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Country: Japan
Birthday: 4/4/1982
Gender: Female


Interests: photo, film, coffee, reading, sleeping, drinking, thinking.........
Expertise: a specialist in the 4 yrs of the brandeis experience.... 1 year of JET in japan.... and working on that of the LSE....~
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Friday, August 24, 2007

mood: anxious~

yea i'm getting bad at updating this thing...feel like nothing and everything has happened in the past month...if that makes sense.

started volunteering once in a while to help at a local community tv station... it's kinda cool. it's small. some people still don't have my name quite right...but they are generally easygoing and friendly. i got to operate a camera (those huge ones on wheels) the other night for a group of kids performing some music. my arms were kinda sore after that... i'm supposed to be helping w/ their art gallery, but i guess this is ok too...

i did the camping excursion in maine with justin and his family... it was beautiful. i was concerned about not having electrity or running water while i was up there....but it turned out just fine. altho i was itching to use my cell (no signal) or go online...kinda forgot about it after the 2nd day or so... yet when i got back i had some 20+ emails and 4 voicemails... oy. how dependent we are on technology....   anyway.. here are some pics...

tha's the "house".... u can see the laundry line... haha. was pretty warm the first few days...great for swimming, hiking....drinking.

lots of people... i think maybe there were 10 of us the first few days...

baby! she is so photogenic.

rudy.. the water dog! he was just as obsessed about the fish as i was. oh yea... and that was our outhouse. it had a scary sculpture in there which freaked me out a bit at night when i had to go in there with only a flashlight.

been a long time since i'd gone somewhere remote.....ppl kept saying they didnt think i was the "nature" type(*ahem that's an attributional error). still, it was amusing...hearing the loons calling, seeing a giant black moose in the morning, feeding the fish, bathing in the pond (seriously), climbing up to the top of a moutain, bushwhacking with a dull machete, eating wild berries, avoiding moose poop, getting bug-bitten, watching a meteor shower while bats are flying right over my head. also interesting was looking at pics of the pond from years back... in all seasons, covered in snow, and hearing stories about the previous visitors/guests who came to stay there....it was kinda nice thinking about it and knowing i was having such similar experiences.

i have been listening to a lot of feist lately.... her music is special.

last night i watched "the cats of mirikitani"...with smho. it was a gem...i'm glad she convinced me to see it. about a japanese artist who survived the jp internment camps... he became homeless, living on the streets of nyc making drawings/paintings... then 9/11 happened and the story became more about peace, the human condition... forgiveness. and yes... cats.

the director was present so we had a Q&A w/ her afterwards. it's getting wider distribution as we speak so i hope more ppl will have the chance to watch and hear his story.....

and..... now i feel shallow after having seen this movie and talking about mr. mirikitani's experience....but since ppl have been asking me... yes, i got a haircut. different from the usual style. ppl wanted to see pictures. well.. here is one that i like because..... it doesn't look anything like me.  

i know i'm excessive about my hair being iron straight...so it feels weird that it's purposely wavy and poofy. actually i can't wait for it to grow out already..and i'm sure after i go running and take a shower, it will look different. the stylist was great though. she kept saying to me, "yes, u know.. change is good! good, change....." and i was trying to tell myself the same thing while she cut away. maybe it is the time for such a thing as change.


Monday, July 16, 2007

rant... in stream of consciousness style

mood: hungry~

hmm.. note to self. eating salads for dinner is a bad idea.. u get so hungry a few hrs later.

ok so this will be a jumbled update of seemingly random and unrelated thoughts/experiences...let's do that stream of consciousness excerise here again, shall we?

well, last week was unproductive..altho i learned the importance of coordination and timing:

tyng: let's practiie
tyng: you say bud
tyng: i say weiser
tyng: okay go
me: haha
me: ok
me: bud
me: bud
me: ribbit
me: ribbit
me: *splash*
tyng: wei
tyng: er
tyng: again!
me: haha.. u're too slow
tyng: lol
tyng: doh
tyng: i am a retarded frog
me: hahahaha
me: bud
tyng: weis
tyng: er
tyng: whooooooooo

i jog about 2.5 miles every other day now.. and i sorta have a farmer's tan i'm trying to get rid of. the neutrogena helioplex sunscreen is NOT waterproof or sweatproof despite their claim cuz it just runs off my skin. i try to keep up the soccer and tennis on the weekends, but they're sporadic atm. i am braving the beach this summer! so what if boston waters are too cold to swim in.

oh i redrafed my cv. that was fun.. sorta. went out for drinks w/ a friend in the city on fri night... took the T for the first time in a month. sat took it easy and grocery shopped, but forgot to buy milk. sunday took some shots on goal... and in the scorching sun, my legs got a shinguard tan, and i also developed more purple bruises on my right leg. i then went to see the harry potter 5 movie despite the fact we were in for some hail thunderstorms... (ok so i just wanted to see harry kiss the asian girl. i'll admit that was my only motivation.... but who honestly wouldn't want to see that..?) ate a kobe burger, which to me didnt taste any diff from a regular burger, at cheesecake factory (but did not eat their signature food) and talked till late... again.

