A Japanese and Chinese Major

Archive for February, 2007

I found out my sister is on facebook today, I sent here a friend invitation and waiting to get a reply.

Grades are slipping because I’ve been lazy. Bombed my chemistry exam, I still don’t know what I got on it yet but of 36 questions I guessed every one

I feel like I should be doing stuff much more productive than laying around and checking facebook, my adsense stats, and CNN all day so I feel bad about that. I’m wondering if I should start hiring people to write articles for me…

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Feeling fat again, I don’t feel comfortable. Last night I was going to go to the Spice bar with Nate but after I put on some decent looking clothes I didn’t like the way I looked because I looked fat in them. I can’t drink beer anymore. NO BEER! NO BEER! NO BEER! NO BEER! NO BEER! NO BEER! NO BEER! NO BEER!

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After seeing all the fun things you can do with a wii, and my sudden urge lately to just sit around and watch t.v. has sparked my interests in getting a wii. That and the wii was just recently hacked and John said he could get me about every game for it, so that helps alot too.

Friday night Julie and I had a fun time hanging out at Nate’s and playing Guitar Hero, Halo 2 and drinking a whole handle of jose cuervo. We then went to the “Family Night” event at Caityln and Michelle’s place and it wasn’t nearly as good as I had expected it to be, the place was pretty much dead when we walked in (even though there were alot of people there). They were all just sitting around and watching tv and not drinking. Nate left about immediately. Then I got kicked out after I told some weird kid in a white shirt to hit me after he jumped up from the couch into my face saying “Hey stop making fun of her!”…

Julie is here she surprised me!!!!!!
so happy bye bye

My roommate Sean just said that in the case of an apocolyptic event, he is going to kill everyone in the house and have fun doing it. He said I have no idea how serious he was and that he would be ready to move onto the house next door and do it again. This really creeps me out…

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I got an A on my physiology exam and final, that was a big surprise, it’s much easier now that I know to study from the notes.

I wanted to export this blog from blogger to my site at AZN Blogs but wordpress doesn’t allow for the new blogger 2 to be imported yet. dammit. Oh well I got Jackie’s installed and should be configured tonight.

Got done with my chemistry lab it was an easier one than last weekend’s, still have to go to lab today at 2:30

I heard that Google is now going to be introducing a “phraserank” system into their search ranking. They say that the webmaster can’t control this at all but I don’t know how the fuck they figure. I’m thinking it’s gonna be big and gonna change alot of thing s that are going on with getting in the serps now bigtime.

I’m going to start a new approach with my websites and actually start to try to put alot in to them one by one. It’s a simple theory, make high-quality pages and you’ll get more links to your site, more people will see them and with more people seeing them the better chances you have of getting clicks and money.

I guess I’m going to have to join the bandwagon like everyone else and join like feedburner and technorati and crap like that, maybe even digg too? I don’t know, I guess it doesn’t hurt but I hate making sites other than mine more powerful by giving them free links to their site. I want to be the site that does that! I want them to come to me instead of me coming to them!

Facebook also recently just added icons you can buy for a $1 on their site and give it to people. It’s like a total rip-off of cyworld. Those two sites really know how to make the money, I’m jealous because I can see everything there doing like their tricks to advertise and sell and shit and I can’t do it… I only hangout on their site and view impressions which give them money and I just feed the beast, hate it.

Andrew recently posted on facebook something about his purpose of being a recycler or something, and I’ve copied and pasted it here:

Not Your Typical Environmentalist…

I wanted to be a lot of things same as many people when I was much younger. The profession of scientist was a huge attraction to me, especially the field of biology. Even though I’m not sure if I have the brain for it, but still I believed I would eventually become a biologist someday until I changed my major to Environmental Science in my sophomore year. Living in Taiwan for more than half of my life, the idea of recycling or sustainability was more incorporated into people’s daily life and mind compared to the States, which Americans are wasteful IS a typical image. The shock of actually seeing this would inevitably become the motive for me to study Environmental Science.

