Chronicles of a Young College Boy

Sunday, March 18, 2007

Heh this picture is taken when my friends and i was on the car back to Milwaukee from Chicago...thought its pretty neat...

Well spring break is over and here comes the second half of the spring session..from what i remember from last year that in arnd early april the campus really become beautiful...flowers blooming and all...i will do my best to take a couple of these picts and post them up....

i wont be writing too much today...my roommate is sick and going to slp right now...so yea i better go to bed....have fun for those of u who r having holidays!

DanieL counted snowflakes at 11:12 PM

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Hey guys...this pict is taken about 2 weeks ago when we have the tkd demo...cool bunch of guys...the leftmost guy is our new instructor....few facts about him...he recently returned from Korea after training for the olympics in a korean university renowned for their tkd athletes....he also trained with a tkd master who holds the guiness book record of winning 10 olympic tkd tournaments in a row....pretty cool resume dont u think? hahaha....

Well this week is spring break for me...and the weekend has been so good and fun that its actually hard for me to think of another such fun time i had here in the US... and then i cant help recalling the time i had last year during spring break...it started off sucky last year...walking to a restaurant about 5 miles away alone.. just staying in my room watching tv and all...its really a change u know from how it started this year...this year..starting on friday...i played basketball and then came back to my friend's place to play poker till 2am in the morning....on saturday i watched 2 movies...300 and wildhogs...had dinner...and then played soccer at 11pm at night...then on sunday...i played guildwars all the way with my friends at one of my friends' place and had a really really great time there...its crazy you know...how one year can change u so much.....it also just shows many lifecoaches' theory that if the more u step out of ur boundary....the more changes u will see in yourself...be it good or bad...for me its good...i think...wahahahaha...well im lucky because i have so much support from both friends and family when i move here...when i had less time to talk to my friends in spore last year from july onwards...im blessed to have another group of friends to hang out with here...=)...and through the whole time...my family has always been there....heh long story short? i have grown a lot because of you guys! =)

Facade: deceptive appearance: the way something or somebody appears on the surface, especially when that appearance is false or meant to deceive
Ever been asked, Who are you?....not as in name...but as in Who are you?...well i have...i was asked during a motivational camp i had about 3 years ago...the way the question was posed by the chief person was so powerful and disturbing that when he provided the answer...i didnt listen at all because i was struggling to keep my emotions from overflowing...and then i become pretty annoyed at the end because i did not get the answer of "Who am I?"...well after a while...heres what i came up with...there is no real one you....there are many you's....you are what you do in a state of happiness...you are what you do in a state of elation...you are what you do in a state of crisis...you are what you do in a state of fear....and the list goes on....you are a fluid theory....this probably goes in accordance with the theory of energy....that energy is never destroyed but just transferred and transformed into another form... sounds sensible? =)

DanieL counted snowflakes at 12:40 AM

Sunday, March 04, 2007

haaa....Im 18!!! hahaha...finally now im officially an adult...wahahaha...I didnt remember that it was actually my birthday because i was studying quite late till 12 plus..then when i look at the clock..."hey!...my birthday!!"...hahahaha...well i spent a good first day of my birthday studying for crazy accounting in the library...then after tht was fun all the way till sunday morning 3 am haha...well first after the accounting exam i went to play bball with my friends and then we went to eat....We then played texas hold'em till 4 am in saturday morning...

The next day...my friends took my to hooters again!!!..it was crazy dude...this time my friends went behind my back and bought a hooters calendar (almost equivalent to FHM or Maxim calendars) and let the waitresses sign it...THEN one of my friends call 2 waitresses to take a picture with me....hahaha i was pretty nervous till the girls went by my side and let my friends take the picture....if im in the mood i will post the picture up and show u guys how dorky i look in between the 2 hot girls....hahahaha...

Hehs...one year has passed since my arrival in the US....as i look at the then me and the now me....i feel that so many many things that had happened have changed me as a person almost whole and over....and living alone...it gives me many insights to what i never have before...insights about friends....family....and most of all...me...some of the insights i gained about friends are definitely....they have as much impact as family on you....they can either make you happy and feel belonged...or if you can feel unloved and just be stuck in your room feeling sorry for yourself and thinking about stupid ideas...like picturing yourself in ur mind that u r this lone, reflective, and 'cool-quiet' type of person...well according to my experience the cool-quiet type of person nv really did convey tht he is the 'strong quiet' type...trust me i fell in those type of mind sets b4...but theres where friends and basically people come in...u can always intrepret them as some sort of mirror to you...imagine this...would a person like you if you dont like them?...

Moving on to family...haha im not sure how many times i emphasized on this...even though ur friends are as influential as they are...you can almost always count on ur family as the ones who will always love you...even though they sometimes dont know how to show it...it can help sometimes to think tht when they nag and scold the hell out of you...think it as they are setting u in the correct direction..and they do tht because they love you...if you think you are right in your actions and think they are wrong (which sometimes they are)....rethink again b4 u do what u want to do...like think real hard that ur judgement is correct...know in which areas ur parents are less informed on than you (not tht many)...then decide if your conflict with your parents lies in this area....if it does...then confide in other people u trust...

Im probably going to do the insights i gained about me part next time...i feel so tired right now haha...last but not least...a big and warm Thank You to all the people who wished me happy birthday!! i really appreciate it ....=)

DanieL counted snowflakes at 2:53 AM