little things

I’m easily contented-

it’s funny how simple little things can put a smile on my face

and then I end up looking like a goofy fool smiling to myself.

thank goodness I’m at home right now so there’s no one to notice that…

anyway, I just webcammed with Noli!! haven’t seen her in ages it was so nice! and haha, saw some old videos on her blog… that’s where the smile began.

haven’t seen snow in 2 years… but there’s a chance that it will snow -flurries- tonight. we’ll see. :)

studying for tomorrow’s exam now.

overate again today. the original pancake house with ubcers- 4 pancakes (2 buttermilk, 2 chocolate chip), 2 scrambled eggs. I finished it all.

beezeeee………. work in progress

I probably cried for about 30 seconds last night…

yes, cried over homework I didn’t know how and couldn’t do. it was late and I still had a ton of things to study for and finish.

but I know I can do this…

Phil 4:13

Sherman lab

I’m in the lab! and J-friend (haha) is sitting next to m e trying to figure out the assignment that I just finished up while she went off to class. I feel freeed after finishing it even though I still have a ton of other stuff to do and exams on Thurs and Fri to study for. oh well!!

anyway life has been so happening… my first hockey game was on Saturday and we won! yay! not like I actually contributed much, except for falling a million times… a nd then we went to the corn maze (back to Rantoul!!) at the reindeer ranch. it was so funny haha we got a work out running through the corn.

and last last weekend me and J-friend joined the CU internationals to go to The Great Pumpkin Patch and it was really cute haha so much so that I thought I’d be lame if I went home without a pumpkin so I bought one and that made me even lame-r. and before that we visited an Amish home which was really interesting, it was quite an eye-opener. often read about the Amish-this, Amish-that… finally got to meet Amish people first hand. they are pretty modern, if you’re actually wondering.

and then, I was really heartbroken when Clay Aiken ‘admitted’ to being gay. I don’t believe it… the very same day I got the news we’d just studied about false memories in psyc250 and yes so I believe that whichever therapist that Clay had been seeing for his depression had implanted false memories/beliefs in his mind that he was gay… they just wanted him to match people’s speculations. look at how much the media screwed him up in 5 years. so tragic!

and I have to go to practice in an hour’s time. so exciting. I love being on the ice hmm

I’m kinda sleepy

oh dear me

I suddenly remembered the psych thingey we studied in first year… about the initial excitement of being in a new place, then soon after comes shock, then homesickness sets in, etc. oh dearie me… for all I know it might just happen to me, knowing how I’m inclined to experience bouts of melancholy every now and then. still don’t know why it happens, but it does. oh I should grow up, haha.

anyway, yours truly overate again. what’s new. so I cancelled my meal plan for next week and will see how things go. will probably change it back again by the end of the week cus that will be the last time I can change it, but next week is just to take a short ‘hiatus’ from all the unhealthy overstuffing of my poor tortured self.

went to check out the state-of-the-art gym this evening too. it’s truly AWESOME (the word has been misused so often, but seriously, it really applies in this instance.) 4 floors of awesome gym equipment, high tech (ie. touch screens, iPod plug-ins, tv, etc)! just like the kind you find in the fullerton hotel gym except that is has 100 times as many machines. seriously. I was awestruck. I still am. and you know what?? it’s FREE. say it with me. F-R-E-Eeeeeeeeeee. what the…?! freaking uni of no-student-welfare has a pathetic unigym which costs $8 per visit and the freaking equipment is rusty and old. what the heck. the pool costs a heck lot too and it’s not even heated. here… it’s free free freeeeeee…. EVERYTHING!!! indoor pool, outdoor pool… everything!! okay. with the exception of special facilities like the climbing wall and stuff you just have to pay a tiny little fee. okay wadda heck man.

okay and finally, my favourite place (now practically my second home) the ice arena, is also free for public skates or if you require skates, rental is only $1. wow… seriously they have it good here. some people really don’t realise how lucky they are…

hellooooooooooo

buta-chan is back to grace the blog scene!!

