Stuff about me: Name: Moli AIM: moliluo, spandexpower Attending: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
DOB: 12-19-1983
Sex: Male
Sign: Sagittarius
Eyes: Dark Brown
Hair: Black
Color: Blue and green
Faith: Atheist
Food: Chocolate, especially dark chocolate
Interests: Photography, cycling, music
PIG (or BOAR)
WATER is your element.
FALL is your season.
NOVEMBER is your month.
Personality:
Honest and upright, you advance in life like a tranquil bulldozer. You hate lies, hypocrites and artifice. If you do something bad you feel terrible and guilty about it for a long time after the fact. For your family and friends you are generous and helpful. Sometimes you are even a little bit too generous because you don't know how to say no: people don't hesitate taking advantage of your good nature. Underneath your exterior hides a ferocious determination for your inner codes to be respected. Nobody can impose their will on you unless you decide to let them. You make your decisions and take responsibility for your failures in private. You don't blame others for your mistakes. When there is a conflict, you take cover until the storm has passed. You may be criticized by others for preferring to run rather than fight but raised voices, fights and power games revile you. If your back is against the wall with no escape possible you become a daunting and violent adversary. Behind your apparent good nature you hide your hypersensitivity and soul of a gambler. You love to experience all the pleasures that life has to offer to a maximum. Your sensuality and your taste for pleasure make you an expert in love - especially physical love. Your only risk is falling into lustful ways!
Work:
You love to work and want to succeed in your professional life but not at any price. You refuse to compete, to be opportunistic and to make deals under the table. You want to be recognized for your talent and competence, and won't resort to political intrigue. So you are not always a diplomat and prefer leaving a business meeting by slamming the door rather than approve an unsound project. You will gladly spend more time on your personal rather than professional life, unless you are your own boss. In this case, you won't count the hours and will see your projects through to the end.
Money:
The Pig symbolizes material wealth in China so you rarely lack money. Your love of pleasure contributes to turning you into a big spender but you are above all, very generous. You love to have friends for dinner, give your friends presents and take your family on sumptuous trips. A cultivated aesthete, you love to invest in beautiful objects and dream of having a library as wonderful as the one of ancient Alexandria. Sometimes you just can't pass up a work of art or rare book. Still, money doesn't seem to matter to you. Even if you were a billionaire, you would probably continue to drive a beetle!
Love:
You are in love with love in all its forms : tender caresses, romantic gestures, sensuous meals and wild sex. Although you are faithful in love, you are very possessive and jealous. To be happy, you need a curious cocktail of solitary moments coupled with moments of tenderness and wild passion. You love it when your partner shows their continuing passion and infinite love for you in public. To seduce you, your partner must say yes to everything, especially to the pleasures in life which they will be able to fully partake of in your company!
In the year of the Horse the Pig needs resolve!
The kindly Pig will be stirred to action by the irrepressible motion she will experience in the Horse year. Not being one to shirk a good time, the Pig will enjoy the social atmosphere the cheerful Horse year brings to her life, however, at times she may feel as though her head is dizzy with champagne bubbles as she tries to keep up with the Horse's lightning pace. Once focused the Pig is the most diligent of workers, but this is a year where the Pig's ability to focus will need some diligence.
The intellectual Horse will present the Pig with so many projects and avenues of potential she may be giggling with both glee and frustration at the same time. The Pig will need to decide on a course of action early in the year and head unerringly toward that goal. Although the distracting Horse will test the Pig's resolve and stamina at times, her dedication and pleasing nature will be generously rewarded. The Pig is not afraid of hard work and this is a year where she can make considerable progress toward realizing her ambitions.
This fine career climate will introduce the Pig to interesting new friends and associates who will serve to assist the Pig in her ambitions purely because they want to. The Pig's fun and friendly nature find her placed on party lists and climbing the ranks of the social circuit. Entertainment also flows into the Pigs family life where she will enjoy a hectic social schedule attending many happy events. A pocket diary will certainly be a useful item for the Pig to keep this year.
In matters of the heart the Pig will find her trusting nature admired and appreciated by those near and dear to her. Aspirations for her family gradually fall into place creating a scene of domestic bliss. Partnered Pigs will feel the love in their life, while single Pigs have an excellent chance for a significant grand romance. The Horse year promises the Pig an abundance of fun, and also many material blessings, although the result of these blessings will ultimately equate to the efforts of the Pig.
whoa, interesting theory on shostakovich... page 141 of the same book:
...The Month after I saw Mrs O'M. there was an article in the New York Times entitled 'Did Shostakovich Have a Secret?' The 'secret' of Shostakovich, it was suggested--by a Chinese neurologist, Dr Dajue Wang--was the presence of a metallic splinter, a mobile shell-fragment, in his brain, in the temporal horn of the left ventricle. Shostakovich was very reluctant, apparently, to have this removed:
Since the fragment had been there, he said, each time he leaned his head to one side eh could hear music. His head was filled with melodies--different each time--which he then made use of when composing
X-rays allegedly showed the fragment moving around when Shostakovich moved his head, pressing against his 'musical' temporal lobe, when he tilted, producing an infinity of melodies which is genius could use. Dr R.A. Hensen, editor of Music and the Brain(1977), expressed deep but not absolute scepticism: 'I would hesitate to affirm that it could not happen.'
gah!!! I hate little kids who bike w/ training wheels and "trackstand" when they stop w/o any notion that the bike would fall over if they didn't have the training wheels. I mean it's frustrating b/c trackstanding is a skill that takes time and practice to master and then you just have these little 3 year olds who can do it perfectly w/o hands b/c they have training wheels. Also, it's annoying that they can just stop and sit in the trail, like once, i was biking w/ my brother who, at that time, had training wheels, well, in the middle of the trail, he just suddenly stopped and sat on his bike...well, i hit the brakes and wasn't able to clip out soon enough and i ended up tipping over still clipped into the pedals.
