Friday Five Catchup

My weekdays are all messed up. Yesterday was Monday but I thought it was Sunday. I’m totally aware of the dates, but not the days, which is kind of weird. Isn’t it usually the other way around? Well, the only reason why I’m writing in here is because I haven’t decided what I’m going to read next. Last night I actually went to sleep after I finished a story, instead of stopping in the middle of a story, so I woke up today (at 3:15….) and decided to go shopping instead.

Anyways, I thought I should do this friday five. It seemed appropiate, considering what I’ve been doing all of break.

Books!

1. Do you enjoy reading? “I read like I breathe.” -my fp profile
   
2. What is the first book you remember reading? That was forever ago… Baby Sitters Club? No… some random book for school I think
   
3. Who is your favourite author? What a question… I have no idea, I can’t decide.
4. What is your favourite book? What a question… DUDE. Why can’t I answer any of these? Well okay. On fp, I LOVE LOVE LOVE Sentiment Lost by Tijan, W is for WHAT?! by Lulai, Jilted by serako, Six Feet From Paradise by Jennifer D Allen, Queen of Glass by Sarah J Mass. Actually published (though QoG is to be published so you see my dilemna) I like Cross My Heart, Hope to Spy by Allie Carter, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hossieni, Slave to Sensation by Nalini Singh, The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen, 1984 by George Orwell, and on and on and on. (No Twilight included, thank you tres muchos)
5. What is the last book you read and the first you’ll read next? Last physical book: Visions of Heat by Nalini Singh, last fp story: Chasing Charlie by Katie Saychiadu. I’m thinking of reading Caressed by Ice by Nalini Singh (mainly so I can proceed onto the next books in the series and buy them before I go back to school) as a physical book, and maybe Unfinished Business by Maeven on fp.

It’s kind of obvious what I’ve spent the last 2.5 weeks doing. Lol. I’m kind of a nerd. Haha. Whatever. <33333 I wonder if I’ll have time to read once school starts back up again. I hope so. I’ll probably make time though, knowing me, haha. Oh okay, and one more (see, I’m behind. I’ve just been reading).

1. What decade did you attend/are you attending high school or college? Uh… this decade. Does this make me sound young? The zeros? Lol. And a little of the teens.
2. What clothing fashion from that time are you glad/do you wish went out of style? Ummm I don’t know. I kind of love/hate the whole Uggs thing because they’re so darn cute but so darn expensive and impractical, especially with me being in LA and all. I really have no excuse to buy them, so I don’t, but I still want them I’m trying to think back to any other fashions from this decade, but really. A decade is a really long time.
3. Do you still listen to the music from your high school/college years on a regular basis? Well, considering I’m in college, and just graduate from high school, yes. I’ve recently gotten back into Korean music, so I guess I went back to that, which started in 8th grade. And I still listen to the same American music, though I’m trying to expand my scope into more rockish now too, because although I don’t know much about it, I enjoy a lot of those songs too.
4. What hairstyle/hair color did/do you wear during high school/college? I’m pretty okay with the hairstyle I have now. Sometimes I wish I grew my hair out longer, but my hair gets pretty long already so Idk.
5. What was/is “the cool thing to do” while in high school/college? Uh… I have no idea. Hm. Maybe this is why I’m not “cool.” The “cool” thing to do is go and get drunk. Apparently.

Dun! Dun! Dun! Dun nun nun nununununNUN! I have Big Bang Sunset Glow stuck in my head. I think I’m in love. *insert smiley face with hearts as eyes here* Sah-woonnn! (I wonder if anyone is getting this reference… hint: it relates to the first set of Friday Fives I just did)

This Week is Lacking Sleep

ただいま！난 지금 집에 있어. 我今天回家了.

1. What did you do on Monday? Korean final and then went back to the dorm to finish my essay
1. What did you do on Tuesday? Rewrote 2 paragraphs of my essay and had a pizza party
1. What did you do on Wednesday? Edited my essay with Jason for 10 hours
1. What did you do on Thursday? Studied timeline terms, edited my essay, and took my cluster final
1. What are you going to do today? Flew home

A finals week of a 1st year UCLA student. But really, I wonder if that’s much different than the weeks of other students. Dudee, I’m so tired though I just want to sleep. I haven’t been sleeping much at all this past week and I don’t know why. I’ve become a really light sleeper for some reason, and of course I didn’t alter my habits of sleeping really late either. This drama I’m watching is making me really tired too, I don’t know why. I mean, I know it’s not that interesting and movies make me tired, but usually I don’t get this tired as long as I’m in front of the computer, especially this early into the night.

