August 2010
2 posts
Neuroticism: Priorities →
This will probably be the most personal post I ever make.
Reality has slapped me in the face hard, and I’m crumbling under all the pressure. Not really, but I’m stressing out so much right now over nothing. There is nothing to be worried about, yet I feel very anxious.
We received this one…
Hey James, I’ve actually had the exact same feeling. In junior year I felt like I was...
“Once again I find myself wondering what drives us to undertake this sort of...”
– Dr. Kiran Jobanputra, MSF doctor working in the Congo
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July 2010
14 posts
Journal #1
Hahah, typical. Journal #1. Diary #1. To-do list #1. Random Quotes #1. Translation #1. Paragraph #1. Item #1. Thesis #1. This problem is probably responsible for 90% of all the paper, lead, ink, ideas, and trains of thought I’ve ever wasted. I probably won’t have a Journal #2. You can bet on it. Or, if I do, it must mean something big is happening.
Walking down the street yesterday...
“My English, this second instrument I have always had, is however a stiffish,...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, author of Lolita
All you people that link your personal tumblrs to...
lmfaomiranda:
slidesandswings:
mackenzie-lauren:
I hate you.
Sorry… But I seriously hate all these random people getting tumblrs and all they post is stupid shit. Now everyone is easily connected to mine and I don’t like posting anymore.
UGH. -___-
Honestly, why would you want to link tumblr to facebook anyways? Stupidest feature ever.
OMG I SWEAR i justtt posted about this. =]
...
“@cowzilla8 LOL perhaps not. Bumble Bees beat their wings at ~230 times per...”
– Lennythewinner, Youtube
Ridiculous Quotes #1
Oh, I know this is mean…. but whatever.
“Are you old enough to watch New Moon over there?” - one of my Chinese colleagues somewhere in her 20s. I nearly sprayed out a mouthful of water.
“Are you allowed to drink over there?” - my team leader. “No. The drinking age in California is 21.” - me. “Wow, that’s a long ways off from 18. Have you ever...
“JILLFIREHAWK777
2 weeks ago 5 @Imobiz38 I think your wrong…the...”
– Youtube
Emm.
My posts must be taking up a lot of space on people’s tumblr update pages. It must be pissing people off. Maybe some people will even stop following me! Who knows :)
China Daily Side Article #1
Fond Reminiscence
Blaming the average citizen for being nostalgic about the good old days seems unfair, especially given the widespread corruption and inequality in present-day society.
To equate such hopeful reminiscence with a desire to reutrn to an egalitarian past, or posit that as animosity to teh present, may be somewhat narrow-minded.
Ordinary citizens seek a just society where the...
China Daily News Article #1
China Daily
American Diary | Chen Weihua
Be mindful of political correctness
I have been an admirer of the US Constitution’s First Amendment since my school days.
Even if it may be a politically incorrect thing to say, like the many similar instances in my 20 plus years with the paper, I continue to hold my job.
Yet two American journalists, 44-year-old senior CNN Middle East editor...
-_-
I am absolutely apalled by the attitude people over here in China have toward teenagers. What do they expect 17-year-old teenagers to be? Something the equivalent of a grade schooler? I hate to become all politically biased, but seriously… if teenagers over here really are what these people project their views to be, then I’d be seriously worried about Chinese youth. Or perhaps...
On penalty kicks, Freakonomics Radio:
{synopsis}
First off, the soccer ball is kicked so hard, that if the goalie doesn’t react and jump in the right direction, he has next to zero chance of blocking the ball successfully. So at this point, it becomes a simple game of strategy involving three basic choices for the kicker: kick it to the left, the right, or the middle. The goalie in turn...
Why do things like this happen...
On 8 December 2005, Mizuho Securities erroneously placed an order to sell 610,000 shares of J-COM Co., Ltd. for one yen each, instead of a commissioned order to sell one share of J-COM Co., Ltd. for 610,000 yen at Tokyo Stock Exchange.[2] J-COM Co., Ltd. (J-COM Holdings Co., Ltd. since December 2009). is a Japanese staffing service company, which was listed on the Mothers (Market of the...
