Today, this is what I started:
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(): No one can relate to me because they are all inferior to me
[]: The young girl with such high intellect looked down on and rejected everything around her//As a result, the young girl continued to be alone
sfx: ...fwwwww
sfx: Step
"": Watch out//Princess!!!
sfx: bam
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sfx: flump
sfx: rise
"": Greetings * I'm the knight of justice!!//Are you hurt!? Princess
"": ..............
"": --Hm?/Ah? This is the first time I've seen you here, huh//Where'd you come from?//What food do you like?//I like anything!//Oh yeah, what's your name, anyway?/I'm Hi...
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"": ...Oh my, I'm sorry//to all of you hetero these feelings are bad conduct, aren't they//but to me this is a true greeting of love//[Well, I can't relate to this refined conduct...so quickly disappear]
sfx: silence...
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"": ...!!?
sfx: thump thump
"": ..........nn//........//......//..hah
"": heheh is this right?//I'm Himoto Sora!/Nice to meet you//So your name...//tell me...!
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"": Tsuki...//Aoi Tsuki...
[]:
And this is when I got lazy and read the rest without typing it because it takes too long. Cheers! (story of my life...sadly...)
Monday, May 16, 2011
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Why the last three hours just sucked.
I got off work at 9:30pm tonight. That's already pretty shitty if you think about it, but I don't mind, because I do it every week. So I take the bus home and the best thing about it was I bumped into a friend with whom I had a interesting conversation with that made me actually very happy.
Then everything was shot down when I got a phone call from a certain family member that tried to guilt trip me into going home for the weekend to go to my grandmother's birthday. For the record, she doesn't even recognize me, nor does she remember that it's her birthday, so I said that I could come home next weekend but this weekend was too busy. That wasn't good enough. Guilt, guilt, guilt.
So I gave in and looked into train tickets. Meanwhile, I had club issues to deal with. I texted a colleague at 8:42pm to remind her to send me information in a document that I needed to distribute to people that we were working with on Sunday. However, I did not receive a response so I texted again at 10:43pm. I got a phone call, to my relief.
But my colleague tells me that, rather than upholding our plans to work on Sunday, letting down everyone else in our organization as well as forfeiting my own words to these people that we were working with, she needed to go to church and thus couldn't make the event after all.
We just had a meeting at 5:30pm to plan this event. Tell me again, why did she not tell me then and there that we shouldn't plan everything for that time? Why did she not have church then, but had church now? Why is it imperative to even go to that particular church sermon? Since I'm not religious, I'll let her answer that last question, but as for the rest, I don't understand.
We're already behind schedule in our project and I refused to drop another week. I had specifically told her everyone's free time a week ago so that we could plan ahead. Obviously this didn't work out. To make up ending our workday early, we will also be starting earlier, I decided.
I check my email and realize that I have a leadership meeting at 5pm Friday, which means that the earliest train I can take leaves at 6:30, which means I won't be at my grandmother's until past 8pm. And I'd have to get back home the very next day because I had a multitude of things planned already.
I still haven't received the document I requested from my colleague to send to the people we were working with. However, I can send an email to our fellow colleagues about our organization working with the other people on Sunday, and the time changes, so I go ahead and do that. After all, it's not fair to them that we change things last minute.
I phone back about going to my grandmother's birthday. Finally, someone throws me a bone! I promised to return to my grandparents' place next week because it's simply not worth it this time around. It works. My commitment has been delayed.
My hopes slightly up, I go to email the people my organization has to work with to tell them about the slightly changed schedule. I had argued with my colleague over the phone all this time in order to be able to work things out. Lo and behold, I find an email sitting there from four hours ago.
It says that one of the people we were to work with is no longer free on Sunday, and would Saturday be better?
...
THE DAY JUST FINISHED, IT'S MIDNIGHT, I'VE WASTED ALL MY TIME WITH THIS CRAP, I HAVEN'T DONE A SCRAP OF WORK FOR MY CLASS TOMORROW, I HAVEN'T TAKEN A SHOWER YET EVEN SO I STINK, AND I PROBABLY JUST CUT MY LIFE SHORT BY TEN HOURS FROM THE STRESS AND SOON-TO-BE LACK OF SLEEP. F. M. L.