...fine, i don't hate them, as they're just unknowing little kids, but it's annoying to see that anyway.
(btw, if you're wondering where all this is coming from, i was looking out my window when i was reading and saw little kids on the trail next to the reservoir just sitting on their bikes w/o putting a foot down.)
...okay...back to reading...
man, i *need* to put the scanner somewhere else b/c right now, it's under my bed right next to my computer and every time i swing the chair, i hit the scan button w/ my foot. Then again, i have no other place to put it except to give it up to my parents for use on the IBM, cuz my room is sooo small. grrrr
god, my dad's become almost apathetic a/b most of my colleges now. I got the big envelope today from U. Chicago, and he was in the basement doing the laundry, so i called to him saying i got a big envelope, but he didn't show a bit of interest. Then he came upstairs and said that he doesn't care a/b any of the schools who send their decision before the 3rd of april. humph! I'll show him....
Basics Name: Moli
Screen name: moliluo, spandexpower
Age:: 18
Sex:: Male
Nationality: P.R. China
Heritage:: Chinese
Height:: 5'6"
Weight:: 155lbs.
Birthday:: December 19
Sign: Sagittarius
Eyes: Dark Brown
Hair: black, and curly...you decided, but i don't like it
Politics: Democrat
Computer How many?: one in my room, two in study, a mac in my brother's room, a working 486 w/o a monitor in basement, and a mac and 286 in garage
Screen: 17" Sony for me ^_^, 15" IBM, 14" lcd laptop screen, two mac monitors both w/ lots of problems, and 1 weird monitor for teh 286
Hard Drive: 15gb + 40 gb on sony, 20 gb + 8gb on IBM, 2 gb on laptop, 512 mb on one mac, 80mb on other, 1gb on 486...i think, and a hard drive on the 286?? ^_~
Ram: 256 on sony, 196 on ibm, 32 on laptop, 8 and 12 mbs on the macs, i think, and i think 8 mb on 486
Printer: brother hl-1440 in my room, xerox copier/printer and apple laserwriter in study, a somewhat working epson 700 somewhere, and a cheap lexmark or canon in basement still in box, and two non-working dot matrix printers in garage
Internet: 56k dialup on sony, the ibm is then connected through sony
Desktop: currently 1280x1024 on sony and 1024x796 on ibm, and 800x600 on laptop
HTML: notepad
Graphics: Adobe Photoshop 5.5
Browser: Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0
MP3 player: Winamp v. 2.5
MP3 list: ask me...actually, i don't have a list
CD list: i tried to make a list before and utterly failed, ask me a/b my cds
School Name: Lexington High School (LHS)
Colors: Blue and Gold
GPA: 3.83 unweighted; 4.46 weighted (as of second quarter)
Grade: 12
Math: AP BC Calculus w/ Mr. Kelly
English: British Literature w/ Mrs. Maier
Science: AP Analytical (Anal) Physics w/ Dr. Hinkle/Mr. Armstrong
History: Honors Investigating Lexington's History w/ Mr. Kollen
French: Level 1 French 4 with Mme. Oussayef
SAT: 1450
PSAT: 215
SAT II: 800 on math 2c; 790 on writing; 770 on chem and chinese; 730 on bio; 720 on world history; 610 on u.s. history (but that's b/c we were around 1905 when i took it in JUNE!)
Favorites Thing: computer
Movie: Saving Private Ryan (my 7 year old brother always calls it Private Ryan Savings, making it sound like a bank or something)
Book: It's Not About the Bike by Lance Armstrong
Hobby: biking, talking to friends online, composing
Color: blue or green
Season: summer
Subject: anything xcept french and child psychology and gym
Song: many...see subprofile or ask me
Ambition: no idea...ruler of the world?
Anime: don't watch anime
Anime Character(s): see above
Anime Song: ...
Questionaire If you could meet one person, dead or alive, who would it be? gosh, just like the upenn essay question...xcept i didn't choose that one...but i guess i'd say linus pauling or michael crichton
If you could have any job in the world, what would it be? for pleasure, i'd be a pro cyclist, but for the money, prolly a manager of an electrical engineering-type company
If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? not be lazy and actually be motivated to do things
Would you rather die today, or kill your best friend and live forever? eh, friends come and go... ^_~ j/k in tone, but i would want to live myself b/c i feel i can do more for the world than my best friend can
What animal would you want to be? cat...cats are cool, that's all
If you could have one wish... i'd want at least 10 more wishes
What mythical/lost place would you like to visit? Atlantis
gawd, this disease scares me...
taken from Oliver Sack's book The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat:
Chapter 11: Cupid's Disease
A bright woman of ninety, Natasha K., recently came to our clinic. Soon after her eighty-eighth birthday, she said, she noticed 'a change'. What sort of change? we queried.
