シンヂの日記。

Next semester:

yehcin@gmail.com — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:37:02 GMT

-Business Law
-Principles of Finance
-Basic Marketing
-an exit requirement class (Literature in Childhood's Education or Issues in Sports)
-a 3 credit elective class.

Aaand, I've officially changed my major. HOLLA.

Cram time.

yehcin@gmail.com — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:24:15 GMT

I have a set of exams next week. ALREADY. And I have two the week after. I hate how my exams are all crammed together. Ugh.

Good news, bad news.

yehcin@gmail.com — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:54:06 GMT

Good news: aced my calc exam.

Bad news: got a 67 on my stats exam. I guess I can relate; I studied x2 more for my calc than my stats. But oh well. As long as I do better on the next one, I guess. :p

I also took my micro exam today. I have no idea how I did... I feel that I did okay, but I don't want to get my hopes up yet. My accounting exam's tomorrow too. I dunno how I'm going to do on that either because I've studied more for my micro than I did accounting. I hate having exams all bunched up together. Ugh. I just hope I get a C or better. :/ It's all I ask for~

What am I doing up at 2:30 am?

yehcin@gmail.com — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 06:40:19 GMT

I don't even know.

...All I know is, I attempted to finish my calc homework. There's only 6 problems. Go figure. Procrastination at its finest.

Sadly though, I didn't retain much information about calc from... fall '08. And I don't think I brought my calc notes either from the previous class. Oh well.

The next two weeks are going to be hell week for me. 3 exams next week, and 2 the week after. I told myself I wouldn't slack... but... so much for that promise, huh? I haven't lost all hope yet though, I still went to every class and paid much attention, so I just need to brush up and stuff. I hope I hope I hope I hope I hope that I do well though. I don't want to have to end the semester having to drop a stupid class because of my clumsiness and laziness. Especially if I want to graduate on time...

!!!!

Anyway. I completed 4 problems and halfway finished 2 (not knowing how to solve it ROFL), so I think it should be good enough. I think homework is just to check the thoroughness of it, not about the answers.

Either way, I better know my shit 'cause I have a quiz today. Oh god.

ugh, nooo wayyyy. yyyyyyyyyy~

yehcin@gmail.com — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 04:34:09 GMT

School starts in 3 days. :/

This summer, unlike the past few years definitely felt like it went by FAST. When I mean fast, I mean FAST. I've also never had the feeling of, "Damn, I'm so BORED. Let school start already!" this summer. Perhaps it's 'cause I didn't stay that long in Miami to make me feel that way? I don't know.

Anyway, yes, in a way, I am pretty excited to go back. But I do have the whole "OMG NO WHYYYYY I DON'T WANT BREAK TO END YET" feeling stuck with me.

I feel like I have so much left to do before the end of tomorrow. I really want to go clothes shopping. I feel like I need to change my wardrobe up, even though I have clothes that I've had for years that have never been worn. Eh.

I forgot to mention that I went to Atlanta this summer too, I think. Well, I left on the 5th and I came back the 15th. It was pretty fun. I didn't do a whole lot except eat tons of Korean food and drive around places. I really do enjoy Atlanta, more so than Miami. Besides being extremely hilly and having lots of winding roads, I'd say it's pretty awesome. I guess I'm not used to driving in that kind of atmosphere. They even have Cuban food there omg ya rly. I think my future residence is set. ;P

Bah humbug.

yehcin@gmail.com — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:22:16 GMT

요즘은 날씨가 정발 믾이 덥네요.

:'<

Anywho. I have an exam tomorrow for Fin Acc. I'm going to review the Q's before I go to bed. Compared to last semester's Fin Acc, it's so much easier holy hell. I really did feel that Joszi was being a total dick (pardon me!) because she expects everyone to understand that shit 100%, even if they weren't going to major in Accounting. Ughhhh.

Or maybe from what I hear that courses at community/2 year college ARE easier than at a 4 year university? I don't know.

So it's 50 questions, multiple choice. My teacher's chill as hell, that she gives us the questions ahead of time and basically just forms the exam off of them. 8D

I've been working out lately. I didn't work out yesterday. I didn't have an excuse; I was just lazy. So I kind of hate myself for not doing so. :/ But I made up for it by working out today (or... "yesterday". 12 am is still like, the same day to me). I definitely feel accomplished and proud after workouts though. I went to school today with super sore legs; even worse when I climbed down the stairs as opposed to climbing up. Weird, huh?

