Wow, It's Already Going to Be May Tomorrow!
My computer must be in a good mood; it decided not to give me any problems this morning after a few 'false-starts.' Took it easy on everything so didn't give me any other problems for the rest of the day. We'll see how its 'mood' will be tomorrow. :S
After a nice, relaxing breakfast time together, the four of us had our church service with Naomi leading and preaching about "Treasures on Earth and Heaven." It was a good service and we were also able to pray together for the renovation project which will begin this week back home in Japan. Will continue to pray for Kanto Christian Church!!! We're all so excited for the project and hope that God's blessing will be upon each and everyone involved!
For lunch we went to eat at a favorite Greek restaurant of ours; their gyros sandwiches are the BEST! Simply delicious, I always get it whenever I got there. ^_^ Went home and for the most part of the afternoon, I was either reading or writing up my essay for an Asian-Pacific scholarship I'm hoping to get for the upcoming semester. I actually read so much that I finished the book I had started in the morning and began another (which I finished reading a little while ago. :P). I'm such a bookworm now that I'm not much on my computer. ^_^
At around 6:00, we headed over to the church since they were having a movie night. Tonight's movie was Remember the Titans which is definitely one of my most favorite movies out there. It was fun watching the movie with so many friends. The movie started around 6:45 so until then we were able to fellowship quite a bit with many people. After the movie, we had a discussion time where we all talked about the movie, about our favorite movie lines, favorite scenes, favorite character, etc. We had a little quiz game in the beginning which was fun. I of course knew all the answers. :P
After the discussion time, we went home with Aunt Jean and Reed stopping by to drop some things off. We were all very disgusted with our next door neighbors who were (and still are!) having a party. They had invited quite a number of friends and they had parked all along our house, including right in front of our gate and our driveway! We of course made them make a space for us. *sigh* They're singing REALLY loud karaoke right now which is sooo ANNOYING! I DO hope they call it a night by the time I got to bed. :S
Going to do a little more reading, starting my third book of the day. ^_^ G'night to all!
Sunday, April 30, 2006
Saturday, April 29, 2006
No More Friday Classes!
Woke up early this morning so I could drop Naomi off past Waikiki; I don't really remember much of the morning at all since I was still half asleep. :P Thankfully I was able to get home safely. I couldn't go back to sleep so I watched some Hogan's Heroes before going to my 9:00 Japanese class.
It was the last class for the semester so after going over with our groups the final presentation we'll do next week for the teacher, we got to leave early. Went home and read my book while my computer was defragmenting (took quite a while). For lunch I made fried rice and watched some more Hogan's Heroes before going off to Geography Lab class (last one for the semester!).
Was a very boring class, having to go outside and test soil infiltration rates at places with different types of soil. The only exciting thing that happened was that I cut the inside of my thumb on the metal can. :S It stung for quite a bit and I went with my teacher to the nurse's aid station to get some bandaides. It's just feeling 'bruised' right now; hopefully it'll be fine by morning.
Got home and I was sooo exhausted that I took a nap. Slept for quite a bit before Maki woke me up in time for me to go to worship practice before the service. We didn't have much time to practice much (even so far as not to practice two songs) but by God's grace, I was able to play 'for real' with no problem. ^_^
Right now, a team from Nebraska Christian College is visiting Kaimuki Christian Church right now (just arrived today). There's ten students and two teachers here and will be helping out with various mission programs for the next week. I didn't get to talk much with them but tomorrow, the Kaimuki church college group will be taking the guests out tomorrow for fellowship. All four of us girls will be going so am looking forward for that! ^_^
We ate at Chili's for dinner then after we came home watched an episode of Monk. Sooo tired now and am so happy that I get to sleep in tomorrow!! :D
Woke up early this morning so I could drop Naomi off past Waikiki; I don't really remember much of the morning at all since I was still half asleep. :P Thankfully I was able to get home safely. I couldn't go back to sleep so I watched some Hogan's Heroes before going to my 9:00 Japanese class.
It was the last class for the semester so after going over with our groups the final presentation we'll do next week for the teacher, we got to leave early. Went home and read my book while my computer was defragmenting (took quite a while). For lunch I made fried rice and watched some more Hogan's Heroes before going off to Geography Lab class (last one for the semester!).
Was a very boring class, having to go outside and test soil infiltration rates at places with different types of soil. The only exciting thing that happened was that I cut the inside of my thumb on the metal can. :S It stung for quite a bit and I went with my teacher to the nurse's aid station to get some bandaides. It's just feeling 'bruised' right now; hopefully it'll be fine by morning.
Got home and I was sooo exhausted that I took a nap. Slept for quite a bit before Maki woke me up in time for me to go to worship practice before the service. We didn't have much time to practice much (even so far as not to practice two songs) but by God's grace, I was able to play 'for real' with no problem. ^_^
Right now, a team from Nebraska Christian College is visiting Kaimuki Christian Church right now (just arrived today). There's ten students and two teachers here and will be helping out with various mission programs for the next week. I didn't get to talk much with them but tomorrow, the Kaimuki church college group will be taking the guests out tomorrow for fellowship. All four of us girls will be going so am looking forward for that! ^_^
We ate at Chili's for dinner then after we came home watched an episode of Monk. Sooo tired now and am so happy that I get to sleep in tomorrow!! :D
Thursday, April 27, 2006
Tomorrow's Already Friday?
Wow, this week seems to have gone by so quickly! Can you believe that the semester will be completely over in two weeks? Wow... ^_^
Since I would be doing my final theater scene in class today, I went to History class wearing a skirt and my hair up in a bun. Since that is NOT my usual school attire, my friends were commenting, saying that I looked nice but 'different.' :P I got really good news during the History class; my final paper won't be due for two more weeks! Soooo happy about that! But still, I have to make sure to do as much I can for it as soon as possible. Better not to 'let it sit.'
It was off to theater class next. I hardly had time to feel nervous or anything like that because as soon as I got there, Aimee and I had to be ready to perform! Quickly got ready then did our Miracle Worker scene from the very end of the story. We first did an 'intro' where we pretended to be 'in the future' (and in character), at Helen Keller's college in Radcliffe. 'Helen' introduced herself and me (as Annie Sullivan) then told about herself. Then as a 'flashback' we performed the scene where 'Helen' finally understands with the word 'water' that everything has a name. The whole scene went so well and smoothly and we got a big round of applause at the end. Later on, after three other groups had done their scenes (including Maki's scene from The Diary of Anne Frank), I found out that many of the students, and my teacher, had been moved to tears when they saw my scene. :P Also, I got sooooo many comments that I actually really looked like Annie Sullivan! Seriously though, I must admit that my 'costume' was complete with long skirt, long sleeved high collared blouse with a large brooch at the neck, hair up in a bun, black high-heeled boots, a wide belt, and of course, small dark glasses to complete the effect. ^_^ I'm very proud of my costume I must admit.
Back to talk about Maki's scene; it went very well and I'm honored to have had a very small role playing 'Anne's' mother in the beginning of the scene. ^_^ We were able to video tape both our performances to perhaps (if we remember to bring back to Japan) we can show anyone who wants to watch. :P
After theater class, Kaori met us at the parking lot and we all went back to the house to work on our poster presentation. Had lots of fun having pizza for lunch then working on the poster. Mostly we were talking (and laughing) a lot. :P We went to class on time and did our presentation along with five other groups. I may perhap
s be biased but I think our poster was the best. ^_^ Well, look at it yourself! Isn't it beautiful? Everyone was sooo impressed with the 'crack' down the middle of our poster (great job Maki!).
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hat class finished pretty quickly since all the presentation went along very smoothly. Stopped by the International Cafe then after dropping Maki off, went to pick Erin up from her internship. Came home and after showing Naomi and Erin the theater videos, I did some reading.
Maki prepared dinner (everything delicious of course) and then afterwards we had our Bible study/prayer meeting. Maki led us tonight and talked about what real wisdom is all about and how we have to remember not to really on our own wisdom.
When we finished, we watched The Village; we all agreed that it really wasn't as scary as we had first thought it'd be. The story was of course very clever, considering the director is M. Night Shymalan (probably spelled that wrong...) I LOVED Bryce Dallas Howard in the main role (Ron Howard's daughter with the trademark red hair :P). She was simply marvelous and was supported by a star-studded cast: William Hurt, Joaquin Phoenix, Sigourney Weaver, Adrien Brody, and Brendan Gleeson. Of course, though the film wasn't bad or anything, it definitely wasn't as good as The Sixth Sense (NOTHING can top that movie) though this movie had it's own clever twists and turns.
Now I need to be getting to bed. Tomorrow I have to wake up REAL early to drop Naomi off somewhere (work-related). Then I'll be having my last Japanese class and last Geography Lab class! ^_^ Yayayyayayayay!
Wow, this week seems to have gone by so quickly! Can you believe that the semester will be completely over in two weeks? Wow... ^_^
Since I would be doing my final theater scene in class today, I went to History class wearing a skirt and my hair up in a bun. Since that is NOT my usual school attire, my friends were commenting, saying that I looked nice but 'different.' :P I got really good news during the History class; my final paper won't be due for two more weeks! Soooo happy about that! But still, I have to make sure to do as much I can for it as soon as possible. Better not to 'let it sit.'
It was off to theater class next. I hardly had time to feel nervous or anything like that because as soon as I got there, Aimee and I had to be ready to perform! Quickly got ready then did our Miracle Worker scene from the very end of the story. We first did an 'intro' where we pretended to be 'in the future' (and in character), at Helen Keller's college in Radcliffe. 'Helen' introduced herself and me (as Annie Sullivan) then told about herself. Then as a 'flashback' we performed the scene where 'Helen' finally understands with the word 'water' that everything has a name. The whole scene went so well and smoothly and we got a big round of applause at the end. Later on, after three other groups had done their scenes (including Maki's scene from The Diary of Anne Frank), I found out that many of the students, and my teacher, had been moved to tears when they saw my scene. :P Also, I got sooooo many comments that I actually really looked like Annie Sullivan! Seriously though, I must admit that my 'costume' was complete with long skirt, long sleeved high collared blouse with a large brooch at the neck, hair up in a bun, black high-heeled boots, a wide belt, and of course, small dark glasses to complete the effect. ^_^ I'm very proud of my costume I must admit.
Back to talk about Maki's scene; it went very well and I'm honored to have had a very small role playing 'Anne's' mother in the beginning of the scene. ^_^ We were able to video tape both our performances to perhaps (if we remember to bring back to Japan) we can show anyone who wants to watch. :P
After theater class, Kaori met us at the parking lot and we all went back to the house to work on our poster presentation. Had lots of fun having pizza for lunch then working on the poster. Mostly we were talking (and laughing) a lot. :P We went to class on time and did our presentation along with five other groups. I may perhap
s be biased but I think our poster was the best. ^_^ Well, look at it yourself! Isn't it beautiful? Everyone was sooo impressed with the 'crack' down the middle of our poster (great job Maki!).T
hat class finished pretty quickly since all the presentation went along very smoothly. Stopped by the International Cafe then after dropping Maki off, went to pick Erin up from her internship. Came home and after showing Naomi and Erin the theater videos, I did some reading.Maki prepared dinner (everything delicious of course) and then afterwards we had our Bible study/prayer meeting. Maki led us tonight and talked about what real wisdom is all about and how we have to remember not to really on our own wisdom.
When we finished, we watched The Village; we all agreed that it really wasn't as scary as we had first thought it'd be. The story was of course very clever, considering the director is M. Night Shymalan (probably spelled that wrong...) I LOVED Bryce Dallas Howard in the main role (Ron Howard's daughter with the trademark red hair :P). She was simply marvelous and was supported by a star-studded cast: William Hurt, Joaquin Phoenix, Sigourney Weaver, Adrien Brody, and Brendan Gleeson. Of course, though the film wasn't bad or anything, it definitely wasn't as good as The Sixth Sense (NOTHING can top that movie) though this movie had it's own clever twists and turns.
Now I need to be getting to bed. Tomorrow I have to wake up REAL early to drop Naomi off somewhere (work-related). Then I'll be having my last Japanese class and last Geography Lab class! ^_^ Yayayyayayayay!
Wednesday, April 26, 2006
Back for Good? Hope So!
Well, my computer is back and running (for now). I'll have to really see if the computer starts again *normally* tomorrow morning.
History class in the morning started off with a book quiz; I think I did ok though I might have missed one question. I got my first draft back this morning (he was nice enough to get it done early so I have more time on it). Unfortunately, I hadn't done really that well. :S *sigh* I have to do a LOT more work on it before it's 'finalized.'
After class, went home and started on my Service Learning paper which is due this Friday. Had already written halfway through so finished it up by the time I went to pick the 'girls' up at the campus. Had a light lunch then started on my History take-home quiz (only one more after this one!).
Finished the multiple choice questions part of the quiz then for the rest of the afternoon, my father was SOOOOO NICE enough to help me 'fix' my computer. ^_^ It was pretty cool; we 'worked' on the computer while video chatting. Anyway, around dinner time we had it all up and running. But like I said, we'll have to see if it'll still work tomorrow. Cross your fingers!
Erin made dinner (meat wrapped in cabbage) and watched Bones and American Idol. My favorite, Elliot was safe once again and thankfully, Kellie is gone! :P Tonight's guest was Andrea Bocelli, one of the most famous classical singers out there. He was REALLY amazing and I loved listening to him sing. He has such a great voice...
Wrote up the short essay part for my quiz (took soooo long) and did some preparing for the Geography poster presentation tomorrow. I also have my final Theater scnes tomorrow... AH! I hope I do well!
Off to bed... I'm REALLY hoping my computer will be fine tomorrow... :P
Well, my computer is back and running (for now). I'll have to really see if the computer starts again *normally* tomorrow morning.
History class in the morning started off with a book quiz; I think I did ok though I might have missed one question. I got my first draft back this morning (he was nice enough to get it done early so I have more time on it). Unfortunately, I hadn't done really that well. :S *sigh* I have to do a LOT more work on it before it's 'finalized.'
After class, went home and started on my Service Learning paper which is due this Friday. Had already written halfway through so finished it up by the time I went to pick the 'girls' up at the campus. Had a light lunch then started on my History take-home quiz (only one more after this one!).
Finished the multiple choice questions part of the quiz then for the rest of the afternoon, my father was SOOOOO NICE enough to help me 'fix' my computer. ^_^ It was pretty cool; we 'worked' on the computer while video chatting. Anyway, around dinner time we had it all up and running. But like I said, we'll have to see if it'll still work tomorrow. Cross your fingers!
Erin made dinner (meat wrapped in cabbage) and watched Bones and American Idol. My favorite, Elliot was safe once again and thankfully, Kellie is gone! :P Tonight's guest was Andrea Bocelli, one of the most famous classical singers out there. He was REALLY amazing and I loved listening to him sing. He has such a great voice...
Wrote up the short essay part for my quiz (took soooo long) and did some preparing for the Geography poster presentation tomorrow. I also have my final Theater scnes tomorrow... AH! I hope I do well!
Off to bed... I'm REALLY hoping my computer will be fine tomorrow... :P
Sunday, April 23, 2006
Back for Now!