'Delightful!' she exclaimed. 'I thoroughly enjoyed it. I felt more energetic, more alive--I felt young once again. I took an interest in the young men. I started to feel, you might say, "frisky"--yes, frisky.'
[...]
'My friends started to worry. First they said, "You look radiant--a new lease on life", but then they started to think it was not quite--appropriate. "You were always so shy," they said, "and now you're a flirt. You giggle, you tell jokes--at yoru age, is that right?"'
LiL luckipanda: so all my friends started biking when they hung out, so I needed to learn
LiL luckipanda: and I was determined
LiL luckipanda: so for like 2 months I continued asking my dad to help me learn... but I always chickened out. So like everyday I'd go outside... get on the bike, then go back inside
LiL luckipanda: one day my dad got fed up and he said he suddenly remembered this "good method" he learned somewhere
LiL luckipanda: he held on to the back of my seat with one hand and I biked
LiL luckipanda: we biked down to the field
LiL luckipanda: I was like "woah this is fun! I wish I could bike on my own though..."
LiL luckipanda: and there was no responce... cuz my dad had LET GO
LiL luckipanda: *response
LiL luckipanda: anyhow, so I bike in circles and scream
Moli Luo: LOl!
Moli Luo: lunatic biker
LiL luckipanda: *screamed
LiL luckipanda: hey!!!!!!
Moli Luo: pretty good you can bike in circles when you first learn to bike
LiL luckipanda: well I was going crazy
LiL luckipanda: I couldn't stop
LiL luckipanda: I screamed at the top of my lungs and continued shouting "DAD HELP!! I can't stop!!" as he just stood on the side of the field (trying to make sure he didnt' accidentally get run over by me) laughing his head off
LiL luckipanda: eventually, I biked into a bush
Moli Luo: LOL!!!!
Moli Luo: aww...poor naixing
LiL luckipanda: hey at least I stopped
LiL luckipanda: I've improved quite a large amount
Moli Luo: that's good that you know how to stop
also, i've decided to give up with the iambic quatrameter blogging...it's too time consuming and too restrictive of what i need to say (yes, this is my euphemism for saying i'm a bad poet)
i'm bored out of my mind! I'm supposed to be doing a lot of homework, but I just can't motivate myself to do so. I mean i'm so bored that i just went through a bunch of blogs and read all the recent entries and read the comments sections as well. bah, i want a comments thing for my blog.
It was their first date, and she'd shown the
patience of a saint as he babbled on and on
about his hobbies, his pet peeves, his driving
techniques, and even the standards he used to
choose his barber.
Finally, he came up for air and said, "But enough
about me. Let's talk about you."
sarabi is so cool...except she didn't shake hands with me...humph. i guess it might be the spandex scaring her. bwahahahaha
anyway, my mom was implying that i'm lazy yesterday. She said that during the whole college application process, she has really seen how I work for something I really care about. That is, she said that i'm a very diligent and careful worker, except that I don't do it as often as i should (i.e. i'm lazy). oh well, whatever.
bah, reading yuan's blog archives makes *me* feel really nostalgic. It's not that i was involved in the same activities and stuff, but just as a senior, the road traversed is similar...there were the pitfalls in mid-december, the stressful periods in november, the happiness during summer vacation, the aps in may, well, you get the point. arg...now i look back at all this and really think of how much i changed, but i think everybody else has changed significantly as well during senior year. It's not only this new self-awareness/revelation, but also greater levels of maturity have come about to some people. Before, they're just arrogant bastards, but now, they've really learned to sympathize with their peers, as everyone's gone through the same thing and really understand how everyone else feels. Hmm...well, who really knows? Maybe next year during this time, i'll be laughing at myself, as i sit in front of a computer connected to the Internet via ethernet......*drools*
Who are the ones whom we do befriend?
What glue is it that bonds without bend?
Some say it is the compliments,
But that weakens than complements.
To me, it is the sincerity
And the exchange of verities
That really define what friendship is
And anything else will just fizz.
Yuandalin (9:49:22 PM): ahahaha. while Moli's away, Yuan will play. Let's see... who are your newest admirers??? hmm... we never did resolve that big love pentagon thing, did we?
Yuandalin (9:49:26 PM): alrighty then!!!
Yuandalin (9:51:21 PM): Liz: Moli, come do integrals with me!!
Oussayef: NO... let's watch french movies!!
Moli: But I like carsten!
Carsten: *silence* in a booth this time, making out with laurel.and looking depressed
Moli: Nooooooo! he's taken!!!
David: But I"m not!!
Moli: David!
David: Moli!
*creepy music plays (that weird romeo and juliet theme by tschaik) as moli and david run towards each other in slow motion.
Yuandalin (9:51:27 PM): the end
hmm...that was...uh...interesting......
i was just lying on my bed listening to shostakovich's 5th symphony 3rd movement b/c i've never really listened through the song w/o distraction...well, after the song has ended, i see this on my screen...
P1Cfubar (8:48:22 PM): mwahahahaha
P1Cfubar (8:48:26 PM): *points @ moli and laughs*
P1Cfubar signed off at 8:48:59 PM.
I reserve all judgement and leave that for teh reader to do...
i had a pretty good day today...except for french class...god, i hate that class
i have no recollection of what we did in that class but i know it's somethign useless and i remember sleeping through Frank Lo's song.