I'm also watching what I eat. I'll have to say, I feel like I'm much stronger mentally than I ever was beforehand. Maybe it's the motivation + Sparkpeople + my workout DVD. I don't know. But I feel like I have much more self control now. I hope it stays that way!

I can't wait for the weekend. "Shining Inheritance" is the drama I'm now hooked to (not sure if I mentioned it already or not). It's almost ending though. :( I just got through Kim Sam Soon in like, 3 days. I don't know what else to watch after SI! Everything that I've looked up for K-dramas seem boring from the very vague synopsis... I'm not a big T-drama fan either (for many reasons obv). And I've never been really hooked onto J-dramas to begin with. Maybe I'll give 'em a chance.

ALSO: Does anyone know of an effective way of learning a language? Do you guys take notes as you go through lessons online/through books? Visit websites in the language and/or practice through online people? Watch tv shows online and practice? Use interactive programs online/software? I guess you can say I'm a sloppy mess when it comes to self-teaching. So help would be appreciated. :> (If anyone responds rofllololol~~~) :O

Oh... Hey...

yehcin@gmail.com — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 06:02:56 GMT

I know my updates are sparse and random, but I shall update today regardless!

Not much has happened; not like much ever happens in my life anyway. I just live a boring, mundane and average life. Heh. But I'm starting classes next week. Should be fun, I guess. I have MWF classes, from 8 to 12:40 or 45... whatever. Two classes: Financial Accounting (the bastard class that I couldn't pass so I dropped) and Stats I.

I've also decided to change my major as well. Hasn't been changed officially yet, but I'm going to get it changed once I go back to school in fall. I'm switching from accounting to marketing. Best of both worlds I guess: creativity and business work. Not that I love business or anything. It's just the easy way out. :P

I am also determined to lose weight this summer. I haven't started yet, which I've been telling myself to do since... uh, earlier this week (OH WELL), but from the reviews I've heard it seems doable. I bought Jillian Michaels' workout DVD (that mean bitch in Biggest Loser... ha) and I bought myself some 5-pounds hand weights too. I'm also determined to eat more healthier, so we'll see how that goes. There's also that website Sparkpeople.com, so I have some resources to help out, I guess.

Summer's been extremeeeeely boring! I've been playing COD4 (I feel like such a boy playing it), Sims 3 and watching dramas all day for the past two weeks or so. Yeah, I've also went out shopping and stuff too, but bottom line is, I've been lazing all day, everyday. I finished watching Boys Over Flowers and I'm now watching Shining Inheritance. Even though Asian dramas are so predictable and overly cliche, I still have yet to figure out why I'm addicted to them. Wishful, envious [love] lives in dramas? Attractive guys? Gorgeous actresses that make me feel jealous about? All seem plausible.

...Oh, and I want a new phone. Goddamnit. I've had my LG KF510 for less than a year, but the screen has like... "bubbles" underneath it and it's really annoying. At first I thought it was just the screen protective film, but I realized that the film fell off and it's the actual screen itself. What bullshit. :( And it's not like I got it at an American dealer or anything, so...

It still works fine though. It's just the minor problem that's annoying the hell out of me. I really want the Samsung Haptic Pop, not because it's shown or promoted on Boys Over Flowers, but because I love the design covers. It also looks kewl to me. :| I want to get a phone other than an iPhone or a Blackberry, just because I see them everywhere. Funny how I could care less if someone has the same shirt or whatever as me, but I still seek individuality and uniqueness through phones. :/ I'm weird like that. (Then again, I hate American phone designs. HAHAH. *biased*)

Speaking of dramas... I really want to learn Korean. And brush up on my Chinese. My speech is fine, I just can't read worth for shit. I need to set up my damn homepage to the TW Yahoo or something. Yet every time I say this, I get lazy with learning languages too. I guess I DO want to learn, but I'm not motivated enough to push myself to, y'know? I suck. :(

Alright. NIGHT!

