me 'n beowulf

2007-03-20T21:46:00.000-07:00

trinity term

2006-04-24T03:49:00.000-07:00

So...I thought that people who even bother to read my lj probably would love (okay like) to know what's in plans for me this term. First off, I'm rowing, yes, in 1st Eights which means I will have NO social life whatsoever.

Here's the schedule:

Monday: double outing 6.30pm-9
Tuesday: 7.30am Erg session
Wednesday: 7.30am weight circuits + double outing
Thursday: nothing
Friday: double outing 6.30pm-9
Saturday:double outing 8am
Sunday: double outing 8am

see what i mean by no time?

i'm really hitting my EU course pretty hard, i'm not so keen on my physical chemistry course though.

Cool news: I might be going to mexico on a mission trip this summer AND my thanksgiving plans are teh best...thanksgiving near the DMZ zone between south and north korea. so if the commies decide to declare war anytime soon, i'm screwed. :P

so anyway, i hope everyone is excited and busy about their upcoming plans in life as i am.

teamfranken

2006-03-28T10:44:00.001-08:00

GAH! I LOVE AL FRANKEN!

so i've been reading my flatmate's copy of 'Lies and the Lying Liars who tell them'. I've been listening to the Al Franken show off of itunes, but it's rather dry and focuses more on the interviewee rather than Al, but i didn't realise how EFFING funny dear ole Al is- and TeamFranken, how genius is that?

anyway, i'm urging and encouraging everyone to start reading franken's books b/c they're eerily good and i like how he refutes argumenents with facts which are terribly funny at the same time. I also don't think he's a crazed, rabid right winger like many tout him to be, he's actually quite reasonable in his arguments and sane-ish.

discuss.

teamfranken

2006-03-28T10:44:00.000-08:00

GAH! I LOVE AL FRANKEN!

2006-03-14T09:35:00.000-08:00

tat

2006-03-14T09:34:00.000-08:00

me and sarah walton

2006-03-13T15:31:00.000-08:00

go christine!

2006-03-13T15:30:00.000-08:00

christine wang dressed as the ever growing (in numbers and inches) 'fat american'. the theme for the bop was: 'america'

2006-03-13T15:29:00.000-08:00

woah. horrible one of me, but fran looking as lovely as ever.

2006-03-13T15:28:00.000-08:00

'the couple'

2006-03-13T15:27:00.001-08:00

tim, fran, and me ready for some bop-ing?

2006-03-13T15:27:00.000-08:00

oh the vivacity!

2006-03-13T15:26:00.001-08:00

the blue boar crew

2006-03-13T15:26:00.000-08:00

fwith

2006-03-13T15:25:00.001-08:00

us in the the corpus christi quad

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the hideous blue-boar-like complex

2006-03-13T15:24:00.000-08:00

me, kat, and cody in cambridge with the bridge of sighs behind us.

2006-03-05T18:59:00.000-08:00

gorgeous photo of maria, simon, frances (i love her smile), and tat

2006-03-05T18:57:00.000-08:00

me, emma and tim

2006-03-05T18:56:00.001-08:00

woah. cool shades. i'm determined to have cool shades for summer eights

2006-03-05T18:56:00.000-08:00

M2 team, simon at bow

2006-03-05T18:55:00.002-08:00

going, going, going

2006-03-05T18:55:00.001-08:00

the W1 team

2006-03-05T18:55:00.000-08:00

the M1 team making blades

2006-03-05T18:54:00.001-08:00

a lovely pic of fran closing her eyes and maria's cheese smile. ha

2006-03-05T18:54:00.000-08:00

the sober crowd

2006-03-05T18:53:00.001-08:00

simon and james geer clearly drunk!

2006-03-05T18:53:00.000-08:00

me strangling claire davies

2006-03-05T18:48:00.001-08:00

simon and sarah w. looking ever so happy

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the royal 'we'

2006-03-05T18:47:00.001-08:00

russell actually smiling for once!

2006-03-05T18:47:00.000-08:00

josh, me and maria looking ridiculous...as ever

2006-03-05T18:46:00.002-08:00

maria and josh deep contemplative thought

2006-03-05T18:46:00.001-08:00

me and josh obeying maria's order to 'be surprised'

2006-03-05T18:46:00.000-08:00

at alex's pre-bop party

2006-03-05T18:45:00.001-08:00

group photo

2006-03-05T18:45:00.000-08:00

john and the oreo

2006-03-05T18:44:00.002-08:00

simon being a dork

2006-03-05T18:44:00.001-08:00

me and the port

2006-03-05T18:44:00.000-08:00

beauty

2006-03-05T18:43:00.001-08:00

hydra

2006-03-05T18:43:00.000-08:00

gorgeous view of poros

2006-03-05T18:40:00.000-08:00

pris and me, meteora in the background

2006-03-05T18:39:00.000-08:00

more views from the top

2006-03-05T18:38:00.000-08:00

good view of the town from meteora

2006-03-05T18:37:00.000-08:00

looking like dorks

2006-03-05T18:36:00.000-08:00

priscilla in the bus on the way to the islands

2006-03-05T18:35:00.000-08:00

on hydra

2006-03-05T18:34:00.000-08:00

me, theo, and peter

happy new year's!