Of course the story doesn’t end here, I began to get involved in Students for Recycling, trying to help promote recycling on this huge campus. I remember one of my Indonesian friends used to ridicule me of going to SFR and suggested that it is useless. For me to deny his word would be naïve as I realize the obstacles environmentalism faces here in the States. For example, the association of animal rights with environmentalism is a discouraging sign.

I don’t like to be “categorized”, especially when the label is commonly misunderstood. I do not or try my best not to consume meat and for this I would probably be labeled “vegetarian” in the sense of animal rights or what not. Yet my reason for doing this has nothing to with animal rights, it is simply for health and for the environment. Meat production is probably the most wasteful and inefficient way of food production especially considering the scale of human population today. Same resources in terms of water, energy, and land used could yield more rice, wheat or soy beans to feed more people and are relatively affordable than meat. When the impact of meat production is devastating and there are people still starving out there, I couldn’t think of the option of meat.

I would argue that environmentalism has NOTHING to do with animal rights. The truth is humans have to eat or consume materials to keep ourselves functional. All biological life forms on this planet take what it needs and play their roles (for example, predators or scavengers) to help keep the ecosystem in check or equilibrium. Animal rights movement is not a logical approach in a sense that the existence of carnivores is part of nature. The question should be what do we CHOOSE to eat? Does it achieve sustainability? The essential goal of environmentalism is simply to find a “sustainable” way for us exist in harmony with nature.

It is sad that environmentalists (this term sounds so serious… don’t really like using it) have to face these misconceptions. In my journey towards what ever, I’ve learned that to know the truth takes courage to put down all preconceptions. Well, I could be wrong about everything I just wrote…

I try my best.

“Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.” – Gandhi

I don’t know but shortly before he posted this on facebook he asked me if I was successful in my meat diet off not eating meat. I said no but I’ll get around to it or something like that, he just looked off and nodded his head, not looking surprised. Then he wrote this. I have a package of sausage and about of pound of meat in the fridge thats become old and I haven’t ate, and he says in his note how wasteful americans are. I wonder if he was referring to one of those wasteful americans as me, hmm….

The thing about Andrew is is he’s crazy. He thinks he’s a superhero that’s going to save the day and save the earth from pollution and save it from the terrible bad guys, known as americans. You know before going to Japan I wouldn’t have cared how much you insulted americans becuase I thought then that America did suck and that other countries were better. After going to Japan, I found out how awesome America really is and how it is better than other countries and so now when he says that it makes me pretty angry. Not only that, but Andrew IS american! He was born here and spent half of his life in Taiwan and the other here. With all the things he tries to conserve and make a difference, he does nothing. For about as much as he saves and conserves something or recycles something, I throw or waste double, showing he’s not even making a difference that’s reaching out of this household. Andrew is crazy because he thinks he can make a difference by:

1. Not turning on the heat during the winter to conserve energy.
2. Not eating meat even though he likes meat.
3. Being a stickler about recycling all the fucking time.
4. He talks about keeping the environment clean and being healthy and everything, even though he smokes quite alot.

But the real reason why this pisses me off is because his craziness and delusions of grandeur are affecting my life. It’s ok for you to live in your own little fantasy world and do what you want with recycling and stuff, but once you start trying to control how I live and what I do, you’re going to have a problem.

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Reminder to write about a blog entry with all the old email I’ve received.

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It was really pretty. I think I did ok but not great on my physiology exam this morning but we’ll c, I’m wating for it to be posted on Carmen. I managed to stay up all of last night, the first I’ve been able to since trying this year. I lite one of my candles up and watched it burn, I enjoy watching it because it’s spontaneous, kind of like watching fish in a aquarium.

I slept in for my Chemistry quiz though, slept till 2:15 and it started at 2:30 so I did a tiring fast walk all the way there.

I have a med terms online assignment I still have to do for today, and I gotta eat but I don’t know what, I don’t really feel like eating curry or spaghetti or anything like that but that’s what I got.

