If only in my dreams...

Man I love the holidays. But it's not the same this year. Maybe it's because I haven't watched Elf yet. Maybe it's because I'll be in Kentucky until after Christmas. Maybe it's because nothing's the same without you around anymore. I think it's because of Elf personally.

I did pretty well this semester. Not as good as I thought I would but I got decent grades this semester. My GPA will only continue to go up now because, well, no more science classes. Without those fuckers I would only have 1 B in all my collegiate history. I'm still bitter about Bio 106.

XKCD is awesome. Instead of studying diligently 24 hours a day on the days preceding the Orgo final, I got caught up on XKCD. I'm now 100% caught up with XKCD. Yep.

8 Minutes 20 Seconds turned out to be a really good movie. Also, it turned out that me and Katie had like the driving storyline in the movie. Nice. I took Candy there and showed her what dating a movie star was like. Yes, I do treat all my girls like that ;)

Lastly, Kentucky is boring as hell. I'm coming to STL on the 27th so that should be a fun week. Until then, I'm going to look for my PS2.

Moderate Liberal Minds...

It's been a while since the last update into my life and many things have happened that have little significance. Well, to others at least. To me they are a huge deal let me tell you.

I am officially fucking pre-med. Who am I kidding, I'm not taking Orgo next semester.

I want to go to France so bad. But unless I take 209 next semester, that's not going to happen. That's why I am most definitely taking that course. I have Rosetta Stone and the magical Brisa.

The Decemberists concert was awesome because Obama Obama Obama was the main event (kind of). It was kind of scary when the lights almost crushed half the crowd.

Lastly, there are too many girls in my life. Actually, there are none. I just talk about myself too much. I would change that but what would fill up the silence?

Think I was blind before I met you

Ahhh, 2 prelims down for the first round and I've made it in one piece. I think I did well on both of them. We'll have to wait and see.

After some more drunken adventures, I've decided to change some things and try not to act like too much of an idiot when under the influence. I was going to go dry for 3 weeks but quickly realized that abstinence-only education is bullshit.

People in Acting I seem to really like the scene I'm doing with my partner. I'm quite proud of it myself and working with Bruce on it helped a lot too. That class is really the only class I'm passionate about. And phil kind of...

I'm sort of on the 5th stage right now but it's like a saddened 5th stage. I understand a lot of circumstances surrounding the situation and my heart is lightened quite a bit. But I still don't have what I want. I'll just have to be just a hero for a while now.

Lastly, Asian couples are sometimes cute as fuck. You know who I'm talking about...

Autumn leaves are beginning to fall

A lot has happened in my life. I got my wisdom teeth taken out and really it wasn't bad at all. Other than some minor swelling, tripping the fuck out on pain killers the first day, and a little bit of pain, it wasn't a burden.

I'm back home in Ithaca and partying it up as I usually do. That leads to me doing stupid things some nights though. For example, I got JA-ed my first night of getting drunk at Cornell this semester. I went to the playfest afterparty and then Ariel and I decided to go to the Sage house and party with the singers there. She was supposed to keep an eye on me because I was pretty fucked up but I eluded her gaze and ran all the way back up to north. Then, I thought it would be a fantastic idea to pee off of Thurston bridge. The cop however, thought otherwise so I got JA-ed. That's basically like a mini-court system at cornell that will review your case and dole out some punishment. The first minor 2 don't really matter but the third one is dangerous because that's when things start showing up on your record.

Anyway, so in terms of the ladies I kind of fuck shit up I guess. After initial attraction, sexual tension, hooking up because of the ludicrous amounts of sexual tension, me getting drunk and saying dumb shit, we're back to sexual tension again. I just need to... not be dumb? I think that would be the plan here. There's also some potential others I want to focus on but it's hard because nothing gets my heart pounding like the fragrance of the original girl.

I'm getting drunk a LOT this semester and it's probably not good for me. But I'm young, free, and know my limits so I don't think that's going to change very soon. Also, the ladies are nice?