Then everything was shot down when I got a phone call from a certain family member that tried to guilt trip me into going home for the weekend to go to my grandmother's birthday. For the record, she doesn't even recognize me, nor does she remember that it's her birthday, so I said that I could come home next weekend but this weekend was too busy. That wasn't good enough. Guilt, guilt, guilt.
So I gave in and looked into train tickets. Meanwhile, I had club issues to deal with. I texted a colleague at 8:42pm to remind her to send me information in a document that I needed to distribute to people that we were working with on Sunday. However, I did not receive a response so I texted again at 10:43pm. I got a phone call, to my relief.
But my colleague tells me that, rather than upholding our plans to work on Sunday, letting down everyone else in our organization as well as forfeiting my own words to these people that we were working with, she needed to go to church and thus couldn't make the event after all.
We just had a meeting at 5:30pm to plan this event. Tell me again, why did she not tell me then and there that we shouldn't plan everything for that time? Why did she not have church then, but had church now? Why is it imperative to even go to that particular church sermon? Since I'm not religious, I'll let her answer that last question, but as for the rest, I don't understand.
We're already behind schedule in our project and I refused to drop another week. I had specifically told her everyone's free time a week ago so that we could plan ahead. Obviously this didn't work out. To make up ending our workday early, we will also be starting earlier, I decided.
I check my email and realize that I have a leadership meeting at 5pm Friday, which means that the earliest train I can take leaves at 6:30, which means I won't be at my grandmother's until past 8pm. And I'd have to get back home the very next day because I had a multitude of things planned already.
I still haven't received the document I requested from my colleague to send to the people we were working with. However, I can send an email to our fellow colleagues about our organization working with the other people on Sunday, and the time changes, so I go ahead and do that. After all, it's not fair to them that we change things last minute.
I phone back about going to my grandmother's birthday. Finally, someone throws me a bone! I promised to return to my grandparents' place next week because it's simply not worth it this time around. It works. My commitment has been delayed.
My hopes slightly up, I go to email the people my organization has to work with to tell them about the slightly changed schedule. I had argued with my colleague over the phone all this time in order to be able to work things out. Lo and behold, I find an email sitting there from four hours ago.
It says that one of the people we were to work with is no longer free on Sunday, and would Saturday be better?
...
THE DAY JUST FINISHED, IT'S MIDNIGHT, I'VE WASTED ALL MY TIME WITH THIS CRAP, I HAVEN'T DONE A SCRAP OF WORK FOR MY CLASS TOMORROW, I HAVEN'T TAKEN A SHOWER YET EVEN SO I STINK, AND I PROBABLY JUST CUT MY LIFE SHORT BY TEN HOURS FROM THE STRESS AND SOON-TO-BE LACK OF SLEEP. F. M. L.
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Iron Chef: UCSD
MASA vs. CKI epicness, with veteran chefs from MASA against the amateur CKI team (in which I was one of the sous-chefs.)
I'll recap the event first before providing more "insider" info on what was going on with our cooking team!
RECAP:
CKI President was the chef. The secret ingredient was "coffee".
We thought we were supposed to make an appetizer, entree, and dessert. At 11:30pm the night before the competition, we found out it was 2 appetizers, 2 entrees, and 1 dessert. Of course, we panicked.
Stayed up until 4 am that night getting prepared.
So Monday, 4:30pm, the chef, the other sous-chef, and I lugged our materials to the UCSD International Center and got ready to face off. The actual cooking started at 5:30pm and lasted until promptly 8:00pm. Three judges critiqued our food with 3 criteria: visuals (how pretty it is), originality (use of secret ingredient), and taste (yum?).
In the end, MASA won...the trophy was a lazy suzie with the competition details painted on it! I think we all did a great job but MASA's past experience with the Iron Chef competition definitely lent them an edge, as well as fancy materials.
Blenders...electric mixers...fancy plates...quite frankly, CKI mixed and mashed everything with a fork and spoon, and as for plates--we were happy we could find 3 plates that looked enough alike to present to the three judges for each of the 5 dishes! I mean, that's a total of 15 matching plates! MASA's dishes were already matching and beautiful without even having any food on it...
What we made:
1. Coffee-Kahlua sweet potatoes
2. Classic Meatballs with Coffee
3. Java Chicken Wings
4. Coffee Pork Loin with Jasmine Rice
5. Kahlua Brownie Explosion with Cappuccino Frozen Yogurt
Stuff they made (not sure exactly what they were, and some of these ingredients are within the same dish): steak with asparagus, yams, mahi-mahi, scallops, and a layered cake. I'm not sure how they afforded all of this, seeing as how our reimbursement budget was only $50...
