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December 21st, 2012
12:01 am - 12.21.2012: Mayan for "The End of the World"
It's the completion of one cycle in the Mayan calendar.
If you want a permanent post to stay on top of your other updates, you post it into the far future.
We'll see what happens when that day finally arrives.
About this place and myself:
For first time visitors, old friends, and anyone who's curious - ( click here )
I may change this from time to time. Check the brackets for updates, if any.
[Original post, "On Journaling": July 28th, 2007]
Current Location: subletting the summer in Berkeley
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/moonmama/sillysuns/thoughtful.gif) contemplative
Current Music: Utada Hikaru - First Love
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March 27th, 2009
08:56 am - The Arrival
( Gomen, I forgot to cross-post xD )
Current Location: Kyoto, Japan!
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/moonmama/sillysuns/cold.gif) cold and tired
Current Music: KAT-TUN Cartoon, lol
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March 23rd, 2009
03:57 pm - Japan! So close yet so far....
So if you didn't know already, I'm studying abroad in Kyoto, Japan this spring semester. I made a new LJ that's family/family friends/boss/acquaintance friendly so it's easier for me to keep them updated. It's the blog from which I'm now importing into Facebook if you're my friend there (it used to be from this LJ).
For your convenience, I'll be cross-posting to this LJ starting...from now on!
For the past few entries, go to:
diana-in-japan.livejournal.com
And for my Flickr account, go to:
www.flickr.com/photos/diana_photostream
I'm not in Japan yet, but maybe tomorrow (or technically the day after) I will be!
Lucky you, the exciting actually-in-Japan entries will be fully posted here soon!
Current Location: USC
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/moonmama/sillysuns/creative.gif) busy
Current Music: Sakura Kiss - Ouran High School Host Club OP Theme
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March 12th, 2009
09:57 pm - WTF My Userpic???
This is really disconcerting. The LJ avatar that I've been using for the past 6 or so years is COMPLETELY different!!!! Did someone sneak into my LJ or Photobucket and change my image??? Where is Ohno????
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/moonmama/sillysuns/angry.gif) rather parnoidly annoyed
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February 22nd, 2009
04:40 pm - High School Meme
Because I was tagged. Although seems kinda pointless since a lot of my answers will be similar to others. I tried to add more information here and there.
( IN YOUR SENIOR YEAR DID YOU... )
Current Location: Locked up in my sister's room
Current Mood: natsukashii
Current Music: Touch by Younha
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04:08 pm - 9 More Things to Make 25 Unknowns
So, I've been tagged in that "25 Things You Didn't Know About Me" by several people. I enjoyed reading about other people, so I hope if anyone reads this they'll feel the same. I've already done a 16-Things Note that you can find on my Facebook or here on my LJ. I'll add 9 more.
I'm hungry.
17. I dislike driving. I say “dislike” in that I’ll drive if I have to, but I’d rather have someone else do it or take public transportation. I equate ANY amount of driving (including parking) to the same amount of tedium needed to ride on public buses for 4+ hours or carrying metal rods and chains on BART (both of which I’ve done). Driving stresses me out and I’m usually not in a good mood when I arrive at my destination, especially when I’m with my mother.
18. In connection to above, I spent 6+ hours on BART one day, lugging 10 lbs.+ metal rods and chains all around the Bay Area. Literally.
Berkeley → Dublin/Pleasanton
Dublin/Pleasanton → San Francisco (during rush hour) → Richmond → Berkeley
19. I failed at making rice porridge for myself when I was sick. Twice. On the same batch. Even though I added more water it still turned out like mushy rice clumps. It was my first time, ok?
20. I don’t like the feeling of sweaty socks when I take off my shoes, so I will almost always take off my socks too.
21. I have over 200 DVDs and CDs burned with miscellaneous material. I like to hoard things, obviously. Even if I had an external hard drive, it probably wouldn’t be enough.
22. I hate wasting food. I recently ate week-old leftovers because I didn’t want to throw them away… even though all the taste had disappeared. Likewise, if I see a lot of food I will feel compelled to eat everything, or at least a little bit of everything. I think this comes from growing up with a kitchen that was either stocked one day or empty the next, thus producing a squirrel-like opportunistic tendency.