I pretended I was british a whole night (method acting woo!). Everyone believed me and it was awesome. Although I don't agree with some of the casting choices in Arcadia, it's going to be fun I think. Stoppard is a witty fellow for sure. And even though I have been called back 5 times and been cast 0 times at the schwartz, I'll continue to audition because, well, rejection builds character. Yea, that's what I'll go with; rejection builds character.

VLOG

Popped Collars=Douchebag? Hmm, I investigate this age old question with my first vlog attempt at something slightly comedic but mostly serious. Vote now folks!


Other than that, I'm getting my wisdom teeth out tomorrow so that I can start invisalign in Ithaca (so much work...). Also, I need a job to support my ukulele hobby. My new KoAloha came in and it costed me about 270 (retails for well over 500 though). It's all Koa body and fretboard with a mahogany neck. Pineapple Soprano shaped with clear Worth strings. <3!


Oh, and I changed the strings on my Lanikai concert to Aquila Nylguts so they sound and look a little different.

Sam Adams is awesome. Nuff said.

I will be returning to the promised land on the 23rd and I cannot wait. Be Xcited folks... Hopefully partying won't affect recovering from oral surgery. I really do hope that's true.

You are such a PYT!

I am escaping Kentucky for a week and therefore will be incredibly happy during this time period. However, I'm actually doing alright in Lexington. The gym is really convenient, the pool (which I will check out tomorrow) seems really ballin and the townhouse is spacious and quiet (unlike Morehead's apartments).

Now, I picked up my uke-ing a lot as of late and I realize I love the little thing. I love it so much I'm getting another one. A better (read: more expensive) one. I'm looking at some vintage Kamakas and they'll run me around 300 for a solid gold label uke.

In other instrumental news, I just bought a guitar off of ebay for my dad (ok, kind of for me too ;p). It's this used Takamine G340 in great condition with a ton of extras for a really good deal so I'm excited to fool around with that for a while until I part with it when I get back on campus (I'll leave it at home for my dad to mess around with it I guess). Ukulele is still #1 in my heart no doubt.

So, I've recently been bitten by the Julia Nunes bug which is quite delightful. Although I'm not as zealous about her talents as I was about Zooey Deschanel's she is still an awesome musician and personality on youtube. She loves the beatles, the ukulele, and... I dunno, other good stuff. How could I resist not enjoying her music?

Lastly, I realize that Sake is incredibly delicious. It may be the Asian genes talking but it is not my absolute favorite alcoholic beverage. I need to slowly coerce my parents to buy me and let me keep a stock of it at school. Slowly, but surely, I will succeed. 2 and a half weeks to go!

As Time Goes By...

I'm here in Kentucky having my ass bored off. It's ok though since I'm moving to a less hoosier part of the state named Lexington in about a week. There's a mall there. I'm excited.

I need to lose weight!!! I've gained like 15 pounds since being away from Cornell. I don't know if the stress or the 6 miles of walking a day is what caused me to keep those calories at bay but they are wreaking havoc on my figure! I've been scaling back my meals too since I'm not as hungry as I usually am on campus. I'll start running once I get some running shoes tomorrow and once I move to Lexington the townhouses there has a pretty nice gym and pool so working out/tanning will give me stuff to do.

My musical skills have been waning as well. I havnt been playing ukulele, singing, or playing piano as much as I would like. In terms of singing, I don't know what to do next semester. I would like to continue with cookie and keep up with my jazzing skills but I would also like to do some musical theatre stuff and classical singing... decisions decisions.

I met this chick on college confidential asking about the social lives of risley residents. She was afraid that since she heard of "weird" people living in Risley, they would not be inclined to go to frat parties and the like. I assured her that my posse loves partying and that if she couldn't find her own way to them, my group would help her out. I can't wait to meet all the new impressionable freshmen in a month or so!

I'm playing Diablo II's story mode again. God help me...

The Boys of Summer

My boys came from STL to visit me this weekend. I missed them a lot and we had a good time here in the 'Ville. Thankfully, I only got a little tipsy and so did my friend who hadn't drunken before. Though, they better visit me when I'm in school so I can show them how crazy we party up in Cornell. Yea...

