A Japanese and Chinese Major

Archive for April, 2007

Well last thursday was the all-you-can-eat wing night at Kennedy commons. It wasn’t good as last year. Just as I had expected, I saw Jeff there and asked him how he was doing. He was sitting with his girlfriend and another asian friend I guess. To my surprise, he said that he would go sit with Julie and I in a little bit, so we ate with Jeff and invited Alex to sit with us too. It was really nice talking with Jeff again, it made it feel like it was last year again. The same guy that walks around and tells his stupid stories were there, but he didn’t dare go by Jeff and I because we always blow him off hehe.

Buying a house isn’t going to happen, Julie’s parents strongly disapproved. Too bad. I still don’t want to waste all my money though renting so I don’t know.

I’ve started to not eat after 7, I think that should help things alot. Julie and I went to Kennedy yesterday night for dinner and had philly steak sandwiches which we dipped into our cheese soup, not bad but not that great either.

Over the weekend Julie, both Seans and I went to a party Carlos invited me to. The party kinda sucked, we pretty much sat out on the front porch and waited for the cups to come because they didn’t have them. Sean was worried about the cops even though we were 21. Carlos took us upstairs for smirnoff green apple vodka and I got pretty wasted off that for the rest of the night along with the beer. Julie and I played beer pong against these two kids that were winning and they kicked our ass. They got 3 rollbacks in a row or something like that it was ridiculous. Sunday Sean went to Target and we asked him to buy Starcraft for us, and Julie and I plopped down $20 to buy it. I’ve played some of it, but I really don’t have the time right now and it’s such a hard game when you don’t use the cheat codes. I have exams coming up and Julie has an exam today in economics, I hope she does good.

The Japanese Spring Festival is happening again this year. Yup it’s that time of the year again. I remember last year I got pulled in to “volunteering” helping for it when I visited, they threw me a red shirt and stuck me at a booth. I don’t think anyone really bought that much things when I helped there, and in fact I don’t think anyone bought anything from me while I was there, the kid next to me did all the work. Oh yeah I think I helped Jeff and Sakiko at the bakery section or whatever, and even practiced my Japanese to the teacher of my first Japanese class, and even sold something to one of my Japanese TAs, so yeah. I dare not go this year because all my teachers will be there, and just people I don’t really like in general will be there.

I found out yesterday that Paypal has made a version of their site in Japanese which is awesome because now I can continue working on my teaching english website. Yay!

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This weekend was pretty unique. Let’s see.

Yesterday Julie and I took the 2 bus to the korean market. We decided to make like rice cake links with spicy red bean paste or something like that, the same stuff we ate at the language festival match-off last year, I really wasn’t in the mood to eat it but I agreed anyways since she really looked like she wanted to have it. We got it, drank banana milk while we waited for the bus back and came back. When we got home we made all the stuff, kimchi rice and the rice cake dish. We had alot of rice leftover and Andrew just got back and we asked him if he wanted a little bit. Sean showed up and we asked if he wanted some too. Well, instead of just eating a little bit they ate alot. They just kept taking from the rice pan. Right when I was about to grab the frying pan handle and put the rice away for me to eat for lunch or something tomorrow, I see Andrew pick up the rice spoon and start scraping all the rice off the bottom and the side of the frying pan onto one side of the pan. I couldn’t believe he was going to take more! While he was doing it I thought, “no, maybe he isn’t going to do that and he’s just being nice and cleaning it up for us”, but I realized, come on he wouldn’t be doing that for us and I was right. After he scooped it up I said just go ahead and have the whole thing and he was like “oh, are you sure?”, and I’m like “yeah, there’s like nothing left anyways” and he was like ok. I don’t know I was pretty upset by it being that I planned to have that as two meals and save me some bucks for food tomorrow. Julie and I talked about it and she was mad too, she thought the same thing at first about him scraping it up to be nice first and that she was standing up to grab it and put it in the kitchen when Andrew started scraping the rice. Then, even after that happened, I picked up the rice cakes and I stood there for a second or did something to them I don’t remember what but then like Andrew said “Hey, don’t throw that away, I can have it for later or something” and I thought wtf. I just said uhh, ok. Sean said yeah and like agreed with him and I thought wtf. Andrew like was kind of smiling laughing while he said it too. Julie told me later she was like, why did he think that we were going to throw a huge bowl of it away? I don’t know like Julie and I always share the food we make with my roommates but they never share any food with us so I’m going to stop doing it. We talked about when we make big dishes like that to just put them in a container with like a lid in the fridge to avoid what happened last night. After that we played Risk and I was first out because I didn’t try to secure a continent while everyone else was. Sean won again with his asian fleet.

