New nails

Applied a new color onto my nails on monday, which is like 4 days ago. To be honest, I'm still loving this peachy coral color. And one of the best things is that the nail polish barely chipped, well except for my left index finger which I seem to use a lot lately, don't know why though.

Oh almost forgot to mention, the color is called taupe drawer by Pure Ice. I know the company made two different colored nail polishes have the same name, but oh well, that's just the way it is.

In the picture above, I applied two coats of pure ice polish and one coat of NYC extra shiny top coat.

Tired

I’m so exhausted. I didn’t get enough sleep even though I should have, cuz this was indeed a pretty long weekend. I don’t know; it somehow all went to waste - i didn’t get to sleep as much & I was like super hyper the whole time for being immersed in such a wonderful atmosphere and acting like a carefree person. But tomorrow is MONDAY, which I'm frigging sick of (is ending with a preposition legit?). GAH, how am I gonna survive this. I just have to endure. I know it isn’t that bad once I re-calibrate myself for a normal week.

Gotta get some major work done. Oh, and I got the camis in the pic on top, except it was in lemon yellow (yea, just like this font color I chose), which i didn't see on old navy's website. But I pinky promise, it's way prettier :) It's on sale in their local store; that's why I bought it for a much lower price than the posted one on the official website. Thinking about wearing it cheers me up a bit. Too bad I don't think the weather/work would allow me to wear it tomorrow. I seriously thought I wouldn't get any monday sickness during the summer break, cuz it's summer, it's gotta be fun.

Keep grooving

It has been a long time since that instant when I suddenly realized I don't feel too satisfied with my sign-in email address. Ever since then, I had tried everything to change it to a better looking email address, but all that effort was in vain. However, just now, I casted my most renowned and proven-effective spell - googlera (i'm totally aware of the fact that this is unrealistic, but oh please, just take my words for it) and guess what? It worked wonders, I found this awesome article teaching readers how to change sign-in user name by utilizing a little shrewd trick. Thanks, thank you so so much, you pretty much saved my day. (Even though changing the name is equivalent to starting out fresh, hm... blog view=2, member since July, 2009)

Besides, the advent of that little event also strengthened the assertion of one aspect of me: perfectionist. I never seemed to be fully content with the notion of status-quo; or let's just say, settling down isn't my thing. I feel unfulfilled everyday I finished some task after a long period of time or with hardship; therefore, once I can't put up with the thought of being static, I would painstakingly find some un-harmonic stuff out of it and go bust some moves again. Doesn't it sound weird? Anyhoo, that's just me (or I in order to be grammatically correct. I'd rather not use the right one for the sake of the sound of it, arg, being omniscient when it comes to grammar is such a burden :P)

P.S. I'm back again, after more than a weak. Lab work is going smoothly as expected. OH, I found this image from the internet, hopefully, it's not copyrighted.

The Report

I promised I would do a report on it. Yet, turned out that today’s experimental lab project thing wasn’t such big of a deal-it was actually like a warm-up in my opinion, and that’s what I told my lab partner.

First of all, what we did is lay out all the glass slides into th glass stands diagonally sot that the position of slides is alternating. To be honest, we did it wrong at first, which cost us tons of time, since the professor didn’t clarify how the slides were supposed to lie NOT in a manner of straight line. We assume the example run he gave us was wrong, because um… he’s an old guy with reading glasses on, you know what I mean, old people can easily make mistake with being acknowledged of it happening, NO OFFENSE. Anyway, let’s just say we made a fool of ourselves cuz we thought we were being shrewd and everything, so inevitably, we would have to clean up the mess. We redid the whole thing, which didn’t take as long.

The task was indeed tedious just as how Dr.Cassell indicated (he said he had to pay one of his sons 5 dollars an hour to help him out, but still, the son wouldn’t do it anymore. See how legendary we are right here-we finished a task no one would ever want to be assigned.) Before lunch, we placed the slide stands in 10% nitrogen solution in order to get rid of the unwanted substances that stained the slides, such as fats, finger prints.

After we got back from lunch, we rinsed off the nitrogen solution and heated up a bottle of mixture to 80 degrees. The heating system is so damn cool. The bottle that came with the console had a little rod at the bottom. If you turn on the heating tool, the normal-looking rod would automatically find its place in the center and start spinning to stir up the solution/mixture. COOL BEANS. I felt like a little kid cuz I was prone to get so easily amazed by everything including, this time, the change in color, from lime green to teal/seaweed green. It might sound like a really brief process, but it was so time-consuming. We stayed there for a whole 1 and a half hour just for this.