So I'm finally done with this internship thing. Done as in we took our finals and we have nothing else responsible to do except PARTAYYYY! I can enjoy my summer now-though I have to return to Morehead on Friday :(. Still, PARTAYYYYYYY!!!!!

Well, I believe that after 2 weeks of packing and relaxing in Morehead, I will be moving to a somewhat more civilized place (Lexington) and then finding some places to shadow and such to figure out what I want to do with my life. In addition, I need $$$ so maybe some quick cash in some places might be cool but I have not time because...

I'm going to Gulf Shores/Florida! I'm going to Tallahassee and Mobile the beginning of August with my aunt and cousin from Toronto. It'll be mad chill I hope (maybe I'll build up a strong enough tan so I don't become transparent after Cornell's winter...). I also might be visiting Chicago/Milwaukee afterwards and that trip sounds really awesome too.

Here's looking at you kid...

A Blossum Fell...

I am in love with Pushing Daisies. That show is just the kind of old fashioned love story that an old school kinda fella like me appreciates. It's adorable. Chuck is adorable. Ned is adorable. One note, Chuck's american accent is very good but I always thought she had a weird, mysterious twang to it. Now that I know it's because she's faking an american accent it makes a bit more sense. Oh, and I'm trying to learn a British one too! I need to practice more though...

I'm having a pretty good time here in Louisville. The people are mostly cool and I find different venues to have fun during the weekends. Even though many of the girls here are pretty attractive, most of them have boyfriends (psh). That doesn't stop me from trying though...

I drank way too much saturday night. Enough to forget many things that happened after 3AM and enough to feel it the next day (for the first time and my theory on asians not getting hangovers is now completely false). Fun night nonetheless with beer pong (first time, it was gross now that I think back), new friends, and a bottle of morgan's I still need to get from a friend's fridge. Good times!

I don't know if I want to be a doctor. I don't know if I want to NOT be a doctor. I've been oscillating between M.D. and Psy. D. There's also that year I want to try out acting... If I could just split myself into 3 people that would be the best solution to all these problems.

People here drink a lot of whiskey and have accents. Interesting...

St. Louisville

St. Louis was a good week. I reconnected with people, smoked some hookah, met some new people and had a lot of fun. I will be back soon I promise :-!. I don't know what that emoticon means...

I'm sorry I didn't have time to see everyone I promised I would see this time around but next time. There's always next time.

I'm not happy with some of the things that happened this school year (the repressed asian part of me is focused on grades and medical school and etc.). But I can change. I know what I can do, what I can't, what I have to do, and what I can get away with not doing now so I will be coming up strong my big soph year!

I'm now off to Louisville tomorrow. May has been a long and fast-paced month. I havn't gotten any "real" down time yet. I don't really expect any until July. I'm perfectly fine with that ;D. Oh shit I need to pack. And evaluate my political views in light of all the conservative bible belters I will surely meet and interact with the next six weeks. Maybe it's finally time when X learns to keep his mouth shut? Hahaha... if only...

I miss all of you! You know who you are...

Sophmoric Me

Freshman year has been quite the learning experience I must say. If I could go back, I would do a few things differently. But now's not the time for regrets; I still have plenty of time to "fix" some things.

One of them is living in Risley freshman year. Although I love my close friends here and my dorm, it's just not the same as Dickson or Donlon. I went with Jen to Dickson the day before my last final (i know, genius move right?) and the people there were, shockingly enough, normal people it seemed like. I never meet those people in Risley (and that has both its positives and its negatives I guess). Anyway, I'm sure next year will bring more acquaintances that are less... Risley? I dunno, we'll see. Oh, and new freshmen next year!

I swear, most the people I meet outside are greek. They're pretty cool too. Although I sincerely doubt that I will join a frat, rushing sounds enticing... Also, the allure of collegetown is inexorable.

Grades grades grades... Fuck biology.

Oh, and I'm in Canda right now and then 23rd=STL!!! After that, 6 weeks of Louisville for an internship so I'm gonna be not-bored for the next 8 weeks it seems. What then after that? I guess work+classical voice training? I'm so close to that tenor range ahhhhhh.

