with this assignment. i like making it rhyme. rhyming couplets. i wrote 1/3 of a page of my story during bio today.. all in rhyme. i have half a page now. it's fun! =) Tuesday, January 07, 2003
i got tackled a few times when we had our cross country football game last year. it was all muddy b/c it just rained, but it was fun. at one point i got an interception, but jeff grabs caught up to me, picked me up, and carried me out of bounds. that doesn't count as a tackle does it?
i don't know if i should write about a shepherd, executioner, bath house attendant, or swineherd for my canterbury tale.
mm, i don't know if i've ever been tackled. oh no, there was that one time during powder puff practice when nicole armellino completely took me out. i couldn't tackle back, though, because i was already on the floor writhing in pain. okay, not writhing. just whining in my head. yeah, i felt really cool the first day or so of powderpuff because everyone thought i was fast and daly put me as running back. mwahaha. i really had them going.. ;)
i've played one sport in gym for the past two years: one quarter of volleyball. i've had four quarters of weight room, one quarter of yoga, and now i'm in yoga again. i can't believe they wouldn't let us choose our gym classes this year.
hm, in marlboro, we didn't play football in gym. we played badminton and volleyball and "legs and abs."
Monday, January 06, 2003
i like watching college football...it seems so much better than nfl football. has anyone else noticed that girls are abnormally vicious in gym football?? or just any gym sport in general?? or maybe my gym period is just full of scary vicious girls. i got tackled so i tackled back. in ultimate frisbee.
::groans heavily from the depths of his heart...::
stupid refs...its like a redux of the new england/oakland game last year. watch some more football and you'll love it derek. i guarantee it.
i hate football. it's so stupid. i remember playing it in middle school gym and even though we won every game because our quarterback (who was a girl) was an incredible passer and i was fast and could catch and steve curtis was dumb and did nothing and there were a few other kids, i remember thinking it was stupid even then. though i would like to throw a football really well. and a frisbee, after reading "a heartbreaking work" and all its frisbee scenes. soccer is a fun sport to watch ... another world cup in three years. football is idiotic.
here's something interesting for all you giants fans... :)
NFL admits ref blew call in Giants-49ers playoff game January 6, 2003 NEW YORK (Ticker) - A day after squandering a 24-point lead in a devastating 39-38 playoff loss, the New York Giants received what is essentially a useless apology from the NFL. Mike Pereira, the NFL's director of officiating, informed the Giants and San Francisco 49ers on Monday that a defensive pass interference penalty should have been called on the final play of Sunday's game, which would have allowed the Giants to attempt a potential winning field goal. "It does us no good. It doesn't do us a damn bit of good," Giants coach Jim Fassel said Monday after learning of the league's statement which blamed referee Ron Winter's officiating crew for not making the pass interference call. After blowing a 38-14 second-half lead, the Giants still had a chance to win the game when Matt Bryant lined up for a 41-yard field goal with six seconds left in the fourth quarter. However, the snap by veteran Trey Junkin was low and wide and holder Matt Allen couldn't handle the ball. Allen then ran to his right and lofted a desperation pass downfield to guard Rich Seubert, who was pushed by Niners defensive end Chike Okeafor as the ball was in the air. No pass interference was called on the play and Giants guard Tam Hopkins was flagged for illegally running downfield on the pass attempt. If interference had been called, then the game could not have ended due to offsetting penalties and the Giants could have attempted the field goal "It was pass interference. It was clearly pass interference," Fassel said. "How they missed that, I do not know. It is very disappointing." Pereira admitted that Fassel was right since Seubert had reported to the officiating crew prior to the game as an eligible receiver on field goal attempts and was clearly pushed by Okeafor. "Them (the league) confirming it is, 'O.K. at least you are honest,'" Fassel said. "But it is not going to change anything. My stomach is already in knots. I don't need to tighten them up even more." mm, how sad. :o) Sunday, January 05, 2003
i like this paragraph from "a heartbreaking work", page 270:
oh these fat kids. look at these kids, these little porkers. is that a genetic thing? disgusting, the existence of fat kids. i thought i would share that with everyone.
it's the giants own fault for leading and then slacking off and letting the 49ers come back...and then...screwing up a field goal when they could've made it...alas, poor poor giants...
stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid giants...
sigh....i guess it was a fittingly messed up ending to a consistently messed up season. oh well...nothing to do but cheer for the jets now...go GANG GREEN!! stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid giants...
ahhh... everyone has a xanga. mickel and helen are the most recent victims, to my knowledge. what is the world coming to?!?!?! the asian american one, anyway. sigh. if i ever get one, it will probably be a last ditch effort to waste time online. but for now, i refuse to fall into xanga. *shudder*
i wonder if anyone besides us reads this blog anymore. hm, anywho, back to work.
oooh i think we're going to taiwan over the summer for a couple weeks. my mother wants me to get an eyelid fold surgery thing on my left eye. so that i will finally be symmetrical. it seems kind of scary, but oh well. oh, and she promised me that i could get fobby pics!! whooooo =)
Saturday, January 04, 2003
doh...now i have to do a telephone interview for illinois too...
so i spent the entire day with frank, srik, and christine working on our physics project. yea it was fun working with powertools and watching srikar boldly place his fingers within millimeters of the jigsaw blade. srikar's basement probably sounded like bob villa's workshop. so the thing works really well, but it still has a tendency to veer towards and crash into hard flat objects. i guess we should fix that.
