February 2012
5 posts
Othello
While practicing for the Othello skit that’s due this Friday in front of the library, I got many stares from the adults that pass by, as I crawled and rolled on the ground to act out the part where my character, Emilia, gets stabbed. Later when I was demonstrating an evil laugh to Gene, who’s playing the wicked villain, Iago, many more passersby stared. Coincidentally a couple of...
January 2012
5 posts
December 2011
4 posts
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White Terror
On the side note in need to brush up on Taiwanese history. I probably need to read more about the White Terror so next time when Jitao brings it up I’ll have a better story to tell. The is a nice page on Wikipedia about the 228 Incident that I need to scroll through.
Double hull
I was doing my VMC homework. I went on Wikipedia to read the plot summary of Hamlet. Now I am still on Wikipedia, but I am reading about double hull ships.
Hamlet -> Ophelia -> HS Ophelia (German WWI Hospital Ships)
-> Hospital Ships -> USNS Comfort -> Mercy-class hospital ships
-> Supertankers -> TI class supertanker -> Double hull
Okay need to go back to VMC...
synopsis
I went on dictionary.com and searched the word synopsis. I press the pronunciation button several time to practice how to pronounce the word. I’ll try harder next time Abdul.
November 2011
2 posts
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October 2011
1 post
August 2011
2 posts
nice try
Today I tried to dress older looking. I wore a pair of pleated khakis, put on my dad’s shoes, and tucked in my polo shirt.
My mother said I looked like I graduated from college, and going to work.
While my sister said, “Nice try. Noob.”
May 2011
1 post
my sister, kelly lee is super cool.
she’s so cool, that i let her find out my tumblr password.
April 2011
1 post
March 2011
3 posts
home remedy
My dad’s newest home remedy: potato, apple and carrot juice.
I really don’t know what the mixture is supposed to do. However, under the pressure of my dad’s enthusiastic grin I drank a cup of it.
Hopefully he gets over this juice phase soon. Well at least it tasted a little better then a soup-ish thing he tried last time.
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catwalk
While my parents and my sister went out tonight, I decided to host my own runway show. Due to some arguments I had with certain people I attempted to try different combinations of clothing in my closet to create new outfits that would “express” me. I was the designer, the model, and the audience of the show. As the model posed in front of the closet mirror, the designer came to a...
Aleena Saha: a collection of musings →
Just like my friend, I am not an expert in this field. However, I must disagree with her arguements.
Fashion is not a form of fine art but rather it is a discipline of design. Hence the name fashion designers. Unlike art with vague purposes, design has defined purposes. The purposes of design are to functionally and economically accomplish goals in the given requirements and environments with...
February 2011
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i hate language
In my opinion the human species is limited by the need to use the arrangements of meaningless symbols and sounds to represent ours thoughts. The constant need of conforming our ideas into language, and than unpacking those symbols or sounds to understand others’ thoughts is quite tedious. I can not wait to witness the moment when humanity ends language, and uses USB-like cords that comes out...
January 2011
5 posts
sniffing nose
Through my sniffing and sneezing my nose is trying to notify me spring is coming. As I blow my stuffy nose with rough toilet paper, I began to wish for the luxury of fluffy tissue paper. I then recall the time when Akshay was in a dire need of tissues in APUSH, and the tissue box that usually sits on Rosado’s desk was nowhere to be found. When Rosado realized Akshay’s nose was the cause to the...
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good looking men
I feel self-conscious, when I am around good looking men. I feel the need to impress them, as if I am near attractive women. However, the motives are different. Around alpha-males I attempt to prove to them that I deserve their acceptance, and hopefully they would consider me a beta-male instead of merely an omega-male.
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superior tiger mothers has won
Amy Chua has won. She acted as a bigot and extremist as a marketing strategy, and now her book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, has sold out. As such a highly educated person she knew her words and tone would make people angry. The anger will than turn into the desire to seek flaws in her argument, thus creating the curiosity for her book. A novel on parenting ideals is so unoriginal; there are...
