sorry

i haven't updated since weekend... guess i'm too busy with everything...
friday was awesome went to blacklight party and took some great pictures
you might need to wait till i upload them though... it takes me almost three weeks? to upload the cuisine party photos lol
and went to Broadway for a stand up comedy show midnight with Frances and her friend from Taiwan!
it's really good!

so i basically studied for the rest of the weekend... so much to catch up with the school work... :(
and it ain't over yet :((

i really need time to get my photos uploaded!

oh and i did upload some photos :)
here they are!











more at my flickr!

About one year from the great eclipse...

Crescent Sunset
Originally uploaded by daniellih
last year on Jan 15, the most beautiful crescent sun slowly set into the horizon!

more the photo set

interesting thursday!

i woke up earlier than usual on wednesday like 10 something
and i've been feeling ok since then!
not tired anymore
and blisters are getting better :)

so i just had an interesting day
i met two missionaries today; one is Christian the other is Mormon

when i was walking back after my office hour
a lady came by and said hi, i couldn't just walk away cuz that rude and awful, right?
so i stopped
"where are you from?"
"taiwan"
"nee how 你好"
"你好" with a huge smile on my face
"do you believe in God?"
..... should i say no? i'm very sure i'm atheist... :/
"no..."
..... but she's a nice person and told me that i can always drop by the church
so we shook our hands and i walked back to my dorm

later today
when i was walking back after my chem lab
a man walked by and say hi
I stopped and thought, "wow, second missionary; am i that attractive?" :P
"have you ever heard of the Book of...."
"no"
"do you believe in God who.... take care of us.... a family..... always there.... ?"
I thought, "not going to say no again..."
so i said, "i'm agnostic...." i lied...
"but God.... always there.... are you interested in The Book of.....?"
"actually, i'm going back now... to dorm"
so he gave me a card with "Does God Really Know Me?" and a picture of a lady who looks worried
"do you mind if i have your contact number?"
"no it's ok, i'll have the card..." feeling extremely guilty...
so we shook our hands and i walked back to dorm and that was it!

humm it turns out that saying "no" is a much better choice :D
haha just my experience...

tuesday even more tired...

dunno why
but no matter how much i sleep, i'm getting more tired everyday...
and a blister grew out of nowhere in my mouth D:
also pimples grew at the back of my ears like both of my ears WTF D:
and they're a pain in the ass
i feel my whole face and neck swollen and burning...

it's such a busy day
woke up at 11:43 am and i was like "what!? o^O"
so i took a shower and went to class from 12:30 to 3:20
then i followed our professor to her office with some other students worrying about their papers for office hours
finally, food!! got a subway sandwich at 4 something
walked back to dorm and put my backpack in my room
then i walked straight to food bank while i ate the sandwich and drank milk
it's about 5 when i was at food bank
packed hundred bags of flour, salt, fruit bars, cupcakes, and doughnuts
and i took one cupcake that looks pretty :) and ate it afterward!
it's lemon flavor
with a lot of frosting (my favorite)
came back to dorm at 8 something!? didn't watch the time...

tired...
can't do anything
should get my dinner now
it's 10 already...

oh and i found this awesome playlist on 8tracks!
enjoy!!

Songs Guaranteed to PUMP YOU UP!!!

monday and already tired...

have no idea why i've become so reluctant to get off my bed
i usually woke up and got off my bed when my iphone rang at 10:30...

oh well...

our men bathroom was fixed today! :D yay!!
last night there was poop on the toilet seat and the floor, seriously!?
and there has been pee overflowing from toilet for more than a week!!

so still busy even though my physics midterm is over
a major 5-7 page paper due tmr
and chem quiz tmr
haven't started reading chem and physics yet :(
a lot to catch up...

uploaded some photos and more to come!
wow! "new photos" just keep coming and never going to end!

wow another week gone!

personally, i think it's a long week...
i went through some many things this week but they're worth it!