I don’t know how it feels to be home. The same, I guesss. Nothing all that special, I don’t know. I don’t want to drive around though. I don’t really want to drive at all – how annoying. And it’s annoying because people will expect me to drive 근데 시도, したなくない. I don’t know. I was talking about this to the guy I met on the plane, but I feel like after your first year in college, you really just hang out with the people from before who you actually want to keep in touch with. Right now, everyone is all excited to be back home from college and is trying to organize this and that and get together, and I feel like I’ve skipped that step, or like I just never really had any desire to be in that place. So I’m sitting here watching everyone organizing get togethers and honestly thinking to myself, “Why are these people contacting me? It’s not like we were even really that great friends.” I don’t know. I guess I never really saw the point in making an effort for people who, ultimately, don’t even really matter. Ouch, but whatever.

It feels so lame but all I really want to do is sleep x_x;; 아이구 아이구~ 나 간다. 잘자~~~ お休み～
(Should I concentrate in Korea or Japan? I really don’t know what to do anymore.)

Procrastination… Sort of

I’m trying out the new WordPress! It’s looking pretty snazzy so far – I’m excited

1. Do you like the look of your country’s currency (bills and coins)? They’re getting more colorful and cooler, so I guess they’re okay.
2. Regardless of their actual value, do you like bills or coins better? Bills.
3. What is your favorite foreign currency? And why? I’d have to say euros… maybe. I like the coins – they’re think and cool. The bills are colorful and distinguishable, and the coins are different colors and unique too.
4. Do you collect coins or bills? Elaborate. Not really. I have money left over from when I went to China, Japan, and France, but it’s not like I keep them to collect them or anything.
5. Do you think human society could make do completely without money? Explain. Nope. We tried before and obviously failed, so why would it work again? Without money, less people would be able to trade stuff and exchange possessions because in order to get something new, I would have to have something that the other person wanted in exchange. Money, however, is more liquid, and thus makes transactions like these easier, and more frequent.

Aren’t I supposed to be studying for my math final that’s in 12 1/2 hours? Yes. Probably. Am I procrastinating? You bet I am. I even watched My Little Bride with Hiromi today, haha. It was a very nice break though – love that movie. I just didn’t like the thought of having to do math for hours straight again, like I did on Wednesday and sort of on Tuesday. I needed a breather I guess, but now I’m debating whether or not to go to Puzzles later tonight and have an ice cream too. I am soooo tired it’s ridiculuos. And I have too many swipes left over for this week It’s because I cooped myself in my room just to study, and because I was lazy, but that’s more of the unofficial reason, haha.

I have a math final tomorrow morning, Korean final Monday morning, and final paper & in-class GE Cluster final on Thursday. We just got the prompt yesterday, and it sounds pretty much exactly the same as the other two essays we wrote during the quarter. I look forward to it. And now I have to go. Because I need to study, for real now. I’m on chapter 7 though, if that makes my situation any better, meaning that I finished practicing for chapters 8, 9, and 11. I also went over my first midterm, so I’m nearing the end of this baby and I’m going to do amazing. Just watch.

No man. I’m serious this time… I need to be.

Friday Five

I am back on Firefox because Chrome began malfunctioning with me. Tabs would randomly stop working/allowing you to browse to websites and it happened so frequently that I just gave up. I also miss my Firefox add-ons, like highlight and such. Chrome does look cool though. But then again, what did you expect, it’s google.

