Mda

translation:

Tired of work? Go to the beach!

Overall my academic stamina is coming to the end. I dont feel very motivated…to do anythign…and I still have a month of school ahead. I would say I will be able to blow off this month, but I don’t think that would be the case seeing how I need to do well in my classes.

If I learned anything from DeAnza, its that slacking makes it that much more difficult to get an A.

Prom is this saturday and I dont really know how I feel about that. A chapter closing? Maybe, not quite familiar with the feelings up ahead. I know after school is over I will have a pretty chill summer followed by a horrific wakeup call, but I dont know if it will be a belly flop from the 10m or more of a streamlined dive off the edge? Either way, I just hope my adaptive skills do not fade from me.

SUMMER 09. gotta get get.

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A While

So, I have not updated in a while. I think that might be a good thing, meaning I actually have stuff to do concerning my life.

I don’t really remember what I last talked about but basically not much has changed.

Went to a birthday, failed at photo taking, messed up on a midterm, hung out with people. Same new, same old.

Bridge across 280

There is a countdown until various things happen:

–prom

–MV graduation

–all night party

–CalSo

–DA finals

–summer (finally)

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No need to make this post sound depressing, yet as the time goes by I know I can not stop it, and I think I’m starting to see that its not even worth stopping.

I sound like a true pessimist, I know I have to become more appreciative but at this point is it really worth to bother? I just dont know.

“Is my head on straigh?

You’ll never know…”

Chip-otahl

“Wait, how did they go to chipotle?”

“Zey valked uzing seir feet”

A little inside joke, I don’t even know if I’m remembering it correctly…Anyways.

So, today instead of doing useful homework and trying to figure out college loans I caved into my hunger, or more like my craving for Mexican food. Knowing that I was really short on money (meaning actual Chipotle was out) I did the next best thing, try to make my own burrito.

Since I had limited ingredients, I did not bother going all out. Instead, I just used the same context and created my very own burrito with braised pork (swiftly done in 40 mins), lettuce, cheese, sour cream, lime-rice, and salsa.

For the pork (only protein in my house), I cut it up in little pieces, put it in a deep pan, added salt, pepper, and 1/2 a jalapeno, a tablespoon of olive oil, a tablespoon of vinegar (as a tenderizer), a bit of ketchup , and a little of the salsa that I will explain below. I covered the whole thing and let it come to a slow boil. When it did, I added a cup or two of water and braised the whole thing for about 4o minutes.

For the salsa, I used Alton Brown’s salsa recipe from the food network website.  I omitted most of the spicy peppers but stuck with the other ingredients. I let it stand for about an hour before serving it with home made chips.

Cheese, lettuce, and sour cream are pretty self explanatory (all Organic from Trader Joes).

Now, the lime rice was something I was afraid to attempt but it came out rather pleasant. I used one lime, some oil, and cilantro and cooked up a mixture that actually sort of tasted like Chipotle’s recipe. I realized afterward that there was a full on recipe for the rice online. Fortunately, my recipe was pretty much exactly the same.

The meat came out really tender, and the salsa was a bit spicy but very refreshing while cold.

I wrapped the standard burrito with the lettuce (I could have made it a bit fatter but it was the perfect size for consumption). And here’s the result:

Sorry for the iffy quality of the pictures, my camera was acting rather weirdly. -__-

car

I HATE being in a bad mood but today it seems inevitable.

Not only can I not get my program to work, I am also constantly being nagged by my mother.

I’m |  | this close to starting a full on war, just hear this.

If some of my readers do not know (ya, those 2 people) I work all the way down Lawrence right off Arques. A 20 minute drive (+-5 mins for traffic). Yesterday, I drove to work a little fast, changing lanes but I thought it was my best driving during that week. I did spring off of a stoplight and drove 35 in a 25 zone but nothing I havent done before.  So I get to work and apparently the slow-poke woman that was in the BMW behind me was a colleague. We walked into the same building at the same time, and she comments “Woah, you drive fast”. I shrugged it off and was like “Ahhaha, I guess I do”.

Now, today I get a call from my mother (who works in the same place I do). She starts accusing me of “reckless driving” and that the women at the company are talking about how I drive “dangerously”.

She continues her lecture for 20 mins before I stop talking and hang up.

Now, I’m probably overreacting but WHAT THE EF is the slowass cow doing talking about how I drive?!

I was IN FRONT of her the whole time on Lawrence and would NOT get in her way. Does she have NOTHING else to talk about?!? Just because she saw me do that does not mean she can “spread it around town”.
I personally would not even care as long as I didn’t get yelled at by my mother.

Well it’s okay, I can do the “mature” thing and try to manipulate our boss into yelling at the woman (did I mention she’s 45 and STILL dresses like a SLUT. Hon, your days are way GONE. so STFU and go do your job instead of blabbering away during your coffee break).

I hope she knows that although I am a “kid”, I do know my way around legal issues and harrassment/abuse, I guess she doesn’t.

UGHHHH. I am SO MAD.

Week

This flickr mosaic turned out better than the last one (that one was kind of depressing).

The questions are as follows:1. What is your first name?
2. What is your favorite color?
3. What is your favorite food?
4. Favorite drink?
5. Dream vacation?
6. Favorite hobby?
7. What you want to be when you grow up?
8. What do you love most in life?
9. One word to describe you?

I prognose this week to be mildly unproductive with a big chance of procrastination induced failure.

There.

Shtudy

I should be being more productive right about now, like studying for that beast of a business midterm. My only hope is that my class is as stupid as they appear and the test will be rather easy.