Well, I was back online again, back offline line again in the past three days. :P Currenly as I am 'offline' (my comput refusing to cooperate with me), Naomi and Maki both have been kind enough letting me use their computers to do homework and check mail and such. So here's a quick update on all that's been happening
Saturday:
Got to sleep in which was sooo nice and did a little computer in the morning. After lunch, Naomi, Maki, and I went to the theaters to see The Sentinel. Really good movie starring the great Michael Douglas and Kiefer Sutherland. If you think about, it's kind of funny that they are the sons of two of my other favorite actors, Kirk Douglas and Donald Sutherland. lol! I just thought that the fact was very 'interesting'... Anyway, liked the movie a lot and thought the acting, story, and action was pretty well-done. The end was a bit 'off' compared with the rest of the movie but I can't complain since the rest of the movie was good.
Shopped at Times supermarket before heading home then Naomi made lasagna for dinner (yum-yum!). Watched a movie then it was straight to bed since my computer wasn't working. :S
Sunday:
Had our Sunday service in the morning with Erin talking about Living in Jesus Christ. We also had Communion since last week was Easter and we didn't have. For lunch we picked up Panda Express and ate at home. *sigh* I just love the food from Panda Express...
Naomi helped me fix my computer after that and so while I was installing various software (messenger, i-tunes, media player, webster dictionary, office xp, etc.), I watched King Kong. ^_^ Such a great movie though the whole hour of the movie taking place on Skull Island is waaaay too creepy. :P But as I've said it before and I'll say it again, this movie is certainly a cinematic masterpiece, even if it's just for the last scene on the Empire State Building.
Did a little reading (started a new John Grisham novel that I've had in the closet for a looong time but never got around to reading it) then had leftovers for dinner. Did some more reading and I'm halfway through my book, The Testament (as in a legal testament). Interesting story, though there's not much 'mystery' so far so I'm still curious to see how things will hopefully pick up.
And for today, Monday:
Woke up in the morning and was very sad to see that my computer was once again not working. Naomi dropped me off a little early to class so I got to read my book while waiting for class to start. Had a quiz in the beginning of history class and then we learned more about British imperialism.
Went home and used Naomi's computer to start on my History's final paper's first draft. Which is due tomorrow. :P I knew I could finish today though, no worries. Except for the fact that I was unable to use my own computer and had to rely on using others' computers. Thanks so much for the use of your computers, Naomi and Maki!
Had lunch, did some more writing then Naomi and I went to Ala Moana to do some shopping. Was sooo tired by the time we got home. :P Did more writing then for dinner, to celebrate Erin getting her OPT visa (which allows her to stay one year in the US to work), we went out to eat at Formaggio, a little restaurant close by. The food was really good and the dessert of Pear Zinfendell. Mmmm... MmmMMmMM!!! ^_^
Got home and finished on the most part my six page draft. Watched Good Night and Good Luck which I was a bit disappointed in. It wasn't as 'controversial' as it's been made out to be but instead I found it dull and not dramatic or 'exciting' in any way at all. I like the acting of course by David Straithairn and George Clooney. I still think I prefer All the President's Men to this movie.
Off to bed now but perhaps I'll read a little more before I do that. I can't believe that I'm already almost done with the book which I only started reading yesterday! :P
Well, I was back online again, back offline line again in the past three days. :P Currenly as I am 'offline' (my comput refusing to cooperate with me), Naomi and Maki both have been kind enough letting me use their computers to do homework and check mail and such. So here's a quick update on all that's been happening
Saturday:
Got to sleep in which was sooo nice and did a little computer in the morning. After lunch, Naomi, Maki, and I went to the theaters to see The Sentinel. Really good movie starring the great Michael Douglas and Kiefer Sutherland. If you think about, it's kind of funny that they are the sons of two of my other favorite actors, Kirk Douglas and Donald Sutherland. lol! I just thought that the fact was very 'interesting'... Anyway, liked the movie a lot and thought the acting, story, and action was pretty well-done. The end was a bit 'off' compared with the rest of the movie but I can't complain since the rest of the movie was good.
Shopped at Times supermarket before heading home then Naomi made lasagna for dinner (yum-yum!). Watched a movie then it was straight to bed since my computer wasn't working. :S
Sunday:
Had our Sunday service in the morning with Erin talking about Living in Jesus Christ. We also had Communion since last week was Easter and we didn't have. For lunch we picked up Panda Express and ate at home. *sigh* I just love the food from Panda Express...
Naomi helped me fix my computer after that and so while I was installing various software (messenger, i-tunes, media player, webster dictionary, office xp, etc.), I watched King Kong. ^_^ Such a great movie though the whole hour of the movie taking place on Skull Island is waaaay too creepy. :P But as I've said it before and I'll say it again, this movie is certainly a cinematic masterpiece, even if it's just for the last scene on the Empire State Building.
Did a little reading (started a new John Grisham novel that I've had in the closet for a looong time but never got around to reading it) then had leftovers for dinner. Did some more reading and I'm halfway through my book, The Testament (as in a legal testament). Interesting story, though there's not much 'mystery' so far so I'm still curious to see how things will hopefully pick up.
And for today, Monday:
Woke up in the morning and was very sad to see that my computer was once again not working. Naomi dropped me off a little early to class so I got to read my book while waiting for class to start. Had a quiz in the beginning of history class and then we learned more about British imperialism.
Went home and used Naomi's computer to start on my History's final paper's first draft. Which is due tomorrow. :P I knew I could finish today though, no worries. Except for the fact that I was unable to use my own computer and had to rely on using others' computers. Thanks so much for the use of your computers, Naomi and Maki!
Had lunch, did some more writing then Naomi and I went to Ala Moana to do some shopping. Was sooo tired by the time we got home. :P Did more writing then for dinner, to celebrate Erin getting her OPT visa (which allows her to stay one year in the US to work), we went out to eat at Formaggio, a little restaurant close by. The food was really good and the dessert of Pear Zinfendell. Mmmm... MmmMMmMM!!! ^_^
Got home and finished on the most part my six page draft. Watched Good Night and Good Luck which I was a bit disappointed in. It wasn't as 'controversial' as it's been made out to be but instead I found it dull and not dramatic or 'exciting' in any way at all. I like the acting of course by David Straithairn and George Clooney. I still think I prefer All the President's Men to this movie.
Off to bed now but perhaps I'll read a little more before I do that. I can't believe that I'm already almost done with the book which I only started reading yesterday! :P
Friday, April 21, 2006
~Wild Cats, All the Way!!~
Well, a great big hug and thank you to Naomi for redoing my computer today. ^_^ Acting a lot better; making some odd 'thinking' noises but otherwise it's acting much better.
This morning I walked to campus for Japanese class. My group and I did our presentation as did all the other groups. We did really well which I'm happy about. Our teacher was gone so we had a substitute teacher watch over the class. He was really nice and I liked him a lot. ^_^
Went home and made myself a nice lunch. Naomi was working on my computer at that time so I was 'computer-less' during my lunch break. :P I watched halfway through Wuthering Heights which I had borrowed the other day. Must say... for a 'classic' it's really depressing... And Ralph Fiennes plays such an evil character!
Geology Lab class was pretty boring but thankfully finished pretty quickly. Went home and finished watching the movie. Very sad, very depressing. I do NOT understand why the story is so famous.
Naomi finished fixing my computer so I started re-installing some stuff, putting my files back in, etc. Had dinner which was very delicious then watched the first two episodes of Monk with Erin and Maki. Then, since High School Musical was playing on tv, I decided to watch it. Very good movie; I love the dancing and most definitely the character Ryan is my favorite. :P
Off to bed, I'm actually still watching High School Musical right now. Sharpay and Ryan are doing their Latin dance! ^_^ Until tomorrow!
Well, a great big hug and thank you to Naomi for redoing my computer today. ^_^ Acting a lot better; making some odd 'thinking' noises but otherwise it's acting much better.
This morning I walked to campus for Japanese class. My group and I did our presentation as did all the other groups. We did really well which I'm happy about. Our teacher was gone so we had a substitute teacher watch over the class. He was really nice and I liked him a lot. ^_^
Went home and made myself a nice lunch. Naomi was working on my computer at that time so I was 'computer-less' during my lunch break. :P I watched halfway through Wuthering Heights which I had borrowed the other day. Must say... for a 'classic' it's really depressing... And Ralph Fiennes plays such an evil character!
Geology Lab class was pretty boring but thankfully finished pretty quickly. Went home and finished watching the movie. Very sad, very depressing. I do NOT understand why the story is so famous.
Naomi finished fixing my computer so I started re-installing some stuff, putting my files back in, etc. Had dinner which was very delicious then watched the first two episodes of Monk with Erin and Maki. Then, since High School Musical was playing on tv, I decided to watch it. Very good movie; I love the dancing and most definitely the character Ryan is my favorite. :P
Off to bed, I'm actually still watching High School Musical right now. Sharpay and Ryan are doing their Latin dance! ^_^ Until tomorrow!
My Computer Needs Fixin'
I'm going to have to keep this short because my computer is going all haywire again. Thankfully, Naomi was kind enough to say that she will redo my computer this weekend. ^_^ So hopefully that will fix the little problems I've been having.
History class in the morning; talked some more about 'the liberal media.' Helped Maki and Oswald out with their scene for Theater class.
Had a quick lunch at the cafeteria then had tea ceremony practice at the International Cafe. Geography class was really interesting as we learned a bit about economics. So happy that my group won't have to do the poster presentation until next Thursday. ^_^ A whole week to prepare!
Went straight from campus to go pick up Erin from her internship; when we got home she helped me with my Japanese homework. THANK YOU SO MUCH, ERIN! I know I wouldn't have been able to write the paper without her. :P
Got very full at dinner tonight with maboudoufu, potato and ham, eel, and salad. Had our weekly prayer meeting then Erin helped me finish my Japanese paper. Then my computer was acting funny against so I backed up all my most recent stuff.
Now off to bed; tomorrow's going to be busy with two of my long classes. :P I might be 'away' for a while if Naomi's fixing my computer. Ta-ta!
I'm going to have to keep this short because my computer is going all haywire again. Thankfully, Naomi was kind enough to say that she will redo my computer this weekend. ^_^ So hopefully that will fix the little problems I've been having.
History class in the morning; talked some more about 'the liberal media.' Helped Maki and Oswald out with their scene for Theater class.
Had a quick lunch at the cafeteria then had tea ceremony practice at the International Cafe. Geography class was really interesting as we learned a bit about economics. So happy that my group won't have to do the poster presentation until next Thursday. ^_^ A whole week to prepare!
Went straight from campus to go pick up Erin from her internship; when we got home she helped me with my Japanese homework. THANK YOU SO MUCH, ERIN! I know I wouldn't have been able to write the paper without her. :P
Got very full at dinner tonight with maboudoufu, potato and ham, eel, and salad. Had our weekly prayer meeting then Erin helped me finish my Japanese paper. Then my computer was acting funny against so I backed up all my most recent stuff.
Now off to bed; tomorrow's going to be busy with two of my long classes. :P I might be 'away' for a while if Naomi's fixing my computer. Ta-ta!
Wednesday, April 19, 2006
So Tired of Research and Am SOOO Glad the Geography Paper is DONE!
Didn't have to walk to class this morning which was nice. ^_^ Naomi and I went to campus a bit early after deciding to get breakfast at 2nd Cup Cafe; a campus run cafe. Their apricot danish is SOOOO GOOD! As is there hot chocolate and Very Berry Scones... I think I'm going to start getting addicted to the cafe... :P lol! Seriously, their stuff is great!
Had a map quiz in History class which was easy. Rest of the class was spent discussing the book Nine Parts of Desire which a paper is due on next week as well as a quiz. I don't think I'm going to write the paper since I'm swamped with other papers and projects. Besides, I got good scores on the other two papers. ^_^
Walked home and got to chat with Paul a bit (certainly has been a while!). For lunch I made myself and Naomi fried rice and we watched an episode of Monk today. Maki and Erin went downtown for Maki to go to some interview for a part-time job. It seems to have gone really well so a big round of applause to Maki. ^_^
Rest of the afternoon was spent researching and writing my Geography paper on earthquakes in Izmit, Turkey and Altai, Russia. Not very fun; my head is full of (in my opinion) 'useless' facts of no consequences. :P Ok, a bit of an exaggeration but seriously, I'm tired of researching earthquakes.
Erin made dinner and we had sashimi which was soooo good! Yum... Watched Bones, tonight's episode a really excellent one though very creepy. On American Idol it was much to my surprise that Paris and Chris were in the bottom three... I'm just happy that Ace has finally left. :P *whew*, what a relief! Tonight's show was really nice with Rod Stewart singing Just the Way You Look Tonight. Classic, classic song; really great.
Worked on my page of references for the Geography paper then got to chat with some people. Off to bed; tomorrow's gonna be a long day... *sigh* G'night y'all!
Didn't have to walk to class this morning which was nice. ^_^ Naomi and I went to campus a bit early after deciding to get breakfast at 2nd Cup Cafe; a campus run cafe. Their apricot danish is SOOOO GOOD! As is there hot chocolate and Very Berry Scones... I think I'm going to start getting addicted to the cafe... :P lol! Seriously, their stuff is great!
Had a map quiz in History class which was easy. Rest of the class was spent discussing the book Nine Parts of Desire which a paper is due on next week as well as a quiz. I don't think I'm going to write the paper since I'm swamped with other papers and projects. Besides, I got good scores on the other two papers. ^_^
Walked home and got to chat with Paul a bit (certainly has been a while!). For lunch I made myself and Naomi fried rice and we watched an episode of Monk today. Maki and Erin went downtown for Maki to go to some interview for a part-time job. It seems to have gone really well so a big round of applause to Maki. ^_^
Rest of the afternoon was spent researching and writing my Geography paper on earthquakes in Izmit, Turkey and Altai, Russia. Not very fun; my head is full of (in my opinion) 'useless' facts of no consequences. :P Ok, a bit of an exaggeration but seriously, I'm tired of researching earthquakes.
Erin made dinner and we had sashimi which was soooo good! Yum... Watched Bones, tonight's episode a really excellent one though very creepy. On American Idol it was much to my surprise that Paris and Chris were in the bottom three... I'm just happy that Ace has finally left. :P *whew*, what a relief! Tonight's show was really nice with Rod Stewart singing Just the Way You Look Tonight. Classic, classic song; really great.
Worked on my page of references for the Geography paper then got to chat with some people. Off to bed; tomorrow's gonna be a long day... *sigh* G'night y'all!
Tuesday, April 18, 2006
The Simplest Answer Is to NOT Take ANY Media Seriously... :P
For History class this morning, watched a kind of 'documentary' on just how 'fair and balanced' Fox news it. The video, titled Outfoxed, was very cleverly done and completely pummeled Fox news for being completely biased. Oh, well... I can't really make any comments. All I ever seem to hear are left-wing view and bias against right-wing views so I can't really seem to find a 'balanced' view of anything about the news. Hmm... interesting... :P
After that class, next was theater. Aimee and I did our Miracle Worker scene, the last time to do in front of our teacher before the final. We did pretty well though the rest of the class we practiced our scene a lot more. We also tried out the pump to see if it pumps water... and it does! It makes a strange gurgling noise though. lol!
Went to have lunch in the cafeteria and today there was a small jazz band from UH playing. GREAT music and I completely enjoyed myself listening to the music. The guys playing the trumpet and sax were really good.
