sleep? who needs sleep? sleep is for the weak.

reflections upon writing a research paper at 4AM

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:12:21 GMT

I ended up reading all the chapters of Karneval that are currently out instead of finishing my essay at a timely manner. Hence, 4AM instead of a more sensible 3AM or 2:30AM.

...but I now have this urge to cosplay Hirato. OTL

for the fail

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:10:21 GMT

I came home for the weekend to torrent stuff, but realized I left my flash drive and Kouichi at school. ;A;

~~yes I do name my electronics~~

in an effort to distract myself from schoolwork

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 02:57:07 GMT

~~that I am already slacking off on right now~~

MANGA REC

FLAT is more or less one of the most adorable things I have ever read. It's sweet, funny, cute and heartwarming; Aki and Heisuke are so endearing and the way both learn from each other is so well-portrayed. The art is adorable, too. *A*
fkdgsfskdgfkdsjgf

........and as a bonus, Aki's doting father looks like Turkey, and one of Heisuke's cute friends looks like Spain.

...I suck at summaries, so go read it for yourselves \o/

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:22:41 GMT

1) linguini, I got your card! And thank you for being the best brosis EVAR. ♥
Seriously, you have no idea how much your card cheered me up. ;u;
(there's a letter for you on the way!) [hugs]

2) welcome kamisasoup and minimucchi! sorry for rather emo-sounding posts as the first ones you see. orz
but yes, hello from Norway/Hong Kong! \o/

3) I have to go study for midterms/find a job/go to drumming practice. |D

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 04:08:59 GMT

it's a little awkward/unsettling when a complete stranger friends you out of nowhere.

orz

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:15:38 GMT

My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haul
muishiki goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as Sweden from Axis Powers Hetalia.
125thdimension tricks you! You get a rock.
albel gives you 14 light orange banana-flavoured jawbreakers.
derringer2000 gives you 15 softly glowing pineapple-flavoured gumdrops.
esthiem gives you 2 dark blue pineapple-flavoured gumdrops.
hazelnutti gives you 11 purple watermelon-flavoured gumdrops.
narcista tricks you! You get a rotten egg.
owut tricks you! You get a rock.
purgingwhiteink gives you 17 dark blue cinnamon-flavoured nuggets.
wax_feathers gives you 9 light yellow root beer-flavoured pieces of chewing gum.
yuulin tricks you! You lose 66 pieces of candy!
muishiki ends up with 2 pieces of candy, a rock, a rotten egg, and a rock.
Go trick-or-treating! Username:
Another fun meme brought to you by rfreebern.

f-father, how could you ;A;

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:10:06 GMT

New laptop came today! |o|!!!

This is a very important moment! ~~kind of~~ ~~sort of~~ ~~not really~~. This is the very first laptop I'm coming into ownership of, not to mention the first brand-new computer I've come to own, and also the first modern, up-to-date computer I've come to own. (I mean, none of my previous computers have had RAM that exceeded 256MB.)

so, important question for you all:

View Poll: #1459440

Voice Post

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:23:12 GMT

lots of walking ahead

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 06:58:46 GMT

Got my dorming assignment! I opted for a single, since I'm a) pretty much the worst roommate ever and b) sick of sharing rooms. |D;;

I'll be in Niebla Hall ("mist", kufufu~), which is, unfortunately, SUPER FAR from the rest of the school. OTL

(...also, why does UCI have so many stairs and slopes? ㅎ___ㅎ;;;)

dentist trip

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 23:40:05 GMT

Got part one of a root canal today. |D;;

...the feeling of having only a third of your mouth anesthetized is the strangest feeling in the world. o.o

later: OWW OWW SHIT BLINDING PAIN THE ANESTHESIA WORE OFF OWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

crazy desert heat

Sat, 29 Aug 2009 22:49:20 GMT

~~It is 93°F inside the house.~~

edit: I take that back. It's 96°F in the house.

la la la scheduling

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 03:35:49 GMT

schedule for my fall quarter:

History of Western Art: M/W/F, 10:00-10:50AM
German: M/T/W/T/F: 11:00-11:50AM
Uni. Studies - Majors: 1:00-1:50PM (this is that one class most undeclared major kids take for the easy A... how lame.)
Environmental Studies: Tu/Th, 2:00-3:20PM

here's to finishing my GE in 5 quarters! Or less, if I can. (Woo-hoo for 10 AP credits + 1 IB credit \o\)

...I'm thinking of majoring in History (either East Asian or European focus), and minoring in Digital Arts. hmm. And looks like I won't be taking Japanese this year, but maybe next, or the summer? I still have to go in for an interview for placement in the right level...

aah, I want to learn Chinese, too. :

what a shame

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 04:02:30 GMT

Back from orientation!