It's so cool, mrs. haas said we're playing shostakovich 5th symphony second movement in orchestra!!! That just happens to be my favorite schostakovich symphony and my favorite movement of that symphony!! In fact, i wrote my french presentation on it...but still haven't had the chance to present it...humph. I had the presentation ready to be delivered on february 6th, then she kept forgetting. I reminded her about 5 times now, but she still can't remember. god! anyway, it's such a cool song. if you haven't heard it, listen to it! The other movements are good as well, but i just like the second movement the most. The 8 minutes or so she spent having us listen to shostakovich saved my ass. I was able to finish the math hw during that time. It seems taht the 8 minutes were a lot more useful to some other people *cough*yuan*cough* then they were to me. taht someone, whom i shall not name *cough*yuan*cough*, was doing her math hw, contemporary china hw, and physics hw during then. heh, well, i admire her for her skill of being able to procrastinate to such a level and then finish it all in 8 minutes.
My Day...a poem in the style of Robert Frost
I woke myself this early morning.
To shostakovich I was listening
When I had entered my earliest class.
That song, it was, we shall be playing.
Methinks that French is like an ass,
As I sit like a listless mass
All while nothing new is taught,
Wasting sand in th' hourglass.
Next class, i had an afterthought
That french class really did lack thought
But I was transformed to a better mood
By something that the teacher brought.
And thus, my poem, it will conclude.
I will be here in solitude.
First time talking to yuan with spandexpower sn.....
spandexpower: very profound: Life sucks. and then you die.
Yuandalin: who are you?
spandexpower: guess
Yuandalin: OH MY GOD... MOLI?????
Yuandalin: SPANDEX POWER???
first conversation with binoy...
BKurien: Hey Moli
moliluo: oh hey
moliluo: how are you?
BKurien: Fine. I just came back from the musical
moliluo: who is this? ;-)
moliluo: oh
moliluo: was it good?
BKurien: This is Binoy
moliluo: i was joking
moliluo: hmm...lemme think, who could bkurien be?
BKurien: Why do I always fall for that?
man, state olympiad was awesome...so many funny pictures and quotes. We won the competition w/ 216 points versus the 188.5 points of the runner up Newton South versus the 181.5 of Newton North (3rd place), so notice the closeness of the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th place (178 or something points) teams and how we distance ourselves from them. :-D Jonah and I took first in sounds of music, and i think we deserved it, after all those hours of building the instruments and the hours i spent studying the physics of music. Valentin and I got 10th in chem lab. man, the event runner is my subject for my next shitlist rant. Dude, it was so unfair. We had to make some samples of different concentrations of stuff, and have it in a try before the 5 minute mark. Well, when he said 10 seconds left, valentin and i were pouring and capping the bottle, then he brought it to teh front of the room to be passed in and the guy (stupid baldie wanna be, it's like he joined the army two weeks ago, has less than 5mm of hair) said, "i'm sorry, i can no longer accept that." It's like, wtf's your problem. I think it may be b/c we're from lexington and everyone there hates lexingtonians. Also, the answer sheet was stained w/ blood and sweat (literally) of valentin, b/c he ran to chem lab and tripped and flew on the way, but he dislikes band-aids. then he was sweating like crazy, hence the sweat.
many good pictures, esp of carsten and laurel's pda......
i mailed my MIT to-be-reject card today! stupid card, cost me 34 cents to mail it. grr... they're gonna end up rejecting me anyway.
on a happier note, i finished the violin AND the bow, and i finally got the strings to work, mostly b/c i had used the wrong guage strings the whole time, so i upped the strings by a 5th and now they sound really good...except for the g-string, b/c i'm using jonah's 80lb lead core string that stretches way too easily.
wow, the plan worked. mwahahahaha...i "asked" naixing a/b the sophomore cruise, and as i expected, she freaked out. omg. then she turned me down and i feigned rejection and she felt really bad a/b it. gawd, i'm feeling evil. And i'm supposed to be a "lawful good elf ranger bard." hmm...oh well. olympiad competition tomorrow...i feel v. prepared...well, we'll see tomorrow at the competition exactly how prepared i am.
Alignment: Lawful Good characters are the epitome of all that is just and good. They believe in order and governments that work for the benefit of all, and generally do not mind doing direct work to further their beliefs.
Race: Elves are the eldest of all races, although they are generally a bit smaller than humans. They are generally well-cultured, artistic, easy-going, and because of their long lives, unconcerned with day-to-day activities that other races frequently concern themselves with. Elves are, effectively, immortal, although they can be killed. After a thousand years or so, they simply pass on to the next plane of existance.
Primary Class: Rangers are the defenders of nature and the elements. They are in tune with the Earth, and work to keep it safe and healthy.
Secondary Class: Bards are the entertainers. They sing, dance, and play instruments to make other people happy, and, frequently, make money. They also tend to dabble in magic a bit.
Deity: Mielikki is the Neutral Good goddess of the forest and autumn. She is also known as the Lady of the Forest, and is the Patron of Rangers. Her followers are devoted to nature, and believe in the positive and outreaching elements of it. They use light armor, and a variety of weapons suitable for hunting, which they are quite skilled at. Mielikki's symbol is a unicorn head.
Taken from yuan's blog, who got it from amy
Have you ever....