What's wrong with MLMs? →
Was watching Welcome to the NHK. Did some research. Was an enlightening read…
I suppose I’d like to post some quotes from the article…
“While issues of morality and ethics can be tricky to discuss, materialism and greed are universally condemned by every major religion, and even by most of the irreligious. This does not mean people ar enot materialistic or greedy; in...
Yuja Wang is in the newspaperrr!
Yay today’s China Daily had an article about Yuja Wang, my musical idol… she’s a classical pianist :P
No surprise that she’s in the paper, of course o.o
A few new things I learned about her and things I already know:
1. she released her second Deutsche Grammophon (DG) Album Transformation in April
2. she’s 23
3. her first concert in Beijing was only 70%...
June 2010
2 posts
Neuroticism: Marvel →
If the world is teeming with possibilities, why hasn’t anyone claimed the heavens as their own? Why hasn’t anyone claimed a status above God? Why are there still people suffering? Why is failure always looming around the corner?
The potential of the human race amazes me. We are an evolving…
Believe me, we’d all rather be emotional, lazy beings than mechanical robots who only know...
Idiosyncratic Serendipities: Ouroboros →
The Ouroboros is a symbol that depicts a serpent in a circle, with its tail in its mouth. It represents cyclicality and repetition.
I’ve surmised that life, more or less, is a cycle: You are born, suffer, maybe enjoy some ephemeral happiness, suffer a bit more, then die.
Some of you who are…
My counter-argument (not my whole opinion) would be that everyone, living in different...
April 2010
2 posts
From Kyle Gabler’s collection for the World...
Going to Bed when the Birds start Chirping Outside...
What the fuck, I’m wasting the very last hour of sleep I can get by posting this. Funny thing, I had no jetlag whatsoever going to China for four days, then when I came back I didn’t feel any different either.
Correction: I slept at 10 pm in Beijing. That’s jetlag for me.
Well anyway, when I got back it was back to sleeping at 4 am. As the number of people on my AIM list...
March 2010
15 posts
I want to cry. I also don’t want to cry. But...
The Deconstruction of Moe Subculture →
Drew Nishino.
…
I knew I shouldn’t have finished reading it. Now I can’t draw anything because I can’t find the right mood. I should have put off the last seven chapters until a few months later….
Hell, now I even have Aogeba Totoshi, the song, on my computer. The day I finished I nearly cried, and was going to download the movie (and probably would have watched it all the way...
Yes i want to try this....
A - AVAILABLE: i suppose. B - BIRTHDAY: 6.16 C - CRUSHING ON: no one :/ D - DRINK YOU LAST HAD: soup. E - EASIEST PERSON TO TALK TO: keilwun, matt F - FAVORITE SONG: too many G - GUMMY BEARS OR GUMMY WORMS: bears. H - HOMETOWN: bay area. I - IN LOVE WITH: this is a continuation of C? J - JUGGLE: nope x.x K - KILLED SOMEONE: hmm….nope. L - LONGEST CAR RIDE: Lake Tahoe? or mabye socal. M-...
dysFUNctional.: Is this my wonderful prize? →
Ah, parents. Parents, parents, parents.
SCREW IT.
I want to take Journalism 1. Why? Because it sounds fun and a rewarding class. Compared to anatomy that is (Woo. Chan again. Woo.). By the end of senior year, I’ll have taken six science classes even without anatomy. I pretty much completed the…
Hey, at least he said, “do whatever you want” at the end.
Brart dump. Brain+heart dump.
Santana Row.
Dinner with an old friend.
Stuffy restuaurant - out strolling alone right past 9.
Maido is closed at 9 pm. 9:04 pm.
Best Buy is closed.
Paper Source is closed.
Wedding dress behind glass window.
Borders is open.
Earphones are sold out. I can’t find my Zune headphones. I’m using Matt’s Apples. They suck. If someone asks me, why are you using a Zune...