I gave up on reading the book simply because the example and the information was absurdly juvenile.

They have examples about how “entrepreneurs have to be very social and excited to open their own business”, I don’t know if its just me but isn’t that common sense? You can check out my twitter for more laughter.

P.S. Last time I checked, the USSR was communist, Russian Federation was not.

Onto the yummy stuff ( I can check off one of my items from my to-do list!).

Mushroom Chicken Triyaki Stir-Fry with Udon Noodles

One day I  had to go to the my favorite Asian grocery store, Maxim.

I found chicken breasts and udon noodles and decided to give something a try.

At home I mixed: soy sauce, rice wine vinegar, sesame oil, garlic, onion, and a bit of orange juice.

Placed cut chicken strips into it for 5 minutes.

Meanwhile I chopped up a bell pepper and lots of white mushrooms.

Heated the pan with some oil.

Took the chicken with the marinade and fried it in the oil for 5 minutes, added the bell peppers, cooked for 5 more minutes, added the mushrooms, cooked for 5 more.

Once the veggies were tender and the chicken was just about done, I added the Udon noodles. The thick, starchy noodles came in a refrigerated pack already cooked. They just needed some heating and a little bit of water.

Cooking

I kept it on the stove for an extra minute or two so that the noodles would absorb the lovely marinade and heat through.

Once finished I garnished it with a little bit of scallion.

Yummy

The dish looked a little strange but tasted delicious!

I don’t know if I will be able to reproduce that recipe ever again because I never actually wrote down all the ingredients, I’m pretty sure I omitted something from the explanation.

Lists Lists Lists

I keep telling myself to do things.

Right now I have a pretty big to-do list that I just keep putting off, including posting up that teriyaki chicken and udon noodle entry I shot a week ago. So far this is what HAS to be done by the end of this week:

1) Cal housing application by the 6th

2) Study for psychology midterm

3) Study for business midterm

4) Finish an absolutely pointless programming lab that I do not understand

5) Update this blog

6) Organize closet and do laundry

7)Write paper for Ewrt1C

8)Attempt to find a roommate for Cal

9)Put off money to go into my college fund, seeing how recently all I’ve been doing is spending

I feel like that’s only half of the list and I’m not motivated to do anything. Failure.

Today I have come to realize that I LOVE smart people. I simply find it so much easier to converse with an educated person that with one that lacks brains. I should have realized this earlier seeing how most of my friends are either smarter than me, or on the same level but I only thought about it today. Why the pensive mood? My mother, how she got her degree, I still do not understand. I know that she grew up completely differently but so did my dad, and he’s relatively okay. My revelation also brought me to the conclusion that I like smart guys, someone that can talk about computers, politics, not just sports. Its weird that I’m finding the “nerd” type more attractive but I feel people that are more educated are so much easier to get along with. (Case and point was the other Olga’s ex whose stupidity was an impediment I could not see past).

I believe that a single person can  not be all-around smart but they can attempt to…rereading this post I see that I sound extremely obnoxious and impatient…I dont think I can help it.

Sometimes I feel stupid myself (recently I have managed to familiarize myself with the feeling even more now that senioritis is in full kick). I just feel like lacking either common sense (although disastrous will not kill your right away) or missing book knowledge is doable, however lacking both is a recipe for disaster.

Sorry for the rant, I just can not get over the fact that people are able to survive in this world without having some kinds of intelligence.

Color me…

Idea stolen from Connie’s blog.

Find the test here.

You are the sort of person that needs a peaceful environment. You seek release from stress and freedom from conflicts and disagreements, of which you seem to have had more than your fair share. But you are taking pains to control the situation by proceeding cautiously and you are right in doing so as you are a very sensitive person.

Rejection is what you fear the most and it is this fear that makes you unapproachable. You are looking for acknowledgement and above all looking for people who can appreciate you for who and what you are.

Your confidence has been shattered. There are so many things that you would like to do with your life, so many dreams to be fulfilled – and you know that your hopes and dreams are not just figments of your imagination, they are real and you are looking for reassurance from someone. Basically your fears are such that you may be prevented in attaining your hopes and dreams. Even now you would like to broaden your fields of endeavour but in order to develop your ‘inner- self’ you need peace and solace. You are distressed by the fear that you may be prevented from attaining your goals. What you really need at this particular moment in time is quiet reassurance from someone close to you to restore your confidence.

You are an emotional, sincere and impressionable individual experiencing frustration and unnecessary stress. You vehemently resist any form of pressure from outside sources, insisting on your independence as an individual. You want to be a decision maker – to make up your own mind without interference. You wish to be able to draw your own conclusions and arrive at your own decisions. You detest uniformity and mediocrity as you want to be regarded as one who gives authoritative opinions. Your favourite expression could well be that ‘I may not always be right but I am never wrong’. You’re a perfectionist and even though you may feel that the other person’s point of view may be right, you find it extremely difficult to admit that you could be wrong.

You would like to be respected and valued for yourself and this can only be achieved from within a close and harmonious relationship.

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I SIR’d.

It was probably the most liberating thing I have done in a while. It feels so good to finally know where I will spend my next four years. This feeling made me realize that I am a planner. I like doing things when I know their outcome in advance.

I’m not saying I’m not adventurous, I just like knowing what I am going to do. Its so much less stressful.

I do however enjoy random adventures with my friends to find beaches, hills, and new stores.

I will for sure miss the San Diego beaches, and the gorgeous sunset, and the big cheap room and board. Nontheless, I feel secure in my decision to leave all those things behind.

–GONE–

The picture above is a hurricane. The hurrican thats sucking me in.