i need to thank my parents for talking to me
and thank my friends for being around and hanging out together!
and thanks Kelsey for the chat! it made me feel a lot better!

my mind is exhausted thru the five days of torture... dun wanna think anymore now...
haha!

so i uploaded some photos
more to come...
lol i'm still processing photos from the cuisine party i was talking about a week ago...
but i promise i'll put them up asap ;)

ridiculously f**king stupid

how will you describe a student who spent hours for two papers and then forgot to bring them to class?

that person is extremely stupid and foolish and incorrigibly careless!

and guess what? 

i just saw a person helplessly running from Anderson hall back to Mercer hall

and exhaustingly running from Mercer hall all the way to Art buildings

and he could not even find room 353

so he ran to Kane hall and took the physics midterm

and after the midterm he ran back to Art building again and found room 353 which was locked...

guess what?

i finished my journal and 1.2 essay for my english class and studied for physics

and had went to bed late for two days

and i forgot to bring those two papers to the class

that stupid person running around was me!!

i can't believe how stupid i am that i got all my work wasted

maybe it's not a big deal i know

but just look at him...

all his good work ruined by that f**king little clumsiness....

i hate myself...

hey guys

i think i'm feeling much better now from last week
it's sunny today! finally, the sun is out!!

so physics midterm tomorrow... and i'd already finished reading all of them and finished physics HW
i'll probably go thru them again later

so i uploaded some new photos while i'm taking my dinner break (ate a fruit salad with three kinds of cheese and an egg salad sandwich) and i just finished swallowing a huge leaf of lettuce... bitter taste lol

it's the snow last tuesday, i think (is it last tuesday?)
enjoy!







gotta continue working on my english essay!
cya later!

doubting...

am i going to finish my english hw? lol
am i going to finish physics stuff?

eh...

just found out a Taiwanese eccentric witness lady!
same they're both at crime scene!
though she wasn't "backing up"!
(educate yourself, if you haven't heard of backing up song. watch the video below! :D )

see!?!?

source:

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/eccentric-witness-lady

http://www.youtube.com/user/NMANews#p/u/1/iicav6ISJBk

Solar pillar

Solar pillar
Originally uploaded by daniellih

guess what!? about a week ago, when i was walking back to my dorm with my roommate, i saw this rare phenomenon: light pillar, so i quickly captured it with my iphone but when i got my d90 at my dorm, it's gone already.
light pillar is caused by ice crystal reflections.
like the moon halo i saw weeks ago!

thanks to the cold weather here at Seattle!

:D

i woke up at 1 something

and climbed down my bed ladder and turn on my macbook

and RING RING RING RING

oh man it's the fire alarm....

so i grabbed my key and went out... i wasn't expecting to stay out that long

i was wearing sandals, shorts, and a tshirt.... and it's so rainy and windy outside...

but i went to have brunch with Ryan, we were at the same chem lab section last quarter

(he payed my brunch cuz i forgot my Husky card.... i payed him back afterward though he was too nice and didn't want me to pay back... :D)

and then i headed to my friend's friend's place for a cuisine party

i took photos and talked with people there and ate some great food including baozi, dumplings

i also made some dumplings... like 3!? :P

i had a lot of fun!

basically my mood just go all the way up and i'm happy now! 

jumping around in my room having dance music LOL

and here are some photos i uploaded on flickr

going to upload more in the near future!

