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I haven't updated on Livejournal in a long time. I
feel bad, but I have converted to xanga now. But here's an update.
Schools been school, trying to get out of college asap. Friends are great, Chicago is warm, and still interning at MTV and loving it like hell.
So Comcast finally found out that we have been stealing cable. Actually half of the apt. complex has been getting free cable for the past 3 years. Having no cable is hell for me. I get sad, depressed, bored, lazy, paranoid, weird things just happen. So I had no choice but to cope with it. I did some "homework," yeah that was pretty interesting, updated a website I haven't done in awhile, talked to my mom on the phone for like almost 2 hours, watched Along Came Polly and Boiler Room like 20 times, and had nice chats with roommates. It was a whole new world. Even better, I went back to basics and borrowed Keiths Rollerblades. He just bought a bike so we rolled around Lincoln Park on Saturday night and Sunday. The weather was perfect and we went all over the place. I miss rollerblading, and its better here cause its flat land. I used to be scared of hills, actually I still am.
So the whole issue about summer is becoming a concern. I dont know whether MTV will hire me after the internship, but luckily I know I have a position at Meeting Tomorrow all summer. I really hope MTV hires me, if they don't, I think Im going to crawl into a hole and cry because I love that internship right now, and I seriously bust my ass off to the point where I get excited when they tell me to clean the storage room. Luckily, a lot of stuff they tell me to do now is actually of value to the company, so hopefully they will see that. But I know, almost 85% sure I'm going to be in Chicago. It's going to be interesting. Im really going to have to keep myself busy because life is boring without friends, and I don't have many here. Imean I have Alfredo, Keith, and a few girls and DSP people and that's about it. I am too personable, is that the right word, and I don't really become buddy buddy with people unless we click. But I know I'll be busy with a lot of new projects and stuff, hopefully. But I heard summer in Chicago is nice, and I'm excited to do stuff like Taste of Chicago, and I will definetly try to take a few trips home to visit my friends.
I was so close to going to Germany this summer until my dad turned me down. Booo, I was so ready. I guess I can only go out of the country once a year. My dad doesnt want me to have too much fun, and I guess hes right cause I wasnt going for any purpose but to "hang out."
In other news, if you are in a dance troupe in the Chicagoland Area, please sign up for "Hype!" 2005. Im in charge of the dance competition and it's really interesting because I dont have any hip hop, dance skills whatsoever. In fact, my knowledge of dance coordination is incredibly lacking, but I guess being a Marketing major helps somewhat cause you know how to promote something you know absolutely nothing about. I remember my mentor last year told me that. To be great at Marketing, you have to be able to market something you know nothing about and make it seem as if you've been the expert of it all along. So its fun, I get to pretend to be in the hip hop dance genre and its always fun designing graphics that steer towards culture.
Well, I'm finally going to post some of my Japan pictures. For the rest of them, heres my Yahoo Photos link
Click on Japan for the photos.
Prepare for a lot... sorry
Having after dinner cocktails at a nice lounge/bar called "BarRoom" in downtown Osaka.
Eating beef/pork/chicken that you cook yourself on these grills.
Cleansing myself before going into a Buddhist Temple.
One of the amazing buildings in Downtown Osaka. We went all the way to the top to see the whole city.
We took the bullet train all the way from Nagoya to Tokyo. It took about 4 hours. It was amazing how fast it was.
Hanging out with one of the employees from RoboCup 2005 (A robotic competition) The starbucks cups there are all one size smaller then here. Even more interesting, the trash can is split in 5 compartments seperating lids, ice, plastic, etc.
This is like a teenage girls heaven.
We met up with this guy Cory, who currently lives in Tokyo as a lawyer. He took us around one night and this is his apartment.
This was why I loved Japan, the crowded streets.
Kelly, Glen, Nico (my roommate), and I on some castle tour.
A drunken night of festivities in Tokyo
Another pic of us eating at the grill place.
The morning fish market
Me trying out Pachinko, a popular game in japan.
