| I'm still alive. (How many times have I said this on this journal?) |
[23 Jul 2010|02:18am] |
After having post-graduation crisis (hit me a little later than most people), I think that I'm still settled on going to grad school. To get what, dunno. But I'm still not satisfied with the survey of microbiology that I got at UCSD. I want moarrrrrrr. Now I need to figure out where my interests really lie and to look for programs + solid churches in the area. I will not be applying to a school that doesn't have a solid church in the area. Do not want.
I took the GRE, it was ok. I was sad with my analytical writing score but lol, realized that I studied for it for like, 4 hours total. So I guess I did ok. Admissions better accept me. & lol @ the verbal, I got a meh score but 92nd percentile. Niceeee. Thx to all the engineers and science majors that take the GRE and don't study for the verbal. ♥
Will begin work temporarily as a lab assistant at the county lab. Not the most thrilling job but it's a job and it's paying much better than I was expecting. The problem is finding employment after that... hopefully my letter of approval to train as a micro will come in around December or January so I can look for labs to sponsor me so I can get certifieddddd. I know you want to certify me as a microbiologist. Just do ittttttt.
Mmmmm. What else. Church plant finally started up. ABOUT TIME. D: I was feeling sad about not being able to be active at church. It was frustrating. Again, do not want. But now my home church is here and all is well. 8D Much love, LBCSJ.
And I... should sleep. I'm going to miss being able to do this once I start working.
GOODNIGHT.
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| Oh yeah, I still have this thing. |
[29 May 2010|10:04pm] |
Meeting with a staffing agency next week. They said that all they can find for me are entry level positions for the time being, which sucks but what can I do. Haha. I'm living at home so my survival isn't contingent on finding a good job. I'm in no hurry to move on with life either so it's cool.
Got a new car! :D I got into a car accident three weeks ago and had to rent a car to move up. It turned out to be a fortuitous thing because the accident wasn't my fault (will probably get a $500 deductible) and since the car was in such good condition, even with 200,000 + miles on it and it being 12 years old, we still got a BUNCH of money. ... Enough to down pay for my new car, a 2011 Hyundai Sonata! :D It's weird, I'm so used to getting a lot of things as hand-me-downs from my parents so getting something big that's new of my own is a rarity.
Went to Fanime today. Hahaha I wasn't gonna go but a certain Jessi J. made me. D: Hahaha I'm thankful. :) I went to it 95% because of her. I miss her face. The other 5% was hunting down a really good Ace cosplay that I saw (but alas, I never found him... ;o;) and taking a picture with the best non-Japanese Zoro cosplayer that I've ever seen. He was a very good looking fellow, which made his cosplay that much more awesome. Usually with cosplayers, you just think they're attractive because the character they're cosplaying is attractive... but it's a bonus with the cosplayer him/herself is a good looking human being. Ahahaha.
That's all. Going camping (again!) tomorrow. We're waking up at 3 AM to leave for Jenner, CA. Need to sleep now. :) Bye!
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| Update on life |
[14 Apr 2010|11:30am] |
I was expecting this last month to be filled with (not so) teary good-byes, a lot of painting, a lot of writing, a lot of reading, a lot of GRE lovin'... but it's proved itself to be eventful in other ways. That's cool and all, but I still haven't gotten to the painting, writing, and reading part. Ahaha. I think that I'm still so :D :D :D about having a social life. HAHA.
Ah, I must go! I have a lunch date with a gal that I've been wanting to meet up with for a while. ;) Bye byeeee.
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[30 Mar 2010|01:19am] |
I'm done with college, btw.
Woohoo.
Now to move on with life...
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| Yes! |
[14 Mar 2010|08:42pm] |
My last finals week of my undergraduate career starts tomorrow, bright and early at 8 AM with a final (worth 50% of my grade) for medical microbiology. I honestly don't know how I'll do but I can guarantee that the average is going to be hovering at a 65%.
:) :) :)
It's been rough and crazy in college and though I'm glad this period in my life will be over soon, I wouldn't have had it any other way.