Funny stuff about the food:
1. We almost made the same steak that they did, instead of our pork loins. Our sous-chef found that exact same recipe online. And at the grocery stores (we went to trader joe's, ralph's, and vons) NONE OF THEM had the right pork loin...we actually bought the wrong kind, and we almost switched over! Good thing our chef decided not to do that!
2. One of our main ingredients was Kahlua, for the yams and the brownies, maybe something else too but that's what I remember. None of the CKI chefs/sous-chefs were over 21 years old, so someone else had to buy it for us!
3. Our sweet potatoes were made primarily by me. Funny thing is, I'm slightly allergic to sweet potatoes, so I never found out what they tasted like; when taste-testing, I'd have to call on someone else! Everyone tells me they were really good, though.
4. The frozen yogurt is Golden Spoon's--where our chef works at!
5. Originally, we had planned to make the chicken wings as appetizer, the pork loin with sweet potatoes as the entree, and the brownie explosion for dessert. When we found out we needed 5 dishes instead of 3, we split up the pork and sweet potatoes and added rice to the pork, and a new dish of meatballs largely improvised by our chef!
6. We had contemplated making our meatballs Mickey-Mouse head shaped, but ultimately decided against it. Seeing as how one of the judges said the meatballs looked like poo, maybe we should have done it after all.
7. For all of our dishes aside from the brownies, we had the same garnish: shredded carrots and different parts of the celery! Why, you ask? Our reimbursement budget was only $50, and we were over as it was! We got very, very creative though!
In the end, I got to spend a lot of time with the chef and got to know her better...and it was a lot of fun even though I'm sleep deprived this entire week so far...I'd love to do it again! But no coffee, please. That was sooo hard to do!
I'll recap the event first before providing more "insider" info on what was going on with our cooking team!
RECAP:
CKI President was the chef. The secret ingredient was "coffee".
We thought we were supposed to make an appetizer, entree, and dessert. At 11:30pm the night before the competition, we found out it was 2 appetizers, 2 entrees, and 1 dessert. Of course, we panicked.
Stayed up until 4 am that night getting prepared.
So Monday, 4:30pm, the chef, the other sous-chef, and I lugged our materials to the UCSD International Center and got ready to face off. The actual cooking started at 5:30pm and lasted until promptly 8:00pm. Three judges critiqued our food with 3 criteria: visuals (how pretty it is), originality (use of secret ingredient), and taste (yum?).
In the end, MASA won...the trophy was a lazy suzie with the competition details painted on it! I think we all did a great job but MASA's past experience with the Iron Chef competition definitely lent them an edge, as well as fancy materials.
Blenders...electric mixers...fancy plates...quite frankly, CKI mixed and mashed everything with a fork and spoon, and as for plates--we were happy we could find 3 plates that looked enough alike to present to the three judges for each of the 5 dishes! I mean, that's a total of 15 matching plates! MASA's dishes were already matching and beautiful without even having any food on it...
What we made:
1. Coffee-Kahlua sweet potatoes
2. Classic Meatballs with Coffee
3. Java Chicken Wings
4. Coffee Pork Loin with Jasmine Rice
5. Kahlua Brownie Explosion with Cappuccino Frozen Yogurt
Stuff they made (not sure exactly what they were, and some of these ingredients are within the same dish): steak with asparagus, yams, mahi-mahi, scallops, and a layered cake. I'm not sure how they afforded all of this, seeing as how our reimbursement budget was only $50...
Funny stuff about the food:
1. We almost made the same steak that they did, instead of our pork loins. Our sous-chef found that exact same recipe online. And at the grocery stores (we went to trader joe's, ralph's, and vons) NONE OF THEM had the right pork loin...we actually bought the wrong kind, and we almost switched over! Good thing our chef decided not to do that!
2. One of our main ingredients was Kahlua, for the yams and the brownies, maybe something else too but that's what I remember. None of the CKI chefs/sous-chefs were over 21 years old, so someone else had to buy it for us!
3. Our sweet potatoes were made primarily by me. Funny thing is, I'm slightly allergic to sweet potatoes, so I never found out what they tasted like; when taste-testing, I'd have to call on someone else! Everyone tells me they were really good, though.