23. I have another squirrel-like tendency where I hide things in places so strange I figure I would definitely remember it, and that I would be the only one able to find it. And then I forget where they are. I still don’t know where my retainers are to this day.
24. I was tricked into going to Cambodia under the guise of a long winter break trip. The true purpose of the trip is a longer story. I’ll write it into a memoir or something. You can ask me for a summary if you like. That might motivate me to write it.
25. I once used a computer without a mouse for almost 3 months. It’s possible.
And then I had to use my computer without a keyboard for almost 3 weeks.
That’s also possible.
You appreciate both so much more after that.
Current Location: In my old house in Westminster
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/moonmama/sillysuns/hungry.gif) hungry
Current Music: My "family"
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January 24th, 2009
03:23 am - LJ Layouts....
So, LJ being open-source and all....
Can anyone help me with layouts?
I want to make a separate LJ for when I go to Japan
and revamp this one too.
New Year Resolution #1: Blog consistently
And yes, my sleep cycle is getting more out of whack as the days go by.
Come March, perhaps I'll be on Japan time and skip the whole jet lag thing.
Current Location: on the other side of the bed
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/moonmama/sillysuns/bouncy.gif) awake
Current Music: an oldie I don't know the name of but all of the words instead
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January 19th, 2009
09:53 am - Dream 01.19.08
( Chase )
Current Location: My sister's bed
Current Music: my dog sleeping
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January 17th, 2009
05:56 pm - Loose Thread on String of Dreams
Almost forgot:
I was in an electric wheelchair, on the run from George W. Bush for pushing a Panic Button by mistake.
In a library.
I went to the fourth floor, but then I realized it was full of government offices and that he could be around any corner.
It was frustrating, how slow my wheelchair was.
I turned to the nearest elevator, which was hidden in a corner.
It was marked "Performance Elevator."
There was only one call button to go down.
I got in and descended.
But then I realized the elevator was going too fast.
I was free falling.
The lights dimmed.
And then I was shot out into a dumpster in the basement.
Current Mood: confused
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10:09 am - String of Dreams
Weird weird dreams last night
somehow triggered other dreams from the past.
Riding a bus to the far side of town.
Body-switching
seeing myself from someone else's body
My own face surprised at me
during a chance meeting at a restaurant.
In a room that used to be mine
dark in dawn
looking through shoes I've never seen in real life
but are strangely familiar anyways.
A knock at the door.
A blonde lady tries to barge in
She's after something.
I push the door close as she claws at me
bolting it lock
but it won't last long.
I jump from the window.
The room had a 360 degree view of a city painted on the walls.
It was from pictures I had taken before.
I remember going there in another dream.
Down crisscrossed and vertical highways
getting dropped off at a movie theater/mall
that is dark and full of narrow passageways.
Watching a movie in a dark red velvet theater.
Going to a dimly lit pet store
that was jungle-like but barren.
And in another dream
walking around the business center
high skyscrapers with auto-repair garages on the first floor
star-patterned intersections.
Streetlights flashing green and red
but no cars.
And in another dream
walking down near empty roads
of an amusement park/water park/zoo
everyone had gathered at one spectacle:
a car show.
I had driven one of the cars there:
a bright yellow mustang convertible.
Everyone else was at the local gingerhouse pub
complete with icing trim and a white picket fence
but I don't think I was ever allowed inside.
And then another dream
where I was walking along a broad white boardwalk
at high noon
looking at huge cannons and lighthouses and watchtowers
And then another dream
walking with my family by a huge flat fountain
as long and wide as the building beside it
everything the color of sand in red sunset.
Hedges and lawns and tall narrow pines in on the other side.
Which brings me back to last night's dream.
A small house, cottage-like.
With a wild green garden.
People had gathered here, but it was a secret
from the aristocratic neighbors.
We were assembling a coup.
Fight strategies.
Our other neighbors comprised of a Buddhist temple
and a church on the other side.
We were on a steep hill, somewhere in San Francisco.
On the way back to the house
I saw a father take his daughter on a skateboard
and luge down the hill.
And then a car attacked our block
with.... water balloon bombs?
And then I kissed a shadow.
Current Location: Ake's house
Current Mood: contemplative
Current Music: Computer fights
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December 6th, 2008
08:38 pm - Double-Tagged?
[A Facebook meme I'm willing to do. Posted on LJ cuz it kills two birds with one stone.]
