Saturday, January 31, 2004
Heyyyy, I just noticed that Google suddenly planted a banner smack on the top of this page! I hope it isn't permanent!!! >:(
I found out a very amusing detail about a teacher I had in high school; I won't specify his name, so I'll just refer to him as Mr. L. Anyway, he was one of my teachers in Grade 9, and nobody could stand him, because he would always make the lamest jokes, repeatedly bore us to death with pointless stories that nobody cares about, and as icing on the cake, he's an unsightly fellow (ugly face, receding hairline, beer belly, dumbass clothing). My sister has him as her English teacher for the second year in a row (I pity her; not only is the guy francophone and mispronounces words such as 'period', 'professor' and 'development', his students probably know less English now than they did before starting the course). He apparently has a serious grudge against Oprah Winfrey. He resents the fact that she's rich and famous, and "doesn't give money to poor people" (which is complete nonsense, as Oprah went to South Africa and helped establish a school there, and also has that Angel Network thing going on, where she contributes money to people who help others with no thought of reward).
LOL, that guy is totally speaking out of jealousy. I guess he's disappointed that he doesn't have his own television show (God forbid if Mr. L had his own talk show; that would be a sure sign of the Apocalypse).
LOL, that guy is totally speaking out of jealousy. I guess he's disappointed that he doesn't have his own television show (God forbid if Mr. L had his own talk show; that would be a sure sign of the Apocalypse).
Friday, January 30, 2004
One thing that really sucks about having jet black hair is that those highlighting colorants don't work very well. I tried adding more reddish-brown highlights to my hair, but it looks exactly the same!!! >:( You can see a little bit of difference if I'm standing directly under a lamp with the light at a certain angle and you're looking very carefully, but that's about it.
I suppose that if I use a very light-brown colorant, it'll look DARK brown on my hair, lol. I'll have to pick out a much lighter shade next time to get AT LEAST some barely-noticeable results.
I suppose that if I use a very light-brown colorant, it'll look DARK brown on my hair, lol. I'll have to pick out a much lighter shade next time to get AT LEAST some barely-noticeable results.
Thursday, January 29, 2004
Tuesday, January 27, 2004
This is really pissing me off...I wanted to print out a copy of the research proposal that me and my teammate worked on, but the file on my diskette just won't open, no matter what I try. Here's hoping that my teammate still has her hand-written copy...
Thursday, January 22, 2004
And all will turn to silver glass
A light on the water
Grey ships pass into the West
- Into the West, sung by Annie Lennox
*sob* Such a beautiful song! "Into the West" is one of the best tracks on the Return of the King soundtrack. The first time I listened to it, it just sort of went over my head, but when I paid close attention to the lyrics, it literally moved me to tears. It emcompasses all the emotion of the very sad scene when Frodo leaves Middle-earth. When I listen to the song, I can see the images of the weeping Hobbits in my head.
One of my favorite parts is:
Don't say we have come now to the end
White shores are calling
You and I will meet again
And you'll be here in my arms
Just sleeping
(As a matter of fact, I feel like I'm going to cry again, lol). My heart breaks for Sam; he went through so much hardship with Frodo, and never lost hope or courage. And yet he must be parted from his dearest of friends. Imagine that...Frodo leaves Middle-earth forever, never to return, never to see his friends again. He'll never see Sam's children grow up, nor will he have descendents of his own. Though in a way, his departure is a happy kind of sad (heh, oxymoron); after all, he's going to a beautiful, wonderful place (kind of like the best damn retirement anyone can hope for). The particular line of "Into The West" mentioned above, "You and I will meet again", is just so powerful somehow...I can't even think of a way to describe it...It's as if both Frodo and Sam will be waiting for the day when they'll see each other again (in the afterlife, perhaps?); it's so far away into the future, but they know in their hearts that someday they WILL meet again, so there is no need for sorrow.
Another part I love is:
Sleep now
And dream of the ones who came before
They are calling
From across the distant shore
The message I've interpreted from this is that those loved ones who are long gone are waiting for you in the afterlife, and that the time will come when you will be reunited with them, when they will welcome you with open arms. It's as if moving on to the next world is not sorrowful, but rather a beautiful and mystical transition.
