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Yay, I’m Sports Representative!

Congrats to Crystal Yu for getting the Cultural Representative position!  You’re better represent us Asians well!  or else…

Here are the results:

Cultural/Ethnic Representative (top 2 candidates, in bold,
have been elected):

 

Chinwendu
Opara                     38.2%

570 votes

Crystal
Yu                           34.2%

510 votes

Stanley Pierre                                30.8%

459 votes

A. Muthoni Githua                    21.5%

                                     

321 votes

All
other candidates on the ballot have been elected:

Alex
Chan                              44.4%

                                      663 votes

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O man, last night’s tennis club meeting was a blast!  Long story
short:  we are gonna have a very busy fall semester coming
up.  I can’t wait

Here’s my current schedule for Fall 05′:

Class Schedule for Alex Chan, Fall 2006

Schedule Number Course Section Grade Method Credits Location Meeting Times 1621 CHIN 101 0201 Regular 4 MP 105 MW 9:00am-10:40am 5085 PSYC 230 0201 Regular 3 SOND 204 TuTh 1:00pm-2:15pm 5090 PSYC 304 0101 Regular 3 LH5 MW 2:30pm-3:45pm 5120 PSYC 380 0101 Regular 3 SOND 103 TuTh 10:00am-11:15am

Hold List

Schedule Number Course Section Location Meeting Times 4712 PHED 121 0301 TBA MWF 11:00am-11:50am 4790 PHIL 346 0101 SOND 105 MW 1:00pm-2:15pm 4786 PHIL 321 0101 SOND 105 TuTh 11:30am-12:45pm 4740 PHED 160 0101 TBA TuTh 9:00am-10:30am

Yea, I’m added psych 380 just so I appear as a full time student. 
Hopefully I can get into Racquetball; I’m should be able to get into
PHIL 321 (ancient phil history) and Phil 346 (deductive systems) and
I’m also gonna be doing research. 

So yea, I may end up taking either 19 credits or 17.5 credits next semester, if all works out…*Cross fingers*
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Time for another edition of Chan’s Movie Review:

Hard Candy

First off, this is one of the most psychologically thrilling
movies I have ever seen.  You really don’t see too much, but the way
that they imply certain actions and internal struggles was just too
good. 

Note to the girls:  you
will probably really like the girl because she does some things that
you may sometimes wish you can do to an awful guy.  Note to the guys:  be prepared to feel some pain in your balls (AIYA!)

I’m not gonna spoil too much, but it’s basically about a girl who
psychologically/physically punishes a pediphile.  However there is much
more to it…

Great job acting for the two stars.  Seriously, even though it was
mainly them talking the entire movie, I never really felt bored because
you just hold onto every single word, feeling every pain that the guy
feels, feeling all the internal emotions…yea, pretty fun stuff.

This movie will make you think about your morals and will offer a lot of tense moments, just to add a final warning

Pros:  Acting, atmosphere, camera work, yea quite a lot
Cons:  Sandra Oh’s
character wasn’t really that necessary (she’s only in the movie for 2
minutes or so), could have had a little more back story on the guy

Chan’s Final rating:  A
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AHHH I’ve been so sick the past few days, but what can you do? 

Guess what, I”m gonna be living in Susquehanna 183 next year with Jeff, Marvin, and Kevin!  Too bad we didnt get Erikson but o well, Sus is still good.  I can’t wait…

So yea, that means im gonna need to pay some more money for next year . 
I got tuition covered with the grants I got from FASFA, but That still
leaves another 8,000 dollars or so for housing.  Hopefully I can
win one or both of the UMBC scholarships i applied for and hopefully I
can get that insurance job over the summer to help pay for some. 
I don’t wanna burden my parent’s funds too badly…we’ll see what
happens.  If I decided to live on campus my senior year I’m gonna
try to be an RA so I can get some free housing

Tonight at 8:30pm I’m gonna register for classes.  I’ll get into
most of the classes I want (maybe).  We’ll just have to find out
tonight…

EDIT:  Pictures added****

Vote for Crystal Yu, Nayana Davis and me (Alex Chan) in the SGA elections!  The Asian Invasion is about to begin!


What a busy weekend!

First:  Off to Silent Hill:

On Friday night Raquel and I went to see Silent Hill. 
It was both great and bad; the acting was really awful and took away
some of the experience.  Seriously, the lead actress did some
stuff that make you go “what the hell?”. 

However, what the movie does well is the creep out scenes.  Holy
crap, I would be having nightmares if i was 13 years old!  They
did a good job giving you that feeling of dread each time the siren
rang.  Everything is dark and rusty and ahhh!

Even with it flaws, this movie is probably the best adaptation of a
game to the movie screen.  If only the acting was a little bit
more realistic this would have been one of the better creepy movies
I’ve seen.  All i can say now is that the parts that were good in
the movie were really good while the bad parts were really bad. 

Pros:  great graphics, CGI, good environment
Con:  confusing plot, bad acting, unreal character actions

Chan’s Silent Hill rating:  C+

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Quadmania

Raquel and I got there kinda late, but we still had a great time! 
You guys should have gone; definitely worth the 10 bucks to get
in!  Caricatures, free food, free drinks, free prizes, easy
carnival games, gladiator joust fighting, mechanical bull, dodgeball
inside a moon bounce, oxygen bar, Taking Back Sunday Concert (which
wasn’t that bad!)…yea, definitely worth the money. 

pics:

Look, I’m getting drawn!