Kaori, Maki, and I spent the whole lunch 'break' together, doing some preparation for our geography presentation which is sometime next week. Geography class was a bit 'crazy' as everyone was really hyper (teacher included) so the first twenty minutes or so was just laughing and making jokes. :P The rest of the time was spent watching a National Geographic video about 'aliens.' Well, not really the kinds of aliens you immediately think about; aliens as in species not native to a certain area. Like how rats were brought over to the islands by ship, how termites were brought over to Louisiana, etc. Interesting vid though some scenes were kind of 'corny.' Like how they were showing how cats died from poisonous frogs (they had fake, stuffed cats just keel over and 'die'! TOTALLY cracked us all up...) :P
Went home then Maki and I went over to Kahala Mall. Shopped a bit at Claire's and to our surprise met a friend from school. :P So funny to see her there... anyway, then stopped by the post office before picking up some dinner at Jack 'n' the Box. So good...
Did some research then watched American Idol and House, M.D. Good shows tonight, especially American Idol where everyone actually sang very well and were in their element (except for this one girl who stank... lol!). Did some writing for my Geography paper though didn't get too ahead. Also read some more of my book which I need to finish soon... :S
Off to bed now, tomorrow I have only one class so hopefully I'll finish up the Geography paper and my Japanese paper... but I'll have to see how far I can get. :P Ciao!
For History class this morning, watched a kind of 'documentary' on just how 'fair and balanced' Fox news it. The video, titled Outfoxed, was very cleverly done and completely pummeled Fox news for being completely biased. Oh, well... I can't really make any comments. All I ever seem to hear are left-wing view and bias against right-wing views so I can't really seem to find a 'balanced' view of anything about the news. Hmm... interesting... :P
After that class, next was theater. Aimee and I did our Miracle Worker scene, the last time to do in front of our teacher before the final. We did pretty well though the rest of the class we practiced our scene a lot more. We also tried out the pump to see if it pumps water... and it does! It makes a strange gurgling noise though. lol!
Went to have lunch in the cafeteria and today there was a small jazz band from UH playing. GREAT music and I completely enjoyed myself listening to the music. The guys playing the trumpet and sax were really good.
Kaori, Maki, and I spent the whole lunch 'break' together, doing some preparation for our geography presentation which is sometime next week. Geography class was a bit 'crazy' as everyone was really hyper (teacher included) so the first twenty minutes or so was just laughing and making jokes. :P The rest of the time was spent watching a National Geographic video about 'aliens.' Well, not really the kinds of aliens you immediately think about; aliens as in species not native to a certain area. Like how rats were brought over to the islands by ship, how termites were brought over to Louisiana, etc. Interesting vid though some scenes were kind of 'corny.' Like how they were showing how cats died from poisonous frogs (they had fake, stuffed cats just keel over and 'die'! TOTALLY cracked us all up...) :P
Went home then Maki and I went over to Kahala Mall. Shopped a bit at Claire's and to our surprise met a friend from school. :P So funny to see her there... anyway, then stopped by the post office before picking up some dinner at Jack 'n' the Box. So good...
Did some research then watched American Idol and House, M.D. Good shows tonight, especially American Idol where everyone actually sang very well and were in their element (except for this one girl who stank... lol!). Did some writing for my Geography paper though didn't get too ahead. Also read some more of my book which I need to finish soon... :S
Off to bed now, tomorrow I have only one class so hopefully I'll finish up the Geography paper and my Japanese paper... but I'll have to see how far I can get. :P Ciao!
Monday, April 17, 2006
Only Three More Weeks of School Then Finals? Seems Short But The End Still Seems Far Away... :P
Walked to school this morning and got to class just in time since I had left the house a little later than usual. Good thing there was no quiz to study for. :P We learned about Japan's emergence into the world with the coming of Matthew Perry, the Ottoman Empire's decline, and Egypt's rise and decline. History is just SOOOO much fun, I can't understand anyone who doesn't find any kind of history fascinating, I seriously can't.
After history class, I went straight home and began working on my history take-home quiz for history 282. Around noon, I went back to campus to pick up not only Naomi and Maki, but also Misato and Junko. The two Japanese girls are my classmates from JPN 298 class and we had to get together to work on our presentation which is due this Friday. Naomi was nice enough to pick up sushi for our lunch and we ate it at home. We were able to make a simple powerpoint slideshow and decide what to talk about before both of them had to be back at campus for their classes at 1:45.
Naomi and I had to go to FedEx to send off a package then I was home once more, working on my quiz. Finished the multiple choice questions then had to work on the short essay which was on the United States' role in the first Indochina War (Vietnam). Interesting stuff and I wrote almost three pages about it. :P Also began gathering information for my Geography paper and presentation which is due this Thursday and next week. *sigh* There's just SOOO much due this week and next week! ~I Will Survive~~!! lol!
Almost forgot it was my turn to make dinner tonight so after picking Erin up from her class, I was able to do a little reading before making dinner. Tonight's menu consisted of oyako-don which turned out very well if I may say so. ^_^ Read some more after dinner; almost done with the book with just a few more chapters to go.
Watched one episode of Monk to relax then had a fun video chat with my mother. ^_^ Then I had to get my costume ready for The Miracle Worker scene I have to do tomorrow in theater class. It's not my final performance but it's my last 'dress rehearsal' in front of our teacher. I hope all goes well; Aimee and I are going to try using real water for the water pump scene. ^_^
G'night to all! Hope you all have a great week! Will be praying for everyone of Kanto Christian Church and School as you get ready for the BIG Garage Sale!!
Walked to school this morning and got to class just in time since I had left the house a little later than usual. Good thing there was no quiz to study for. :P We learned about Japan's emergence into the world with the coming of Matthew Perry, the Ottoman Empire's decline, and Egypt's rise and decline. History is just SOOOO much fun, I can't understand anyone who doesn't find any kind of history fascinating, I seriously can't.
After history class, I went straight home and began working on my history take-home quiz for history 282. Around noon, I went back to campus to pick up not only Naomi and Maki, but also Misato and Junko. The two Japanese girls are my classmates from JPN 298 class and we had to get together to work on our presentation which is due this Friday. Naomi was nice enough to pick up sushi for our lunch and we ate it at home. We were able to make a simple powerpoint slideshow and decide what to talk about before both of them had to be back at campus for their classes at 1:45.
Naomi and I had to go to FedEx to send off a package then I was home once more, working on my quiz. Finished the multiple choice questions then had to work on the short essay which was on the United States' role in the first Indochina War (Vietnam). Interesting stuff and I wrote almost three pages about it. :P Also began gathering information for my Geography paper and presentation which is due this Thursday and next week. *sigh* There's just SOOO much due this week and next week! ~I Will Survive~~!! lol!
Almost forgot it was my turn to make dinner tonight so after picking Erin up from her class, I was able to do a little reading before making dinner. Tonight's menu consisted of oyako-don which turned out very well if I may say so. ^_^ Read some more after dinner; almost done with the book with just a few more chapters to go.
Watched one episode of Monk to relax then had a fun video chat with my mother. ^_^ Then I had to get my costume ready for The Miracle Worker scene I have to do tomorrow in theater class. It's not my final performance but it's my last 'dress rehearsal' in front of our teacher. I hope all goes well; Aimee and I are going to try using real water for the water pump scene. ^_^
G'night to all! Hope you all have a great week! Will be praying for everyone of Kanto Christian Church and School as you get ready for the BIG Garage Sale!!
Sunday, April 16, 2006
HAPPY EASTER TO ALL!
Yes, today is Easter! ^_^ Oh, happy day! Woke up early with only about 8 minutes to get ready before leaving the house. :P Hadn't set my alarm so Naomi came in to wake me up. Naomi and her hula group practiced in the morning while I 'mingled' and got to f
ellowship with many people. Played drums for the 8:30 service and besides a special hula dance, there was also special music: Afa and Susan sang a beautiful duet while Davin was on the keyboard. Pastor Ron, back from his trip to the mainland, preached a sermon titled "Live Again."
There was a special brunch set up outside between the morning services and since I hadn't had time to eat breakfast, I was able to satisfy my growling stomach. I had been sooo hungry throughout the service,
making it hard for me to concentrat. :P Stayed a bit of the 10:30 service until Naomi finished her hula dance (Joe played drums for second service). Right after she was done, Ericson drove the two of us home and when Tiffany arrived, we began our church Easter service.
Like you might have guessed, we had two guests today, Ericson and Tiffany! It was certainly exciting to have guests for our service. After the worship and greeting, we had special music. The four of us (Erin on the keyboard, Maki on the guitar, and Naomi and I singing), did "Open the Eyes" which came out really nice. Then Maki and I did a sign dance which I had just choreographed on Friday. We danced to "He's My Savior" by Jaci Velasquez and it turned out sooooo well (very pleased with it if I may say so... ^_^). Naomi then preached about how we have to love and serve Christ with all our hearts, remembering the price he paid for us.
After the service, Erin and Maki went to pick up California Pizza Kitchen for lunch. Everything was so good, especially the Jambalya spaghetti which I LOVE! Listened to good music while eating and then a little later we played an Easter trivia game which I had compiled last night. Erin won, answering 9 out of 11 correct. ^_^
Watched An Ideal Husband to relax afterwards; great movie with such wry humor and wit. That's of course, considering it's based off of an Oscar Wilde play (who also wrote The Importance of Being Earnest and Lady Windemere's Fan. Great fun; Cate Blanchett especially shines in her role.
Ericson and Tiffany left then since I was pretty exhausted by then, I was able to take a 2 hour nap. ^_^ I think I could have slept more but thought it best to get up by 6:00... :P Did some homework then after a dinner of leftovers, Naomi and I watched Kelly's Heroes. Definitely one of my favorite movies of all time. "Stop with the negative waves!" or "I found a mine!" "(beat) What kind is it?" "The... kind that blows up! How should I know what kind it is!?" Or one of the BEST lines: "Why aren't you helping to fix the tank?" "I only ride it, I don't know how it works."
Finished up making a map for history class (going to have a quiz on it this week). Speaking of History class, I think I have a quiz tomorrow. :P And I need to get the book read before next week... but I'm halfway done which is good. So tomorrow's a busy day; going to class in the morning then in the afternoon I'm meeting with my group to prepare for a presentation we have this coming Friday. G'night!
Yes, today is Easter! ^_^ Oh, happy day! Woke up early with only about 8 minutes to get ready before leaving the house. :P Hadn't set my alarm so Naomi came in to wake me up. Naomi and her hula group practiced in the morning while I 'mingled' and got to f
ellowship with many people. Played drums for the 8:30 service and besides a special hula dance, there was also special music: Afa and Susan sang a beautiful duet while Davin was on the keyboard. Pastor Ron, back from his trip to the mainland, preached a sermon titled "Live Again."There was a special brunch set up outside between the morning services and since I hadn't had time to eat breakfast, I was able to satisfy my growling stomach. I had been sooo hungry throughout the service,
making it hard for me to concentrat. :P Stayed a bit of the 10:30 service until Naomi finished her hula dance (Joe played drums for second service). Right after she was done, Ericson drove the two of us home and when Tiffany arrived, we began our church Easter service.Like you might have guessed, we had two guests today, Ericson and Tiffany! It was certainly exciting to have guests for our service. After the worship and greeting, we had special music. The four of us (Erin on the keyboard, Maki on the guitar, and Naomi and I singing), did "Open the Eyes" which came out really nice. Then Maki and I did a sign dance which I had just choreographed on Friday. We danced to "He's My Savior" by Jaci Velasquez and it turned out sooooo well (very pleased with it if I may say so... ^_^). Naomi then preached about how we have to love and serve Christ with all our hearts, remembering the price he paid for us.
After the service, Erin and Maki went to pick up California Pizza Kitchen for lunch. Everything was so good, especially the Jambalya spaghetti which I LOVE! Listened to good music while eating and then a little later we played an Easter trivia game which I had compiled last night. Erin won, answering 9 out of 11 correct. ^_^
Watched An Ideal Husband to relax afterwards; great movie with such wry humor and wit. That's of course, considering it's based off of an Oscar Wilde play (who also wrote The Importance of Being Earnest and Lady Windemere's Fan. Great fun; Cate Blanchett especially shines in her role.
Ericson and Tiffany left then since I was pretty exhausted by then, I was able to take a 2 hour nap. ^_^ I think I could have slept more but thought it best to get up by 6:00... :P Did some homework then after a dinner of leftovers, Naomi and I watched Kelly's Heroes. Definitely one of my favorite movies of all time. "Stop with the negative waves!" or "I found a mine!" "(beat) What kind is it?" "The... kind that blows up! How should I know what kind it is!?" Or one of the BEST lines: "Why aren't you helping to fix the tank?" "I only ride it, I don't know how it works."
Finished up making a map for history class (going to have a quiz on it this week). Speaking of History class, I think I have a quiz tomorrow. :P And I need to get the book read before next week... but I'm halfway done which is good. So tomorrow's a busy day; going to class in the morning then in the afternoon I'm meeting with my group to prepare for a presentation we have this coming Friday. G'night!
Saturday, April 15, 2006
I'm Going to Be a Movie Star!! LOL, Just Kidding... But Film Auditions are SOOO Much Fun!
Slept in this morning then after getting ready, Naomi and I went off to go for my film audition. ^_^ Stopped by TGIF's for lunch but I was so excited I didn't eat much. :P Then it was off to Windward Community College for the auditions. Jason was there so he was able to 'put me at ease' as soon as I got there. Filled out a form then after looking up the list of characters, I chose which character I wanted to try out for. The character I chose was the younger sister of the main character who is 'annoying but adorable'. lol!
So first, they called me in then after giving my filled-out form, they took a picture of me (^_^) then I was asked to stand at a certain spot and read from the script (the casting director read for the other part). The acting was done in front of/to a camera which was an interesting experience. I actually wasn't too nervous at all and REALLY enjoyed it! It finished kind of quickly for me but soon it was all done. :P
Went home then Naomi and I watced The Odd Couple which I had borrowed recently. HILARIOUS movie, the script is a gem. Gotta love Jack Lemmon as the neurotic Felix and Walter Matthau as Oscar is soooo 'messy'. :P
Practiced for the special music with Maki then had dinner of shrimp curry (Naomi cooked). Rest of the evening spent doing some homework, chatting with my parents, and preparing for an Easter game for tomorrow.
Off to bed now; going to play drums at the 8:30 service tomorrow morning. Wanted to say HAPPY EASTER to everyone at Kanto Christian Church and that I'm so happy that you all had a wonderful Easter service! May God bless you abundantly!
Slept in this morning then after getting ready, Naomi and I went off to go for my film audition. ^_^ Stopped by TGIF's for lunch but I was so excited I didn't eat much. :P Then it was off to Windward Community College for the auditions. Jason was there so he was able to 'put me at ease' as soon as I got there. Filled out a form then after looking up the list of characters, I chose which character I wanted to try out for. The character I chose was the younger sister of the main character who is 'annoying but adorable'. lol!
