Tomorrow is my last exam for this semester.
My brain is not working though and I don't know what to do. I have never felt this dumb before in my whole life... (well, except that one time in second grade... let's not even talk about it).
I have been calling my friends and bugging them with silly questions.
I wonder if I have some brain disorder, some disease... I don't know some virus is eating up my brain, perhaps?
I don't know why my brain is so not in tune right now...
Actually I don't know where my brain is right now. It's a wonder to me that I can actually still write this.
Alzheimer?
That's scary...
God help me tomorrow,.... please... pretty pretty please....

Brain crash

My brain had decided to crash on me.... just like a really beat-up computer. It has decided to quit and disregard any data entry from me.
I wish this was only my imagination... but it sure looks like it's for real...

Counting down

Starting count down now.... less than 60 hours away before my execution, i.e. the start of finals.
Instead of studying for it, I'm writing about counting down.
Great.
I can just picture my results now...

Eyes of Mordor

Is it just me or does this look like the "Eyes of Mordor" to you?

There's no need to answer...
And the answer to your question is yes, I am crazy about the LOTR. Not the book though. Can't seem to finish it hard as I try. I prefer my brother's collection of David Edding's Sparhawk. I mean Edding made him sounds like such a cool dude.

Anywho, I lurrrrrve LOTR the movie.
Somehow it's almost equal to all the HK gangster movies I used to watch when I was little. It's all Andy Lau's fault that in the 4th grade I told my dad I wanted to be a gangster with an AK47 and a really nice big flashy red bike....
I didn't realize I was gonna be doomed by getting banned from ever getting my hands on a real bike as a result. (Was never interested in any lady scooters....)

Geez... how did I digress so far ?? (Pretend to be surprised now....)

I guess... I like the idea of being in a kick-ass group and torture people. hahah.... neah... I think it's just the result from being the nerdy geek with very few friends in school. Think I just grew up wishing I belong to a certain group of some sort.

Anyway, the eyes of mordor was actually a failed attempt to capture the full moon a few days ago. I think my shaky hands are comparable to those of a 90 year old. I really have no idea why I tremble so much.
The one below is also another failure, but I don't care.... I like it, and that's what matters.














Star. Moon. Earth.

Moro

Earlier this month I took a trip back to the island where my maternal great grandparents used to live. I used to look forward to going to this place when I was little as I would be having so much fun there.
As Madonna would say, " This used to be my playground....."

So excited!
I watched one of the first episodes of Grey's Anatomy on Starworld today. I have actually seen it before, but anyway....finally something I can look forward to.
I didn't get a chance to keep track of this show when I was in Chicago. Maybe this time I can....
The bad news is...I'm gonna be away in about 3 weeks.
I hope my brother has it in his cable subscription back home.

By the way, I went to the temple yesterday by myself. It was quite an interesting experience.

Behind the scenes of my nightmare

GOSH....
Now I'm a bit relieved. Just realized that the nightmare I mentioned won't be part of any deja-vu, since it seems to be induced.
What I noticed with my dreams that turn in to deja-vus is that they usually don't have any events or occasions that I think could have induced them.

I think this nightmare came about because I dozed off listening to this discussion on Chicago's KissFM regarding the cases of unnecessary deaths... with this violence in the rap world ( in Detroit, I believe), the drag racing on State St (man,... I'm a bit worried for some of my old neighbours in my previous apartment building. I hope everyone's ok), people having problem getting emergency medical assistance from 911.

It was just so upsetting to listen to the recorded 911 calls, but I can't help but feel slightly for the operators. I mean, I wonder if they were just really having a bad day or stressed out about something and made a really bad call at work. Although the recordings really stressed me out, I kinda find it even more upsetting to hear some of the unbelieveable comments made by people who called in or messaged the radio: Among them a guy who insisted that it is their rights to drag race on a public street, saying that there's nothing anyone can do to stop them, and another who I think admitted to drag racing WITHOUT driving license?!?!? There was also a lady caller who cheerfully called in and kinda' suggested that it sorta' levels out the situation, comparing it to people who were killed in an accident involving LICENSED older drivers.WTH?!?!?!

