| serious homesick |
[18 Aug 2010|11:52am] |
I think I'm having homesick because I know I'm going home soon and I'm trying to avoid my 2,000 words essay.
I don't want to leave here because there's still so much more to see.
But at the same time I miss having money, a clean place, and good food. If I consider those three factors I'm ready to go home.
I can't believe 2months passed by so quickly! So much things happened and I feel like I learned so much about so many people. Not just the people here in Europe, but people back at home too. The people I hanged out here were just people you rarely hear of. One korean, one japanese, one half mexican half white, half nicaraguan half filipino, and half native american and half white. It was really cool that we got to be able to hang out with each other because we were pretty much the only ppl that were mixed races. Everyone else pretty much clicked with their own races and went out. I really didn't know much about Michael, Amy, and Elizabeth before this trip so this was an experience for me. I'm glad they're all super cool [and good cooks]. I seriously don't think I would've made it out here without them because I would feel so anti-social against these uber crazy party bitches that's partying out right before finals. Feel bad for the physics ppl... I know they want to go party like those fools out there, but whatever. I hope those bitches outside will fail [they're partying outside our dorm. not cool.]
Anyway... I'm ready to go home. I miss everyone and Cookie.
I miss good food like quesadilla, sushi, udon, tempura, pho, korean bbq, in-n-out, yogurt, rice, so forth and so on...
I'm definitely going to miss a lot of things here though.
Like Strongbow [especially...:'( ], the friendly people here, the awesome architectures, the history, the awesome shops, taking the bus that's actually 40 mins but only feels like 10 mins...
I had a wonderful experience here and I hope I'll come back to Europe in the near future♥ I still want to go to Germany, Italy, and Amsterdam *0* and I would love to travel more in the UK too... I feel like I saw a lot of Brighton, but I didn't really get to see much of the rest of the UK.
Anyway I should do my essay that I'm still dreading on doing even though it's due in like 16 hrs.... 1,000 more words!
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| Sussex week1 |
[02 Jul 2010|11:48pm] |
God i can't believe it's almost a week since i've gotten to Sussex. It's been over a week since I've landed in the UK.
The drawing class is meh, but it's still helping me though. Atleast i'm conscious of keeping my artworks clean. I need to do my homework though. The other day I totally did my homework buzzed HAHAHHA
Last night we went onto a pub tour which ours was so lame T_T Andre and them went onto the one that was earlier than ours, which apparently was way cooler than ours. I didn't even get buzzed for our pub tour, and everybody fucking clicked with each other so it was hard to meet new people -_- Though I did meet a chick that goes to UCI, and lived in San Jose, AND we went to the same japanese school. Though we couldn't figure out if she was in the class older than me, or younger. Or even, the same class. But either way that was a little strange. The club here was effing awesome though!! They played really good music, but it got SO hot @_@ I started sweating the moment I got into the club LOLL. Soo crazyyyy. I didn't get any creepers, but amy did hahahhaa. The bus home was crazy thoughhhh. There was some compton shit going down. This black chick from UCLA totally went off on this white chick for some stupid thing about seats and shit. Got pretty ghetto, and elizabeth wanted shit to go down LOL Pretty interesting. I tried to get a video of it, but all i got was a video of the dude that was sitting infront of me.
Andre ditched us today, so Amy, Elizabeth, Michael and I went down into Brighton to explore which was nice~~. I forgot my camera which made me sad T_T We went back to go to the ice cream social to grab as much food as possible. I feel so ghetto ever since I've came here, cuz the other night my friends and I totally rummaged through the trash to get bowels, pans, and shit so we don't have to pay for it. Then we went to the pub to go grab some food and Uruguay vs Ghana was on, which got SOOOO intense!! I totally loved the atmosphere how everyone got so fucking excited!! There were only a few Uruguay supporters, and I was rooting for Uruguay just b/c I've seen them play, and I think they're really good. But god, a lot of them were Ghana supporters and it got sooo intense!! The people that sat infront of us were holding hands and chanting and everything! My heart was beating sooo fast when Ghana ALMOST won!! It was amy's first football/soccer game which was really good for her! Soccer games usually never gets that intense!! It was such a heart break to see Ghana lose though! If Uruguay didn't get that red card, they totally would've won that game!! My heart's still beating from that game man!! Can't wait to see the game tomorrow!! Germany vs Argentina!! I don't know who to root for hahahahhaa!!!