Friday I was at the monitor and it all of a sudden turns off. The power went out. Sean forgot to pay the electric bill and we wouldn’t be getting power back until Monday since the power company had weekends off. Alot of Sean’s fish died and the clownfish died because it was too cold. Nate called me and said people were at Marketplace so I went. Ayaka, Jackie, Akiko, and Nate were there and we sat around bullshitting for awhile. I called to invite Julie but she was in class. I talked to everyone and tried to get all of us to do something and we decided making some dinner at my house but later when we found out that I had no power it wasn’t going to happen and Ayaka had to help Jared apply for his job. Jackie wanted to clean her place before we had dinner there and she didn’t want me there so I walked around the bookstore for awhile before showing up. Well we went to the korean market and got some food and decided to surprise nate at his place. When we got there he wasn’t there even though his car was and his roommate was playing Gears of War in the living room. We decided to just make the food there and by the time it was done he would probably be back and so we made the food, ate it, and no Nate. When I talked on the phone to Julie I told her to take the bus to Nate’s, she didn’t go in the first place because she went to some korean survey or something that she was getting paid eight dollars for. So we decided to come back and went back to my house with no lights and I took out my beer and got Cunningham and we started drinking outside on the front porch. Later Julie came, then Venassa and Nate, and Nate bonged like 3 beers. We were drinking Pabs and Miller High Life my first time having High Life btw it’s not that great. We went to get more beer, and on the way Julie and I were talking about how she shouldn’t have been upset about making dinner without her and she just stopped walking and started to cry. I hugged her and told her that I didn’t know it meant that much to her and she apologized and everything and I did too. When we got to the beer store and I told Nate I wasn’t buying any cuz I already still have some at the house he was pissed. We came back and we lite up a bunch of candles and sat around the living room table and talked it was pretty cool. Charlie came by later too and joined us. I made food for people for that too, two nong shim spicy noodles and edamame.

I think the next day, maybe it was Saturday I think, we went with Donna to Julie’s house concert idea. oh boy. When we get there we see a really nice huge house, and when I walk in there are a bunch of asians in there along with some whites and a grand piano and everything. Fuck, definitely not what I expected a concert to be, they started playing the violin and what not. I sat next to some older lady that reminded me of a teacher and she looked like she really loved being in the high snob group, I think she was trying to take pictures of a little asian boy or something when he would look her way, weird. Julie looked back and Donna wasn’t there. Julie went to go see where Donna went and I stayed sitting. Then, a asian guy and a girl went up to sing the a whole new world song by Aladdin. I was expecting it to be really really good but when the guy started singing and he pronounced “world” “worlrd” I almost cracked up laughing, I tried hard not to smile or laugh. After the girl started singing a couple lines I exited the room too and saw them just sitting in the middle room. We left during intermission, after George was done playing “Happy Drums”, and we went to the mongolian barbeque. It was ok. Then we went to Meijer, bought a keystone for tyler, saw some fish, Donna bought like basketball stickers for Shin, and then we went to my house to drop the beer to tyler and get the Risk game and then we played Risk at Donna’s and I won. Julie was really tired and falling asleep and we went home.

I think Sunday, not sure, Julie and I walked all around OSU trying to find houses to buy. We then went back to her house and played risk.

Monday, the day before, Julie adn I decided to venture out and find the two unit for sale for $35,000. When we got to the street it was on and started walking down it it was a really nice neighborhood, but the farther we went especially after we crossed the train tracks it was pretty scary. When we got to the house there was a car full of black people driving real slow by it looking at it, and we were like oh boy. The house I guess wasn’t really that bad at all it’s just in a really really bad neighborhood. The neighbors were black and all out in front of their house behind the fence so we couldn’t see them but their big dog barked and scared both me and Julie. We decided to get back home pretty soon after that because we didn’t want to be walking around that area at dark.

