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Country: United States
State: New York
Metro: New York City
Birthday: 12/13/1987
Gender: Female
Interests: funky socks, ken-jutsu, break dancing, comics, manga, animation, drawing, video games, home-made napalm...
Expertise: 'run and headlock' combo! works especially great in the mornings, when everyone's all sleepy n groggy..
I am also quite familiar with the back of my hand. =)
Occupation: Student
Industry: Art
Message: message me
Member Since:
1/28/2003
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| I can't believe it. I have a social life. Had. And
have, I'll make sure of that!! Ahh. I'm so happy.
Everyone's been so lame for weeks, everyone's had so much work to do
around here there's been no hanging out at all. Except for that
time one of my friends walked with me from 7th to 2nd Ave. And
then back up to Manhattan Mall.
My friends at college are so lame...but you'll see....it's
all gonna change! Pretty much all my friends there are commuters
(me too), so I guess they get tired easily. I mean, 2 of them
come from Jersey and one's like 40 min. away in Jamaica (Queens).
But the one that lives the closest to school, even closer than me, is
the LAMEST. He is SO LAZY. He thinks walking five blocks is some
great task. FIVE blocks. Not avenues. Blocks!
He's lived in the city all his life and he can't stand walking, it's
wierd. Anyway, out of the normal group of four people I happen to
usually be with, he is the different one. You see, we are slackers. He is lazy. There's a difference.
Think about it.
During Spring Break, our last break until Summer, we were all supposed to hang out at least once to see that movie, Ultraviolet.
But we never did. Why? Because the Lazy One didn't feel
like going, and thus the whole outing was dropped. We should've
went without him. But you know. I always thought it was a
courtesy to WAIT for your friends.
Then later when Break is over....the Lazy One IMs me and I learn....he went to see V for Vendetta with some friend from Hunter.
Now. NORMALLY I wouldn't mind. NORMALLY I'd be okay.
I mean he's allowed to have friends. But he knows that we all
wanted to go see that movie. We were all talking about going to
see that movie right in front of him, because of how awesome it looked.
So forget him. Next time we want to do something and he
doesn't, we're just gonna go on without him. Since he gets to do
what he wants, we should too =(
Let's talk about the FUN TIMES instead...
This weekend was great! And you know what, this website called astrologyzone
told me it would be. Well, it specifically meant Saturday and
Sunday, but hey, Thursday and Friday are part of the weekend too
;) The prediction for me on astrologyzone
for most everything else though was incredibly vague and barely
true. But for a couple other people I know it was dead on,
creepily accurate. I guess Sarah Miller or whatever her name is
got tired of predicting stuff by the time she got down to Sagittarius.
Thursday - Went with my sister and her friends to the Sean Paul concert at Nokia Theatre (sold out show). It went from eh to great, which is better than the opposite. For some reason, Rihanna's part (she opened the show) was like, technologically sabotaged! Why she sucked:
1/ We missed her first song (SOS, my fav) cause we were still at coat check
2/ Her white, rectangular shorts (or whatever they were) were hideous
3/ The sound on her songs kept blinking in and out.
What's up with that. I think like, $20 of the $50
ticket was supposed to go to paying people to make sure the show is
enjoyable. To make sure their sound system works! They're
SUPPOSED to check the sound like an hour before the show starts!
Not when the opening girl is singing! So bad!
But by the time Sean Paul came on, the sound was great....and it was perfect :D Haha, he had a cane....he told us a story:
When he flew down from Conneticut to NYC earlier that day,
three ladies were waiting for him. They asked for a picture, so
he had sure, and he had his arms around two of them. But the
third lady, whom he described as a woman with "300 lbs in her behind"
said, "No! I dont want no picture! I wanna strip you nekkid
and have your babies!" And she pushed him over and twisted his knee ^_^;;
It was cool, though I think rock shows
are more my thing. Hip hop, reggae, whatever genre that was, it
doesnt get me as energized as rock does. Really, it was like a
really expensive club, with live singers. In rock shows, there's
so much energy that gets thrown at you, so much power you feel when the
beat reverberates within your body, sometimes it's like you'll explode
unless you move your body and let out some of that energy!