On the other hand the dude i talked about in my last post shows up everywhere now. It's a little strange. We ended up in the same pub tour, he sat infront of me and elizabeth in the private coach, and he also sat infront of us again on the bus on the way home. Then I saw him again this morning/afternoon when I was getting ready to go out with amy and them. Strange strange.
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| Sussex! |
[29 Jun 2010|08:53pm] |
Is probably shit LOL
it's aight. The place is pretty ghetto, especially the dorms that elizabeth, amy, and i are in. Amy's closets are ripped off, and she has skin marks all over her room. My room has no electricity and it has spiders all over. Our kitchen is effing nasty, and it gets steamy as fuck in here. Our bathroom is way nastier though. Amy's place has urine smell and shit on her shower curtain, and me and elizabeth's bathrooms have shit ON the toilet seat, along with the toilets that don't even flush. So that's the shitty side of sussex,
the nice part of it is the country side. Me and amy ran this amazing trail behind sussex, and we totally were out of breath because it was such an intense hill x___x but we managed to run/walk all the way up and we found a valley, and we could see this amazingly HUGE castle looking like thing. We wanted to go there but we didn't know if it was trespassing or not LOL. But the trail was fun, and i had a good run with amy ^^
brighton is equally as beautiful too! i have not seen so many beautiful gay guys / lesbian girls in my life! Some of them are intensely built, or either that they're really skinny and beautifull! Elizabeth, Amy, Andre, Michael and I went down to Brighton last night to celebrate my 21st and we found this really nice italian restaurant. IT WAS SOO GOOD!! I don't think i can ever go to another italian restaurant ever again!! It was a very classy and nice dinner, thanks guys! :)
On the other news, found some cute looking guy at the welcoming thing where they gave out free booze. Saw him when i was walking back from class yesterday and then ran into him when i wanted to go pee. I guess it's not attractive when you go into the bathroom and yell "holy fuck there's shit all over here!"
peace!
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| London Bridge is Falling Down... |
[26 Jun 2010|09:29am] |
I've only been here for 2 days, but i am ready to LIVE here. This place is amazingggg~~!!
We're having only one big issue, but other than that London is so amazing >w< The first day we took pictures and we went to a pub around kensington, which was pretty chill~. the people there were hella cheering on the Japan team for the world cup though! That was so awesome! Japan 3-1, going on the 2nd round! So many interesting things going on in the world cup! Germany is going against the UK tomorrow, so let's see how that goes! Too bad my friends aren't interested much in the world cup, but it's okay :/ I'll survive LOL The bartender at the pub we went to today was like "pretty much all the teams anyone cares about are gone. england's out tomorrow b/c of the germans" I love how they actually care about soccer here! [or shall i say football??]
2nd day we did more touristy stuffs, and i LOVED the hyde's corner park!! The rose garden was soooo prettyyy *______* Did a little window shopping here and there, and night life is meh here i guess. Everything closes around 12, and all the pretty people that we saw in the day were gone for some odd reason :(( we went to 2 pubs and 1 bar with this Brazilian dude we met at the hostel. The bar was so shitty... the margarita was like water. I wanted to go to the bathroom, but then these drunk spanish dudes asked me to take a pics of them, which apparently wasn't what he was asking. He apparently meant that he wanted me to be in the pics with them >_>. They were celebrating how Spain was going into the 2nd round for the WC, so I took a pic with them with their flag LOL. I should've gotten a pics from my camera too, but I was too creeped out to ask for it hahaha, And I wanted to go pee badly too hahahahha!! But they asked me where i was from and i told them i was from america, and they didn't believe me T_T So i had to tell them i'm japanese but i'm from america [god i hate doing that!!] Sooo many guys are attracted to my friend amy cuz she's native american!! She got a homeless guy asking her to give him a hug, the bus dudes asking her if she wants to go to lunch/dinner, and the looks man LOL.
