chrysanthemumtea
29 January 2011 @ 07:50 pm
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day 20 – this month

This month has been okay, nothing EXTREMELY interesting has happened to me so far. But nothing horrifically terrible either, so I will take it as I go. 
  • My cousin and his girlfriend came up to Seattle for a visit. We tried this Xiao Long Bao restaurant that has been the talk of the Asian community for a while. Not bad, a bit pricier than I would like but eh, good food comes for a price, I guess... I can see how Shinee were flipping tables over it, but bubble tea >>> xiao long bao imo.
  • I found the memory card that has all my SM Town photos---the originals. I was beyond excited for that.
  • Bombed my Finance Midterm OTL
  • Lisa has been strangely nice to me in the past few days. I am confused.
  • I hate girl drama, js
  • Magic Knight Rayearth the anime. Omg I can't believe I was so into this series circa Middle School. Hikaru is freakishly annoying.
  • I don't like throwing up
  • My mom is finding new and creative ways to pester me. I am both impressed and a bit annoyed.
  • I had the hardest time buying this textbook. The Amazon seller sent me the wrong one, doesn't have the actual book in stock, everywhere else is balls expensive. I decided to buy it off my friend's boyfriend, only to find out he has the standard edition, which is missing a good 100+ pages that I need (ノ・_・)ノ 彡 ┻━┻
  • I come to terms that one of my friends only likes talking to me if she needs advice. When we attend the same events, she goes out of her way to pretend that I don't exist. 
  • I don't know how to socialize with others. This is depressing.
  • Porkchops are beyond delicious.

xiao long bao~
 
 
Current Music: Seungri - VVIP
Current Mood: hungry
 
 
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So, for the past four days, I have been working at my Summer (and prior wished) hopefully long term job, as a a sales clerk at the Gap. Yeaahh! *sarcasm*

So far, I don't particularly mind working at the Gap. My coworkers are really nice and have been immensely patient with me with regards to me being a complete noob and the discounts I get are pretty nice too! (30-50% off things, yeaa!)

However, I more particularly don't want to work there anymore. It's not really that it's hard per se, it's more that I really don't enjoy providing customer service to people who DO NOT deserve good service because they are annoying as heck. That and I really don't like some of the procedural stuff the Gap does. 

Gap!Cons )

All in all. I don't mind being employed by the Gap, I like my coworkers and the discounts are pretty nice. But I really can't stand how things are physically done and the types of yuppie folk I meet. But I will continue on with this job until a better, non retail or restaurant job is offered. Then I will drop it like no tomorrow. Screw the discounts. :/

...I really don't want to go to work tomorrow. I work nonstop until Thursday, someone kill me. >>;;;

 
 
Current Mood: exhausted
Current Music: If I Never See Your Face Again - Maroon 5 and Rihanna
Current Location: room.
 
 
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yup, today I almost walked into the boys bathroom. Silly, yes. Stupid, definitely. Happens to others, yup. It was really weird, because bathrooms are usually arranged so that the girls bathroom is on the right and the boys on the left. At my old school they were like that...in fact most UW bathrooms are like that...(don't ask how I actually remember this, but can't remember more normal things 8D)

but I was walking to the bathroom, pulled open the door and saw guys washing their hands. One turned around and looked like he was about to girly scream. I would have laughed at his face if I didn't slam the door and run away XD So yeah, lesson today: pay attention.

Uni has been going smoothly, I think my Professors know me now...at least my Chinese, Math TA, and Math Professors do...course my math Professor calls me 'the girl who forgot her bag' ^^; I'm getting along pretty well in Chinese class, I made a couple of friends! It's really interesting how they all switch to English when they walk out of class but speak fluent Chinese in class...I need to do that more often...^^; Speaking of Chinese class, I feel bad for this, but I missed my first class today. I wasn't feeling well this morning, I mean I was like sleeping so deeply I was practically unconscious! My alarm rang for about an hour before I actually registered that it was ringing...that's really really bad... @__@ I missed a quiz today...but we have them daily so that shouldn't matter...

