Lately I’ve…

1. Been exercising an counting calories, oh my! Nothing except the thought of going to China where I’m probably a size L motivates me to get off my butt and lose a few pounds (or at least a few centimeters in girth). This endeavor (a week or so in) has included Tony Horton, a banana for breakfast, and sparkpeople.
2. Actually this isn’t so recent, but since I mentioned it on the last few “lately”s, my 35mm f/1.8 Nikkor came. I’m not sure if I like it as much as I expected to.
3. Witnessed an interesting incident with a woman at the grocery store when a woman left her cart in the middle of the asile with her kid in it. Because it was blocking everyone’s way and causing a traffic jam, a nice lady pushed the card forward a few inches (closer, I dare say, to the mother). The mother began yelling and scolding the woman and as others stood up to defend the poor lady, the mother began to snap at them, too. I do believe their mistake was to even talk back to her; giving her a dismissive look and then walking away would probably have shut her up faster.
4. Made an Excel spreadsheet of what exactly (minus clothes) I will be bringing/needing in college.
5. Sent out my essay of affirmation to Tierney Hall.
6. Shuffled through 3 computers to find old family photos to print and bring back to China on request of my paternal grandmother. There were about 60+ that I printed. Then today when my mom handed me the stack of pictures to bring back, I noticed that it was ridiculously thin. Alas, she’d pilfered off her favorites and all those she didn’t think she looked good in. Which totaled to be a lot.
7. Watched Watchmen; am in the process of digesting the comic. I wish American comics had prettier pictures, because after watching Malin Akerman in her hot! costume (I want her hair by the way), and Dr. Manhatten’s finely chisled abs and uh, blueness, the distinctly masculine pictures just don’t cut it as well. Eh, I’m probably writing blasphemy though. I’m sure the comic will reveal a lot more details the film only got to glaze over.

Mother has also just informed me that she expects my brother and I to bring a small carry-on roller luggage case and a backpack to China between the two of us. She is obviously delusional. I brought that my for a 3 day trip to New York by myself. Three days!

Lately I’ve…

1. Misplaced my iPod earbuds, so I haven’t been able to take them outside the house. Either the pit that is my room and the study is deeper and more endless than I thought, or I lent it to someone at school and they never returned it.
2. The new 35mm f/1.8 Nikkor lens I ordered still hasn’t arrived yet. In fact, it’s so backordered on Amazon that they haven’t even charged the credit card since they don’t have any in stock. It’s been months.
3. Purchased a ticket to China for mid-July to mid-August !
4. On soompi.com forums too much a lot.
5. Been obsessing/experimenting with makeup again. I’m waiting for my BB cream order to arrive, but in the meantime I’ve tried very hard to resist spending about $100 on crap for my face. I’m always in a rush in the mornings because I hit the snooze button 3 times until I have 20min. from wakeup to rush out the house to school, which really isn’t the best idea when I want to get everything on.
6. Been watching How I Met Your Mother. Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) love. Unfortunately, I’ve realized how unoriginal Duy is now. Nevertheless, I get all the jokes now. And I have to admit, said friend still remains hilarious, if not more so.

I’ve been avoiding school a lot lately. AP testing didn’t really count in my mind this year, and it’s said because I was so bored that I purposely skipped an entire essay on the English Lit (what was I thinking). I was all done in week 1, so basically, I didn’t go to school very much and when I did it was mostly movie-watching.

Unfortunately, the final projects have rained down now, and I should be swamped until school ends. F.

PS. You know, during my high school career, what between APs, SATs, and various score report sending, I think I’ve paid at least $1000 to collegebord. Wow.

A post without any pictures for once, can you imagine? I’m going to start a new section where I basically summarize recent events in my life/what I’ve been up to. Yep, just another narcissistic attempt to document my life.

Lately I’ve…

1. Reformatted the laptop, which caught a virus when I tried to download a math program for a dumb calculus project. At least it was worth it, since there wasn’t even much stuff to back up off the laptop (being old and hopefully an in-between until I can get the HP TouchSmart tx2z). I am much more satisfied with my newly configured (but very old) Dell XP for now, though.
2. Ordered the new 35mm f/1.8 Nikkor prime lens. It was a belated birthday present, and took an amazing amount of work to convince my dad to get it. I even got help from the kid brother on that.
3. Accepted into the 4 UCs I applied to. Now I’m waiting on the last two school, which come out next Tuesday.
4. Been driving! Today was actually only my fourth time driving–I’ve only recently gotten my permit–but I’m having fun trying not to be like all those people who do not understand how to drive smoothly after 20 years of experience! I’m looking at a couple (Asian) parents of a few friends, actually.
5. Been going to Tea Station way too much. We say we’re celebrating admittance, but it’s really just another reason to hang out and not do anything after school.