Prettia hair dye.

yehcin@gmail.com — Sat, 30 May 2009 13:31:40 GMT

I finally got it! I'm pretty excited about it, only because of its lather foam... feature, I guess. I looked everywhere for it but with no avail, until I went to Ximending. I went to the this store at the Shinjuku building (where I remembered seeing it) but they said they sold out. Then I remembered that some place that had "89" in it (I thought it was a building too; turns out it was a store) and they sold it for 400 TWD each. Pretty... hefty but I bought two anyway.

I can't wait. :) I think I bought the "royal brown"... kinda forgot. Too lazy to dig through and find out... heh. But it looks pretty good from the box.

LMAO.

yehcin@gmail.com — Mon, 25 May 2009 05:14:30 GMT

I just cleaned up my profile's "interest" section.

So severely outdated.

My Chemical Romance? Hawthorne Heights? Ai Otsuka?

LOL. o lawd. Oh my.

Writer's Block: You Ate What?

yehcin@gmail.com — Sun, 17 May 2009 14:25:49 GMT

What's the weirdest thing you've ever eaten? Would you eat it again?

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I've had a lot of "weird" food before (maybe according to Western standards, like pig intestine, thousand year-old eggs, salted duck eggs, stinky tofu) but they're all food that I've been accustomed to so I don't really find it weird.

I guess the weirdest to me are natto and pigeon meat. The pigeon tasted like chicken and I'm perfectly fine with trying new "meats" that aren't insects or anything. Didn't bother me. Natto however really grossed me out, both the texture and flavor. Won't be having that again, haha.

Taiwanese politics.

yehcin@gmail.com — Sun, 17 May 2009 14:15:36 GMT

Today's such a mess. Haha. It's a big day in Taiwan for one of the political parties (unlike America, Taiwanese political parties aren't based solely on stances on different ethical subjects (if at all), but as to where Taiwan should be in the future-- an independent country or unified with mainland China). The pro-independence party members (not officials, but citizens who identify with the party) marched near the Presidential headquarters to protest against the incumbent president of his pro-China policies. It wasn't violent, but as always, people got hurt.

My grandma's a devout Christian, but when it comes to Taiwanese politics, she badmouths them. Very unchristian-like. Heh. I think she's pretty biased because she was born in China and fled for Taiwan when she was like...7. So I guess a part of her still identifies with her native motherland, even if it wasn't Communist then. I guess politics here is a touchy/serious subject that even though is talked about often among friends and family, it's not supposed to be talked about in public. It's the most popular subject in the news and such, but people follow it through tv and newspapers... and the strangers you'd probably only talk about it with are cab drivers.

Being a Taiwanese American, I don't know the whole entire history of China nor the WWII-era when the Communists (China) were fighting the Kuomintang (party now incumbent in Taiwan), but... I don't know. I'm pretty neutral when it comes to T-politics. I honestly can't REALLY see Taiwan unified with China (since I guess I've grown up with the two separate entities) whether it's now or 100 years later, but I doubt Taiwan being independent will happen/end well either. My grandma keeps saying, "If you really love Taiwan, you'd choose for what's best." but I can SORT OF understand why people wouldn't want to relate to mainland China either. I don't know. It's confusing and complicated. I am now a full fledged citizen of Taiwan (I couldn't vote before, but now that I got paperwork done and got a national ID card and a new passport and everything, I can) but when asked to vote in the upcoming years, I'd be so... apathetic towards politics here that I probably wouldn't even vote. I don't know.

In other news, I'm hanging out with violingoddess and Joann tomorrow. Should be fun, fun, fun!

Eh.

yehcin@gmail.com — Thu, 07 May 2009 03:22:30 GMT

So I'm in Taiwan now. I've been here for two days, and I'm staying 'til the end of May.

I'm literally waiting for violingoddess, Caroline and Joann to get here so we can all hang out. Lol. It's kind of awkward to hangout by yourself here... or at least I feel that way. Even though I came here during winter break, I still want to go back to the places I love most: Ximending, Shilin, Gongguan... and possibly TP 101.

I had the chance to check my grades, and... I'm so disappointed in myself. I've done utter shit in Micro. I'm going to have to retake that class again. I wish I could've studied more, but that class was pretty goddamned hard too. Grades consisted of only 3 exams (final included) and he doesn't curve. Oh well. Sigh. :/ Macro was so much easier... But I did get an A for my Professional Writing class (as expected) and I barely made it with a B for the Arts.

