Month: April 2007

  • Weekly update

    Formal Dance!
    If you haven’t already you guys should really consider going to the dance on a Baltimore cruise this Saturday night!  It’s 25 bucks, but that’s covering transportation there and back, food, gifts, and photos!  It’s formal wear, but you can wear semi-formal stuff as well.  You know it’s gonna be fun .  I hope some of yall can make it!  You can get your tickets at the Commons front desk.

    I saw the movie Next the other day, and to be honest it really surprise me how entertaining it was.  From the trailers, it looked kinda cheesy, but Nicolas Cage really know how to make his character interesting and charismatic.  I’ll even go as far and say it was pretty damn clever at some parts (like the twist ending).  Check it out if you can’t get into Spiderman 3 .

    The Tennis Club’s last match was this past Sunday, against Georgetown.  All in all it went as expected (at least we didn’t get totally shut out!), but it was a lot of fun nonetheless.  I at least got some great pictures out of this haha!  Click on the pic below if you wanna see them expanded:

     

    I thought these pictures were hilarious (source:  tennis.com):


    Can’t wait for the exibition match between Nadal/Federer on the half clay/half grass court!

    3 more weeks of school…

  • Yuck, my allergies are messing me up .  At least the weather has been nice lately!  I did a lot of stuff this weekend. 

    On Friday there was the All American Rejects concert.  I was surprise at how many kiddies there were there!  I felt bad for the parents because the bands were cussing all over the place.  Eh, they should have expected that certain things goes on at concerts haha.

    On both Friday and Saturday I went to Quadmania, where for the first time it didn’t rain!  Quadmania (aka Lotmania this year haha) was a lot of fun, even if the carnival games were all rip offs (then again, when is it not?).  There were more rides this time tho, so I made sure to ride them a lot.  Unfortunately, i ended up being very dizzy afterwards .  Too bad that pit beef stand wasn’t there this year (that stuff was good!).


    Yea, this was the ride that made me all messed up haha

    To top off this fine weekend, we won our match against Towson on Sunday!  We got our revenge against them after our surprising lost to them last semester.  I personally won my doubles match (partnered w/ bwhite) 8-0.  Now I know how it feels to be on the other side of an 8-0 match haha.  Unfortunately, no one took any pics of my match; but then again our match lasted like 15 minutes haha.  You know what sucks though?  I left my red water bottle at Towson!  I already emailed Towson to let me know if they find it.  I would seriously drive all the way down there to get that back haha.

    HEROES IS BACK!!!!  Gotta go watch that now

  • These past few days, I’ve been vastly engrossed in the whole VA Tech incident.  I’m constantly reading reports and stories and for some reason there is one story that keeps on tugging my heart, which is the story of Professor Liviu Librescu :

    At age 76,[8] Librescu was among the thirty-two people who were murdered in the Virginia Tech massacre on April 16, 2007. He was killed during a class in the Norris Hall Engineering Building by a student (Cho Seung-hui,
    23). Librescu held the door of his classroom shut while Cho was
    attempting to enter it; although he was shot through the door, he was
    able to prevent the gunman from entering the classroom until his
    students had escaped through the windows.    [10][11]
    A number of Librescu’s students have called him a hero because of his
    actions, with one student, Asael Arad, saying that all the professor’s
    students “lived because of him”.    [12]
    Librescu’s son, Joe, said he had received e-mails from several students
    who said he had saved their lives and regarded him as a     hero [8] whilst many newspapers also reported him as the hero of the massacre. He was killed on Yom HaShoah (the Holocaust Remembrance Day) in Israel and Judaism. On the afternoon of Wednesday, April 18, Librescu received an American funeral service at an Orthodox funeral home in Borough Park, Brooklyn, New York, where his body was flown to with his wife from Virginia. [13]He will be buried in Israel, where his son Arieh lives, according to his family wishes.
    Source:  Wikipedia

    It’s people like him that make me realized that while there are some evil ass people, there are still good, heroic folks to counteract them.  For this, Mr. Librescu will have my greatest respect.

    Currently some students at VA Tech are petitioning to change Norris Hall (the site of where most of the shootings happened) to Librescu Hall, to honor this great man.  I’m signature 907, so quite a lot of people have signed this petition already.  If you want to sign it as well, go here:  http://www.petitiononline.com/04172007/ .