Basically:
1) The Middle Earth dorm is adorable. Everything there is named after something from the Lord of the Rings series, and one of the dining halls is named after Pippin.
2) The bathrooms suck, though.
3) But really, so do Mesa Court bathrooms.
4) But both have decent bedrooms.
5) Outwardly, Mesa Court is prettier.
6) I came in with 10 AP course credits, but only 9 counted for anything useful. =___=lll
7) My IB HL English exam got rid of the "basic writing criteria". Laaaaaaaaaaame. [/asian whining]
8) I am insanely in love with the Langson Library. ♥
9) SPOP Staffers were adorable. ♥ (Algorithm March! I love the University of Chinese Immigrants.)
10) I can't decide if I want to major in History or Linguistics.
11) Leaning toward History, but both subjects are pretty "useless". |D;;
12) Hmmah, European History of East Asian History?
13) Japanese Placement Exam on the 7th of August; I wonder if I'll get into 2A, 2B, or 2C.
14) My schedule is disgusting.
15) I never ever want to take another Mathematics or Science course.
16) Apparently they filmed a part of Poltergeist at the Langson Library.
17) And part of some variation of Planet of the Apes in front of one of the Social Sciences buildings and the professors were all, "wtf, monkey suits?" because no one told them about the filming.
18) There are a loooot of stairs.
19) I wonder if I can fit Chinese on my schedule?
20) Russian or German?
21) I might be too ambitious for my own good.
22) All the courses I was actually interested in were taken or not being offered. OTL
23) blank space
24) .
25) I really just wanted to end on a nice, round #25.

my highlighter is drying out

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 02:36:58 GMT

I'll be in UCI Wednesday-Thursday for Orientation.

Oh man, I'm going to college soon. @_____@ [still kinda can't believe it]

...speaking of, I should probably set a date for my Japanese placement test. hmmah.

considering what the original post was about

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:58:31 GMT

congratulations

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 07:41:56 GMT

Troy is exempt from the whole mess.

good thing I've graduated already

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 03:11:40 GMT

there goes Troy's magnet-school status, or perhaps, actual school status, considering 50+% of the school goes to Troy on an interdistrict transfer.

oh, man. who will I visit now? m-my cute children, waaaaaaah. ;A;

just a small bit of flailing

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:18:52 GMT

I got my hands on a Cocca doujinshi \o\ \o/ /o/

I walked around in wet ballet flats

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:19:25 GMT

Post-AX post! Which is surprising, because half the time I kind of forget I have this journal thing.

I could only go Friday and Saturday, orz. ~~a-and I missed all the Hetalia gatherings, which makes me quite sad. ;~;~~

Friday:
Friday was volunteering day for a one-day pass. First we were at the Aniplex panel to stand at the doors and check badges.

THEY PLAYED KALAFINA SONGS FOR THE KUROSHITSUJI AND KARA NO KYOUKAI TRAILERS fsgfgsk;gjf;sfweeeeeeeeeeee

and like a retard I started singing along, but only to Keiko's parts. Because I cannot go high. |D

But the second shift was kind of annoying, because the boots I wore while cosplaying Greece were kind painful to stand around in; Registration was just standing around and telling people to go in lines C, D, E, F, take your pick, pick one you like, walk straight down, yes ma'am/sir, straight down all the way where I am pointing where are you going that's the opposite of straight down. Eventually, I got to talking with the guy behind me and we started playing DS games. |D

When we took a break for food, we went into the corner of obscurity. (No one recognized us as countries ;~;)
But I saw albel pass by as Ryohei with a cute Chrome and that guy with the L kaptop (I'm so sorry, the name escapes me at the moment but it was seriously AWESOME)! B-by the way, if you didn't know who the heck I was, it's perfectly fine and quite expected, since I'm quite inactive on LJ. |Db