That's all for now, I guess!

Ugh.

yehcin@gmail.com — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 01:55:17 GMT

I'm stressin' about my Arts exam and my Micro. I pretty much will have to get an 85+ or something like that to get a C (not even, a 68.88 or something like that). :/ So I think I'll have to retake that class.

ANYWAY. I may stay up for a good amount of time to study for my Arts exam. I think I'm safe on a C at least... I think I might do the extra credit essays to play safe as well. :|

I don't want to think about it anymore. Oh well. Taiwan in 5 days. :|

As if school cannot end quick enough.

yehcin@gmail.com — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 04:04:51 GMT

I desperately need school to end soon. And when I mean soon, I'm serious. I think that this + thinking way too much about my future (which is always negative, in return, always ends up me thinking about my LIFE and how absurd/depressing it is... and how much of a failure I am) gets me way overwhelmed. I've been in such a grouchy/angst/depressed mood lately. No suicidal thoughts guise, but damn, I think I need me some Xanax or some shit. Haha. I'm just so under the weather, even if it isn't gloomy out. At all.

I really do wish I was self motivated. I wish there was something out there that kept me interested in what I'm doing. I wish I was interested in my major. But I'm not. I already told myself that I'd get myself a business degree and then do something else later in life. Afterall, you're not really chained down to do what you got a degree in, right? I really do hope I do turn out successful, but not because I'm pressured in doing something that I hate, God forbid. Honest to God, I think I suck ass in business in general (like as if God never gave me the gift of doing calculations and numbers and whatever). But at the same time, it's SO much of a hassle to just change majors and have to go through college another year or two just to finish a degree that'll be useless (since it won't be engineering/medicine/nursing related), especially when I'm literally begging to just get schooling over with already.

But I think my school's partially to blame. I didn't go to a school I wanted to go to. I just came here because I wanted out. It wasn't even on my top 5 schools to go to. I think that can have an effect. Not to say my school's downright shitty, but I think my college experience would've been so much better if I wasn't here and that I went to somewhere where it'd be enjoyable.

I wish I could've gotten into UF or FSU. It's way too late to reapply now (who accepts seniors? Anyone?) and even if I did, I've been putting it off because I keep getting bad grades and I need to retake classes and whatnot.

I wonder how it would've been if I didn't stay in Florida. Honestly, besides those two schools, I think the schools here suck.

I really do feel like I'm letting my parents down in a way, but myself as well. But I honestly don't know what to do anymore.

skjdlasdjlasdjldajlsd

Life sucks right now. There's no way in hell I'm dropping out (because first of all, the 'rents would kill me LOLOLOL@@@)... but... I'm just going to go through the last two years of hell or something. IDK. :(

yehcin@gmail.com — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:33:46 GMT

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29760888/?gt1=43001

Really?

Urgh.

yehcin@gmail.com — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:09:23 GMT

Holy shit, I'm beyond pissed off.

Now I remember why I wanted to get the fuck out of here. Fuck.

Blah.

yehcin@gmail.com — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:12:53 GMT

So I think I know what I want to major in now. I was looking over the school's list of majors online and I looked over the communication science & disorders major. If I major in it, I could possibly end up being a communication speech pathologist or an audiologist. The pay isn't as much as a doctor or a pharmacist or anything for sure (roughly about the same as a nurse; 50-something thousand as starting pay to as high up as 80+k...), but it's not too bad! I just wonder how easy it is to find a job with the degree. I did some Googling and stuff and it says that it's in moderate/average demand, and that demand will increase like, 10% or something within 2014. Don't know how accurate that is, but... it doesn't sound as easy to get a career with as, say, a RN or an accountant. It's also less stressful and not as in depth with chemistry/biology as other options in the medical-science-ish field. I'd still gotta take basic physics and anatomy/physiology and stuff though. But not bio/chem themselves. I'm also not sure if I'll have to get a doctorate degree later on, but as of right now, you'd only need a master's to actually practice audiology/CSP.