I'm just upset.
I was involved in an accident before a few years ago. Luckily the person survived with a dislocated hip and minor injuries according to what the doctor told me. I remember crying the whole night that night.

I don't drag race. I might go beyond the speed limit once in a while nowadays on the expressway, but only when there is really the need to. Even then, it doesn't go to an absurd triple digit figure. And it definitely does not happen on a public street with pedestrians around.
I must make a note to myself to drive even more carefully in the future.

I guess it might be a good idea to try to remember this more often. I can't remember where I heard or read it, but it sure sounds Oprah-y to me:
Driving is a privilege, not a right.
Now I wonder if it came from some public service announcement. Geez... some really bad memory that I have. Wonder if my brain is running on some old pc from pre-pentium era....

My nightmare

A really bad nightmare woke me up just now.
It was a really bad one.... and it's a bit scary since some of the details are still freshly etched in my mind.
Actually it was one heck of a story, with two subplots that I don't think are related. One has a murder cover-up plot and one has a conspiracy theory thing involving more victims (GEEZ.... roomie! Look what your bf has done to me! And to think I only browsed through the websites he mentioned for a few brief minutes).
Going back to my dream-based dejavu, this is exactly why I don't like them. Hopefully no part of this won't turn out to be part of any future dejavu, since there was an old friend involved as one of the victims.
Hopefully this will be like one of my notorious nightmare of my whole family being captured and turned into zombies...
(Hey,... what can I say, I was 13, ok?!?!?).

If women ruled the world....

I got these in one of those chain e-mails, and I love them!!
I hope I don't get into trouble for not quoting the sources, as I have no idea where they came from originally.
Well, since the email suggested further sharing of these images, I figures posting them here would be more effective.

IF WOMEN RULED THE WORLD....


















































































































I must say, what a better world it would be.....

free lunch part deux

On hindsight, apparently the offer for free dinner was not directed to me.
(So embarassing...)
I just happened to be lucky enough that I have a weird name and someone remembered me. Must remember to thank my mom for this crazy idea of her ( the name, I mean).
Anyway, it was the best and most scrumptious dinner I've ever had.
D-E-L-I-C-I-O-U-S!
I would highly recommend this price to anyone, if not for the tab which I did not get to see, although I doubt I want to know....
Anyway, as we were saying during dinner, it's really a good place to go if you want to impress your future or potential in-laws.
YUM.YUM.YUM. Three YUMs Up!

Free lunch

When someone who used to keep saying there's no such thing as a free lunch offers you a free dinner instead.
Should you be suspicious?

Blast from the past part deux

One of the buildings I miss the most...














I got distracted on my way home from class one evening, and here's the reason. I like this picture because it looks like there's some exorcism work going on on the top of the JH building.
















I wish they could splurge on tulips like these over here.....
















Didn't really want to include this one, but I just really love this picture my friend took of me at one of the gift shops in Galena. Especially since one he is in the picture, without noticing it himself. hahaha.....thanks for taking the picture, and it does really look good on you, gir!
hehehehe.... Anyway, what I really like about the picture is the word on the tiara. In case you can't see it, it says: Bachelorette.

I'm obsessed

I'm in love!

I'm in love!

I'm in love....
with pink guava!

hahaha....

sorry for the possibly misleading statement,but I'm seriously in love. Close to being obsessed actually....

The thing is nobody in my family even eats guava, I think. And hard as I try for the past 2 days, I can't figure out when the first time was that I gave it a try. I know it was not that long ago, but I can't remember....

Geez! Talk about some short memory span....

Blast from the Past

I finally transferred the pictures on my cell phone the other day.
Can't help but feel all nostalgic ....











A once very familiar view from outside the window at work...












I remember clearly how I used to look forward to any movement from this side of the platform...












It's not a very good picture due to the low resolution, but there was huge rainbow over Lake Michigan, taken while riding in the back seat of my friend's car....











This picture of the church on Dearborn was taken on my way home from my French class. The whole downtown was covered in soot-like snow flakes. Tons of nice,tiny, light and dry snow flakes that float in the air beautifully instead of those wet and heavy ones that just fall flat on the ground *splat*.












The park across the street...












and the view from yet another familiar "El" platform , as what I would see when I used to go for a dose of "mango freeze with pearl".... yup, even during winter....