Lookbook Wannabe

Just For Megski/T-Pain

here ya go lol

House of Usher?

It's not been even a month, and yet things seem to be crumbling..."seem" being the operative word...hopefully.

All I can do is believe that things will get better.

I keep a fortune by my mirror: "You will overcome difficult times."
For once, I really hope those goddamn cookies are right.

-Peace and Pleasant Dreams

Break Ova

So here was my break- too lazy to write about it, so here are some pictures. Good times all around.

-Peace and Pleasant Dreams

O Christmas Tree

My x-mas tree for the dorm. I made it outta the ball-n-stick kits we use for organic chemistry. Sorry for the blurry picture, but trust me, it's a cute lil' craft I must say.

Tis finals week, and all through the dorms, not a student was partying, not even the sluts. Ha, but seriously, it's been pretty rough. It's almost over though. Tonight I have my second to last final (MCB251), then Philisophy at 8am on thursday. My finals schedule kinda blew since there was no real good way to prioritize my study time. Take my final tonight- I spent all weekend on Chem and my take home essay for Anth. So I had Chem yesterday, leaving me a day to review for 251... haven't even started to think about Phil either.

Earlier today I had to go and teach hs kids how to make ice cream with liquid nitrogen for my chem volunteer program. Pretty enjoyable, but the kids were a little too 'Dangerous Minds' for me (check it out- Michelle Pfieffer is a badass).

I like how I complained about needing time to study by blogging. I suck.

-Peace and Pleasant Dreams

Three Week Run

I See You... that picture was taken the thursday before break. I covered my glasses in foil- trust me, it looks freaking sweet on photobooth, thermal camera setting.

...and I'm back on campus- Yay and meh at the same time. It's always good to be back in Chambana, but the coldness and impending finals really does put a damper on the situation.

Break was nice, an unorthodox Guillet Thanxgiving as usual, and overall, spending time with the hometown pals was quite the welcome treat. Did some black friday shopping at 5am- never agian, but I did come out with the 30Rock Season 1 DVD, so not all was tragic. Biggest crapshoot was that I got sick...thanx dad.

I have two tests this week, both chem, both freaking me out. Having tests right after break- not cool. Then finals all next week. Home the 19th.

Just wanna skip to friday, as we all do.

-Peace and Pleasant Dreams

My Future's So Bright

I Gotta Wear Shades.

Well this week (and weekend) was carazy. After getting through my test wednesday (which I rawked), and the labs on thursday, it was smooooothsailing. Went to a surprise party saturday- very classy indeed. Pasta dinner, (crosstraining), and some ole fashioned charades. Twas very fun, so fun that I ended up crashing in the fetal position on my friend's bed for a good hour and a half. Then friday I went to a shades party- also quite enjoyable. I just love when you can go someplace, hang and talk to random people.

Today though, I just took it easy- twas supposed to go to a sports themed party, but I just couldn't do a three-peat. Leave that to the Chi-town Bulls in their heyday. A shame, I woulda rawked the knee high sox, sweat band and shorty short shorts. Tonite is for working on my philosophy paper (kinda), and chillin' in general.

MCB251 test next wednesday, so back to the books tommorow.

Ughm.

-Peace and Pleasant Dreams

"Here in These Deep City Lights"

I went around the other night taking pictures of random lights with my friend's camera, but it ran outta batteries pretty quickly... I got this nice shot though.

Another crazy week spent on giving my life up to biology and chemistry. I had a test yesterday that I studied a lot for, hopefully that pays off. Then today, I had a quiz and labs due in chem, ughm. However, that is all over and behind me. Time to relax...kinda.

I need to start looking for a place to live next year...about that...I'm such a procrastinator.

Jess is back in the states- that makes me happy.

Going out tonite- I deserve it.

Next weekend is thanxginving break- 9 days of pure unadulterated awesome (hopefully). Just in time too.

O and I have a mohawk again. We once again did not have electric clippers, so we resorted to scissors and half a bag of disposable razors...again.

-Peace and Pleasant Dreams

V is for...

Happy Guy Fawkes Day. However, V stands for Victory this time.

I have seriously never been more proud to be a part of this country.


...pic sent into Threadless for street team pts... (GOBAMA)

-Peace and Pleasant Dreams

A Festive Time

Halloween(ish)- I didn't know what I was that night, but looking back, I'm gonna go with the love child of Cruella DeVille and Brett Michaels...asian style.

Happy November folks- enjoy the spring-like weather hwhile it lasts.

This past weekend was quite fun. I had to go home for Halloween weekend, but I didn't mind. Got to hang with the hometown friends and the siblings and their friends. Fun times indeed- inebriated kareoke and a soccer mom straddling a giant whiskey bottle sums it up quite well. As for me, I was a sailor- a sexy sexy sailor.

Then on saturday was my sis's engagement party, also enjoyable. It was like something outta My Big Fat Greek (scratch that, Filipino) Weddding, especially since the only guests from Jon (the fiance's) side was his parents. Meh- they fit in just fine, especially after a few dranks ha. Very nice addition to the family.

vOted tOday. I capitalized the Os for a reason...