I feel like london is similar to japan [minus the architectures]. I'll report later when my mind isn't scattered like it is now,
I'm still alive everyone! Love y'all!
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| I wish my cell phone was connected to the internet |
[06 Apr 2010|04:01pm] |
Then I can upload pictures instantly.
Either way I'm on LJ again to bitch about my life...
The problem right now is the fact that I'm taking a drawing class. I love drawing to the core, but the problem about taking these classes are the fact that my egos boost up and deflates in matter of seconds. Yesterday my ego was really big to the point that today's drawing class is making my life miserable right now.
Nothing is more annoying than your own failure.
That is what I have learned today. I'm super pissed at myself because we were working on a value assignment today. My stronghold in drawing isn't composition or making it look real, but more likely it's the shading. Yet today, I couldn't shade a single sphere for god's sake. I failed at every shading possible and I was extremely frustrated with myself.
All in all, I hope I get better.
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| FINALLY FINISHED [now i get to bitch!] |
[24 Feb 2010|02:49pm] |
I had this drawing for like the longest time, and I promised myself I would photoshop this thing in high school. Didn't happen until now! :D
And I made it in time before the Alice in Wonderland movie is coming out! ^_^
( bitch time! )
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| blah blah blah |
[23 Feb 2010|01:25pm] |
i don't know how long i have been working on this... but it's going to be the revived version of what i drew in high school.
I can tell you this: it's taking way too fxxking long. I'm hoping I can finish this before 3/5... [hint hint, though i think it's pretty obvious what i'm drawing]
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[22 Feb 2010|12:15am] |
I really don't know what's going on right now.
I just hope you're okay, and things will be fine again
Everything seems to be so hard right now
But it's okay right?
Because everything will be better... one day
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| Wangechi Mutu |
[11 Feb 2010|11:37pm] |
"Women's bodies are particularly vulnerable to the whims of changing movements, governments, and social norms.
They're like sensitive charts--- they indicate how a society feels about itself.
It's also disturbing how women attack themselves in search of a perfect image, and to assuage the imperfections that surrounds them."
- Wangechi Mutu
I am in LOVE with Wangechi Mutu right now (though i'm not enjoying the paper I have to write about her though hahaha)
Her work is so AMAZING *_____* I feel like I haven't been inspired by an artist so much as Wangechi Mutu these days!!
I really love the style she works in, and I also love how her work is very similar to Yoshitaka Amano. This very strange and surrealistic fantasy approach, and also her use of watercolor, sumi-e, and acrylic works so well together!! :)))
But out of all, I am definitely in love with her ideas! I am completely sold by how she works with collages and paints, but i'm also sold by how she uses these contorted figures to get her ideas across about how the society is contorting images of women's bodies.
I agree with what she says about women's images. This idea of women's bodies, not just impacted, but carrying these ideas of what society thinks what a women should be like. And this idea of women attacking themselves for the perfect image... I am in the dilemma myself these days too! I mean think about what we hear everyday from the media, images, and even amongst our peers! "her butts too big, her nose is too big, look at her teeth!, she's too fat, she's too skinny, her head is so big!!, her eyes are so small, she has no ass, she looks like she has no boobs, her legs are too big, she's too chunky, i hate my nose, i hate my ears, i hate my eyes, i hate my legs, i hate my butt, i hate my boobs..." the list goes on forever! If we end up combining all these images that we know of what the perfect woman should be like, then what Mutu has portrayed through her images are true: women are becoming mutated figures.
