Defining moments

June

I can’t believe it’s already summer. The thing about quarter systems is that it makes you split time into weeks rather than months so you hardly realize how fast a month can pass by.. and this month was crazy. Don’t want this quarter to end, seriously.

This week alone, a little mentally overwhelming I won’t deny. Again, I can’t thank my friends enough for everything they’ve done for me. Sam asked me today about how I cope with certain situations and I couldn’t come up with an answer at first but.. the company of my friends and expression. The latter.. by that I mean hours upon hours of talks, jamming on the guitar and hitting the piano room on the randomest whims and just playing my heart out (even though I don’t know that many songs anymore). Feels good to let things out sometimes, doesn’t even have to be through words.

It’s a good experience, healthy for the soul :)

216 - Lunch with Iver & Karizza, chilling/talking with Iver before class, physics & English comp, starting on my paper, surprisingly a lot of responses for the survey!, nobody’s very hungry but chicken tenders for dinner with Iver, a little bit of math, chilling late at night on campus with Iver, I really owe her so much, chilling at LATC then Drake in the almost ungodly hours, shouting into the stadium, good talks.

217 - More spicy stuff at Feast with Cindy/Tiffany/Nelson, some more math, totally lost in physics, dinner with Karizza!, cold water LOL, weird salty egg thing, chocolate strawberries, a little break then studying with her in the lounge, more good talks with her, surprised at my own words, I’m glad we’re future floormates :) Essay cramming through the rest of the night, Josh’s self-intervention, so proud of him, 70 pushups..

218 - Lunch with Karizza, Feast and spicy foods -__-, not really having an appetite, swiping her Bcafe, last-minute paper cramming, revisions in class, got an A- on my second paper yay!, played piano for the first time in a while, feels nice hitting notes as loudly as I want, quick Rendez pho then watching Body Rock clips for days on Youtube, so unmotivated to do math

219 - Kind of slept in, ran into Karizza during a late lunch, physics, did super well on my midterm YAY!, dinner with Angela, first time in like a week, good talks and good laughs!, guitar jamming, more dance videos (AoV oh my), finishing Star Wars with Karizza then just chilling in the Batcave like old times! Maybe hitting the piano room later cause I feel like I need it again but it’s not open :X

Final English comp. paper

I can’t believe how ridiculous of a topic it is LOL. In the most professional-sounding way possible, I’m writing about the psychology of sorts behind video game avatars and their relation to one’s self-identity. 

Yeah, a paper on video games. My teacher is awesome.

Nights like these

I won’t forget them. I owe my friends so much. Why is the quarter ending so soon?

Unbelievable..

I can’t sleep. Perhaps I slept too much over the weekend. Or maybe I’m troubled by something. What’s on my mind? Can’t really figure it out. Of all the days to not be able to sleep.. I really hope I don’t pass out in class.

This week was insane holy

Went through such sleep deprivation for midterms/paper (but no all nighters!) but definitely, DEFINITELY a good end to midterms week. Plenty of chilling/catching up on sleep :)

208, physics midterm - Last minute physics cramming, mega scribbling all over my midterm LOL, so drained after that, thankfully short lab, floormate bonding in the fishbowl, dinner with Jessica & her floormates, stopped by the Batcave for earbuds, didn’t really do anything the entire night ack

209 - Woken up by Iver, Feast for lunch, meeting with my engcomp teacher, fun demo day in physics!, spotlighted in engcomp, an entire discussion about video games :), dinner with Iver, hung out in my room, weird smelling chicken, looking up stuff with Josh’s computer, high pitched penguin squeals, so many feelings, helping her with lab but not really, Bcaf run & more talks, Josh intervention

210, big Batcave dinner! - Majorly overslept, feast with Karizza, physics, chill for a bit then dinner with Karizza/Josh/Iver/Jason/Niru/Jonathan! First big dinner in a while (and Karizza’s first with all of us!), not to mention the dining halls were Mediterranean-themed :O Food so fancy. Slight food coma, then half my math homework and revising my essay late into the night whee.

Stolen from Iver!