Final product (my eyebrows aren’t THAT bushy are they??)

Raquel’s turn

Look, it’s Katie Couric!

Best prize ever

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Pool Party

After hanging out w/ raquel at CP i headed back down to UMBC for the
FYC Pool Party!  WOOOO!  Actually it was more of a social
amongst the FYCers haha.  there were a couple of other people, but
for the most part it was just us.  Still, I had fun and i stayed
there a lot longer than I thought.

Pics:

before going down to the pool

I can’t swim!

Yay, floatation devices are my savior

Happy-go-lucky

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Im not looking forward to writing my two papers this week…o well, I’ll wing it

Quadmania this Saturday!  Looks like it’s going to rain, but the indoor stuff will still be fun.

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On Sunday my group, the First Year Council, will be throwing an indoor pool party at the RAC from 6-8pm. 
Don’t hesitate to come by with friends!  There will be free food
and drinks there at well, so what do you have to lose?  You can
hold off on studying for a little more…
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So yea, not too much interesting going on.  Just been going
through the motion of classes and tennis.  So many papers I have
to do in the next couple of weeks…not fun.

O man, I hope I can get into the classes I wanted.  They fit my schedule so perfectly!  Come on don’t fill up….

CSA Paintball was a blast again!  It felt so nice outside
too.  Add to the fact that our team won all of the rounds made
this day pretty damn cool .  My team rocked; what can I say?  Musta been because of the girls

The happiest moment for me was when Kei Wai (my cous) and I won the
first forest match.  We should have lost that one; they had 5-6
people left while we only had me, my cous, and Frankie’s g/f. 
Well i didnt know that at the time, so i rushed the first bunker,
thinking that my teammates were covering me.  Luckily, the other
team didnt notice me, so i quickly bunkered the 2-3 people hiding out
there.  Afterwards I provided cover fire while Kei Wai bunker the
second one..and we won!  AHHhhh that felt great… haha. 

BTW, I didn’t meant to shoot you that much, Steve

Some candid shots from today:

Great faces guys

dirty and tired out

Group shot

Silly group shot

Close up

We found a partially-skinned bear out there!

mi familia

I swear this wasn’t a planned shot at all.  Guess Rob just models naturally

Poor cous; he got shot in the neck heh

My teammate Suds was the apparent culprit for this mark on my side. Shot me freakin 3 times in the same spot.  OUCH!

Yea, great great time…

To end this post, i’ll leave you guys w/ pictures from the fire that caused traffic to stop on the way back home.

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Took this video a while ago.  Pay attention to the smart shark

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Stole this from Derek’s site; its caricatures of Me, Ray, and Derek!

O yea, I’m gonna be Vice President of CSA again for next year.  Awesome….

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Hey, sorry haven’t been updating much lately.  Been soooo busy

Here’s what my schedule looks like so far for next year.  Anybody else taking these classes with me?

Potential Schedule:

PHED 121  Physical Fitness                                      1.5 
[4712] 0301 MWF.......11:00am-11:50am (TBA)           Bilger, M

CHIN 101  Elementary Chinese I (L)                                4 
[1611] 0201 MW.........9:00am-10:40am (TBA)           GUO, X

PHIL 346  Deductive Systems                                       3 
[4687] 0101 MW.........1:00pm- 2:15pm (TBA)           WILSON, R

PSYC 304  Adolescent Psychology (SS)                              3 
[4981] 0101 MW.........2:30pm- 3:45pm (TBA)           FREIBERG, K

PHIL 321  History of Philosophy: Ancient (AH)                     3 
[4685] 0101 TuTh......11:00am-12:15pm (TBA)           HITZ, Z

PSYC 230  Psychology and Culture (SS or C)                        3
[5085] 0201 TuTh.......1:00pm- 2:15pm (TBA)           CHEAH, C

PSYC 397  Research Experience in Psychology                     1-3

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Look at these awesome optical illusions!  Can you see both words?
from http://necromanc.blogspot.com/2006/04/illusions-double-words.html

Good vs Evil?

Can you see why it’s an optical illusion?

Teach me, I’ll Learn

cause its YOU and ME and all other people…

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Come check it out!

If you are
very curious you can check out the ASIA pictures here on my facebook:  http://umbc.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2009519&l=6dc3c&id=15200041

Hanging out in between practices

The Prince with his twin bodyguards

Nice domo…

LOL.  Best facial expression ever

Some more tire people (however, Danny seems strangely intrigued)

My Jay Chou impression

Derek having fun w/ domo

Come hither my ladies!

Why so down Lai?  You’re with me!  See, Denise knows that, look how big her smile is

Sweet!  My fan stayed in my hand this time!

MinHee and her awesome drums solo

Asian Power!

CSA is getting down with it’s bad self!

Pimps

Didn’t even see it coming

Hoorah!

Finish to the hat dance

The three brothers

Tom and his friends rocking the house
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ASIA turned out to be a hit!  It went much smoother than I
expected it, based on the practices and leadership.  Very happy
with the results after a VERY long day. 

Here’s 2 great videos.  1st one is Jon and Andy in
their “Ugly Girl” skit and the second one is Jon performing his martial
arts…in a Domo suit.  Hilariousness ensues!

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