What i've been up to... 1/whatever... wednesday and days after that

i have been eating so healthily!!! like for dinner, i get odwalla protein drink (why aren't the convenience store selling muscle milk anymore D: ???), a huge salad, and a mountain blueberry yogurt
and also get breakfast for the day after... a piece of cheddar cheese and some odwalla protein drink i didn't finish last night...

anyway, wednesday night was when my mood started breaking down...
what happened exactly? actually, i think it's my personal problem :/
so there's a humans vs zombies tag game mission that night
and i felt greatly disregarded... (i can't cope with large group of people!?)
so i started thinking pessimistically about everything
"why am i always alone having dinner... walking to class... walking to dorm....?"

sometimes, i really want to cut my vocal cords or drink acid or base to ruin my vocal cords
so i don't have to speak... i'll just smile, frown, and wave my hand...
i don't like talking! >:(

umm... and my schedule was so freaking full!!
tuesday night: service-learning and snow
wednesday night: zombie mission
thursday night: photography club meeting and chemistry lab
tonight: zombie final mission
ended up i haven't done a lot of studying and homework D:
it's really on my nerve now D:

enough of those complaining...
you still have so many stuff to do Daniel...
do it one by one and everything will be just fine!

ah.... great relief thou blogging really helps!

3 new photos on flickr
and there're more to go!!!!

taken on my flight from taiwan to seattle

What i've been up to... 1/whatever... tuesday

So I ended up calling my service-learning site the Food Bank this afternoon cuz email wasn't working at all
And yup the supervisor picked up the phone and my schedule and orientation were arranged!
Every Tuesday night!
So he asked me
"do you want to start today"
And I said
"yeh sure!"

(i wrote the part above few days ago, when my mood is still quite "sunny"; in other words, i'm "gloomy" now, so don't be surprised by the tone change in writing)

It was quite a new experience for me, never worked in a grocery store.
so i was there repacking golden oreo into smaller bags and smashing frozen chicken!
for real, we threw a whole bag of frozen chicken from the stairs!!
anyway, my first service-learning night went quite well
met some new people there, a girl who is doing service-learning for another class and two boys from the air force (oh wow!)
after i hung the red apron with "Food Bank Volunteer" on the door and got my bag and jacket
i pushed the little wooden door and walked outside to the street with the girl
and OH MY GOD, it's snowing! just like the forecast stated! :D
i was so excited and i didn't even care to put my hood on cuz i wanted the snow to melt on my face :)
"photos! photos! photos!" that's the only thing on my mind!!!
so i walked with her down the ave and she was going to get dinner at Mee Sum
i left after she finished ordering her dinner

"photos! photos! photos!!!"

so i ended up taking up to 100 photos that night and rolling a very very huge snow ball (imagine how big it is if it's larger than my arms around it)
it's quite fun though! my hugest snow ball ever!!!
i'll post the photos asap D:

it's starts raining afterwards and it got disgustingly wet... it's like the roads and trees and everything is covered with "slurpee"
SCHOOL TMR how unfortunate...

conclusion, rolling a huge snow ball and smashing frozen chickens at the same night for 8 hours wasn't a great idea... my body aches for days...

I feel so sorry now

I'm going to post a new entry asap I promise!
Sorry things are all over me...
Just some updates
I haven't been feeling well from last night... emotionally...
And a lot is going on recently
I'll tell you about them definitely!

And a really nice sentence from Starbucks!


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202 posts! thanks!

haven't noticed it's already my number 202 post!
gotta celebrate! :D
sadly, my number 200 post is the sad post i posted few days ago... haha...
...

oh well i just uploaded some new "old photos" on my flickr

sore is on my whole body!! X~X
it's been about 1 month since the last work out! (i worked out this wednesday)

oh i have some updates about my schedule
so i gotta complete 20-40 hours of service-learning hours this quarter
and i'm plan on doing it from 16:00 to 19:00 every tuesday
that means i have to shift my work out time to wednesday or thursday when there's no physic exam
and as usual i'll work out every saturday or sunday :)
yup that's about it!

neutral

i'm feeling extremely neutral now, plain neutral
like i'm neither happy nor sad... but in this case, little things can make me happy or sad quite dramatically...
a slightly pessimistic thought will totally turn me down... and a slightly optimistic thought will totally make me look forward to my future...

it's just that i have nothing to be happy or sad about...
i just sit in front of my computer stumbling... and eating cookies and drinking milk...
and for the sake of satisfaction, i read some physics...