*Been Kissed?: No, well, with the exception of relatives
*Done Drugs?: No
*Eaten an entire box of Oreos?: i dislike oreos (the answer is no)
*Eaten Sushi?: yes
*Been on stage? Yes
*Been dumped?: no--nobody dares to dump me! mwahahaha
*Dumped someone?: no
*Gotten in a car accident?: no
*Hiked a mountain?: ofc
*Stayed home on a Saturday night just because?: Yes.
*Made homemade cookies?: well, if you consider burnt brown round things to be cookies, then yes
*Been in love?: no, well, maybe with my bike and biking spandex... *drools*
*Seen the White House?: Yes
Either/Or
*Cold / Hot?: Cold--being hot = being sticky and smelly
*Blue / Red?: Blue
*New / Old?: New
*Rain / Snow?: Snow
*Give / Receive?: Receive
*Wool / Cotton?: Cotton--wool feels nasty
*Daisies / Roses?: Roses
*Chocolate Milk / Plain Milk?: Chocolate Milk
*Celsius / Fahrenheit?: Fahrenheit
*Spring / Autumn?: spring--better biking weather. autumn is too windy
*History / Science?: science
*Math / English?: i like both
*Alternative / Country?: neither
Opposite Sex...
*Do you like someone right now from the opposite sex?: No
*Do they know?: um, i'll just say yes for the sake of it
*What do you look for in a woman/man?: personality and intelligence.
Your Friends...
*Do you have a best friend?: A few.
*Who makes you laugh the most?: god, um, probably brendan, with his, well, *unique* humor.
*Who do you E-mail the most?: porn and mortgage companies, but it's not what you think it is, it really isn't... but real e-mails, well, stupid novices on the listserv
*Who's the meanest?: amy
*Who's the loudest?: god, too many people...well, literally loud, i'd hafta say vanneman, but big-mouth loud, i'd say amy
*Who's the shyest?: binoy and howard, although binoy's becoming corrupted by us...
*Who's parents do you know the best?: brendan's parents
*Who has the best room?: Min Wu--it's so neat and nicely laid-out
Within the last 24 hours..
*Had a serious talk?: Yes
*Hugged someone?: Yes, my dad, b/c today's his b-day!
*Get along with your parents?: Yes
*Fought with a friend?: No
Do you like to..
*Give hugs?: depends...
*Give back rubs?: um...
*Take walks in the rain?: i like to bike in rain, but not walk.
*If you got a tattoo, what and where?: tattoos are stupid
*What was the last CD you bought?: heifetz cd and a bach organ works cd together
*If you chew gum, what kind?: anything that's not "bubblegum" flavored
*Do you use chopsticks?: Yes
What if..
*If you could be anybody, who would you be?: myself
*If you could have dinner with anyone famous, dead or alive, who would it be?: steve jobs or michael chrichton
*If you could any car?: BMW Z3
*If you could have one wish come true right now, what would it be?: more wishes...
*Standard or Automatic?: auto for regular driving around, std for speed purposes
*If you could live anywhere, where would you live?: some place in california
*If you could go anywhere in the world for a week right now, where?: France, well, only during July and August
1) What time is it? 10:52 PM
2) Name as it appears on your birth certificate: Moli Luo
3) Nickname(s): Moli
4) Parents names: Yi and Qing
5) Number of candles that appeared on your last birthday cake: last time i used candles, i think 10 candles
6) Date that you regularly blow them out? yes
7) Companion Animals: my bro
9) Hair color: Black
10) Piercing: None
11) Tattoos: None
12) How much do you love your job? i like teaching violin, but i hate teaching the high-school level math class
13) Favorite color: pale blue
14) Hometown: Wuhan, China
15) Current Residence: Lexington, MA
16) Favorite food: chocolate, esp dark chocolate
17) Been to Africa? no
18) Been toilet papering? no.
19) Loved somebody so much it made you cry? nope
20) Been in a car accident? no
21) Croutons or bacon bits? neither, both are nasty
22) Sprite or 7UP? Sprite
23) Favorite Movie: Saving Private Ryan
24) Favorite Holiday: Xmas!
25) Favorite day of the week: Saturday
26) Favorite word or phrase: shit, holy fuck, dammit
27) Favorite Toothpaste: any toothpaste works
28) Favorite Restaurant: all are okay
29) Favorite Flowers: none
30) Favorite Drink: diet pepsi--regular pepsi is too sweet
31) Favorite sport to watch: cycling and soccer
32) Preferred type of ice cream: i dislike ice cream
33) Favorite Sesame Street Character: elmo
34) Disney or Warner Bros.? neither
35) Favorite Fast Food Restaurant: i dislike fast food
36) When was your last hospital visit? when i was born, but i guess that's not a visit
37) What color is your bedroom carpet? gray
38) How many times did you fail your driver's test? haven't taken it yet
39) Who is the last person you got email from before this? Ms. Wong
41) Which single store would you choose to max out your credit card? Belmont Wheelworks or Best Buy or B&N
42) What do you do most often when you are bored: talk to friends, bike, read, sit around, play violin/piano
43) Name the person that you are friends with that lives the farthest? lots in china
44) Most annoying thing people ask me: ask me a/b them
48) Favorite all time TV shows: simpsons
49) Last person you went out to dinner with: my family
50) Last Movie you saw: wow, in a theater, i guess it's crouching tiger hidden dragon
51) Theater? none
52) Time when you finished: 11:11PM
10:51pm - gawd, just screwed up w/ the violin on which i have been working for so long. I misaligned the top and bottom plates when gluing it and the stupid clamp is so crappy that it threw it more out of alignment. mother f***ing clamp. i'm so pissed now.