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    On the lighter side of life

    Besides that, things are going pretty well in my life.  I’m doing very well in all my classes, even my Culture Psyc class!  I recently took a test in there that I thought I would maybe get a low B, but I ended up getting a 94 (the same score I got on the first exam) .  I’m not complaining, but that’s so weird…that means I only missed 3 questions?  I must have been a very good guesser

    I register tomorrow, and as long as all my classes are not filled up it looks like my schedule will be the following:

    PSYC 385  Health Psychology                                       3 
    [5259] 0201 MW.........2:30pm- 3:45pm (TBA)           ANDERSON, R
    PSYC 324  Introduction to Interviewing Techniques                 3 
    [5224] 0101 M..........4:30pm- 7:00pm (TBA)           FOX, M
    PSYC 345  Introduction to Clinical Psychology and                 3
    [5250] 0101 TuTh......10:00am-11:15am (TBA)           DELUTY, R
    SOCY 210  Class and Inequality in the U.S.                        3 
    [6019] 0101 TuTh......11:30am-12:45pm (TBA)           HEWITT, C
    PHIL 321  History of Philosophy: Ancient                          3 
    [4875] 0101 TuTh.......4:00pm- 5:15pm (TBA)           HITZ, Z

    PSYC 397 Research Credit                                                              Baker               2

    TOTAL CREDITS:  17

    All American Rejects concert tomorrow (woop woop!), than Towson match on Sunday.  This weekend should be pretty good

    To end this way too long entry, I wanted to show some funny 300 parodies I found online.  Yea, I know 300 came out a while ago but it still a kickass movie :

    Ecobecker time! (yall who ever taken science 100 should know what I’m talking about )

  • The crazy weather, the school blackout, and the news about VA Tech made yesterday one surreal day…

    Glad to hear that the people I know that go there are okay, but my
    heart goes out to everyone else that have been affected by this
    tragedy.




  • What a nice weekend :-)

    I’m living in Harbor next year!  Yay, got myself a single; now I can walk around naked .  j/k (or am I…haha)

    I had such a great time this weekend.  ASIA on Friday was a lot of fun (although I was kinda mad I didn’t get my food this time around .  I wanted some Korean beef!) .  Very happy that a lot of my old friends were able to make it as well; thanks again for coming!  Overall i really enjoyed the show, especially the skits, the wushu act, commonground’s dance and Minhee’s drum solo .

    Saturday was very chilled day.  Went up to CP to watch the club play their match against CP/Navy, visited Timmy’s restaurant, and chilled w/ Marv and Susan for a while before I passed out haha.  mmm 10 hours of sleep is always nice

    Next weekend is hopefully gonna be just as fun!  All American Reject concert at UMBC, Regina Spektor concert at GW, and Towson match.  (er scratch that Spektor concert; apparently it happened yesterday; thanks susan )

    Some pics from the Fashion Show and the CP match:


    Two comments; Darrell’s teeth are frickin glowing and Nii-Koi is totally blended into the background

    So the match didn’t exactly go our way, but at least I got some good action shots . 

    Alright, time to study for my exam

  • Plans for this week

    Tonight:  Studying my ass off for the SOCY Exam (why is there so much material??)

    Monday:  Advising, last minute studying, then SOCY Exam at 2:30pm, then tennis practice/ASIA practice (why must they be at the same time?  )

    Tuesday:  start studying for my culture psych exam on Tuesday, ASIA practice, then World Series of Pop Culture at 8pm (I better not get any categories like Project Runaway or America’s Next Top Model ).  Maybe start working on my lab report due on Friday..probably not im guessing .

    Wednesday:  Write lab report, read for everything!!!

    Thursday:  research meeting, finish my lab report (which I most likely haven’t started yet heh)

    Friday:  Last minute practice for ASIA, pick up Susan, do the show at 7pm

    Saturday:  figure out who can help out for New Student Day that’s running from 8:30am-12 noon, probably heading down to see the cherry blossoms at DC w/ CSA folks

    Sunday:  Loyola Match at home, study study study for psych exam on Tuesday

    *Sometime during this period I also need to call and confirm my acceptance of that Mercer Internship*

    Alright Chan, time to work it

  • So our match against GW didn’t go exactly as planned… .  Sure, it was our first match of the semester and we were all a little tired and rusty, but mmmmmann could we have done better (especially me; I’m not even gonna say what my score was but it was quite embarassing haha).  O well, maybe next time.


    Ew, my game face looks funny (I’m not sure if it’s a monkey face tho Marv!)


    If only I had a vertical leap as high as that one guy we played (who I swear jumped like 5 feet to smash a lob I attempted over him!)


    I think I was blocking back one of the other team’s HUGE serves

    Overall though, my weekend went pretty well.  I got to hang out with a
    lot of good people (some really good ), help throw a surprise b-day party for Judy, and saw
    a free showing of Peaceful Warrior with some friends (which I thought
    was a really good motivational movie!).  But yea, now I gotta go study
    like a mad man . Oh tests….