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Wednesday, 14 July 2010

  • Day 01 : Your favorite song right now

    I haven't listening to many new songs lately. I would say "Defying Gravity" from the musical Wicked is my favorite just because I am on a Wicked rampage. I actually didn't care for this song the few ten times I heard it in my sister's car/room until I watched the musical. Or maybe it's "No Good Deed".. or "No One Mourns the Wicked"... or maybe "Loathing".... Or "Popular." That was a pretty funny song.

    Moving aside from all music from Wicked.......... I would say my favorite is currently "Come Home" by One Republic.



  • Can't really remember from who I took this but I really wanted to do this, so I copied and pasted it into my Notepad and waited a few months until now. Sorry that I can't credit the original poster.

    List:
    Day 01 : Your favorite song right now
    Day 02 : Your phone
    Day 03 : Outfit of the day
    Day 04 : Book you're currently reading
    Day 05 : Your favorite quote
    Day 06 : Favorite poem
    Day 07 : A photo that makes you happy
    Day 08 : A photo that makes you angry/sad
    Day 09 : Random pic
    Day 10 : A photo of you taken over ten years ago
    Day 11 : A photo of you taken recently
    Day 12 : Favorite secret recipe
    Day 13 : Favorite Shoes
    Day 14 : Favorite Jewelry
    Day 15 : A photo of people you don't know
    Day 16 : A song that makes you cry (or nearly)
    Day 17 : An art piece (painting, drawing, sculpture, etc.)
    Day 18 : Last item purchased
    Day 19 : Pic / video / etc of something inspiring
    Day 20 : Odd habit of yours
    Day 21 : Most Handsome/Beautiful person to you
    Day 22 : A website
    Day 23 : A YouTube video
    Day 24 : Photo of the Pet
    Day 25 : Your day, in great detail
    Day 26 : Weirdest accident
    Day 27 : The top ten played songs on your iTunes
    Day 28 : This year, in great detail
    Day 29 : Random Pic
    Day 30 : Hopes, dreams and plans for the next 365 days

Wednesday, 30 June 2010

  • sleep paralysis, hallucination, and death

    @~@ YAY BAD VIVID SCARY DREAM JOURNAL ENTRY

    I get sleep paralysis every once in a while, but the one I had this morning was kind of scary. I woke up several times today, once when the sunlight was starting to come in, once when my mom's ultra loud alarm noise rang, and.. a couple more times after that when I was trying to wake up.

    I was kind of stuck in a dream/nightmare, but it wasn't the usual some-murderer-or-monster-is-coming-after-you kind of dream. It had more malicious touches to it. Like, after I woke up from dreaming about watching the police catch my neighbor pirating copyrighted videos or something, I fell back to sleep and I could sense how I was positioned in bed, but I felt this sadness and anger and some murderous intent and I heard a man's voice that said that I killed myself or something and that I hated everyone. I felt like I was holding a knife and stabbing at something. There was this heavy pressure on me and I couldn't move. Then I think I half-woke up around there but fell back to sleep and I felt a woman's presence and she was upset about her killing an animal. I felt that heavy pressure on me again but it wasn't as scary. I saw a small palm tree in front of me too. I might have half-woken up again around here and fell BACK to sleep....... and felt another woman's presence, except she was just sad about something I never did find out. The pressure here wasn't strong like the other two, but I didn't like it. I squeezed my hands to wake up.. sort of.

    Then something happened.. and my friend Roland was like, "happy mortician's day" (o.O) and I look at the calendar... which said that it was July 2 and it was in the middle of the week. So I figured it was probably why I dreamt about those freaky demon ghost things.

    Then I woke up and I hear my dog sitting by my door... I was aware of her sitting by my door for a while now, but I didn't want to let her in. I might have fallen back asleep again because I felt that first angry man pressuring me and he was telling me that he was going to kill me and... something else. I heard my dog growling through the door and I kept telling myself to move something so that I wake up, but I couldn't. I can't remember what else he wanted to kill or hear the rest because I panicked while he was talking and started screaming myself awake. YEAH I uncharacteristically screamed because I was that scared.

    When I found myself fully awake (and able to move), I opened the door to let my dog in and looked at the clock.. because I wanted to sleep in. It was freaking 7:30AM. Oh Hell no. Forget about sleeping in, I am not going to experience that again.

    So it kind of felt like a demonic, ghostly experience, but it's not... because I googled "sleep paralysis" and according to our dear old Wikipedia:

    "Physiologically, sleep paralysis is closely related to REM atonia, the paralysis that occurs as a natural part of REM (rapid eye movement) sleep. Sleep paralysis occurs when the brain awakes from a REM state, but the body paralysis persists. This leaves the person fully conscious but unable to move. The paralysis can last from several seconds to several minutes 'by which the individual may experience panic symptoms and the realization that the distorted perceptions were false'...