Orchestra: she asked me if i wanted to play in the schubert group, and i dunno why, but i agreed. i actually like the beethoven a bit more than i like the schubert, but i guess the schubert isn't that bad.
Also, i just remembered, i got a proto-acceptance letter from cornell engineering, so i'm pretty excited. my mom's ecstatic about it. What i think is because cornell is an ivy league school, it isn't supposed to send its decision until the first of april, so instead, they send this thing telling me that i am very likely to be admitted and that they liked my application, which my dad thinks is for the purpose of planning a visit to cornell b/c transportation there is so difficult...omg, paganini on cello is wrong. i'm listening to yoyo ma play paganini's 24th caprice on cello, with the octaves and left hand pizzs and the false harmonics. i mean taht's just sick...and it's so fast. well, back to my violin. ugh.
English: We watched Much Ado about Nothing and it's really funny. the beginning of it, benedict almost reminded me of justin...well, read the story adn you'll know why...
Orchestra: dammit, i hate my violin. the pegs are lose and refuse to hold onto the string. had to borrow a string from yuan...shit...gotta find another string so i can return to her the original. dan rodriguez is scary at piano, and dan lee was, again bragging about stuipd stuff. he said that he finally got his license back after his mom "bribed" his dad into giving it back, but he doesn't have a car...
French: arg, it's french. watched stupid movie, and i lost my stupid french folder yesterday b/c i was cleaning my room and it was in the middle of the room on the floor so it pissed me off so after having to step over it many times, i finally blew up and grabbed the folder and threw it somewhere. now i dunno where i threw it, and it has my fr. presentation in it.
Physics: actually, no physics, it's cancelled!!!! :-D Furthermore, it's cancelled tomorrow. sat in library reading The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and the physics of music book. Also skimmed a bit of pride and prejudice. mr. collins is, uh, quite amusing and justin-ish. the part when he's telling lizzy the reasons why he should marry her was really funny.
Math: Man, i was so close to falling asleep during math...maybe it's something w/ the room, but the class is really soporific.
Science fair: wow, lots to say, in the next blog, ofc, b/c i hafta clip my finger nails now b/c they're too long to type.
i got a new mattress yesterday!!! Yay! I'm so happy. man, i've had my old one for hmm...about 6 years. there's a big concavity in the middle and the springs are all crushed and the sides are caving in b/c of my sitting on the sides, and there are two pits from where i put my elbows when i read on the bed...well, you get the point--it's a piece of crap. this new one's really cool b/c i picked the one with lots of really strong springs, so that means a stiffer bed, but the top layer has comfortable padding, so it feels like you're sleeping on a carpeted floor, which is the feeling i like when i sleep. THus, this morning, i had no more backpain! :) now i need a new chair with an armrest so i don't get carpel tunnel syndrome...
7:37 --phew, close encounter with the other kind. Fortunately, my talking to Mrs. Tzimpolous saved me. while walking into C building, or what's now called J or H or whatever, I missed Liz Marcel by like 2 seconds. Like there was nobody around so it would have been a one-on-one, face-to-face encounter.
8:05 - Bah...french is so boring and useless. To help us remember the uses of the passe compose, she drew these symbols to represent the uses. THe symbols are so cryptic; it confuses me even more. I originally knew passe compose really well, and now, i think of the symbosl and try to figure out waht's going on w/ the symbols...grr...stupid class...
Orchestra: wow, orchestra stunk. we're screwed for tonight. poor soloists
Math: eh, it's math...nothing exciting. i wonder why mr. kelly put adam t, yuan, laurel, and me together in one group...
Physics: that video was so cool. We're so small in the universe and so big as well. I erally liked that. Also, morgan freeman doing a physics video??? uh...
sometime afterschool: stupid bike. first of all, i almost ran a red on the bike, so that left brendan waiting for the red light. Then, damn bike wouldn't shift when going up the hill, so i was pooped by the end. at brendan's house, we took the pictures of the science project stuff. I won't comment on brendan's little home-made container thing, esp the part that holds the microphone...
5:29 - When shaving, shave perpendicular to the blade, not parallel to it......
concert...well, read yuan's blog. my side of it, well, my back hurts. it was too cramped. everybody else's backs hurt as well. The liszt was horrible. i mean shang was good xcept mrs. haas wasn't taht great. she messed up on cuing us in and she glared at shang. well, lisa was phenomenal, as usual. man, she played some part of teh cadenza faster than heifetz!!!!!! The A-Bb-A octave part at teh end, she played really quickly; i was like, wow, she is good
Orchestra: Wow, we are screwed. Or rather, the soloists are screwed...
French: Eh, it's french. I think she's getting increasingly lazy. Today, she split us up into groups to do "review" on our own. I doubt she did much during the class. And guess what we reviewed??? 1) Numbers!!!! 2) Passe Compose!!!!! 3) More passe compose!!!! I mean wtf?? it's such a waste of my time. I wanted to take more classes but my schedule was full, and this is a class that takes 4 credits!!!! I should have taken a better class than this.
Physics: We, or actually, I finished the lab!!!! And i finished it correctly!!! :-D So proud of myself...