2006-01-02T11:20:00.000-08:00

so basically, priscilla came and we're hanging out at my cousin's place right now. we just got back from delphi...apparently the "navel of the entire world" according to our tour guide who like to say "precisely, unique, and veddy nice" far too often for my sanity.
we were at poros, hydra for two days, and spetses for new year's. our new year's was possibly the most boring, yet interesting new year's you can have. the island was almost entirely deserted and refused to open up a cafe for us to celebrate the new year's watching some delicious fireworks on the telly. instead we sat outside, priscilla drank hot chocolate, and we watched some of the most pitiful displays of fireworks i've seen in my entire life. on the upside, we had one of the most enlightening conversations of our friendship. so it was "veddy nice".
tomorrow we're hopping to aegina and hopefully enjoying fine weather and ruins there. after that we have a two day trip to meteora. fun stuff. i'm going to enjoy some hot chocolate and rum, then watch a movie.

athens, greece

2005-12-26T11:21:00.000-08:00

I've been in athens for about 10 days now, and most of it has been spent inside the stephanopolous house. I'm in Kifisia, which is a far northern suburb of Athens; it's about a 30 minute train ride to central Athens, so it's not too far. The tube here is amazingly clean and everywhere is fairly easy to get to (around Athens). Now getting around to the other parts of mainland Greece is a different matter entirely. The roads here wind about (even more so than in England) and so I get very car sick. I've been to the coastline and to Lake Marathonas which was amazing. Kifisia is very clean, rich, and pretty; it has a major shopping area so there is a lot of traffic, but since it's very short walk to the shopping I appreciate it.

The family...what can I say? They're so nice, obliging, and wonderful. I love the kids, they're very unique and sharp, but the very fact that they're triplets always leaves me in wonder.

stella: very vivacious and effervescent, but does an amazing job of whining and complaining. actually surprised me. when she's in a good mood, she's an angel. when she's tired, she's... something else completely. i think that's her charm, she's very versatile and incredibly smart. she's also very anglo looking with pale skin, light hair, and hazel eyes.
petros (peter): is also very outgoing and sweet, likes to please people but is a bit spoiled. also an amazing whiner when he wants to be, is very physically aggressive, but cute and sweet. he's more mixed than stella and has darker hair, but still has hazel eyes.
i find the hazel eyes to be amazing from any korean parent, just because most kids with one korean parent always have brown eyes. weird!
finally,theo: my favourite, but don't tell. he's the most asian, but still very greek looking. he has dark hair and dark eyes. he's also more korean in the way he acts. he's very obliging, smart, and obedient. he's the easiest to deal with b/c he doesn't whine or complain half as much as the other two (although on occasions he is a normal 8 year old boy with a temper). he's also very logical and intelligent. i think he's the brightest of the three. he's soooo nice and by far the most introverted, perhaps that's why i like him so much. he reminds me of myself at that age.
arleen is one of the best mothers and the sweetest cousins of all time. I've actually spent a lot of time telling her about our (my dad's) side of the family, and she's very interested...or she's just a very good listener. Panos, her husband, is strangely like the boys in my family. He's very traditional, Republican, and likes to tease everyone. He's also very stern when he needs to be, it's strange that there are so many similarities, yet it's an entirely different culture.

anyway. I'll post more after i've travelled a bit.

oooh!

2005-12-13T08:07:00.000-08:00

it's my birthday!

and i want to send out lots of love to everyone who emailed/facebooked/e-carded me. you are all beautiful people and i love you!

love

2005-12-12T13:00:00.000-08:00

as you go through life, you realize that sometimes friends are the only reason you continue. When they're there to listen, laugh, and sympathize with you, you begin to understand the finer points of living.

it's a gorgeous life, and you can pass it by so quickly.

i love you all my dears.