When the power came on Monday I went to CNN website and that’s when I saw the story about a Virginia Tech shooter.

I did ok with my LUM stock afterall. I sold it two days ago I think, and got a profit of $420 in just one week! Yesterday it went up 10 cents so I could have gotten another hundred, but today last I checked it was down like 12 cents or something so I’m pretty happy about it. I sold it while I was in Stats class.

Oh yeah last night Andrew also showed us all this art or something by a kid named phil that he is crazy about and I think I will help Julie create a website for her work so she can become more famous and get money.

Today so far I went to Stats lab and we like measured our textbook with a paper ruler or something like that and it was pretty stupid/easy as all stats labs have been so far. While walking back, (I’ve decided to ban the bus to lose weight), I saw Shumpie talking to some girl and I crept up and interrupted them. What I heard her asking him was something like “wow, so do you make Japanese food?” and I got disgusted and that gosh, here’s another one. I have Radiology in about an hour I guess so I just might take a shower or decide what to do next.

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I bought the L desk a couple days ago, and today Sean helped me get it to the house by asking a friend of a friend to use his truck. Sean had no idea the desk was going to be this big and already assembled or he wouldn’t have volunteered to do it. They got back the same exact time I got back from class, which I figured was probably going to happen even though I was hoping they would have come back sooner and brought it into the house. So we bring it in the house and the other Sean sees me and says “are you responsible for this?” and when I said he yeah said “get rid of it, now”. Well I was just waiting for someone to get home to help me to move it and to my surprise when I asked Sean to help me he did! That was definitely a surprise.

The day before yesterday I bought some LUM stock. I bought $5,000 dollars worth again, amounting to 625 shares of stock. I decided to buy it because the stock price was looking low and I figured I could probably make a quick buck because it was just going to shoot up again in no time. Well, the stock kept dropping. Today, the stock dropped some 50 cents, and now it’s at the lowest price it’s been in a year, and I am down the hole $380. A couple days ago a mortgage investor filed for bankruptcy, and I’ve been freaking out because of that all day and at the end of the day today I was wondering if I shouldn’t sell the stock and take the loss of $400. Basically I made the decision that I would wait tomorrow morning and see how the stock does then and decide from there. But when I went to the medical library with Julie for her to copy some bones pictures I checked my stock, and I caught the lucky break I was hoping for.

The stock was up $0.15 in after-hours. For a little bit I just figured it was because everyone realized that that was the bottom and the only place to go was the top, but I figured out the real reason once I read their new press release statement. LUM announced that they were going to adopt their stock repurchase program, and not sure if this was a good or bad thing I googled it and it turns out to be very good. I checked a little later tonight and the stock was up 37 cents. I’m really hoping that the stock will skyrocket tomorrow, maybe even up a couple of bucks and then I will dump it. We’ll see.

Julie left me a post-it-note love you message thing on my laptop and surprised me when I got back. I stickied them to my desk. Later on she brought over fettucini alfredo and New Orlean’s pasta and we both split it and ate half. Later on tonight we watched “Wicked Little Things”, on my flat screen monitor in my newly designed room. The movie mostly sucked, there were some very scary situation setups in the beginning but once you saw that the “zombies” or ghosts or whatever where actually just kids it was much less scarier. Julie is sleeping on my bed and I’m going to join her.

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I’m only writing on this now because I just got done looking for what I have due tomorrow and nothing is really that bad, just like two questions for the physics pre-lab and a stats homework assignment that I’m going to have to hardcore b.s.

Well because there was a better than expected job outgrowth reported Friday, it was a pretty good bet that stocks were gonna be up big time today. The only thing is, Friday was a market holiday because of Easter and I’m sure would have skyrocketed all stocks, but because investors had the weekend to think it over they were alot more cautious about buying. Seems pretty stupid huh.

Anyways so I get out of my Stats class at get home around 11am and check my stocks – Intel was already up 5o cents! At first I saw the “today’s change” quote and it had said +150, but I thought at first that the current stats just hadn’t loaded yet and they were still displaying yesterday’s quote but I waited about a second and it wasn’t!

