April 24, 2011-
Another set of thoughts I'm going through right now. Here they are. :P
-I just realized that a month from now, I would no longer be in what was called the adolescent years. How did I make it this far to be a year closer to being in the 20's all of a sudden...?
-Four midterms in the same week. That's what I call, an ULTIMATE stress and hell I went through. I guess I am glad that I never applied to CalTech or Stanford for that matter.
-Facebook... I think my addiction to that site is dying out rather quickly. Why is that? I haven't been talking so much on Facebook over the last several weeks. I wonder if it has something to do with the fact that I had that one month absence during January through February.
-In response to the midterms I had this week, I want to chill this weekend. However, I have an unfinished business that I am getting a lot of pressure from-summer plans. Ah... joys of being a college student who has to carry on his own burden of responsibilities...
-Ask me about my swimming abilities, and you'll know that they are rusted. I just barely played Water Polo this week, and I unfortunately didn't expect the pool to be that deep... I thought it was going to be 4-5 feet deep, when I found out that it was actually 5-6 feet deep. I unfortunately suffered a calf cramp during the game... ugh.
-I think it's suffice to say that we (LA Lakers) can get out of the series as long as we still have the same rhythm we've had during games 2 and 3. Who said that we would trail by the 3rd game after dropping the first one like the San Antonio Spurs (my backup team) did today?
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Monday, April 11, 2011
Random Thoughts...
April 11, 2011-
Okay, I don't have a specific subject for this post, but I thought of just putting in the thoughts I'm going through at this moment...
-Half or a little over half of my LDS friends have gone... to where? You know, to their mission spots or MTC. Now I am ready to see what, four to six more of my friends leave like this. Andrew Forrest, Matt Durrant, Dallan Carter, Wesley Hoover, Brad Walker, Josh Peart, Curtis Brown, Steven Meitler, Brock Rasmussen, Ben Hugo, Logan Pfau, Elliott Barth, and Scott Hebertson have all already left. Now, I have to witness my fellow Ultimate Frisbee friends Jon Mortensen, Michael Affleck, and Seokhee Burningham leave like this. I will also be witnessing few more of my close friends leave within months as well. Yes, I am especially talking about Nathan Odendahl, Jeffrey Bennett, Carter Hesterman, Austin Ellis, and Bjorn Jones.
-Los Angeles Lakers on a losing streak after winning 17 games with only a loss in between? No comment at all. At least I am planning not to watch the last few games so that I can save it up for the playoffs. Even if we do not win this season, god forbid Boston Celtics win this season. Maxine, I know you live in Boston and support these idiots, but I must abide with my original loyalty. That is... you know the answer.
-Utah Jazz getting eliminated from the playoff spot? What did I tell you Jazz fans who trash-talked me all my life? Your elimination in the hands of us (LA Lakers) is echoing my earlier post "NBA Preseason vs. Official Season!"
-StarCraft II is so hard to adapt to. I haven't been able to adjust to fast-paced computer games like this quite yet. In fact, my record to date for 1v1 matches is 5-10. As you can see, not good at all, even for beginners. I have already been on a losing streak many times, especially when I was on a 6-game losing streak. To be really honest, I'm glad to have gone against Albert Chen, who is a maniac at this game; however, I feel insulted by his remarks on my skills. It's just like I attained a friend who acts almost like my father who is arrogant. I know he's good, but he's too good for his own good. You know what? Give me time, then I might be more effective than now... ugh.
-I just barely began finding a job. Why? It's because I don't want a relatively empty vacation aside from my Guatemala trip to help out with one of my club projects (Engineers Without Borders) this upcoming September.
-All core classes this quarter? I guess I gave myself another challenge: try to get through only classes for my major this quarter. Thank god I do not have a literature-based class this quarter. To be honest, I'd rather be done with those by now. English literature is just never my forte.
-Have I mentioned this? I see so many homeless people down in Westwood Village every time I go there for shopping. This gives me a good idea about Los Angeles in general. It's in the same position as New York City in the 1920s during the Jazz age. If you've read The Great Gatsby (one of my favorites if you don't know by now), then you'll get the idea I'm trying to emphasize. Thank goodness that Westwood and its surrounding areas (particularly Beverly Hills and West Hollywood) are not the Valley of Ashes. In fact, they're almost, if not completely, like East Egg in the novel. If you are saying anything about gang presence, then there you go. You know that South LA is definitely the Valley of Ashes.
-Sirens, sirens, sirens... Just the everyday noise you hear from my dorm. Not to mention, you can also hear helicopter noises as well. Ah... the joys of living so close to UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center...
Okay, I don't have a specific subject for this post, but I thought of just putting in the thoughts I'm going through at this moment...
