Category: life

A random post

I suppose I should be doing my chem homework now. Hah. I suppose I should be working ahead on ECE homework like I had planned. LoL. So funny how often I find myself with some free time where I could actually work ahead, but never do. Some things never change nay?

So instead, I’m here, wondering a bunch of stuff. Like how Angelex is still down. Like how I have all these books to read, tennis I want to play, CRCE I want to workout at, ideas I want to transcribe, and yet, like always I find some way to put all the good things off till later. But that’s okay, since it’s just life as usual. I’m actually amazed at how much time I do have. Just enough it seems, as any more, and I would most likely squander it with something less useful.

Then again…

I’ve been having this weird feeling of confined somewhere in the back of my mind. Not my ideas or feelings, or even those words at the tip of my tongue yet in the unreachable pathways of my mind—I’ve had fears that my entire existence happened to be in this confined state. So while I work and the things my life seems to be goes well, my soul is paralyzed to interact in any other way with the world than my meat machine and nurture-created persona. So yes. At random times, from time to time, I feel trapped and stuck, and more than ever desire to be free.

But free from what?

Hmm… if I only knew.

Creativity! Take control of me!

I usually find that I have so much to write, (like I do now) but this time, I’m going to hold my electronic tongue until I get this project rolling. What project you ask?


You can see it here…

That one

Yep. Angelex is coming back, this time, on its own top level domain! But enough of techicalities, let’s just say that this project is gonna be awesome. It’s been a long time since I’ve had my place on the net. Besides. Webdesign skills always come in handy. I’ve had my dose of inspiration today from Jessica’s (one of P-la’s old friends) website at abandonite.com. Though I’ve never met her before, I can already say
that she is amazing. There is beauty in her expression (beauty as defined in Closer ). Makes me almost wish that I was restricted at home with only tools and my mind to keep me company. She has so many skills, and puts them to such good use that I can’t help but admire in respect. Parker!! I want to be like you !

Haha–I’ve also found a lot of webtools that I want to try to put to use. Besides… now that I’ve become a sellout and an engineer, I need something to keep my creativity tiptop! With Abandonite as my inspiration, Angelex shall be reborn.

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SO I’m back at school again already. And it rocks

With the unfortunate circumstance of not having any reasearch to participate in, everything is great! I do miss people back home, and am spending three grand for a few more classes, but this is an experience in true independence–paying for rent, cooking, utilities.

Every day, a few hundred incoming freshmen are here for their summer orientation. Sitting at the Union food court, every day they pass by on
tours, some with friends, while their parents attend their own info sessions upstairs. So time passes by… I’m still confused over where my college experience is going, and already here’s another generation of kids, fresh and eager–some more than others–but all about to enter the once in a lifetime undergraduate experiece. And what I am left thinking and feeling? A bit of shock and a bit of awe, a bit of forced maturity, and a bit of lostedness… a bit of this and a bit of that, and most of all, just “wow… so we’re not the newest kids on the block anymore”. Heh–I think it’s worth a smile. These new kids are a reminder that the world will always go on, whether or not I managed to catch the last wave. Well, congrats to them, and may they suffer through less confusion than I (~though statistically, I know they will~).

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One thing that sucks about this appartment business is the near consistent lack (healthy) things to eat. We have plenty of foodstuffs, just not so much the mysterious powers necessary to transform it to food. Which makes today so much more significant. We actually COOKED food today–and as you can see… I can make food!


Holding what’s left of the Angel Hair Pasta with Chicken. Squishy knows~

It wasn’t until recently that I discovered the joys of cooking–who could have known that spending hours in the kitchen could be so much fun? Except that it cuts into my study time (lol–absolutely j/k-ing). Psssh, this wasn’t as good as the last time though (Jon claims it was less incentive–hehe–perhaps it was).

OH, and here’s the video of Cindy being dunked in the water. Laugh your butts off!

Okay! That’s it for now–more relevant writing later~

NEXT ENTRY–I SHALL WRITE OF another amazing movie… BATMAN BEGINS!


Phase One Complete

Phase One Complete

I think it’s about time to make an update. This past weekend was awesome. From the eleventh hour changes to our plan, to setting up minutes before rain… seeing Jonnyboy sunburned to getting caught and let off by park rangers, everything worked out amazingly. Our group was truly blessed…   I don’t think any other camping trip to the Indiana Dunes was ever planned so haphazardly, but that’s typical . Our decision to go wasn’t made until 2 days before, due to internal conflicts and possibility of inclement weather. At 1 AM on the day of our departure we went shopping for supplies. When we woke up in the morning after 4 hours of sleep, we still didn’t know if half of our party was coming. As we left Naperville, we still thought we were going to the Michigan Dunes.

After departure, with time for flexibility ticking down, as members of the expeditionary forces, my car’s crew made an arbitrary decision to switch to the Indiana Dunes, in order to save some time and hopefully get better campgrounds… and when we got their, we were told the campgrounds were full… The entire trip could have been an utter failure. We took a drive around the campgrounds that could have been, and were about to leave… but then… on the way out, we found out that the camp computer system had been down, and there were actually two spots left! Starting there, things started looking up, and it only got better and better! From the last second planning to the smore’s contest, to sneaking out to the beach, gazing at the amazing starscape, then getting caught by park rangers an hour later… the 24 composing this trip has been the best 24 hours of summer yet~

I could go into more detail, but pictures tell so much more with much less effort, no? So… photos!


Our entire group of 6 Fellowship, 2 F-Family, and 2 Chromium members!


Chicago from 150 Miles away


All Crowding around the Feat of Biological Manipulation


A last rendezvous with another camping group before departure~

Click here to see ALL photos (except the most incriminating, and/or most pointless)

And with that, phase one of my summer is complete…

Oh yea, and Mr. & Mrs. Smith—this movie is already one of my favorites, not because of the leads (as yummy as they may be), but the idea of a couple so amazing at what they do. Like Neo and Trinity in the Matrix, there is a certain beauty to love on a far higher plane than everyone else—expressing their inner battles, yet bound together by forces much stronger.

Here’re some thoughts from Slate –who word things the way I might have tried to had I not been so tired.

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Yes… I’m a bit behind in my life~