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April 27th, 2009
02:51 pm - I know what college is for now.
After almost two years of college education I finally realized/experienced the true reason for receiving a university education, despite having been told many times in the past. It is critical thinking (I mean that's what I learnt from my education but I'm not exactly sure of other countries/ colleges). (I know it sounds corny but it is true!)
So my parents and teachers have always been telling me in the past that college is really not about the academic knowledge that you might acquire, but the life skills in general. I was kinda skeptical about that and perhaps didnt really understand what that meant. I always thought that education, especially college, is just a piece of paper to impress people and employers since most of the Knowledge your acquire will not be completely useful in your careers. But now this critical reasoning thing is salient!
Recently I've analyzed the stupid things that my mom told me from what she read ONLINE. I was like "are you sure that's true?" And yes most of the times they're not. If not for me, she would have believed all those craps people said online. OMG.
Example 1: Some guy wrote in his blog that you cannot wonder around in Beverly Hills and take pictures there. And to hell with that, it would be stupid to even believe in it because, for F sake, USA is a democratic society! And have we forgotten about the civil rights movement? (I don't even wanna explain it's just too stupid.)
Example 2: someone said Jackie Chan doesn't like his name being stepped on by ppl every day so his name plate only stayed in Hollywood's Walk of Fame for 24 hours. I nearly believed it, until I brought my mom to Hollywood and actually saw a star plate bearing "Jackie Chan" on the pavement.
Example 3: swine flu - don't eat pork!
after some easy googling, I found out: (yes it was a legitimate website even tho i dont remember where it was) cooking pork to 160 deg Fahrenheit would kill all the viruses. And that's about 71 deg Celcius which is not even close to boiling pt. So unless your like eating raw pork, you don't have to worry about it.
Okay I am not trying to portray my mom as an uneducated who freaks out about everything but I think her college education then definitely missed some of those important skills that we would acquire in our education today. But she also told me before that the kinda arguments college grads and non-college grads make are obviously diff because college grads def have stronger argumentation skills. (I'm not saying absolutely but generally. Cos I bet Bill Gates and Li Ka Shing are good arguers LOL.)
GTG!
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March 7th, 2009
03:09 pm - I should re-consider my values.
After going to Harvard summer school and moving to LA (USC), I've totally become a label fanatic... sigh! I judge people now from what labels they wear and what cars they drive! (bad influences all around me!) Seriously, all my closest friends aren't crazy rich people. But I love them for who they are. Even my mom is damn thrifty. And now, me (?!), I'm like this materialistic judgmental freak!!
While I do agree that nowadays, when we're in SC, we should seize the opportunity of meeting people with backgrounds to strengthen our social network for future developments, it's time I revise my values! (fuck this sentence sounds damn corny! xD)
But I will continue being a label whore because hell yea I'm gonna continue like what I like. Just that I think it's stupid to judge people from those superficial stuff... I'd rather friend someone who has an appealing personality than another who only knows how to brag about how rich his dad is. (well I guess i do that sometimes too but i won't anymore! :@)
(Well... but then there're those people whom I despise the most... those who are both not appealing in personality and family backgrounds... HAAha)
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/growf/smileys/surprised.gif) awake
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10:15 am
All my life's priorities are based on FUN. Like London. I put London as more important than intern and Marshall... =.= But I was recently told that whatever we do right now in college should be for FUN. See I want my college life to be as FUN as possible! Cos this might be our last chance to have fun anyway right?
fuck! WHO SAID HEDONISM IS A BAD WORD?? :@@@ (Whoever who said that is basically implying a prejudice. It's like saying men are more powerful than women! :@ Sorry Jon(my writing instructor) I'm lazy to argue but it is not a logical fallacy!) Why can't I have fun?!
And to someone else who's "disappointed" in me recently. I (god damn it) don't fucking care about sports. I never do. (the most that I care bout it was prolly when there's a really hot athlete or out of patriotism.)
And I wanna UN-INVITE some people from my birthday thing. :@ You're not gonna make my party more fun anyway! :@@@
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March 3rd, 2009
05:08 am - The Sims 3
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February 26th, 2009
05:22 pm - Priorities?
Summer school vs. intern vs. traveling =.=
I can do 7 weeks of summer sch and 8 weeks of intern, which leaves me 1-2 weeks of summer =.="""
And I still aspired to travel...
So I guess only 2 of them can happen this summer. Obviously sch and work come first....
BUT it's freaking summer break?! :(
Is internship really that important though? If I know for sure that I won't have to look for a job anyways... =.=
Hellllllllll!!!!
I AM SUDDENLY VERY INDECISIVE!
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February 2nd, 2009
01:34 am - phew!>
I finally found these!!!
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January 30th, 2009
02:34 am - okay sorry.
Bout the druggy boy thing. Maybe he is not druggy anymore. hopefully. i still like...
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January 28th, 2009
12:56 am - yay no shopping for four weeks!
After Vegas that's what I need. I missed 2 lectures today so as a punishment, I don't shop for 4 weeks! Good for health and everything! Hooray! I got one of my loves anyway... xD
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January 23rd, 2009
11:08 am - no.
I want no druggy boys and competition. peace. ma de. I need to be a bookworm now. maybe steven was right. shouldn't have despised him whatsoever... read read read!
