Uncle Su’s Got Some.

I’m blogging from my hotel in Ann Arbor, MI.

I’ve been traveling and taking lots of pictures for the past week. I met up with my sister (haven’t seen for for too long) and cousins, and had a lot of fun visiting Alcatraz with CD, and six flags Vallejo with Nita’s friends. Nothing more I can asked for from a vacation. The craziest was last Sunday when we had to travel 8 hours in a Greyhound bus from San Francisco to Los Angeles. The bus was full, the restroom was disgusting and the floor was sticky from spilled soda. The was barely any leg room what with my camera bag placed between my legs. But hey, that’s what you get with budget travel.

We arrived in LA at 4pm, waited for my long lost friend Diandra for an hour, had an awesome dinner, and then Diandra have us a lift to the airport. We flew that very night and arrived in Michigan the next morning.

Meeting up with Diandra was surreal. She looked really great (comparing from her tomboy-ish look 3 years ago), and she drove a CLK despite telling me that she’s broke and rive around a broken Honda. But yes, meeting her for the first time in 2 years was really great. It made we realize that hey, we’re adults now! Grow up! Although we spent most of dinner teasing each other (and not much of anything else) I know that there was so much to catch up on but time was just not in our favor. Hope I can meet her in Indonesia this time.

That aside, Ann Arbor has been treating me well. The bus service is great, people are hospitable and just as approachable as the Seattlites, the campus beautiful, and the computer labs large and bright. I’ll be taking a campus tour tomorrow, I’m very excited about that. I don’t know anyone here, but getting around and finding the hangout spots have been easy. For the past days I’ve been putting addresses into my google myMaps, most of them are prospective housing for myself.

I’ve got junks to sell in Seattle, a deadline for department application in UW (that I don’t have the heart to do anymore), and I’ve a house to find. I’m in a dilemma to choose from 2 places and honestly as of now I’m just not sure. I have decisions to make.

Will get a decent internet connection (and more sleep) as soon as I can. Will reply comments later. I’m OK. TTYL!

I saw this on Ton’s MSN nick:

“Hey, how’s everyone doing? Good? Yeah? Go to hell…”

Mwaahahaha! Apparently I’m not the only one around with a bitch fit.

Fuck you you and you!

I’m in a serious foul mood right now. Don’t really mind punching people right now. Fuck Fuck fuck!

Everyone just fuck off!

I’ve got a standardized organic chemistry exam tomorrow. I haven’t studied for it extensively enough, and at this point I’ve practically given up.

Because I am more preoccupied with my pictures. Because I care more about selling my stuff, getting my driver’s license done, packing up for my road trips and all. Because the next chapter of my life is coming and I am very much unprepared for it. And I’m sooo scared that I’m giving up on the present.

Seattle really made me weak.

I found out my housemate smokes. I was the last in the house to find out. Now every time I hear him cough, I whisper “You’re gonna die, you’re gonna die.”

Update: There are security loopholes in Safari for Windows. Just don’t use it, yet!

Like they claimed, Safari is faster than Firefox or IE.

What Jobs forgot to mention are the things that still keep me rooted to Firefox. No versatile bookmarking (as in, drag tab to bookmark bar, not in Safari). No password manager. No extensions. No performancing (hehe).

Safari is just a speed up IE for now. Speed alone is not enough to win me over, yet.

Anyone want me to “Da Bao” anything?

(Apparently Clala already did)

(pictured with Francisco and Hanna)

Yep, my lectern has been moved to the left. I’m officially an Associate in Science! The commencement was the best evar! More photos later. (Hackson I’m very impressed with your processing speed! OMG WTH!)

Back to mugging for finals. Toodles.

I was at UW on Thursday shooting around with Denise. The pictures I got turned out to be quite fulfilling. Here’s a picture of cones I took while on my stomach. Apparently they’re there to stop people from stepping on the cracked brick floors.

It was cloudy (and even rained later) on Thursday, but hey, I’d like to think that I can make lemonade out of lemons too.

I say “WTF What the hey!”

And I was already drooling for weeks now before they released this. Imagine how much chicken teriyaki I can eat with $179!

There is really a fine, blurred line dividing between hobby and obsession.

I started the day rugged and tired. And I was pushed to finish researching for one of my presentation. It did not go well, and I made a big fool of myself. No, not that I cared.

I could only think that hey, I don’t have anything important to attend to after the presentation’s over. Maybe I can go get some sleep. Or a nice meal. Or maybe I can ditch everything and run to U-District with my camera.

I ended up taking photos from 6pm to 9pm straight. Denise took 795 photos today. I was so engrossed on getting to UW that I forgot to bring the books I owe their library, the tripod for night shots, and the iPod I just charged. Instead I was at UW with a sling bag carrying my lenses and extra battery, and I was wearing a jacket still stained with egg yolks from the last episode of “Egg Wars”.

I tried peeling the yolks off my jacket, but I thought “Oh no I did’nnt just touched dried egg yolks with my bare hands! And then touch Denise with it, EW!” so I went to the other side of the campus looking for a restroom. ALL BECAUSE DENISE CANNOT BE DIRTY!

I roamed the whole campus, shooting everything from UW’s Baroque buildings, skaters, little kids, graduating seniors, dogs, George Washington statue, pretty college girls, exchange students, and a very friendly BMX bike punk.  I even shot UW’s patrolling police.

By the time it got dark, I was still walking down a U-District road with my camera. I had mud on my jeans and grass on my shirt. My shoelaces were untied. My throat was dry. But I was shooting away.

When I reached Thai 65 restaurant, I was overcome with fatigue. I gulped down glass after glass of water, and my hands were so cold and weak that I couldn’t even lift the chopsticks. But inside I felt special like never better. The solitude, the concentration, the effort I put into each shutter release… They ignite sparks of wonder within my inner child. Passion so familiar yet distant, like memories I had before but couldn’t be sure of.

Before today I was gloomy, irritable and downright lazy. I was dragging my feet around, reluctant of finishing assignments, putting every single responsibility to the last second of the deadline. Now what I had just now was just magic! I spent 3 hours taking pictures and I can sleep happy now!

I don’t need my parents’ approval or my friends’ support and motivation. I’m feeding off my own passion for this new-found happy place of mine, a place where Denise and I are one.

I think I’ve just found love again.

PS: Denise is what I named my trusty and luscious Nikon D70s dSLR camera.

Adam Lavigne’s voice make little girls squirm with orgasm and secure heterosexual men gay.

Seriously, go listen to the album. NOW!

OMG!

Buy your Mac for up to $200 in student discount, and get another iPod for up to $199. Total of $399 in savings!

link

I really have to stop posting Apple stuff!

Just read the whole thing here already. Kevin?

• Put your hands on me - Joss Stone
  “Clap, clap clap, clap clap!”
• Immigrant song - Led Zeppelin
  “Aiiiiiaaahhhhh, ah!” I love the scene in Shrek 3 when Cinderella or Snow White sang and sent the cute animals after the tree monsters.
• 9 Crimes - Damien Rice

Mm Hmm. Now send me some love already.

And let me know if you’d like an unclesu.com email address too. I’d be more than willing to oblige.