I have been keeping up with fandom news...NEWS is perfoming Weeeek and they look cute. Yamapi's hair is back to awesome again...DBSK is doing various concerts that look tiring, Junsu's My page performance is still amazing...KAT-TUN is releasing a new single...I'm watching anime again. :D>

Currently watching: D.Gray Man (Sanae Kobayashi! ♥), Zombie Loan (I still have to start this...), 1 Litre of Tears (Ryoooo!!), Dennou Coil, Lucky Star, Claymore, Hana Yori Dango 2, uh...Attention Please (Ryoo!), Hana Kimi (Oguri Shuuuun! ♥)...I'm really behind in my drama watching...
 
 
Current Music: Miduhyo - DBSK
Current Mood: hungry
Current Location: In the Stars!
 
 
chrysanthemumtea
09 October 2007 @ 10:13 pm

Well, the last week and a couple of days have been rather college like. I'm getting used to the campus (it's comfy now ♥) and I'm on time for my classes. All is good. I'm not really that homesick anymore...it's probably because I've been busy with HW and being entertained by my friends around here. They're awesome.

Chinese class has been going surprisingly smoothly. Ish. Well, I'm certain the teacher doesn't like me as much as other students. But she doesn't out and out hate me. *whew* We've already talked about S.H.E, Jay Chou, and Wang Leehom in class, which is awesome. She also made someone sing in front of the class because he dared speak English to her. LOL. The only problem I think I have with her is that my pinyin tones are my worst point, so she even told me that I really need to fix my pinyin. -_-;;;

Psych is really easy so far. My Professor mostly lectures out of the book, so I have no problems spacing out in class. That and there are these two really cute guys in my class (okay quiet, I am going to a school that's like, 30% Asian, so there's bound to be hot dudes running around) and I was totally happy. I drew a doodle about it in my notes once and one of them noticed. Damn. Good thing he didn't get it. He thought it was from an anime. haha. 

Math is okay. I get most of the main concepts that are being taught, but the supplemental stuff is really abstract. It's tough for the entire class...usually I get help from the math study sessions/TA's but they are only available at certain times and/or they don't get the problems themselves.. -_- I actually had a person at the math study sessions that told me that the answer I got from my neighbor (who's in Calc 400 something, so she's a major help) was correct and told me to copy down her answers even though I had no idea how to do it still D:
I like my Professor for Calc. I hear he's a really nice guy and he is. Very energetic. Sometimes too energetic... 

My roommate is totally cool too. We take care of each other. Like earlier she called to check up on me because I didn't arrive back to the dorm by 3:30 (something that I usually do everyday). I thought that was sweet. I'm teaching her how to use photoshop. :D

I saw the Lust, Caution movie today starring Tony Leung and Wang Leehom. I caught it with Ally and Jing. :-)> I don't remember the name of the female star, but she was really good. Very impressive. It didn't help that I didn't know that the movie rating was NC-17 (quiet!! I should have known from the title of the movie...) but it was a very engaging I liked it. The music is pretty too. The only thing I didn't like was the really really really long uh...detailed love (can you call it love? The first one was very very violent....omg Tony Leung likes things kinky) scenes...they were rather graphic. At one point I was like "IS THAT EVEN PHYSICALLY POSSIBLE TO DO THAT?!  THAT MUST HURT! OW!OMG". My friend Jing had to whack me to shut me up. LOL.  I covered my eyes during  most of those parts. But yeah, I initially wanted to watch it for Wang Leehom. :D> He was good in the movie too. Very handsome. ♥ I thought it was funny that I had his McDonold's jingle stuck in my head during the entire thing....Bababababa Wo Jiu Xi Huan

So yeah, go watch Lust, Caution. It's a good movie. I recommend it ♥ if you can sit through the really long love scenes...