    In addition, the paralysis may be accompanied by terrifying hallucinations (hypnopompic or hypnagogic) and an acute sense of danger. Sleep paralysis is particularly frightening to the individual because of the vividness of such hallucinations. The hallucinatory element to sleep paralysis makes it even more likely that someone will interpret the experience as a dream, since completely fanciful or dream-like objects may appear in the room alongside one's normal vision."
    ~http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis

    And it says that that Chinese refer this as "ghost pressing on body" or "ghost pressing on bed." So if any of you ever read Woman Warrior like I have... 1.5x, you'll figure that the narrator's mother, Brave Orchid (hah, can't believe I remember that), was experiencing sleep paralysis from studying into late hours for her doctor's degree. (can't believe I remember that too.)

    edit: actually a lot of cultures refer to a supernatural phenomenon when talking about sleep paralysis. It's not just the Chinese of course lol. I just chose to talk about the Chinese cause I'm Chinese.. and they're conveniently incidentally the first culture listed in Wiki.


    KAYBYE

Sunday, 18 April 2010

  • Picnic Day

    Yesterday I went with my sisters, my oldest sister's best friend, and both my sisters' boyfriends to Davis for Picnic Day.

    It was exciting! I haven't been on that campus in yeeaaaars.. like maybe since 5th grade. The ride there was longer than I thought, but whatever. There was a parade, dachshund race (missed it), several dog shows, & LOTS of exhibits. Didn't go to many, but it was cool to see. It was a nice, bright, sunny day. Too warm for me.

    One of the exhibits were to make a bracelet. The highlight of this was the beads, really. They were UV-sensitive! So if there is no UV, they turn white, but with UV-radiation, they change to a certain color. I really can't find mine right now. But I used my sister's pretty bracelet instead.

    Before and after it goes into the sun. You can see that in the "before" image, the bracelet is already starting to change colours.
    uvbracelete

    There was also a fencing showcase thing, but we didn't go. At some point a lot of fencers walked by. When one of the first fencers we saw walked by, my oldest sister was like, "look Karen." and I was like, "uh huh" because it wasn't really a big deal. Then my 2nd older sister started pointing at him and yelled, "LOOK KAREN! A FENCER!!!" Noooo omg... he looked so confused when my sister pointed at him. Then more fencers came around... .. . . ahem. Speaking of sports, the rec center was pretty neat. There were lots of machines, and a huge, huge climbing wall. I think that there's gonna be a pool there soon? A poster said something about that...

    And there were loads and loads of bikes there. That's to be expected and all, but.. wow. I don't know how it came to be that there are so many bikes, but there are cops on bikes, bike parking lots, bike roads, bike traffic lights... bike EVERYTHING. Stores and exhibits sold biking gears too. There are regular for-car parking lots and buses too, but bikes were the definite majority.

    There were quite a few exhibits that gave out actual plants. We went to a plant pathology exhibit and they gave us strawberries. There were also environmental studies exhibit allowing people to taste exotic plants and de-kernel dried corn with a machine. We got to keep the kernels too! I put one in a microwave, but it didn't turn to popcorn like I wanted.

    Oh yeah. We also went into the dining common (DC). It was pretty big, and kind of like a buffet that serves food to suit certain needs. They have gluten-free stuff, soy stuff, ice cream, assort drinks machine, risotto, tacos, burgers, a LOT of things. When you walk into the DC, there's a person at the front counter to whom you have to show your student card, but there was a line, we didn't have a card, no one really stopped us, so we snuck in HA HA HA...

    Anyways, yeah. I'm gonna end up pigging out at the cafeteria. What kevjumba says is so true: (hahahaha he looks pretty moded in the video cap)


    I also saw one of the head statues called "Eggheads". There's like seven of them, but we only saw one that day. This one is called "Bookhead".

    bookhead
    I got a picture with this, but we couldn't find any more of them. I'm so going to catch all of them sometime!

    My sister & her best friend went to see her sorority. Loads of screaming happening there. And when we left, these frat guys came over and even more screaming ensued. The girls were like, "AAAAAAAAAH!!!!" and the guys were like, "UUUUGHHH!!!" like a bunch of macho macho men. It was interesting and a little scary to watch. There were LOTS of Sorority and Fraternity houses scattered around, with the club name's sign in front. When I was leaving the city, we drove past this massive partying scene outside the campus, and it was definitely wild. Music blasted out from an apartment window, boys were carrying girls by their sides, screaming, dancing, drinking. Uhhh.. wow.

    After checking out some of the exhibits, two people from our group left, and then we went to eat again at.. this burrito place away from the campus. The burrito was so freaking good. I forgot what it was called though. Also, the campus had a bowling alley, shop that sells notes in case you missed class or if your notes sucked, school store that sells textbooks, clothes, makeup (gg), etc. The clothes are so freaking expensive. I think I should work at the store just to get a discount. I mean, the average price for a sweatshirt was about $40ish. Seriously? 40?

    Well, there was more stuff than what I wrote. But I think that this entry is enough. I'm psyched! I wonder if I should go orientation. It'll be neat, but it's a dorm stay kind of thing, so money is involved.

    Ah.. I think I know what I want for my major now. But I don't know. We'll see.

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    Whee!