Anyway, I think I'll go to the academic advising for that department sometime soon (before spring break) and I'll see. Hopefully it'll work out!

yehcin@gmail.com — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 07:27:25 GMT

My birthday's coming up in a week.

I'm not excited about my birthday... But I'm excited about what I'm going to DO for my birthday.

Actually, I'm still not sure what to do yet. BUT, I've narrowed down to these:

-Go to a tea room for fun. I want to have high tea, but some of them don't drink tea... but it doesn't matter. They have other drinks there too. And I want the pastries/finger sandwiches and such, though I don't know how filling and satisfying of a meal those are (as lunch). And it's something like $17 a set or something, so I don't want that AND an entree.
-Go to the Cheesecake Factory for lunch or dinner. (Though I don't want to, because I don't really want to go to a chain restaurant...)
-CAN'T go to a Japanese restaurant (even though I've been wanting sushi for a while now) because my roommate hates the smell of seafood and hates seafood itself. And I don't know how badly she'd "~hate~" the environment of a Japanese restaurant. (Though I assume she hates the smell of cooked seafood? Because she was complaining whenever I cooked it, and when I ate actual sushi she didn't say anything.)
-Go to PF Chang's/Pei Wei for lunch or dinner (hilarious, I know).
-Go to a restaurant named Terra Sur Cafe (don't know how good it is, but it looks good and it's reasonably priced) for lunch or dinner.
-Go to some other "unique" special nice restaurant that doesn't break the bank. (A restaurant that doesn't go over $20 for lunch and dinner. WHICH IS HARD.) AND THAT'S NOT TOO FAR EITHER@@@@@
-Go to a spa.
-Go KTV-ing (karaoke).

Thing is, I can't do Friday (which is my actual birthday) because my family's coming up and we're hanging out the whole day. Apparently the 20th birthday is important in Taiwan, like 18th (not really ROFLMAO) or the 21st in the US. I thought it was just in Japan (for the 20th, I meant)... but I recently learned that it's also in China and Taiwan as well.

...The more you know, I guess.

Anyway, I was going to go back down to celebrate it, but seeing that they're coming over, there's no reason to anymore. So the only days that I can celebrate it amongst my roommates are days that exclude that Friday. I have a feeling it'll be Thursday, though I can't do lunch on Thursdays because I have class until 3:15 (unless I skip my Micro class, which I don't want to). So Thursday for dinner or Saturday (maybe unlikely... because they sometimes go back home, though they ARE back home this weekend... hmm..) for lunch or dinner.

GAH IDK I GIVE UP. :< SO COMPLICATED.

yehcin@gmail.com — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:19:10 GMT

Well, I took my first-ever (and probably my last-ever LOLJAYKAY) financial accounting exam today.

OH MY GOD I DIED.

I have a gut feeling that I failed it. I don't know how the hell I'm going to get my Bachelor's in accounting. Or even graduate.

AKSDJLASKDJALFJ

I feel like I should just change majors because I'm obviously incompetent in anything math related. D: Damn it.

AHHHHHHHHHH MY ACADEMIC RECORD IS GOING TO BE SO SHITTY WHEN I GRADUATE

The only thing I can possibly do if it indeed suck when I get out is open my own business or some shit like that. Or just go back to graphic design/art with a 4 year old high school portfolio. :(

I think I honestly need to stop listening to the parents and do what makes myself happy because at this time, getting $12/hr working at a graphic design firm sounds better than this shit I have to deal with. >:(

Bla bla bla.

yehcin@gmail.com — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:43:40 GMT

~~New~~ Old Year's Resolutions

-Lose weight. Cliché, I know. But I want to lose 50 pounds this year... and I can do it if I can lose about 4 pounds a month... doable.

-Get more sleep. Just because I'm a night owl, and I need to get rid of this horrible habit.

-Get better grades. I did pretty shit last semester, and I don't want to repeat it again this year. Or ever.

-Stop procrastinating. I doubt I can get rid of it completely, but at least get my priorities straight.

-Conserve money. I've been spending money like no other during the past few months... and since my family doesn't have that much money to begin with.... I need to stop it.

I think that's it... Heh.

School's going by okay so far. This week's going by horribly slow though. It's only Wednesday! UGH. I already have lots of homework and reading and crap that I have to do. :( Sob.