Man. I wanna go to another rock show...havent been to one in a
while...
Anyway.
Friday - Supposed to have dinner with Ma-chan, but it was her grandma's birthday. So instead, went to see V for Vendetta!
With my sister and her friends again. Because my friends are lame
and probably wont go (seeing as how 1 of them already saw it). We
got tickets for it online for the iMAX theater and got there like 5 min before the show started.
Well APPARENTLY people got there like an hour and a half
early, because it was a sold out show with only the front row seats
open. Now in a normal theater, the front seats are the
worst. Just imagine how-much-worse- it is when the screen is like
10 x bigger! I mean, so big and distorted from down there than
you can't read a five word sentence spanning the screen before it
disappears.
So, we left, refunded the tickets, and saw it in a normal theater on Union Square.
And it was great. I Loooooved it! There really could have
been more action though, there really could've, and there was a lot of
talking, but it was great. I LOVE the voice of V ! I forgot
his name, he's the guy who played Agent Smith in The Matrix.
Gonna get the comic book... my sister's friends kept dissing it
though, I don't think they liked it much. Partly because it was a
3 hour movie.
By the way, Fridays are my 2-7pm 2-D animation
class, and I would like to thank my teacher in it for making me feel so
much HATE. Man I hate her. I feel like she's ripping us
off, taking our money and not teaching us anything. I thought
she'd be cool cause she worked on The Last Unicorn,
a movie that will always have a place in my heart. But she's the
devil and I hate her, and since I can't do anything else that has
little adversive consequence towards myself I shall write a very bad
evaluation of her at the end of the semester. With underlines and
lots of punctuation.
Saturday - Such a busy day,
it left me DEAD tired. Last class of Japanese with current
teacher....who has been AWESOMELY teaching us kansai
dialect instead of normal textbook stuff ( ^_____^ ). It's
great!!!! I really need more practice pronouncing and listening
to it though, it'd be nice to find a Japanese drama or something with
Kansai main characters.
After class, me and my friend went over to the kenjutsu dojo downtown. Well, he did, and I ran home cause I forgot my shinai
(practice sword) (>_<;;). IT WAS GREAT. Mike the
Masochist and the other white people weren't there....correction, Anne
was there, but she's a noob and she's pretty cool as a person. I
dont get a creepy feeling from her. Anyway, there was just 6
students and the (Japanese) teacher, we had the whole dojo to
ourselves... because I had to run home for my shinai, I missed the
drills they did. But he kept us constantly active, and we
actually worked up a sweat...it was great! And I learned a new
way to parry/counter-attack, heehee (^_^) Only the Japanese ones
knew how to do the Battojutsu (battoujutsu?) cuz
he trains with them more, but you'll see...one day....we too will be
grabbing away people's swords and kicking them in the side.
One day.
Had Quiznos for
the first time too, and hey, they taste good !! So me and my
friend hung out for a bit there, and made plans to go play paintball
:D ~!! They're still working it out, but they plan on renting a
castle to fight at. I never did paintball before....I'm kind of
scared ^_^; He said you could get bruises like, as big as
your palm. And one of them has a friggin RIOT GUN (bigger
paintballs go in there! And bigger=more pain). A bunch of them
have scopes. Some of them have nightvision goggles. They
can shoot a guy's LEGS while he's running at top speed in zig
zags. I am so dead xD
That's the point at which I realized Ma-chan showed up at my
apartment =x ! So I squiggled home from there and we hung out for
a bit...I was starting to think I wouldnt see her till summer =P
Well I had plans to meet with our high school friend in like 2 hours to
get some dinner and hookah, and I wanted Ma-chan to come too, but she
said she had to go cause she's leaving early for college the next day.
NEVER go to Sahara East.
Their fresh strawberry juice taste pretty dern good, but it's hella
expensive, as is everything else there. $5 for a glass.