oh i want to share something really really interesting with you!!
most of you go to bed at night and sleep for many hours and wake up right?
this is called the monophasic sleep, a sleep per day and several REM within each sleep cycle
but check polyphasic sleep out!!
in which you gotta sleep several times a day and most importantly, the total sleep time is reduced!!!
you guys might wanna try this out!

there're several levels
one's called the everyman sleep cycle
for everyman sleep cycle, you only have to sleep about 4 hours per day
consisting of 1 3-hours sleep and 3 20-minutes naps! each 5 hours apart!
and the most advanced level is called the uberman sleep cycle
for uberman sleep cycle, you only have to sleep 2 hours per day!!! crazy right!??
consisting of 6 20-minutes naps each 6 hours apart! (maybe you should check on my math... i'm not sure about the 6 hours part...)

that said, you can save 6 hours per day (subtracting 2 hours from 8 hours in a normal sleep), so 42 hours per week; 42 hours are almost 2 days!!

i really want to try this out and i spent hours to fit my future sleeping plan with my class schedule
but i might make my roommate a polyphasic sleeper as well so...
maybe i'll do this in the future?

check out more about polyphasic sleep here

oh and i'll be uploading new "old" photos this weekend.... (is that an oxymoron?)
damn when have i become so humorous...?

going to get prepared for bed!
have a great day or night guys!

oops

just after my "great start" on monday, i think i'm slowly sinking into melancholia... again!?

geee, i don't feel like doing anything now... i just want to go to bed and sleep through everything...

got a new profile pic on my facebook with a 囧 on my face!! because that is what i am feeling now! 

囧囧囧囧囧!! (in terms of sadness, not awkwardness)

some new photos

oh haha i woke up so early today! like 8:40 i can't believe it!
cuz i went to bed early yesterday! i was too tired, blame jet lag!
and yesterday was the first day of the quarter and i think i had a great day, so that means i had a great start!
and an awesome new strip of "Hanna is not a boy's name" was out yesterday! love it so much!

new photos on flickr
one is taken by my iphone. i don't usually take photos with my iphone though but in special occasions i do...

taken with iphone 4

and some are taken the day before i left Taiwan...


do you recall anything??
i took another photo months ago...

i promise myself i will be your partner until one day you are gone for good

Space Needle fireworks

i took over 200 photos during the fireworks show...
and these are the ones i like...

              

magical

jet lag surprised me twice in two nights!

first night:
went to sleep very late... like 4 something am...
and woke up at 6:50 something
and woke up again at 8:50 something
lastly i woke up at 10:50 something and got off the couch

second night:
i went to sleep very early like 10 pm...
and woke up in the middle of the night
put pillow in the right place and just when i put my head on it
my phone rang!!!
it's 2:44 am
my friend Alan was calling and he invited me to go watch a football game with him today

Happy 2011

Happy 2011
Originally uploaded by daniellih

it's here! 13-second Space Needle fireworks!
more photos to come!
happy new year!

End of chapter 3 --> Chapter 4- winta quarta

End of chapter 3...
Before 11 pm
Bye Andrew 
Bye mom bye dad

Chapter 4- winta quarta!!

11:15 pm boarding
Wow there are two floors in this plane!! Awesome! And I'm on the second floor! :) gotta walk up stairs to my seat!
Weird announcement saying that gathering with other people in the plane is prohibited :/???
Thanks to the mom sitting beside me, I get a slipper so shoes off from now...

11:37 pm takeoff
Flying north and looking to the window at the east I saw Taipei city and Taipei 101 glowing gold!
I saw scattered fireworks in the city! A different perspective of counting down for new year!

11:54 pm
Just finished my U.S. Customs and border protection form...

