January 2009
22 posts
weekend #2
my figure skates came in today!! just before my first skating lesson tomorrow too so that’s really timely.
lixi and i walked approximately 8 blocks south back from amko (this korean grocery store a little off campus) because we went to get jelly to make for tomorrow’s ssa cny dinner. it was so cold and slippery i wanted to die but i made it back after all. and then i looked at the...
pre peoria
my physics TA is damn cute haha. anyone knows a teacher who signs off with a ‘peace’ ? im so glad i got nice TAs this semester unlike last semester where i got a 190 TA that was an obnoxious slumdog.
okay i have to be ready to leave at 545 AM tomorrow otherwise beth will come bang down my door. tian ah what an ungodly hour. i love playing in orchestra, but not to...
check out what the mother sent HAHAHA. i swear i convulsed into fits of laughter upon opening up the letter (which she sealed up only on one side with scotchtape that was coming apart). so apart from being totally random, she’s also a scatterbrain when it comes to such stuff. and there was NOTHING ELSE in the envelope except for this article, no card, no note, no money...
Grey UGG Classic Mini →
i forsee another impractical want persistently hounding me down. 99 dollars! and it isn’t even waterproof and gets dirty really easily yet i am so, so tempted simply bc it looks so nice and everyone here wears them (haha what a dumb reason). i shall see how much $ i’ll be getting from the beethoven/mahler reading and then do further consideration…today my bank statement came in and i had to go...
correction..
..it’s the LIM family not the LIN family whom i now associate with virtual oranges and angpows hahahah.
today it snowed like nobody’s buisness but the snow wasnt soft fluffy and powdery. instead, it is what i term as ‘evil snow’ because it causes PAIN. imagine millions of relentless hard little white rocks being thrown straight at your face non-stop. and as again, the...
i am disliking my roommate
this is probably the first time in 2009 that i feel truely annoyed and to some extent, even angry. all i’m asking is my right to feel comfortable in my room which i’m also paying for, now is that too much to ask? i’ve given you a whole week to find out how to shift your damn tv to the center of the room so i can debunk my bed bc i feel very insecure sleeping at such a high...
vuze is currently my newfound best friend. basically it’s a free program that enables torrent downloads, very useful for transferring large amount of data ie 700MB which is the rough file size of a movie.
SO, this means I have been downloading torrent files like nobody’s buisness. i’m very pleased i managed to find ‘a river runs through it’ and ‘hotel for...
my photoproject
i have decided to embark on a photo-a-day project, mainly to practice my photograpy skills and maximize use of my sleek-thin sony t700 (yes i blew 400 USD on it haha ) which takes some very good pictures. the shutter reaction speed is fast and almost instantaneous, which mean photos-of-the-moment can be captured!
i guess other objectives would be to capture the day’s climatic event for...
i chopped off about 4.5 inches of hair! efriend helped..although it kinda looks broomish and abit pharoah-ish b/c we didn’t use proper hair and thinning scissors. but whattevs. now it’s shorter and lighter and doesn’t take forever to dry.
today i went skating. $1 for skate rentals only! and then i picked up my ultra heavy box of books from TIS and walked home. all in...
spring 09
let me describe my journey back home :
30 hours on the cardinal, passing through very scenic and rural virginia, west virginia, cincinnati, indianna (which was as flat as a pancake) and finally back to chicago. stashed my luggage into lockers and headed out of the union station to several violin shops, hoping to get some strings but unfortunately they didn’t sell any. it was...
we were suppose to do rittenhouse square and curtis today (breathe in the aura of hilary hahn) but ivana fell victim of the stomach virus that’s been going around in this apartment. surprisngly i’m the only sole survivor left. as i quote her, “this place is turning into a hospital ward.” i hope i’m not next
have been watching dvds nonstop. atonement (awesome ost,...
the quaker state
current location: philly, pennsylvania
saw the famous sculpture ‘The Thinker’ by rodin outside the rodin museum yesterday. i vaguely remember dad telling me about this famous piece of art, famous because “not only does [the thinker] think with his brain…but with every muscle of his arms, back and legs, with his clenched fist and his gripping...
laundry thief
i woke up with a start to insistent angry sounding pounds on gareth’s front door. a lady was shouting something about laundry, and in my sleepy stupor i suddenly had this vision that I had accidentally shrunk her clothes in the dryer and fearing the wrath of new yorkers i threw the whole lot away. so i actully panicked! until my brain regained some sense and then i calmed down, relieved. ...
omtian i don’t want to total up how much i spent today!! i stashed all my receipts in a deep dark corner my suitcase in a stupid attempt to pretend i never wasted that much $$$$. i think i spent two months of allowance. !!!! someone needs to take me off the streets so i won’t pop into random shops and buy stuff that i don’t need.
and to top it off i think i might...
highly disturbed..
..by the flash cartoon series happy tree friends. i have been tricked for ten years (bc i have never bothered finding out) because the title emits a happy go lucky ‘spongebob’ kinda feel but omfg am i wrong. it is the most gory violent cartoon i hv ever watched! who knew such happy characters could end up as gruesome bloody remains. OUCH! no wonder RL said only guys watched...
i really want learn how to do charcoal properly. i am so inspired by shanhwa and katy so now i want to make a drawing of my violin in black white and spray
we went on a food raid in chinatown. cha siew bao, kerepok, shrimp xo fried rice (chanoodle), dim sum (dim sum go go), hainanese chicken rice (nonya), dried guava prawn rolls fried cuttlefish (aji ichiban). not forgetting the two tubs of tao huey we bought back..
i can never escape food
choral service tmr @ st johns cathedral the divine, the funny part is we’re not...
shake shack burger at madison square park
upper east side
MET
MOMA
excellent curry ramen at 60 west 56th men kui tei
orange peel chocolates
nodame cantabile
now i just have to get rid of my intertia to shower. one of my new year’s resolution was not to sleep with wet hair anymore……
Nodame Cantabile - DramaWiki →
this one is a hilariously exaggerated classical-music based japanese drama introduced by ivana which i can’t stop watching (probably cos i can relate so well to the orchestra practice scenes, lessons, competitions dotdotdot). normally i hate japanese anime/soaps but this one is too wacky to pass up. plus it’s got a great classical OST and i finally found out the name of a piece thats been...
today is 1 Jan 2009. i woke up at an outrightly outrageous time of 2pm, got dressed and hurried out to catch the remaining precious hours of daylight because the sun sets at 5pm.
today i took a lil walk around the big apple by myself. it was surreally calming and peaceful despite the noisy crude yellow taxis charging up and down the avenues as i made my way to Bryant Park. i took immense pride...