Thank the Valar that there are beautiful songs like this; it certainly is a breath of fresh air, considering all the Britney Spears, Eminem, Hillary Duff (and so on) crap we hear all the time on the radio and on TV.
A light on the water
Grey ships pass into the West
- Into the West, sung by Annie Lennox
*sob* Such a beautiful song! "Into the West" is one of the best tracks on the Return of the King soundtrack. The first time I listened to it, it just sort of went over my head, but when I paid close attention to the lyrics, it literally moved me to tears. It emcompasses all the emotion of the very sad scene when Frodo leaves Middle-earth. When I listen to the song, I can see the images of the weeping Hobbits in my head.
One of my favorite parts is:
Don't say we have come now to the end
White shores are calling
You and I will meet again
And you'll be here in my arms
Just sleeping
(As a matter of fact, I feel like I'm going to cry again, lol). My heart breaks for Sam; he went through so much hardship with Frodo, and never lost hope or courage. And yet he must be parted from his dearest of friends. Imagine that...Frodo leaves Middle-earth forever, never to return, never to see his friends again. He'll never see Sam's children grow up, nor will he have descendents of his own. Though in a way, his departure is a happy kind of sad (heh, oxymoron); after all, he's going to a beautiful, wonderful place (kind of like the best damn retirement anyone can hope for). The particular line of "Into The West" mentioned above, "You and I will meet again", is just so powerful somehow...I can't even think of a way to describe it...It's as if both Frodo and Sam will be waiting for the day when they'll see each other again (in the afterlife, perhaps?); it's so far away into the future, but they know in their hearts that someday they WILL meet again, so there is no need for sorrow.
Another part I love is:
Sleep now
And dream of the ones who came before
They are calling
From across the distant shore
The message I've interpreted from this is that those loved ones who are long gone are waiting for you in the afterlife, and that the time will come when you will be reunited with them, when they will welcome you with open arms. It's as if moving on to the next world is not sorrowful, but rather a beautiful and mystical transition.
Thank the Valar that there are beautiful songs like this; it certainly is a breath of fresh air, considering all the Britney Spears, Eminem, Hillary Duff (and so on) crap we hear all the time on the radio and on TV.
Tuesday, January 20, 2004
Here's a link where you can watch Linkin Park's "Numb" (which I strongly recommend you do ^_^):
Numb
Numb
I really, really love that Linkin Park song called "Numb". The video is great, too. It's so sad! The video focuses on a young woman (I'm guessing a university student, or at least a high school senior), who feels extremely out of place and alone. It appears that she'd rather devote her time to her artwork, but is ridiculed in front of her peers by her professor. Her mother doesn't seem to be very supportive of her, either. There are several scenes in the video where the rest of the busy world is passing her by very quickly, neither knowing nor caring that she's even there.
One scene that I found so heartwrenching is the part where she tries to make friends; she approches a group of girls at a table outside and shyly sits down with them, smiling timidly, hoping to fit in. But, they just get up and leave, not even noticing her presence. That really hit me hard, because it brought a flashback of my early childhood to my memory.
I was six years old, and on the first day of school, my mom told me to sit with someone on the school bus and try to make friends. When I got on the bus, I looked around and saw Stephanie, a girl I knew from kindergarten.
I sat down next to her and cheerfully said, "Hi, Stephanie!"
She gave me a really weird look, and said Hi in a tone suggesting that she didn't appreciate my being there.
Her friend Laura got on the bus at the next stop, and, approaching our seat, looked at me strangely.
"Why are you sitting with her?" she asked Stephanie.
"She just came and sat here," Stephanie groaned, not caring how rude she was being.
"Do you wanna go sit somewhere else?" Laura asked.
"Yeah, definitely," Stephanie said, relieved.
She then pushed her way past me to find another place to sit. Feeling extremely rejected, I spent the remainder of the ride staring out the window, watching the world go by.
That's why I was SO able to relate to the girl in the "Numb" video. That's what makes it such a powerful music video; to be able to evoke such strong emotion in its viewers makes it a real work of art.
One scene that I found so heartwrenching is the part where she tries to make friends; she approches a group of girls at a table outside and shyly sits down with them, smiling timidly, hoping to fit in. But, they just get up and leave, not even noticing her presence. That really hit me hard, because it brought a flashback of my early childhood to my memory.