 
 
Current Music: McDonolds ♥ - Leehom Wang
Current Mood: bouncy
Current Location: Zai wu zi li
 
 
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....not because I can't cook, but because I'm too lazy and paranoid of going out at night. Plus I like Top Ramen :D>

Well, this is my first official post from Uni and I'm having a lot of fun here! I've made a bunch of friends that have the same interests as I do (you know, languages, asian dramas, anime). So a little rundown of what I've been up to:

21st
Woke up major early after only three hours of sleep, drove up to Washington with my family, put everything in the car, and slept most of the way up there. When we got to Washington, we were directed to go to a parking lot to wait for a while. The purpose of that was so that the cars were organized in a waiting list to get to the actual parking lot to unpack stuff. Well, we got there and managed to get everything up in one go (they had a really handy huge cart to help us). My room is really nice, I have a lot of space plus a great view of the bay area! My roommate is a person named Lyrva and she hasn't moved in yet. I'm not sure if I will even have a roommate, because most kids have already moved in... Well, while I was unpacking and stuff, we couldn't figure out where my Dad went, he had to repark the car to get it out of the way and got lost looking for my dorm. He managed to find Husky stadium though, not sure how that works... after that we went to Chinatown to grab dinner before my parents dropped me off, it was cute how they didn't really want to leave me. Aww ♥

After that, I hung out with my friend Lisa who I bumped into yesterday. We then were roped into a dorm meeting to hang out and meet people. I met a couple of other kids who were cool. Afterwards, Lisa's friend Hannah invited us to go watch Sassy Girl so we did that. Hannah and Hunter (a dude who was present in the room) were really cool. I was able to act normally around them (which means I was really weird, lol). Sassy Girl is a funny KDrama, but we were really confused on what was going on. We only had Chinese Subs and none of us knew Korean. Lisa tried to translate the Chinese but was horribly confused by how fast they spoke. But we had fun anyways. Then we wandered out to drop off Hunter at his bus stop and I went to bed.

22nd
Well, Lisa and I hung out again and we added Jing into the group. Jing just moved in so we had a grand tour of her room, and she had a grand tour of ours. At first we were horribly lost trying to figure out where Jing was (she apparently just moved in...) but we found her. Afterwards we went to the University bookstore to buy textbooks and I found out I didn't need to get my $109.50+ Econ book, apparently Lisa took the class as a Summer student, so I could bum it off her. After we went to the bookstore, we took the bus downtown to check out shopping centers. There we visited American Eagle, a store that was a fusion of the Dollar Tree and Kinokuniya, and various little shops that Jing wanted to go into. In the evening, I went with Hannah and Lisa to a Standup comedy show (VH1's best week ever). It was okay, I thought that some of the jokes made by the ladies were a bit crude but oh well. So yeah, I feel so tired today, I hiked around campus several times today so I probably traveled two or three some miles. Ugh.

I'm liking college life, but I do like some peace and quiet sometimes...there are too many parties and social events...
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Current Location: Haggett #611
Current Mood: drained
Current Music: Hips Don't Lie (From the party) - Shakira
 
 
chrysanthemumtea
25 March 2007 @ 01:07 am
Well, I finally made it to Spring Break. I think I've achieved a lot this past week:
*I've finally figured out what the heck was wrong with my other two college apps. (thanks to Ms. Arrigotti)
*I've finished my book in English and my group got second place in the prompt contest
*I got all of my ch. 17 bookwork finished for AP Chem.
*I met with a lady from PwC (potential internship place) for an interview and gave her my resume (which she was surprised I had :D) However, I think the resume I gave her was the screwy one. I keep on finding typos and weird stuff on it. D:
*I discovered how awesome the song I'm listening to now is
*I picked up drawing again

But...for some reason...I just can't help but feel just nasty and frustrated lately.

I mean, the other day on the bus, this one kid (who usually is annoying, but I still tolerate him) just said a simple statement(I think it was 'Is there someone you're interested in' or something along the lines of that) and I really wanted to ask how his girlfriend (who was nearby) could possibly find something attractive about him.

Looking back, I feel really bad for being rude. And I'm getting annoyed at myself for my own frustration. Tonight, I sat down at 10pm to do some math homework, and about 10 minutes ago after eight problems, I finally figured out that I had now idea what I'm doing. I can't even figure out what to do, because we were never taught how to do what the book is asking us. My teacher taught us what to do when we stick certain parameters in the equations, but never how to solve. Because I keep on getting number answers when the book is listing stuff like tan(x+1).