Now my general rule of thumb throughout my entire ownage of Intel stock was that as soon as I reached a dollar profit from when I bought the shares I would dump it. Well, the stock was doing pretty good so I decided to watch it and see if there was any signs of slowing. I watched it get all the way up to 65 cents, and then it started to fall a couple pennies. When this happened, I decided it was the right time to dump it, because I figured that since it gained so much today it wouldn’t gain much more today anyways and that the way it goes it would probably drop again tomorrow. So I sold it and after commisson and pre-taxes, I got $240. Not bad for only having it a couple weeks and not having to work at all for it. I’m going to buy more risky/cheaper stock from now on though, better return.

Today Albert Julie and I went to Lowe’s and then to Staples so I could buy the L desk I saw there yesterday. I was really glad to see that it hadn’t been bought yet and when Julie and I were looking at it we realized something we didn’t pick up on before. There was a seperate price tag on both of thee desks, for $80, and we realized that 80 bucks would be much too cheap for one desk and that I would have to pay 80 for both of them and with the hutch it would cost me a total of $210, just 30 bucks short of what I made that day. But when I got the guy to come over and help me buy it, he only grabbed only one of the tags and it was true that it was only 80 bucks, and I was really surprised and happy, so I got the whole thing for $140 which I think was a really good deal.

After that we all went to Ka Ya, Julie’s treat. We went to the Korean restaurant that was next to Kroger’s first but for some reason they are closed on Mondays. I got a bulgogi box, not realizing that the box actually meant that I was going to get sushi and other things I didn’t want with it. All I wanted was some spicy bulgogi and rice!

Friday I pretty much spent the whole day working on my physics homework. I was able to answer all of them except one; something like – A skier goes off a cliff at a 60 degree angle and reaches a height of 11 meters- how fast is the skier’s initial velocity? Julie and I waited until 11pm trying to figure it out, and in the end we just started guessing. It was really funny how Julie was having a fun time trying to guess it with me and would say “Are you suuuure?” when I said I was gonna do it, it was really cute. That same night, I called Carlos asked him if he wanted to go over to Nate’s and he did. Julie and I met him at Burrito Noches and then went to the gas station and after much debating I picked up a couple cases of beers – Killian’s and Pabs. I got the bottles because I couldn’t really find much else and they were on sale, and also because I’ve never had Killians before and I thought maybe they liked it. It’s kinda funny cuz when I got there and they saw I got it they kinda made fun of me for it and they thought I really liked it. I was originally gonna get a 24 pack of budweiser and I was literally holding it in my hand but I remembered how Nate dissed budweiser when I told him I bought their stock a few weeks ago so I put it back and got what I just said. We went to Nate’s house and played guitar hero with one guitar, it was kinda lame. Jackie was there before we got there, and it was nice to hear her admit how much JSO sucked. We played a bunch of wii bowling game rounds though but only because I pushed for it. Julie is so good at it she gets strikes without even trying and throwing the ball really high in the air I’ve been trying to copy her but so far I’ve been unsuccessful.

Saturday night was lame too, and we spent the night hanging out at Nate’s again. While picking up Vanessa and her one Anastacia friend, the one girl that wears suits and ties, we saw Charlie smoking outside and we invited him to come and he said sure. After he came in he gave me and Nate a kiss on the forehead that I didn’t approve of too much. I finally met the Weiss guy that night, he seems ok. We started watching the sequal to One Missed Call but I started to fall asleep at the beginning of the movie and Nate got pissed and woke me up and said we’re all outta there, so he took us home.

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Today was pretty much a normal day. When I was on the bus on the way to stats, I saw Julie about to cross the street and I looked right at her hoping that she could recognize me through the thick black window but she couldn’t.

When I got to stats I saw on the board that the first homework was due today. I kinda thought it was due today, but I didn’t know for sure because I really didn’t pay any attention during that class and I just surfed the internet the whole time pretty much, I think I gotta stop doing that. I went up to the teacher and acted like I was scared and said like since it has the due date for the homework as tomorrow listed on the website could I be pardoned this time and he said yeah so I have to turn it in tomorrow morning somewhere in the math building, I don’t know where. After I started talking and realized I was probably acting a little too scared I almost wanted to laugh and kinda started to smile but I tried not to.