-Peace and Pleasant Dreams

Chirality

Chiral- it sounds derogatory, but tisn't.

As you may have guessed, I have another test this week- CHEM232 exam deux. It's gonna be epic...in a bad way. O well, that's what a curve is for (hopefully).

This weekend was pretty nice. Went out on friday, stayed in saturday, and studied today. The weather is starting to take a turn for the brisk, but I'm good with that.

Aside from the test on wednesday, I need to meet with my advisor to pick my next classes. That's gonna bite- I don't really wanna hear about all the stuff I need to do for my major. There's just so much to think about right now- schedules, classes, james scholar requirements, housing (haven't even started looking), lollipops, unicorns, narwhals, penny candies...yup, lots of stuff indeed.

Home next weekend for the sis's engagement party. Watch out CL, I'm-ma comin!

-Peace and Pleasant Dreams

*Update: So I just got back from a review session that went an hour over schedule, and we were told the average for this test is a 28%....2-8...twenty-eight...percent. Bogus. I mean, why give a test when it's that hard? Obviously, we are all decent students here at the u 'o' i. There's no point in giving a test when you know half of it will make no sense whatsoever to basically all the students. Rant over.

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Sea Cow

Me and Maria Bamford! Gosh durn I heart her. So. much...<3

So it's Saturday. I'm in for the night- at first with the intention of getting some homework done, but to no avail. Whatever- it's all good- just spending a relaxing night watching some South Park, Office, Criminal Minds, etc. It feels good.

Yesterday, besides seeing the comedy show, I stopped by a friend's place and we played Mario Party- old school N64 style...what up, step to this. Very fun night indeed.

"I'm like a sea cow. Yea, I see the motorboat coming, but this is where I F*@!ing swim!" -MB

-Peace and Pleasant Dreams

"Sound of Settling"

Death Cab! On Sunday a bunch of the hometown crew came down to Chambana to see them. I swiped this pic from Agnes...meh, I was the one who got the shots for her anyway. They were so good live and we had such good spots on the floor. Sorry I quoted their most known song (minus indie cred points for me). Honestly though, I haven't heard much of their stuff 'til the concert, but they were such good musicians, it didn't matter. They rawk sox.

So yea, the weekend was thuroughly enjoyable- hanging with the CL-ites is always a blast. It kinda sucked that the concert was on Sunday though, cuz it really messed me up for the start of the week. But I think I'm fine now. I had my second MCB250 exam- difficult of course, but I didna leave crying so that's always a good thing. O and I got my two shirts in the mail today- one from ashley bedore and the other from threadless, both quite facemelting.

Coming home Halloween weekend for my sister's engagement party. Bitersweet- Halloween on campus was awesome last year, but I'm sure I'll have lots of fun hanging with Lugo and the rest back home for the holiday. And o yes, family is always a pleasure.

Maria Bamford on Friday- getting excited. I hope she stays around after the show and I hope I get to at least say hi...she and Tina Fey are the best comediennes hands down.

-Peace and Pleasant Dreams

Autumn is for the Awesome

Happy October! This is a photo from last year, but it gets the job done. So this weekend I got to go home. Just chilled, hung with some pals, and got away from the craziness of campus life. But now, as always, my week is packed, but I do have reason to celebrate soon. For now though, tonight I have a MCBlab test. Wish me luck. As for last weeks CHEM test- 57%- ouch...but wait! With the curve... a respectable B, ha- gotta love those kinda classes.

SUNDAY(10/12)- Death Cab Concert
TUESDAY(10/14)- Sarah Silverman Program Vol2 comes out
FRIDAY(10/17)- Comedy Show with MARIA BAMFORD!

-if I just keep those dates in mind, I won't go crazy

-YOUTUBE video to watch: Homage to the Rabbits (from SYTYCD)

-Peace and Pleasant Dreams

Bonus!

O aren't you lucky- and extra post today!

It's a poem...so, yea...don't laugh...out loud.

Looking back, I kinda got a patriotic vibe from it, but my take was a little more "we did it all for the glory of love"...whatever, take as you will...

(MEDIC)
Let's show them
Let's show them our cuts, our wounds;
our bumps, our bruises

Let's show them our gashes and scars;
broken ribs and bloody knees

Let's show them
show them all

Take off the sling
unwrap the bandages;
let the blood fall.

Let's show them
just how hard we fought...

just how God damn hard we fought.

A parade?
F*ck that.

Malfunctioning

Taken on my friend's Mac. photoboof: a waste of time for a whole lotta narcissism. Anywho, I read my last couple posts, and it seems like I talk about my science classes alot...and today will be no exception.What can I say, it's my major and it's a pain in the Alanine-Serine-Serine (or Angle-Side-Side for all you math majors). So yea, MCB and CHEM are really starting to kick in, which bites b/c I am so not in the swing of things yet. In fact, I missed a whole online hw asignment last week in 250. O well, I think we get to drop some of those so it'll be fine. Aside from that- or better yet- on top of that, I have a very big CHEM test tomorrow which I don't feel too confident about. I'm gonna do a lil' bit more studying tonite, but after that, I can only hope for the best. So yea, 232 test tomorrow, 251 test next week, labs, more labs, and o yea...labs.

