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2004-05-26T14:24:00.000-04:00

hey i'd go for kickboxing lessons ... =)

2004-05-14T00:44:00.000-04:00

oh goodness, i completely agree. it was so much prettier before.

anyhow, i'll be working in new york over the summer. that'll be loads o fun. =) i also second the exercising resolution. you know what'd be cool? kickboxing lessons. wahaha. you can get crazy toned with that.

2004-05-11T00:51:00.000-04:00

the new blogger is so ugly.

what are the summer plans for everyone?

i'm working in jersey (yorktel...). i'm going to attempt to lose my freshman 15. and i planned a trip to cali with my BC friends! i don't know if that will work out though. that is all.

2004-05-07T02:45:00.000-04:00

this thing deserves an update.

well there we go.

2004-02-28T15:08:00.000-05:00

i missed my blogger!

anyway, i guess it deserves a post. it's been awhile!

hmm i dunno. things change really fast. maybe you just gotta get used to it. i'm not good with adapting to change i don't think. i'm pretty slooooow.

this was a horrible post.

deletage!

ill vs. nw 27-27 with 2 minutes left in the first half. cmon ill. let's kick it up a notch.

2004-01-02T00:55:00.000-05:00

amazing.

so many things happened this past year, some were awesome, some were less than memorable. but all in all, i'm thankful for the blessings that God has poured on me, for his provision in all my times of need, for being able to run to his open arms that welcome me so willingly, even when i didn't deserve it. God is truly awesome!

I may have failed, but I'll try again.
And again.

God is good!
All the time!

2003-11-26T23:32:00.000-05:00

happy turkey turkey!!

=)

2003-11-12T19:30:00.000-05:00

hello! i'm posting! ;)

check out will's newest contribution to the worldwide web.. hehehe

http://www.wellesley.edu/Activities/homepage/awakenthedawn/index.html

hope everyone's doing well.. see you during thanksgiving! =)

2003-10-14T00:54:00.000-04:00

i miss everyone ...
and home.

2003-09-08T00:32:00.000-04:00

ellen, i miss you already and it's only the second week of classes! i'm sure you'll have a great year at school, just make sure you don't get shot on the T!!

toast! =)

2003-08-29T02:30:00.000-04:00

mm... toast.

2003-08-26T14:41:00.000-04:00

i'm really going to miss you, connie.

and everyone else. =)

here's to keeping in touch with each other, and having a great year at our respective schools. *toast*

2003-08-21T12:59:00.000-04:00

i'm really gonna miss summer. i'm gonna miss not being at school, eating mom's good homecooked meals, not being fat (cuz we know that'll change again when i get back to school), going out without worrying (too much) about homework and junx, seeing church kids every week, saturday morning bballs, video game fests, going to the movies like at least every other week, having my own room, being able to go shopping any time i wanted, listening to the radio while i'm driving, hanging out wiht my friends, but i think most of all, i'm really gonna miss all the things that i could have done this summer but never got a chance to for whatever reason. there were a lot of things i wanted to do, but with work and homework and friends not being available i missed out on a lot. well, i can't really say "missed out" because they didn't actually happen, but could have. but i still really enjoyed all the moments i did spend with my friends and family and whoever. is this becoming a sappy blog? well, i gotta have at least one before school starts again!

i just realized that i've been here for over 9 years now. that's more than half my life!! i've never stayed in a city for more than 3 years before i moved here. well, it's been quite a ride so far;)

last night i got to stay up late and spend hours just talking about pretty much everything. i haven't done that in a reeaally long time. it was cool too cuz we talked about like school and stuff and what was goign on now, also stuff about future (not so much, i'm not good at thinking ahead,) and a whole lotta stuff that happened in the past. it was like a giant flashback, of high school, middle school, elementary school geez! haha=) man oh man the stupid stories:) well, not all stupid but either way i still like stories:)

well, i didn't wake up for work this morning, but hey it was worth it=)

stuff like that i'm gonna miss.

2003-08-20T00:01:00.000-04:00

as i was massively cleaning my room today (actually just my bookshelf) i came across a short piece of something that i wrote for senior year first aid health class. i have decided to enlighten you with my piece of something and hence probably make you dumber just by making you read it. please excuse any misspellings, grammatical incorrectness, pure stupidity, etc etc. well, enjoy.

General Tao's Chicken

The other day I went to the mall and was walking around when I saw a young six years old girl choke on a free sample of General Tao's Chicken at the Food Court. At first I thought it wasn't a serious matter, but then I saw her clutch her throat and immediately I knew it was serious. After all, that is the universal distress signal for choking! I ran over, accidentally dropping my Wendy's Biggie drink on my shoe, but I didn't care for my main concern was to get that young girl to breathe. I slid over on my knees after I realized she had gone unconscious and fallen to the ground. Her mother was standing next to her screaming, not knowing what course of action to take. I, being so skilled in these types of situations, because of my first marking period Safety class with Mr. G (I got a smiley face here from Mr. G), yelled at her to hurry and call the paramedics! However, I did not proceed to help until after I obtained permission from her mother, of course! (Mr. G wrote next to this sentence, "IN A CHOKING SITUATION, THERE'S NO NEED TO ASK PERMISSION TO HELP" underlined.) This poor girl could wait no longer! I was on my knees, frantically searching for a pulse. Relieved to have found one, I put my ear to her mouth, and when I didn't hear or feel breath, I immediately began to give her abdominal thrusts, starting with six. After the seventh abdominal thrust, a piece of General Tao's Chicken flew out of her throat and landed in what was left of my Wendy's Biggie drink. The little girl then began to cough and afterwards, was able to breathe normally. EMS arrived and took her and her mother to the hospital. Wendy's saw what happened and offered me a lifetime supply of free Biggie drinks.

I'm still waiting for a Wendy's truck...