Julie and I ate dinner last night at Kennedy, they had general tso’s chicken and salad and cheesy potatoes and sauteed mushrooms, yeah it was really good. I saw a girl sitting there with two asian guys and I thought it was Judy but it turned out to be another girl, who also took Japanese. I could tell because the red first year Japanese book was out and lying on the table. Julie talked about how she just learned how to make stretched canvas and that someone gave the idea of selling them, and we talked about that for awhile.

The day before Andrew scared me when Sean and I were checking out who was in the bathroom. He opened the door from behind the shower curtain and I could see the curtain move a little bit so I knew he was behind it but when I approached and he popped out he still scared me. He said that he got the idea from watching Scrubs.

I talked to Matt this morning. He told me he got the bartending job in Japan, and that his host mom was really upset about him for it and said something like, “my only responsibility is to get you to graduate after that you’re on your own”, which I thought sounded alot real mom like instead of host.

I broke the plastic piece that plugs the the hole on the inflatable bed, and I also dropped my laptop on the floor again so now if I put something near the bottom of the screen everything will turn white and I can’t see anything.

I really feel like eating some spicy korean food right now, like bulgogi, yumm. I started drinking diet pop again recently, I figure if aspartame is related to cancer than I’m already screwed so I might as well not be fat I guess. Aspartame and cancer was my topic for the study or whatever in class today btw.

Oh hey my stocks are doing great! Intel has gone up $100 since the week or so I’ve had it. I’m just waiting for a couple more cents until I sell it.

Radiology class was surprisingly interesting today. He did a lecture about sonography and it seems like the easy and relaxed job. He gave me my paper topic idea too (which was also an example in stats) which is the question whether or not sonography damages the fetus during pregnancy. He also told us about how he was at a radiologist convention or something like that and it was the time when Tom Cruise was jumping up and down on the couch on Oprah and that when asked if Cruise had seen sonograms of his baby he said everyday because he bought a machine and scans her everyday. The place went nuts he said, everybody was running around, and a loud speaker came on telling everyone to report to room 101 or whatever, since it’s a big issue. I was really surprised how interesting I found it.

Ok I am going to Julie’s tonight it’s freezing out it’s 12:52 tomorrow is Easter and I’ll cya later.

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Didn’t sleep very well last night because I had to wake up early to prepare myself for today’s physics quiz. I did the thing where I set the alarm real early, and when it goes off I set the alarm later for another hour, and when that one goes off I set the alarm again another hour, until I have alot less time to prepare than I thought I would. In the middle of SPEAC this became a daily ritual, and my roommate even talked to me about it and suggested to not set it every hour but for a longer time since I know that I’m going to do it. But I always convince myself before I go to sleep that I’ll wake up the first time, even though I basically never have, I always say this time is going to be different but it isn’t.It’s funny now that I think about it because I did it basically every night during speac.

Things I did during speac:

For the first couple of weeks, I ate very little food. Very little, like one of the first days I needed a fork to eat with so I went to Buckeye Express and to my surprise the place was open. I went down the stairs and saw the utensil cart just lying there, and I grabbed a fork and took it to my room. Instead of buying and making my own food like I thought I would I broke down and spent $5 everyday buying General Tso’s Chicken from Mark Pi at the Union everyday, and that was the only meal I had. Man was that good! so greasy and spicy mmm. I think there were a couple times later in the year that I bought my own meat and bread and made some peanut butter and jelly sandwiches but I never made enough and always ended up still hungry and unsatisfied. In the middle I started going to Apollo’s every once and awhile too but I stopped because they were so expensive. Nate always tried to talk us into going to the cereal bar, but we never did haha. Staying in class all day meant that I ate less everyday and so lost some weight. The weather turned from warm to burnin hot in the middle and at the end, which I didn’t mind at all since I had lost the weight.

There was one day where all of us decided to go eat at the pizza place across from Morrison. We spent like seven dollars each or something, I split with Nate using our credit cards, and we ended up only getting about 2 slices of pizza. I was really worried about time because I hadn’t finished my kanji or writing homework, but I guess I ended up doing it ok and as the last minute as always. I always did my writing during lunch before class, such a bad way to study. No wonder I never did good on writing days.