1. Could you live without your phone for 1 week for $500? Use someone else’s phone.
2. Whom do you talk to on the phone the most? I don’t really know anymore. Christine, I guess, but then sometimes not really. And I mean who do I call the most or who do I talk to on the phone the most? I think those would warrant two different answers.
3. Whom do you no longer talk to on the phone but wish you still did? I have no idea. No one in particular that I can think of…
4. If you could get a hold of one celebrity phone number, whose digits would you want? Well even if I had their number, wouldn’t that be an extremely awkward conversation? “Um hi I have your number because I stalk you and I’m your number one fan!” *click*… from their side. I don’t think I would call them, to be honest. So I guess it doesn’t really matter.
5. Do you talk on the phone more or less than you used to? More? Less? Than what? I don’t really know. I think I talk on the phone less, and especially because I see a handful of my friends everyday now so yeah. There’s also the internet, IMing, video chatting, ya know.

I don’t know if I should go to Diwali tonight. I kind of want to but I want to also be able to leave whenever I want to, if I don’t like it or whatever, and I don’t know if you can do that or what. What’s the dealio? I feel like everyone is going away this weekend, so I really will be completely anti-social. But hopefully that means that I’ll be getting some work done. Rissa and I are planning a Full House marathon though!! Excited~ I keep thinking about the 곰 세 마리 song whenever I hear that counter in Korean class, haha. I’m sooo glad that midterms are finally done though (just have to worry about this cluster essay and finals). Quarters go by so quickly it’s ridiculous. If you think about it, 10 weeks isn’t a lot at all. It’s like just a bit over two months. I can’t believe that it’s November already, because it definitely does not seem like it when I look and walk outside. It is currently 88 degrees outside right now, and that’s probably after having cooled down. Tell me that’s not ridiculous.

Anyways. I want some non-dorm food. For some strange reason, my ramen’s looking really good, even though I know in reality it’s not. I should probably save it. But damnnn why have I started getting hungry around 4 now?

P.S. I know it sounds geeky but I’m excited for new new WordPress to come out. I wish they would just release it already!

Disfunctional Title for my Disfunctional State

When did you last…
1. scrounge for change (couch, ashtray, ect) to make a purchase? Shortly before I left home home in MV
2. visit a dentist? Like 2 days before I came to LA, haha
3. make a needed change to your life? Last Friday, though I’m not sure how much is actually changing…
4. decide on a complete menu well in advance of the evening meal? Junior Prom 2008
5. spend part of the day (other than daily hygiene) totally/mostly naked? Never… when I was a baby?

I’m so tired. 5.5 hours of sleep. I neeeeddd moree. Especially if I’m supposed to celebrate the end of midterms (for now) with Jake tonight. I’m so tired though. I failed my math midterm I got a disappointing score on my timeline… *sigh* I don’t even know anymore. It was below the class average… yeah. Way to make me feel amazing. Overall though the last two days have been good. We’re watching Teach Me English in Korean class and it’s starting to get soooo cute omg they’re so cute together Hehe. You know dramas really do help your listening comprehension seriously like I have no problem understanding native Koreans or any Koreans for that matter, as long as I know the vocabularly that they’re speaking. Like speed is never a problem for me, at least not in Korean or Japanese. I am lameee hahaha.

Good bye I’m tired and disfunctional atm.

A Little of Everything

I’m not sure why I feel like blogging so much as of late, but here I am, once again. I decided to do Friday Five.

1. Are you going to school this fall? If not, what was the most recent year of school you completed? I just completed my senior year of high school, so it’s college for me!
2. If yes, what kind of schooling are you doing (middle school, high school, undergraduate, graduate, etc.)? Undergraduateeee
3. Are you someone who enjoys/enjoyed going back to school? Well. I guess I’m kind of that person who moans all year about how summer needs to come but by the end of summer, I’m about ready to go back to school. Except I don’t know this time. I guess I’m excited cuz it’s college and it’s new, but I’m kind of freaked out too, and I kind of like being really anti-social and avoiding certain people like I am now and just reading all day. I know I can’t/shouldn’t do that in college.
4. Do/did you like back-to-school shopping? Why or why not? Not really. I don’t really like shopping, to be honest. My version of liking shopping is clicking around online and finding something. I don’t like the walking aspect of shopping malls.
5. Are/were you a good student? Good in terms of I do my homework? Because I do. But I didn’t always.

Last week:

How many times a day do you…

1. Brush your teeth? Twice. Once when I wake up, once before I go to sleep.
2. Shower? Once.
3. Check your E-mail? Way too many to count, haha.
4. Check LJ? Never.
5. Eat? 1-3 plus snacks.