I would ramble on forever about her because I have lot more information but I have other crap I would love to ramble about...
like the paper i have to write now... and how super excited i am about getting real mexican food (aka going back to norcal)
and also... the last one piece episode... *sniffles*
( spoiler alert! )
Peace!<input ... ></input><input ... >
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| sometimes... |
[27 Jan 2010|04:36pm] |
i wish i was in a relationship before.
Or something close to it.
So I can help my girls when they're having the hardest time in their relationship
I don't want to see any of my girls cry over guys like this
Pull through girl, you can do it.
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| happy day~ |
[08 Jan 2010|12:16am] |
mmm one of my housemate and I made cake for our HA's bday~. It was so fun, and our HA was so happy! Good thing he didn't find out we were making a cake for him the whole time he was in the living room... lol.
So I have this issue right now that's kind of bothering me.
One of my professor already gave us an extra credit assignment, and it was to write a review about Avatar.
What Avatar made me realize is this: i find 3D completely bullshit.
I have no idea why, but there's something about it that I do not find that impressive.
It wasn't even helping that Avatar's story wasn't that interesting
I thought it was visually pretty, but something about 3D is cold.
Something about it makes me dislike it.
I need to figure out this something that I seriously dislike about 3D by the end of the year...
So yes that's the stuff on my mind~. I'm done rambling~
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| resolution resolution resolution! |
[31 Dec 2009|11:52pm] |
I have 16 minutes before 2009 is over! I must make my resolutions before the year is over so here it goes! [not in particular orders]
1. Get healthier
2. Drive safer
3. Take every opportunity as a new experience
4. Be chill
5. Do many artwork as possible [aka stop being lazy]
6. Manage my GPA above 3.0 [this is the first time I brought my GPA in a resolution]
7. Be myself
2009 in review
It was a very interesting year indeed. Met a lot of new people, lost some people, but overall I think it was very pleasant. Especially how at the end of the year we had a reunion with the middle school people hahaha.
I'm very thankful for all the people I have met, and the people that I still have as friends. I wish everyone a very safe and Happy new year!
Happy New Year!!
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| Kuranosuke Shiraishi |
[29 Nov 2009|10:41pm] |
Dude... I totally thought I was done with this whole prince of tennis crap but man
I was reading this person's blog the other day... Her blog's the most interesting one I've ever read
but recently she started liking Shiraishi from Prince of Tennis so I was wondering what kind of character he is
because I think I skipped over his part when I finished prince of tennis cuz I was so interested in how they ended the damn manga
and holy crap is he hot. I want a boyfriend like him man.
And damn it!! He's an Aries too!! Just like Miura Haruma... and some other celebrity I forgot who but found out they were aries too -.-
Maybe it's a moon sign thing... hahaha
ok done anime otaku talking
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| Getting used to Irvine |
[04 Nov 2009|07:49pm] |
I think I'm pretty much used to Irvine at this point
Though the weather here doesn't feel like November at all
The commercials are now turned into christmas because halloween's over
but it doesn't feel like christmas at all down here lol
maybe it will when I go back to Norcal in the summer :)
I finally finished my manifesto for my stupid "art" class
I'm so fucking glad that I'm done with it -___-
This was the most stressful thing I have ever done for a class that's not helping me in life at all
It was the most worthless and stressful crap I've ever done
Thinking our teacher was young would've made our class fun was definitely out of the question...
most anal teacher i've ever had. more anal than the granny teachers i've had
can't wait until i'm done with that class -___-
i don't know if i should take sculpture next quarter...
though it's the only low div art class that i haven't taken yet.
it's so stupid they're not offering 30b in the winter quarter when everybody takes 30A in fall
Ugh stupid UCI
oh well.
so glad today is over.