Something From Nothing

Last night was fan-fucking-tastic! Though we didn't do anything, I had one of the best nights I've had in a while; I have the impromptu Polaroid picture to prove it as well. People are awesome, I love people...

1 final down, 2 to go. I might of fucked up really bad on the biology final but you know what, I just want a B. Not even like a B+, if I can get a B, I will be very very happy even though I put more work into that class than people can imagine. Though, not as much work as everyone else in that class but still; it was not the easiest of classes.

That essay on Oral Formulaic theory was really killing me at first but I manned up and owned that shit.

I still haven't started chem yet. I am a slacker.

Oh, Dutch people aren't from Denmark. I know they're from the Netherlands. I KNOW dammit!

Crash and Burn

Well it's the day after slope day and I don't have a hangover! wooooooooo. Yesterday was a pretty good day; I've had better but it was a pretty successful slope day I would say. Started off the day by going to Chem lab for 10 minutes and then trying to find somewhere to drink. A kind of-aged person was generous enough to supply my friend and I. Afterwards, Theta Drug it is (that place is mad sketchy). Then, of course, the slope! Hot Hot Heat were AMAZING!!!!! I left as soon as they were done (who gives a shit about Gym Class Heros?). But yea, it was raining a little and people (me) were going crazy. After some eating, drinking and talking at the Risley "frat," it was off to Llenroc. Guess who was there?!?!?! HOT HOT HEAT!!!!! It was so tight, I was talking to the lead singer about how much Gym Class Heros sucked, it was great! Then after an impromptu party and some omelettes, the night slowly faded away.

I have a 2000 word essay about Oral Formulaic Old Norse literature. It's due on Monday. I have not started. :-(

Freshman year definitely taught me a few things about life I must say. None of those lessons were very enjoyable but they will be useful throughout my college experience for sure. Here's to more life lessons!

My mom called me yesterday while I was a little intoxicated. I don't remember everything I said to her. That maybe wasn't the best idea I've ever had.

3 by Sunday morning? I tried, but it ain't happening. Well, who knows, I still have a whole day...

And now for the finale...!

I am in a perpetual deprived state now. I am always in need of something: rest, sleep, food, or water. It's gotten to the point that I literally have no time to do things. It's not even procrastination anymore, it's just space-time preventing me from doing anything. That and the fact that I have bitten off way more than I can chew in terms of performance arts. It's more like I've bitten off so much that if I had the chance to doggy-bag the food I have bitten off, that would even be impossible. What evs, I'll survive like always.

KD's formal was a great time I must say. I met a lot of cool people and saw a lot of people I knew before. I know so many KD sisters and I didn't even know it. The night involved getting pretty tipsy, singing Mas Que Nada with a guy from Sao Paulo, and a LOT of dancing. Fantastic night. And the pledge dance was really funny and really cute. What a great sorority, I could see why people want to join...

I think I want to rush next year. I hear rushing for guy's is just a week of partying. I feel like that would be fun...

Another week, another article, another bio quiz, another chemtastic night, and another weekend to look forward to. Slope day is soon. So is everything else while this year madly winds down and I'm just starting to savor its presence.

My tea's gone cold I'm wondering why...

All That Jazz

Today, I am more tired than usual. There are a few factors that affect that. Most of them involve my weekend. Stayed up too late drinking and going to bed and then not going to bed because of late night chats. Oh, and waking up early to go to SLTC rehearsals was not ideal. I wanted that one flavor of Sobe this morning to get me energized but they didn't have it at CTB. I think it's called wake-the-fuck-up. I could be wrong.

There was also a jazz voices concert today. It didn't go as badly as it could have seeing as how our whole groups consists of 7 members and I am still weak in some places in terms harmony. Ugh. Still, not bad. However, the whole ordeal lasted a good 5+ hours. This thursday and next thursday is Carriage House and then JAM and I think I should have a solo thrown in here and there. It should be fun.

Anyway, yesterday was pleasant enough in terms of pre-Lebannon party. Little Shop was ok, weather was gorgeous, ukulele-ing with Anders etc...

So there are two weeks left of school. Freshman year came and went. I'm scared of how fast it went because I don't want this period in my life to go away so quickly. I love it here. now. all of us.