2003-08-08T11:49:00.000-04:00

i've been watching a lot of movies lately. my mom's rediscovered the movie section of the library and now she's on a frenzy. so two nights ago, i watched cider house rules AND seabiscuit (tobey marathon!) last night i watched count of monte cristo again (it was better the first time) but i'm reading the book right now and i liked sitting next to my dad and the whole time he was like, "that wasn't in the book!" and "THAT wasn't in the book!!" and "where's the banker?" etc etc. haha. and we also checked out road to perdition and i personally checked out the princess diaries (tee hee). so if i can pull of not doing any more math tonight (which isn't likely) i'll be watching more movies this weekend! ooh, and guess what i found? all of willie's dvds that i borrowed and never returned. such as changing lanes!! i thought i lost that one last christmas...i suppose i did, but it's been found! and i have his sw2 and lotr2 and mib2 which i should watch also. ooh, and now i have the hp2 dvd also so that makes me happy. what's with all these 2s?? ok this was a movie blog. i love movies. i should be a movie star. whee!

2003-08-04T17:41:00.000-04:00

guess who i saw yesterday!! MATTHEW!!! he is SOOOO cute! i missed him so much! i gave him a really big hug and was talking to him, and i told him he grew so much, and he said i changed too and pulled on my hair. and then he kept poking my bag and said i looked like i was married because only mothers carry purses! hahaha, he's soo cute. and i kept talking to him and wanted to talk to him forever, except he took my hand and said, "sorry, i don't have that much time to talk to you right now" and i was like, "aww ok, bye!! (i'll be stalking you)" jk about that last part. but i had my eye on him the whole time until i went back upstairs. i wish i could take him home with me.

grr, i'm so jealous of sheila. she gets to see him everyday this week!! TAKE ME WITH YOU!! i miss my matthew=(

2003-08-02T21:50:00.000-04:00

i went to the six flags outlets with kelly today and i got this green skirt. well, it's like the dark green khaki color and then me and kelly were trying to figure out what color tops would go well with the skirt. anyway, we came up a few colors and i was pretty set. and then tonight, willie's family and my grandparents came over for a big dinner, and my aunt gave me a shirt for my birthday . and guess what! it was green! like, it matched sooo well with the skirt i just bought today! haha, i thought that was pretty darn cool! ooh, and willie and matt got me an avalon cd which is awesome, because i can play it day and night when i get to school and not get yelled at-- my roommate LOVES avalon, she's like obsessed. she'll be pretty happy too=) OH. and my sister gave me this really awesome wooden model of a phoenix!!! it's soo cool. you pop out the wooden pieces and then you put it together. we put it together as soon as she gave it to me and i opened it. it looks really awesome. i was planning on taking it to school before we put it together, but after we put it together i realized it'd be too hard to take apart and i don't want it to break at school or anything, so i'm just gonna leave it at home. but it's so pretty. i like it a lot.

i lost a lot of weight since i got home from school, and this morning i was like, at an okay weight, lowest i've been since i've been home, but after tonight's dinner and the piece of cake i just had, i'm probalby back at what i started at;)

2003-07-31T10:29:00.000-04:00

i had the absolute weirdest dream last night! ok, so it was about going back to school. and like, i was living in the Europa House. and my roommate from last year, michelle, was also living there. the house was split into like two sides, one was the English side and the other was the French side. when i walked in, i went right to the French side, and went into michelle's room. she had her own room, she had a full size bed, and like, a foot away was a twin bed. but no one was sleeping there except for her. but people would put her stuff there. and she wrote stuff on a blanket and was gonna give it to me, and i was like, i wrote stuff for you too, and wrote on my blanket, except i realized i wasn't planning on giving her the blanket, so then i was just like shoot. oh well. and then i went over to my side of the house and went to where i was gonna sleep. and oh my gosh. there were like 4 beds in a room, all side by side, like totally squished. remember two summer camps ago, when all the beds were lined up like in an infirmary or something, and then all the girls pushed them together so it became like one giant bed? yeah. it looked like that, and i was like...WHAT THE. but i got the end bed, and it was a few feet away from teh wall and there was a little desk next to it so i suppose i got lucky. yeap. i mean, i had heard that all the girls in the europa house were close (in my dream) but not *that* close! haha. and during my dream i kept thinking i can't live here! and thoughts of me living in isr kept interjecting and made me feel better.

other parts of my dream, my whole family was there. we were in this like, shopping mall area. and there was a, what was it, sanrio store? but it wasn't really sanrio, but i remember a lot of pink furry things. my sister was really into it. i don't know why. um, that's about all i remember.

and i remmeber my mom coming into my room in the middle of the night to close my window, and i thought she was coming to wake me up for work, so i said "ok ok" and she said "ok ok what? i came to close the window." and i realized it was still dark outside so i went bakc to sleep.

and i woke up this morning with eeyore under my back.

2003-07-28T14:06:00.000-04:00

thanks zizi!! =D

your poem, it moved me to tears! it was so original, thank you so much!! =)

haha yes, i'm 19. last year as a teen! but you're right, that does sound so weak compared to "and...you know. har har" =) haha you're so funny:) thanks again!

2003-07-28T12:43:00.000-04:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CONNIE!!!

in celebration of your birthday, i wrote you a poem:

happy birthday to you
happy birthday to you
happy birthday dear connieeee,
happy birthday to you.

hmm...what is special about being 19? i mean, 16, 17, and 18 are big deals [sweet 16, license, adult] and 20 and 21 are big deals [no longer a teen, and...you know. har har], so you have 19 sandwiched between big deals. but what is special about 19? i guess you could say it's because it's your last teen year, but that's pretty weak compared to the other ones. but anyway, turning 19 should be great! congrats! ..you are 19 right?

2003-07-25T10:50:00.000-04:00

hey, check this out:

http://www.duke.edu/~mpv4/I-gnition.mpg

it's very amusing=)

oh, and read this too:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/25/nyregion/25BUS.html

have fun!

2003-07-23T16:22:00.000-04:00

how are things over there zizi? give me your new digits and i can update my phone(book) =) i hope things are going well! miss ya lots!

i watched bend it like beckham yesterday. haha irish boy with irish accent. was cute but sometimes he looked really evil, i think it was his eyes or something. and there's one scene where he's running and it was the worst running form i've ever seen! his arms were all over the place -- he looked like he was being spastic on purpose! other than that horrible image, he looked good=)

mm, ok, gone for now.

2003-07-21T22:20:00.000-04:00

hi friends, i'm back home (pennsylvania). come visit!! =D im me or something for my new address and number. come on, you know you want my digits. ;)

2003-07-21T00:37:00.000-04:00

connie and i seem to go on a lot of dates for two girls who aren't dating. each other.

