Perspective

Log start: 4:47am September 28th 2009

They say hip hop’s fallin’ apart
But that wont stop us from callin it art
Yea we gotta hold it down as a collective
And make sure that they see our (per-per-per-perspective)

Jin - Perspective

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First post in a long time, no reason not to post, i can't even tell myself why but i read an email today that sparked the need to blog again, something worth mentioning and not something like "OH HAY GUYZ I ATE CHICKEN TODAY, AND I WATCHED HOUSE. CYA TOMMOROWZWZWZWZW"

You get the point.

But the email today was pretty interesting if you look at it the right way.
So long story short, my mom and aunt went to Canada (lol moose ppl) for vacation to see their long-time-no-see classmates from back in the day China, yah.
They took some pictures that some of my relatives in China wanted to see, so they turned to me to send those pictures over the interwebz half way across the world to them.

The person i sent it to was my cousin who's like half a year younger than me. I met her when i went back to China for vacation the past winter. Horrible english speaker at that time btw :p (If you're somehow reading this later on when you DO know english, call me up or something, we'll have lunch!)

So when i sent a photobucket web address in the email, i wrote to her in Chinese. Typical, right? My cousin is Chinese, she lives in China, her main language is Chinese, therefore i communicate with her in Chinese!

Genius Brian, absolute genius. <-- self-flattery with no intent of putting myself down

So the instructions that i sent along with the email went something like "if you want the hard copies of the photos, just email me back and i'll send them over!"
In Chinese, of course.

A few hours later, i get an email back, and it's replied in English.

Maybe it's a bit hard to understand from someone that's not me... <-- just realized this after typing this far, but it must go on!

So i adjust to her by writing in Chinese, and she adjusts to me by writing in English! To me, at the time, it was incomprehensible. Just so many thoughts ran into my mind. The few main thoughts that ran into my head were,
1) she'd rather type in English to practice it because she's immigrating to Canada soon
2) she's making fun of me >;o
3) we both so thoughtful of each other that we try to make it easier for that person

LOL

a part of me wants to think it's #3 but then i lean to #1 and then i can sense some #2 in it.

Whatever it was (still haven't thought of a clear answer), i didn't know why it took me by shock when i opened that email.
it was just so weird to me that this happened.
Maybe i'm just thinking too much on it and the answer is more simple that i play it out to be, i hope it's that easy because i need to sleep, been thinking about it mostly all day. while i'm watching House, while eating dinner, even WHILE SHOWERING it was bothering me.

maybe similar things happen to you guys. some little things that take you totally by shock and surprise but it turns out that you were just overthinking it. because it sure as House making a diagnosis in every episode happens to me! <-- YEAH! READ THAT SENTENCE AGAIN! LOL. Grammatically correct, BY THE WAY. (hopefully)

But in the end, i guess it all comes down to our perspective. <-- see what i did there? :x


HakoneDayDreamer, HARDCORE STUDYING BEGIN! LALALALALALA NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! STOP PROCRASTINATING@@@@

Junior Year, continued

Log start: 2:29pm September 2nd 2009

So yeah, last time i was short on time so now i'm going to finish it.
One thing i wanted to talk about last post that i didn't have time to talk about was the food. VERY big change this year.
It seems like while everyone else has a budget cut, Stony Brook keeps getting ninja funds from nowhere and now they're finally using it. Thank you new President of Stony Brook, doing something for the students :D


The food this year has been pretty good so far, but it's only the second day so it might all change...

They redid a lot of the places and added a lot of extra choices to the menu. It's really amazing, i'm totally in love with this chopped salad that they offer around campus, it's $5.55 for a HUGE salad and it comes with 6 toppings, definately than me making one at the SAC and spending like 8 dollars on it, rofl.

So food is good, the campus looks kinda nicer too, i noticed that they did a lot of work on the plants and stuff, especially around Javits... now it looks like a bomb shelter hidden in a forest, rofl.

What else..... hmm

Oh, this year you can see that Stony Brook obviously over-admitted asian in general... so many more asians running around and the campus is so FULL. more undergrads have been admitted this year, definately. i get scared walking around the academic mall now because there's no place to walk xD

HakoneDayDreamer, ending early again because i want to take a nap. rushing through this post so i can SLEEP, sorry xD