So first, they called me in then after giving my filled-out form, they took a picture of me (^_^) then I was asked to stand at a certain spot and read from the script (the casting director read for the other part). The acting was done in front of/to a camera which was an interesting experience. I actually wasn't too nervous at all and REALLY enjoyed it! It finished kind of quickly for me but soon it was all done. :P
Went home then Naomi and I watced The Odd Couple which I had borrowed recently. HILARIOUS movie, the script is a gem. Gotta love Jack Lemmon as the neurotic Felix and Walter Matthau as Oscar is soooo 'messy'. :P
Practiced for the special music with Maki then had dinner of shrimp curry (Naomi cooked). Rest of the evening spent doing some homework, chatting with my parents, and preparing for an Easter game for tomorrow.
Off to bed now; going to play drums at the 8:30 service tomorrow morning. Wanted to say HAPPY EASTER to everyone at Kanto Christian Church and that I'm so happy that you all had a wonderful Easter service! May God bless you abundantly!
~Good Friday~
Yay! I got to sleep in today! :P Ok, perhaps not as exciting as some people may think but it was really nice being able to sleep without having to worry about waking up 'on time' for something.
Aaaanyway, did some cleanup in the morning and concentrated on reading the novel for History class. It's really interesting but I have to really concentrate because it deals with many political issues as well as cultural and religious issues. It's just... 'convenient' how Mohammed has these 'revelations' to fix any problems which seem to arise in his personal life. :P
Around 2:00, all four of us went to Kahala Mall to do some shopping for Easter decorations and also a birthday present for Ericson. ^_^ Yes, it was Ericson's birthday on the 12th and we had made plans tonight to have a 'surprise' birthday party for him. So we got him the King Kong dvd as well as this really cute balloon (funny story coming up about that balloon... :P).
For lucnh (it was already around 3:00 by this time), we ate at Kimuraya's Bakery which has REALLY good Japanese food. ^_^ I had the beef stew which was really good, plus I love the complimentary bread they serve.
Went home and chatted with some people then the four of us practiced special music for the upcoming Easter service this Sunday. It went really well and we had lots of fun; especially had fun trying to figure out the cool drum tempos on our synthesizer and how to work it all out. ^_^ S
o I'm going to 'kind of' be the drummer, though I'm just pressing buttons on beat. lol!
Maki and I then also worked on our sign dance we're going to do on Sunday, too. We're going to need a lot of practice though it's coming together. Trying to keep it simple and 'elegant.' :P
Took a very short nap then around 8:15 we went to church to meet up with some friends to go Islands restaurant for Ericson's birthday. Of course, he still didn't know we were going for his birthday. lol! So off we went...
But first I have to tell you the story of the balloon! Well, Erin was waiting in the car while Naomi, Maki, and I went into the church
to meet with some people. She was going to write some messages on the balloon. At one point the balloon was in the trunk then she decided to get something. When she opened the trunk, the winds were so strong that it blew the balloon away! She chased it all through the parking lot, across a pretty big road, but could go no further when the balloon went down onto the highway. :P 
Naturally, she didn't go down and get it; later on we were all laughing hysterically as we were wondering if that smiley faced balloon could have caused some highway accidents. lol!
Anyway, met at Islands and the people who came were Christi, Brandon, Don, Debbie, Byron, Bao, and of course Ericson and the four of us (Tina came a little later on). When we all sat down, we f
inally sang Happy Birthday and completely surprised Ericson about this being actually his birthday party. ^_^ Besides the King Kong dvd, we also gave him a card which had a huge sticker reading "It's my birthday, and I'm very smart, intelligent, good-looking!" :P Of course we made him wear the sticker... lol!
Great dinner/party all around; there was a lot of laughter and hilarious conversations throughout, two or three conversations
taking place at once sometimes. ^_^ At the end we were all doing silly 'finger/hand tricks' which had us end of laughing sooo hard! Especially when Tina was getting slightly 'tangled up.' :D
Stayed at the restaurant fairly late so we finally left around 11:30. :P Now we're back home and I need to go to bed... Tomorrow (well actually, today) is going to be a big day. I'm going to a film audition... ^_^ Very exciting and I hope it goes well. G'night! And Happy Birthday to Ericson!!
Yay! I got to sleep in today! :P Ok, perhaps not as exciting as some people may think but it was really nice being able to sleep without having to worry about waking up 'on time' for something.
Aaaanyway, did some cleanup in the morning and concentrated on reading the novel for History class. It's really interesting but I have to really concentrate because it deals with many political issues as well as cultural and religious issues. It's just... 'convenient' how Mohammed has these 'revelations' to fix any problems which seem to arise in his personal life. :P
Around 2:00, all four of us went to Kahala Mall to do some shopping for Easter decorations and also a birthday present for Ericson. ^_^ Yes, it was Ericson's birthday on the 12th and we had made plans tonight to have a 'surprise' birthday party for him. So we got him the King Kong dvd as well as this really cute balloon (funny story coming up about that balloon... :P).
For lucnh (it was already around 3:00 by this time), we ate at Kimuraya's Bakery which has REALLY good Japanese food. ^_^ I had the beef stew which was really good, plus I love the complimentary bread they serve.
Went home and chatted with some people then the four of us practiced special music for the upcoming Easter service this Sunday. It went really well and we had lots of fun; especially had fun trying to figure out the cool drum tempos on our synthesizer and how to work it all out. ^_^ S
o I'm going to 'kind of' be the drummer, though I'm just pressing buttons on beat. lol!Maki and I then also worked on our sign dance we're going to do on Sunday, too. We're going to need a lot of practice though it's coming together. Trying to keep it simple and 'elegant.' :P
Took a very short nap then around 8:15 we went to church to meet up with some friends to go Islands restaurant for Ericson's birthday. Of course, he still didn't know we were going for his birthday. lol! So off we went...But first I have to tell you the story of the balloon! Well, Erin was waiting in the car while Naomi, Maki, and I went into the church
to meet with some people. She was going to write some messages on the balloon. At one point the balloon was in the trunk then she decided to get something. When she opened the trunk, the winds were so strong that it blew the balloon away! She chased it all through the parking lot, across a pretty big road, but could go no further when the balloon went down onto the highway. :P 
Naturally, she didn't go down and get it; later on we were all laughing hysterically as we were wondering if that smiley faced balloon could have caused some highway accidents. lol!Anyway, met at Islands and the people who came were Christi, Brandon, Don, Debbie, Byron, Bao, and of course Ericson and the four of us (Tina came a little later on). When we all sat down, we f
inally sang Happy Birthday and completely surprised Ericson about this being actually his birthday party. ^_^ Besides the King Kong dvd, we also gave him a card which had a huge sticker reading "It's my birthday, and I'm very smart, intelligent, good-looking!" :P Of course we made him wear the sticker... lol!Great dinner/party all around; there was a lot of laughter and hilarious conversations throughout, two or three conversations
taking place at once sometimes. ^_^ At the end we were all doing silly 'finger/hand tricks' which had us end of laughing sooo hard! Especially when Tina was getting slightly 'tangled up.' :D
Stayed at the restaurant fairly late so we finally left around 11:30. :P Now we're back home and I need to go to bed... Tomorrow (well actually, today) is going to be a big day. I'm going to a film audition... ^_^ Very exciting and I hope it goes well. G'night! And Happy Birthday to Ericson!!
Thursday, April 13, 2006
~Hurrah, Hurrah, It's Finally the Weekend!~
History class was the first class of the day. One of my classmates, an older woman, brought her baby daughter to class (not even 1-year-old) and of course I wanted to hold the baby. :P So while the mother was getting her books and bags all organized, I was playing with the baby and everyone was saying how the baby will probably take everyone's attention away from Mr. Cassity. :P At that moment he walked in and saw me carrying the baby. You can imagine the funny look on his face. lol! Though the baby was still cute, I was still able to pay attention to class since Mr. Cassity talked about World War II. I actually like WWII history a lot and I find it all fascinating. Plus, I've seen numerous movies about that particular war (30 Seconds Over Tokyo, Patton, Pearl Harbor, The Young Lions, Sands of Iwo Jima, etc, etc). Learned a lot of interesting facts; for instance, that Joseph Stalin was named Time magazine's Man of the Year for 1945. :S Iiiiinteresting...
Theater class was spent working with Aimee for our final scene. Watched more of The Miracle Worker and began deciding about props and costumes. We also found out that the pump in the prop room can actually pump water for real! So we decided that we might use actually water to pump during our scene. ^_^ Exciting!
After that class, headed down to the cafeteria but first, Maki and I stopped by the Phi Theta Kapa office. I picked up my certificate since I won't be able to go to the induction ceremony this Saturday. :P It's a pretty cool certificate; looks 'authentic' and everything! lol! Had lunch in the cafeteria (made myself obenntou) with a few theater classmates.
Around 1:00 (a little earlier than usual), went to the International Cafe Center for the tea ceremony class. Learned quite a bit today and it's kind of shocking to realize that next week will be the last week that the International Cafe is open! Wow, the semester is ending soon... strange that it doesn't seem that way with sooo many deadlines to meet. :P
Geography class was more interesting than usual as we learned about Ecosystems and Biomes. Got back my second midterm and was *slightly* disappointed that I didn't do *that* well. Of course, I admit truthfully that I'm a bit of an overachiever and sometimes expect too much of myself. :P Plus, I did REALLY well for the first midterm so a bit disappointed that the second part I didn't do as well. However, for the whole midterm which is worth 200 points, I got 193 so after thinking of it that way, I'm very happy with how I did. ^_^
Went home for a bit then had to leave right away to pick Erin up. As soon as we were all home, we had our prayer meeting (a bit earlier than usual). Sang a few songs, talked about preparing our hearts for Easter, then began thinking of what to do for our Easter service. I'm going to keep it under my hat about what exactly we're going to do though I'll say that we'll be doing some special music. ^_^
I had to leave right away then for worship practice at Kaimuki Christian Church. I was SOOOO happy because Joe is back! He came with his whole family so it was fun to see the kids again. ^_^ Took turns playing the drums and it was really nice to watch him play; whenever I watch him play I pick up a lot on how to improve my playing and get new 'fill-ins.'
Got home around 8:15 and you can imagine how STARVED I was by then. :P Ate a good dinner then watched While You Were Sleeping with Erin and Maki. I know, I watched it recently, but this is really one of those movies I can watch over and over again. Such a cute movie and Sandra Bullock and Bill Pullman have great chemistry together. Just gotta love the line said by the guy who thinks he has amnesia. "Do I like jell-o?" LOL!
Am really happy because I was able to talk to my parents for quite a bit. ^_^Also did some more 'calculating' over my schedule for the upcoming semester... working out little by little. It's just frustrating that I have to wait till Monday to register for the fall classes. :S Hopefully, even if the classes I want to take get filled up, because it's my last semester I might be able to get special overrides.
I'm SOOO happy that it's finally the weekend! Has Seriously been a crazy week... yay, I get to sleep in tomorrow! :P Good night!
History class was the first class of the day. One of my classmates, an older woman, brought her baby daughter to class (not even 1-year-old) and of course I wanted to hold the baby. :P So while the mother was getting her books and bags all organized, I was playing with the baby and everyone was saying how the baby will probably take everyone's attention away from Mr. Cassity. :P At that moment he walked in and saw me carrying the baby. You can imagine the funny look on his face. lol! Though the baby was still cute, I was still able to pay attention to class since Mr. Cassity talked about World War II. I actually like WWII history a lot and I find it all fascinating. Plus, I've seen numerous movies about that particular war (30 Seconds Over Tokyo, Patton, Pearl Harbor, The Young Lions, Sands of Iwo Jima, etc, etc). Learned a lot of interesting facts; for instance, that Joseph Stalin was named Time magazine's Man of the Year for 1945. :S Iiiiinteresting...
Theater class was spent working with Aimee for our final scene. Watched more of The Miracle Worker and began deciding about props and costumes. We also found out that the pump in the prop room can actually pump water for real! So we decided that we might use actually water to pump during our scene. ^_^ Exciting!
After that class, headed down to the cafeteria but first, Maki and I stopped by the Phi Theta Kapa office. I picked up my certificate since I won't be able to go to the induction ceremony this Saturday. :P It's a pretty cool certificate; looks 'authentic' and everything! lol! Had lunch in the cafeteria (made myself obenntou) with a few theater classmates.
Around 1:00 (a little earlier than usual), went to the International Cafe Center for the tea ceremony class. Learned quite a bit today and it's kind of shocking to realize that next week will be the last week that the International Cafe is open! Wow, the semester is ending soon... strange that it doesn't seem that way with sooo many deadlines to meet. :P
Geography class was more interesting than usual as we learned about Ecosystems and Biomes. Got back my second midterm and was *slightly* disappointed that I didn't do *that* well. Of course, I admit truthfully that I'm a bit of an overachiever and sometimes expect too much of myself. :P Plus, I did REALLY well for the first midterm so a bit disappointed that the second part I didn't do as well. However, for the whole midterm which is worth 200 points, I got 193 so after thinking of it that way, I'm very happy with how I did. ^_^
Went home for a bit then had to leave right away to pick Erin up. As soon as we were all home, we had our prayer meeting (a bit earlier than usual). Sang a few songs, talked about preparing our hearts for Easter, then began thinking of what to do for our Easter service. I'm going to keep it under my hat about what exactly we're going to do though I'll say that we'll be doing some special music. ^_^
I had to leave right away then for worship practice at Kaimuki Christian Church. I was SOOOO happy because Joe is back! He came with his whole family so it was fun to see the kids again. ^_^ Took turns playing the drums and it was really nice to watch him play; whenever I watch him play I pick up a lot on how to improve my playing and get new 'fill-ins.'
Got home around 8:15 and you can imagine how STARVED I was by then. :P Ate a good dinner then watched While You Were Sleeping with Erin and Maki. I know, I watched it recently, but this is really one of those movies I can watch over and over again. Such a cute movie and Sandra Bullock and Bill Pullman have great chemistry together. Just gotta love the line said by the guy who thinks he has amnesia. "Do I like jell-o?" LOL!
Am really happy because I was able to talk to my parents for quite a bit. ^_^Also did some more 'calculating' over my schedule for the upcoming semester... working out little by little. It's just frustrating that I have to wait till Monday to register for the fall classes. :S Hopefully, even if the classes I want to take get filled up, because it's my last semester I might be able to get special overrides.
I'm SOOO happy that it's finally the weekend! Has Seriously been a crazy week... yay, I get to sleep in tomorrow! :P Good night!
Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Has Been a Crazy, Crazy Week :P
I am SOOO looking forward to this Easter weekend! It's been really crazy this past week so I'm excited for this weekend where I'm hoping to be all 'refreshed' and ready to continue on in all that I have to do. ^_^
Learned about China's 're-emergence' into the world right when the British began expanding their trade what with the Industrial Revolution. Also learned all about the Opium Wars which was VERY fascinating for me. I've heard about the wars but to learn all the details was really interesting. Am looking forward to next week's lecture about Japan's emergence into the world.
Helped Nichelle study Japanese in the cafeteria until around 11:45 when we stopped by Mr. Cassity's office. Nichelle had to pick up something but a quick stop turned into a good fifteen minutes of conversation. :P Talked about all kinds of things and I was able to get some advice from him about the upcoming fall semester.