now i'm going to vent a little... so last year i wrote some entry about how strange and weird men would often randomly start talking to me.. for some unknown reason i could not figure out. well, it's been one year since then, and i have still managed to attract seemingly harmless (but annoying) small talk from men.. now they are bostonians. and i thought it had something to do with englishmen!

fri, going into the city, a little guy in khaki colored jacket and hat who i distinctly remember getting on the train before me, somehow managed to end up sitting next to me.. after i had sat down. i dont quite know how this is possible, but minding my own business, he asks me how to get to prudential. i remember at this moment i realized i forgot to bring my ipod with me... i think i tell him to get off at copley and walk.. later do i realize to my ignorance that there is an aptly titled prudential stop since we're on the green E line. then he starts to ask if i'm from boston..but i say no. then he willingly shares w/ me his lifestory in a nutshell... then out of nowhere, as normative as somoene might say, "it is sunny" i hear "have coffee with me." what actually made me realize the cyber-ation of our generation was when he asked if i had a myspace. wow.. that's how you know things aren't the way they used to be... my anthropology teacher would've said, i told you so. when the girls sitting across from us start laughing, audibly...i'm waiting for the hidden camera crew to jump out and tell me that this is some prank that is going to be on TV or uploaded to youtube, oh but if i won't sign a permission form for them, they'll blur out my face at least. i'm keeping my eye out for this, really. he also mentions he got food poisoning recently (i kid you not). i actually wish he talked about his law phD on the middle east or whatever readily available stories the alpha-male has on the tip of his tongue b/c this cannot possibly be the best that this guy can do.....?

i would like to dedicate this video to him.

oh how i wish i could've been one of the girls laughing out loud who was sitting across from us....

(that website is hilarious.. btw. how to unhook a bra w/ one hand...how to ask a girl out. and yeah, i def agree u simply dont ask someone out via texting.... parallel to not breaking up with someone over email, yeah?)

case 2 is simply less-confrontational for which i am grateful.. a car of two men in reflective shades literally turn their heads to watch (knowingly stare) at my friend and i, who are making a turn in our car right past them. the driver then nods his head at me in a beckoning/come hither motion and leans out of the window to make it even more obvious that he is grossly going to make a scene and draw attention to himself... um because a car with two girls in it should find that SO attractive.......

to that, a male of good terms with a second opinion responds:

"you know what, that's exactly how i talk to girls..i roll up in my civic and say "hey baby"..haha.. can you
imagine that?"

at least i can get some reassurance from the nonsensical male species.

finally, watching harry potter...during the onset of harry's and cho (the asian chick)'s mistletoe lip-locking, this asian dude sitting next to me, probably a high-schooler, hoots, "awwwwyeahhh...that's my boy...!" ok that was funnier than it was annoying, but at least it's not an asian guy defensively accusing the white men for stealing their asian women due to yellow fever.

ah.. but there is still hope. i can resort to the concidental birth of this adorable puppy...

and still have feelings of emphathy (sympathy?) for the "love" that is out there.....somewhere...


Sunday, June 24, 2007

a list...

mood: sore~

the week/weekend involved...

avoiding my stalker.. is 6+ emails and 4+ voicemails in 2 days considered normal?
fast moving interviews and slight anxiety of preparation
realizing i can't find my interview pumps.. must've lost them somehow..
playing the wii for the first time (.. last week)
seeing many good friends... makes happy
reminding myself that one should always check expiration dates on processed foods
demystifying circumcision... (oh the things that you never really learn about...)
finding out that i'm not a supertaster.. probably a medium taster
getting lost driving in downtown boston
watching my career counselor featured in a local tv news story
feist.. she is great. i like her music. a lot
a dream where i was distraught b/c i couldn't protect my friend's belongnings from her nosey mother and cried over it
taking the T for the first time in....months
acne.. b/c i still break out from stress and lack of sleep
a 4-5 hour nap
pimms... delicious
no nail biting.. and polishing
EDIT: tennis and soccer. until i got kicked in the shin. leg swelled up. is still swollen and oh so painful.....

...and still not having a clear idea of where i am or going....


Wednesday, June 13, 2007

"did your smell somehow actually get left behind?"

mood: hungry~

"" we can use these creaive lubricants to help us find out who we're trying to be.

you know, i just feel like you're...canning that experience. you're just stopping  it dead in its tracks, probably because maybe you're discovering things, you know, that you don't want to discover through our communication.

""

i've been taken by this 70 minute video called "four eyed monsters" that's being screened in full on youtube for this week only.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8rRFFi_stY

very fond of the ending credits song... giraffe's not drunk (in love)

mostly tho, it has been interesting to read about the story of the film.. and the various media outlets, mostly online/virtual, including things like myspace, blogs, video responses, second life, have definitely reformed the way we can generate a lot of publicity buzz....the various channels through which we now have greater options...!

in other (offline, irl) news, i got my first call back from an employer today.


Sunday, June 10, 2007

a parachute of many colors....

mood: weird~

tyng:   you are like a shaved, well manicured poodle
tyng:   and they are just some rowdy labs

on an unrelated note, this weekend i went headfirst into my past....

it wasn't as bad as i thought...

but very funny-feeling all the way...

 



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