I imagined Beijing as a dirty cramped city. My first impression was that it was a lot... greener than expected. Of course this is just carefully cultivated "golf course" with no middle-aged men playing on them, with some trees sprinkled in there too. But, seeing the wide open streets, and the bike lane, oh the beautiful bike lane. It's so WIDE, and ( Read more... )

What with all this free time for summer.... memes!

( lawll )

Well whaddaya know
( yamamoto's got my back )

In Japanese, I sit in front of Jackie and Shohei at the very side of the room. Jackie is... outspoken, but she's pretty fun to sit next to. Kristen and Jackie are always asking answers from Shohei. Then Sensei and Shohei will break into quickfire conversations of Japanese which I SWEAR I'LL UNDERSTAND ONE DAY. All in all, our classes are pretty ( Read more... )

Many die in Turkey wedding attack;

perhaps the most misleading news headline ever.

Yesterday, I went to an awards ceremony at Ranch 99 for the Mother's Day Apron Design contest. The prizes were hecka nice.
2ND PLACE= $100 IN GROCERY COUPONS. YOU ONLY WISH YOU WERE ME.
and a Nintendo DS Lite.
There was also an entire bag of different kinds of Lee Kum Kee ( Read more... )

Still... Code... Geassing...

Here's hoping that I finish before Spring Break ends D:

On Monday, we're going to watch a  WW2 movie at Joy's house. Ariel insists on Saving Private Ryan, but I'm still pushing for Mister Roberts |:<

Also, a banner! I don't know when it'll ever be used, but the image was so cute I found myself opening Photoshop obsessive- ( Read more... )

( the root of apathy was discovered, but nobody cared. )

Stalkers are twats. A cautionary tale from blahahagirl.

sgtberry is stalking blahahagirlsgtberry's REAL name :Puente Plowmansgtberry's REAL DOB :16th December 1983Height :178 cmWeight : 72.9 kgsgtberry has dreamt about you :21 timessgtberry became interested in you :24th February 2006sgtberry's latest dream about youYou are on a golfcourse with ( Read more... )

WHA-WHAT, HUMANS DO NOT OUTRUN MACHINE GUNS. WTF WTF SUZAKU WTF WTF ( Read more... )

Does a Doodle Help the Noodle?

Researchers did a test where they asked one group of people to doodle while listening to a boring tape conversation. Researchers specifically chose trial members who had just finished another trial, to increase the degree of boringness (sadists). Trial-takers were asked to recall the names of the three people and a cat ( Read more... )