Woohoo!
Ok. Back to studying. My desktop hookworm background compels me to do so.
:D
( The hookworm says rawr! )
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| Lololol |
[22 Feb 2010|10:46pm] |
One of my students in the workshop group that I lead said as a joke, "You should write a story with all of our stories combined."
I laughed at it but then thought, "Hey, why not?"
So, somehow, I need to incorporate the following into a story:
- A princess who wants to find love but has only had really boring suitors (I will be bringing in trolls and gnomes into the story)
- A cocky hockey player
- A crazy man who's still in love with a girl... who's buried in the cemetary that he lives on, btw.
- A murderer who has Tyler Durden moments
- Another murderer who murdered someone by accident (didn't realize there were two murder stories...)
- A 29 year old gal who has type I diabetes andhates it
- A girl who's estranged from her family and is scraping by in life
It's going to be a challenge, but I'm determined to make it work. It'll delight the folks in my workshop group too, I hope. :)
Ahahaha. School's so fun.
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[19 Jan 2010|10:09am] |
I haven't had this many break outs since my freshman year in college. What did fall quarter do to meeeee. I did try out that oil cleansing method... it works for keeping my skin not oily and moisturized but it sucks for keeping pimples away. :(
Mmmmmmm. It's not pouring like it was yesterday but I'm still going to wear rain boots.
That's all. :D
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| Mary, did you know? |
[20 Dec 2009|01:49am] |
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Mary, did you know that your baby boy would one day walk on water?
Mary, did you know that your baby boy would save our sons and daughters?
Did you know that your baby boy has come to make you new?
This child that you delivered will soon deliver you
Mary, did you know that your baby boy will give sight to a blind man?
Mary, did you know that your baby boy will calm the storm with his hand?
Did you know that your baby boy has walked where angels trod?
When your kiss your little baby, you kiss the face of God
Oh, Mary did you know?
The blind will see, the deaf will hear, the dead will live again
The lame will leap, the dumb will speak the praises of the Lamb
Mary did you know that your baby boy is Lord of all creation?
Mary, did you know that your baby boy will one day rule the nations?
Did you know that your baby boy is Heaven's perfect Lamb?
This sleeping child you're holding is the great I Am
♥
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[11 Dec 2009|12:53am] |
One of the hardest quarters in my life (with the academic workload and a busy schedule and a bunch of personal issues) will come to an end tomorrow.
I feel like I'm turning over a new leaf.
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| =_= I have a midterm tomorrow |
[16 Nov 2009|01:44am] |
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Random conversation in the liquid nitrogen tank room:
D: I have to get these cells from the big tank. :(
Me: That's scary. Didn't you say that Jessie got a really bad burn from these?
D: Yeah...
Me: ... This is what makes me want an office job.
In some ways, I'm enjoying my fifth year a lot (and retaking classes that I didn't too hot in is kind of exciting because I'm relearning all this information that I was kind of forced to relearn in other classes) and I love being an undergrad. But at the same time, I can't wait until I can stop bringing work home. As a student, I'm not supposed to ever stop studying. It gets to be a tiresome lifestyle after a while.
But the bright side? A near month long winter break.
:)
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[13 Nov 2009|01:25am] |
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"Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things but one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, which will not be taken away from her."
- Luke 10:41b-42 (emphasis added)
The All Church Retreat this past weekend was much needed spiritual refreshment.
♥
I can't wait until the church plant. :)
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| :)! |
[04 Nov 2009|12:42am] |
I'm going to be a tutor for the writing class that started it all for me! With the professor who inspired me to pursue writing! :) :) :) That has got to be the highlight of my year. ♥
My toenail got jammed into my toe during football practice. Should've cut them before practice. Now the toenail wiggles just like a loose tooth with. Kinda gross but a really strange sensation (albeit unpleasant and kind of painful).
Mmmmmmm. That's all. I want colder weather.
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| I AM ALIVE |
[05 Oct 2009|09:47pm] |
GRE studying, FF7 playing, and general eating and gaining weight.