211 - Feast with Karizza, finishing my essay, shortest english comp class ever, I need to stop taking fail naps, more math homework then midterm cramming.

212, Math midterm & Ktown trip! - For cramming in such a short time, I didn’t do too bad! Except all the scores were pretty high so I ended up doing average :( Played some piano after then late lunch with Angela/Christine/Amber! Then nap-failed again and slept through physics LOL argh. But then Ktown for dinner with Iver/Josh/Andy/his friend! Finally. 11 plates of meat split among 5 people, nbd HAHA. Drunk off of food after, singing but not really, randomest bike riding mob, Bobatime! Pretty good, discovered a nice secluded plaza, hipster pictures, recalling how everyone first met good end to the week :)

fooooood. Stolen from Iver again.

I have good looking future roommates. Stolen from Iver again!

213, SPCN! - Late Bcafe with Josh, chilling for a bit, then off to Royce for SPCN with Ken & Iver! Unfortunately couldn’t get tickets so we stood for days in the standby line, ended up sitting near the corner on the balcony but the view was still okay. There was a full house! The story was touching, lots of funny moments, loots of captivating performances (good job Karizza!), Samahang’s set was dope, could definitely feel the general air of success. Bcafe for dinner after then sleep for daaaays.

Blurry, but that’s everyone. Congratulations on everything :)

214 - Actual recharging, did nothing but chill/go Youtubing I guess LOL. And dinner with Sarah finally!

215 - Wake up late, dinner with Iver & Karizza!, more chilling, trying to start math homework, Bcafe run with Josh

SPCN

An amazing performance. Great story, great performances. The cultural dances were just captivating as Samahang Modern’s set. Congratulations on all of its success. I could feel it in the end. It felt just like the end of a homecoming skit, everything having came together, everyone massed together and celebrating. I’ll be sure to get tickets next year instead of waiting in standby :P

Breaking out my 90s playlist

Finished half my math homework, final draft of my paper due in 18 hours, hoping to finish most of my revisions by 4 tonight. I think I can do that :) In a sense, I was pretty stressed out yesterday about putting off my work but now I’m oddly calm about it all. Midterms week can be weird to people.

Good day today though, despite totally sleeping through math (much cramming to do for that tomorrow). First/most complete Batcave dinner in a long time, and Karizza’s first with all of us! Not to mention the dining halls had a themed dinner. Mediterranean food! Good stuff, fun dinner. They like to make fun of me a lot LOL but I love them all.

Did absolutely nothing

productive today, other than my midterm and lab ._. I don’t like this feeling. That midterm drained more from me than I expected..

Perhaps a good night’s sleep and major paper revising tomorrow to make up for it. I don’t even have that bad of a midterms week but I’m already slacking off ack. Looking forward to the weekend though. SPCN, Ktown trip and parents visiting maybe!

Last midterms of freshman year

Cheers to the upcoming week. Sad day today, my earbuds broke :( And my physics midterm was pretty depressing.. or I guess it was okay. Given how much nonsense and math that I scribbled down, hopefully I get a lot of partial credit LOL. But thank goodness it’s over with. And this week’s lab was fairly quick yay! One paper and a midterm to go!

206 - Physics cramming, dinner with my sister, Facetiming with parents, “don’t put it on Facebook!” more physics cramming in the lounge with Andy/Karizza/Sarah, everyone’s getting sick ahh!, Josh-intervention scheming, “MITOSIS!”, pretty productive for ~4 hours of studying!

207 - Spotted Karizza in our lounge again, late lunch with Cindy then chilling/studying/guitar in Hedrick court while waiting for the solar eclipse!, first one we’ve seen from the U.S. ever in our lives? Camera fail LOL but we did manage to sort of see it ,without burning our eyes out.. and got nice pictures anyways! A little more physics cramming, prom pictures EVERYWHERE, first impressions with Gloria, super late dinner with Cindy/Tiffany/Nelson, first late night this quarter :O, Bcafe run right after with Nelson, saw Jessica (are you happy now LOL) and swiped Angela for food, failed power nap, cramming the rest of the night away.

I tried?