I finished the books today. I have read a total of 12 books this summer, that I can remember, which is kind of sad because it’s not that many. Maybe 12.5, since I read half of To Kill A Mockingbird, before I had to give the book back to Stephanie. You know what’s a huge pet grammar peeve of mine though? When people don’t put that comma between the last two items of a list, before the and. Like “I went shopping, eating, and sleeping.”

I don’t know. That was so random. I can’t believe I’m about to eat hot stew in this hot hot 95 degrees weather. Ick. I talked to Kassy today! Made my day Back to the books though – they were okay. Not spectactular.

I have this desire to read a really good story on FictionPress now though. Someone go find me such a story

Friday Fives

1. Name one movie you wish everybody could watch. Pearl Harbor
2. Name two books you wish everybody could read. Six Feet From Paradise by JD Allen and Night by Elie Wiesel
3. Name three goals you wish everybody could achieve. Be happy, find your passion, and be yourself
4. Name four people you wish everybody could know. Their mom, their dad, best friends, and God.
5. Name five places you wish everybody could visit. USA, Paris, London, Tokyo, Shanghai

Hair!

1. What type of hair do you have? (Thin, Normal, Thick, Frizzy, etc.) My hair has a life of its own. I guess now, it’s pretty normal. Still a little thick.
2. What color is your hair currently? What it naturally is – dark brown, almost black.
3. What colors have you dyed/highlighted your hair? No, but I’ve thought about it.
4. If you could dye your hair any color, what would it be? I think I’d want highlights, no dye.
5. What is your hair’s length? Medium?

1. If you could change one life-changing event in the life of someone important to you, would you? No because even if those “life-changing” events are “bad,” I think they still make people grow as individuals and help shape peoples’ characters, so I think those kinds of things are necessary, and everyone has to learn to deal and make do at some point in their lives, like it or not.
2. Which do you think is easier to do, being friends for many years, or being life partners for many years? I guess I wouldn’t really know about the second one…
3. Have you ever walked away from someone you considered a friend? As in, given up on a friendship? I have. When I realized that the effort it took to maintain our friendship wasn’t worth it. When I realized I didn’t want a person like that as my friend anyways.
4. If you had to choose between telling the truth and hurting a friend or lying and making them happy, which would you choose? I think I’d tell the truth and hurt the friend. I always appreciate when my best friend does that for me.
5. Which would you rather hear–the truth which will hurt, or the comforting lie? The truth that hurts, because whenever I look back on it, I always see how stupid I was being, and how right my friend was. And then I’ll always know as well that I can trust my friends. Above all, I hate liars.

I’m in Hawaii now. Maybe I’ll be back later to talk about France. I’m excited to order my digital prints to 1) make a mini scrapbook of France and 2) put up in my dorm room for college You should be excited for me!

Fact or Fiction?

Friday Five had some decent questions this week, and although I know it’s no longer Friday, I thought I’d address them anyways…

1. Love at First Sight: Fact or Fiction? Fiction? Fact? I don’t know I guess it’s one of those things you gotta see it to believe it. I would say fiction because if you say you love someone just by looking at them, isn’t that just loving their looks? But then again, maybe you can tell a lot by a person just by looking at them. You know, some people can just sense a person’s characters and the vibes they give off at first sight. First impressions kind of thing… it’s an interesting angle to consider.
2. Fortune Telling: Fact or Fiction? Fiction. Fortune telling, if you think about it, is actually kind of creepy, if it was real. But I just don’t believe that peoples have the powers to do that. Yeah, and vampires exist. God, that would be awesome…
3. Other Life: Fact or Fiction? I’m not sure what you mean by this. Other life as in life on other planets? I actually hate this question, but I believe that it exists. I mean, if we exist on Earth, why can’t others exist on other planets? So awesome…
4. Afterlife: Fact or Fiction? I know I’m Christian so I should believe in Heaven, and I don’t know, maybe I do. But I’ve always thought that the idea of reincarnation would be cool too. I don’t necessarily believe in it, but I think it’d be cool. I think basically all of these things, I don’t really have opinions about, more like wishes. Like I wish this, but I don’t really believe it. And I guess when the time comes for me to actually experience them, then I’ll make my decision.
5. Bigfoot: Fact or Fiction? What’s bigfoot?