Went home and after a quick lunch, I went back to campus around 1:00 to meet with 'Pohaku' Stone, the teacher for the internet Hawaiian Studies course I'll be taking during the summer. He was a really nice guy and I liked him quite a bit. He told me what to expect from the course and also what books I might want to go ahead and buy.
That was a really quick meeting so I went right home. Worked a bit on trying to figure out my fall schedule. So far, it's looking pretty good though it might turn out that I will have 4 classes on Monday/Wednesday and 2 on Tuesday/Thursday. I'd really like to make it work so I have 3 every day to make it all even out... but I'll just have to see how that goes.
Watched The Miracle Worker to help with the character analysis I had to write for the character of Annie Sullivan who I'm playing for my Theater class' final. Great to watch again since it's a fantastic movie. It really helped to watch the movie; writing the character analysis went really smoothly though it was pretty time consuming. Finished just before dinner. Erin made tonkatsu which was sooo good. :P Naturally, I was pretty full by the end of dinner.
Tonight's American Idol was the eliminations and though I was once more worried that Elliot would go, instead it was another guy who left the show this week. Oh, well; next week is Rod Stewart week!
After that, had a nice video chat with my mother and I guess since I haven't gotten homesick in a while, tonight I got a real bad case of homesickness. :P Of course, Mommy was able to cheer me up (hugs and kisses to Mommy!). Did a little bit of 'pseudo-relaxed' reading for History class; Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women. At first I wasn't too interested but already I'm finding the book very interesting and informative about life on the 'other side of the world.' Happy that it's a fairly easy read, most of all. lol!
Going to bed and hoping for a good night's rest. ^_^ G'night and sleep tight!
I am SOOO looking forward to this Easter weekend! It's been really crazy this past week so I'm excited for this weekend where I'm hoping to be all 'refreshed' and ready to continue on in all that I have to do. ^_^
Learned about China's 're-emergence' into the world right when the British began expanding their trade what with the Industrial Revolution. Also learned all about the Opium Wars which was VERY fascinating for me. I've heard about the wars but to learn all the details was really interesting. Am looking forward to next week's lecture about Japan's emergence into the world.
Helped Nichelle study Japanese in the cafeteria until around 11:45 when we stopped by Mr. Cassity's office. Nichelle had to pick up something but a quick stop turned into a good fifteen minutes of conversation. :P Talked about all kinds of things and I was able to get some advice from him about the upcoming fall semester.
Went home and after a quick lunch, I went back to campus around 1:00 to meet with 'Pohaku' Stone, the teacher for the internet Hawaiian Studies course I'll be taking during the summer. He was a really nice guy and I liked him quite a bit. He told me what to expect from the course and also what books I might want to go ahead and buy.
That was a really quick meeting so I went right home. Worked a bit on trying to figure out my fall schedule. So far, it's looking pretty good though it might turn out that I will have 4 classes on Monday/Wednesday and 2 on Tuesday/Thursday. I'd really like to make it work so I have 3 every day to make it all even out... but I'll just have to see how that goes.
Watched The Miracle Worker to help with the character analysis I had to write for the character of Annie Sullivan who I'm playing for my Theater class' final. Great to watch again since it's a fantastic movie. It really helped to watch the movie; writing the character analysis went really smoothly though it was pretty time consuming. Finished just before dinner. Erin made tonkatsu which was sooo good. :P Naturally, I was pretty full by the end of dinner.
Tonight's American Idol was the eliminations and though I was once more worried that Elliot would go, instead it was another guy who left the show this week. Oh, well; next week is Rod Stewart week!
After that, had a nice video chat with my mother and I guess since I haven't gotten homesick in a while, tonight I got a real bad case of homesickness. :P Of course, Mommy was able to cheer me up (hugs and kisses to Mommy!). Did a little bit of 'pseudo-relaxed' reading for History class; Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women. At first I wasn't too interested but already I'm finding the book very interesting and informative about life on the 'other side of the world.' Happy that it's a fairly easy read, most of all. lol!
Going to bed and hoping for a good night's rest. ^_^ G'night and sleep tight!
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
'Dazed' Day
Today's History class was 'slightly' depressing since we got our instructions for our final paper which is coming up real fast. Grr... :P Unlike the midterm paper which was actually fairly easy, I'm thinking this one's going to be tough. it's about the liberal media and propaganda so I need to do research about it. *sigh* I'm just really glad that for this I get to write a draft and get it checked by the teacher. ^_^
For theater class, the teacher had us all get in our groups and prepare for our final scenes. Then she took time to 'direct' three scenes for twenty minutes each. Much to our surprise, Aimee's and my scene is No. 1 so we had to immediately do our scene for her. :P At least we were well prepared so it didn't catch us off guard or anything like that. So we were able to perform well and she said that we don't have any worries over whether our final scene will work out. Yay!
The rest of the time was spent working on our introduction to the final scene. Aimee had her laptop so we also watched the last part from the movie The Miracle Worker which was VERY inspiring. I can't just NOT cry at the end of that movie!! :P So touching...
Been quite a long time since it's happened but Maki and I were able to go home for lunch for our Tuesday/Thursday schedule! Very nice indeed, lol! Made myself a nice lunch then watched Maid in Manhattan, the best thing being that Ralph Fiennes is in it. :P Besides that, a mediocre film and not too interesting.
Only about half the students came to Geography class today so it felt a little empty. Learned about Soil. Yippee (very sarcastic tone here...). Fortunately, the lecture was quickly over then we played a quiz game to test what we've learned so far. Did pretty well but was happy to get home. :P
Went to pick up Erin then after coming back, just completely relaxed. Naomi made a fantastically delicious dinner. Curry, chicken legs, hash-brown and potatoes, alfalfa salad... a FEAST!
Tonight's American Idol was really cool since the contestants sang Queen songs. Favorite performances would have to be of Elliot doing Somebody to Love and Taylor's Silly Little Thing Called Love. I was pretty upset though because Ace (who I do NOT like) completely ruined We Will Rock You. *rolls eyes*
After that was House, M.D. and I must say, tonight's is already one of my all-time favorite House episode so far. Excellent plot. Chatted with a few people afterwards and had to compose some e-mailed; school-related e-mails which I hope to get replies to. I need to start trying to get classes for the upcoming summer and fall sessions. I just hope my schedule works out...
Off to bed now; tomorrow I have only one class then I need to work on a couple of papers. *sigh* Drawing near to the end of the semester is good but tiresome... lol! G'night!
Today's History class was 'slightly' depressing since we got our instructions for our final paper which is coming up real fast. Grr... :P Unlike the midterm paper which was actually fairly easy, I'm thinking this one's going to be tough. it's about the liberal media and propaganda so I need to do research about it. *sigh* I'm just really glad that for this I get to write a draft and get it checked by the teacher. ^_^
For theater class, the teacher had us all get in our groups and prepare for our final scenes. Then she took time to 'direct' three scenes for twenty minutes each. Much to our surprise, Aimee's and my scene is No. 1 so we had to immediately do our scene for her. :P At least we were well prepared so it didn't catch us off guard or anything like that. So we were able to perform well and she said that we don't have any worries over whether our final scene will work out. Yay!
The rest of the time was spent working on our introduction to the final scene. Aimee had her laptop so we also watched the last part from the movie The Miracle Worker which was VERY inspiring. I can't just NOT cry at the end of that movie!! :P So touching...
Been quite a long time since it's happened but Maki and I were able to go home for lunch for our Tuesday/Thursday schedule! Very nice indeed, lol! Made myself a nice lunch then watched Maid in Manhattan, the best thing being that Ralph Fiennes is in it. :P Besides that, a mediocre film and not too interesting.
Only about half the students came to Geography class today so it felt a little empty. Learned about Soil. Yippee (very sarcastic tone here...). Fortunately, the lecture was quickly over then we played a quiz game to test what we've learned so far. Did pretty well but was happy to get home. :P
Went to pick up Erin then after coming back, just completely relaxed. Naomi made a fantastically delicious dinner. Curry, chicken legs, hash-brown and potatoes, alfalfa salad... a FEAST!
Tonight's American Idol was really cool since the contestants sang Queen songs. Favorite performances would have to be of Elliot doing Somebody to Love and Taylor's Silly Little Thing Called Love. I was pretty upset though because Ace (who I do NOT like) completely ruined We Will Rock You. *rolls eyes*
After that was House, M.D. and I must say, tonight's is already one of my all-time favorite House episode so far. Excellent plot. Chatted with a few people afterwards and had to compose some e-mailed; school-related e-mails which I hope to get replies to. I need to start trying to get classes for the upcoming summer and fall sessions. I just hope my schedule works out...
Off to bed now; tomorrow I have only one class then I need to work on a couple of papers. *sigh* Drawing near to the end of the semester is good but tiresome... lol! G'night!
Had SOOO Many Things to Do Today (But Am Happy That It's All Done)! ^_^
Another late night so I'm going to try to keep this short. Went to History class (had a quiz this morning) and spent some more time talking about Socialsm after discussing our next paper which is due in a few weeks. We also got back our previous papers; I did very well thanks to the extra 5 points I got for turning it in early. ^_^
After class, Nichelle and I 'borrowed' a room in the library and I helped her study for her Japanese class. She's having a bit of a hard time so I said I'd help her out. Mostly she just needs to practice speaking and having complete conversations in Japanese.
Naomi and I went straight from campus to Waikiki to buy my plane tickets to go back home for the summer. ^_^ Hurray! Already excited to be going back home for a few months.
Got back and then I had to write a few e-mails, school and 'personal'-related before I finally got to eat lunch around 2:00. :P Late lunch indeed... anyway, until around 5:30 I was doing various things that needed to be done. Most importantly, I finished answering all the multiple choice questions for my take-home quiz. Only thirty questions, but boy, are the answers hard to find in the book (especially since Mr. Cassity likes 'mixing-up' the questions as in you can't find the answers in order when reading from the textbook).
5:30 I went to Times Supermarket with Maki to get some groceries then I prepared dinner tonight. Fajitas! Yes, it was very delicious... naturally since i was the cook! lol, jk! After dinner I spent an hour or so working on the short essay section for my take-home quiz. Thankfully, this time's chapter quiz was fun since I like the history of pre-WWII, WWII, and post-war. History is just fascinating. ^_^
At 8:30 I finally had everything I needed to be done finished (does that sentence sound strange? Hmmm... must be getting tired... :P). Watched a Monk episode then since I thought it would be a good idea to get an early start, I worked a bit on my character analysis of Annie Sullivan for The Miracle Worker (theater class). Going along well though it's time-consuming.
Off to bed now; tomorrow's Tuesday meaning it's gonna be a long day. :P G'night, sleep tight!
Another late night so I'm going to try to keep this short. Went to History class (had a quiz this morning) and spent some more time talking about Socialsm after discussing our next paper which is due in a few weeks. We also got back our previous papers; I did very well thanks to the extra 5 points I got for turning it in early. ^_^
After class, Nichelle and I 'borrowed' a room in the library and I helped her study for her Japanese class. She's having a bit of a hard time so I said I'd help her out. Mostly she just needs to practice speaking and having complete conversations in Japanese.
Naomi and I went straight from campus to Waikiki to buy my plane tickets to go back home for the summer. ^_^ Hurray! Already excited to be going back home for a few months.
Got back and then I had to write a few e-mails, school and 'personal'-related before I finally got to eat lunch around 2:00. :P Late lunch indeed... anyway, until around 5:30 I was doing various things that needed to be done. Most importantly, I finished answering all the multiple choice questions for my take-home quiz. Only thirty questions, but boy, are the answers hard to find in the book (especially since Mr. Cassity likes 'mixing-up' the questions as in you can't find the answers in order when reading from the textbook).
5:30 I went to Times Supermarket with Maki to get some groceries then I prepared dinner tonight. Fajitas! Yes, it was very delicious... naturally since i was the cook! lol, jk! After dinner I spent an hour or so working on the short essay section for my take-home quiz. Thankfully, this time's chapter quiz was fun since I like the history of pre-WWII, WWII, and post-war. History is just fascinating. ^_^
At 8:30 I finally had everything I needed to be done finished (does that sentence sound strange? Hmmm... must be getting tired... :P). Watched a Monk episode then since I thought it would be a good idea to get an early start, I worked a bit on my character analysis of Annie Sullivan for The Miracle Worker (theater class). Going along well though it's time-consuming.
Off to bed now; tomorrow's Tuesday meaning it's gonna be a long day. :P G'night, sleep tight!
Sunday, April 09, 2006
Wow, the Weekend Went By So Quickly...
Went to play drums for the 8:30 Kaimuki Church service so I had to be there by 7:30 for the practice. Woke up early so I could make it on time. It was nice seeing a whole different group of people who go to the early morning service. ^_^
After playing drums, got home and we had our own church service. Listened to my father's sermon tape of In the Spirit. Good sermon, how we have to be of the Spirit and not 'Spirit-like.'
Went to Happy Days for lunch (:P Hey, the food is DELICIOUS!) then went home. I was SOOO exhausted that I HAD to take a nap and before I knew it, I had slept 2 hours. Had a real hard time waking up. Finally did and watched half of Pride and Prejudice then got to talk for quite a bit with my parents. ^_^
Around 5:30 I left the house to go babysitting and watch the Hall kids, Braden and Jessica. It's been a while since I've seen the whole family so it was great seeing them again. Braden remembered me so was sooo excited having me there. ^_^ He's such a smart kid and though a bit rambuctious, he's really obedient to me and seems to like me, which is good for the babysitter. :P He went to bed by 7:30 so afterwards, Jessica and I were watching some movies and tv until the parents came home around 10:30.
Drove home and basically was at the computer, doing some things that needed to be done for the coming school week. *groan* Another week of school begins!
Went to play drums for the 8:30 Kaimuki Church service so I had to be there by 7:30 for the practice. Woke up early so I could make it on time. It was nice seeing a whole different group of people who go to the early morning service. ^_^
After playing drums, got home and we had our own church service. Listened to my father's sermon tape of In the Spirit. Good sermon, how we have to be of the Spirit and not 'Spirit-like.'
Went to Happy Days for lunch (:P Hey, the food is DELICIOUS!) then went home. I was SOOO exhausted that I HAD to take a nap and before I knew it, I had slept 2 hours. Had a real hard time waking up. Finally did and watched half of Pride and Prejudice then got to talk for quite a bit with my parents. ^_^
Around 5:30 I left the house to go babysitting and watch the Hall kids, Braden and Jessica. It's been a while since I've seen the whole family so it was great seeing them again. Braden remembered me so was sooo excited having me there. ^_^ He's such a smart kid and though a bit rambuctious, he's really obedient to me and seems to like me, which is good for the babysitter. :P He went to bed by 7:30 so afterwards, Jessica and I were watching some movies and tv until the parents came home around 10:30.
Drove home and basically was at the computer, doing some things that needed to be done for the coming school week. *groan* Another week of school begins!
Saturday, April 08, 2006
~Saturday!!~
Hurray, I got to sleep in today! ^_^ I still have a lot of catching up to do in my sleep though. :P
Had a quick breakfast then Naomi, Maki, and I went off to do some quick errands before heading to Ward Center. First stopped by the bank then went to the post office to pick up a package. Then went to another bank where I had some things to do; then off to Ward! Took a little while to find parking but we finally found a nice spot.