2003-07-20T23:16:00.000-04:00

oh! i've just realized why everyone showed up at church at the same time! they all slept over christina's house=) haha, i did find that kind of odd:)

2003-07-20T23:11:00.000-04:00

haha, today was fun. went to church in the morning. and actually i found it incredibly strange that all of the youth got there at the exact same time and all walked in from the parking lot together like a herd of cattle or something. anyway.

me and ellen led children's worship this morning. HAHA. good fun, i tell you. i don't think my class was that bad when i was that age! the kids are so noisy, especially some of the boys, and to add to that excitement, ellen just read the material that morning during the service and neither of us had any clue on what to do. but it was pretty good winging. started off with prayer, atrociously sang "deep and wide" until we practically killed it (while having problems on the proper way of portraying "fountain" using hand motions -- apparently my fountain looked like a mountain, and ellen's fountain was a river/fish), sang "give thanks" once before the kids got bored of it ('do you guys want to sing it again?' 'mm, noo...') haha. told a bible story about elijah while i drew some pretty bad pictures on the whiteboard to go along with it, kids are very picky about the people having hands and feet... mm, did something with water that actually ended up with most of it on the floor, told a story using slides, and that's about it. oh, but nelson was super cute=) we stayed after with him to wait for his dad to come get him and i drew a picture of him on the whiteboard. it turned out being life size so we picked him up and put him against the board to see=) i'm sure he felt violated haha.

after church, went to ellen's and ate yummy noodles as she tried to seduce me by having chewed up noodles practically fall out of her mouth, yum! very attractive=) hung out at guitar center for a couple hours. their keyboards are fuuun!! let's see, i really liked "voices of karma" and on one synth i had a lotta fun pretending i was a dj. or something. and mixing catchy rhythms to like...classical music. cuz i can only play classical music=P oooh, and they have really pretty, shiny guitars that sound good=) dave sat in the the room playing different guitars the whole time, and i thought ellen was having a little too much fun with the banjos and mandolins...

then to menlo park, got to visit all the sales racks...but i didn't get anything. i did however buy a large mountain dew for 89 cents. at hagaan daaz. the banana jackets were really nice, i want one now!!! and only guys jackets go on sale, grr. and dave was also unsuccessful in finding clothes that didn't come in some shade of blue. but we established that it wasn't his fault in the end, because it seemed like every rack or shelf in every store stocked only clothes in shades of blue, black, or gray.

oh and dinner was especially fun! particularly the part about trying to defrost shredded cheese by putting it in a blender filled with warm water! good idea ellen=) it almost worked. the microwave proved to be handier. it was a good dinner, but it was probably the most unhealthy thing ever. let's see, a whole ziplock back full of mozzarella cheese, a jar of spaghetti sauce, more carbohydrates than is good for you, and a whole lotta ground beef/pork/i dunno which. oh, and about 390% of your daily vitamin C =)

good times, good times:)

2003-07-19T22:51:00.000-04:00

did anybody see this?

http://markwalker.reebok.com/

crazy. completely crazy!! but the kid is awfully cute! except it was kinda weird when he said "it's a god given talent" and "i am the future of basketball" and "i am reebok." but seriously, if this kid keeps going the way he's been going, he's gonna be crazy good. but right now he's just really cute=)

happy birthday christina!!

2003-07-18T11:31:00.000-04:00

you know, there's something that i've always known, but never really admitted until recently, and it is this: new jersey drivers are seriously the worst drivers in the world. it's unbelievable how horrible new jersey drivers are. they're the most disrespectful, careless, reckless drivers you'll ever come across and i don't like that at all. i'm not saying that everyone is a horrible horrible driver, but there's definitely enough of them to constitute new jersey being the state having the most unsafe roads. me and my mom were driving home from the airport late last night and we were in the right most lane coming out of a toll and it was a wide lane about to merge into a normal narrow lane. and we were already in the rightmost lane and this bus from behind us comes zooming past us ON OUR RIGHT SIDE!!! what the heck! so my mom hastily moved into the left lane and it was a good thing there were no cars in the left lane cuz we would have seriously been plowed over by the bus that was driving at like 70 mph coming out of a toll! it was driving so fast the whole bus was tipped on its left side. and then we were on route 9 later and this car abruptly pulls out of a store driveway really fast so my mom hit the brakes and it scared me out of my wits i stopped talking for several minutes. i don't usually stop talking in the car. freaking scared me out of my mind. and everyday on the road, people are weaving in and out of lanes left and right trying to get in front of the car in front of them, like they're tryign to make some concrete basket or something. totally unsafe. new jersey driving. irks me.

2003-07-17T17:41:00.000-04:00

ok, so two things really made me super excited today.

so i was reminiscing about days of old... (i do that sometimes.) sometimes, i type into google search names of people i used to know. like, kids from elementary school, or something like that, just to see if they're still alive and such. i'm not a stalker, just wondering what old friends might be up to. so anyway, when i lived in canada, i had this one very good friend. she was definitely my best friend for that year. she was the nicest girl, very outgoing, and we got along great. well, i moved after a year and didn't keep in touch, even though i still have her canada address stored in an old address book (which is currently sitting somewhere in storage at ui.) and i typed her name into google search. guess what i came up with.

http://www.figureskatersonline.com/belbin-agosto/

among a ton of other stuff about her and her skating partner.

you shoulda seen my face. i was at work when i did this. and i was like, WOW. and i was so totally amazed all morning!! i read up on her and stuff, she's amazing! i admire her more than ever now. i mean, i always remembered her, she's the only name from canada that i remember. i remembered hanging out with her (the way fourth graders hang out) and a lotta stuff. and to see that someone like us, just another normal kid that went to school with otehr normal kids, could make a world name for herself. it totally amazes me. as i've already said. i've always admired her for her personality and other great traits, but this just completely puts her above the mark. i know i haven't seen or talked to her in 10 years, but it's really cool to see the impact other people can make on someone. and i know she probably doesnt' even remember me, but that's ok, cuz she just got another new fan.

the second thing was that i went to visit sheryl (a woman my mom works with that i also know) and her new baby!!! the baby's name is taylor jane and she is SOOOO CUUUUTE. i've never seen such a small baby in my life, cuz she's about 3 weeks early. but she is adorable. she was sleeping the whole time in fetal position, but once she opened her eyes, and a couple of times she smiled the world's cutest smile. and she's got a lot of hair! and her head was so soft=) she was so tiny! from like your wrist to your elbow. i had to keep thinking that this was a real person, not just a little cute stuffed animal or something. but a real live tiny person!! that's amazing too. a whole new life in a tiny little bundle. =)

life threw me some nice surprises today, for a change. it was an amazing day:) little things can make me happy=)

2003-07-16T23:56:00.000-04:00

A;SDOIFHA;OEWINF ;OASDFN;SOIDNFAEKASNFGA;OIERHGADS;GLKJEI

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

sigh.

