"I love binoy's picture...I swear to god he looks like superman"

  posted by moliluo @ 1:27 PM

 
gahd dammit...stupid computer crashed at 3am this morning...i woke up to bring computer out of sleep and the monitor got no signal from computer, so i rebooted and realized like system files were missing, so had to pull over IBM, hooked up sony HD to IBM hd, booted from IBM, and backed up essential files and formatted C partition and reinstalled windows from stupid recovery CD that *forces* you to reformat.

anyway, prom was pretty fun
preprom gathering at orit's house. my mom went picture-crazy and halfway filled 64mb memory card w/ a/b 60 pictures. yuan and amy showed up 30 minutes late cuz amy had trouble fitting into her dress, into which she had fit a/b a month before. well, behold the effects of buffalo wings. ^_^
limo driver donna was sooo cool. was pretty much racing w/ another limo and said, "i'm gonna be out for dinner for an hour. call me if you need *anything*, even if it's just to ask me to crush someone for you." although a/c was on full blast, i couldn't feel a thing, so was sweating like crazy. add to that a little bit of car sickness from the horizontal motion, as was sitting sideways. not v. good combination.
the beginning was pretty bad cuz 1. v chaotic sign-in process and didn't work either and 2. ppl wouldn't let us into the main room even though it was past 7, cuz they weren't done setting up. gahd...my language/grammar/punctuation/other crap has become so lax when blogging. must do something to change that...but too lazy.
Anyway, the food there was pretty good. Mike's mom told us later that Copley had one of the best restaurants in Boston. Oh yeah, can't forgot about Mike's heroic attempts to light candle that resulted in his burning his hand and the candle staying unlit. Yu Wang scares me very very much. Insisted that everyone else should grind like him. Mike wandered around for lots of the time looking for Hera, who, he said, kept running off with other people.
after prom, went to alex creech's house. her parents were really nice. like 9 of us in one room w/ one pull-out sofa bed, one air bed, and a couch. saw two movies, and during movies, mike shared the sofa bed w/ amy, orit, alex, and olympia. ^_^ slackers was pretty weird movie. like it was just random semi-funny/crazy scenes thrown together w/o much of a plot. oceans eleven didn't make much sense to me considering my fatigue and time of day. smokers was just strange. like...dude...ack...scary. then talked a/b random...interesting stuff and ofc, bad mouthed other people. left at 9am w/ mike and w/ 15 min of sleep cuz everyone, esp amy, kept talking all night. got home, got 3/2 hours of sleep...literally set alarm clock to ring at 1130 cuz had paper to start and finish...a paper that was due that day. yeah, after i woke up, you go figure out the rest. actually, paper was complete BS. she gave us time to research on Internet in class, but i lost like 2/3 of the research stuff, so ended up BSing paper w/ the 1/3 that i *did* have. then printed out paper and left for school. didn't proofread cuz was too tired...well, i glanced at comptuer screen for red underlines just to make sure no blatant spelling errors.

  posted by moliluo @ 1:23 AM

senior bbq was pretty fun in the sense that it was v. poorly organized and we just grabbed some food and left. vikram took me, binoy, brendan, and howard out driving. dude, vik's dad has indian rock music in his car, so we were listening to taht. i suggested rolling down the windows and blasting the music through the center, but vikram was too embarrassed a/b it so he didn't. >.< then binoy suggested indian pop music, so we drove to his house and picked up a tape of indian pop music. it was...quite......interesting. hehehehehe. went to center courts and played basketball, where binoy scored almost all the points and brendan and i were just standing around and passing the ball amongst us.

mike gillmor had some interesting stuff in his permanent records. his elementary school report cards were of much amusement to read. His kindergarten and first grade teachers noted his tendencies to be dilatory and that he daydreams during class. apparently, my french delinquency began in elementary school, as I was marked with satisfactory and satisfactory minus grades for on-time completion of homework.

I think this year's class council is is really incompetent. All these activities they're organizing are poorly organized and run, and yesterday, the graduation rehersal was to begin at 2pm, but they printed on a calendar taht it begins at 225. Good thing Brendan knew the real start time. Then the rehersal was pretty rowdy. Ugh...some people from our school really annoy me. Such insolence...... Well, as the keynote speaker to this year's science olympiad competition said, in 20 years, they'll be dead while the more disciplined people will be making big bucks. ^_^

Senior awards night was a joke. The Madrigals sang really well, and my mom took a picture of them, and I wanted to show it to Alex, but Mr. O'Connell's arm was right over alex's head. The awards, I think, were quire randomly given out. Well, I got $500, so i'm happy. On the car ride home, my mom was saying, "so, we're gonna split it so that 60% goes to me, right?" But my brother jumped to my defense and said "no, that's Moli's money. he should keep it." But we all know that his real motive is to flatter me for the money...hehehehehe ^_~

 
not used to seeing away messages that say "studying for bio" or thigns like that. then i remember that not everyone is as fortunate as we seniors are. hehehehehehe. okay, i'll stop rubbing it in now.

  posted by moliluo @ 11:47 PM

 
In case I didn't make myself clear, Shang, we're not out to get you. False accusations and paranoia won't get you anywhere.

