Updates on Spring Awakening tour, more Spring Awakening and school! This video turned out to be longer than expected...
Friday, September 19, 2008
Monday, September 15, 2008
Daily Routine
It has become a habit that I sleep at 2 or 3 every day. Somehow I still make it through the day with the occasional dozing off in a math lecture or even chem lab. I try to sleep earlier, but I always have something to do that prevents me from going to bed.
On the subject of computers, my desktop is dying. It's turning four years old this December. Every day it will freeze at least once, forcing me to force shut down. Recently, the sound occasionally stops. It's time for a new computer. A new Mac. However, I am waiting for the re-design which is rumored to be next month. I look longingly at everyone else's MacBook/MacBook Pro and wishing that I was Mac owner. Surely, the time will come. Soon.
I just bought the iTunes Live from SOHO - EP with the current and original cast members of Spring Awakening. The songs are just utterly beautiful. While listening to these songs, I have been reminiscing about the lame, funny, stupid, fan girl-ish thoughts that have gone one revolving around Spring Awakening (you know who you are). I can't believe that it's been a year and a half since I discovered Spring Awakening from my drama teacher, Mrs. C. :)
Blog will be up tonight with lots of SPRING AWAKENING pwnage and awesomeness, among other things.
On the subject of computers, my desktop is dying. It's turning four years old this December. Every day it will freeze at least once, forcing me to force shut down. Recently, the sound occasionally stops. It's time for a new computer. A new Mac. However, I am waiting for the re-design which is rumored to be next month. I look longingly at everyone else's MacBook/MacBook Pro and wishing that I was Mac owner. Surely, the time will come. Soon.
I just bought the iTunes Live from SOHO - EP with the current and original cast members of Spring Awakening. The songs are just utterly beautiful. While listening to these songs, I have been reminiscing about the lame, funny, stupid, fan girl-ish thoughts that have gone one revolving around Spring Awakening (you know who you are). I can't believe that it's been a year and a half since I discovered Spring Awakening from my drama teacher, Mrs. C. :)
Blog will be up tonight with lots of SPRING AWAKENING pwnage and awesomeness, among other things.
Sunday, September 7, 2008
And All Shall Know the Wonder
So this is a quick update because I will be doing a video blog in the next day or two.
In a nutshell, I went to San Francisco three times in the past three days and will be going again on Sunday. Basically I have been spending my days in San Francisco...all for Spring Awakening! I watched the show twice in two days: dress rehearsals on Wednesday and the first performance in San Francisco on Thursday. The show is quite amazing. There are mature themes and little set pieces so it makes the audience create the environment for the show based on each person's experiences and feelings.
Well, going off to talk backs with the creative team of Spring Awakening in San Francisco! :)
In a nutshell, I went to San Francisco three times in the past three days and will be going again on Sunday. Basically I have been spending my days in San Francisco...all for Spring Awakening! I watched the show twice in two days: dress rehearsals on Wednesday and the first performance in San Francisco on Thursday. The show is quite amazing. There are mature themes and little set pieces so it makes the audience create the environment for the show based on each person's experiences and feelings.
Well, going off to talk backs with the creative team of Spring Awakening in San Francisco! :)
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Go Bears!
Welcome to Welcome Week! This is it: I am now an official student at Berkeley. College seems like it's just another summer camp, but this time, it's real. So many exciting events to choose from. I've gotten so much free stuff and free food from Caltopia and the various events that go on every day.
Sunday was move-in. I live in a double suite in Foothill; it's fairly far everything and I need to climb a bunch of steps, but thank goodness all my classes are nearby. Suites are basically three to eleven room clusters with bathrooms. We have about nine rooms in our suite and two bathrooms. And our rooms are twice as large as the other res halls, but it does cost more to live here.
Classes officially started yesterday. The math discussion was basically a calculus review section. I was surprised that I actually remember msot of the topics and concepts that our GSI talked about. At Berkeley, I should mention that professors teach the lectures, but certain sections (mainly discussions) are led by GSIs which stands for Graduate Student Instructors. They are graduate students that lead discussion (meaning reviewing problems and concepts) sections.
And I was enrolled in Chemistry 4A and waitlisted in Chemistry 1A, so I ended up having a busy schedule full of non-stop classes. My schedule for Wednesday was quite packed:
8am-9am Calculus Discussion
11am-12pm Chemistry 1A Lecture
12pm-1pm Chemistry 4A Lecture
1pm-5pm Chemistry 1A Lab
As you can see, I didn't get a break at all in between classes after 11am. The dining common opens then so I did not eath lunch. Luckily, I got off the waitlist which I found out during the lab, so I don't need to attend 4A anymore! Now, I will actually have time for lunch.
