5.0 Earthquake – 137/365
I was just wondering what to take a photo of earlier since I’m still in the midst of cleaning my room, and then a 5.0 earthquake occured near Los Angeles. I felt the earth shaking for a few good seconds. Then I went on Facebook, and everyone was posting on their status messages about the earthquake. Hence, that’s why mine said: “Another earthquake status update.” Some people went creative with it, though. Here’s one for an example: “Chill folks, it’s just me shakin’ things up.” Other than that, my mom didn’t feel the earthquake. Again. Haha.
Roommate Selection – 115/365
- The dorms currently cost $601 a month whereas next year costs $669 a month.
- The dorms changed a lot of rules this school year. Examples include gate closure everyday at 7 p.m., guest registration one day in advance, unregistered guests have to leave by 1 a.m.
- Student Housing emailed future residents of the dorm about roommate selections on April 25th, but they did not specify what time did it began whereas they specified what time last year.
- Logging onto housing portal this time was a lot smoother than last year’s, like there weren’t any crashes and/or errors due to busy online traffic.
- I got the room I wanted with Kanie, the girl I met on Wednesday who’s also Grecia’s childhood friend, very easily.
- There is still a large amount of empty rooms available according to the housing portal.
- So, why is there still a large amount of empty rooms? Students forgot that it was roommate selections today? Inflation in terms of monthly cost? The new changes that the dorm made this year?
That’s just a little something I had in mind. I’m glad that logging onto housing portal wasn’t as bad as last year, though. It was so annoying then, like it took me a while to get all the roommates I wanted due to people taking the room before I did. The server would crash, too.
Well, I’m going to be living in building 8 (Bayberry Hall) instead of building 7 (Torrey Pine Hall) this time because Bohdi is going to be the RA on the first floor, and that’s the floor I have chosen to live, too. After two years living on the third floor with no elevators, it’s so annoying to move and carry things in and out. I think it’s going to be fun to be living on the same floor as Bohdi, though, because he’s a photojournalism major, and it’s just cool to keep in touch with people who studies the same thing. There aren’t many photojournalism majors at school either…
Studying & Music – 90/365
No school today due to Cesar Chavez Day. This brings me to have plenty of time to catch up on studying for my online sociology class, especially since a test will be up on WebCT tomorrow. I don’t normally have time to read the chapters because the chapters are at least 20-40 pages each! However, I did very good today by reading the four chapters that I need for the test and even typed up 11 pages of notes on MS Word. I think I spent at least five hours.
What made me stay focused on studying was listening to classical music by Vanessa Mae (she’s an awesome violinist) and Chinese music by 周杰倫 (Jay Chou). I came across a song called 聽媽媽的話 (Listen to Mama’s Words) by him, and I just fell in love with the chorus:
聽媽媽的話 別讓她受傷 想快快長大 才能保護她
美麗的白髮 幸福中發芽 天使的魔法 溫暖中慈祥
You can find the rest of the lyrics and even the translation here.
I guess you can say that classical and Chinese music has a way to help me stay focused on my school work, but I just really like both music. They have a way to bring me back home, like with my family and Taiwan.