12:00 am 
Took a picture of my phone showing the time with a pen I borrowed from the flight attendant and lens cap

And the mom sitting beside me said happy new year to me
I laughed and said happy new year to her
First meal is here
I get pork spaghetti

12:35 am
Finished my pork spaghetti
It's not that bad :P

12:38 am 
went to lavatory
And flight attendant is telling people to close the shade of the windows... Dunno why but I assume because we are passing by north Korea!? No that doesn't make sense; they get radar... Never mind...
Thinking about when to take the photo of the stairs... Going to do it when everyone is asleep or something!! ;)

12:44 am
Oh damn! found out I forgot to flush the toilet lol... @~@

12:47 am 
going to put on my earphone and listen to my playlist and read The Omnivore's Dilemma
Until everyone is asleep and I can take picture!! :)

12:56 am 
Bumpy air!!!
Corn corn corn!

1:00 am
Sudoku time

1:21 am 
Solved one easy sudoku puzzle :D

Gotta start my book...

1:52 am
Finish reading assigned part of The Omnivore's Dilemma (to end of chapter two)
Read 8 pages in total...
Continue on chapter three ;)

2:20 am
another 8 pages 
Seems like most people are asleep!! Should I go take photo??
Nevermind I'll just take photos when we are getting of the plane...

2:30 am
Lol actually I just went and took some photos of the stairs and everyone is asleep!!! Awesome!
And I'll play more sudoku!!

3:34 am
Ah played medium and i got stuck... I'm sleepy now...
Let's check what movies they get here... Nothing..

3:43 am 
Still browsing around the Eva thing on the screen and I'm bored...

3:46 am
Actually I find some interesting games gonna try them

3:50 am
"Pong" was fun but no one else is playing so I can't have a match with another player :( so sad

3:56 am
This "Luxor" game is exactly like stoneloop but instead of dinosaur theme, it's egyptian theme lol
Kinda laggy 
My ass is starting to hurt D: 
Gotta get up maybe go to the lavatory...

4:02 am
Check flight info
Halfway there now about 5 hours left

4:11 am
Decide to sleep but can't fall asleep D:
I'll try...
Found out I'm already at the 43rd song on my playlist...

4:23 am 
Lavatory
and i flushed the toilet

4:44 am
Lol still awake
It's bright outside!! But it'll get dark again later when I arrive Seattle... Lol
No wonder they wanted us to close the window shade!

5:55 am
I was asleep!! :)
Just woke up and my ass hurts...
And I'm on the 64th song of my playlist...

6:07 am
Bumpy air!! So bumpy!

6:29 am
Salty lips must be blood!

6:44 am
76 out of 81 songs already
Gotta replay my playlist now!

7:02 am
Turbulence breakfast
Please don't spill over :/
But for now the mom and me and her son are the only people who get the breakfast hahaha
I got... Let me see... The western one: scramble egg etc
Yay! Tissue paper!! Breakfast saves my life!!

7:29 am
Finish breakfast

7:33 am
Holy! I thought it was tea but no
It's coffee :/ and turbulence is here 
Oh man... gotta drink some or else it'll spill over

7:39 am
At least I got some cream...

7:45 am
Song number 15 is "I Remember" by deadmau5; totally love it so imma replay it many times

7:49 am
Seeing people going out and in of lavatory throughout the flight
And now this poor kid just went in and dunno how to open the door
Actually I dunno he just went out ok...

8:03 am
Finish coffee 
it's not that bitter though

8:15 am
Extremely bored...
Going continue with the playlist...
Change some settings on my iPod and gonna play solitaire!

9:09 am
Video about customs and disease and pests stuff 
But I've watched too many times
Errr solitaire is so hard
Didn't finish any game, so sad :(

9:18 am
Plane descending
Got my shoes on

12/31 17:25 pm
Switch to Seattle time
Plane still descending...

17:54 pm
Landed and packed up ready to go!


chaotic hours...
found shuttle express and went all the way from Tacoma back to Frances's apartment...


later i called Alan up
and we met in China town for dinner


and we headed to Space Needle!!