good music to study to:

I trekked almost 1.5 miles today to the Borders in Westwood to study. I can never study in my room. Here, now, I am seated in the middle of Seattle's Best Coffee, trying to wean my taste buds off sugar by drinking iced coffee with only soymilk (it's really bitter). Earbuds plugged into my charging netbook (hence, instead of at a table overlooking the busy street I'm forced to sit by a table behind a column - the only table with access to an outlet) my brain's gears tick in time to trance.

Beautiful Things (Gabriel & Dresden's Unplugged Mix) - I could listen to this song forever
Find Yourself ( John O'Callaghan ft Sarah Howells) - the first song that really got me into trance
Love All The Pain Away - Ronski Speed
Man on the Run (Dash Berlin with Cerf, Mitiska & Jaren) - the vocals for this song are amazing

at 12:23pm, I have officially given up on bitter coffee.
at 1:27pm, I try streaming Last.fm on my phone, because the wi-fi at Borders snags a lot
at 1:28pm, I realize my phone's music-playing capabilities are no match for even the laggiest of wi-fi.
I've been listening to Tiesto for the last hour (:

Secretly I'm jealous of those girls who listen to breathy french music and wear camel colored trench coats with black shorts and sky-high ankle boots. They rock breezy layered frayed oversized shirts and fifteen rings on one hand. Pictures of them are usually expertly processed to look vintage, with soft glowing light and slightly desaturated hues. Sometimes I wonder- how do they find so much time to brush grass in meadows and so much money to spend on Prada and Gucci and Proenza Schouler and American Rag and RVCA and Givenchy and I could go on and on and on...
I'm turning green, and it's definitely not from the over-consumption of not-quite-Starbucks. 

I write like...

I found this interesting tool online that takes a sample of your writing and tells you who you write like. So, I took a couple of my old blogs and ran them through the tool. Then i lol'd.

This post got:

I write like
Dan Brown

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

 

This post and this post got:

I write like
Cory Doctorow

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

and no, i have no idea who that is. but apparently, he's a canadian blogger (joy!), journalist, and science fiction writer who is a regular columnist for Popular Science and MAKE magazine. He also won a bunch of awards.

lolol nicee

 

this post got:

I write like
David Foster Wallace

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

apparently this guy was depressed and committed suicide. He also published infinite jest, which Time named as one of the top 100 English novels since 1923.

 

This post got:

I write like
William Shakespeare

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

LOL

 

and then my friend and i typed this in for fun:

"what's crackin a lackin yo I aint seen you in a quick minute. tell ya mom i holla'ed at her. payce. aint no thang but a chicken wang (wing?) out here in the EAST SIDEEEEEE. word to the muthaa fuckaaaa  "

which got...

I write like
Mark Twain

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

SHOE LUST

I had some epic moments of shoe lust at the end of last quarter, but they got pushed to the back of my mind what with finals and stuff... but today, I was at hip hop workshops, and damn, the choreographer had some SICKKKK ass kicks. So yah. my NEEEEED for more shoes is back D:

Yay pictures:

who knew DC made kicks?? but HOT DAMN.

Creative Recreation, of course. UGH too bad they're men's only, and wayyy not my size ;___;

Creative ripoffs by puma, yes. But sexy? yessssssss. and half the price? EVEN BETTERRRR

lol i didnt even know ecko made shoes o.o.. but these are pretty nice. but RED OR BLACKK!!! also.. do they look kinda fat to anyone else?

okay i definitely dont know which iwant.. but one thing is certain

...

my bank account is gonna hurt after today... =X

Listography

I realized: I really like making lists. Despite the general disorderliness of my general behavior (i.e. my room (or just chores in general), my forgetfulness) I like being well organized. I like scheduling my studying (and, occasionally, deviating completely from said schedules) and planning out things that need to be done. It's just that I seem to never have enough time to finish everything on my list.

But anyways, I realized that I don't really watch movies / TV-Shows that often. I've even stopped reading! D: So I figure I need to make lists of movies i want to see, shows I want to watch, and books I want to read... maybe when I have some spare time (eventually), I can look back on this list and know exactly what I should tackle first? also, if anything on my list is something YOU, yes, YOU either haven't seen, or would like to rewatch, LET  ME KNOW! I love movie/TV Show marathons!