2003-07-16T11:24:00.000-04:00

look at this:
http://entertainment.msn.com/photos/gallery.aspx?gallery=1178&photo=121357#photos

did you see that? oh my goodness. that's scary. i didn't know people looked like that. grr...
she's a lucky girl. and i'm jealous! haha:)

2003-07-14T09:31:00.000-04:00

i'm sad. no one blogs anymore!

anyway, i saw pirates last night!!! they (orlando bloom and johnny depp) are so cute! SOOO CUUUTE!!! they're adorable! and johnny depp is so funny. he's awesome. and orlando bloom looks good with blonde hair and pointy ears or with brown hair, a pony tail and a goatee. =) anywho, the movie was awesome. i liked it a lot. and i really liked the way they filmed the lighting and stuff, with the moon and whatnot. and that girl kiera knightly or something is the spitting image of natalie portman! they look exactly alike! and she's so pretty. and she's younger than us!! ahhh!! me and ellen were both like "i hate her!" she was so lucky. ahh. boo. but good movie=)

next on my list: LXG

2003-06-27T20:05:00.000-04:00

ok. i *really* don't like this new layout now. it changed since like, yesterday. what is this?!

well, my sister just called. i picked up the phone, said hello, she said hello, i said hello, she said hello. i paused for a very long time, trying to figure out what was going on. then she said, can i talk to mommy? and then i knew it was my sister.

to explain, i thought there was an echo. then i finally realized why everyone says we sound alike. when you mistake your sister's voice for you own, you know all those people can't be wrong. i thought she was me!! how freaky. oh. and another thing. last night i was recording myself singing (i do that often, don't laugh) and when i played it back, there are times that i sound EXACTLY like my sister! it's so weird!! WEIRD, i tell you!

moral of the story: suck helium before you pick up the phone.

ok, see you kids in a couple weeks!

2003-06-26T15:49:00.000-04:00

um.

blogger turned blue. the format changed. now it's all blocky. this will have to take some getting used to..

anyway. i was just reading old blogs in the archive. i read september 2003 month. i think you should all go back and read it. it was sort of amusing. especially when i spelled "road" as "rode" and no one corrected me. and then there was the blog about ellen's tennis team losing to marlboro and how nasty the marlboro kids were...and then in the next post, zi was like "yay for marlboro!" haha, that was funny=)

yeap.

CONGRATS ELLEN!!

and

CONGRATS EVERYONE ELSE WHO ALREADY GRADUATED!!

ok bye!=)

2003-06-19T08:49:00.000-04:00

hey ZI

WHERE ARE YOU? WHAT STATE ARE YOU IN? WHY HAVEN'T I SEEN YOU IN FOREVER? I'M BREAKING THE DON'T WRITE IN ALL CAPS RULE! =)

but really zi, where are you??

william, i can think of nothing else other than moulin rouge when i see "all you need is love" hehe. moulin rouge!

2003-06-15T21:34:00.000-04:00

hey WILLIAM

did you draw that? and i don't think idealism is necessarily good... hm

2003-06-12T16:34:00.000-04:00

"all you need is love"

i don't know if the artist meant for this to have a deeper meaning, but i found it to be particularly profound.

and i think cynicism has killed my idealism.

2003-06-11T23:48:00.000-04:00

so i finally saw trainspotting today. uh, yeah. ummm. overall, IT'S SICK!!

ugh.

comes in a close second to requiem for a dream.

i need to go wash my brain with some disney movies or something. SIMBA!! come here!

2003-06-06T13:30:00.000-04:00

it's NICE outside!! exciting! :) haha.

i think i'm pretty happy this summer. class isn't that bad, work's not that bad. i probably won't be taking a third session class so that's cool. the weather's nice, playing outside today and tomoddo. IN THE SUN! hopefully it'll get really nice, and be good enough for beach weather! haha. i'm so excited about this weather. rain gets kind of boring when it doesn't stop for two three weeks. and harry potter keeps me highly entertained everyday. i like this whole no school bit. except i really should be studying this summer and i haven't touched my books. eh. i'm sure they can live without me=)

so like, ER is a really good show. i like it a lot. you guys should all watch it. and noah wyle is cool yo. yeah. tv harry potter playing outside and keeping myself busy with stuff to do, whether or its work or play, is good stuff. i am happy=)

2003-06-02T15:59:00.000-04:00

haha. isn't viggo mortenson blonde? or maybe he just died it blonde when it was short. who knows. he has that scruffy warrior look to him, so he looks better with long hair. but i still like orlando bloom MUCH better=) and hugh jackman should NEVER be allowed to grow his hair long. he should be the opposite of samson!

IS THIS RAIN EVER GOING TO STOP?!?! IT'S PEEING ON MY PARTY!

ok bye!

2003-05-31T15:49:00.000-04:00

i think its funny that hugh jackman looks good with short hair and bad with long hair. because that made me think of VIGGO MORTENSON, who looks amazingly hot with long hair, but bad with short hair. anyway, i'm pooped from (post)prom. =)

2003-05-31T01:13:00.000-04:00

he looks good with claws! man, those are hot.

i mean.... i don't like boys.

2003-05-30T16:55:00.000-04:00

i know exactly what you mean! when i first saw him with long hair i was like.. whaaaaat??? he looks so good with short hair. how sad. ;)

yeah, just wanted to put in my two cents. =)

2003-05-28T22:06:00.000-04:00

oh my. i just saw some pictures of hugh jackman at the X2 premiere and he is UGLY! U-G-L-Y he ain't got no alibi! oh my. his hair was really long...like, a bit past shoulder length long! EWWWWW. gross man. yeah. UGLY. ok bye.