Jodie, me, Glen, Jessica, and Katie in front of the Hitachi lobby
Kyoto, what an amazing place. Temples everywhere, so many people, and so much history too. I loved being around spiritual areas.
Japanese locals
Japanese people have great habits of being conscious of others and being considerate. They wear these masks cause they are sick. Here, we just cough on people for fun.
Im too lazy to rotate it, but yeah, heres me and jodie in downtown Tokyo, Shinjuku
Me and Julie doing the salsa at a latin club in Tokyo. Thanks to alfredo for the salsa lessons, I barely did it.
Japanese locals are nice. Heres me drunk at Sam and Daves, a nightclub, and I think I bought these girls a drink and they were very nice and fun, and yeah im obviously drunk off my ass in that picture.
On the escalator up to the "Floating Garden" in Osaka
Another bar picture, same night at Sam and Daves
Eating at a Sushi Bar
Me posing with our Toyota Tour guide. I feel madly in love with her. She was so cute and she looked like an anime, and had this high pitch voice when she spoke english, it was so adorable. She would also nod her head after every sentence and she sounded like an anime too.
An entertainer singing us American classics
By far my favorite thing to do in Japan. Eat noodles while standing up!!! Man i loved it.
Mmm...octopus balls...
Osaka was a lot more japanese then Tokyo. Luckily I knew a bit of japanese or else there wuold have been no way in hell I could have been fed.
One of my favorite company tours was at this company that build robots that could play soccer. It was amazing. Everything was A.I, and not radio controlled.
Roppongi night club.
Japanese locals are fun
I had to have Shabu Shabu, and luckily the crew liked it so much that we went for some shabu shabu again the next day.
Sumos walking into the arena. Watching sumo was so much fun
One of the days of just wandering around on my own. I was actually in pursuit of finding this street with alot of japanese designers. I really love the lights in Tokyo, it feels like the city never sleeps.
This robot was amazing. It could play the trumpet because it had an artificial lung and lips. Go toyota!
After the factory tour, we got to see a lot of concept models. Here is one I particulary liked.
Okay thats it, sorry to overload subscription people.
Schools been school, trying to get out of college asap. Friends are great, Chicago is warm, and still interning at MTV and loving it like hell.
So Comcast finally found out that we have been stealing cable. Actually half of the apt. complex has been getting free cable for the past 3 years. Having no cable is hell for me. I get sad, depressed, bored, lazy, paranoid, weird things just happen. So I had no choice but to cope with it. I did some "homework," yeah that was pretty interesting, updated a website I haven't done in awhile, talked to my mom on the phone for like almost 2 hours, watched Along Came Polly and Boiler Room like 20 times, and had nice chats with roommates. It was a whole new world. Even better, I went back to basics and borrowed Keiths Rollerblades. He just bought a bike so we rolled around Lincoln Park on Saturday night and Sunday. The weather was perfect and we went all over the place. I miss rollerblading, and its better here cause its flat land. I used to be scared of hills, actually I still am.
So the whole issue about summer is becoming a concern. I dont know whether MTV will hire me after the internship, but luckily I know I have a position at Meeting Tomorrow all summer. I really hope MTV hires me, if they don't, I think Im going to crawl into a hole and cry because I love that internship right now, and I seriously bust my ass off to the point where I get excited when they tell me to clean the storage room. Luckily, a lot of stuff they tell me to do now is actually of value to the company, so hopefully they will see that. But I know, almost 85% sure I'm going to be in Chicago. It's going to be interesting. Im really going to have to keep myself busy because life is boring without friends, and I don't have many here. Imean I have Alfredo, Keith, and a few girls and DSP people and that's about it. I am too personable, is that the right word, and I don't really become buddy buddy with people unless we click. But I know I'll be busy with a lot of new projects and stuff, hopefully. But I heard summer in Chicago is nice, and I'm excited to do stuff like Taste of Chicago, and I will definetly try to take a few trips home to visit my friends.