First shopped at Borders since I had a 30% off coupon. I was able to use it to by The Miracle Worker dvd. ^_^ I LOVE that movie! The end always makes me cry because it's so perfect. Anne Brancroft and Patty Duke are geniuses in their roles and it's a bit daunting that Aimee and I will be doing our final theater scene from The Miracle Worker play. :P Will probably try to watch it tomorrow sometime.
Had a very quick lunch at Wolfgang Puck's (I always get their chicken tenders because it's delicious) then met up with Ericson to watch Ice Age 2: The Meltdown. Yes, I know it was my second time to see it but it's such a great movie! The only annoying thing was that in the middle of a hilarious punchline, the fire alarm went off so the screen shut down for a few minutes. When finally the movie was put back on, about 20 seconds 'skipped' and we missed out on that whole funny part! *sigh* But oh, well, at least it wasn't too bad. :P Still a great film; I also got to take home afree Ice Age 2 poster which I immediately put up on my wall when I got home. ^_^
Drove home and since I was tired but not really sleepy, I just sprawled on my bed and got to relax and finish reading my book. Very good book which I enjoyed. But now I have to start reading this book for History class. About the Islamic culture though I don't know anything else about it. I'd better get reading I guess. :P
Around 5:15, the four of us went out to eat dinner at 12th Avenue Grill to go celebrate Brandon's birthday. It was a really large group (24 people) but unfortunately, after waiting for the birthday 'couple' to arrive, someone called them to find out that Brandon and Christi wouldn't be able to make it! It seems they were really sick with flu. :S Everyone still stayed, though, and decided to 
celebrate Danny's birthday since his is coming up in a few weeks. :P Still had lots of fun, being able to fellowship with a lot of friends. It was such a big group so it was separated into two large table (fairly small restaurant).
I ordered the Grilled Pork Chops and to my surprise, the portions were huge! I almost had a hard time eating everything (almost... lol!).
Doesn't it look good? It was. ^_^ Everyone else's food looked great, too, from fried calamari, steak, duck raviolo, and more! Mmmmmm....
Afterwards there was some talk of going to see a movie but since there's really nothing good showing ('cept for Ice Age 2 and though I like it, I don't know about paying to see it twice...) went home.
Decided to watch a movie on my own at home. ^_^ Watched 10 Things I Hate About You, a modern spin on Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew. Starring Heath Ledger and Julia Styles, I actually enjoyed it. There was actually character development, good acting, and a plot! I know I would have absolutely LOVED it except for it being rated PG-13 for good reason. No bad scenes, hardly any bad words, but it being a 'teen' flick, there was of course the innuendos. *sigh* Otherwise, good movie with a soundtrack I really liked. ^_^
I'm going to have to be up early in the morning tomorrow because I'm playing drums at the 8:30 service at Kaimuki Church. Nothing planned for the afternoon then I have a babysitting job in the afternoon. It's been such a short weekend... :P
Hurray, I got to sleep in today! ^_^ I still have a lot of catching up to do in my sleep though. :P
Had a quick breakfast then Naomi, Maki, and I went off to do some quick errands before heading to Ward Center. First stopped by the bank then went to the post office to pick up a package. Then went to another bank where I had some things to do; then off to Ward! Took a little while to find parking but we finally found a nice spot.
First shopped at Borders since I had a 30% off coupon. I was able to use it to by The Miracle Worker dvd. ^_^ I LOVE that movie! The end always makes me cry because it's so perfect. Anne Brancroft and Patty Duke are geniuses in their roles and it's a bit daunting that Aimee and I will be doing our final theater scene from The Miracle Worker play. :P Will probably try to watch it tomorrow sometime.
Had a very quick lunch at Wolfgang Puck's (I always get their chicken tenders because it's delicious) then met up with Ericson to watch Ice Age 2: The Meltdown. Yes, I know it was my second time to see it but it's such a great movie! The only annoying thing was that in the middle of a hilarious punchline, the fire alarm went off so the screen shut down for a few minutes. When finally the movie was put back on, about 20 seconds 'skipped' and we missed out on that whole funny part! *sigh* But oh, well, at least it wasn't too bad. :P Still a great film; I also got to take home afree Ice Age 2 poster which I immediately put up on my wall when I got home. ^_^Drove home and since I was tired but not really sleepy, I just sprawled on my bed and got to relax and finish reading my book. Very good book which I enjoyed. But now I have to start reading this book for History class. About the Islamic culture though I don't know anything else about it. I'd better get reading I guess. :P
Around 5:15, the four of us went out to eat dinner at 12th Avenue Grill to go celebrate Brandon's birthday. It was a really large group (24 people) but unfortunately, after waiting for the birthday 'couple' to arrive, someone called them to find out that Brandon and Christi wouldn't be able to make it! It seems they were really sick with flu. :S Everyone still stayed, though, and decided to 
celebrate Danny's birthday since his is coming up in a few weeks. :P Still had lots of fun, being able to fellowship with a lot of friends. It was such a big group so it was separated into two large table (fairly small restaurant).I ordered the Grilled Pork Chops and to my surprise, the portions were huge! I almost had a hard time eating everything (almost... lol!).
Doesn't it look good? It was. ^_^ Everyone else's food looked great, too, from fried calamari, steak, duck raviolo, and more! Mmmmmm....Afterwards there was some talk of going to see a movie but since there's really nothing good showing ('cept for Ice Age 2 and though I like it, I don't know about paying to see it twice...) went home.
Decided to watch a movie on my own at home. ^_^ Watched 10 Things I Hate About You, a modern spin on Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew. Starring Heath Ledger and Julia Styles, I actually enjoyed it. There was actually character development, good acting, and a plot! I know I would have absolutely LOVED it except for it being rated PG-13 for good reason. No bad scenes, hardly any bad words, but it being a 'teen' flick, there was of course the innuendos. *sigh* Otherwise, good movie with a soundtrack I really liked. ^_^
I'm going to have to be up early in the morning tomorrow because I'm playing drums at the 8:30 service at Kaimuki Church. Nothing planned for the afternoon then I have a babysitting job in the afternoon. It's been such a short weekend... :P
Loooooooong Day... But Hurray for Weekends!
Today was really a 'up-and-down' day with so much going on. :P Woke up earlier than usual so Naomi could drop me off at my 9:00 Japanese class. I was on campus 40 minutes early so I was to read quite a bit from the Madeleine L'Engle book I'm reading; though I wasn't quite awake, the book was really interested and kept me awake. lol!
Today's Japanese class was pretty straightforward; in the beginning we each wrote a little bit about the presentation we did for International Cafe. Then working as groups, we wrote about different Japanese cultural 'concepts', for example 'giri' (obligation, duty), 'ganbari' (to do your best), 'kenkyo' (humility), and etc. My groups worked on 'giri' and it seems that for each of our final papers we're going to write about 'our' topics. Sounds like it's going to be interesting. :P I'm just glad it's not 6 pages long... ^_^
Class finished early and because I wasn't feeling well (I've had a cold since around Wednesday), Erin was kind enough to pick me up. My computer has been acting weird so during my 'lunch break' until my next class, my time was spent backing up my files and trying to clean up and organize my folders. Made myself a nice lunch of fried rice.
Walked to my Geography class; because I was still feeling sick, I was very 'out of it' but fortunately, the Lab work wasn't hard at all and we finished fairly quickly. Don't know if I did well though... lol!
Maki and I walked home and I did some more backing up of my files. Read a little bit then I went to Kaimuki church at 6:00 for a sound check. Practiced a bit then got to chat with a few people. The Friday night service worship went SOOO well. Half of what we did was completely 'unplanned' yet everything flowed and went smoothly. It was truly the Spirit working in the worship tonight. As always, though I may not have been feeling well and was very tired, playing the drums in worship really 'rejuvinated' me and I felt soooo good! ^_^ Pastor Ron is still away so tonight Pastor Cal preached. He gave a very interesting testimony about how God works in our personal lives and how we should 'look forward' to such times.
For dinner, Naomi, Maki, Ericson, and I went to eat at Big gCity Diner. It's been a while since we've got to see Ericson so we had lots to catch up on. Got home and finished watching Gone With the Wind with Erin. The last quarter of the movie is pretty sad and depressing though since I knew what was going to happen, I was prepared. The same couldn't be said for Erin and Maki though. :P But it IS a classic and a very well made movie, as well as having some fine acting.
Yay! I'm so excited that I can actually get to SLEEP IN TOMORROW!! Boggles the mind, doesn't it? lol!
Today was really a 'up-and-down' day with so much going on. :P Woke up earlier than usual so Naomi could drop me off at my 9:00 Japanese class. I was on campus 40 minutes early so I was to read quite a bit from the Madeleine L'Engle book I'm reading; though I wasn't quite awake, the book was really interested and kept me awake. lol!
Today's Japanese class was pretty straightforward; in the beginning we each wrote a little bit about the presentation we did for International Cafe. Then working as groups, we wrote about different Japanese cultural 'concepts', for example 'giri' (obligation, duty), 'ganbari' (to do your best), 'kenkyo' (humility), and etc. My groups worked on 'giri' and it seems that for each of our final papers we're going to write about 'our' topics. Sounds like it's going to be interesting. :P I'm just glad it's not 6 pages long... ^_^
Class finished early and because I wasn't feeling well (I've had a cold since around Wednesday), Erin was kind enough to pick me up. My computer has been acting weird so during my 'lunch break' until my next class, my time was spent backing up my files and trying to clean up and organize my folders. Made myself a nice lunch of fried rice.
Walked to my Geography class; because I was still feeling sick, I was very 'out of it' but fortunately, the Lab work wasn't hard at all and we finished fairly quickly. Don't know if I did well though... lol!
Maki and I walked home and I did some more backing up of my files. Read a little bit then I went to Kaimuki church at 6:00 for a sound check. Practiced a bit then got to chat with a few people. The Friday night service worship went SOOO well. Half of what we did was completely 'unplanned' yet everything flowed and went smoothly. It was truly the Spirit working in the worship tonight. As always, though I may not have been feeling well and was very tired, playing the drums in worship really 'rejuvinated' me and I felt soooo good! ^_^ Pastor Ron is still away so tonight Pastor Cal preached. He gave a very interesting testimony about how God works in our personal lives and how we should 'look forward' to such times.
For dinner, Naomi, Maki, Ericson, and I went to eat at Big gCity Diner. It's been a while since we've got to see Ericson so we had lots to catch up on. Got home and finished watching Gone With the Wind with Erin. The last quarter of the movie is pretty sad and depressing though since I knew what was going to happen, I was prepared. The same couldn't be said for Erin and Maki though. :P But it IS a classic and a very well made movie, as well as having some fine acting.
Yay! I'm so excited that I can actually get to SLEEP IN TOMORROW!! Boggles the mind, doesn't it? lol!
Friday, April 07, 2006
Wow, Thursday's Already Come and Gone!
Getting late so I'm going to try to keep this short. But whenever I say that, I always manage to write quite a bit. :P
First class was History where we talked and discussed about the "Fabrication of a 'Cultural Democracy.'" After a while, listening to the liberal side loses a lot of its interest... I mean, it's still interesting but it gets 'old' after a while. :P Plus I wasn't feeling too well so I kept spacing out which my friends kept poking and laughing at me quietly. :P Ah, well, what are friends for? ^_^
Our teacher didn't make it for theater class so we just got into our groups for the final scenes and worked on it. Aimee and I got a lot done today, deciding on what props to do, how to arrange the set, and what kind of actions we'll be doing. Thought it would be easier since there aren't many lines but instead, it's much harder to act when there are no lines. :S I am even more a fervent fan of Anne Bancroft. lol!
Had lunch just Maki and I for a while then Kaori joined us around 12:45 and we started studying together for the upcoming Geography test. A little while later, we were joined by Simeon (everyone calls him "Sam" though). I was kind of spacing out most of the time though and couldn't concentrate because I still wasn't feeling well. :P
We then all went off to Geography class to take the test. It was a little more difficult than I thought it would be, since a lot of the questions were from topics not even mentioned in our study guide. :S Hmph. But I know I got the bonus question right so I'm happy about that. ^_^
Walked home and relaxed for a little while before I next went to Kaimuki Church for worship practice (playing the drums in tomorrow night's servie). Practice went well though we're doing this medley and I have to play this complicated rhythm the whoooole time. It's pretty long and since we had to do it a couple of times to practice, by the end of the practice I was tired out. :P
Got home a little after 8:00, ate dinner, then watched The Court Jester. SUCH a good movie; I am a BIG fan of Danny Kaye. He's extremely talented, in acting, singing, and dancing. I think I definitely need to get the dvd. :P
Chatted with a few people and now I really need to get to bed. Tomorrow's another long day with my long, Japanese morning class then Geography lab in the afternoon. Then of course there's the Friday night service. Can't wait till Saturday!!! ^_^
Getting late so I'm going to try to keep this short. But whenever I say that, I always manage to write quite a bit. :P
First class was History where we talked and discussed about the "Fabrication of a 'Cultural Democracy.'" After a while, listening to the liberal side loses a lot of its interest... I mean, it's still interesting but it gets 'old' after a while. :P Plus I wasn't feeling too well so I kept spacing out which my friends kept poking and laughing at me quietly. :P Ah, well, what are friends for? ^_^
Our teacher didn't make it for theater class so we just got into our groups for the final scenes and worked on it. Aimee and I got a lot done today, deciding on what props to do, how to arrange the set, and what kind of actions we'll be doing. Thought it would be easier since there aren't many lines but instead, it's much harder to act when there are no lines. :S I am even more a fervent fan of Anne Bancroft. lol!
Had lunch just Maki and I for a while then Kaori joined us around 12:45 and we started studying together for the upcoming Geography test. A little while later, we were joined by Simeon (everyone calls him "Sam" though). I was kind of spacing out most of the time though and couldn't concentrate because I still wasn't feeling well. :P
We then all went off to Geography class to take the test. It was a little more difficult than I thought it would be, since a lot of the questions were from topics not even mentioned in our study guide. :S Hmph. But I know I got the bonus question right so I'm happy about that. ^_^
Walked home and relaxed for a little while before I next went to Kaimuki Church for worship practice (playing the drums in tomorrow night's servie). Practice went well though we're doing this medley and I have to play this complicated rhythm the whoooole time. It's pretty long and since we had to do it a couple of times to practice, by the end of the practice I was tired out. :P
Got home a little after 8:00, ate dinner, then watched The Court Jester. SUCH a good movie; I am a BIG fan of Danny Kaye. He's extremely talented, in acting, singing, and dancing. I think I definitely need to get the dvd. :P
Chatted with a few people and now I really need to get to bed. Tomorrow's another long day with my long, Japanese morning class then Geography lab in the afternoon. Then of course there's the Friday night service. Can't wait till Saturday!!! ^_^
Wednesday, April 05, 2006
Busy Day and a Bit Stressed Out
Ah, today was a bit of a stressful day... :P So much to do and so little time.
Started the day off by walking to school for my only class for the day, History. I had a quiz in the beginning and I blanked out and made a really stupid mistake. :S So stupid I'm still beating myself up for it... luckily it's only one mistake out of a three-part question. Ah, well, I get to drop two of my lowest quiz grades. So far I've been acing all the quizzes so I'm definitely 'dropping' this quiz. Talked more about Socialism today. Got my recommendation from Mr. Cassity today. ^_^ He wrote some very nice things which I'm thrilled about.