I hate CambridgePort Bank. It just has to have such a similar name to Cambridge Savings Bank. My mom wanted me to deposit a check for her at her bank (CSB) and I needed to deposit a check at my bank (CPB). I glanced at her deposit slip and thought it said CPB, so I tried to deposit both and the teller pointed out that I had the wrong bank for one. Well, my mom has a v. valentin-ish friend who, for a few years, kept going to CPB instead of CSB (the two banks were like right next to each other) and making transactions on the wrong ATM and getting charged every month for her transactions at another bank. v. interesting person.

My dad's finally *really* interested in switching to RCN cable modem. IT'S ABOUT BLOODY TIME!!!!! GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAK...I'M GONNA BE LEAVING VERY VERY SOON, AND GONNA BE GONE FOR ALMOST 3/2 MONTHS OF SUMMER. Well, at least I'll be able to use it when i come home, and it won't be as dramatic a switch from (wireless) ethernet to friggin 56k than from ethernet to broadband. ^_^ my northwestern interviewer said that after going from northwestern ethernet to his parents home, he doesn't even bother to check e-mail cuz their 56k is so slow. I hafta live with this everyday!!!!! try downloading songs at 0.38kb/s!!! bleargh!!

  posted by moliluo @ 11:31 PM

 
okay...few things

shang, i realize what you're saying a/b ppl trash talking you, and i'll admit that i haven't always said the most flattering things about you, but you have to keep in mind that all of us have our rights to voice our opinions. Now, what i say about you is based on what I know of you, from interacting with you, reading your blogs, and IMing you, and I'm not singling you out as a victim to my opinions. no sir. To close friends, I spill everything, including my good and bad opinions on things and people. I mean just as you rant in your blog about your opinions and such, I do so with friends, and this unleashing of emotion is perfectly healthy. I only say what I understand of you, and I'm not purposely trying to build a bad image of you by only selecting bad quatlities to discuss. For example, I often give you credit for being able to play the piano with such virtuosity. By no means am I insulting you. I hold you in high esteem when I deem it necessary. However, that can not always happen, as you, although certainly not unique in this regard, have character faults. But the thing that you must understand is, what I say to my best friends is everything i feel, not just the bad things; i'm not out to solely criticize you. I'm just voicing my opinions, and I'm not doing so in any intentionally malicious way. These comments I have made, I still stand behind them, as they are *my* opinions, and I will not change them due to criticism from you. However, I do agree that some are very harsh, hence the reason for my never publicly making these comments. I apologize for any offense or pain they have inflicted upon you, but in this apology, I am, by no means, refuting what i have said before. I stand behind my words if I find them justified.

As I said to you yesterday, if you like not what people say of you, you can either disprove their arguments; change yourself so you're no longer in the light of their attacks, but do this only if you believe what they say is true and is bad; or, should the fault be beyond your abilities to correct, then admit to its verity and learn to live with it. It may not always be the most pleasurable to do, but it's the truth and it's always with you, so you might as well learn to live with it. Perhaps your reaction to other people's criticisms is what leads to greater catastrophe. Understand what people say of you, but also know that understanding does not always involve critically defending onself. Brush it off or tell a joke or somethign in response to it. Don't get me wrong, i'm not saying that your life is to be taken jocularly. I can certainly understand why you do what you do when people criticize you (by which I am referring to your outbursts on your blog), but you should also note htat it does not get you very far. It just fires up people's negative opinions of you. I mean everyone has something that will be with him/her forever, and you can just look at how each deals with it and learn from it. Take tornheim, for example. When under criticism or the such, he gets out of it by a joke taht alleviates tension amongst the parties. Or Amy, who just sucks it up admirably.

I hope that it is clear that I am not joining the bandwagon of insulting you. It is merely my own opinions, most of which are formed based on reading your blog. What one thoughtfully writes and says reveals much of that person and how he/she wants otehrs to regard him/her. That is, through one's tone of argument, what one says, and how one delivers the arguments, others can find out about htat person. Specifically, what you choose to say in your blog (disregarding surveys) reveals what you find to be important. If you find your dad's tenure important, i respect taht; if you think that getting an A- means the end of the world, i respect that as well. I, furthermore, agree that those who dislike your blogs should just not read them. I, personally, find them a bit boring, so I read them periodically. I'm sure many people find my blogs boring and do the same thing, and I have nothign against that, as I'm not that passionate a blogger. Wait, what was i talking about before?

Anyway, expect more posts on this subject as I collect myself and remember things that I had wanted to say.