4. The frozen yogurt is Golden Spoon's--where our chef works at!
5. Originally, we had planned to make the chicken wings as appetizer, the pork loin with sweet potatoes as the entree, and the brownie explosion for dessert. When we found out we needed 5 dishes instead of 3, we split up the pork and sweet potatoes and added rice to the pork, and a new dish of meatballs largely improvised by our chef!
6. We had contemplated making our meatballs Mickey-Mouse head shaped, but ultimately decided against it. Seeing as how one of the judges said the meatballs looked like poo, maybe we should have done it after all.
7. For all of our dishes aside from the brownies, we had the same garnish: shredded carrots and different parts of the celery! Why, you ask? Our reimbursement budget was only $50, and we were over as it was! We got very, very creative though!
In the end, I got to spend a lot of time with the chef and got to know her better...and it was a lot of fun even though I'm sleep deprived this entire week so far...I'd love to do it again! But no coffee, please. That was sooo hard to do!
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Password Hack?
I keep discovering that I cannot access this google account. The password is constantly being changed or something? It's all very suspicious business, in any case...hopefully this password crisis will not happen again.
Anyway, I'm at UCSD's Winter Game Fest 2011 and it's alright, but it would be so much fun if I had any friends to go with *cries* but this kind of geekiness is something my friends probably find too amusing to attend. And my brother didn't come...
I'm sitting around at this very moment on my computer, just listening for raffle prizes. Unfortunately, I did the "I'll memorize my number and listen for it" method and only realized later that I memorized one of the digits (out of 6) incorrectly. I thought it was 933550 but it's actually 931550! Sadness. I will never know if they called my number or not...
In any case, hopefully I'll be able to report back later.
On another note, my movie/filming club had it's first filming of the year today!
Anyway, I'm at UCSD's Winter Game Fest 2011 and it's alright, but it would be so much fun if I had any friends to go with *cries* but this kind of geekiness is something my friends probably find too amusing to attend. And my brother didn't come...
I'm sitting around at this very moment on my computer, just listening for raffle prizes. Unfortunately, I did the "I'll memorize my number and listen for it" method and only realized later that I memorized one of the digits (out of 6) incorrectly. I thought it was 933550 but it's actually 931550! Sadness. I will never know if they called my number or not...
In any case, hopefully I'll be able to report back later.
On another note, my movie/filming club had it's first filming of the year today!
Saturday, January 8, 2011
How things just turn out okay
I noted this after two instances in two consecutive days, within 12 hours of each other. That would be this morning Friday, and last night Thursday.
The first instance is with me driving the bus as my work entails, which on this route basically means going around and around in a ~3.5 mile circle. On the loop I go around eight times within a little over 3 hours. There are four buses on that loop, two clockwise and two counterclockwise. I drive clockwise.
But the other clockwise bus, I noticed at the end of my shift, that it was right in front of me. In other words, completely behind schedule. Now, seeing as how we were almost done with our shifts, I wanted to finish on time so that I could go home on time. But while I was slowed down behind the other bus, I picked up an unexpected passenger.
This passenger was the relief bus driver for one of the counterclockwise buses. She had missed her own bus. If I had been a little faster, she would have been late to work entirely!
Ironically at the end of this story, my own relief was late and I ended my shift late anyway.
The second insatance was in the morning. My apartment mate and I needed to get to school at about the same time, so she gave me a lift in her car. However, the place I needed to be was on the opposite side of campus that she parked at; her parking location is completely far and inconvenient from where she herself needed to go, but there was a guarantee that parking spots could be found--something that can't be said for other, nearer lots.
I got more time to get ready in the morning since I left with her later than I would have if I took the bus. She was pressing to go because she thought she would be late if she needed to drop me off before getting parking.
She dropped me off in the parking lot near where I needed to be--and lo and behold, found a convenient parking spot in that very lot that was much closer to where she needed to be! How things just turn out okay like that...
The first instance is with me driving the bus as my work entails, which on this route basically means going around and around in a ~3.5 mile circle. On the loop I go around eight times within a little over 3 hours. There are four buses on that loop, two clockwise and two counterclockwise. I drive clockwise.
But the other clockwise bus, I noticed at the end of my shift, that it was right in front of me. In other words, completely behind schedule. Now, seeing as how we were almost done with our shifts, I wanted to finish on time so that I could go home on time. But while I was slowed down behind the other bus, I picked up an unexpected passenger.