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my haven
My parents do not understand why I spend so much time in the bathroom.
They do not understand it is my haven.
It is where am naked and honest.
It is where I reflect on my flaws, but also on my dreams.
There I let my inter-savage cry in his primitive noises.
There I attempt to reform myself and to wash away the guilt.
In there am me.
December 2010
3 posts
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tracking taco trucks with twitter
Aleena: Who the hell uses Twitter other than celebrities?
Eric: To track taco trucks. MoGo's you know?
Aleena: Tracking taco trucks with Twitter. Aliteration ftw.
one man dance party
While my mother and father went out to pick up my sister from class, I was playing my Pandora Quickmix. Usually I like mellow music, but not today. I went on Grooveshark and put “September” - Earth, Wind, and Fire and “Boogie Shoes” - K.C. & The Sunshine Band on my playlist. I started tapping my feet and bobbled my head as an urge to move body became irresistible. I got...
no rice?
Tonight I did not have rice for dinner. Not even rice noodles. I had mashed potatoes, the American version of rice. The mashed potatoes came from a little packet of powder which turned into a pot full of creamy buttery goodness. Similar to rice, two cups of dry rice in the rice cooker turns into a pot full of steamy rice. The mashed potatoes had such a unique texture, my mother described it as ice...
November 2010
2 posts
emily jang's balls
Today afterschool, Emily Jang challenged me to an arm wresting match. In my mind I thought this was my chance to redeem myself, and make her take back the comment she made last week about her having “more balls” than me.
The moment our hands locked together I felt her firm manly grip grinding my fingers together. As the match continues the back of my hand angled closer and closer to the surface of...
Girls are like M&M's
They’re all different colors on the OUTSIDE, but on the INSIDE they all taste the same. They all taste good. - KevJumba
kjoshee:
Guys are like jelly beans
If you pick one based on the outside, there is a possibility that you might get fucked over.
October 2010
1 post
lights
Today the field light are turned on at school.
Because for the past few weeks our family has been listening to the homecoming and football games of Monta Vista, Lynbrook, and Homestead, my mother’s first reaction when seeing the light was, “Ohh no, another game?!”
My sister, “LOL, it’s just the band.”
Mom, “Thank Goodness.”
So Monta Vista and...
August 2010
1 post
"Introduction to Poetry"
by Billy Collins
I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide
or press an ear against its hive.
I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out,
or walk inside the poem’s room and feel the walls for a light switch.
I want them to waterski across the surface of a poem waving at the author’s name on the shore.
But all they want to...
May 2010
1 post
american dream
When I first arrived to United States the weather was too dry for my fob taste. My skin still long for the slimly humid air of Taiwan. But still, “Harrow USA!”
One weekend we went out to look for a park. My parents were trying really hard to read the map they bought from Safeway. My parents were totally lost, we drove from Sunnyvale to Cupertino. And finally we found the park. When...
January 2010
9 posts
laughter
I was reading Yotsubato! on onemanga.com. It is such a cute and funny comic. I really want to laugh, but I was suppose be doing my homework. So I tried to hold it in. It hurts to hold in a laugh. I wish my life was like Yotsuba’s. Life is never boring, everyday would be an adventure, either at my neighbor’s house, at the park, or just at home. And I would be five years old,...
“I’m a man of many sides. I’m a puzzle. I’m a Rubik’s...”
– Santa Clause 2
“Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like bananas.”
– Kevin Wu’s Facebook
background color
I decided to make my background black. At first it was just because the default white background was a bit plain. Then I remember reading about how if our website backgrounds are black it would saves energy, because it requires less energy to display black on a computer monitor. While if the whole world paint their roofs white it would help end global warming, because the white color would reflect...
sharing
After seeing Rebecca using it a few times in yearbook and Yising showing it to me yesterday, I thought it would be nice to make a tumblr. After all blogs are all about sharing, and sharing is always a good thing: sharing pictures, sharing stories, sharing feelings, and sharing food. Except for sharing needles, that’s bad.
Anyways I am still trying to figure out what I should do with my...