21 October, 2008

old facebook post: wo de shengri

mood: tired, confused, pensive but strangely content
music: me snoring in my room, late for class

this starts a series of posts from my facebook page. because I need more posts...

wo de shengri
Sunday, January 28, 2007 at 3:24pm

"It's the new year."
< sticks out finger in air >
< puts in mouth >
"Doesn't taste any different."
-Garfield comic strip

昨天是我的生日, sigh. (yesterday was my birthday, sigh). (I'm taking Chinese.) huzzahs and tai hao le's abound, now that I am nineteen, but it's been pretty blah so far. Thanks for all the people who have remembered it, though. But anyways, being nineteen doesn't feel all that special, at least when compared to such milestones as being 18 or 21 (or 20, for that matter), but I'll take it nonetheless. In other news...

< geek_content >
< loading John's Life v12.1.3...... >
Life# show life blips
Building configuration........
!Partial Credit wins Best Choreography at the ICCA quarterfinals in Orono, Maine.
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!Genericon XX hits RPI campus; mass influx of geeks rationalizes takeovers of the DCC and half of the CII with activities such as D&D, LARPs, Killer Bunnies, the Eye of Argon, and constant Anime marathon.
!
!Troy, NY hits five below zero on a bitter, sleepless Friday night.
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!John officially hates Chemistry 2 and Cell/Molecular Bio labs.
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!Everyone on Roebling 3rd floor officially hates Physics 1.
!
!tommy boy still has not unpacked his stuff since moving in for the semester two weeks ago; aims to pick up where he left off, in all aspects, and targeting all senses.
!
!John hates Citibank for delaying his student loan application, and giving him such a high interest rate.
!
Life# config life
Life(config)# int work_stream 0/0
Life(config-if)# no shut
Life(config-if)#
^Z
Life#wr mem
(OK)
< /geek_content >

piu tardi, devo cominciare a lavorare e studiare.

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01 October, 2008

let me try this blogging thing again...

mood: peeved and tired
music: rain falling on a tin roof

Hokay, it seems like I haven't been posting lately, even though I had pledged myself to do so on a more frequent basis; hence, why I am posting now. I might just be getting used to a more active posting schedule, or I could just be running out of ideas. Dunno. Here goes.

There has been quite a lot of commotion on campus for the past few weeks, intensifying in preparation for the grand, long-awaited opening of the publicity stunt that is EMPAC. Pathways have been paved over, bridges have been burned, random trees have been mercilessly and unceremoniously cut down to make room for college/park-o-topia, and relationships have been tested and stressed. Case in point: the other day, for no apparent reason, the powers that be have decided to cut down two beautiful trees in front of the Playhouse, leaving two bare, shameful stumps. And what do they put on top, just to make it look pretty? A pot of mums. WTF? Seriously, what gives? What sort of reason could one give to justify cutting down two valuable, beautiful trees that add to the appeal of campus, only to be replaced by a pot of mums? It also seems that whoever is commanding the selective decimation of trees has no sense of symmetry at all. I'm sure that any architecture person/visual arts person/appreciator of good design can attest to this. Without it, things appears out of proportion and imbalanced, creating a sense of unease in the viewer. Opposite of what EMPAC wants, but whatever.

In other news, classes are meh. I might drop physical chemistry, due to sheer laziness on my part. There is no final exam, so everything counts. And I have a nasty habit of not doing homework when it doesn't have to be handed in. My other classes are just dandy (if you have a sarcasm-o-meter, it would have gone off just now): biochemistry tests every other week, physics giving me grief two looooong nights a week, a cannon barrel doomed to fail, and organic chemistry actually being of interest this time around. Did I mention that there's a career fair coming up this weekend? And that I am petrified of career fairs?

By the way, I am planning to cart over my notes from facebook onto here, in a series of posts, very soon, when I have the time. I have organic chem lecture in eight, so I must close.

再見.