2003-05-27T12:57:00.000-04:00

well, will likes boys too.

mm, i went to the dentist today! so exciting, i got a new toothbrush=)

ooh, i saw X2 this weekend, finally!! it was really good=) tee hee. everyone's so pretty in that movie. jean gray's really pretty. and wolverine. and the chinese girl who's half canto or something. she's really pretty. her name is like, kelly hsu or something? i read it somewhere in a magazine few months ago. i like her eyes. yeap. movie was good. can't wait until X3!

ok, i was gone for two hours to the dentist. back to work.

2003-05-23T17:42:00.000-04:00

and connie says:

venus MURF: yes will
venus MURF: ima playa
venus MURF: i like every boy=)
venus MURF: well
venus MURF: a lot

so guys, watch out!

2003-05-23T12:01:00.000-04:00

shoot. my blog activity hasn't skyrocketed like i planned. i was supposed to be blogging a whole lot cuz i'm at work again. but it's busier than it was last time i worked here. well, maybe when i get back into the swing of things, relearning how to do stuff, i'll be blogging like no other=) and i hope you guys all join in the fun! join me! JOIN ME. that's an order. =)

ahh, work. i didn't really miss it. but it's not so bad working here.

ok i'm off for the day!

lunch time=) bye!

2003-05-13T03:22:00.000-04:00

hm.. APs weren't that bad. and they got me out of a lot of classes. so you guys should be thankful for those.

and godiva IS good. although i've never had the cheesecake. mm.. assorted chocolates. i can eat those all day long.

and i've been studying everyday straight since last thursday. i've never studied so much before in my life (which can be viewed as pretty sad, cuz it doesn't compare to the countless of students working their butts off over here...). but yeah. it's so hard to be a slacker nowadays. darn. looks like i'm gonna hafta start working hard... well, it was fun while it lasted.

and i want to go home... so i can come back for summer school! and i'm not being sarcastic. i really am looking forward to summer school. it'll be so great. ID class should be fun. i hear summer small groups are awesome. and there's gonna be summer league basketball. aw yeah. gotta start training.

wait.. what am i doing? i still have 3 finals left... alright, i'm out.

2003-05-07T19:11:00.000-04:00

i agree! aps suck and GODIVA IS GOOD. although i've never had godiva chocolate cheesecake. but i do remember that yopliat commercial! c'est si bon. it is so good. hahaha.

mm, i hate school. mm, i hate my classes. mm, i hate this major. i think i'm gonna switch. yeah. I WANT TO GO HOME!!!! HOMMMMMEEEEEEE. i'm coming home in a week. i better see all of you! =)

2003-05-04T23:49:00.000-04:00

it is so good. remember that yoplait commercial? yeahhh.

aps suck. ok thats all from me!

2003-05-04T21:00:00.000-04:00

I am eating GODIVA CHOCOLATE CHEESECAKE

OH MY GOD ITS GOOD

2003-05-01T05:39:00.000-04:00

ooh, guess what. i pulled out 2 dollars and 11 cents of change from a broken vending machine tonight! i spent 1.5 hours doing it! with all my tools (keys and key rings at first, then paper clips and finally my swiss army knife. pull out the heavy artillery!) yeah. i literally had sweat dripping down my nose thru all this. and it was 3 in the morning too. i'm sure vicki found it very amusing as i would run into the room she was in and occasionally drop a coin on the ground to prove my success=) hahaha. i'm such a dork. i think i should go to sleep nowz. bye!

2003-05-01T05:35:00.000-04:00

hey will!

maybe this will keep you from falling asleep when you study and stuff for fear of random people taking random shots of you! (you just woke up in this one. the expression is great. =P)

2003-04-21T23:07:00.000-04:00

guess what?

more papers!!

i'm so screwed this week... 7-9 page research paper due wednesday (which i still need research for), 3-5 page asian lit paper due thurs (this one's not so bad), and a TAM exam on friday. and i did pretty bad on the last 2 tests i had.... ughhh

i hate this.

i suck.

2003-04-11T02:34:00.000-04:00

hey will. so you told me you finished your paper at 6:01 am. very nice. you should have just finished it in an hour like you said you could have. what is it about kids having work to do and not doing it so they can blog about not doing their work instead? for example, i have a math quiz tomoddo morning, and i have to go and learn the sections and do the homework. meanwhile, it's 1:30 am and i could be doing math instead of blogging. but i like blogging=) blogging is way more fun than hw=)

boo, i got so sick this past weekend! it started last friday night when i ran around outside at around midnight wearing a tshirt and it was like 30 degrees. then the next saturday morning at around 7 i ran around in a sweatshirt and it was snowing outside. finally ducked indoors at around 830. then i think i got pretty sick on saturday night. then i got sicker on monday. then i got even sicker on tuesday and went to mckinley health center for some drugs=) which, by the way, had no effect on me. they gave me lydocaine which was supposed to numb my really horribly sore throat, but instead, my tongue went temporarily numb but my throat still hurt like a nut. it did that twice so i gave up on it. then on wednesday morning i had 102 temp so i skipped all my classes and slept til 230. and today is thursday (friday morning actually) and my throat hasn't gotten even a little bit better, so i'm gonna sleep when i finish studying and if it still hurts in the morning, i'm taking the illegal taiwanese imported antibiotics that my mommy gave me=)

so...pray i get better soon! cuz this is really ruining my pig-like eating habits! ;) (although that may be a good thing...=P)

2003-04-10T03:38:00.000-04:00

papers are the worst type of homework for me.

and that's why i'm blogging and munching on a green apple right now.

so how're y'all doin?

ok, this is really bad. my paper is due in 3 hours.

i've sat here for... about 2 hours.

um... yeah, i have nothing really to blog about.

i wanted to xanga... but it's down. again.

ok, i should try to get started at least.

yup. that's all for now.

sorry you all had to suffer through this stupid post. =P

2003-04-06T01:56:00.000-05:00

have you read the thing about blogger being bought by google on the blogger page? haha, the end is funny. anyway, can't wait to come home in the summer. byebye=)

2003-03-27T01:54:00.000-05:00

the word on the street is that ja rule is a weak rapper because he does all those duets. he never does anything on his own, he always has to have someone to accompany him while he hollers and screeches things. and his name is an acronym. "ja" for his real name jeff atkins and "rule" for "represents unconditional love's existence." i learned that on pop-up video: divas las vegas.

ok back to paper writing. and i hope you have a good break connie! but not too good, if you know what i mean. ;) yeah, me neither.