On facebook that Josh kid responded to me talking about not inviting everyone to the nabe JSO even and he came back with a smartass explanation that his house was too small so I asked him why he didn’t invite everyone to the restaurant last year and if it was because there wasn’t enough room there either. That kid is such a dumbass.

I put google ads on the center of my pages and I’ll see if I can get any extra money outta doing that but so far I haven’t got any clicks, which is surprising because they are right in the center and like look like a very impulse click, oh well we’ll see.

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It looks like I’ve been gaining a few pounds, which is a surprise because I’ve been way more active than when I was just sitting around all day not moving at home and eating. I notice it now more with my shirt off. I guess I can blame it mostly on the following things:

1. Beer
2. Kennedy

Those two are a bad mix. I tried to stop eating meat for awhile but so far I haven’t been true to the idea. I’ve given up fast food and even diet pop though and I’ve been doing perfect with that although I have been drinking alot of chocolate milk and orange guava passionfruit at Kennedy lately. So, to prevent this I’m going to:

A: Drink Vodka/Alcohol instead of Beer
and B: Stop eating at Kennedy

Both are hard to do but doable. I have a physiology midterm tomorrow and I’m going to try to stay up all night.

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Julie and I decided to brave the cold tonight and headed to Burrito Noches for dinner. Since it was so cold we decided to run to the place, and when we were running I was kicking snow and then I saw another something on the ground and I was just about to kick it when I saw a furry thing and I yelled, it was a dead squirrel laying on the sidewalk on the oval. We made it to the burrito noches place but not without having to stop at the library in-between to warm up.

Oh by the way tonight was the superbowl. I don’t remember what I was doing during last year’s superbowl but I think the year before that I was at BG and I watched it in my bed in my dorm with Adam after being full from eating boneless bw3 chicken wings, I wasn’t feeling too good that night.

I just saw a commercial for Saul the Moleman on cartoon network, it looks really really good, and I’m glad that I see it coming on the air since I learned about it first online just like Drinky Crow, which hopefully means Drinky Crow will be on soon. I’m sitting on Julie’s bed typing this now while she is typing an essay. We just watched the show “Shocking Moments 2″ and now back to work.

Friday night Julie, me, Jared, Ayaka, and a girl named Vanessa went to hang out at Nate’s apartment and play guitar hero like we did the last weekend. We didn’t get nearly as drunk, but still it was a good time. We played GH 1 followed by 2 and then wii mini games and then the surgery game.

Saturday we just chilled at my place for the night because Julie and I decided it wouldn’t be a good idea to drink alot that night. We made mopo tofu and curry rice, with a ton of rice and I boiled a bit the edamame. We were gonna watch some korean movie but I started playing the Resident Evil 2 speed run movie and Nate just talked about how much these game gave him memories of his youth throughout the game.

Well I don’t feel like writing much more I have a Physiology exam this tuesday that I haven’t studied for so yeah, cya.

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Alot has changed since the last post, of course it has because it’s been a long time since I last posted. Being that I have a lot of original text on this site and this is actually for a change one of my sites that I put good content on, I’ve decided to de-blacklist it from searches and list it online, not only that but take it off blogger and put it on my own website, so I can have complete control of it.

Well where to begin. I’m back at OSU, and classes are much much easier now that I don’t have Japanese or Chinese classes anymore. I’m taking Chem 101, Med Terms 500, and Physiology this quarter. Chem has turned out to be really easy, Physiology too, and the hardest is Physiology.