Later during the night we ran into supercute America, Canada, Russia, (2) China(s), Lithuania, and Hong Kong. There was also a Spain, a Bad Friends Trio group, and another Russia and America to come join us later. Also a cute Finland ~~that I first mistook for Switzerland OTL OTL I am so sorry ;~;~~

We took random pictures and we all lied on the ground in a circle to make a CHIKYUU~ (gah, supercute people that I met fsdg;kfdg;f)

And then we went back to yuulin's and wax_feathers and I finished our costumes for the next day.

Saturday:
Hong Kong's costume was finished around 10, because that's when I woke up after sleeping around 6:30 AM after staying up all night hand-stitching the damn collar. If you see it, you can tell where I lost consciousness because the stitches are jagged and awful. The brief spots with straight stitching is from when I poked myself with the needle and woke up for a short time.

...Once, I thought I had finished a nice row of stitches, decently straight and everything, and I was just about to knot the thread and finish.

And then I woke up. ._____.

Buuuuut anyways, because of that, we missed the Hetalia gathering. OTL
;~;

We ran into the Hetalia group from before, with new additions Taiwan and Veneziano. The Italy was supercute, aaaack. She had Italy flag boxers. \o/

We went to Artist Alley to find wax_feathers's buddies (AAAAAACK SUPER SUPER CUTE VOCALOID COSPLAYS >///<). wax_feathers kept getting mistaken for Romano or Korea, lol. She was Austria minus the blue coat. (We later came up with the excuse, "Prussia invaded Austria's vital regions" for the lack of coat.)
Um um um, we looked at cute art, pretty art, walked around, and I didn't get to buy any doujinshi ~~dammit.~~, and um found people, et cetera.

Then we went over to the Masquerade... which was, uh, interesting, I guess. =____= It was my first time going into a Masquerade, so I wasn't quite sure what it was, or what to expect. |D;;

~~someone should totally have done a Eurovision spoof with Hetalia.~~

Um, we met up with the supercute group again, got kidnapped to their hotel, and we had pizza. Canada and I were neat and used utensils. :Db
On the way to the hotel, we saw a random fountain, and so took a bunch of random pictures. My shoes got wet. |D

Um, on the way back to the car, we got lost and couldn't find the right parking lot. OTL We wandered for a while (sorry Italia-kun for making you walk so much ;~;) and um eventually found our car after trying all the other parking lots around LACC. orz

Due to my old man back and general failing health, I think I'll lapse into a coma for a bit. |Db

I keep forgetting.

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:01:38 GMT

so, going to AX Friday-Saturday as a volunteer. you might see me there as Greece or Hong Kong, depending on which day.

this is very relevant.

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 02:06:33 GMT

North Korea looks rather like an anvil.

In other news, I graduated from Troy High School today. (pictures later, 'cos I had no camera. will have to wait until Mariam/Becky post them on facebook.)

everyone knows what coleoptera is

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 05:44:35 GMT

how science olympiad kids think:

Mrs. Ngo: Okay, this order of insects is the most populous and diverse. What is the common name of these bugs?
student: oh! Coleoptera. [face: lol that was so easy.]
Ngo: great! now, what's the common name?
student: ...that was the common name, wasn't it?

this is way too late at night considering I'm two weeks away from graduating

Thu, 28 May 2009 09:26:31 GMT

damn Troy Tech fair. :

Wed, 27 May 2009 06:46:35 GMT

THSAC is having a small club social this Friday after school, in the Japanese room. Food/drinks/games will be available, along with a special showing of...........

well, something awesome and special. you'll have to wait and find out. :D:D:D

14, 13? however many days to graduation, I'm not sure

Wed, 27 May 2009 03:33:24 GMT

but since Graduation is coming up soon:

hey RL people, who wants a Graduation ticket? I've got two for my parents, but that's it since apparently UCSD is being evil and having finals on the 11th of June... so my brother can't come. (w-which I'm actually pretty upset over, believe it or not)

yuulin already asked for one, and so there's, what, 5 left?

holy shizz I am graduating soon fsdhgf;ksgfkjsgf