After class, I went down to the counsellors offices and met with Kristie Sousa, my liberal arts counsellor. She's such a nice lady and is so helpful, giving me all the information I need and more! Going over my plans for next semester, she's confirmed that I'll be able to graduate in the fall. ^_^ So exciting if it all works out! The JPN 298 class REALLY helped out by giving me all the extra credits to make it all possible.
Stopped by the International Cafe a bit to meet up with some people then went home. Had a nice lunch and watched the first half of The Court Jester which I had borrowed. It's DEFINITELY going to be one of my favorite movies; Danny Kaye is HILARIOUS! And he's sooo talented. Can'twait to finish it...
Went to Tower Records because I needed to buy some blank CDs. My computer is getting "full" so I needed to put some of my files onto disc. The rest of the afternoon, about four hours was spent answering questions from the study guide for tomorrow's Geography test. Four hours... and for only answering the half the questions (Maki did the other half)!! It's crazy... but it's always helpful.
Erin made dinner of salmon which was really good. Fish is always good. :P Watched Bones and American Idol. I was soooo shocked to see Mandisa go; I was thinking she's made it at least to the top 3 since she's an amazing singer. Unfortunately, she hasn't been doing too well the past few weeks after picking some bad song choices. Very sadly, Elliot who I've been voting for all along was in the bottom 2! I SOOOOO hope he doesn't leave soon. That would be awful since he IS talented!
Got to video chat with my parents and talked with not only my parents and my dogs, but also Pastor Masa and Miria!! Miria is sooo cute and seems to be getting used to our house. ^_^ Wrote up my paper for History class (easy and fun) and scanned my study notes again for tomorrow's test.
Off to bed; wish me luck on the test!
Ah, today was a bit of a stressful day... :P So much to do and so little time.
Started the day off by walking to school for my only class for the day, History. I had a quiz in the beginning and I blanked out and made a really stupid mistake. :S So stupid I'm still beating myself up for it... luckily it's only one mistake out of a three-part question. Ah, well, I get to drop two of my lowest quiz grades. So far I've been acing all the quizzes so I'm definitely 'dropping' this quiz. Talked more about Socialism today. Got my recommendation from Mr. Cassity today. ^_^ He wrote some very nice things which I'm thrilled about.
After class, I went down to the counsellors offices and met with Kristie Sousa, my liberal arts counsellor. She's such a nice lady and is so helpful, giving me all the information I need and more! Going over my plans for next semester, she's confirmed that I'll be able to graduate in the fall. ^_^ So exciting if it all works out! The JPN 298 class REALLY helped out by giving me all the extra credits to make it all possible.
Stopped by the International Cafe a bit to meet up with some people then went home. Had a nice lunch and watched the first half of The Court Jester which I had borrowed. It's DEFINITELY going to be one of my favorite movies; Danny Kaye is HILARIOUS! And he's sooo talented. Can'twait to finish it...
Went to Tower Records because I needed to buy some blank CDs. My computer is getting "full" so I needed to put some of my files onto disc. The rest of the afternoon, about four hours was spent answering questions from the study guide for tomorrow's Geography test. Four hours... and for only answering the half the questions (Maki did the other half)!! It's crazy... but it's always helpful.
Erin made dinner of salmon which was really good. Fish is always good. :P Watched Bones and American Idol. I was soooo shocked to see Mandisa go; I was thinking she's made it at least to the top 3 since she's an amazing singer. Unfortunately, she hasn't been doing too well the past few weeks after picking some bad song choices. Very sadly, Elliot who I've been voting for all along was in the bottom 2! I SOOOOO hope he doesn't leave soon. That would be awful since he IS talented!
Got to video chat with my parents and talked with not only my parents and my dogs, but also Pastor Masa and Miria!! Miria is sooo cute and seems to be getting used to our house. ^_^ Wrote up my paper for History class (easy and fun) and scanned my study notes again for tomorrow's test.
Off to bed; wish me luck on the test!
Tuesday, April 04, 2006
So Much Happened; A Full, Fun Day
Today's classes weren't as 'tiring' as I thought they'd be; it was actually a fairly fun school day! :P The morning was a bit 'tough' though to get out of bed. Slept pretty well but still, felt like I could sleep a lot more. ^_^
First class was Modern US History class; it was good to see all my classmates again. I got my chapter quiz back... I FINALLY got 40 out of 40! Mr. Cassity was commenting how close I had been for so long that I must feel really good. And I did! ^_^ I also just found out that a friend from that class (we always sit next to each) has a very small film company! He knew I liked acting to asked if I'd like to come to an upcoming audition that he and the company is going to be filming! I was pretty surprised and of course really excited about all of it! I actually will probably be unable to be in it because it'll be during the summer; however, as a friend he said I was welcome to come watch the auditions and just audition for fun and experience. I think I'll definitely be taking him up on his offer! No matter how much I may stink... lol!
Instead of doing any acting in theater class, today's was a lecture style class. Our teacher talked about character analysis and how we have to write one of for the character we'll be playing for each of our final scenes. I'm getting excited about my final scene of The Miracle Worker.
Lunch was an unusually quiet affair as it was just Maki, Leeland, Marni, and I. From 1:30 I went downt to the International Cafe for tea ceremony. I already have PLENTY of hours and points for completion of Service Learning; however, I'll probably continue to go just for the tea ceremony. I was also asked out to join some other events to help out; depending on how my studies are going, especially since we're heading towards the end of school, I might or might not get involved.
Today's Geography class was for the first time went on until the end of the official class time! :P We were going over the study guide for our upcoming test. It was a fun class though; the reason was because some the students, and including the teacher, were a bit... hmm... 'hyper.' lol! It's true! There was a lot of laughing and a lot of silliness. I mean, we were trying to be serious, but it was just hard for some reason... but I stilled learned a lot!
Went home and did some preparations for the upcoming Geography project. Naomi made a VERY YUMMY dinner (missed her cooking... lol!) of chicken in sweet-chili sauce, asparagus, and mashed potatoes with LOTS of melted cheese. Watched American Idol tonight; was so-so interesting since it was 'country' night and they all had to sing country music. I'm not too big a fan of country music so it just wasn't interesting for me. Voted for Elliot of course. :P
After that was House which I watched and all I can say is that House is the smartest doctor in the world... ^_^ The rest of the evening was spent being a complete vegetable... lol! No, not really. Did some writing and read up a bit for my theater class.
I have one class in the morning them I'm going to try to meet with my counsellor to talk about my plans for the upcoming semester. Then the afternoon will be spent studying for the Geography test. Grr... I just wish it were over and done with already. :P
Today's classes weren't as 'tiring' as I thought they'd be; it was actually a fairly fun school day! :P The morning was a bit 'tough' though to get out of bed. Slept pretty well but still, felt like I could sleep a lot more. ^_^
First class was Modern US History class; it was good to see all my classmates again. I got my chapter quiz back... I FINALLY got 40 out of 40! Mr. Cassity was commenting how close I had been for so long that I must feel really good. And I did! ^_^ I also just found out that a friend from that class (we always sit next to each) has a very small film company! He knew I liked acting to asked if I'd like to come to an upcoming audition that he and the company is going to be filming! I was pretty surprised and of course really excited about all of it! I actually will probably be unable to be in it because it'll be during the summer; however, as a friend he said I was welcome to come watch the auditions and just audition for fun and experience. I think I'll definitely be taking him up on his offer! No matter how much I may stink... lol!
Instead of doing any acting in theater class, today's was a lecture style class. Our teacher talked about character analysis and how we have to write one of for the character we'll be playing for each of our final scenes. I'm getting excited about my final scene of The Miracle Worker.
Lunch was an unusually quiet affair as it was just Maki, Leeland, Marni, and I. From 1:30 I went downt to the International Cafe for tea ceremony. I already have PLENTY of hours and points for completion of Service Learning; however, I'll probably continue to go just for the tea ceremony. I was also asked out to join some other events to help out; depending on how my studies are going, especially since we're heading towards the end of school, I might or might not get involved.
Today's Geography class was for the first time went on until the end of the official class time! :P We were going over the study guide for our upcoming test. It was a fun class though; the reason was because some the students, and including the teacher, were a bit... hmm... 'hyper.' lol! It's true! There was a lot of laughing and a lot of silliness. I mean, we were trying to be serious, but it was just hard for some reason... but I stilled learned a lot!
Went home and did some preparations for the upcoming Geography project. Naomi made a VERY YUMMY dinner (missed her cooking... lol!) of chicken in sweet-chili sauce, asparagus, and mashed potatoes with LOTS of melted cheese. Watched American Idol tonight; was so-so interesting since it was 'country' night and they all had to sing country music. I'm not too big a fan of country music so it just wasn't interesting for me. Voted for Elliot of course. :P
After that was House which I watched and all I can say is that House is the smartest doctor in the world... ^_^ The rest of the evening was spent being a complete vegetable... lol! No, not really. Did some writing and read up a bit for my theater class.
I have one class in the morning them I'm going to try to meet with my counsellor to talk about my plans for the upcoming semester. Then the afternoon will be spent studying for the Geography test. Grr... I just wish it were over and done with already. :P
Monday, April 03, 2006
The Beginning of the End... LOL! Ok, Returning To School Isn't THAT Depressing :P
Ah, so last six weeks of school has begun! But before going to my first class, I woke up early to drop Erin and Maki of at school. Then it was off to the airport to pick Naomi up! Her plane landed a bit early but because it took her a while to get her luggage, I had to drive around the terminal for quite a bit before I was finally able to 'pick her up.' ^_^ Good to have her back!
Drove to campus where I was dropped off to school and Naomi continued home. History class was lots of fun; finished up the Industrial Revolution and started getting into Socialism. Pretty interesting stuff.
Walked home today and did finished my final draft for my theater critique paper. That was real quick so I was able to do some fun writing. Getting along quite a bit for the new chapter for my story!
Picked Maki up from school then made hiyashichuuka for lunch (cold noodles). Haven't eaten it in a while so it was real good. ^_^ In the afternoon, I watched While You Were Sleeping which I haven't seen it a long time. Such a good movie; one of the best 'marriage proposals' in film. :P Bill Pullman and Sandra Bullock are so cute together!
For dinner, the four of us went to Ward Center to eat at Kaka'ako Kitchen. I've eaten there just a few times so I tried out their beef stew. And it was simply DELICIOUS! I can't believe I ate everything though because it was quite a big dish. :P Hungry I guess...
Went home, watched Sweet Home Alabama (Josh Lucas is SOOOO good in this movie!) and read the three chapters which needed to be read for Theater class tomorrow. Easy read. Chatted with some people and did a little more writing.
Tomorrow's going to be a long day which I'm not looking forward to... *sigh* Oh, well, just gotta remember to 'finish the race.' ^_^ Please be praying for us college girls here! G'night!
Ah, so last six weeks of school has begun! But before going to my first class, I woke up early to drop Erin and Maki of at school. Then it was off to the airport to pick Naomi up! Her plane landed a bit early but because it took her a while to get her luggage, I had to drive around the terminal for quite a bit before I was finally able to 'pick her up.' ^_^ Good to have her back!
Drove to campus where I was dropped off to school and Naomi continued home. History class was lots of fun; finished up the Industrial Revolution and started getting into Socialism. Pretty interesting stuff.
Walked home today and did finished my final draft for my theater critique paper. That was real quick so I was able to do some fun writing. Getting along quite a bit for the new chapter for my story!
Picked Maki up from school then made hiyashichuuka for lunch (cold noodles). Haven't eaten it in a while so it was real good. ^_^ In the afternoon, I watched While You Were Sleeping which I haven't seen it a long time. Such a good movie; one of the best 'marriage proposals' in film. :P Bill Pullman and Sandra Bullock are so cute together!
For dinner, the four of us went to Ward Center to eat at Kaka'ako Kitchen. I've eaten there just a few times so I tried out their beef stew. And it was simply DELICIOUS! I can't believe I ate everything though because it was quite a big dish. :P Hungry I guess...
Went home, watched Sweet Home Alabama (Josh Lucas is SOOOO good in this movie!) and read the three chapters which needed to be read for Theater class tomorrow. Easy read. Chatted with some people and did a little more writing.
Tomorrow's going to be a long day which I'm not looking forward to... *sigh* Oh, well, just gotta remember to 'finish the race.' ^_^ Please be praying for us college girls here! G'night!
Sunday, April 02, 2006
Tomorrow Will Begin "The Return to Normalcy"
Sunday is such a good day! ^_^ Had a nice breakfast of muffins then we had our Sunday service, led by Erin. Then we listened to the sermon tape sent from Japan; it was my father's sermon on "The Seed of Faith." It also contained Melania's and Suzie's farewell speeches to the church. It's always amazing how God opens a way for exchange students going to Yokohama University to be able to come to our church! The sermon was really good (as always) and related to our building are church here in Hawaii. An encouraging word for all of us.
After the service, we went over to Ward Center and had lunch at The Chowder House. I had the fried calamari caesar salad which was so big I couldn't finish it! The amount is pretty good and especially since I always have their clam chowder (it's The Chowder House, of course I need to get their chowder!), I get full before the main entree comes. :P Stopped by Logos bookstore and I was able to get a gift for someone-who-shall-remain-unnamed. lol
Went home and I read the paper I needed to read for my Modern American History class. 40 pages... seriously boring. :P I mean, it was a very 'political' message about how the media works today. And how 'free speech' is not really 'free speech.' Or whatever that means... anyways, very
dull stuff. :P Read a bit from my new book Troubling a Star then did some writing.
At around 6:00, the three of us left for Hale Koa Hotel's restaurant called Bibas. Met up with Aunt Jean and Reed there and we all had a very nice, DELICIOUS dinner together. ^_^ I got the Steak and Crab dish where the steak was a bit on the small side, there was a LOT of crab which was sooo good!
(Since my mother keeps saying I need to put more pictures of us on my blog, here are plenty of pictures). :P
We also shared three desserts together: a fruit tart, a flaky, French apple pie, and a Melting Chocolate Cake. The best thing was that w
ith the Chocolate Cake came coconut sorbet which was just too, too YUMMY! I don't really like coconut 'meat' itself, like straight from the coconut, but I love coconut flakes, milk, and the overall flavor. ^_^
So with today ends Spring Break and it's back into school mode. Ick. :P Oh, well, I guess I'm happy to be getting back into finishing up
the semester. I'm just not looking forward to my Geography class' second midterm this week and having to prepare for the upcmoing project. I'm very much NOT the science type of person. Give me the performing arts, history, and English ANY time.
Also, Naomi'll be arriving back here tomorrow morning! So I drop Erin
and Maki off at school for their early morning class then I'm going to drive all by myself to go pick her up. ^_^ Wow, it's pretty strange that I'm actually driving around to 'the great unknown'! lol! It's great but a little scary at the same time. :P Well, good-bye to Spring Break; it's been great!
Sunday is such a good day! ^_^ Had a nice breakfast of muffins then we had our Sunday service, led by Erin. Then we listened to the sermon tape sent from Japan; it was my father's sermon on "The Seed of Faith." It also contained Melania's and Suzie's farewell speeches to the church. It's always amazing how God opens a way for exchange students going to Yokohama University to be able to come to our church! The sermon was really good (as always) and related to our building are church here in Hawaii. An encouraging word for all of us.