Facebook is laaaammeeeee. It’s stupid. It’s not showing my wall posts and it’s not updating other people’s profiles and it’s making me not do my homework, when I don’t even have much homework to begin with. I found this really good story too, but you know when you read stories, and you know when it’s happy and although there are still some other things that will cause potential danger, those things are kind of insignificant in the midst of everything else while the author is still building up to them, and then you just kind of want to STOP reading, like pause, because you want that middle happiness to last just a little bit longer. I’m kind of at that point…

Make Up Friday Fives

I should probably say more but I don’t really have much to say. We have a three day weekend but it pretty much just feels like a slave weekend. We have a huge econ test when we get back, and a Physics quiz, which I’ve just given up on. I can’t seem to get anything but 14/20 so why the hell try anymore? I don’t care~~~ I give up! I also have my math mid-term on Wednesday because I missed last Friday’s test, being sick, and I have of course my big multiple choice part of my econ test on Wednesday too. I am still hanging in there with Econ with a 90.0% so I must get an A!!!

1. Did you vote in your most recent applicable election? (If you’re not yet old enough, do you plan to vote in the future?) I’m not old enough yet, but I guess I will… if I remember…
2. Have you ever protested or attended a march? Nope
3. What political issue is the most important to you? Umm I don’t know. Nothing’s really that important… I guess abortion. But wait that wouldn’t make sense since I’m against abortion, but I’m pro choice. Err… I don’t know.
4. Are you a member of a party in your country? If so, which? I think I’m a member of the Independent party… because I couldn’t decide, lol.
5. Do you ever plan to run for office? Nope, can’t say I do.

& last week’s:

1. What do you see when you are looking out of the window closest to you? Horse Hill
2. Who was the last person coming into your room? Me
3. What is the most predominant colour around you? White, I suppose
4. What is right behind you? Boxes
5. What is on today’s calendar sheet? Homework assignments

I feel like I’ve pretty much gotten into all of the schools that I’m going to get into, aside from maybe 2 of them, so what I have now is pretty much it. It’s weird. I don’t know where to go still. I don’t know where I want to go. I’m thinking I’ll probably end up in LA, then. But I still can’t decide between USC or UCLA… the thing about UCLA is that that was like the school I went to and actually thought to myself, “I could totally imagine myself going here.” They always say that’s the best… but I still know close to nothing about their academics… but I really like USC’s study abroad opportunities and business programs and stuff like that. I don’t know. USC really pissed me off last night by pretending to give me financial aid. Oh my god. Just don’t give me anything, seriously. You don’t have to try really hard to fucking fake it. So annoying.

Excited All-around

No Friday Five this week. Not for the lack of questions, but moreso for my own lack of interest. Oh well.

I went to Borders today. Got 3 new books. If you know me at all, you’ll know I’m super excited with this new development!! I am SO ready to ready them. Except that I promised myself I would finish outlining Physics and start outlining Econ. What a bitch. I was thinking about it and I realized that this is probably my only semester that won’t matter. Goodness, that’s sad. I don’t know why I’m still working so hard, but I mean, no one likes to fail! How can you be happy with just a B?

With that said, I am so unbelievably jealous of all the Branson people. Their 2nd trimester has ended so that means NO SCHOOL. So ridiculous. I would say I wish I stayed but I don’t. I’m pretty happy that I transferred. Even if I am stuck here outlining for Physics tests I’m going to fail and Econ tests that… I don’t know. Lol. But the sentence sounded incomplete if I didn’t say something about Econ too – do you know that feeling?

So I decided to take a stab at editing Her Wish, or at least the first nineteen chapters of it. This is not to say that I have suddenly become unlazy and decided to do something to my past stories for a change, but it’s more so because there’s this scholarship where I can submit the first nineteen chapters (which I really combined into 5 chapters…) and possibly win. Or possibly not. Probably not. I feel like my story doesn’t have much meaning and effect unless you have it all. Oh well. Worse comes to worse, I’ll have a lot better first nineteen chapters, lol.

I got my forms for France for ISA! That got me pretty excited. Not that I wasn’t already, haha This entry is all over the place…