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January 17th, 2009
06:21 am - OIUYTREERTYUIKMNBVCDDF
From Now on:
1. No shoe-shopping for at least 2 months.
2. No cosmetics shopping for 2 months. (unless it's super necessary)
3. Go to the gym 3 times a week.
4. No eating after 7pm. (very lenient)
5. Go to classes early, not on time, not late: EARLY.
6. Read.
7. Never ever buy any low quality clothes.
8. Stop thinking about bags for at least 1 month.
9. (thinking...)
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06:18 am - I turned in my first HW (ungraded) last Wed.
Even though it was not properly checked and completed... xD at least I didn't turn in late or went to class late! YAY! And it's ungraded. supposedly a diagnostic essay so he won't have a too high expectation on me! That's great! hahahahaha
And I really enjoyed classes!! except math because it's all about the same stuff again.
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January 16th, 2009
12:23 am - I LOVE MY CLASSES.
oh I meant HIST 266 and ENST 150!
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January 15th, 2009
05:16 am - Needing some morale booster.
This semester is gonna be so so so tough. Since when have you gotten an essay as hw in the first week. (even tho it's ungraded...) And the worst part is that I screwed up last sem so badly that I have to do well this one to pull my GPA up. Gosh... I am feeling very motivated this moment, while I'm supposed to work on the essay. But how long will my motivation last? I am actually writing this down so I would have the will to continuing crafting the stupid essay.
My new year resolution: to be a nerd, or at least bookworm, for once.
Now, I really don't care about whatever socializing anymore. I need to work on my school work for now. I am too busy for anything else. I will become a bookworm, hard worker. See the thing is, right, some ppl can juggle school and leisure so well. Like Blair Waldorf for starter, even tho she's a fabricated character. But there are real people like that seriously. But maybe I'm not as smart as them so that def isn't my kinda thing. I need disciplinary tuitions. arrrgggghhhhuhygfegwiuqhnpo2jieub whatever. God please help me to become a bookworm now!
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January 13th, 2009
02:51 am - No more class-skipping this semester.
No more no more. One class skipped = no shopping for one month! Damn harsh! yay! By skipping I meant voluntarily not going because not feeling like it. Other reasons such as misunderstanding, sick, emergency etc. are not counted...
Fuck I probably do have a little jetlag that I'm just not willing to admit. Cos how come I slept so little these couple of days and I woke up at 2am today and now Im fully awake. Damn it. Tomorrow is a long day. hahahaha classes from 9.30am - 9.00pm! hahahahahahaha! crazy. But I only have one discussion and one lect on mondays and one lec on wed, and------ no fridays so far!! yay! but i might end up taking that stage make-up class with may... which is on friday... totally not feeling like ruining my no-friday-classes plan.
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November 26th, 2008
04:40 pm - OMG I am the most horrible student ever.
WTF... FUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OMG I CAN'T BELIEVE I HAVE JUST MESSED UP ALL MY CLASSES!!!
FUCCCCKKKK!!!! I HATE MYSELF!!!
GOSHHHHHHH!!!!! GOSSHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GOD PLEASE HELP ME IN SOME WAY JUST SO I CAN GET INTO MARSHALL...
WTH :(((((((((((((((((((((((
Current Mood: DEVASTATED
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November 24th, 2008
12:42 am - Her shoes are damn big.
Haha. Click.
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November 17th, 2008
02:51 am - UCLA?
What the hell are they thinking?
>>> "Tommy Trojan feeling blue -- victim of classic prank"
UCLA is so lowly.
And even though I know nothing much about football (except the fact that USC is one of the best and UCLA is not at all.), I do know scores and the fact that higher score wins.
(Source: espn.com)
USC games:
UCLA games:
Come on I don't hate UCLA! In fact I always think it's a very cool school. Well I guess football fans are just crazy. But... BEAT UCLA!
P.S. I always can't understand why they pick bears as mascots. 'cause in Mandarin bears are gou3 xiong2. Haahaha.
A handsome Greek warrior vs. a bear. Dots.
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November 16th, 2008
03:17 am - I'm starting to despise you.
Real friends are so damn hard to come by. WTH.
So I've always been thinking you are real friends but I guess until we can stop being pretentiously nice to each other we would never be real friends. Oh why am I despising you instead of despising all of us? Because I don't have an accomplice. Ha. Also because of some shit that you did and that I feel is very stupid.
I think real friends don't have to be made consciously. That's exactly why we're not real friends. Real friendship happens naturally. We can't be not pretentiously nice to each other because there're just too many differences between us. Of course that is no one's fault. But because you're different with me, and obviously I like who I am, so I despise you.
We can't just be acquaintances too because there is one very important thing that binds us together and we have no choice but to continue to live with it. I guess at least we're all good people and that's why we even bother to be fake nice. And we're afraid of losing each other because the next one we meet might not even bother to be fake nice. But I still despise you.
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November 15th, 2008
07:26 pm - Materialism is Addictive.
It started light. But after a while you're so into in it gets more and more intense and eventually you realize you're addicted. And you get worried because you don't know how deep you'll sink and how long you can survive.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/growf/smileys/worried.gif) worried
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November 12th, 2008
11:36 pm
There're so many things that needs to be done but I just don't have the time to get my life organized and start doing them. When what I really have been doing is just 'loitering' on online stores and youtube and staring into blank space imagining about unrealistic future. What the hell is wrong with me?! I should really start to do some serious organization and planning... soon.
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