I was six years old, and on the first day of school, my mom told me to sit with someone on the school bus and try to make friends. When I got on the bus, I looked around and saw Stephanie, a girl I knew from kindergarten.
I sat down next to her and cheerfully said, "Hi, Stephanie!"
She gave me a really weird look, and said Hi in a tone suggesting that she didn't appreciate my being there.
Her friend Laura got on the bus at the next stop, and, approaching our seat, looked at me strangely.
"Why are you sitting with her?" she asked Stephanie.
"She just came and sat here," Stephanie groaned, not caring how rude she was being.
"Do you wanna go sit somewhere else?" Laura asked.
"Yeah, definitely," Stephanie said, relieved.
She then pushed her way past me to find another place to sit. Feeling extremely rejected, I spent the remainder of the ride staring out the window, watching the world go by.
That's why I was SO able to relate to the girl in the "Numb" video. That's what makes it such a powerful music video; to be able to evoke such strong emotion in its viewers makes it a real work of art.
Monday, January 19, 2004
I was watching American Idol 3 just now (and YES! I CONFESS!!! I WATCH AMERICAN IDOL!!!). The best part about that show is laughing at the auditioners (is that even a word?) who can't sing if their life depended on it. Good grief, what's up with some of these people! LOL! Honestly, to be able to get a recording contract, you have to be exceptionally good, and beat thousands of other hopefuls; and yet here are a bunch of people whose voices range from "musical-equivalent-of-tires-screeching" to "singing-at-least-five-octaves-below-middle-C" to "sounds-like-a-sheep-riding-a-blender".
Oh man, but there's this one guy who...*shudders, takes deep breath*...was rapping in Korean. And BADLY, with the stupid rap sound effects and all. FOOL!!! He's made a mockery of our motherland! He's a disgrace to all Koreans everywhere! A stain on our culture!!! AAUUGGHH!!!! (:o
Oh man, but there's this one guy who...*shudders, takes deep breath*...was rapping in Korean. And BADLY, with the stupid rap sound effects and all. FOOL!!! He's made a mockery of our motherland! He's a disgrace to all Koreans everywhere! A stain on our culture!!! AAUUGGHH!!!! (:o
Saturday, January 17, 2004
I have to confess that one of my pet peeves at school is the following: when the lecture is finished, and people start leaving the lecture room, the students from the next class start filing in without waiting for the rest of us to get out first. The steps leading to the doors at the back of the room are really narrow, and I sometimes have to shove my way through just to get out. Come on, the room is still 9/10 full and the people from the next class are already crowding the steps and the doorways. Yeesh.
Also, it gets my nerves when people cram their way into the elevators just to get off on the next floor. Just take the friggin' stairs!!! A little exercise won't kill you, you know!!!
Also, it gets my nerves when people cram their way into the elevators just to get off on the next floor. Just take the friggin' stairs!!! A little exercise won't kill you, you know!!!
Thursday, January 15, 2004
I also dropped by the Geography student lounge. Nice and cozy, a lot better than the Chemistry lounge (which, by the way, would sometimes have ants crawling in and out from between the floor tiles). The Geog lounge was eerily empty, though. Not that it matters, 'cause it makes a very comfortable place to study (and take a nap, should the need arise ~_^).
This morning, my Human Ecology prof was going over some important points about the research paper we have to do. I was surprised to discover that there are still some students who don't know how to separate their ideas into paragraphs; instead, the entire paper is one ungodly long paragraph. Come on, this is the kind of stuff you learn in high school! It's hard to believe that people are still messing this up in university. The prof also said that it would drive him crazy how some students can't spell "arctic" properly, even though the course covered arctic societies in great depth.
Speaking of that particular prof, he wears these flimsy moccasin-like shoes that make an annoying dragging sound when he walks. During the lecture, he would often pace back and forth in front of the blackboard, and his shoes would be making the sound: sscchhtt, sscchhtt, ssscccchhhhttttt. It's friggin' distracting. This morning, as we were waiting for class to start, I heard a sscchhtt sscchhtt sound in the hallway, and I thought, "Yup, the prof is here," and then he comes through the doorway. I've only had four lectures for this class and I already really want to burn those shoes of his.