As for non-scientific news, I gots my two papers done for PHIL and ANTH, which is a miracle considering how much I spend actually focusing on those subjects. Writing the PHIL paper just made me hate the class more- two revisions, and a whole lotta cursing on my part. ANTH was pretty straight forward- short, sweet, and painless.

Going home this weekend- twill be grand.

But for now, I've just recently hit the ground, and now I'm running...

fast.

I am Jack's white knuckles, gripping the stress ball.

-Peace and Pleasant Dreams

All Work & No Play?

I think not.

About last post... I guess I didn't get to stay in and chill as much as I had first planned. Meh. The weekend was enjoyable nonetheless. I went to a sweet dance party saturday- haven't been able to dance that much (or that epicly ha) in quite a while. Twas very stress-relieving.

Anywho, school's going well, but there is just SO MUCH to do. Between labs, papers, and a group presentation, these next couple weeks are going to be a trip. In fact, we figured out in lab on tuesday that people in MCB250/251 and CHEM232/233 have tests every week starting next wednesday until THANXGIVING BREAK. Errrrrgggggg. Not to mention the other two classes I barely have time to pay attention to, yet need just as much focus on.

Hopefully it'll all work out.

Mkay, now I need to work on my labs. Ughm.

-Peace and Pleasant Dreams

Made it. Count it.

I got bored last night and this is what came of it.

This week was unbelievably and superfluously laborious for it being the fourth week of school. I had a test in MCB, labs in both my science classes, really confusing online homework... the list just goes on. I think I met up with friends to study or do homework at night 5 outta the 7 days. Lame. Anywho, that's all done with now. The weekend's here and that's all that matters- I made it! I think I'm gonna take it easy tonight and saturday- let myself unwind from the stressful week and just coast. There's a lot more weekends and plenty of time to be a college student, in the most debaucherous and stereotypical ways that is.

Tonight I think I'm going over to my friend's apartment to have a nice "home"-cooked dinner. That'll be fun if it goes down. Other than that, I'm just gonna bum around :)

O and I did pretty well on my test, if you must know- no thanks to my TA. That's right, my TA for MCB cannot explain his way outta a paper bag. (If you ever read this Quin, I'm sorry, but...yeah.) Actually come to think of it, most of my TAs are none too helpful. Good intentions, bad pedagogy.

Mkay, vent over.

-Peace and Pleasant Dreams

Amino Acids

So I am (trying) to study for this crazy hard test in MCB. It sucks b/c all the stuff we were given in lecture is all basically review (proteins, dna, pH, etc), yet the test and hw questions are very abstract and take a lot of "application" and "sythesis" of knowledge- ughm. Anywho, so now I've decided to stay in tonite to at least put a small dent in the material. However, I get easily distracted and end up on the computer, for example...blogging. I decided to take a break for a bit, but I'm not gonna let myself fully shut down. Right now, I'm trying to learn the amino acids, so I'll compromise between work and play by reviewing all 20 amino acids (by memory) in this post! Here it goes:

HYDROPHOBIC: Leucine, Isoleucine, Methionine, Proline, Valine, Alanine, and Glycine; HYDROPHILIC: Glutamine, Cysteine, Asparagine, Threonine, and Serine; ACIDIC: Aspartate and Glutamate; BASIC: Histidine, Argniine, and Lysine; AROMATIC: Phenylalanine, Tyrosine, and Tryptophan.

Woot. That wasn't so bad. However, we need to also know each amino acid's 3-letter abbr, 1-letter abbr, and overall structure. This would explain the picture. It's kinda fun drawing all the compounds- there is some sort of aesthetic and geometric beauty when laying all the intricacies out, but it's still a b*tch trying to memorize them...

Tyrosine, an Aromatic. Tyr. Y.

-Peace and Pleasant Dreams

Scientifique

Funny Pants Party- the most fun one can have with one's pants on!

I told you I would try and keep updated.

Anywho, so this week has been fine so far. I'm really starting to get down and do some actual homework, a majority of which is for MCB and CHEM...and their respective labs. I just had my MCB lab yesterday- first of all it was four hours long, and this particular lab was a complete clusterfark. Even our TA was cognizant of the fact that both she and the class were totally bombing and butchering the info at hand (genetic regulation and the lac operon, intruiging I'm sure). Whatever, it's not like this course is too important... it's just a requirement for my major is all ha. Yea, so that went down, and now I have my CHEM lab tomorrow- no biggie, just check in, so that's kinda nice.

Too much online homework, plus I really don't trust technology. It feels like the computer is learning new stuff and getting smarter without me when I turn it off at night... yea I stole that joke from somewhere, don't know where tho...

-Peace and Pleasant Dreams