It's been quite awhile since I've posted here, and this month actually marks 1 year for this blog. I've been pretty busy lately and am feeling pretty ambitious at the moment for a change, though I'm not sure if I have the diligence to keep up with that ambition. Just wanted to give a few updates though, and a few rants...
Let's start with school updates since that's what so many always ask me anyway. "How's school? How's BC?" Blahblahblah. Well, in terms of classes and grades, it's terrible. Who would've thought, being Asian, I could get a D in both Orgo and Multivariable Calc. Both science AND math killed me. With that said my GPA dropped a lot of course, but hopefully I'll inch my way back up during the next 5 semesters. Also, as some of you may know I'm a Chem major, but now I'm thinking about switching over to becoming a biochem major. It's such a difficult decision... I don't know if I should take these extra bio classes that I have interest in and risk further lowering my GPA, or just stick with less classes by taking only chem requirements and focus on that. On top of that, multivariable calc is not a requirement for biochem majors, which makes my D hurt even more knowing that it contributes to nothing at alll (multivariable is a requirement for chem majors). Aside from that though, everything else is okay I suppose. I really should follow the example of pretty much everyone else around me in school and study way harder... But that's all I have in terms of classes; basically, classes and grades are not where I want them.
Winter break is coming to a close. It had a slow start in the beginning, but now I've been going out a lot more and catching up with lots of high school friends which is really nice. Hearing all their college stories and hearing that they've just been as unproductive as me this break has really been fun and refreshing. There's been so much snow this break though, it's kinda ridiculous. There were also some things that I really wanted to get a head on learning this break, but unfortunately never got the chance to. I still want/need to learn these things eventually though:
-Organic reactions and mechanisms
-Improve on Chinese speaking/writing
-Working with a jailbroken iPod
-Photoshop/Sony Vegas/Adobe After Effects
-Get my drivers license
-Working out
And then there's the issue of parents at home and their nagging/other issues. I've already ranted about this once to a friend already so I don't really feel like typing it all out again, but I guess it's bearable. Sometimes my dad really frustrates me though, but it's alright, I love both my parents all the same. I've just come to accept that there will be times that I will come to abhor them.
I've been playing way too much Mabinogi too. I'll leave it at that.
Now I'll move onto UPSB updates? WT11 is around the corner, and the podcast for it is this Saturday which I will be co-hosting with strat and Frip -- to be honest, I'm kind of nervous. Afraid of saying the wrong thing and being judged, and on top of that, I have a bit of a lisp too which is just annoying and which I'm becoming more self conscious of nowadays. Bleh. I also want to make a video similar to Sankaku's Growth video, but geez, I've been way too lazy to do it. I wanted to throw in a few decent clips, but I just can't spin anymore.... it's going to take a lot of effort to pull that off. Well, we'll see how that goes as well as everything else UPSB related. Gonna be dead on UPSB once school starts up again.
That's all for the updates on my life for now! The next time I post probably won't be for awhile (maybe I'll just toss up my nostalgic, kaku-inspired video up here in a week or less, but that's it) -- next time will probably be during spring or summer break. Until next timee, thank you for reading!
Updates: Brand New Year
Updates: Summer, NYC Gathering, AjisAi mod
It's summer time!! Well, it's been summer time for me since I've been out of school for a month now...and I've been extremely unproductive. I have 3 goals for this summer: get a drivers license, get a job, and get some college loans. I've barely started on any of them with one month gone already... my parents are pissed. On top of that, I just play this game (Mabinogi) all day til ungodly hours late at night, and then go to sleep at 6am-ish, and wake up at 6pm to start getting ready for dinner. Terrible terrible... gotta fix that...... eh. So there's my summer so far, and my summer plans.
NYC gathering was last Sunday.. Keane (iamk34n3) came to NY all the way from SoCal! The weather wasn't the greatest, but I think the gathering turned out alright -- especially compared to the people who showed up last time (and compared to the time that Loanshark was the only one who showed..). I'll get the vid out for that as soon as Loanshark sends me the raw clips.
So the AjisAi mod's gaining a bit of popularity, and so I decided to go and make one since I had the parts lying around..just to try it out.
Also haven't filmed for awhile, so killed two birds with one stone by... 1) testing the mod out and 2) making a warmup vid I guess for the things I have to film for in the near future! I also used one of AjisAi's linkages in my intro, very fitting, eh? =P
So that's it for the updates. I'll try to make some more unofficial solos soon, and post here more (oh, and hope you like my new blog design, 'cause I like it a lott). Thanks for reading to those who still keep up =]!!
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Busy Busy
So it's April, aka Hell Month for Asian American students at BC. Especially with all the classes that I'm taking, there's a lot of final exam preparation on top of all the Asian community things I need to take care of and/or be a part of.
There's elections going on for the next week or so that will decide who's going to be on next year's E-Board (Executive Board) for each culture club/organization. For all AHANA students, this is gonna be a really tough, competitive month. AHANA stands for African-American, Hispanic, Asian, and Native American.
As for myself, I'm running for CSA (Chinese Student Association) E-Board, and going for the AHANA Caucus Representative position. This position is what connects CSA with all the other AHANA clubs, so as to not have all the clubs be divided by race, by having weekly meetings and seeing what all the other clubs are up to and to try and encourage each person's own club's members to go to them.
Unfortunately for me, this year has some really competitive freshmen who're all very enthusiastic about getting e-board positions like me...and the AHANA caucus rep seems to be a popular one. I went to KSA (Korean) elections last night to try and get a feel for how things are gonna work on Sunday when I have to give my speech and do Q&A...and the atmosphere was pretty tense. People are intense when it comes to elections, and there's hardly any joking around. People are so serious about it that last year, this one girl ran unopposed for a position and still lost cause she didn't get a 2/3 vote. I mean... this is the first time I've heard of someone running unopposed lose.
I still have to write up my speech....I haven't written one of those in ages.
Hopefully though, I'll get the position with the realization that doing so much work to get the position now is all an effort to get the chance to do even more work next year.
Friday, April 9, 2010
Quick Update
I just realized I haven't posted anything here for awhile now (well, ~2 weeks) so I figured I'd give you guys that still follow this a quick update on some things.
For those who don't know, I drank for the first time! Haha, originally, it was just for my friend's 21st birthday but now I'm just drinking socially from time to time now just cause I mean, I already started... lol. But don't worry, even though everyone's calling me an alcoholic now, I really don't drink that much (just like a beer/shot one night, and I shared some rum and coke with a friend for St. Patrick's Day). Not close to being drunk at all yet!
And secondly, the unofficial solos are coming out pretty nicely and people seem to like them. Unfortunately, it's not spreading to other boards like AREZERT's solos do, but hopefully once I get more out, it'll spread (hopefully there'll be enough spinners on UPSB to keep me making solos for that long). I have 4 out at the moment though: AwonW, teotoko, Pen Ninja, and Resonance, so go check them out if you haven't already! I try to keep them pretty short and to the point, just so that they're like introductions to a spinner's spinning... or I dunno, something like that.
I wish I could film more videos and put them up here...but filming is just so inconvenient in college so sorry guys, I won't be making clips that often. Speaking of me needing to make clips though... and as a sneak preview to you guys that actually follow this thing... HoT 2nd is in the workings, and will hopefully be out by the end of April. But SHHH!!!
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Day Session 3.1.10
Wanted to try out some new things.
-blue/white KT
-IPBA Rev 2.0 > pass rev 34-T3-23 > MA > RA
-Aerial IPBA Rev
-Eriror's index counter thing