That's like, the price of beer in NYC, and I dont think they put a lot
of strawberries in it cause it was pretty thin. Pita bread and
hummus was $7.50, again too much for a small snack food. And the
hookah.....FIF. TEEN. DOLLARS.
Holy hell.
We had three people sharing it so the money each individual paid
wasn't TOO bad, but still. That's a lot of money !!! And Sahara East
, though the decor is pretty cool, had absolutely NO ventilation
whatsoever. You were constantly inhaling other people's different
flavored hookah smoke. Now lightheadedness may be a thing you
want to get from hookahing, you know, you wanna get relaxed
feeling...but you dont want to get so drowsy you just wanna
collapse! No ventilation = No oxygen = I wanna sleep, not
hookah. But it's so much fun making circles with the smoke (^_^)
We wanted to go to this Irish pub after, but there was a bouncer and none of us had an .. acceptable ID.
So instead we got Starbucks and went back to the NYU
dorms to hang out, and stuff happened I'm now feeling too tired to
continue writing about. But lemme say, I think I really woulda
been happier living in the dorms. So much excitement, even at
3am. Though for no reason at all the heating went out.
I have a report to make up about an artist now...but tomorrow me and
some college friends are ACTUALLY going to hang out. It's so
unbelievable, I'm suspecting one of them might lame out by 3pm
tomorrow. This is a different group of friends than with the Lazy
One; this is an all girl's group ^_^; Also all Asian
(haha). So out of the WHOLE SCHOOL YEAR, with one month of school
left, tomorrow will be the first time we hang out outside of school,
and tomorrow will be the first time I get a picture taken with some
college friends (someone's bringing a camera). A full year and I
have no pictures with people, it's terrible!
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| All the happiness today, I feel like I'm going to overflow!
Why am I happy? Simple things.
I dont have to work for the rest of the week.
Finally got to talk to my friend Ma-chan, FINALLY
!!!! She just moved and I guess everything is hectic for
her. Moved to the land of factory smoke stacks, toxic waste
dumps, and spontaneously combusting rivers, AKA New Jersey ^_~
I've been calling my friend from LA, and it's all been
going to voicemail. He's in NYC for the week and I really wanted
to meet up with him...I haven't seen him in a year....then finally he
IMs me on the internet ^___^ And we're meeting up tomorrow!
This guy finally talked to my friend and confessed his love for
her! And she almost seemed ready to give up on him!
It's like a manga or something with the mutual unrequited love
resolution!!! So happy!!!
My other friend, I was a little sad because I thought she
was going to be in Russia for the whole Christmas break........turns
out......she ONLY went to VERMONT. Ack. I thought I heard
Russia, I dunno!!!! It's like when my old classmate, I
asked her how college is in Canada.
Her: "um. I'm not in Canada ^_^;"
Me: "Oh..." *later* "Hey I figured it out! You're not in Canada you're in PENNSYLVANIA!!! :D :D :D"
Her: "I'm in CONNETICUT!!!"
But the girl who supposedly went to Russia is now BACK and
we're hanging out tomorrow too ^___^ Schwee! This
also means we can finally (me and her and this other friend) stay up
all night and watch this Japanese drama called Waterboys
one of them got over the summer. AHhhhhhhh.....high school boys
by the pool. (-^_^-)=V! It brings back memories of Japan
and the swim team we met at the river!!! And. When I
accidentally started throwing rocks at one of them. It's just...I
didnt see him there!!! @__@ But his friends thought it was funny
and started throwing rocks at him too (X_X)
Now for some other petty happy things. I finally figured
out the right amount of hair necessary to pin to my head on both sides,
so that 1 clip can actually hold it. My hair's too thick for one
clip usually. And I downloaded a bunch of Anime (reverting to
hermit mode) that really has a place in my heart... AKA...Otaku no Video! I used to have the tape... a really CRAPPY tape that was all grainy...which i Lost (-_-;;) And Daicon III / IV
..... which has such beautiful animation, especially when the buildings
get destroyed and the swords are flying like fighter jets at a
ceremony. WOW. It's so smooth it looks like a computer did the
scrolling, but they couldn't use computers for that in the 80's!