This passenger was the relief bus driver for one of the counterclockwise buses. She had missed her own bus. If I had been a little faster, she would have been late to work entirely!
Ironically at the end of this story, my own relief was late and I ended my shift late anyway.
The second insatance was in the morning. My apartment mate and I needed to get to school at about the same time, so she gave me a lift in her car. However, the place I needed to be was on the opposite side of campus that she parked at; her parking location is completely far and inconvenient from where she herself needed to go, but there was a guarantee that parking spots could be found--something that can't be said for other, nearer lots.
I got more time to get ready in the morning since I left with her later than I would have if I took the bus. She was pressing to go because she thought she would be late if she needed to drop me off before getting parking.
She dropped me off in the parking lot near where I needed to be--and lo and behold, found a convenient parking spot in that very lot that was much closer to where she needed to be! How things just turn out okay like that...
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
New York, Blizzards, and Tunnels
The first time I ever saw snowfall was in New York City. 12/26/2010. Then it turned into a blizzard across the northeast USA and New Jersey entered a state of emergency. What fun!
Can't go to New York and not watch a Broadway show. It was Mary Poppins, mostly just to watch something happier than Les Miserables and cheaper than say, Wicked or The Lion King. It was excellent in any case, even though we were late to the show.
Stayed at a hotel on 7th Ave and 42nd Street, through the blizzard. Was stuck on a train for 5 hours the day after trying to get back to New Jersey.
12/28/2010 is Inception Art Contest and snow day. Shoveled snow for the first time. Made snow angels, made tunnels, and had a snowball fight! But no snowman :( The snow didn't really stick very well...
We are headed to Washington DC next. Library of Congress and Smithsonian, here I come!
To finish off with a joke from a friend's friend: I was with a group of friends and pointed out that there was a Blizzard outside. All the Koreans ran out to go see it. ._.
(Kudos to you if you get the joke =P)
Can't go to New York and not watch a Broadway show. It was Mary Poppins, mostly just to watch something happier than Les Miserables and cheaper than say, Wicked or The Lion King. It was excellent in any case, even though we were late to the show.
Stayed at a hotel on 7th Ave and 42nd Street, through the blizzard. Was stuck on a train for 5 hours the day after trying to get back to New Jersey.
12/28/2010 is Inception Art Contest and snow day. Shoveled snow for the first time. Made snow angels, made tunnels, and had a snowball fight! But no snowman :( The snow didn't really stick very well...
We are headed to Washington DC next. Library of Congress and Smithsonian, here I come!
To finish off with a joke from a friend's friend: I was with a group of friends and pointed out that there was a Blizzard outside. All the Koreans ran out to go see it. ._.
(Kudos to you if you get the joke =P)
Friday, December 24, 2010
Shipyards and Tears
Yesterday I went right up close to a shipyard...that was fun. Took a lot of pictures. Unfortunately, I was wearing white boots and pants (because I didn't know we were going to be doing all that climbing, and in icy, muddy grass/water at that). We had to cross a cemetery to get to the ships, which was tiny and mostly forgotten. The graves dated around 1820's to 1830's for time of death.
Not sure the age of the ships. We weren't really supposed to be there.
Then we went to watch Les Miserables the musical. It was phenomenal, loved Fantine the most--but of course, she dies after the first quarter of the show. It figures. I also liked the main character, Jean, and Eponine (though how she grew from a white little girl to a black one, who knows?)
I especially enjoyed I Dreamed a Dream and Empty Chairs at Empty Tables. I almost made it through the entire show without crying, but I definitely had tears come the end when Fantine and Eponine came to take Jean Valjean away. Though I was near the edge twice before: Eponine's sudden, expected but really random death, and Gavroche's horrendous ghostly singing exploding off-screen death...
Not sure the age of the ships. We weren't really supposed to be there.
Then we went to watch Les Miserables the musical. It was phenomenal, loved Fantine the most--but of course, she dies after the first quarter of the show. It figures. I also liked the main character, Jean, and Eponine (though how she grew from a white little girl to a black one, who knows?)
I especially enjoyed I Dreamed a Dream and Empty Chairs at Empty Tables. I almost made it through the entire show without crying, but I definitely had tears come the end when Fantine and Eponine came to take Jean Valjean away. Though I was near the edge twice before: Eponine's sudden, expected but really random death, and Gavroche's horrendous ghostly singing exploding off-screen death...
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