(college) snow day!

IL is having one helluva time. can’t imagine what some of my poor friends are going through now, but I guess in some way, it could be pretty exciting.. depending on how you choose to look at it. some part of me secretly wishes I was there to suffer in the storm and yet my sane-r other half is glad I’m here for the tropical Chinese New Year heat.

anyhow, I miss those times. all of it.

I’m looking at my friend’s pictures and am missing being able to dress like crap like a college kid again. sorta like trudging out in the snow and attending class in your almost pjs. and throwing on huge t-shirts and hoodies and not feeling like crap when you go out in them. and hiding your fats beneath layers and layers until summer rolls around.

hockey, baseball, everything I love

believe it or not I’m currently watching big ten baseball on tv. Illinois vs northwestern at.. ILLINOIS home ground! sigh. just 1 year ago I was sitting in those very bleachers that are now on tv and thousands of miles away. it seems so surreal now

I see the ugly south quad bell tower lol.

OH MAN I MISS ILLINOIS! THE ARC! SHERMAN HALL! THE ICE ARENA! GREEN ST! SUMMER UBC SOFTBALL!

well college days are long ever. I should just face it. but ooh man, seeing illinois on tv at illinois just ya know, connects me with the place despite the physical distance.

by the way, I am able to watch this on tv because I did, eventually, sign up for the hockey channel (ASN here). so I get bigten ball games, mlb, nhl, nba (the only thing I don’t really watch). and yes, it was specially done so that I could watch the stanley cup playoffs hee hee

anyway. GO ILLINI!!!!!!!!!! :)

A new day begins in Chambana

The quad at 6am! QUAD DAY! People are just starting to set things up. Wish I was there.

IMISS UIUC

ps to my friends still at the UofI. if youre reading this, please whenever youre on the quad drop me a text and then go stand in the middle and wave at the camera so I can zoom in on you

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.

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…

End of Week 7~

I really love the feeling of Fridays… the end of another week, yet closer to home! :)

The fact that I survived the last 2 weeks gives me such a tremendous sense of triumph! 5 subjects, tons of assignments, work, no sleep, and battling with the flu- I got through it all!! Praise God!:)

but I’ve got to gambaru now because if I slack off now I’ll end up going through a replica of the last 2 weeks (the awful result of procrastination).

Yay yayyyyyy Friday Fridayyyyyyy :) :)

P.s. I received an e-mail this morning from uiuc telling me I could go ahead and book my plane tickets… In other words… I’VE BEEEEEEEN ACCEPTED!!!!!! I’m outta here this June! :)

but yeah, suddenly I’ve got somewhat mixed feelings about leaving here. I just have to trust that God has it planned out for me and I know He has…