English: Mrs. Maier took our class to listen to that ski magazine guy talk. It was really cool. I mean i was interested adn all, but i'm a cyclist, so the technology is a lot different. The guy was really intelligent and funny tho. I should read more articles of his. I forgot his name tho...
Child Psychology: Another waste of time. Oh well, whatever. It's an easy class.
Math: so funny. adam was play drugwars on my calculator, and mr. kelly came by. Adam's like, "dude, mr. kelly, i just made $400 selling crack." dammit, i can't remember mr. kelly's response, but it was really funny. Maybe i should be like yuan and get myself a little notebook with the little girlie pictures and take notes throughout the day. oh, i also need weird pictures of me and my friends.
Olympiad: Still no news a/b the strings yet. :( something oaf said: "If I weren't myself, I'd slap myself...That sounds like something naixing would say...I'll stop now." The violin is sooo cool. I decided to put a bass bar on the violin. it was a lot harder than i had thought b/c the wood was a bit warped and i almost set the bass bar on fire when cutting it out w/ a dremel. wood glue is so strong...
8:31pm - Brendan's crazy. he biked over to my house to pick up some wires. it's like 30ºF outside and really dark.
I'm such a mess in the morning...i'm not a morning person. Maybe I should wake up 10 minutes earlier to get myself organized.
English: Plagiarism or not to plagiarism? There's this article Mrs. Maier told us about in which a teacher found that of her 100 students, 28 took chunks of their botany papers off the Internet. Chunks as in whole paragraphs. To punish the students, she gave a zero for that assignment to those who plagiarized. Consequently, those people were at risk of failing. Parents of those students complained and after a hearing, the school board forced the teacher to change the grades in favor of the cheaters. The teacher did so and resigned. Now I think those parents are almost as bad as their children. I mean it's a given that plagiarism is wrong, and if a parent has evidence of his/her kid plagiarizing, by supporting the kid, the parent is almost teaching the child that such a thing is good. I mean i understand the parents want to save their kids' grades, but i mean if has come down to a morality issue that will remain with the child for life, i think one grade should be sacrificed. I'm serious. If i were in such a situation, my parents would leave me high and dry. I mean they'd say, "tough luck...your choice to cheat, your responsibility." If anyone disagrees with me, IM me and we can debate it out. :) Oh what's more interesting is that many of the people who plagiarized probably had their parents to help with the papers, so that may be why the parents so vehemently oppose the teacher's decision to give zeros.
Orchestra: Lisa's such a good violin player that it's scary. However, Mrs. Haas is quite different. She conducts with her own tempo that's slower than Lisa's tempo...especially during that scary solo passage between the two tuttis. I just ended up following Lisa b/c she is the soloist. Also, i think that at the beginning of the second movement of tchaikovsky, the winds are way too loud. Also, nobody's using mutes, so that hurts the sound of the ensemble and the balance between orchestra and soloist.
French: wow, this class is too easy. Of the three quizzes we took in third quarter, I studied for none of them. My grades: 99, 100, 102. I mean geez, that's sad. Or maybe it just proves my intelligence. :-D Shit, i keep forgetting to write in the journal. My person's complained on the board a few times already. Her entry was dated 2-6 or something and well, you get the point.
Physics: Finally figured out how to do that problem!!! Now there's still that fourth problem, dammit...
Free Block: yup, you guessed it, we were in the library again. omg, yuan is pitiful at staring contests. You just make the slightest grin and she's giggling like crazy... Only did 6 math problems though. :(
Math: Our table is so unproductive. Seriously, during that half hour he gave us, i did 5 problems, which is still better than some people...*cough*yuan*cough*
Olympiad: Do I see a Stradivarius coming along? Never mind, doesn't seem like it. The scroll/peg box is ugly as hell. Oh well, it's not meant to be a work of art, although the body looks pretty good, considering it's made of plywood. Still looking for a solution to the string problem...choices are: 1) complain b/c they said "teams may not purchase" wound strings, so oaf suggested we a. steal or b. borrow. My strings are technically given to me by my father, so the "team" didn't purchase them. 2) We could use different thicknesses of fishing line or braided wire for strings...It's worth a try.
It really startled me when my dad was driving me into school to see all these news vans on worthen road competing for parking space w/ LHS students. I dunno, i guess i really don't feel too strongly about the incident, mainly because of my not knowing anybody involved. I mean i'm not being cold. If i knew the people, i'm sure i'd be in tears and all.
English: Hera talked about a story when she was in fourth grade. She and her friends saw a really annoying person leave a purple jacket on the bus and they decided to throw it into the trash can of the bus instead of returning it to her. :) Then i made the point of how interesting it is to hear these stories and match it to the person. FOr example, i had a friend in like 2nd grade who was really unpopular. I feel kinda bad now b/c every time we were around other ppl, i used to be mean to him. It's that kinda thing i'm talking about. You know, you look back 10 years down the road and think, wow, this was i when i was in 2nd grade. what a bitch i must have been. I mean this is true even with what we do today. That's why i decided to be nice to yuan and not make fun of her and justin, b/c 10 yrs down the road, i don't want to remember myself as this kind of a person... Maybe i'm too pretentious, but i'm just preparing for the future. :)
Child Psychology: Yeah, i realized i didn't have D block free, so i had to try to do the rest of the math homework. Ended up that Mrs. Craig spent the whole class time talking to us about her sinus stories, so i finished the math problems. Few years ago, she was coming home from CA via airplane, and before she went on teh airplane, she had a cold/flu, so she went to the pharmacy adn got some anti histimine. Got on the plane, and when landing at logan, the change in pressure caused her ears to feel really uncomfortable. She started screaming and the flight attendants brought her ice. The plane couldn't land b/c of traffic, but was able to get a special emergency landing or something b/c of her. Anyway, they brought her off in a stretcher and the pilots were joking that she can never get on their plane again, and she felt really bad and she was literally crying when the joked that. Then i finished my math homework.