Coming back from Japan I think I’ve learned alot about how people here are still in a little magical bubble world about Japan and speaking Japanese. The way my friends talk are so textbook, and I find myself saying “That’s not what you say in that situation”, or “That won’t be enough to say” and stuff like that. Actually it’s alot about the “よく出来ました”, “zannen”, and “ne” usage. I mean, those kinda sayings are really fucking cheesy. Really really fucking cheezy. Nobody says those kinda things in Japan and you look like a fuckin idiot, not only that, but my friends say that shit all the time too, which is even more not good. The big thing about this is this is just like catch-phrases. My friends just like saying catch-phrases, they don’t understand and they will that catch-phrases just aren’t enough in the language you’re studying and you have to be able to know how to say something of importance and get something done and SPEAK IT ALL THE TIME. That’s the biggest problem, that last one. They will see when they go to Japan, they will be disallusioned as I was, and realize Japan is just another real place like Tsukuba and one at least that is not better than Columbus.

Sean and Nate were accepted and really excited to go to Tsukuba. From talking with Sean, I can see that he thinks Tsukuba is an enormous campus, a huge campus, with tons of High Streets and stuff and activity like that. Being that I think Tsukuba is regarded as the biggest campus in Japan, and the fantasy that Japan is the awesomest and coolest place in the world with huge cities, I can see why he would think this. I think he will realize once he gets there that in fact it’s not such a big place, and he will finally understand why why I came back and I said the nasty things about Japan the way I did. That’s the thing around here, if you say you don’t like Japan then that’s like a really really bad thing and people don’t like you and something is wrong with you, but I’m sure that’s only because all the people I hang out with are Japanese majors anyways. Nate applied for ICU but was beaten for it by Ariel, which I think wasn’t fair since Nate took more Japanese than Ariel and is probably a little better in vocabulary and grammar. I also think Nate would have had a funner time going to ICU but he is happy just to be able to be going to Japan, same as Sean. Nate was thinking at first like him and Sean were gonna be real good buddies in Japan and hang out with each other alot especially like drinking in the bar and stuff but I think Nate might be beginning to realize like I already knew from the beginning that Sean isn’t gonna be wanting to do that stuff. Nate asked me a question “Sean, doesn’t really like to drink, does he?” all sad like and realizing. yeah.

I received my first check from Google for $110, and hopefully it won’t be the last. It took a year to get but I made 60 of the 110 just last month when I actually started to make new sites. I’m in the process of converting my parked domains for sites that have content on them and adsense, since I’m making more money this way, and I guess better page rank.

I in a way don’t like trying to get high page ranks and stuff because in a couple years anything that has a high page rank now will probably be buried 30 feet deep in new sites and articles that will be on the internet and so the only thing that will get good page ranks are constantly updated websites which is just something I’m not gonna do because of the time and work so that kinda makes me sad.

Julie and I are going out! She is really great girlfriend and I think because we were friends it makes it a whole lot nicer and easier.

The Japanese exchange students. I was all about and excited to meet them and eager to get them to be a part of my daily life here and make really good friends with them like I did with the ones last year but that’s just not happening. I think the main reason is because I came too late in the year, and they already made all their lame and loser friends that they have now. Julie and I have tried lots and lots of times for them to come hang out with us, I always wave at them when I pass by them, one time waiving and getting no response from them. In fact I discussed with Julie and she agreed too that we were trying to hard and that it makes us look really creepy and weird for us to constantly try to get them to hang out with us, and so I’m giving up. If it happens it happens, but just because I don’t make friends with the Japanese kids doesn’t mean I won’t have fun. I think the main reason I want to hang out with them is because that’s what I did all last year and that’s what I’m comfortable with and that’s how I knew to have fun and did have fun, and so I’m looking to do that again this year but it’s a no go. There is this one girl that hangs out with them that is just such a loser and geeky and lame, she just looks like shes no fun but shes the kinda geek that thinks she is fun. She hangs around them all the time and tries to grab onto them and suck the life force out of them as if she was a parasite or something living off their energy or life force. I know that they would have a much funner time hanging out with me and my friends but they just don’t know that or think that so what are you going to do?

The caveman commercial when he is at the airport and stops to look at the so easy a caveman can do it poster. It reminds me of going to Japan and the time right before of going to Japan.

I would write more but I think I’m gonna make some rice or past or something like that with tuna for lunch and I have to finish last week’s lab and go to lab in a couple hours so cya.

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