And the Suikoden stuff...and Peach Girl...welll.....I
dunno if I can handle watching more of that show. It really makes
my heart hurt. And ever since episode 13...(I'm up to 14) .....
it's becoming too much, and I'm starting to think the main girl is a
stupid hypocrit. GARRR!!! BLAH BLAH I want to jump in the anime
so's I can smack them up! And bite them. RARRR. Feel
my WRATH!
It's called idiot's fee.
My friend gave me a gift card to Victoria's Secret
so's I can buy pretty pretty underwears ^___^ Mwahhaha.
Never bought anything there before, their crap is always so
expensive. I dont even know how much is on the card, she said she
couldn't write on it because it was too pretty (and it is...its
like...superiorly shiny, like it's enchanted or something). Going
there tomorrow, and the whole day's gonna be BUSY BUSY!! <3
With the important things, aka not work or school, aka not bumming at
home, AKA hanging out <3 <3 <3 !!! And there's no MTA
STRIKE to get in my way!!!
Anyway, yes. That's what happened today. And I got to have Coke, extra +++++ to happiness meter !
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| Ahhh the abuse =x ! Not in the bad way. Well, not that pain is a good thing.
Break dancing club
on Thursday made me feel like my right arm was gonna RIP OFF. I
also fell completely onto my right pinky...and for some reason there's
a wierd cut on it now. This Korean guy from my Drawing Class
was passing by and saw us, so I tried to get him to do something.
I KNOW he knows how to break, but he's being way too modest!
Though....he started coaching me....and was like....
Him: "You're a rightie? OK - now get on the floor and balance all your body weight on your left arm".
Strength training. EVIL. It's my left arm D: D: D: I
was constantly trying to hold that freeze and collapsing on myself for
a good hour, it felt. Tried to do some handstands too, but I'm
really scared...I can't get myself to stay ...
We had our first test ever in Japanese class
in 3 years....man...my English is deteriorating too. I mean, my
translation was correct, but what I wrote just sounds plain weird: " At Niwa, I plan to uproot flowers ".
At kenjutsu, there were a number of things telling me not to go...such as:
1./ Friend not going b/c inner ear is messed up, therefore no balance
(got kicked in the ear during karate)
2./ Me spilling coffee all over my hakama
3./ Me being unable to refold my hakama after drying it
4./ The door to the dojo being locked. It was a good 5 min. before someone
noticed I was waving my hands through the window, like a sea anemone
5./ I couldn't tie my hakama, after 30 minutes in the bathroom,
after retying
it 3 times in a row before giving up. The Japanese teacher
laughed at me >_<
Man. Mike the Masochist was there, and right
after he told me to hit him harder with the shinai, he SMASHES my right
arm with his own shinai. BLAHHH!!!! It hurt but I didn't let
on. After we finished practice, everyone was mingling at the
center of the room, and I see the guy come in the corner of my
eye.....shinai raising, shinai falling rapidly in my direction.
Quickly, I blocked his shinai with mine. Jeez,
he hit really heavy....and that thing was aimed for my neck!!
After that....
M: "I'm gonna give you a button that says,
'Psycho-Amazon-Bitches Who Kick Ass"
me: " (o_o;;) that all fits on ONE button??"
M: "It's a very big button."
Er. At least he seems to respect me more, or
something, by acknowledging that he can't sneak up and batter me
D: Or something. They scare me. There's a woman who's
sitting in on the sessions now, and I'm hoping she'll join....we need
more girls!
Just like how we need more girls in the break dancing club
:( I dont like being the ONLY girl! I've also realized,
that when I practice handstands there I have to (1) wear a belt and (2)
wear a shirt that is tight on my body, so it wont fall upside down D:
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| Today was such a good day, I feel like writing about it (^_^)
Up early to get to the orthrodontist....