Har har.

yehcin@gmail.com — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 05:18:11 GMT

Just kidding guys, I'm not going to get it. I'll wait it out. It turns out that I AM IN FACT COMING BACK DURING THE SUMMER. How crazy is that? I can't get my national ID 'cause I can't leave Taiwan for another week if I want to get the paperwork processed... and I have to wait longer than that to get a new passport too.

SO COMPLICATED. C'mon Taiwan, GET WITH THE PROGRAM.

So I'd have to turn in the paperwork before my 20th and then I have to come back within 3 months to finalize everything. I have to do it the gringo way (apparently this is how the "foreigners" have to do it). Ugh.

Lately, I've been getting aches across my lower back. It feels as if I accidentally sprained it or something, but it hurts like a bitch whenever I try to do anything that requires using any muscle on my back... whether it's sitting or whatever. My dad thinks they're just menstrual cramps, but I don't know. I've only had cramps once before, and it was near my abdomen area. It was pretty painful... I couldn't move without being in pain and I had to have a heat pack on me. Srsly. D: Whatever it is, I just hope it'll go away fast.

Dilemma~~~

yehcin@gmail.com — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 16:56:30 GMT

So I was walking down Ximending today (or yesterday, rather)... and I saw an LG phone ad. I was like, "LOLWTF." but I ended up liking the phone. A lot. :( I dunno if I should get it (if I go out and find it~) or not, especially since I just got a new one this past summer, even though it's already scratched up and shit. Should I: a) Get it with my credit card, not let my dad know until the billing statement comes and surprise his ass; perhaps get pissed later (but find a way to repay him... I have cash back at home AND I LEFT MY DEBIT CARD BACK HOME ALSDJASKLDJ), b) ask my dad to get it for me, make him think I'm a spoiled little bitch and make me feel like shit for wanting to even ask (which, i can't argue because I kind of am; he might or might not get for me in the end), or c) Say "fuck it" and wait until the next time I come back and get a phone. I may not be back here next (this?) summer 'cause I'm gonna take summer classes and shit.

I dunno mannn. I'm so in love with Asian phones. American phones are pretty shitty (then again, I'm picky, EVEN THOUGH I DON'T TALK ON THE CELL ALL THAT MUCH LOLOLOL). No offense guise, but there's really nothing special about Blackberries and all those wannabes... except that you can text easier. But I hate looking at 29329328319 small buttons on a PDA (which, most people don't even need a PDA). Pretty useless. And I'm pretty over the Sidekick. There's life after that thing. :/ And I don't find the iPhone impressive either. Maybe because on top of all those, I see 'em everyday back at home. Or something.

PS: IT'S NOT LIKE I REALLY NEED IT. I JUST WANT IT. So much for living in a capitalistic/consumerist country all my life.

ANYWAY. I'm almost outta here, and I don't wanna be. I feel like my goddamn freshman self again: I don't want to go back to school. I guess it's an obvious hint that I am kinda miserable at USF and I'm at the wrong place if I don't ever feel like going back there anymore (except to see a few people; that's a different story I guess).

I'm going to Kaohsiung at noon via bullet train to see "distant relatives," aka my dad's cousin and his family... which isn't even relevant to me. I don't know why I'm going to see them, but whatever. Free sightseeing at Kaohsiung I guess. I'm staying there for the night and then coming back tomorrow around noon.

I seriously thought I was going to buy a bunch of crap to bring back home but it seems like I'm not going to. I still have a few things on my list that I want to get though: a pair of boots, some more skincare crap, FOOD (because I'm obviously not fat enough), more shoes and a bag or two. I got a pair of Lacoste shoes on sale for under $25 the other day. It made me quite happy, especially to find shoes that fit over here. They're quite cute too.

Yesterday I got to hang out with a childhood friend of mine, Joann. We went to Ximending and around the SK Mitsukoshi area at the Taipei station. It was pretty fun. We didn't end up buying anything (other than writing utensils); we just window shopped. But we ate a lot. ...A lot.

Aklsdjalksdjasld, it's almost 1 am. GOOD NIGHT. AND MERRY CHRISTMAS/HANUKKAH/KWANZAA/HAPPY HOLIDAYS/WHATEVERYOUCELEBRATEHERE, everyone.

