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Tuesday, October 30, 2007

the random and the beautiful

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Sunday, October 28, 2007

20 credits

12:17 PM
is crazy. being on exchange and needing to study and have fun while making sure you're on par with work and stuff - suddenly now there's greater opportunity cost to having fun, and when it comes to studying diminishing marginal returns set in very quickly. GAH.



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Thursday, October 25, 2007

keep holding on

4:08 PM
amazing what a dance can do to make you like an avril lavigne song. if i wanted to learn something, it'd be this. (:




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sometimes

3:58 PM
don't you think it's not about how well you do, but about how badly others do? that's just sad. it's as if how much you know doesn't matter anymore, but how little others know that counts.

weird.



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Tuesday, October 23, 2007

things to do

12:30 AM
1. do the dishes
2. do laundry
3. clean the bathroom
4. scrub the toilet
5. do an exam

i'd rather do 4 than 5 anyday.

this week is a prelude to hell week. YEAH.



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Saturday, October 20, 2007

of SIAs and ABCDs.

2:02 PM
i know why the SIA scholars look at the singaporean indians funny. it's the same reason i look at the ABCDs funny.

my econ anthro class is seriously driving me mad. i think marx's materialistic world view might be more prominent than weber's idealist standpoint in this case.



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Thursday, October 18, 2007

inspired from economic theory

11:34 PM

after studying marx and smith and weber i thought i shd take a break before attempting to decipher becker and look what my youtube surfing came up with. hahaha. i love this! how apt.




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Monday, October 15, 2007

yosemite

1:18 PM
so we did our first trip out of davis, and went to yosemite! the weather was perfect, camping was a test and i couldn't feel my fingers in the morning. other than that i polished off the cylinder of chips and 1 1/2 bars of chocolate. do you know how good chocolate tastes when it's cold or when you've been walking for hours or when your feet hurt? AWESOME.

that's a very big slab of granite. it might be el capitan. then again it may not. but it's fall look at the colours!

random little kid.

there's geri looking like lara croft. after this we attempted to tale a gazillion other angelina joli pictures.
nevada falls. the falls that appa and i (okay just i) were too lazy to climb up to the last time.

our first van. sherilyn, tina, yuko, chiai and another jap girl whose name i can't remember. and danny. LOOK at him. doesn't he look like a younger version of hue laurie i.e house? it's freaky.

hetchy hetchy. it's fgorgeous. but when trying not to fall and make a fool of yourself as well as trying to keep up with everybody else you focus on the floor and you don't notice the beauty surrounding you.

the bimbos from singapore. manjan girls! prospective husband alert. he's is the sweetesttt.
there's yoshi (who taught me foul words in japanese) and rodriguez (who taught me foul words in spanish), the japanese babes. sherilyn is one of them.
bairam, the german turkish guy who doesn't eat carbs (only on thursdays apparently) but drinks like a fish and is great at making camp fires. i tried to tempt him into eating an oreo but it ended with him telling me how many calories it had and i got depressed and i ate it.


i love this picture.

yosemite is fantastic, even going a 2nd time was breathtaking. i love it. it's peaceful, and fun esp when you go with random strangers who are very good sports. fun loving spanish and italians, cute little japanese and random germans. and entertaining guides.

next week, tahoe.




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Saturday, October 13, 2007

what it means to be brown

1:30 PM
getting lost while walking from one class to another has it's advantages. i now know that there are 2 kinds of brown people in america. there's the kind who think they are white (usually the girls) and then there's the kind who think they are black - the guys, duh.

in other news, i suggest that you all bake some cookies, preferably chocolate chip, and while the cookies are baking run out and buy some ben and jerry's cookie dough ice cream and then eat them together, when the cookies are semicooled and still warm and gooey. it's addictive, sweet, and absofuckinglutely delicious. if you want to guarantee yourself clogged arteries then be sure to add a generous helping of hershey's chocolate syrup on it.

see you in chocolate hell. (:



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Wednesday, October 10, 2007

on looney buns and girly mans.

2:36 AM
it'd had been a while since i'd read mrbrown (sorry mrbrown, i didn't mean to! i preferred it when you wrote rather than podcasted. sorry hor i old fashioned. plus perezhilton is brainless hahah) and random clicking led me there this morning.

and there was another of those 'english' translation of a song from the indian cinema industry. and a whole host of comments saying that it was very funny thank you mrbrown for posting it i will share this with my friends yadda yadda.

now, i am not an uptight indian prick (okay fine maybe i am HAHA) but seriously, i agree (only to a certain extent) with that very passionate guy who has argued that laughing at such things is ignorance and it reinforces stereotypes. to that some chinese and indians got quite cheesed off and told him to lighten up and get a life.

yes. it's funny, but not that funny.

ignorance has resulted in people not being able to tell the difference between hindi/tamil/telugu and everything is just included in the term 'bollywood'. i don't think it's just a subtle difference. there's as much difference as there is between a japanese, korean, taiwanese, mandarin soap opera. they are different industries altogether.

anything indian? anything that involves a dance in the field and around a tree? (seriously they do NOT dance around coconut trees, they've progressed to the mountains of switzerland and the streets of new york) must be bollywood.

and laughing at such a video, that's fine. but laughing without knowing the indian cinema industry and how it works is just irritating. you laugh because they have (according to you) funny dance moves and it's sung in a weird language (hello people actually speak this weird language, even in singapore, yes they do!) and they wear funny clothes but this is an inherent part of this culture.

i'm sorry if the K-pop and J-pop and taiwanese and mandarin markets have that much western influence. honestly, there isn't much difference between MTV asia and MTV anymore. appreciate the fact that there's an industry out there that has identity, it's own character and personality. that these industries (be in bollywood, kollywood or anything else) have a history and a legacy with its own well known and well respected actors, directors and producers. appreciate the variety - from the mtv style pop routines to the classy bollywood numbers to indian folk to classical indian dance forms, indian cinema celebrates diversity. and apparently this diversity is laughed AT and not laughed WITH.

that's the difference. go ahead and laugh. admittedly some of it is funny shit. laugh with, don't laugh AT. you laugh at when you compare it to the style that you are used to and you make an unconscious judgment that what you are watching is the weirdest thing on earth. grow up, other cultures exist other than yours.

this is the kind of shit that leads to people reacting with 'wow so you know bollywood dancing/bhangra' (apparently they are the same thing) when i tell someone i learn indian dance. and then they tell me 'i also know indian dance!' and they enthusiastically put their palms together and attempt to shake their necks which could easily be mistaken for muscle spasms.

so stop it, we don't dance around coconut trees.

i think this is the result of me doing a module on asian theatre and drama. haahah.



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Saturday, October 06, 2007

exchange

11:27 AM
it is said that exchange is a process of self discovery and learning. i vouch for that, it is true.

i now know that cutting onions while watching america's next top model (oh come on! it was down to the final 2!) is a bad idea.

on the good side, i no longer cry when cutting onions. my tears have self control now. or perhaps i was too shocked at my finger dripping blood over the white counter.



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