2003-03-27T00:48:00.000-05:00

connie, youah cwaazy!

nope, it wasn't break that says that. that was me.

so this post is for those of you out there with stale mp3 playlists. now do you know who's a great artist? i mean seriously, this guy is GREAT! he has a beautifully silky smooth voice. and his vocals and lyrics are just simply unparalleled.

yes, i'm sure you know who i'm talking about... he's none other than JA RULE! he rules! ok, that was horribly cheesy. but seriously folks, you need to download some samples of his latest duets with current top artists:

Ja Rule Duets 2 and Ja Rule Duets 3

so download those and listen to his amazing song-writing and singing skillz. aww yea.

yeah, dawg.

2003-03-26T18:24:00.000-05:00

hola. spring break. is. here. actually, it's been here for awhile.

anyway. i'm on a break. from work (not really) from school (not really -- 4 exams await my arrival) from school people (some, not all -- many followed me home to jersey=P)
but i guess break is good. no classes to go to for one (yeah, all one class that i go to), less homework (less written work, but still lotsa studying), less people to face (friend and foe), less drunkards to smell (no negative comment here). break gives me more time to think, allows me to refresh and refocus myself. i lost focus somewhere between september and march, and i spent a lot of time doing things that didn't need to be done, whereas things that *did* need to be done, weren't. so break pretty much kicks me in the rear and says, "connie, dummy, you have more important things to worry about then the things that you've been worrying about. so get your head out of the clouds and bring it back to earth, cuz earth has a pile of books for you to read and a pile of tests for you to take and a crapload of stuff you need to learn. oh, and while you're up there, bring back a star so when you're done with all the stuff that needs doing, maybe one day you can put the star back in the sky where it belongs. and then you can go sit on the clouds and look at the sky. because then it'll be okay for you to do other stuff, cuz you've finished what you need to do for now."

or maybe break just says, "connie, youah cwaazy!"

yeah. but i think break is good.
i hope break is good for you too.

2003-03-17T19:00:00.000-05:00

i have lots of pictures of taiwan. mostly just of places and people, so will, if you want them ... um i can scan the ones that are good. okay.

2003-03-12T20:29:00.000-05:00

holy smackerole! HAHAHAHA zi that was great. GREAT!!! :)

mm, so sorry i haven't posted in so long! my last post was that rapping thing and then no one posted after that so i never came back=) so now it's the will-derek-zi-ellen-derek and more-than-sometimes-connie blog! because i've posted again. go me.

so, i think you should all visit me. and will. visit us. because it's not cold here anymore! it's so nice! it was like, 57 degrees today, and now it's like 50 degrees and it's nice=) and i just ate steak and made myself a mother of an icescream sunday. yeah. i put on like 15 cherries. now i'm really full.

derek, i would love to join forces with your blog! let's combine our blogs. that would be cool. and why is *your* blog "the" blog. i think my blog should be "the" blog and your blog can just be blog. OH MY!!! my blog's birthday is coming up really soon!!!! It's gonna be two years old! THAT'S SO EXCITING! i think we should all throw it a birthday party! that would be so much fun! we can sing and dance to the rhythm of the night. yeah. cool.

so derek. come to my blog. yeah.

spring break is in 9 days. or something like that. yah!! ok, see you then:)

2003-03-11T03:13:00.000-05:00

derek, why are you on there twice?

oh, and zi... was that you on the gollum clip? i thought it was from the movie at first.. but when i listened to it again, i noticed the laughing. and then i remembered that gollum didnt' laugh like that.

and hey, does anyone have pictures of taiwan? like photos of the streets, sidewalks, people, places, or anything at all? if anyone does, can you let me know? it'd help me out a lot. thanks. i'm working on this webpage for this summer camp in taiwan that teaches english to blind kids. yup. so please help.

2003-03-10T20:13:00.000-05:00

hey, this can be like the will-derek-zi-ellen-derek and sometimes connie blog.

2003-03-10T03:50:00.000-05:00

hm.. does this mean this is a defective blog? ok, nevermind. it's late and i'm sleepy.

and waaaait... that clip was an impression? dang. i thought it was a clip from the movie or something.

wow.

2003-03-10T00:02:00.000-05:00

you can't combine blogs. connie defected from the blog sometime around march 2001. for two years she has attempted to put up resistance to my unstoppable machine, but now she will realize the error of her ways. and return to her roots. by the way, that was a very good gollum impression -- a bit scary when i clicked on the link and nothing happened and about five minutes later there was this strange voice coming from my computer.

2003-03-08T17:17:00.000-05:00

hahahaha thanks ellen. maybe now i'll get discovered! this could be my big break. ;)

when are your spring breaks? i'm going home next friday. lata playaz.

2003-03-06T23:59:00.000-05:00

my my... someone needs a leash on his egotism. ;)

so how does one combine blogs? i keep checking this one but nobody ever posts.

blah. don't you guys know how to procrastinate???

2003-03-06T23:49:00.000-05:00

i was meaning to post this earlier, but...

Gollum.wav. hii zi! =)

2003-03-06T20:46:00.000-05:00

connie, i told you your blog should've joined forces with mine. come to the derek side. you should never have fallen away. join with me again and i will make you powerful. or something like that ... i sound evil. next i should be telling you to turn stones into bread, jump off a building, and worship me.

2003-03-01T15:26:00.000-05:00

rap to that=)

2003-03-01T15:25:00.000-05:00

hahahaha billlliam. haha.

hi emily!!!! welcome back=)

eee heee (stitch sound). this week was very busy, i had two exams and an mp due yesterday at 500. i handed it in at 457. yay!

ok i'm going to sams now=) i'm running low on food.

Ok, food, is good, is good for you
food, oh food yea food.

yum yum food.

foooooooooOOOOOOOOD FOOD!

normal, i swear!!!!

2003-02-27T00:31:00.000-05:00

i have sooooooo much work!!!!!!

but i can't make myself do it.

heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelp meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...