Then I came back to SD and started working out and eating poorly (again). Yay! :(
Doing a fifth year kind of sucks but need to keep things in perspective. I need this fifth year to kind of think about the future and stuff... and as I'm retaking some classes and am sitting next to sophomores and juniors, it's frustrating. But at the same time, it's ok since the classes are like, 5 times easier this time around since I had to relearn everthing on my own when I was taking the more difficult upper div classes.
Many things going on in my mind right now but, you know, I'm never one to share it on here.
Sleepy. D: But must... finish... book... for writing class...
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| YES |
[22 Aug 2009|12:36am] |
My cells grew. I pulsed. I incubated. I sup'd. I ELISA'd. Success!
First week, I accidentally washed them out of the wells. Second week, they were crapping out and dying. Third week (this week!), was finally able to grow them and do stuff with them.
And man, they were spitting out that IL6.
I am pleased, my cells. I am pleased.
Too bad that I won't be at the lab meeting to present my data. D: And I know that a QPCR is waiting for me when I come back.
(And microbio lab went well too. It was an ok, chill lab but my favorite's still ochem lab.)
******
In other news, going to the fourth summer wedding tomorrow. Not saying that I'm just tallying weddings. I'm truly, truly grateful that I was invited and that I get to see a God honoring ceremony. :) And these are all people very dear to me. I'm especially excited for tomorrow's wedding! I've never been so happy for a couple to get married before.
Also going to be driving home on Monday with a car that has the front break pads at 6mm/2mm (when the minimum should be 5mm... haha). I had to sign a waiver at the shop that I know I am driving an unsafe car (and thus, if the breaks go out and I die and stuff, it's not the shop's fault). Yay! 500 mile drive while knowing that my breaks are 3mm below what's considered safe! :D
Yuri-chan is flying in on Wednesday. YESYESYESYES. She's never been to the States before so it's my job to show her the treasures of San Francisco and to send her off!
Mmmm. Ok. That's all. I get to sleep in tomorrow. Yesssssss.
Bye! :D (I'll probably disappear for another month >_>;;)
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| Microbio lab |
[14 Jul 2009|10:41pm] |
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Microbio lab is madness. It's super chill. And everyone knows what they're doing (for the most part), so that's always a plus. No more being the nerd that all the kids in the bay come to for question asking. :D :D :D
My unknown bacteria is super cute. I think that the genus is Serratia, but am not so sure about the species.
The weather's warmer in San Diego. It's a good thing. :) Wury's gonna teach me how to surf next Monday. Yay! It's a good excuse to go out to get a new swimming suit. Perhaps a bikini, not to sport around (heck noez, I am too self-conscious >_>;;) but for convenience sake. I imagine that it would be a little easier to put on a wet suit.
Grace is in Tucuman right now. It feels like I don't have a roommate since she was only here at our new place a few days before she left. Our room's still a mess. I haven't really gotten around to tidying it up. My eyes have gotten used to boxes.
Anyway. Midterm tomorrow. Not terribly worried since I'm usually keeping up with what we're learning but I still want to know that I know everything. No excuse not to.
Bye. :D
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[30 Jun 2009|07:02pm] |
All that relaxing at home was to prep me for moving. -_- I didn't realize just how weaksauce I was until I started moving. But I was still thankful that I went to the gym as much as I did in the past two years (which is more than I normally would, left to myself).
@_@
In other words, microbio lab's fun. :D I can't wait to see our little colonies tomorrow.
It's chilly in San Diego. But I wouldn't have it any other way right now. @_@
Bye.
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| I am addicted to this song? |
[26 Jun 2009|03:38am] |
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It's very, very, very late. (Or very, very, very early?)
I always get into this strange sleeping pattern while I'm at home. It's ok, I'm going back to a productive life back in San Diego in 36 hours anyway. :D
So here's how the story goes.
My friend was giving me a ride to another friend's house a couple of weeks ago. He usually plays the trash that the radio stations pass off as... music. I, being extremely culturally ignorant of pop culture, usually ignore whatever he's playing in the car.