Football is HUGE at Berkeley. Pretty much everyone goes to the all the games. There are numerous events, rallies leading up to Game Day. Rally Committee is an integral part of keeping up the spirit on campus, maintaining school traditions. They do a bunch of awesome things like card tricks, flag waving, and more. Flag waving as in 14-feet poles with humongous flags; not your average every day flag.
Here is everything above in a video: (Also, a tour of my dorm room.)
Sunday was move-in. I live in a double suite in Foothill; it's fairly far everything and I need to climb a bunch of steps, but thank goodness all my classes are nearby. Suites are basically three to eleven room clusters with bathrooms. We have about nine rooms in our suite and two bathrooms. And our rooms are twice as large as the other res halls, but it does cost more to live here.
Classes officially started yesterday. The math discussion was basically a calculus review section. I was surprised that I actually remember msot of the topics and concepts that our GSI talked about. At Berkeley, I should mention that professors teach the lectures, but certain sections (mainly discussions) are led by GSIs which stands for Graduate Student Instructors. They are graduate students that lead discussion (meaning reviewing problems and concepts) sections.
And I was enrolled in Chemistry 4A and waitlisted in Chemistry 1A, so I ended up having a busy schedule full of non-stop classes. My schedule for Wednesday was quite packed:
8am-9am Calculus Discussion
11am-12pm Chemistry 1A Lecture
12pm-1pm Chemistry 4A Lecture
1pm-5pm Chemistry 1A Lab
As you can see, I didn't get a break at all in between classes after 11am. The dining common opens then so I did not eath lunch. Luckily, I got off the waitlist which I found out during the lab, so I don't need to attend 4A anymore! Now, I will actually have time for lunch.
Football is HUGE at Berkeley. Pretty much everyone goes to the all the games. There are numerous events, rallies leading up to Game Day. Rally Committee is an integral part of keeping up the spirit on campus, maintaining school traditions. They do a bunch of awesome things like card tricks, flag waving, and more. Flag waving as in 14-feet poles with humongous flags; not your average every day flag.
Here is everything above in a video: (Also, a tour of my dorm room.)
Saturday, August 23, 2008
The Last Day of Summer & The Start of Something NEW
This is my last day of summer! Tomorrow I am moving to Berkeley, which is only an hour and a half away from my home. I should be packing right now, but I am too tired and lazy to do so. Labor Day weekend is coming up, so I might as well just come back next weekend and grab whatever I still need or forgot to bring. Isn't that much simpler than lugging everything and having so much stuff that I won't use? I am quite excited about living somewhere else than San Jose for a change. Berkeley has interesting shops and eateries. Besides, it's right across the bay from San Francisco. Since there's a BART station right next to campus, I can take it right into the city.
Also, tomorrow is the closing ceremony of the Olympics! We get cable in our room (included in our tuition) and I can't believe Berkeley has more channels than I do at home. There's everything but the premium channels. I could spend my whole academic at career in my dorm watching television, but that wouldn't be a smart thing to do: spend $26,000 a year on cable television. :P Hopefully my roommate has a spare TV to bring so we can watch the Olympics closing ceremony. If not, then I'll find some way to watch it. Maybe record it or find it online.
Well, I am headed off to Berkeley while all the other UC students are still squatting at home drooling for another month. This has been such an awesome summer and I am READY for school. Berkeley, HERE I COME! GO BEARS!
Also, tomorrow is the closing ceremony of the Olympics! We get cable in our room (included in our tuition) and I can't believe Berkeley has more channels than I do at home. There's everything but the premium channels. I could spend my whole academic at career in my dorm watching television, but that wouldn't be a smart thing to do: spend $26,000 a year on cable television. :P Hopefully my roommate has a spare TV to bring so we can watch the Olympics closing ceremony. If not, then I'll find some way to watch it. Maybe record it or find it online.
Well, I am headed off to Berkeley while all the other UC students are still squatting at home drooling for another month. This has been such an awesome summer and I am READY for school. Berkeley, HERE I COME! GO BEARS!
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Monday, August 11, 2008
Sweet Home California
I'M BACK HOME! It feels so great to be back home in my own warm bed, in my own clean bathroom, without the annoying mosquitoes and gianormous cockroaches. Now, I can finally enjoy things in the comfort of my home...like watching the Olympics!
And guess what was waiting for me when I got home? (This was totally unexpected.) I won free tickets to Warped Tour at Shoreline Amphitheatre this Friday from peta2!
This also arrived as well: my signed Legally Blonde Playbill! (Sorry, didn't get a chance to rotate the photo.)
Now I'm off to watch Olympic re-runs on TV. Stupid time difference. Go TEAM USA!
And guess what was waiting for me when I got home? (This was totally unexpected.) I won free tickets to Warped Tour at Shoreline Amphitheatre this Friday from peta2!
This also arrived as well: my signed Legally Blonde Playbill! (Sorry, didn't get a chance to rotate the photo.)
Now I'm off to watch Olympic re-runs on TV. Stupid time difference. Go TEAM USA!
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