Calculus: Dr. Seasholes walked in and mumbled something that's harder to hear and follow than what Dr. Hinkle says. Oh well, whatever.
Lunch: uh, it was, um, interesting... read yuan's blog for details on what happened.
Free block!: yeah, did what we losers do all teh time during free block, we went to the library. I sat there listening to heifetz display his awesome violin skills. Dude, the guy is scary. He's playing like a 3 or four part counterpoint on one violin. Then the brahms violin concerto cadenza that he wrote was SCARY. Maybe i should have done some physics problems... oh well, carpe diem
Physics: wow, that lab was difficult. Maybe we were dumb, but we still haven't finished the first problem yet. Just as a show of our stupidity, yuan got the problems correct!!! (story is true, but jk on the tone in which it was delivered--i.e. no offense yuan)
Olympiad: Violin so awesome!!! Mwahahahaha. Oaf's such an oaf. gawd, why did he hafta bring that desk in?? We have no need for it, and the room's already crowded enough.
Jonah told me that they chagned the rules such that most/all violin strings are illegal. Now why the f*** did they do that??? That is just gratuitous and asinine.
Speaking of asinine things......
LiL luckipanda (11:43:13 PM): put in "Naixing says hi"
LiL luckipanda (11:47:44 PM): say "naixing says hi" in your blog
Morning math class - Lei Duan actually did his homework!!! This is his first time doing homework since I started being TA in his class. What's the catch? well, he got almost half the problems wrong, including the very very basic ones. However, doing his homework actually helps, as he was actually participating in the group work!!! You don't understand how exciting that is for his teacher. It's like, like, hmm...almost like the feeling of getting a dog to do a trick or something. yeah, he = dog in intelligence.
6th grade class - wow, that was sad; two people showed up. I'm so proud of the problems i wrote, as they were so difficult. try some
1/2 + 1/6 + 1/12 + 1/20 + 1/30 + 42 =
and 1/3 + 1/15 + 1/35 + ... + 1/ (97 * 99) =
Btw, all these are done w/o calculator help
wow, lots of blogging to do...
I'm so happy. I got the computer room and my room networked together, but the IBM still can't recognize my shared printer, despite its being on the same network and having the windows 98 driver installed. Oh well, I'll just blame it on microsoft. I should change the routing of the cable tho, as i'm using about 175 ft of wiring.
On another note, i got a heifetz cd for really cheap. IT's actually two cds in one and i got it for $16 at tower records. that's my first time visiting that place and wow, it has so many classical cds. I'm gonna have to go there more often. Glazunov's violin concerto in a minor is so cool. And heifetz is really scary. "...Lossif Robertovich (as he was then called) received his first music lessons at the age of three from his father.... After only a few weeks, Heifetz was regarded with astonishment for the suppleness of his tone and the precision of his intonation. He intered the Imperial Music School when he was five years old. Two years later he performed Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto before an audience of 1000 [At age 7 and only 4 yrs of playing violin, he could kick my ass] and at the age of ten he was admitted to the St. Petersburg Conservatory--foundry of generations of world-class violinists. In 1911 he began his legendary series of of concert tours. In the April of that first year he performed at an open-air concert in St. Petersburg before 25,000 people and unleashed such a wave of enthusiasm that he needed police protection afterwards. At the age of thirteen he performed with the Berlin Philharmonic under Arthur Nikisch, himself a living legend. Nikisch confessed that he had never before heard such an excellent violinist. Such stories could be repeated ad infinitum."
Another thing a/b heifetz:
My dear Heifetz,
Your recital has filled me and my wife with anxiety. If you provoke a jealous God by playing with such superhuman perfection, you will die young. I earnestly advise you to play somethign badly every night before going to bed instead of saying your prayers. No mere mortal should presume to play as faultlessly as that.
Sincerely
G. Bernard Shaw
13 June 1920
On the other side of perfection...
LiL luckipanda: he made a joke
LiL luckipanda: and I laughed
LiL luckipanda: then he laughed
Moli Luo: LOL
LiL luckipanda: my martin aff got all fucked up
LiL luckipanda: it's like ALL BLACK
LiL luckipanda: martin is sort of like staism
Moli Luo: oh
Moli Luo: statism is easy to crush
Moli Luo: and they're really bad kritik debaters
LiL luckipanda: he came up and was like "Can I see your statism answers?" I handed them to him and he was like "OH GOD... how do you read this"
LiL luckipanda: I was like *flirty giggle*
LiL luckipanda: and he was like *MESSED UP flirty giggle*
Moli Luo: hmm...i won't ask what's going on btw the two of you
LiL luckipanda: hey shut up
LiL luckipanda: he's so gorgeous
LiL luckipanda: tell me more about him
Moli Luo: naixing, what did i tell you about being superficial?
Moli Luo: i was just telling yuan about how you were maturing yesterday
Moli Luo: now you're back to this
LiL luckipanda: haha