I was so close to going to Germany this summer until my dad turned me down. Booo, I was so ready. I guess I can only go out of the country once a year. My dad doesnt want me to have too much fun, and I guess hes right cause I wasnt going for any purpose but to "hang out."
In other news, if you are in a dance troupe in the Chicagoland Area, please sign up for "Hype!" 2005. Im in charge of the dance competition and it's really interesting because I dont have any hip hop, dance skills whatsoever. In fact, my knowledge of dance coordination is incredibly lacking, but I guess being a Marketing major helps somewhat cause you know how to promote something you know absolutely nothing about. I remember my mentor last year told me that. To be great at Marketing, you have to be able to market something you know nothing about and make it seem as if you've been the expert of it all along. So its fun, I get to pretend to be in the hip hop dance genre and its always fun designing graphics that steer towards culture.
Well, I'm finally going to post some of my Japan pictures. For the rest of them, heres my Yahoo Photos link
Click on Japan for the photos.
Prepare for a lot... sorry
Having after dinner cocktails at a nice lounge/bar called "BarRoom" in downtown Osaka.
Eating beef/pork/chicken that you cook yourself on these grills.
Cleansing myself before going into a Buddhist Temple.
One of the amazing buildings in Downtown Osaka. We went all the way to the top to see the whole city.
We took the bullet train all the way from Nagoya to Tokyo. It took about 4 hours. It was amazing how fast it was.
Hanging out with one of the employees from RoboCup 2005 (A robotic competition) The starbucks cups there are all one size smaller then here. Even more interesting, the trash can is split in 5 compartments seperating lids, ice, plastic, etc.
This is like a teenage girls heaven.
We met up with this guy Cory, who currently lives in Tokyo as a lawyer. He took us around one night and this is his apartment.
This was why I loved Japan, the crowded streets.
Kelly, Glen, Nico (my roommate), and I on some castle tour.
A drunken night of festivities in Tokyo
Another pic of us eating at the grill place.
The morning fish market
Me trying out Pachinko, a popular game in japan.
Jodie, me, Glen, Jessica, and Katie in front of the Hitachi lobby
Kyoto, what an amazing place. Temples everywhere, so many people, and so much history too. I loved being around spiritual areas.
Japanese locals
Japanese people have great habits of being conscious of others and being considerate. They wear these masks cause they are sick. Here, we just cough on people for fun.
Im too lazy to rotate it, but yeah, heres me and jodie in downtown Tokyo, Shinjuku
Me and Julie doing the salsa at a latin club in Tokyo. Thanks to alfredo for the salsa lessons, I barely did it.
Japanese locals are nice. Heres me drunk at Sam and Daves, a nightclub, and I think I bought these girls a drink and they were very nice and fun, and yeah im obviously drunk off my ass in that picture.
On the escalator up to the "Floating Garden" in Osaka
Another bar picture, same night at Sam and Daves
Eating at a Sushi Bar
Me posing with our Toyota Tour guide. I feel madly in love with her. She was so cute and she looked like an anime, and had this high pitch voice when she spoke english, it was so adorable. She would also nod her head after every sentence and she sounded like an anime too.
An entertainer singing us American classics
By far my favorite thing to do in Japan. Eat noodles while standing up!!! Man i loved it.
Mmm...octopus balls...
Osaka was a lot more japanese then Tokyo. Luckily I knew a bit of japanese or else there wuold have been no way in hell I could have been fed.
One of my favorite company tours was at this company that build robots that could play soccer. It was amazing. Everything was A.I, and not radio controlled.
Roppongi night club.
Japanese locals are fun
I had to have Shabu Shabu, and luckily the crew liked it so much that we went for some shabu shabu again the next day.
Sumos walking into the arena. Watching sumo was so much fun
One of the days of just wandering around on my own. I was actually in pursuit of finding this street with alot of japanese designers. I really love the lights in Tokyo, it feels like the city never sleeps.
This robot was amazing. It could play the trumpet because it had an artificial lung and lips. Go toyota!
After the factory tour, we got to see a lot of concept models. Here is one I particulary liked.
Okay thats it, sorry to overload subscription people.