That’s it for the report, methinks (cool vocab). I don’t feel like keeping on babbling now.

Why oh why

What? Last day of school? No way...it doesn't feel like it, not at all. I'm probably too used to the feeling of pressure clinging to me every single day that I can't live without it. DAMN, I'm weird. On the other hand, I've gotta say, time passed fast. You'd say, oh wow, what a trite saying. YES, I'm this cheesy, so what?

Yet, I don't feel relaxed at all. SAT this saturday, and ACT next saturday. Plus, I've been working my butt off lately, well, not all the time, but you know what i mean, people procrastinate. Just finished one practice test a few hours ago, the result was pretty promising: 2110. Besides, I randomly made up some score for the essay portion since I don't know how to score my own paper thereby decided to not write it at all.

Sorry, I feel the need to babble on and on and ... on. My parents seem so uptight today, especially my dad. He was like: "oh, are you still gonna be able to finish the whole practice book for REVIEWING?" God forbid! It's not called a review book, ok? It's not like the more practice test I do, the higher score I will get on the actual test, they don't have a direct proportional relationship. All it does it's to help you get familiarized with the timing and various annoying rules. One thing I'm sure of is that I'm inevitably going to be stumped on and squished if i don't get through all of it. Let's wait and see, I'll do my best. And for your records, that's the best I can reach at the moment.

Have to stop now, my eyeballs are not within my control right now. They tend to rotate freely as they please when I'm tired. Yikes, that came out weird. Just not as bad as you thought it would be, just figuratively speaking. My eyes just stink. I better hit the hay before 1 am, otherwise, I will be doomed tomorrow. A brand-new-cramming-for-SAT day awaiting me under the sunlight, like I really look forward to it...pssshh.

Anyway, so much for the cynicalness (sp?) Wish me luck on both tests :)

Writing my way out

I've always love to think about writing. The thought of it satisfies me somehow -- pondering on the choose of vocabs, going back and forth on the same sentence for half an hour to make it polished, and reading it out loud (in my head).

I simply cannot believe how much my writing has improved since I emigrated from another country. I learned to vary my sentence structures. Instead of mapping out the phrases in a parallel manner, I began rephrasing different sentences just to make it sound better, or more sophisticated (hopefully, that's my ultimate goal after all)

I should probably. My back aches because of yesterday's uber fun twisters, and my eyes are watery and drooping from staring at the screen the whole day. HAHA, I have to refrain from using computer this frequently, maybe an internet abstinence will plays in some time, if that's even feasible.

I dream a dream

I know the title seems a tiny bit hackneyed. But, long story short, everybody possesses his/her own dreams; they could just dwell in a nook of your heart, awaiting to be revealed someday.

OK, so I am a junior in high school right now. Since I'm taking a couple pretty rigorous AP and honor classes, I would mostly consider myself a candidate for top-notch colleges. However, for the most part, I'm pretty scared to tell anyone of my dream about the future. I don't dare to let anybody know beforehand, as though it would be crushed before I know it. Moreover, I hate comparing myself with those smarty-pants around me, which is what I do all the time, but juxtaposing really takes away my hopes sometimes.

Ever since the beginning of my junior year, I spent a large percent of my leisure time looking up all types of colleges I want to get in. I bought many test prep books. I even choose studying over sleeping sometimes for the sake of my GPA. But still, I'm afraid, afraid of someday, when I look back, I regret that I made this decision to work my tails off to get into prestigious colleges but ended up having my dreams NOT realized. Consequently, I always have conflict in myself from both sides to convince me to do this and that. Fortunately, I haven't given up on that.

Therefore, I promise, I will work to my full potential to achieve my dream. Yay, it even sounds cheesy to me, the author. But oh well, you'll see.

Whereabouts

"Last updated on Dec 31, 2008"?

What? where did I go? I never meant to stop updating blog anymore...

Oh well, just a heads-up. I've always been around, however, i just never thought about posting a new entry for my rambling collection.

Besides, I'd been extremely busy with my essay, tests, presentations and whatnot lately. To be honest, I never went to bad before 1AM for the last three weekdays. Therefore, I yearned for sleep deadly.

fsjkalgjsdoagjiojake, yep, i gotta go...