maybe I should do a update here

yeah since I've been here for almost a month.

Okay where should I start?

Life is certainly good these days.
My roommates have been pretty much the greatest that they can be.(I'm somehow pretty lucky, throughout out my college life so far, I never had a bad roommate)

Yeah so school and classes.
4 classes, 12 credits(I wish I can get more)
Each of them meet like once per week, but it's like 4 hours every period.
The good thing about it, is that I get to have a pretty chill schedule. My weekend starts at Thursday 1230pm, how great is that?

Oh yes, one thing that sucks: my Photo class is on Monday afternoon. But film developing/school photo labs are not available on weekends..... so that means I have to finish all my projects on thursday afternoon,  and get the film developed/ photo printed in the darkroom on Friday to be able to turn in the homework on Monday. Weekend free time is pretty much useless for that class. ugh EF!@#$%^&*(

Anyways, yes, I finally got the iPhone4. People always assume I always had the iPhone since I'm such a big Apple fanboy(to be honest, I don't think I'm qualified to be called a fanboy). My old Nokia 6500Classic finally bailed on my after 3 years of loyal service. RIP.

I was lucky enough to find a group of friends here in school right away. Reminds me of the old dead tree's. But this time everyone in the group are old friends already, I'm the newcomer. So yeah, still trying to fit in and know everyone. Especially the girls, they are the hardest to understand....

Oh yes, still working on the postcards. I'm pretty much running out new ways to say hi on the postcards these days.(To be exact, it's been like this 6 months already.) But I'll do my best to send out those postcards to you all asap.


And thanks for the help from Paul and Kelly, I was able to receive the info and get the freelance photographer position at the school newspaper, the Columbia Chronicle. Once a news paper photographer, always a newspaper photographer(?)  Haha.

Yes my hair is still growing, although it's increasingly getting in the way of normal day activities, but I have no plans of cutting it yet.

Thats all I could say for now. Heck it's only a month into the school year, wait till the winter comes and We'll see how would I bitch about it. LOL

Oh well, bed time anybody?

Chicago

It's been almost a week since I got here.
Things have been pretty good.

Really loving this place.

Weather has been getting better.

The City is amazingly beautiful.

Too much to talk about with too less time.

I'll fill you guys in later on.

Bed time for now.

Still chilling? heck yes

It's a sunday morning.
I woke up early(I have no clue how I did it).
Start watching my baseball, fell asleep in the process, until Robison Cano hit a grand slam.

And then came rain delay, oh well, it's already an official game. Okay I'm over baseball for the day.

Next.
Reading Collette Bodtcher's blog of how wonderful her marriage is. (LOL only cause she's in the honeymoon stage)(But I'm not saying it's going to get bad)(Of course I want her to be happily ever after with a good life)

Hmm going through some other friends blogs/tumblrs too, like erika and alyssa and etc.

Reading? hmm, yeah I should get on top of that. Still got 1/3 to go through before finishing The Yankee Years. Hmm. And the new book from Jon Krakauer: Where Men Win Glory.


Plans:

I leave thursday for Chicago.
Fact: I have not yet started packing yet at all.
Yeah.... I MIGHT start doing it tomorrow.

chicago

So as I'm warping up the three day trip to chicago, starting to think about the near future stuff.
For example:
How am I going to bring all my stuff with me to Chicago?
Where am I going to find that 15K that I'm missing for school cost?


Oh well I really want to graduate from columbia.

Tuition and living costs around 40K per year, better make the most of each penny.
I hope I can finish school in less then 3 years.

We'll see how it goes...

friday the thirteenth

didn't noticed it till this morning when I woke up in the hotel bed.

funny

Improvise scrap wood

 Today when the Directv guy came by to install our dish.

I thought, hmm I could make the left over scrap wood for good use.

Especially that we can't find any entertainment system shelf small enough to fit the hole in the wall.

Improvise then.

And this is what I end out making:

It end up better than I thought, everything fit perfectly.


And still I had some other scrap wood still.... I turn my attention to relieving some space for cramped little computer desk.

Instead of spending 40 bucks on a aluminum mount for the Mac Mini, I did this with free wood and probably less than $2 of screws and angle plates.

yeah it's not painted one some cuts, but oh well, I wasn't trying to perfect it, that will take me too much effort and I don't have the tools neither.


To be honest, it really felt like a fulfilling day, especially when you got nothing to do around the place.