"Hm, I think all we need to do is pull this tooth lower a little more (my fang tooth, the better to pierce flesh with)...after that it looks like we can start taking the braces off..."
Yesssssss... finally...! Except the new wires they put are cutting my lip. And I found dry blood that dripped down. Eeeck. :O But....if we're getting close to removal....I'll put up with it... (>_<)
My first class SUCKED though. Sucked because we're paying good money for schooling, and the teacher decides to let us out of our 3 hour class after only 25 minutes. Why. it's because he didn't feel like talking over the noisy people in the other room. Cuz he's old and whenever he laughs or something he gets into a fit of coughing. Anyway, I got my midterm back and it's really gay... i totally bombed the 1st part (definitions of random words from the books, like panelled bed and pastry chef), but my essay was decent. Still, the essay alone isn't enough to save D: I got a D- as a total. ARRGH. Good thing my in class essays are good.
Back on the track of happiness....
2nd class was cool cuz we relocated classrooms...to the room with computers @__@ :D So practically everyone signed on AIM, and if they didn't do it before our little intermission in the 3 hours, they signed on later after they saw all of us with like 398439058 IM boxes open, being HAPPY in class.
But, I don't like the old guy in our class. He's like 40 or something, and I dont think he takes criticism well or something. My seat was maybe 2 seats away from where he was when he was presenting his homework...and my friend next to me was asking me about what the format the homework (that was currently being presented) was. Because she did it wrong. So I was trying to explain it to her, and the old guy says my name over and over...then says "That's really distracting. Can you stop?"
What the hell. It sucks being reprimanded publicly when you're actually talking about something relevent to class stuff. It's not like i was talking about hamsters or something, I was talking about the format of HIS homework! But, I've noticed he doesn't like criticism. Maybe he thought i was attacking his work or something.
BACK AGAIN to the happiness track...
After school was break dance club =D I was so happy... see, since last week I been trying to do a chair freeze (from the baby freeze), but it just wasn't working. My right arm (supporting my body) kept on giving way and I couldn't figure out how to make it stop.... then I watched my friend do it.
Turns out, it's all because I been propping my right elbow into my hip bone. Which is WRONG ! Because when I twist my hips to get into the chair freeze, my hip pushes my elbow askew, so my arm isn't supporting my body anymore. But if you jab it into the waist instead....ahhh =D Suddenly I could do it!! So yes, now I can do the 6 step and into the chair freeze. I really hurt my shoulder though, from all the failures slamming down on it. I hope it doesnt swell... >_< I put a wet paper towel on it at the club, hoping the chill would discourage swelling.
So now i can do something somewhat cool looking :D :D :D
Anyway, after that I went to meet my friend in NYU, because the Chinese Society there was hosting a dance at this club called Heaven. So we went ^_^ Err...hahha...I thought my tank top today was cute and fashionable, but according to other people it looks pretty clubbish. It's not like you see anything though... sure the neck dips low, but any potential "cleavage" (because i dont have any) is blocked by a straight amount of lace. And the tanktop runs over my hips. 1 person at school was like, "uh, that's not really...a good thing to wear for breakdancing". I dunno why, I was fine in it. Though I kept my denim jacket on in case I looked funny with just a tanktop or something =O And when my friend saw me...she was like:
" Whoa! You're already dressed for clubbing!"
I laughed a bit and said, "Err, this is what I wore in school..."
As I was saying, after breakdancing me and my friend went to that club Heaven .. ground floor is red and called "hell", and 2nd floor has mirrors for walls and is calle d"heaven". I think it's wierd having mirrors everywhere (o_o;) Or maybe it just annoys me seeing girls checking themselves out constantly in the mirrors. Trying to be "sly" about it. Anyway, it was real cool cuz if you got there before 11pm (which we did), Ladies are free !!! Guys pay $5. hahha!
The songs were pretty old....they were at LEAST 3 years old. I remember listening to them when i was in the Philippines. Like "Let's Get Retarded" (except it was the crappy censored one, "let's get it started"), "Where is the Love", Missy Eliot, "Must be the Money" etc.... old Sean Paul...