-Half or a little over half of my LDS friends have gone... to where? You know, to their mission spots or MTC. Now I am ready to see what, four to six more of my friends leave like this. Andrew Forrest, Matt Durrant, Dallan Carter, Wesley Hoover, Brad Walker, Josh Peart, Curtis Brown, Steven Meitler, Brock Rasmussen, Ben Hugo, Logan Pfau, Elliott Barth, and Scott Hebertson have all already left. Now, I have to witness my fellow Ultimate Frisbee friends Jon Mortensen, Michael Affleck, and Seokhee Burningham leave like this. I will also be witnessing few more of my close friends leave within months as well. Yes, I am especially talking about Nathan Odendahl, Jeffrey Bennett, Carter Hesterman, Austin Ellis, and Bjorn Jones.
-Los Angeles Lakers on a losing streak after winning 17 games with only a loss in between? No comment at all. At least I am planning not to watch the last few games so that I can save it up for the playoffs. Even if we do not win this season, god forbid Boston Celtics win this season. Maxine, I know you live in Boston and support these idiots, but I must abide with my original loyalty. That is... you know the answer.
-Utah Jazz getting eliminated from the playoff spot? What did I tell you Jazz fans who trash-talked me all my life? Your elimination in the hands of us (LA Lakers) is echoing my earlier post "NBA Preseason vs. Official Season!"
-StarCraft II is so hard to adapt to. I haven't been able to adjust to fast-paced computer games like this quite yet. In fact, my record to date for 1v1 matches is 5-10. As you can see, not good at all, even for beginners. I have already been on a losing streak many times, especially when I was on a 6-game losing streak. To be really honest, I'm glad to have gone against Albert Chen, who is a maniac at this game; however, I feel insulted by his remarks on my skills. It's just like I attained a friend who acts almost like my father who is arrogant. I know he's good, but he's too good for his own good. You know what? Give me time, then I might be more effective than now... ugh.
-I just barely began finding a job. Why? It's because I don't want a relatively empty vacation aside from my Guatemala trip to help out with one of my club projects (Engineers Without Borders) this upcoming September.
-All core classes this quarter? I guess I gave myself another challenge: try to get through only classes for my major this quarter. Thank god I do not have a literature-based class this quarter. To be honest, I'd rather be done with those by now. English literature is just never my forte.
-Have I mentioned this? I see so many homeless people down in Westwood Village every time I go there for shopping. This gives me a good idea about Los Angeles in general. It's in the same position as New York City in the 1920s during the Jazz age. If you've read The Great Gatsby (one of my favorites if you don't know by now), then you'll get the idea I'm trying to emphasize. Thank goodness that Westwood and its surrounding areas (particularly Beverly Hills and West Hollywood) are not the Valley of Ashes. In fact, they're almost, if not completely, like East Egg in the novel. If you are saying anything about gang presence, then there you go. You know that South LA is definitely the Valley of Ashes.
-Sirens, sirens, sirens... Just the everyday noise you hear from my dorm. Not to mention, you can also hear helicopter noises as well. Ah... the joys of living so close to UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center...
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Powell Library Incident
March 14, 2011-
Tis was another day, in the library studying for my Math 32A final, when one day, I was suddenly multi-tasking. That is to say, I was studying the proofs and theorems that were going to be on the final and watching over someone else's stuff for 40-50 minutes at the same time.
Okay, before that time had elapsed, I suddenly heard a vibration. Thinking it was a text message from one of my friends or my mother, I opened my phone. It turns out it was a call from my mom!
Now, normally I wouldn't be calling in the reading room like this, where I was preparing for my math exam at that time. Unfortunately, to get up and talk outside would mean someone would steal either my stuff or that person's belongings that I was watching over. She apparently had to tell me important things, especially about reminding me about ordering SuperShuttle to go to LAX when I return for Spring Break.
I couldn't hang up the phone at all, because she said it was too important for me to even not listen. So I stayed on for as short as possible. Finally, that person in which I was watching over his stuff came back after about 5 minutes into the conversation. Unfortunately, I think I was talking maybe too loudly even as I am whispering. And suddenly, according to Ryan Samii, one of my friends who happened to be present in the reading room at that time, someone sitting behind me in a cubicle started to record the last 10 seconds of my cell phone conversation at the same time everyone in the reading room (let's say, about 100-200 students in the library including Ryan since he witnessed my incident) stood up and looked at me.
Uh oh, it looks like I was on the verge of getting in trouble for talking on my phone, so I simply said this:
"Mom, I'm in the library right now, I have to get back to studying now!" (Hangs up)
And, gosh, everyone was like laughing at me after saying that and I was like, "I'm embarrassed! I'm embarrassed!!!!!!!" Afterwards, I got a standing ovation for doing something I didn't know I was doing apparently. I thought everyone laughed because of the way I broke the prime rule of the reading room: No cell phones in the library.