this time, in good old ILLINOIS!! full of ILLINI PRIDE… HAIL TO THE ORANGE HAIL TO THE BLUE!!

okay, whadda heck… but yes really, I’ve fallen in love with the school. I wish I was here from the start… the fighting illini spirit is seriously infectious…

so anyway, now that I’m back here, the drill’s the same-

Japanese practice and pictures/videos at http://buta-chan.blogspot.com, pictures with Japanese captions and translations at http://kuroibuta-chan.blogspot.com, reflective thoughts at http://apricotpeach.livejournal.com, and random rants and crap over here…

bye forever, wiggles :(

with wiggles gone it’s like a large chunk of my heart ripped out and yet, a huge burden off my shoulders.

:( … :)

alrite, back to stats…

4 days

can seem really, really long when you still have 2 big hurdles to cross.

anyhow, I CAN’T WAIT.

meanwhile.. bread is my comfort food to keep me going through the nite.

apart from Divine Wisdom from above,

I think that my mum and dad are some of the wisest pple I’ll ever know in my life. the advice, the encouragements, the words of comfort I’ve ever gotten from them will probably stick with me always…

just felt the urge to say that. ha ha.

back to studying, the last lap for social psych! exam tmr morning. I’m inevitably dead meat. leave me some words of condolences, please.

work, study, and fat

juz got home from work at the cricket ground! I am so sick of chips and fish and meat pie even though I don’t even eat meat pie. brought home a ton of loot though, for my housemates. too bad sad case cj friend left already or u can join in the free meat pie feast. my wrist is very sore from scooping chips all night long, and my stomach is even more sore from nibbling on them all night long.

work was pretty fun anyway. really appreciate this job that sends me everywhere, I always get to meet new pple, see new places. the in-charge today was this young girl named deborah who’s 19 and studying at UTS and she talks alot. it makes working fun. and the cook guy actuallly works at matsuya!! ha ha! we almost went there last nite for dinner. so cool. if I had a choice, I’d choose to be a kitchen hand next time. I had a whale of a time making the food. and I will have a whale of a time making food forever and ever… I wanna work in a sushi restaurant or something. say, I should fulfill my dad’s dream for me to become a fugu chef. ha ha.

anyway, I am now $550 poorer. I sent wiggles to the workshop this morning to get his alternator fixed. well I’m just glad he’s alright now.. phew. but pumping money into the little thing I’m about to sell didn’t make me feel exactly elated. at least I can drive to church tomorrow with a peace of mind that wiggles isn’t going to die on the road.

this weeks gonna be a dreader. I know it’s gonna whizz by, and yet, it’s gonna be my longest week here by far. research project I haven’t started on, psych exam I haven’t studied for, Jap exam I wanna score HD for. I don’t know if I can handle it, or if I’ll even survive..

okay I’m gonna shower now and get the smell of chips and meat pie off me… then I’ll settle down, practise some Jap by writing in my JAP BLOG(!!) then take some notes for my research proj then study for psych.

wiggles again

no giggles this time though.

wiggles has a serious problem, and it’s gonna set me back by 550 buckaroos. sigh !!

it’s so hard to believe,…

my mother’s so wise though. she helped me see why I should thank God still.

then I remembered a lesson I learnt in Bible study last year… “in everything, give thanks”

hard to believe, hard to practice at times like this… but I will try!

anyway I’m gonna go ahead and fix wiggles, see if Jade (the girl who wants to buy my car) and I can work out something. anyway, it’s all good for her anyway. maybe God let me fix it cuz it’d be worse if I’d sold wiggles to her and this problem arose just days after she’d bought him?? O.O

anyway, sad case cj friend has left. so classic, ’sad case cj friend got sad case send-off…’ byebye!

gotta study now. tonite, sure gonna binge. i’m dead meat.