Speaking of that particular prof, he wears these flimsy moccasin-like shoes that make an annoying dragging sound when he walks. During the lecture, he would often pace back and forth in front of the blackboard, and his shoes would be making the sound: sscchhtt, sscchhtt, ssscccchhhhttttt. It's friggin' distracting. This morning, as we were waiting for class to start, I heard a sscchhtt sscchhtt sound in the hallway, and I thought, "Yup, the prof is here," and then he comes through the doorway. I've only had four lectures for this class and I already really want to burn those shoes of his.
Wednesday, January 14, 2004
I decided to include my bro's blog among the links. In case you don't know, he's studying in Korea for the next few months.
A particularly amusing point about modern Korea: "Starbucks to the left, Starbucks to the right. Thank God Montreal is spared from all this, for now..." Kinda reminds me of that Simpsons episode where Bart goes to a piercing parlour to get an earring, and the mall is filled with Starbucks shops; and after he requests a piercing, the guy says, "Okay, but in five minutes, this place is turnin' into a Starbucks."
A particularly amusing point about modern Korea: "Starbucks to the left, Starbucks to the right. Thank God Montreal is spared from all this, for now..." Kinda reminds me of that Simpsons episode where Bart goes to a piercing parlour to get an earring, and the mall is filled with Starbucks shops; and after he requests a piercing, the guy says, "Okay, but in five minutes, this place is turnin' into a Starbucks."
My Geomorphology prof told us a rather amusing story; there's this disaster movie coming out in the late spring, called Day After Tomorrow (or something like that), which is about the disastrous effects of global warming. The writers asked him to go over the script and comment on the accuracy of the geomorphic processes (for which he was paid $10,000).
The prof told us that the story is complete bullshit (LOL!), but that he couldn't "sneeze at $10,000", and that "sometimes you need to prostitute yourself". However, he did say that he hopes they don't include his name in the ending credits, because he'd be ashamed to be associated with such a crappy and inaccurate film. LOL!
The prof told us that the story is complete bullshit (LOL!), but that he couldn't "sneeze at $10,000", and that "sometimes you need to prostitute yourself". However, he did say that he hopes they don't include his name in the ending credits, because he'd be ashamed to be associated with such a crappy and inaccurate film. LOL!
A week and a half has passed since the semester started; this is my first semester in Geography, and so far, things seem alright. There doesn't appear to be anything that'll cause me the same stress and unhappiness like the chem labs of past (at least, not yet). I prefer the fact that in these courses, you really see how the stuff you're learning applies to the 'big picture'; with many of the stuff in chemistry, I found myself asking, "Well, so-and-so topic is great and all, but what's is really for?"
Even though I switched chemistry to my minor, I don't exactly hate it or anything; I still hold a high respect for it as a science, even though the lab experiments always sent shivers down my spine. I've always loved organic chemistry (the theoretical part, that is), after all.
I guess it's kind of strange, the fact that I'm in university and I'm still not completely sure WHAT I want to do with my life; well, admittedly, a lot of people are in the same situation.
Even though I switched chemistry to my minor, I don't exactly hate it or anything; I still hold a high respect for it as a science, even though the lab experiments always sent shivers down my spine. I've always loved organic chemistry (the theoretical part, that is), after all.
I guess it's kind of strange, the fact that I'm in university and I'm still not completely sure WHAT I want to do with my life; well, admittedly, a lot of people are in the same situation.
Man, today's one hell of a cold one; -25 degrees Celsius as a high, -41 with the windchill. With weather like this, even wearing double layers of pants and socks isn't quite enough. >:( But hey, it's Canada, right? ~_^
Tuesday, January 13, 2004
Wow, this new blog template I chose is great! I made a few adjustments, though, but hopefully nothing'll screw up on me. I looked through a bunch of templates at BlogSkins.com, and this was by far the best one I found. However, if I ever find a really nice Faramir template, Legolas may end up getting bumped off ~_^.
Why the sudden decision to revive my blog? I dunno, I just felt like it (woohoo, great reason, girl *sarcasm*). Anyway, I may not post very lengthy entries, but hopefully I'll be somewhat less lazy than I was before and post more often.
Why the sudden decision to revive my blog? I dunno, I just felt like it (woohoo, great reason, girl *sarcasm*). Anyway, I may not post very lengthy entries, but hopefully I'll be somewhat less lazy than I was before and post more often.