Maybe if I got to stay longer, they'd play more recent music or something.
I got really thirsty there...but it was $5 JUST for Coke !! So I told the bartender,
"I only have $3 on me, is there any way you could lower the price of a Coke for me?"
It worked =D I was so happy!! It was so refreshing...I really needed a drink.
And later, this guy started dancing with me. And later... he bought me a drink =D
"What kinds can you get?" I asked.
"Anykind you want,"
He didn't look that old. So I asked, "You got an ID?"
The guy smiles and shows me this 21+ bracelet. He musta used a fake ID to get in, but, I shouldn't complain...also that's a different story. :). Also, I think the club was 18+ ... I'm 17... but I'm in college, therefore with a college ID, so it's ok.
I mean like, he's offering, why not take up the oppertunity? So I got a Sex on the Beach. Yummy =D I like sweet drinks...ehheh. And it was free!
There was another guy I danced with who was kinda cute...sort of reminded me of those "pretty boys" in anime except not with long hair, or extremely skinny bodies. But then came the phone call from my mom, railing on me to get home or else, so I had to go .
Still....I like today =) Or, I guess I should say yesterday. I liked yesterday =) And unfortunately, today I have work at 9:30 AM D:. Children. Daycare center. Arr. I want to teach them break dancing, but they're still too stupid. I dunno why. I know there EXISTS 2 year olds who can break. And these kids are 3 !!!! | | |
| I just finished telling my friend from school
something while we waited for the train. And when I was done, he
said,
"Wow. Uh. I'm kinda glad my friends are...normal."
I think he was trying to hint something at me ...
>_<, OOh! I got a new dangly thing for my cellphone,
and it's a white cat thing, and its face is like " XD "
+ "=^__^=" Maybe I will take a picture. If I find out
where the camera went.
I didn't know what the heck I was doing in my Art History midterm today. This weekend was soo busy, what with Halloween!
I went to this party my sister planned in Brooklyn on Sat., and it was
fun...though the Jungle Juice was practically all Kool Aid and barely any vodka in the taste...and I learned to play beer pong
=D I'm gonna start challenging people at school to
play! And I saw this guy (he's realy more of my sister's friend)
that I haven't seen in like 3 years. Yea....I think he's a show
off. And he also pronounces Naruto
wrong. It's not that hard to pronounce, geez! He watches
the subs too, so I dont see why he can't clean out his ears and HEAR
them yelling NARUTO!! every second, with the intonation on the
Na, not the Ru. And on Sunday was my friend's mom's cruise party
^_^; got home late. It makes me want to go clubbing
though...I'll find some 18+ thing maybe =) Even if I'm not 18
yet, I'm told it still works since I'm in college (just show the
college ID).
Oops, I got off topic. Yea, so ... that guy
who called me wierd indirectly. His printouts I read before the
teacher came in saved me!! Memorized some slide names, copied the
rest on my hand....So...based on the title of the slides (like Last Judgement of Hu-Nefer) and masterful BSing, I concocted a wonderful series of essays. I think I passed. Eheh.
One of my classmates! OOhhh I felt so bad for him! He was conspiciously absent in art history,
and after when we were all in the lunchroom downstairs...he just comes
up next to me looking trashed, clothes disheveled, hair unkempt.
"My alarm clock didn't go off! I'm so mad!!!"
He had pillow marks on his face xD
"Yea....I got so mad that by the time I got to
school, I just threw myself on the couch and went to sleep again".
He slept at like...5am. I feel bad though, cuz
it seems like he really killed himself studying for it, and he missed
the test just like that. But....Hahahha. I couldn't
help but laugh. And then my friends made fun of me cuz I was
eating macaroni and cheese. With Hi-C. Like in Elementary. Nothing wrong with that!! It's yummy!!! Not the Hi-C I had though. Wild Cherry. There was something wrong with that stuff...makes me frown when I drink it..
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