LIV : Last Week of Undergrad - Week 8

yay, I'm finally done with studying until spring break. :) So, last week's events were to prepare for the first three days of this week (9). I made cucumber and meatball soup! And it was a success~ close to one at least. I had seen my dad make it before and for some reason, I had a craving for it last week (I wonder how cravings get started). So I bought cucumbers for the first time and ground beef for the first time as well. And I rolled the beef up with small chunks of purple onion and Memmi soy sauce. Then I dropped it in boiling water that had a chunk of ginger in it. After letting the meat cook a little, I put it on low heat and then added cucumber chunks cuz into U's. In the soup, I also added the small leftover can of chicken broth I had, but I don't think it did much because I still had to add soy sauce in the soup to make it taste. The good thing is, that after about three days (I made a big pot of this), the ginger taste got into the soup and I didn't have to add soy sauce to make the soup taste. :) Delicious.


Before I forget, I took this in the middle of Feb to remind me of how long my hair is:

and that's all for that one.

So, Monday was the dreaded Physio exam 2. I had to study about smooth muscle contractions, the pancreas, the hunger hormones, the thyroid gland, the GH stuff, calcium regulation, the adrenal gland stuff, and the reproductive system stuff. And here's one of my notes that scared me when I was studying:

So much writing! Reminds me of when I started taking notes like crazy way back in 8th grade science class. I have to thank Dr. Ricks for scaring me early on with how much knowledge science classes require us to learn. Seriously. I still can't believe how many bio classes I've taken that repeated the same information, yet I still have to relearn it each time. Yipes, I'm scared but excited to learn new pharmaceutical stuff in pharmacy school.

And, to wrap this week up, I have this: Wholeheartedly thank people for whatever they do that makes you a better you.
There's no way I can not think about the past from time to time. So it's impossible for me to forget those ties I had before but are no longer as strong now. I don't believe in the forget part of "forgive and forget."

LIII : Let Me Be Nerdy

Facebook led me to this wonderful chemistry-love shirt site. and I used about an hour going through many many images. I laugh, I laugh. But I'm sure after this year, I might not remember why I laughed because I might have forgotten everything. So sad to have knowledge no longer stick like before. I think the most clever one is the "Uracil-y person" with the uracil molecule drawn out. Clever clever.

LII : Last Semester of Undergrad - Week 7

So much to catch-up on, I basically spent all week 7 trying to catch up on classes, but I couldn't make it. Other than trying to read chapters for physio, forgetting about a pchem quiz, and scheduling time to finish everything, I did some fun stuff.

For anime class, I worked with my group on Neon Genesis Evangelion (presented today), an old anime series that came out around 1996. I never thought it would be so thought-provoking. When I got into anime around the same time as getting cable in junior high, I knew about NGE, but I never started it. And I had to made time to finish 26 episodes in order to do my presentation. Two weeks, but really 4 days, to watch 26 episodes. It was worth it, in a way. Our presentation was mostly on Judeo-Christian symbolisms in the animes, but there were definitely some psychological issues that the series dealt with, one main one being the value of self. Anyway, I'll leave it at that. It was a good anime, but a quite unexpected ending that wasn't really an ending to the storyline. But in a way, it is. haha.


Oh yeah, at the beginning of the week, we found out our checks for the February rent got lost in the mail and never reached our landlord person, Betty. But Betty didn't e-mail us or let us know that she didn't receive it at the beginning of February (we're good at sending our checks in before the new month starts), so we didn't know she didn't get it. So she called my roomie, Ari, last week and said we didn't get our checks in and she's about to take it to the legal department (what the heck?!). So we had better get our checks in TODAY (which was Mondayish). This makes one more reason for me to feel good about leaving this apartment complex this year. Also makes me feel like telling others not to rent this place because the landlord person is mean. I feel like she puts blame on us if anything goes wrong and makes sure that we understand that we are in the wrong. Things happen and we're okay with dealing with solutions, but just blaming someone for something won't get things done. In fact, it could make things worse. She's just lucky that we don't have the time to fight her, as we found out with our fire incident. Whatever. We're all leaving this apartment after this semester. One further note that annoyed me was this: my roomie wrote a check for the whole rent because Betty had insisted she needed it that day, but Ari couldn't find our on-site landlord-ish person and the building manager wasn't in until late that day, so when Ari told Betty that she would get the check the next day, Betty said "oh, that's fine" in a nicer tone. WHAT THE HECK

And I'll just put in this week so far. The residents here all got an e-mail from Betty saying how she was shocked to see the gate propped open and front doors taped shut rather than locked. As a result, people will be punished if they did not properly close the gates and doors. But the thing is, the buildings are being cleaned and painted right now (which they didn't let us know until this week in an "as you can tell, we're doing renovations" e-mail), and yesterday, the workers propped the gates open with cones. It wasn't us.

I saw this over the weekend and went "????!!! who died?" And then saw workers around. As for doors being taped, I didn't see any in my building, but who knows. I really don't think threatening someone will give the kind of results one plans/wants to get.

and whatever. I had a great weekend last week~ Linty, Ari, and Joy finally had their performance with TCDance. I loved their choreography, and I think their first attempt at Mulan was a success. Instead of just having dance after dance after dance, half the show was specifically Mulan, in dance form. Awesome. Loved it. Enjoyed it. Made me wish I still danced, kinda. I do wish I were more flexible though. Hopes on yoga.