2003-02-25T01:07:00.000-05:00

take your own advice, billiam ;)

2003-02-11T13:10:00.000-05:00

hello.

keep posting and you won't be killing blogs.

;)

so.. how is everyone doing? i'm really not liking this whole reading/analyzing/writing stuff i hafta do in 2 of my classes. i thought i had escaped those horrid things for good. at least the subject matter is interesting.

2003-02-04T01:45:00.000-05:00

hello i am zi and my hobbies include killing blogs. =P sorry dude.

2003-01-28T00:18:00.000-05:00

feel...hotter connie! i guess. hey guys, guess who is going to live in a quite sweet dorm next year? me!!!

http://gwired.gwu.edu/hc/mainpage.php?id=1306 (the triple)

hopefully.

oh do i hope so. <33

2003-01-24T01:40:00.000-05:00

haha, yeah, when i saw the picture, i thought i was driving something too. then i realized what it was, and my next thought was, "where'd he get that picture." yeap.

it's -2 degrees outside right now. it's really cold. i can't feel my legs when i walk outside. not even with two pairs of pants on.

and there is definitely a leak in my window because it's closed and i can feel a really -2-like chill coming in. brr.

gnite.

2003-01-23T14:55:00.000-05:00

i thought that was a picture of connie driving a large schoool bus because school buses have large steering wheels... then I read connie's third goal and tried to relate driving to working out and losing weight and then I realized that that is a picture of connie in allison's basement on her ab roller! Woa! I'm smart!

haha... I need more sleep... I woke up at 7:13 today and I left my house at 7:20. I need to study.

2003-01-21T03:02:00.000-05:00

hm.. at first i thought you were yelling at me or something... "will, do this! will, do that!" etc, etc...

but then i got to the last 2 and i figured that since those were habits only you need to kick, you were talking in future tense about the things you were planning to accomplish. ;)

oh, and looks like you already got a head start on number 3:

2003-01-20T19:43:00.000-05:00

hrm. back at school. hrm.

will study hard this semester.
will get really grades i'll blow my parents and myself off their/my feet
will work out and lose lots of weight
will practice good time management
will also have fun somewhere in there
will go to the library more often
will go to church every week
will meet new people and make more friends
will go to office hours at some point and get to know ta's/profs
will go to all my classes
will ... try ... not to sleep at ridiculously late hours at night
will smoke fewer and fewer cigarettes until i quit completely
will drink fewer and fewer units of alcohol until i quit completely

just kidding about those last two...i wanted to be like bridget jones=)

2003-01-11T05:27:00.000-05:00

woooooooohooooooooooooo!!!!

I FINISHED MY WEBPAGE!!!!

i hope you don't mind if i plug it here. =D

oh, for those of you with slow connections.. sorry! please bear with me.

ok. umm.. so all i've been doing since i got back here to CA is webpaging. a LOT of webpaging. and playing some bball. ugh, i'm outta shape so my new year's resolution will be to start working out. ok, i'm kidding... that's not really my new year's resolution.. but i'll try for it anyways.

oh, i've also been reading this book "the case for christ." very intriguing stuff. learned a lot that i didn't know about before. but it also means i hafta start reading up on a lot of other things. well... learning is good. i like learning. except when it involves homework. cuz... homework isn't good.

and guess what i saw on tv?? there's a taboo tv show! on the new tnn. i dunno if that's different from just plain tnn. but yea... it's quite amusing to see people acting all agitated and frustrated when they get tabooed. hehehee... reminds me of all the taboo games i played over winter break. fun stuff.

ooh boy. it's 2:30. 5:30 where most of you guys are. so i'm feeling delirious. and i'm gonna sleep now. gnite all.

oh, visit my site. =D

2003-01-05T01:09:00.000-05:00

awww!! that's so sad. i don't think it'll be true either. think positive and happy!!

zizi, when are you moving!? you'll visit us all the time right??

will, i don't think i'll be your last break here. well, it could be. but it also might not be! don't work too hard in that nice weather over there. i'll see you in a couple weeks.

things seem so bittersweet right now. i dunno why, maybe i'm jsut in a weird sad mood. people are leaving left and right, it makes me sad. it's hard to think about the future...to think that people we know and hung out with for sooo many years will suddenly be all over the place and you won't see them for long looong periods of time. i'd rather not think about it tho. i hope that we will all still remain friends throughout the many years to come=) i'm cheesy, but very sincere. and just for that, even more cheese!! =) yes. i just wrote cheese. i am cheese.

love you all=)
gnites:)

2003-01-04T22:27:00.000-05:00

wow. are we never going to see you guys again? i hope that's not true. people randomly bump into each other all the time.. and we could always visit. :) but for now, good-bye, good-bye. have fun in college! :o)

2003-01-04T21:20:00.000-05:00

your last winter break ever?? wow will you're such a student. jk, if you're talking about moving and stuff, it's my first and last college winter break in NJ too.

2003-01-04T03:07:00.000-05:00

so yet another winter break in NJ comes to a close... not sure, but it could be my last.

thanks guys, it's been fun. perhaps i'll see you all again someday.

hm... it seems rather quiet on this blog lately. oh well.

2003-01-01T15:33:00.000-05:00

happy new year everyone!

mm, the 2003 sign was smaller than the discover card sign under the ball. anyway.

time goes by so fast. it's...scary! ugha ugha ugha! =) mm, gluck to everyone doing...stuff. and stuff. yeap.

happy new year:)

2003-01-01T13:41:00.000-05:00

so the blog turned into a will and connie conversation =)

Happy New Year!! I can't believe I'm going to have to start writing 03 on all of my papers... thast so wrong! It sounds like something out of a sci fi thriller--

"In the year 2003, the tree ents came to stomp on all of toilet bowls in the world so that no one could poop. The whole population was confined to diapers. It was a thousand years of revenge for using fellow trees as paper."

So 03 should be an eventful year... graduation and then college... scary stuff.

I wish you all the best =)

2003-01-01T02:05:00.000-05:00

happy 2003!

hope this year will be a blessing one.