After the service, we went over to Ward Center and had lunch at The Chowder House. I had the fried calamari caesar salad which was so big I couldn't finish it! The amount is pretty good and especially since I always have their clam chowder (it's The Chowder House, of course I need to get their chowder!), I get full before the main entree comes. :P Stopped by Logos bookstore and I was able to get a gift for someone-who-shall-remain-unnamed. lol
Went home and I read the paper I needed to read for my Modern American History class. 40 pages... seriously boring. :P I mean, it was a very 'political' message about how the media works today. And how 'free speech' is not really 'free speech.' Or whatever that means... anyways, very
dull stuff. :P Read a bit from my new book Troubling a Star then did some writing.At around 6:00, the three of us left for Hale Koa Hotel's restaurant called Bibas. Met up with Aunt Jean and Reed there and we all had a very nice, DELICIOUS dinner together. ^_^ I got the Steak and Crab dish where the steak was a bit on the small side, there was a LOT of crab which was sooo good!
(Since my mother keeps saying I need to put more pictures of us on my blog, here are plenty of pictures). :P
We also shared three desserts together: a fruit tart, a flaky, French apple pie, and a Melting Chocolate Cake. The best thing was that w
ith the Chocolate Cake came coconut sorbet which was just too, too YUMMY! I don't really like coconut 'meat' itself, like straight from the coconut, but I love coconut flakes, milk, and the overall flavor. ^_^So with today ends Spring Break and it's back into school mode. Ick. :P Oh, well, I guess I'm happy to be getting back into finishing up
the semester. I'm just not looking forward to my Geography class' second midterm this week and having to prepare for the upcmoing project. I'm very much NOT the science type of person. Give me the performing arts, history, and English ANY time.Also, Naomi'll be arriving back here tomorrow morning! So I drop Erin
and Maki off at school for their early morning class then I'm going to drive all by myself to go pick her up. ^_^ Wow, it's pretty strange that I'm actually driving around to 'the great unknown'! lol! It's great but a little scary at the same time. :P Well, good-bye to Spring Break; it's been great!
Saturday, April 01, 2006
Sid: You know, if I didn't know you better Diego, I'd think you were afriad of the water!
[Diego grabs Sid's neck and strangles him]
Sid: OK, I don't think I know you better!
The morning was spent doing our weekly cleanup and since Naomi's coming home, I did a lot of 'extra' cleaning. ^_^ Just wanted to make sure everything was really clean. After doing the laundry, Maki and I went out to go see Ice Age 2: The Meltdown. We first headed off for Kahala Theaters but when we got there, we found out that the whole mall was closed down because of flooding! The rain had been so bad, it even flooded all the way into the theaters! :P
So Maki and I headed quickly for Ward Theaters with just enough time to spare to catch the next showing of IA2. It was crazy trying to get parking; one person actually STOLE my PARKING SPACE! It was really infuriating since there was only about 2 minutes before the movie was about to start. I was going to pick a fight but the people got out of the car and ran off! Grrr! That is so rude! So out of exasperation, I decided to go find parking across the street at Ward Shopping Center. And the amazing thing was, though it was crazy crowded there, too, a spot opened up just for me! ^_^ Sooooooo happy! And thankful, because of the trailers before the movie started, Maki and I were able to get in just before the movie actually started AND get good seats! Hurray!
Anyway... THE MOVIE WAS FANTASTIC!!! REALLY! It was as good as the first movie and that's saying a lot since I love the first movie. The sequel really did it justice. The storyline was good with plenty of 'random' silliness throughout. ^_^ I also loved the completely 'all-of-a-sudden' musical numbers. LOL! I especially love it when the vultures break out into a Broadway rendition of "Glorious Fooooood!!" *snicker* And the 
'mini-sloths' musical numbers was pretty hilarious, too. Reminded me slightly of the strange monkey-creature musical scene from Madagascar but Ice Age and its sequel is waaaay better than that movie.
Favorite characters are still Diego and Sid though Scrat comes out a lot more now and is HILARIOUS! And the two new characters,
the possum brothers, are also a hoot. Jay Leno also the voice for this character who will try any scheme to get business. lol! Now this is a movie I would actually look very much forward to for a third sequel. ^_^ Seriously, the first two were done so well, I would be excited for a third movie. Maybe Scrat will finally get his acorn (thought I doubt it...) Ha ha!
Went by Borders for a bit and looked around. Being a member is so nice since I get 20% off quite a bit. I bought one book by Madeleine L'Engle who's the author of the Wrinkle In Time series. I got her book Troubling a Star which is the fourth book of the Austen series which I also like quite a bit.
Maki wanted to go to some sort of Scottish Festival taking place at Kapiolani Park so from Ward center we drove over there. Unfortunately, because of the rain, the whole park of empy because 'mini-lakes' all around and mud everywhere. The whole park was just really flooded. :S So it seems the festival was cancelled so we went home. I picked up some sushi hand-rolls for a ligt lunch.
I did some writing and watched some episodes. For dinner, Erin made unagi which was real yummy. Then afterwards, we decided to put in action my April Fools Day trick. ^_^ The idea was that Maki and I will make a short April Fools Day video of us. And not just any video; a video of us talking after breathing in some helium. lol! Our voices came out sooooo strange! :P Anyway, through chat I called up a certain person (who shall remain nameless) and told that person that we were sending him/her a very good video of something he/she was really interested in. Instead, sent the April Fools Day message-video instead. :P Sooo funny, at least for us over here. LOL!
Then the three of us watched the first half of Gone With the Wind, the first time for Erin and Maki to watch. Has been a while for me, too though as soon as I watched, I remembered most all of it. I have such 
a great memory for movies... *wink!* Gotta love Clark Gable as Rhett Butler... so handsome and he's PERFECT for Scarlett. Except she's such an idiot... :P She really doesn't deserve him because she's being so blind, holding on to a childish crush. Hmph. Ok, I shouldn't really compare the great Leslie Howard with Clark Gable, but as for their two characters in Gone With the Wind, I would definitely choose Rhett over Ashely. Easily. :P
Was feeling a bit... down after watching Gone With the Wind especially since the first half ends a bit 'dark' so I watched Roll Bounce. It's a recent movie which came out about 70's roller disco. Loved the music, loved the roller disco, but the story was pretty awful. lol! Acting was pretty bad, storyline was bad... *shakes head sadly* But just gotta love 70's music! ^_^
Tomorrow's Sunday and then it's going to be Monday... spring break will be over! So sad that I have to be getting back into school mode. But happy that Naomi'll be coming home! ^_^ G'night y'all, sleep tight!
[Diego grabs Sid's neck and strangles him]
Sid: OK, I don't think I know you better!
The morning was spent doing our weekly cleanup and since Naomi's coming home, I did a lot of 'extra' cleaning. ^_^ Just wanted to make sure everything was really clean. After doing the laundry, Maki and I went out to go see Ice Age 2: The Meltdown. We first headed off for Kahala Theaters but when we got there, we found out that the whole mall was closed down because of flooding! The rain had been so bad, it even flooded all the way into the theaters! :P
So Maki and I headed quickly for Ward Theaters with just enough time to spare to catch the next showing of IA2. It was crazy trying to get parking; one person actually STOLE my PARKING SPACE! It was really infuriating since there was only about 2 minutes before the movie was about to start. I was going to pick a fight but the people got out of the car and ran off! Grrr! That is so rude! So out of exasperation, I decided to go find parking across the street at Ward Shopping Center. And the amazing thing was, though it was crazy crowded there, too, a spot opened up just for me! ^_^ Sooooooo happy! And thankful, because of the trailers before the movie started, Maki and I were able to get in just before the movie actually started AND get good seats! Hurray!
Anyway... THE MOVIE WAS FANTASTIC!!! REALLY! It was as good as the first movie and that's saying a lot since I love the first movie. The sequel really did it justice. The storyline was good with plenty of 'random' silliness throughout. ^_^ I also loved the completely 'all-of-a-sudden' musical numbers. LOL! I especially love it when the vultures break out into a Broadway rendition of "Glorious Fooooood!!" *snicker* And the 
'mini-sloths' musical numbers was pretty hilarious, too. Reminded me slightly of the strange monkey-creature musical scene from Madagascar but Ice Age and its sequel is waaaay better than that movie.Favorite characters are still Diego and Sid though Scrat comes out a lot more now and is HILARIOUS! And the two new characters,
the possum brothers, are also a hoot. Jay Leno also the voice for this character who will try any scheme to get business. lol! Now this is a movie I would actually look very much forward to for a third sequel. ^_^ Seriously, the first two were done so well, I would be excited for a third movie. Maybe Scrat will finally get his acorn (thought I doubt it...) Ha ha!Went by Borders for a bit and looked around. Being a member is so nice since I get 20% off quite a bit. I bought one book by Madeleine L'Engle who's the author of the Wrinkle In Time series. I got her book Troubling a Star which is the fourth book of the Austen series which I also like quite a bit.
Maki wanted to go to some sort of Scottish Festival taking place at Kapiolani Park so from Ward center we drove over there. Unfortunately, because of the rain, the whole park of empy because 'mini-lakes' all around and mud everywhere. The whole park was just really flooded. :S So it seems the festival was cancelled so we went home. I picked up some sushi hand-rolls for a ligt lunch.
I did some writing and watched some episodes. For dinner, Erin made unagi which was real yummy. Then afterwards, we decided to put in action my April Fools Day trick. ^_^ The idea was that Maki and I will make a short April Fools Day video of us. And not just any video; a video of us talking after breathing in some helium. lol! Our voices came out sooooo strange! :P Anyway, through chat I called up a certain person (who shall remain nameless) and told that person that we were sending him/her a very good video of something he/she was really interested in. Instead, sent the April Fools Day message-video instead. :P Sooo funny, at least for us over here. LOL!
Then the three of us watched the first half of Gone With the Wind, the first time for Erin and Maki to watch. Has been a while for me, too though as soon as I watched, I remembered most all of it. I have such 
a great memory for movies... *wink!* Gotta love Clark Gable as Rhett Butler... so handsome and he's PERFECT for Scarlett. Except she's such an idiot... :P She really doesn't deserve him because she's being so blind, holding on to a childish crush. Hmph. Ok, I shouldn't really compare the great Leslie Howard with Clark Gable, but as for their two characters in Gone With the Wind, I would definitely choose Rhett over Ashely. Easily. :PWas feeling a bit... down after watching Gone With the Wind especially since the first half ends a bit 'dark' so I watched Roll Bounce. It's a recent movie which came out about 70's roller disco. Loved the music, loved the roller disco, but the story was pretty awful. lol! Acting was pretty bad, storyline was bad... *shakes head sadly* But just gotta love 70's music! ^_^
Tomorrow's Sunday and then it's going to be Monday... spring break will be over! So sad that I have to be getting back into school mode. But happy that Naomi'll be coming home! ^_^ G'night y'all, sleep tight!
It Has Rained Continually for 40 Days and 40 Nights Here in Paradise... Should Start Building An Ark... :P
Hello! Yes, I missed one day in writing my blog. :P Went to bed late so just decided not to write anything. Tomorrow woke up late, had a late lunch and watched Legend of Zorro, went to pick Erin up from her internship, went to the worship practice at Kaimuki Christian Church (which went REALLY well and I had so much fun), at dinner at home, watched Veggietales, and chatted with some people before going to bed. ^_^ That was quick and easy! :P
Ok, now on for today. Woke up late again and the first eventful thing that happened today was that when I went to pick up a Fedex package from the mailman, I slipped and fell from the wet garage pavement. :S I landed with the full weight on my left hand, mostly my thumb because of the angle so my thumb joint started swelling up. :S
Had a nice lunch and watched Lost in Space. Stupid movie but it's always an enjoyable watch. lol! Matt LeBlanc is 'amusing' to see in this movie, and Gary Oldman can always be counted on to play an evil baddie. ^_^
After the movie, I spent the rest of the afternoon finishing up my chapter and guess what... I finished it! I'm sooo happy that I was able to get it done and immediately had it uploaded. Then Erin dropped me off at the church around 6:00 for the Friday night service sound check. That went really quickly, only about 5 to 10 minutes, and then for about 30 minutes we were having a little jam session which was SOOO cool! Seriously, I've come to appreciate how fun it is to just 'jam' with some very talented musicians.
Worship went really well and it was so nice to be able to play the drums in the service. Pastor Ron was gone so we had a guest speaker, Jerry Hubbard, who is an amazing preacher. He gave a really good sermon which was timely I thought for what I was feeling (got confirmation later on that Erin had been feeling that, too). Was able to talk to him afterwards a bit which was nice.
Maki and I decided not to go out for dinner and we instead picked up some Jack in the Box for dinner. Watched the first half of Ghostbusters before I went to video chat with my family. ^_^
I'm off to bed now; another long day. My hand was feeling all right enough for me to play drums tonight (I put a freezing cold 'ice patch' on it so it numbed it completely) but now it's feeling really bruised. :P Hopefully it'll be all right by tomorrow. Thinking of maybe watching... Ice Age 2!!! So excited!!
Hello! Yes, I missed one day in writing my blog. :P Went to bed late so just decided not to write anything. Tomorrow woke up late, had a late lunch and watched Legend of Zorro, went to pick Erin up from her internship, went to the worship practice at Kaimuki Christian Church (which went REALLY well and I had so much fun), at dinner at home, watched Veggietales, and chatted with some people before going to bed. ^_^ That was quick and easy! :P
Ok, now on for today. Woke up late again and the first eventful thing that happened today was that when I went to pick up a Fedex package from the mailman, I slipped and fell from the wet garage pavement. :S I landed with the full weight on my left hand, mostly my thumb because of the angle so my thumb joint started swelling up. :S
Had a nice lunch and watched Lost in Space. Stupid movie but it's always an enjoyable watch. lol! Matt LeBlanc is 'amusing' to see in this movie, and Gary Oldman can always be counted on to play an evil baddie. ^_^
After the movie, I spent the rest of the afternoon finishing up my chapter and guess what... I finished it! I'm sooo happy that I was able to get it done and immediately had it uploaded. Then Erin dropped me off at the church around 6:00 for the Friday night service sound check. That went really quickly, only about 5 to 10 minutes, and then for about 30 minutes we were having a little jam session which was SOOO cool! Seriously, I've come to appreciate how fun it is to just 'jam' with some very talented musicians.
Worship went really well and it was so nice to be able to play the drums in the service. Pastor Ron was gone so we had a guest speaker, Jerry Hubbard, who is an amazing preacher. He gave a really good sermon which was timely I thought for what I was feeling (got confirmation later on that Erin had been feeling that, too). Was able to talk to him afterwards a bit which was nice.
Maki and I decided not to go out for dinner and we instead picked up some Jack in the Box for dinner. Watched the first half of Ghostbusters before I went to video chat with my family. ^_^
I'm off to bed now; another long day. My hand was feeling all right enough for me to play drums tonight (I put a freezing cold 'ice patch' on it so it numbed it completely) but now it's feeling really bruised. :P Hopefully it'll be all right by tomorrow. Thinking of maybe watching... Ice Age 2!!! So excited!!
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