Probably the worst (or what everyone else said is funniest) part was this: I was unaware that I performed an action that stood up against Alexandra Wallace's rant against Asians using cell phones in the library in the so-called video "Asians in the Library." I hadn't even seen or heard about that video, even as Jimmy Li told me to watch out for her, in which I didn't have time to see because of final exam studying times.
Later, when I talked to Marilyn McGowan and Jason Mayer on the way back from Powell, word is that both of them and everyone else has heard about my phone call. Oh dear, did I just become an unknown celebrity for just that incident? Am I going crazy at all?
It was then, that Marilyn told me everything about Asians in the Library video and how everyone thought I was THE Asian in the library Alexandra Wallace was talking about.
It turns out that everyone laughed because they all heard about that video and were very glad that I talked on my cell phone (albeit unintentionally due to me not hearing about the video) in the most genuine way.
Okay, I finally admitted my incident to my roommate and best UCLA friend, Bryan, as well as Brandon Chan and my other roommate, Ivan. They laughed so hard that they even said that this was the best break from studying after hearing my story of the incident. Later on, I found out that the last 10 seconds of my call (where I said I'm in the library and that I had to go back to studying) was recorded according to Christos and Ryan. Oh no...
To be honest, this is the one time I don't even want to become a celebrity from just this. Crap, since the call got partially recorded....
After hearing all this though, I'm finally glad that I was able to stand up against Alexandra that apparently no one else did. It's all good.
Tis was another day, in the library studying for my Math 32A final, when one day, I was suddenly multi-tasking. That is to say, I was studying the proofs and theorems that were going to be on the final and watching over someone else's stuff for 40-50 minutes at the same time.
Okay, before that time had elapsed, I suddenly heard a vibration. Thinking it was a text message from one of my friends or my mother, I opened my phone. It turns out it was a call from my mom!
Now, normally I wouldn't be calling in the reading room like this, where I was preparing for my math exam at that time. Unfortunately, to get up and talk outside would mean someone would steal either my stuff or that person's belongings that I was watching over. She apparently had to tell me important things, especially about reminding me about ordering SuperShuttle to go to LAX when I return for Spring Break.
I couldn't hang up the phone at all, because she said it was too important for me to even not listen. So I stayed on for as short as possible. Finally, that person in which I was watching over his stuff came back after about 5 minutes into the conversation. Unfortunately, I think I was talking maybe too loudly even as I am whispering. And suddenly, according to Ryan Samii, one of my friends who happened to be present in the reading room at that time, someone sitting behind me in a cubicle started to record the last 10 seconds of my cell phone conversation at the same time everyone in the reading room (let's say, about 100-200 students in the library including Ryan since he witnessed my incident) stood up and looked at me.
Uh oh, it looks like I was on the verge of getting in trouble for talking on my phone, so I simply said this:
"Mom, I'm in the library right now, I have to get back to studying now!" (Hangs up)
And, gosh, everyone was like laughing at me after saying that and I was like, "I'm embarrassed! I'm embarrassed!!!!!!!" Afterwards, I got a standing ovation for doing something I didn't know I was doing apparently. I thought everyone laughed because of the way I broke the prime rule of the reading room: No cell phones in the library.
Probably the worst (or what everyone else said is funniest) part was this: I was unaware that I performed an action that stood up against Alexandra Wallace's rant against Asians using cell phones in the library in the so-called video "Asians in the Library." I hadn't even seen or heard about that video, even as Jimmy Li told me to watch out for her, in which I didn't have time to see because of final exam studying times.
Later, when I talked to Marilyn McGowan and Jason Mayer on the way back from Powell, word is that both of them and everyone else has heard about my phone call. Oh dear, did I just become an unknown celebrity for just that incident? Am I going crazy at all?
It was then, that Marilyn told me everything about Asians in the Library video and how everyone thought I was THE Asian in the library Alexandra Wallace was talking about.
It turns out that everyone laughed because they all heard about that video and were very glad that I talked on my cell phone (albeit unintentionally due to me not hearing about the video) in the most genuine way.
Okay, I finally admitted my incident to my roommate and best UCLA friend, Bryan, as well as Brandon Chan and my other roommate, Ivan. They laughed so hard that they even said that this was the best break from studying after hearing my story of the incident. Later on, I found out that the last 10 seconds of my call (where I said I'm in the library and that I had to go back to studying) was recorded according to Christos and Ryan. Oh no...
To be honest, this is the one time I don't even want to become a celebrity from just this. Crap, since the call got partially recorded....
After hearing all this though, I'm finally glad that I was able to stand up against Alexandra that apparently no one else did. It's all good.
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