Once you’ve been tagged, you have to write a note with 16 random things, shortcomings, facts, habits or goals about you. At the end choose 16 people to be tagged, listing their names and why you chose them. You have to tag the person who tagged you.
( The List )
Thanks a lot Anna, now I've wasted a good portion of my Saturday night, lol. We do need to talk more often though. <3
Current Location: A room that desperately needs to be cleaned...
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/moonmama/sillysuns/happy.gif) amused
Current Music: Kingdom Hearts I & II OST
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October 5th, 2008
09:36 pm - Oh right....
I should write more, I realize.
How long ago was I suppose to do this?
Now, when I'm suppose to be studying?
[ちょっと違うと思おう]
Hehe, you guys can now laugh at my terrible Japanese sentence making ability. Or just sit around being confused. One end of the spectrum or the other.
I need to be determined to get better at writing more often.
And just my thoughts too.
I can't spend forever rereading whatever I just wrote.
But I feel.... expressionless.
I feel like I’ve lost something
Again
Things like imagination
Don’t come so easily to mind anymore
I think I’ve lost it.
Maybe I just need to practice more
[見えないで！]
Just push it out
[吐き出せ！]
I
I
I
"Don’t just say you don’t know!"
I caved.
"Keep it going."
What did I lose
Again?
Imagination, I cannot create anymore.
Although that never came easily in the first place.
CW was always rooted to something in RL.
Nothing is purely arbituary and independent here.
How…
How?
Those dreams and goals
Were never truly clear.
Just what am I doing
Again?
Oh right. Homework.
Current Location: on top a pile of clothes
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/moonmama/sillysuns/blank.gif) blank
Current Music: Silence
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August 14th, 2007
07:25 pm - Reverse and Rebirth: Sunrise
So it's been over two weeks.
I'll do updates of what has happened later.
Better than a year right?
( Today )
( Strawberries )
( Transition Sunrise )
[Going to make gyoza soon! YAY!]
Current Location: Kitchen
Current Mood: getting hungry for gyoza!
Current Music: Hoshi wo Mezashite - NewS (rather fitting, ne?)
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July 29th, 2007
03:07 am - Reverse and Rebirth: Dawn
Last updated 55 weeks ago
After more than a year, I finally update.
Even though I've received nudges and alerts.
I haven't been checking up on what everyone is doing now.
It's a bad habit that I need to really work at.
Minna, gomen ne?
To everyone, I'm sorry about that.
I will try harder in the future. *bows* m(_ _)m
Thank you so much to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) serseri and ryoko293 for reminding me again and again. ^^;;
( The Decision )
So, in order to play catch-up,
I set myself a project series called, "Reverse and Rebirth"
and if you know me or video games, then yes,
I did take it from Kingdom Hearts. :D
But it's a very fitting title,
especially with my LJ profile.
Following the theme from KH, I've started at Dawn
and will move my way towards Midnight,
summarizing and reflecting over the past year.
But let's start with ( Today )
In the end, I spent most of today writing. Refreshing, but difficult still.
We'll see how long I can keep up this time.
Current Location: Bed
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/moonmama/sillysuns/sleepy.gif) sleepy
Current Music: finally listening to ARASHI's new album - TIME (it's really good so far!)
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July 1st, 2006
07:05 am - AX: Countdown T minus....
3 hours until Anime Expo starts!
^o^
Even though I'm probably going to spend most of my time waiting in line for the CLAMP panel and AMVs today, I'm excited.
And I'm so glad that my last few duties as Anime Club President are almost done in getting everyone (or mostly everyone) registered this year.
The new system is DEFINITE improvement compared to past years. The entire line disappeared in an hour, believe it or not. But I think I reached my breaking point in a whole new level of stress yesterday at Pre-Reg. I ended up crying at home. *sigh*
And I'm glad Ake's mom decided to let Ake go, especially today. He was suppose to go to a wedding but now I can drag him around on Opening Day instead! Although I think he and Josh want to do the AcoustiKaraoke, which means last minute preparations... I'm practicing right now. ^^;
Oh, and no "real" cosplay again for Diana this year. I really wished I had a sewing machine... And knew how to sew. All I have is the tennis skirt that my sister hot glued material to. XD
Maybe I'll be more prepared for things and maybe even be a volunteer/staff next year. If there is a next year. I've sworn to not buy anything at the Dealer's Hall for myself. I hardly have enough money to maybe get a couple of birthday presents and keep an emergency ration for food.