2005-12-11T07:35:00.003-08:00

augustus's mausoleum

2005-12-11T07:35:00.002-08:00

s. maria pace chapel

2005-12-11T07:35:00.001-08:00

palazzo borghese

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piazza novona

2005-12-11T07:34:00.000-08:00

the pantheon

2005-12-11T07:33:00.002-08:00

inside the maggiore

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santa maria maggiore

2005-12-11T07:33:00.000-08:00

borromini's first commission

2005-12-11T07:32:00.001-08:00

the tomb of the unknown soldier

2005-12-11T07:32:00.000-08:00

colloseum

2005-12-11T07:05:00.002-08:00

in the colloseum

2005-12-11T07:05:00.001-08:00

amazing view from the palatine...the colloseum

2005-12-11T07:05:00.000-08:00

on the palatine

2005-12-11T07:04:00.000-08:00

on the palatine hill

2005-12-11T07:03:00.001-08:00

in front of the imperial forum

2005-12-11T07:03:00.000-08:00

the most amazing sculpture in the world...in my humble opinion

2005-12-11T07:02:00.002-08:00

the famous fontana di trevi and me looking stupid

2005-12-11T07:02:00.001-08:00

in front of the capitoline museum

2005-12-11T07:02:00.000-08:00

at the top of the largest piazza in rome

2005-12-11T07:01:00.001-08:00

arc of triumph in front of the colloseum

2005-12-11T07:01:00.000-08:00

roman forum

2005-12-11T07:00:00.003-08:00

the very top of the castle

2005-12-11T07:00:00.002-08:00

me looking ill

2005-12-11T07:00:00.001-08:00

one of the bridges leading to the vatican from the city centre

2005-12-11T07:00:00.000-08:00

me inside hadrian's castle

2005-12-11T06:59:00.001-08:00

michelangelo's maria and jesus

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more piazza

2005-12-11T06:58:00.004-08:00

piazza san pietro

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ceiling

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say, "wow"

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one of the amazing ceilings of the uber long corridors

2005-12-11T06:58:00.000-08:00

greek god

2005-12-11T06:57:00.003-08:00

ceiling in vatican museum

2005-12-11T06:57:00.002-08:00

more courtyard

2005-12-11T06:57:00.001-08:00

me in the vatican. i took the picture

2005-12-11T06:57:00.000-08:00

vatican courtyard

2005-12-11T06:56:00.000-08:00

the vatican

2005-12-11T06:51:00.000-08:00

my flatmates!

when in rome...

2005-12-07T01:45:00.000-08:00

don't do anything stupid...like walk in front of the buses and then smile. actually did that and they stopped for me. that's what i like about rome: pedestrians actually do have the right of way.

the only reason i'm posting is b/c it's fairly early and everyone else is traipsing about the ancient brickwork of the romans. quite literally. i was walking on some bricks that were set during hadrian's time. thus far, i've visited the vatican: museum, st. paul's basilica, piazza san pietro.

i know how to say several phrases but i'll post them when the guy behind me isn't glaring at me for daring to post this while he needs to check his precious email.

today i'm visiting the colloseum and the villa di borghese. fantastico!

rowing

2005-11-24T17:04:00.000-08:00

has taken up my entire life.

had race yesterday: lost
had race today: won

race tomorrow: cancelled and all the other races after that. however. the after party is still on. and am planning to pull some random guy. no. i'm kidding. not kidding about the fun bit though.

i tore my back muscle in yesterday's race, and then today i tore it again. and i was planning on racing tomorrow, but i'm sort of relieved b/c my back hurts so much. i'm going to the physical therapist soon.

anyway. i'm looking forward to the wallingford head race. maria and i are going to get in shape for the race b/c we don't want to be shit when everyone else in the boat is amazing.

so plans for this weekend:
study
read
essay
row
erg
pull....i wish.

sings happy birthday

2005-11-23T02:56:00.000-08:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PRISCILLA/JUAN POLLO!!

I LOVE YOU AND WISH YOU THE BESTEST BETTER 21ST BIRTHDAY OF YOUR LIFE.

muah.

harry potter

2005-11-21T15:20:00.000-08:00

saw harry potter last night than ate chips and cheese and talked about harry potter slash with maria and tat. was vvvvvvvvvv. strange.

went to LGB meeting b/c alex was running for librarian. again vvvvvvvvvvvv. strange

than today. found out about a bit of conflict between friends. yet again. vvvvvvvv. strange.

this entire week is setting up to be twilight zone-ish. not good.

this week

2005-11-18T08:15:00.000-08:00

so this week has been really hectic...

lots of alex, russell, and maria as the usual.

however, i had to up the work load and the rowing.

i rowed four times between tuesday and thursday. today i was SUPPOSED to go rowing but they cancelled due to a regatta. i'm rowing on saturday and erging on sunday and saturday.

then we have the christ church regatta on wednesday-saturday.

i've had an essay and tute on monday, wednesday, and friday. and today i pulled my first hail mary and wrote my essay three hours before it was due. it was sooo amazing b/c my tutor read it and was slightly impressed. what??

so...rowing and essays. i also listened to heseltine (former shadow deputy something), he's conservative, at the union debate. i was all for more british participation in the EU...it's rather silly. why do all the countries want to slip back into factionism? that's the root of european wars...anyway.

next week:

more rowing, two essays.

i'm watching harry potter in two days! huzzah.

2005-11-13T04:12:00.001-08:00

cool photo eh?

2005-11-13T04:12:00.000-08:00

on the tube back to paddington station

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this is the fantastic four.

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maria, russell, alex, josh

me 'n beowulf

trinity term

teamfranken

teamfranken

happy new year's!

athens, greece

oooh!

love

when in rome...

rowing

*sings happy birthday*

harry potter

this week

sings happy birthday