Idiosyncratic Serendipities: Am I Bright Enough to... →
It recently struck me that the things I spend a vast majority of my time doing are things I never would have done had I independent control of my life. Now then, I knew this before, in various vague bits and pieces, but never has the realization struck me so fully, so obviously.
I’m not going to…
It really sucks to realize this, but it sucks even more to realize you can’t do...
Escape
You know, everyone says that stressed people do things to escape from their lives. And then they say that what you feel is only temporary, because eventually everything terrible that’s going on in your life comes back to haunt you. But what really matters is that you don’t completely give up on life. When people start ignoring their chaotic lives and continually drown themselves in...
February 2010
16 posts
Just had a very intense piano session. About an hour and a half long. In fact, my laptop keys feel like butter under my fingers. my forearms are sore. and I feel really warm… lol
Only happens when i’m alone and my parents are gone… ha!
Which is an interesting thing that I’ve always wondered about. There are certain things I play in a certain way when my parents are...
Fuck my Physics Project
abandonsheep:
morrownight:
Scale drawing.
16” x 12” on-screen drawing, sketched onto a 22” x 28” poster. Grid construction taking forever. 20 minutes into it and I find out my ruler isn’t accurate…….When juxtaposing two of my rulers, after about 6 inches they’re off by 1/16 of a fucking inch. GODDAMNIT. NARGGHGHGHGHGHGHGH
1/16” isn’t much broseidon. Keep going.
put in 8 of those and...
Fuck my Physics Project
Scale drawing.
16” x 12” on-screen jpg, sketched onto a 22” x 28” poster. Grid construction taking forever. 20 minutes into it and I find out my ruler isn’t accurate…….When juxtaposing two of my rulers, after about 6 inches they’re off by 1/16 of a fucking inch. GODDAMNIT. NARGGHGHGHGHGHGHGH
Goddamnit, I’m gonna finish some shit today. It is 4:00 PM right now. If I don’t get some shit done by 6:00, I’m a loser and I don’t deserve to live.
Ughh....math
So I was doing math homework and my mother complained how I took too long to do it. I was having trouble going through it, so I got my dad to help me. An hour later, I’m done, but there’s one problem left that really wasn’t supposed to be in the book - a multivariable calculus problem in a single variable calculus textbook, that I obviously have no idea how to do. I give up on it...
Omegle...
a French college freshman…
a rapist…
a whore…
a 16 year old Austrailian…
a 15 year old Seoul girl…
a swimmer…
another rapist…
an amateur motocross racer becoming pro in a couple of months…
an asian kid……..
X_X
I don't know what to call this....
This is another momentary dip into that motionless, paralytic state of sleep, as if struck by a shockingly cold wave of ocean water.
But it’s a pity that timeframe is so short, so that you can barely retain any of the information that was brought into your focus… or rather, your line of vision…The emotions, the extraordinary, unartificial feelings, as if lying on the brink of...
Listen
A Reply to Kainmistwind's Treatise on the Human...
As usual, Matthew has a very deep remark to contribute =.=
I am completely with you on the last paragraph there - it is because high school students vie for relationships in a competitive and “defeat-the-purpose” manner that enduring high-school originated relationships are so rare. Companionship is really as far as it should go in high school; anything further leads to social,...
Introduction to Kei-Lwunology
Kei-Lwun: the night of morrow
Charles: morrow is a synonym for morning
Kei-Lwun: yes i know -_-
Charles: :)
Kei-Lwun: and panda is a synouym for awesome
Charles: it is also a synonym for "a weak attempt at stifling the world bamboo population"
Kei-Lwun: quiet pandas are gods XO
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The Burczyk Family Home Page →
The family of a mathematician, or a family of mathematicians, who knows. What do they live on, anyway?
It is getting late again...
Well what do you know, it’s 2:30 AM in the morning and here I am updating my tumblr. Since I really am quite tired today, I will keep this post as short as possible. Narration of my day:
My dad had promised me last night to take me to Barnes & Noble in the morning to get the two books we ordered. I had slept around 4 AM yesterday (unbeknownst to my parents), so I was understandably...