I'm not even in college yet and I'm already flat broke. Doesn't help that I've applied to 15 different places and still don't have a job.
Haha, family tradition.
Current Location: Pre-AX
Current Mood: busy getting ready
Current Music: Kesenai Tsumi, 1st FMA ending on repeat for Karaoke practice
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June 1st, 2006
01:43 am - A Cycle Ending....
Warning: "Mehh... Ehhh...Blah..." and Sarcastic Emo (that's truly meant not as a joke, just in that characteristically mean and spiteful sarcastic tone of voice) Ahead.
( Just watched The Da Vinci Code movie by myself at Spectrum, and knowing me this won't have spoilers )
( But that was all after the SENIOR AWARDS CEREMONY )
Oh, and for those too lazy to read the cut, I'm going to UC Berkeley for sure now (or as Derek would say, fo'sho).
Stop by if you're ever up in the San Fran Bay area.
On a more happier note,
On behalf of the Internet Friends Guild, I award serseri a fantastic scholarship of +100 Super Duper Brownie Vio-Cool Points for remembering my birthday when I didn't AND without even being on my myspace! xD (how did you find that out anyways?)
( Yes, I am now 18 )
Oh, and Happy Last-Anime-Club-Meeting Day. ^_^
It is now 3am. Two hours typing. Too bad I never did that for any of my creative writing classes.
That's the summary of the last month and a half with 7 DAYS left until graduation. Thank god. Doesn't even feel like it's coming, like I'm going to go to school this entire summer (haha, I haven't had a real summer since sophmore year). Let's hope I'm wrong.
Good morning.
Current Location: Dining Room
Current Mood: tiredly apathetic
Current Music: crickets, leaky faucet, and Panic! At the Disco in the head
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April 18th, 2006
02:32 pm - Quiz!
| You scored as English. You should be an English major! Your passion lies in writing and expressing yourself creatively, and you hate it when you are inhibited from doing so. Pursue that interest of yours!
English | | 92% | Linguistics | | 83% | Journalism | | 83% | Art | | 75% | Sociology | | 67% | Psychology | | 67% | Dance | | 58% | Philosophy | | 50% | Biology | | 42% | Theater | | 42% | Anthropology | | 42% | Engineering | | 33% | Mathematics | | 25% | Chemistry | | 0% | </td>
What is your Perfect Major? (PLEASE RATE ME!!<3)
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I've watched my sister do her English major homework, and I'm sick of analyzing great works that I usually never read all the way through. Linguistics it is!
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April 16th, 2006
11:58 pm - Almost forgot...
Happy Cambodian/Thai New Year!
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11:09 pm - Spring Endings
I'm still alive, if that's what you're all wondering... ^_^;;;;
( Kingdom Hearts II, ARASHI, and other Spring Vacation-y Things )
Well, onto slightly bigger news....
( Final College Application Battle Stats )
So, I have less than two weeks to decide where to go. I already kind of have my heart set on one place, but other input would also be greatly appreciated.
...
And I have the funny feeling that the blue sac floating around in my purple-tinged soup is where the squids keep all their ink, but I'll eat it anyways.
Current Location: The Kitchen/Laundry Room/ Computer Room
Current Mood: Thinking about the future
Current Music: Kitto Daijoubu - ARASHI (on repeat!)
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March 2nd, 2006
07:58 pm - "I am pleased to offer you..."
My acceptance letter from the University of California, Irvine has been sitting on the coffee table for the past two days and I never even realized it until my sister shoved it in front of me. I've been so exhausted lately that all I do when I come home is go straight to bed.
How much does that tell you about me? xD
"I am pleased to offer you admission to the University of California, Irvine (UCI) as A Classics Major in The School Of Humanities for Fall Quarter, 2006."
They capitalized some kind of random articles... Hmph...
And congratulations to Ake on being accepted to USC! ^_^
(stupid smart person, saying he has no future when he uses a big private university like USC as a "safety net" school *rolls eyes*)
Current Mood: somewhat secure while working
Current Music: Such Great Heights - Postal Serivce, on Ake's MySpace
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