I stayed up everynight and woke up around 4 or so in the morning (I really can’t remember now but I just recently changed my morning alarm for speac which had been set for almost a year now about a month ago). I can remember sitting on that couch in the middle room and alternating between it and the desk when I got too uncomfortable.

When I think about speac, I can still feel the heat of that summer, can still imagine going throug the front doors of my dorm building to the left and into the elevator, seeing some triangular drawn monster doodle thing above the numbers, getting off and going down the left hall towards my room. Sometimes the room before mine’s door was open, and I could see the Japanese girl student teacher sitting their looking at her laptop. All I could see of her was the back of her head and her bowl-shaped traditional Japanese girl haircut; which I thought was kinda funny.

I’ll write more about speac and make it a seperate post or something later.

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The girls around this school have alot in common. One of those things I’ve noticed is that most of all of them like wearing sunglasses. It’s mostly the hot girls. Well, actually the girls that think they’re hot but they’re not.

Anyways, for some reason they like wearing sunglasses. I guess they think they look good in them or something but they don’t. I think the most attractive feature is the face and well, they put big black disks in front of their eyes and look like aliens with the big buggy glasses they have. There was this one girl in my Med Terms class that wore like basketball sunglasses or something like that during class I kinda felt bad for her because the glassses made her look like a geek and, she didn’t look that pretty to begin with but those sunglasses sure didn’t help.

Didn’t wearing sunglasses at one point used to be a guy thing? I never see any guys wearing sunglasses but almost every “hot” girl does. I guess that’s just more proof that the girls around here don’t really act like girls but guys, and I don’t like guys.

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What happen to the fun of making websites? I now have no or very little fun creating them. I can remember back in the late 90’s when my friends were all making their own websites on Angelfire and Homestead and I wanted one too. I remember even before our family got a computer, sitting in the boat and drawing up designs for different pages I would make on my website like a page for pokemon, jet skiing, star wars, and just random fun interesting things I like.

My friend Andrew made a pretty nice for the time Rocky page for his website on Homestead.com. I can remember being jealous of him for it while I was working with angelfire, having troubles deciding what background color and font color to use while he made an awesome page really easy. Scott made a website and talked about all kinds of different stuff too, one with a pokemon page or something like that, and he said he even saw his site listed in a pokemon or video game magazine. That wouldn’t be too surprising at the time, considering that there were alot less pages and websites on the internet those days.

It’s not that way anymore. Now I view websites just as ways to make money, there’s no heart in it. I’m also afraid to make content because I fear that I won’t get the best seo optimization unless I put it under a specific domain name title and talk only about that. What I mean is, is that I have trouble writing about all kinds of different things under one domain name because if I were to seperate the topic into it’s own domain name then I might get better SURP results. This results in very little website size, and low quality, something no one would want to visit more than once. :/

What if I were to just say fuck it and put it all under one domain? What if I were to do like I was when I was younger and just not worry about it and throw everything onto one?

That’s kind of what I’m doing with this site, although I am still holding back, afraid that the content could be put for much better use for it’s own site rather than sitting in a domain with a name entitled “A Japanese and Chinese Major”.

It’s amazing to think back to the earlier days of my website making adventures and realize that I just wanted to do it for fun. That I wanted to let other people know my interest and get them interested and help them along their way with it.

The internet has become saturated. Thousands of websites are created everyday and millions of pages created. Because of this, it gets harder for webmasters to get people to view their websites and see their hard work and content. I think this is one of the major reasons I have stopped interest in making websites too, it’s that only a handful of people will see what takes you forever to make.

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Right before I headed off to my physics lecture and my first radiology class right after that, I looked into the mirror to see if what I was wearing was alright. I was wearing those kaki shorts with the frively cut thing edges on the bottom and the little piece of cloth attached to the zipper was kind of sticking out noticeably and not looking very professional so I tucked it back behind the front zipper fold. While I was doing that I thought “man that would really suck if my fly was down in the middle of class…” and then I went to physics.