Movies

American History X
Star Wars ( 4-6 )
Indiana Jones (i've never watched any of them, ever!)
Garden State
Titanic
Maltese Falcon
American Beauty

Books italicized = own a copy of but have not read... i.e. MUST READ ASAP D:

Atlas Shrugged
Catch-22
Slaughterhouse-Five
Eldest / Brisingr
Lolita
Battlefield Earth
Lord Of The Rings (i tried this once already, but it's wayyy dense. Maybe I'll attempt this again sometime in the future =d ) 
Heart of Darkness
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (I've read the namesake, but I want to read the rest of the series!)
A Clockwork Orange
Farenheit 451
The Little Prince
Crime and Punishment
A Wrinkle In Time
Grapes of Wrath
Alice in Wonderland
One Hundred Years of Solitude
A Tale of Two Cities
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Life of Pi (actually, I'm like.. 5/6 done with this... maybe i'll just borrow it sometime and kill it =d )
Lovely Bones (I started this too.. but it was so long ago I forgot :[ I need to reread the part I did read D: ]
Middlesex (ack I think i'm on pg 40 of this.. the beginning is really slow... another one of the ones i need to reread from the beginning.. damn it ;___; )

i think i could probably keep on listing forever, but I'll stop now..

TV Showsthis is probably the list of shows I wish I could keep up with, but know I never will be able to ;___; 
in other words, this is the list of popular references I wish I understood..

Friends
Gossip Girl (i'm.. uh.. 6 episodes into season 1!)
Pretty Little Liars (I might start this soon!)
Futurama (I think ive watched over a season of this.. I watched an entire season on the way to vegas once =d )
The Office
House
Dollhouse (sounds so cool! )

Animes/Dramasyes, this is a separate category from TV shows.

Full House
1000 Litres of Tears
Iris
Nobuta Wo Produce (sorry Stina! Im still only like.. 5 episodes in D: )
Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood
Pandora Hearts

hm.. that list was surprisingly short..

Mangasyet another list of stuff I wish I had to keep up with..

Skip Beat (I'm like... 150 chapters into this manga, and then I forgot about it completely for a month! D: )
Nana (I read like.. 200 chapters of this before I stopped.. I feel like if i ever started again, I'd have to reread, just like I reread ALL of naruto..)
Naruto (i think I still remember enough of this to catch up... if i ever have the time. it's getting interesting again! )
Wall Flower

yup. now if you ever feel the want to buy me something ( ;D ) get me something from the above list LOL :D

I HAVENT BLOGGED IN SOOO LONGGG!!!

Listening to: Stab My Back - AAR Random Thought of the Day: I've been thinking a lot recently @.@ confuzzledness

Continuing the trend of blogging right before midterms, I have a midterm this thursday, and as you can see, i'm blogging, not studying... Although, I'm currently at work, so I suppose I can cut myself some slack.

I'm surprised.. I've been relatively on top of my shit so far this summer. I did every single problem my stats professor assigned (and didnt assign =O ), and I've been, for the most part, consistently reading for CS180. Hopefully I'll be able to continue this trend through the year :] Not to mention, I've still been able to go out almost every night (mostly to Anh's place =d ) and hang out with my friends. yayyyy :D

So... since I haven't blogged in a while, here's a picture anthology of my summer so far! [not very complete :[ I'm, sadly, very inconsistent with the camphone pictures, and I hardly take my SLR out anymore since it's so bulky. I want to take more pictures! D:



in order:
1. Making tapioca for boba! with T. and Y.
2. Shrimp fried rice; for J. A. and S.
3. Break dancers; Santa Monica with S.
4. Alcoholic Rabbits; Costco with Chris
5. Punks; Warped Tour with A., B., and T.
6. Pink's with R.
7. KBBQ; O Dae San with A, J, S. S.
8. Popped Tire; Arcadia with E. S. S. J. A., photo courtesy of J.
9. Soulful Souffle; Arcadia with E. S. S. J. A., photo courtesy of J
10. Saint Motel concert; Hammer Museum with T. and S.
11. Perfect cheesecake; Baked with E. for V. cuuuute :D
12.Babyyyy! <3


Yup! Eventful summer so far! :D And this isn't even the half of it. I'm loving that despite the ridiculous pile of work I have all the time... I still have time to do amazing stuff like this. Yay summer <3

Still looking forward to:
1. A. finally bringing his car
2. Inception on opening night!
3. Marathoning starwars
4. FFXIII + Boba
5. DANCE WORKSHOPS GALOREEEE

yay long post to make up for lack of posting.