ouch, this is a lot harder than i thought it would be. the application for the honors college, that is. it looks as if i am going to have to write a few brand spanking new essays. how disappointing. i was so getting into the groove of changing the name of the college and printing it out.. ah well. i guess i'll be able to exercise my .. creative muscles. don't ask me why i just used that phrase. anywho. being creative is hard. i admire anyone who is.
ah, taiwan. my mom wants me to go there for a little while this summer. she's leaning more toward a chinese program than a vacation, i think. we shall see. i haven't been there in.. nine years? or maybe seven, i don't remember. i feel like i would have had a better time in hong kong, etc if i had been a teenager. hong kong is such a teenager/twentysomething-friendly city. or maybe all cities in general are. who knows. i hope this summer will be nice. ... i'm feeling nostalgic again. i get it every now and then. i think this recent attack has been brought on by having to write 2003 whenever putting down the date. [lots of people have mused on this already, but i think i'll muse some more. :) ] well, it's the year we graduate and go to college and so on and so forth. very frightening/exciting stuff. things are changing very, very quickly, and it's making me nervous. nervous about leaving somewhere familiar, nervous about arriving somewhere not so familiar. i guess i just don't like endings very much. like when i'm reading a good book or watching a good movie, and i get to the last page or the ending credits and wish there were more. i wish i could have more of this... going to school, playing sports, complaining, joking around, acting like an idiot with everyone and whatnot. ah, well. but beginnings are good. even if something has to end first. gosh, that was corny. :o)
i keep thinking about taiwan, especially now that i want to organize a trip for the summer and we can all go to taipei and live there for a month or so. i don't know if i would go back for a chinese program again, though. it was too much work. and the ones with less work are all about college kids "hooking up" with each other. anyway, i remember people i met, how i was late twenty minutes to class every day, the teacher making fun of me every day, having to sing stupid songs in front of the class, going to karaoke and watching horrible videos to english songs, buying pirated cds, buying secondhand cds, actually buying new and real cds, seeing david tao and a-mei and almost s.h.e. and jay chow and energy, waiting in a huge crowd to get david tao's autograph and then shaking his hand and saying something really corny in english to him, playing counterstrike with nerdy kids from brazil france canada germany and england and watching them curse onscreen, eating really good upscale food with my aunt, going to a really fancy hair salon with pretty hairdressers that massage your neck and wash your hair many many times and serve you toast with strawberry jam and iced milk tea and then massage your head and neck and talk to you really sweetly, night markets with dumplings and pearl milk tea and strawberry ice and crepes and beef noodles and tie ban shao, watching mtv chinese and hong kong movies and soap operas, playing dancing arcade games and making a complete idiot out of myself, seeing "minority report" in hsinchu with the most annoying chinese people ever, having all the salespeople in every store know that i'm not from taiwan as soon as i open my mouth, going to shimending almost every day, browsing through racks and racks of fobby celebrity pictures, searching all over taipei for stuffed animals, finding all these huge sales of only girls clothing. that's all parallel structure. i'm going to go now.
Friday, January 03, 2003
ahh i kept thinking today was tuesday. maybe it was the rain. rain always makes me depressed. i could get 100's on all my tests and get into college, but if it rained on that day, i'd still be depressed and probably disillusioned. wti. it's probably something with being sensitive to changes in air pressure, like other animals are. maybe the real reason rabbits hide when they know a storm is coming is because they suddenly feel very depressed, and they run into their burrows to hide in a corner. perhaps humans really can sense changes in weather, but we just choose to ignore the signals. perhaps humans can sense 3000 different smells, but we just don't try hard enough. yea, i'm dreaming...
you know what? maybe rain increases the black bile inside me. oh wait....none of you are reading chaucer cause none of you have maltese....heh.. today in latin class i bet mike craparo on the 49'ers-Giants playoff game this weekend. i put my money on the GIANTS. duh.... GO BIG BLUE!!! Thursday, January 02, 2003
hey, i have to do those essays, too. i hope i can just tweak some of my old ones. but i'll think about that later. the mind is still a little groggy from doing nothing for eleven days. this morning was torture... i don't think i've ever had that much pain from waking up before.
ah, well, the break is over. maybe now i'll stop eating twentyfour hours a day and sitting around on my butt watching tv. hahaha. my mom told me the other day that my face has gotten "rounder" recently. how lovely. yeah, i verified that observation on the scale today. v. depressing. OH well. =P tomorrow's friday! awesome. one of the great aspects of starting school on the thursday. hehe. :o)
just when I thought I was done...........i think i have a couple more interviews to do and an essay for illinois's honors program. then midterms. sigh.......
i think i'll try to relax and watch the bowl game tomorrow. go BUCKEYES!!! JANUARY AIN'T HURRICANE SEASON!! Wednesday, January 01, 2003
i should be at serena's house right now, except my mom thinks that the rain is dangerous and could kill me. even though they went a little bit ago to some family friends' house for an exercise lesson. it's times like these when i think her judgement is completely off (too conservative, rigid, paranoid, wrong and stupid) and so i'm disappointed and angry. oh well. on a happier note, i came back from allison's house today at maybe one in the afternoon, having been there since nine-ish last night. it was a nice new years eve party, though i can't say that we did much of anything. we ate, we played video games, we went online, we watched a movie, we talked, we slept. oh, and we had sparking cider when 2003 came around. i got a nalgene bottle from paige, yay! ... i really should finish all that christmas gift-giving that i'm half done with.
thanks for the congratulations. i saw connie yesterday. i sat with her underneath a table while watching "bridget jones's diary" but then it hurt and i went upstairs. i need to get some work done soon ... |