I made sure to sit close to the door so I could leave a little bit early to make it to the radiology class on time. Well when I got in most of the seats next to the door were taken and I moved a couple rows up and sat over the steep edge. Originally I was just going to sit through the whole physics class and wait for it to be over and rush to get to the building on time, but as I started to think about it I realized there was no chance that that was going to happen so I kept thinking should I stay or should I go. Some chick got up in the middle of class with ten minutes to go and left and that’s when I decided I would too. So I get out of class and I have 20 minutes to get to the building. I dilly dally for a short while looking towards college ave. trying to figure out if I would be better waiting for the bus or not and then finally decide to fast-walk it all the way there. Right when I get to the bus stop near and across from Marketplace the bus shows up and I catch a lucky break. I keep looking at my watch and I realize that I would have been late if I wasn’t lucky enough to catch the bus and I’m kinda happy. Anyways I get off the bus and make a bee line to the class and I walk in the door and sit down with about a minute to spare. Right when I sit down I look down to my lap and I see my zipper wide open!!!!!! I couldn’t fucking believe it. I was just thinking about how much it would suck right before I left the house. I thought for weeks before the class what I would wear for it so I could look professional and my best to it and my zipper was down! That’s like, probably the worst thing you could do to make yourself look un-professional.

Anyways I was sort of in the middle of the room and if I made any motions to zip it up everyone to the side of me and behind me could easily see. So at first I put my bookbag on my lap and tried to cover up my lap so no one could see me doing the hand motions in the area, and it was working good and I tried it about two times because I realized I would have to kind of sit up to get it zipped all the way. The class hadn’t started yet, there were some people walking around in front, so I said fuck it I’ll just zip it up real quick and that will be the end of it. I did that and it only went up halfway, like I said I would have to stand up to get it zipped. So after I did that I figured my cover was already blown with the people sitting next to me and I was feeling a bit embarrased. I was just really really hoping he wasn’t going to ask us to stand up and introduce ourselves to everyone, like the whole time in class like I thought we were going to do. But thankfully, he didn’t. He seems really mean though and he looked at all of us like we were idiots and inferior to him, I don’t like him already. Damn that was really scary having to sit through the whole damn class worrying about standing up I couldn’t relax the whole time. I think the graduate TA girl saw my zipper unzipped though, when I was turning in the survey papers I lifted them from my lap which I forgot was covering my opened zipper and I could see like a reaction in her face when I handed them to her.

The dude that gave a background history on radiology that day was from my hometown. We have to write two papers for that class which wasn’t I thought we were going to be doing I thought we were just going to sit around and listen about the different jobs available. Also the teacher guy is crazy about research he made us fill out a survey before the class with 3 pages of questions about conducting research and trying to find out if we though research was good or something like that and if we would do it or something. What an idiot of course I’m gonna put down yeah that’s what he wants to hear but I don’t really care about it since I don’t need to do it to keep the job.

I’m really happy with the way the pages on this blog get indexed really fast, way faster than my other sites, and I was thinking about doing a seperate blog about stocks and financial and business news about what is going on. Even though there are a ton already I’ll still get hits with random search phrases, I checked some of the phrases that people found my site and I was pretty amazed. One was something like “why after eating chinese hungry again hour later” or something like that and the other was “his first huge cok”. I wondered why the heck the last one listed my site because how could I possibly have written something that google thought I was talking about like that and I realized I used the stock symbol “COK” for coca-cola and then it made sense.

Tigre, Charlie, Andrew, Sean, and Julie and I played risk yesterday/last night for a whopping whole 5 and 1/2 something hours. It’s really fun, there was a time in high school when everyone got into playing it but I hadn’t done it since. Tigre was the first one to get out because I convinced the rest of the people playing to kill him off because he was spread out and only had 3 or 4 guys.