now i'm so tired to the point i'm hyper that i want to talk to someone
but everybdoy has midterms or papers :((((
i'm kind of glad i'm not that busy this quarter but it feels a little lonely LOL
i need a housewife though... i need someone to cook for me when i don't feel like it! T__T
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| Ayumi Hamasaki |
[01 Nov 2009|10:28pm] |
I think everyone knows at this point how much I love ayumi
But I never realized how glad I was to actually seeing her live until I saw this video
I was watching the RULE video for a-nation that I saw
but man, it's so different when you go see her live
She's just so amazing
Someone commented that this possibly may be her best song
Which I feel like I could agree to it just because this is possibly what made her so great
For me it is since I feel like this song actually changed my life
When Ayumi when down on her knees
I feel like it looks weird in the video, but at the live
It was so awesome. It felt like I've never seen anyone as expressive as she is
Though I thought she's starting to sound like an enka singer these days
This video just made me think about why I love ayumi so much
Her lyrics play a major role
since the way she arranges her words is so beautiful
that her simplicity extracts the best out of the japanese language
But also I think her voice is just amazing
The way I would describe it would be is almost like a feminist voice
Just because it's really strong yet it still has the voice of a woman
She changed so much from her weird high pitch voice she used to have
Ok done ranting. I need to do hw.
[And I finally saw the song that I totally for the title for! TO BE!! I can't believe I couldn't remember that was TO BE!! Grrr...]
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| Sometimes I hate being Japanese |
[20 Oct 2009|08:12pm] |
It's not like I hate my culture
(though there are somethings i don't like. but what culture is perfect)
Of course new quarter, new school, new what nots
You meet a lot of people and you want to be friends with everyone
(or you try)
This thing that I have noticed actually have been bothering me for a while now
Every time I introduce myself
Every single person is like "Oh you're Japanese. So cool."
This overdose of animations and Japanese culture flooding the media
Apparently made the Japanese ppl look so "cool"
It's not like ppl go around saying "oh you're chinese? how cool!!"
(I don't think I've actually heard of that, except MAYBE "oh you're an exchange student from China? how cool")
It might be because there's not many Japanese population
compared to the Vietnamese, Chinese and Korean population
(actually if you compare land mass wise, and actual population, I guess Japanese ppl are rare)
It still bothers me
I feel like some of the friends I have now stick to me because I'm "Japanese"
I have more connection to this anime world that their own culture doesn't bring out
I have more connection to the language of the samurais and the ninjas
*sigh*
If people are being "friends" with me because of that
I rather be something else.
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| Everyday Life |
[18 Oct 2009|09:11pm] |
Our fan is so gross that it has cobwebs all over.
Jk, it's our halloween decoration because we're art nerds.
I need to take care of my body better...
Realizing the oldness of this body now :((
Don't fall asleep with contacts on... floss my teeth... stop eating so much sodium... etc.
But I have a feeling I'll keep on doing this until I graduate from college
[or maybe until I die]
School is okay so far... I guess
I have nothing else to do except ignore homework as much as possible
and end up updating my LJ that I haven't been using
I miss dance so much :((
I hope Jen gets time as soon as possible.
Though we were thinking of going to the one in UTC
I don't think that's possible because there were 10 yr olds that were busting out
triple pirouettes without even stumbling
hrmmmmmmm
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| Ridiculous... Ridiculous... Ridiculous... |
[15 Oct 2009|03:02pm] |
www.indecisionforever.com/2009/10/15/jon-stewart-on-the-gops-support-for-gang-rape/
This is fucking ridiculous.
This was on James' facebook post and it made me so fucking angry
I didn't watch this episode last night cuz i thought Jeff Dunham was on the Jay Leno show
but apparently he's on this night [which sounds exciting]
But either way this is ridiculous!
How the fuck do they think that this kind of bullshit is ok!?
I don't understand any part of the GOP's thinking!!
They think that it's not a big deal that you women gets gang raped
and they say it's not part of their job to deal with it!?
The fuck! That goes all the rights of women, or even just a person!
Does our tax go for this contract to be allowed!?
This made me hate the world like crazy
Oh well.
I guess we all knew how dumb the GOP's are...
Art history paper due tomorrow.
Haven't done the reading. Haven't done any writing.
I'm excited for tomorrow :))))
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news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091015/ap_on_re_us/us_interracial_rebuff
more idiots.
What do you guys think?? :))
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