Busy week ahead?

Monday

Larissa’s birthday dinner – 6.30 pm

CHEM102 review session – 7.00 to 9.00pm

Heroes Season 2 – 8.00 to 9.00pm

“Happy Birthday October!” party – 8.00 to 10.00pm

(Notice how everything overlaps)

Tuesday

MATH221 quiz – 3.00 to 4.00pm

PHIL101! (lol.)

GE101 written test – 7.00 to 8.15pm

Wednesday

GE101 Modeling Lab (Inventor tutorials)

CHEM102 hour exam – 5.50 to 6.45pm

Alternative Spring Break Orientation – 7.00 to 9.00pm

Thursday

PHIL101 again! (double lol.)

GE101 – scrambling for extra credits and writing an interim report on the reverse engineering design project (super cool eh)

CHEM103 – laboring on the lab report and pre-lab quiz due tomorrow

Friday

Day starts at 6.50am

CHEM103 – Finding molar mass of but-something (Lab)

Cycling to the Transportation Building to handover homework

Laboring in the gym -ahhhh yess…

Laundry

The weekend better be good.

Critical mass

Ready?

Get set,

GO!

What in the world is Critical Mass?

Well, according to critical-mass.info:

Critical Mass is a monthly bicycle ride to celebrate cycling and to assert cyclists’ right to the road. The idea started in San Francisco in September 1992 and quickly spread to cities all over the world.

Critical Mass has a different flavor from city to city — there’s a big variety in size, respect of traffic laws (or lack thereof), interaction with motorists, and intervention by police. So if you want to know more about Critical Mass, you’ll really need to find out what your local ride is like.

Critical Mass has no leaders, and no central organization licenses rides. In every city that has a CM ride, some locals simply picked a date, time, and location for the ride and publicized it, and thus the ride was born.

CM is an idea and an event, not an organization. You can’t write to “Critical Mass”

Some CM riders try to tie up traffic as much as possible and be otherwise confrontational with motorists. Such riders are missing the point about Critical Mass. CM is a celebration of cycling, not a war against motorists. CM is about asserting our right to the road, not denying others their right to the road. Those who want to play juvenile games are encouraged to stay at home instead.

Critical Mass in a bigger city…

Picture above from Bikes take over the Streets. The rest are mine!

Oh well I guess there weren’t 20 000 of us. But cycling as the sun went down sure was fun!

Alternative Spring Break

Omigosh.

I am soo stoked (yes, that was the first word that came to mind!). I got into an Alternative Spring Break (ASB) fall trip! It was even my first choice! Woooo! I’m going to Tennessee this fall!

Political Activism – Memphis, TN
midsouthpeace.org
The Mid-South Peace and Justice Center is a community based organization developing communities of peace, social justice, and human rights for education and nonviolent action. Volunteers will be involved in numerous projects including office work focused on seeking peace, working in local community organic gardens, and volunteering in a local, low-income community.

Regulated doors

Apparently you can’t pull the door open to exit a building in America. Did not know that. Today it took me one attempt to pull one side, another on the other side and a look from my classmate that explains it all to get it. Something to do with safety in an event of an emergency. It makes a hell lot of sense now.

To think that was the gazillionth time I tried pulling a door open (without success).

Oh well.

T.G.I. Friday?

Friday = gym and laundry day lepak day.

This is what happens when you have to wake up at 6.50 am to go for an 8.00 am lab session. Not to mention a chemistry quiz at 12.00 pm.

I’ve taken a nap, read my emails and I’m itching to do something else. I’ve knocked on doors, no one was home (or awake). Well one was but whatever. I went to the front porch, nothing was happening. I even checked “the bench”. Not a soul. I wanted to reply my dear friend’s email but I’m too spaced out to think.

I should be at gym, or doing my laundry. But nah.

So here I am back in my room.

Nasib baik lab is every other week.

Die-in protest

College not combat — troops out now!
This is what democracy looks like!
Hey Bush what did you say? How many kids did you kill today?

Campus Anti-War Network (CAN) organized an anti-war die-in today on campus. It was suppose to start at 5pm but my class ended early at 3.45pm. So I practically waited around the Union by myself the entire time. I just love covering events with my Canon and it felt like something that I just had to do. And of course I just had to join in with the little red armbands they were giving out.

At around 5pm people started standing around around the Alma Mater. The whole thing started with a few speeches made by the participating organizations like CAN, The Green Party, Iraq Veterans Against the War and a few others (Sorry, I’m not exactly a journalist). The first picture below is actually one of the leaders of CAN and he happens to be my roommate’s friend. Yea Pete!

Before we marched into two groups for the planned die-in, everyone of course started shouting anti-war chants to get the anti-war mood going on. Then of we go! There were like around fifty of us (or more?). I suck at estimating the number of people in a crowd.

The die-in basically happened in two different areas of Green Street. First was just a block away from the Alma Mater and as we approached the next road, everyone stopped to basically lie down on the sidewalk as the rest of the protesters chalked everyone’s silhouettes and chanted anti-war slogans to passing cars. I was snapping away. Some pedestrians were literally walking over some of the protesters as they lay on the floor. There were also cars honking in approval with their drivers giving us thumbs ups. It was great.

As soon as everyone lying down was chalked, the protesters had their eyes on another area to “die-in”. The intersection of Green and Wright. Every few minutes (maybe was it a couple?) all of the traffic lights would turn red and the pedestrians (or in this case the protesters) had exactly 28 seconds to go to the middle of the road, lie down, and maybe get chalked, rise up again and scramble back to the safety of the sidewalk. This was definitely the best part. To take some of the pictures, I had to literally lie down amongst the protesters. I love the picture marked “Hardcore” below. He truly was indeed.

However, they were still at it at 6.15pm and I had to answer a couple of nature’s call. So I rushed back to the lovely bicycle Larissa gave me to use and managed to take a picture of the Alma Mater with red bands on both her wrists on the way.

An evening (or is it afternoon?) well spent.

I was at my first ever public protest. I’d like to join one at home.

Hilarious BS

I’m stuck on my chemistry online homework so I’ve decided to share some hilarious BS. This is our foreign minister on BBC’s Hardtalk. Classic. I wonder if he believes every single thing that came out of his mouth.

In viewing order,




enjoy~

Phil101

has just been canceled for the day. I feel liberated. Who cares if our physical world is just being played out by an evil genius in our brain? Live life to the fullest. I think, therefore I am. True that.

Hey hey 3rd time’s a charm

Yes I’ve decided to start on a new blog, again for the 3rd time. Some of you may know my previous blog but don’t go there anymore! And I promise to update at least once a week *crosses fingers*. Well I hope to include really mundane everyday life things, somewhat interesting ventures and of course my thoughts on issues from back home and maybe even from right here in Chambana! This time I’d like to practice saying more in words and not just go “that sucks, I don’t like it”, lol. I’ll try using some expository strategies and I promise to do it in a concise, non-painful manner. It must be that college has finally grown on me. Yes one month can be a looong time and I’d like to sound like a “matured undergraduate student” with important matters in my mind (like quizzes, tests and ohh parties). I may also just post photos once in awhile.

enjoy~

*please please read my blog*