Elections. Over.

yehcin@gmail.com — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 06:38:21 GMT

Interestingly, I'm much more confident in Obama now than I was before the elections... or even during Election Day. I've had nothing against him, but it's that feeling that I feel that our country will move in a better direction in the next four years and that I've made the right decision by voting him that has finally settled within me--- apparently not so before all of the chaotic, MESSY-AS-FUCK Presidential campaign.

As a side note, I was disappointed that the Floridian Amendment 2 (equivalent to Prop 8 in California; gay marriage ban) passed. I voted "no" on it, and I was getting a bit optimistic that it may pass because during the early vote count, it was about 50-50. In the end, it passed with more than 60%, in which 60% is needed for an Amendment to pass. I was even more surprised that California got theirs passed... especially since they're more left-wing than Florida.

Anyway, I have shit to read for class--- and it's already passed (past? wut.) 1:30. School is killing me slowly. I can't wait to get this semester over (though it's almost over. Hah.) I'm going up to Gainesville later today for the weekend. It should be fun.

Yay.

yehcin@gmail.com — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:30:29 GMT

So I went over to the academic adviser today.

The same one I went to for fall '07. She's such a sweetheart.

So I gotta get into taking the business classes now. I have:

ACG 2021 Principles of Financial Accounting. (PURE HELL, from what I heard. More than half of the class end up failing the class. But also no matter which professor you take, you'll end up getting fucked over because they're that hard. Unless you study. And I mean STUDY. And take notes, of course.)

ECO 2023 Microeconomics. (I think it'll be a bit harder than my Macro class that I'm taking now, since the exams aren't multiple choice. But the professor that my suitemate has says he's a lenient grader and curves test grades, so I might end up taking him.)

HUM 1020 The Arts. (I heard it isn't too hard, and I already know what instructor I want, so I should be fine. I think it's something like Art History or something.)

ENC 3310 Advanced Expository Writing. (I heard it's not bad either.)

In other news, I'm going to Howl-O-Scream tonight! It should be fun. I hope it won't be disappointing, but I doubt it. I'm going with a Korean girl in my Chinese class, her friend and her roommate. I love exchange students. <3

I also submitted my absentee ballot the other day. I voted for Obama, but that's after much, much brain hurting brainstorming. Honestly, I think all politicians are liars (the stereotype, yes) and just want to tell you what you want to hear. I'm not too involved with politics, because it's just like playing in mud and dirt, just as both the candidates played dirty during their '08 campaign. But at the same time, I do believe it's important to know the issues and be educated and aware of what's going on. And, of course, "you can't complain if you don't vote." I thought of something hilarious the other day though while staring at my ballot: What if I bubbled in both? The vote won't count per say, but I CAN claim that I've voted Obama if McCain gets elected and the government goes down the shithole more than it already has, and vice versa... if you get what I'm saying. :P

I also wished I had more time and gave the effort into researching more facts and information about the various third parties. Although they wouldn't get elected, it probably (just maybe) would've been a better choice voting for someone else than the two major parties. I Wiki'd (lawl, ya i kno rite) up the US third parties, and it came up with parties such as the "Marijuana Party" and "Boston Tea Party". I thought it was pretty lulzy, just by the name themselves. But I'm sure some parties' ideology wouldn't have been suitable for winning Presidency. At all.

OH MY GOD GUYS.

yehcin@gmail.com — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 05:23:38 GMT

I totally failed my 2nd Calc exam. What a shame. It's really getting me irritated because I understand the subject, but somehow I can't manage to FIGURE IT OUT DURING EXAM DAY. It's pissing me off to the max how much weight I have on my shoulders now that I have to do well on the next two exams and the final as well.

... Anyway, on a lighter note, I'm makin' awesome new friends. Mainly from Chinese, but who cares. I'm probably going to hang out with these girls (this Korean study abroad student, this half Filipino girl and the Korean girl's friend.. possibly even more) at the beach tomorrow! I'm quite excited. They're pretty cool people, and I definitely want to get to know them better. Crystal (half Filipino girl)'s been inviting me over to her apartment, throwing these little events such as nail painting and movie night or things like that with other girls. It's cool. :)

Alright. NIGHT TIME. TGIF, FOR REAL.