2002-12-30T12:31:00.000-05:00

you can link pics fromyour post...but then you might as well make a picture page. hmm..yeah! make a picture page!! put your uiuc students account to good use.

compuper...compooper.... hmm... i should make a compact toilet and name it that. okaay, ignore what i just said.

and for the past few days, i finally learned how to snowboard! yes! took me 2 years to learn it... but i still learned, nonetheless. my neck still hurts from whiplash, i sprained my thumb, and i'm kinda sore... but no pain, no gain right? =P and being on a ski trip planned by an asian travel agent was quite the experience. asians sure know how to party, sing, and dance! (yup, i'm lying) it was amusing to watch though.

2002-12-28T19:40:00.000-05:00

hola everyone!

hmm, can blogger put pictures up? because if not, i thought about xanga, but i reallllly don't wanna give in to the asian high of xangaville. so i guess i'll just deal with no pics on my blog=( but i have some really good ones! oh well. anywho, i'm really bored right now. like, really bored. i think i'll watch one of the many movies i dled. erm. i'm on my mom's laptop in my room on my bed right now. it's so cool!! i've never used a compuper (=P) on my bed before! i'm starting to change my thoughts on laptops... they're so convenient! but i still like my compuper at school.

yeap, so i watched lilo and stitch again today on my bed=) and i watched it two nights ago when kelly came over. i can never get tired of it! it's such a greeeat movie! ah, i love it=)

ahh i'm so bored. so bored. so bore.d so bore.d so bored. yes. mm. connie needs to learn how to occupy herself. ok bye!

2002-12-25T01:22:00.000-05:00

merry christmas y'all.

2002-12-25T00:03:00.000-05:00

Merry Christmas, you filthy animal!

and a happy new year!

:)

2002-12-19T02:56:00.000-05:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOOOOOOOOU,
happy birthday to you,
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR WILL-I-AMMMMMMMMM!
happy birthday tooooo yooooooooouuuuuu!

yay! (sorry i am a bit late...) but 20, eh? heh. ;)

oh and i would like to live in ellie's world as long as the two extra days are weekends =D

i ate like.... six starbucks dark chocolate espresso beans in a matter of ten minutes about an hour ago.. and i think they are starting to kick in.

i am in my friend's room now. she is sleeping, but my other friend is in here too. yay for accountability while studying/paper-writing \(^o^)/

2002-12-18T02:36:00.000-05:00

24/9, eh ellie? i can't decide whether or not i want to live in your world =)

i haven't been too sick in a while. that's good i guess. but i think i'm starting to get sick. just hope it's not tomoddo.

mm, i have two finals tomoddo, and i am blogging! that's so bad. blogging and talking online. talking online to people who have 8 am finals tomoddo morning. that's ui for you. WILL, GO STUDY OR GO TO SLEEP!!!

WILL! HAPPY BIRTHDAY BUDDY! =)

2002-12-17T15:58:00.000-05:00

Does anyone get deleriously strange while sick? I think I do because I exhibited some strange activity in classes today.

In Calc, the boy who usually sits next to me was out sick (like I should have been) and another boy decided to sit there to be closer to the blackboard. I turned to this boy, named Tim, and I said, "Hey Tim, where is Mike? Did you eat him?"

In Econ, I just sat in class and blew my nose profusely. Everytime ole Motzy began to speak, you could hear me blowing my nose.

In English, I used my Norton Reader as my pillow at the beginning of class til the Whitten decided it was high time for me to wake. She made some strange comment to me...

In Gov... I think I took a test... yea... I did.

In Latin.. my ears were popped so every time the Boueil asked me a question I'd have to yawn or blow my nose just so that I could hear what the heck she was saying to me. Our profuse groaning convinced her to quiz us after winter break.

In weightroom, I latched onto Helen's back while she tried to flip me over in improper Tae Kwan Do fashion. Did I mention that Helen doesn't know Tae Kwan Do? I also went around making strange faces at everyone and I tried to use the incline sit up thing as a slide... got many weird looks for that one.

So yea... I have a chorus concert later today... I don't think I'll beable to sing because my throat is sore. I think my throat is sore because we had a 3 hour choir rehearsal yesterday. If you can... I think you should come tonight so that you can hear me not sing. I'm sure everyone else will though.

2002-12-17T14:03:00.000-05:00

meanwhile, *I* have begun to be online 24/9. somehow. well really I'm just procrastinating from studying physics. because I don't feel like doing physics problems, argh! one would think coming to a computer cluster away from all of my friends would help me. but no, I've just read everyone's xangas whom I know (and those of some people I don't know) and ... stuff like that. yep.

just thought I'd say hi while I made my blogger rounds.

2002-12-13T23:54:00.000-05:00

hello hello!

sorry i haven't been here in awhile. i think i've broken my addiction to being online 24/7. and it's kinda cool too. i've been addicted to aim and the internet for like, oh i dunno, 5 or 6 years now, and it's quite refreshing to not be sitting in front of a computer all day! anyway...i've been doing lotsa stuff. playing studying sleeping eating playing studying sleeping eating. yeap, that's pretty much it. it's exciting, no? but by playing, i mean all different kinds of playing. roller blading! pool! watching lotsa lotsa movies. hanging out. dling movies and going over the limit on two different computers in one day. now THAT is fun=) studying...mm, yeap, that's self explanatory. and doing homework and junks. sleeping? at all hours of the day. seriously. and eating? at all hours of the day. very seriously;)

i'm pretty excited to come home next week. finals are this week...i need to...start studying. yeap. ooh! so i had a chem quiz on wednesday. and it was funny cuz i swore she said chapters 13 and 14, so that's what i wrote, but since we were already quizzed on chapter 13, i figured it'd be 14 and 15. but i only got around to studying 13 and 14. and the quiz was a 1 question quiz on chapter 15. funny, no? i think i got a 0/20. i'm guessing i'll have to drop that one. =) yeap. fun stuff!

welcome james!! sorry for the extreme delayed welcome. but i'm glad you finally joined! cuz i remember inviting you like, a year or so ago=) and hi emily! and ellie! the girl that made me think "what the heck?! I thoguht she'd died." but she didn't! :)

you know what? it hasn't really snowed at all here. hmm. i suppose that's just as well. since i don't have anything except my sneakers.

ok bye!

2002-12-10T15:45:00.000-05:00

hey, have you guys seen the weezer music vid, "hash pipe?"

This is a game you hafta play.

=D

2002-12-09T17:17:00.000-05:00

well, it's about that time of the year again...

time for finals... aw yeah. actually, i mean... oh no.

yup.