With risk, I think alot of people underestimate themselves. Somewhere in the middle of the game Sean had a huge pile-up of his armies in eastern asia and could have plowed right through me or any of us playing if he wanted to. He didn’t attack though. I mean if you got a shit ton of guys like he did, go through people! I think a really good rule to stick to in risk is, is if you have a chance to knock somebody out of the game, do it, and do it now, no matter how little of an army they have. A thing I noticed about when everybody was playing is that they didn’t really care to eliminate somebody from the game, they just saw that they had two or three and said “ah, ok I don’t have to worry about him”…

I started in Europe, and actually after a couple of turns I held Europe and I was getting a +5 per turn which was really really nice. But it sucked the whole time too since I was in the middle of fucking everything and if everyone said “hey let’s all meet in the middle” I would have been done with for sure. Andrew had Africa and he was looking like he could be eliminated so I told Julie to attack Andrew in Africa and wherever she doesn’t kill Andrew I’ll get him and beat him, and that’s what we did. It was pretty fun to beat Andrew haha. I made an alliance with Charlie somewhere in the middle of the game and so I wanted to attack Sean and I was trying to get Julie to attack Sean too because he was really huge and could crush me but she didn’t listen. Anyways, I was getting beat up pretty bad in Europe and I realized that I should no longer worry about holding Europe because I wouldn’t have any guys to do that so I made a run for Australia, taking away Asia and Australia from Sean’s grasp. Luckily it worked and I stopped Sean getting a plus +7 guys or whatever a turn then. He was really pissed and thought that he was gonna be out of the game because of that and just started attacking everybody and hurt me pretty bad but I managed to squeak through. Anyways so it was only me Julie and Charlie left, and Julie was really looking good she was looking to win she had guys everywhere but she was kinda spread out. What ended up happening was that it got late into the game that my alliance with Charlie was breaking and I wasn’t fast enough to break it so he attacked me first. I then made a bee-line again to Australia to gain guys for a continent a couple turns while he attacked Julie but Julie held a guy in Australia so I couldn’t collect for it! Anyways Charlie won, and what I learned from the game is that you gotta know when to break off the alliance.

I can’t wait to play again.

I got a comment on one of my posts earlier asking about if I would change the blog’s name now that I’ve changed majors, and the answer is no. I decided to keep it because I like the absurdity of it. People have names for their blog like “metal windows” or “refrigerator paint” and odd things like that, and because I like the randomness of it I decided “A Japanese and Chinese Major” fit. I mean, I like the name too because it reminds me of the time it meant alot to me, my whole life and career, and now I can look back on it and laugh and say “what the hell was I thinking, fluency in not foreign language, but TWO?”. The idea that I thought I could learn two foreign languages from scratch and in 3 years be good enough in them to get a job speaking it was ridiculous. I mean, no matter if you get your degree in it or not, you HAVE to be good at it. You have to be good enough, that someone will be willing to give you their money for your words. Not only that, but you have to be better than everyone your competing against to have someone actually pay you money for what you do, and there’s no exceptions. If you and a native speaker that was born in Japan and lived in America and is fluent in both english and japanese are applying for the same job, you have to be better speaking than him or you simply don’t get the job. It doesn’t matter if you only learned the language a couple years ago or you have a degree in it, if you’re not the best then you’re not hired. Here’s the thing: almost all foreign people speak english, they learn it growing up even in kindergarten. If you just started Japanese in college, there is no way you can compete for a job against a native foreigner applying for the same job, no way. I don’t care how good you become in those 4 years of college, it can’t beat a lifelong experience that the foreigners get from learning it since kindergarten. Anyways. I’m keeping the name too because I’m pretty much the same person as when I had those majors, I still like and make the same asian food now like I did then, watch the same jhorror movies, still eat the same food with chopsticks because I think it’s fun, I think the only difference is is that I now know how it’s really like, not a fantasy world like thinking like all of Japan is a Disneyworld and magical happy place and that America is a cruel and stupid country and deserves to be beat up. My friends still think this way. That’s the difference now, and the difference with me and my friends. They still think of the fantasyland and I know the reality.

You know when they’re talking about Japan, which they always do (Japanese majors), I get tempted into thinking that Japan really is that fantasyland that I once thought it was, but I have to slap myself out of it and remind myself that that’s not really how it is.

Sometimes I even think about thinking that way again, because it was a happier time just hanging out with my friends all day and talking about a perfect place just waiting for us to visit. It’s kind of like the ignorance is bliss thing, I could forget that I didn’t like Japan and keeping going on like it was before, but no. I won’t.

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