A good chunk of that time was spent washing dishes, getting ice cream out, scooping ice cream, cutting the cake and putting everything away for my brothers birthday cake. I swear, no one besides my mom at my house can do anything. Everytime, when something has to be done and my mom is taking a nap, everyone looks over at me. Or just sit blankly, waiting for to be served. God...
Oh well, I going to sleep. I have a 10 hour work day D:
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Current Music: It's Not Over - Chris Daughtry
Current Mood: frustrated
Current Location: Away...
 
 
chrysanthemumtea
09 February 2007 @ 11:19 pm
I GOT ACCEPTED AT MY TOP CHOICE COLLEGE/DAI-GAKU!!! *flails some more*

I just got my letter thingy today and I'm soooo happy! *feels accomplished*
But ne, I actually checked my online account for it yesterday. It took me 15 some minutes to find the paper with the password, 10 minutes to figure out where to log in, and all for info I already knew. But! I did see that they updated something on the 6th, so I was half expecting some sort of letter from them. :-3

Anyways, I am really liking 'You Raise Me Up' by the Celtic Woman. It was the only thing I caught me while watching Byakkotai unsubbed (well that and Yamapi, but you know... XD) And I just found out that Lee-hom Wang, that dork, did a cover of it himself (Well, with Westlife, but I'm mostly ignoring them) which is pure love. Well, I'm mostly loving the 35 seconds he sang by himself. XD ♥♥

Yaaaaattttaaa! *flails*
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Current Mood: jubilant
Current Music: You Raise Me - Celtic Woman/Leehom Wang/Westlife
 
 
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I have just discovered a new Arashi song (well, it's new to me because I haven't heard their 'One' album yet) called Lai-Lai-Lai. It sounds so super fun and happy, but actually, the lyrics are pretty depressing!

You can listen to the song here here
and the lyrics are here Japanese text here


But anyways, in regard to my last post (the really emo one) everything came out ok. They've agreed to accept my application. So thank you for cheering me up! *hearts* (You know who you are, ♥)

Um, my days have been going alright. I particiated in the Science Bowl last Saturday, we won three games and lost one. We didn't make in the semi-finals, but it was pretty fun. I think I didn't do much though... ><;;

My homework load has been ok, but I still have a lot of stuff undone/procastinating on. ><;
Ja, *hugs everyone* ♥
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Current Location: At Home, cold
Current Music: Lai-Lai-Lai - 嵐
Current Mood: relieved
 
 
chrysanthemumtea
11 November 2006 @ 10:44 pm
For some reason, I feel really relaxed and happy today. I'm not sure why. I haven't felt so happy and relaxed in a long time...

It's odd because I have a lot of homework to finish, several college app. essays to proofread, several scholarship essays to check. Work and school have been going well, nothing surprising happening...

And I'm listening to Seiyuu music again, which I kind of drifted away from for the last couple of months. I'm feeling very strange...
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Current Mood: content
Current Music: Hiroki Takahashi - Hanging out the Washing
 
 
chrysanthemumtea
16 July 2006 @ 12:15 am
Darn you LJ, you ate my last entry! ::throws her shoe at it::

but summarizing my last entry, work has been going breezily. I've been working longer hours this week because the manager guy went on vacation. On Wednesday I was at work for seven some hours. The last hour or two were boring as heck, so I brought out my AP English homework and worked on it. This week I have to stay until 5 for several days, so I'll bring my AP homework. I'll get some work done. XD

Oh, I also got my first paycheck! ::feels special::
Work has been good. I haven't made any large mistakes (I am a bit slow on the to go orders but oh well...) the only 'mistake' I seem to make is overcharge people. I only did it once though. Today I overcharged a lady $10 but the boss didn't mind. He just told me to be more careful. It's only when I undercharge that I'll be affected. It comes out of my pay if I do undercharge. D:

Okaaaayy...I'll be going to sleep. I need more sleep.
::happily uses Anego icon::
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Current Location: not sleeping...
Current Music: S.H.E - Ring Ring Ring
Current Mood: awake