That day was different. He was listening to country music. Now, understand this: this friend of mine doesn't look like the kinda guy to listen to country music. Later that night, when he dropped Grace and me off at our apartment, a guy who walked past his car said something like, "... Does he usually listen to that?" Ahahaa.
But that's beside the point.
He said that he listens to a lot of country now because it's pretty wholesome and is actually good music. I was kind of skeptical but since I was in his car, I just listened along and realized that hey, it's not too bad.
Once I got home, I started to listen to country too because it was either that or classical music (which I had always enjoyed listening to). Then I came across Taylor Swift.
Yes, Tayyyylor Swift. And this one song, "You Belong With Me," caught my attention 'cause it's so freakin' catchy. Once I start listening to it, I can't stop. It's so crazy. The last song that did this to me was a Hata Motohiro song. @_@_@_@_@ What the crazies is going on.
Ok. This entry is... just getting too long. I need to sleep.
Bye. 8D
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[17 Jun 2009|12:54am] |
Two weddings in two weeks.
"Graduated." (But not really)
Moving out of 2107, finally.
Eyeshield 21 came to an end. ;o;
Life is slowly, yet surely, moving.
Lots of reflections on life. But Grace Mao knows what they are already. I guess that's all that matters.
Still got one more year left in school. Then it's back home for me and... I don't know what I'll be doing.
I should take the GRE ahead of time, huh?
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| Torn |
[04 Jun 2009|11:35pm] |
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I entertain the idea of being a fiction writer sometimes. That means that I would be able to immerse myself in books, in movies, in doing research about buildings, history, crazy people and the like.... Writing, in many ways, is a selfish thing.
But then I think of the *rawr* which will inevitably waiting for me at home and then run away to the safety and comfort of science.
It's not that I can't have one and not the other. It's just a matter of going with what I really want to do.
Granted, I like being in the lab and I like running experiments. I gripe about running ELISAs and about pipetting tiny volumes but at the same time, the hours and hours of incubation and cramp-inducing pipetting is gratifying when you get the results in the end.
But still. I can't explain what it's like for me to write. I've written this many times before, but I just love words. I'm in love with it. The biggest reason why I want to learn Japanese is not for the anime, not for reading manga (and not having to wait for scanlations), or the music. It's so I can write in the language. It's frustrating when I do 'cause my vocabulary's so limited and the denshi jisho can only do so much.
It's really conflicting. I love writing. I do. I love it so much (disclaimer: I say this in a fit of passion) I don't care if I don't make money off of it. I just want to do it. I just want to live my life as a writer. And even then, that title feels too high, too lofty for me right now.
But the sensible, practical side of me tells me that I'm going to have to work a job with a stable income and that it's a good thing that I'm getting a degree in microbiology. You can write as a hobby, my logic says.
In the end, I know what's going to happen. I'm going to get a day job, I'm going to study for GREs, perhaps take some classes here and there, apply to grad school, and (Lord willing, if I get accepted) get a higher degree and probably keep working.
And writing will take the back burner again.
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[28 May 2009|12:14am] |
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Going to be making some very significant decisions about LIFE in the next month.
Either way, though, I'm satisfied with the lot that God's given me in life. :) In the end, it's not about how much I've accomplished, how much I can further accomplished, me, me, me. If I were to find hope in myself alone, and knowing how imperfect and frail I am, I think that I'd be an emotional train wreck? Haha... ha...
And don't get me wrong, this isn't the kind of "I'm so weak, my life sucks, and I need a crutch T_T" kind of faith. Things are going extremely well for me right now but through it all, I know that my faith will be steadfast. There's a hope that's greater than anything else in this world-- this, I'm confident of.
I would enjoy warmer weather in San Diego soon. ;o; I wore a peacoat with a sweater underneath it today. What the heezy, yo. It's the end of May.
Any other general updates in life? Mmm... none that I can think of. I go to school, work on my story, go into the lab, eat somewhere in between, get more sleep than I'm used to, church, Bible study... the usuallll. Which is a good thing. :)
Bye!
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