I'm sort of giddy about the summer too. Although I'm not thrilled about taking some medical classes or something along those lines I am excited to meet new people and go see some shows in Louisville. Should be great but for now, I need some damn sleep before I have to get up for pre-enroll--yikes!

Sickness bleh!

So I was a little sick this past week. I'm getting over it. I mean, we had our fun but she was just too much to handle, making me miss class and disgust every person I come in contact with.

Brecht was really fun. I'm glad I was able to be a part of that. Maybe I'll take world theater 2 if I can fit that shit into my schedule next year (I started schedulizing today!!!). But I do still have Orgo, Physics, Psych, Acting, Chinese and asfioh;fojdsfaosdfj so I'll have to see... Hopefully they'll give me details about that theater concentration too.

Durang starts soon! He's so funny. I'm so lucky to get to work with Katherine twice and completely avoiding Jenny. I feel almost guilty because some people, uh, were not so lucky...

I am doing terribly in school. Like, I am embarrassed by how much I am sucking in Psych 280. I do not understand what I am doing wrong in that class, I swear! I just need to step up my game or something I don't know... I don't know if I would make it as an actor anymore. Or a doctor. Or a clinical psychologist. I don't know anymore.

I do know a few things though. I am contented. I think I will have a pretty good week if I do say so myself... :P

Bonjourno Spring!

Wow, this warm weather really crept up on me. I can't believe I'm starting to ditch my black pea coat (which got really dirty because some idiot that went to Delta Cairo a few weeks ago threw it from the coat rack to the dirty and wet floor). Yay track jackets and polos with scarves!

So, Parsa is coming to Cornell. !!!!! I get to spend another 3 years with one of my best friends, score. Even if he's perrrrrrrsian...

Beta, like always, was an amazing time. I was soooo out of it. I definitely took a break on Saturday because of it. Had some very good bonding time with Ariel, Jackie, and Jackie's friend Allie. Very good dancers the lot of them.

The weekend breakdown is like this: Beta (even though I didn't finish my lab report). Woke up at 9 Sat. to finish said lab report. Went to auditions. Worked more on lab report and turned it in with only 3 out for 12 sources cited. Which isn't bad except I in-text cited all my sources. I know, ouch. Anyway, turned that in 5 minutes before it was due, then was called about callbacks. Went to that for a few hours and capped the night off with dinner with friends, a nervous (on my part) phone call, Ethan and Wynn's jam (which was FANTASTIC), some singing on top of Olin with people on the arts quad staring at us, and a Shrimp show.

Now it's time to study for bio, chem, jazz voices, f;oaisjdf;oasihdfj;oasjdf. Oh, and also try and not get sick. *knocks on wood* Wish me luck!

Psychology

Apparently my best friends from high school all got high together during spring break. I am really surprised and amused at the same time. I guess they could care less about me drunk dialing them from time to time. I think they are less surprised, but just as amused.

Tomorrow is my second social psych prelim. I NEED to do well. I got a C with the curve last time because I celebrated my friend's 21st birthday by playing never-have-I-ever with friends the night before the test. Baaaaaaad idea...

Some of the film students seem unintelligent in the way they cast their movies.

I havn't had much time uke-ing these days which is a shame. God I love my little Concert Uke. It's adorable, which is really what I'm going for.

British accent or no British accent? That seems to be the question...

Hello Blogger!

Well, seeing as how Xanga is officially dead and I do have an indescribable desire to put forth my thoughts, dreams, and feelings onto an electronic playground, I have decided to create a Blogger account.

People want too many things from me and it's hard to keep track of what I've promised to do because I am so absent-minded. I get myself into... uncomfortable situations because of this precarious nature. La vie? perhaps.

Harmonizing is really, really hard...

I want to party, I want to dance; I want to have a good time. Life is too short so don't judge me. I promise I'm still X, I haven't changed. I may call you guys and leave stupid messages but I've always been about making people laugh right? Then again, I could be wrong and you still think of me as you have in the past. I sure hope so.

Yes, I'm still keeping the 5 segment structure, it keeps me from dragging on about life's little eccentricities.