new goal: to make amazing noodles.

Gong chow nao haw... mmm nice and fresh. Daddy-made.

Ultimate (well, close enough to such) Goal:

Make these amazing noodles!
(saying the actual name will be a goal for next year...)

I made something like them recently. It didn't turn out very well (bad judgment concerning meat cooking time, neglect of stirring noodles, silly silly silliness in the kitchen), but I suppose it wasn't bad for the first time with true stir-fry. In the future, I will set myself right next to the stove and watch with observant eyes what my daddy is doing to make those magically glossy and flavorful noodles. I just gotta make sure to keep the grease from flying into my face. :P

-lilxerica

thought: path

My heart sings for english and the arts of freedom and motion,
but my mind tugs at the corners of science and the firm grip it holds on the world.

What do I choose?







-lilxerica

video: something classic

Ahh... indulge yourself with the evolution of dance. Classic stuff.
(I think the second one just came out. Obviously not as good as the first haha.)

random quote: thinking vs action to overcome

“Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.”

- W. Clement Stone

goodreads

Got my GoodReads profile today.
Check it out (side)--->

I spent a couple hours adding books and stuff like that to it.
Still have more to go too. Woohoo.
Where has the time gone...

-lilxerica

challenge: book-keeping

Years ago, I kept a summer reading chart and recorded all the books I had read. When the year started, this record became lost. Now whenever, I go to the book store and see a familiar book, I have trouble confirming whether I read the book or not. I'm trying to build my own library in my room and it's getting there. This year I want to challenge myself by recording every completed and significant book read.

With that, each time I finish a book, I will either update this entry or create a side bar of documentation.

Here's a list that's HUGE!

I hope I keep this up!

-lilxerica

thought: numbness

I was just digging around my old stuff, I bothered not to post--but this time I'll give it a shot. Besides, it's last year's stuff anyways ;P

(It's not quite poetry or anything. I have no intentions to write such. It is more so odd conversations of the blunt honest mind.)

Written October 23, 2008

I think I am numb.
Not physically, but mentally.
Small insignificant things do not move me, and sadly, nor do the important.
Frightening moments, unpaid, accumulating library fines, and failing grades.
All whisk by. Only to make me regret not worrying and taking action later on.

Perhaps, I am just tired.
No, this time not mentally.
I still feel that I am able to think... maybe too deeply.
I am tired, literally in the sense that my body yearns for the quiet, soothing calm of sleep.
Over the years, I have tested my limits. Seeing some in sight, I am wary of them and afraid of the deafening effort needed to pull through. Sometimes, I wish I could sleep and the world would stop.
Time would cease for the increment of rest. Like a long blink of the eye, in slow motion.
Once awoken, life would resume as usual; seemingly restless and disparate, but intriguing.

There exists one way out.
The only method to liberate myself from this fatigue and numbness is simply to be happy.
Try and maybe one may succeed. Emotions will fill my being.
I am active. I am free.
The key is to be HAPPY.

-lilxerica

random quote: dreaming and living

"Dream as if you'll live forever,
live as if you'll die today."
-James Dean

random things: cool usb flash drives

Usb flash drives are amazing!

1. They can transport files with ease (although the emailing method is easy too).
2. You can carry games, software, and other documents.
3. Boom! Floppies are long dead.
4. Usb flashies come in many different designs!

I love usb flash drives and how companies and people go about making the device so handy.

Here are pictures of some homemade models and cool designs:

(The Instructables ones are really nifty and look pretty awesome.

Sadly, I haven't really had the time to make any of them...)

2009

Wow~!
(I don't know how many times, I've started a post with that, haha.)

It's been more than a year since I started this blog. Sadly, I must confess that I have not been routinely staying true to the monthly quota; however, Blogger itself, has grown wonderful in allowing users to place all sorts of new "gadgets" (as they call them) to convey their message in multiple ways instead of being limited to words. I'm going to breeze through what I have moved from this year:

• Images
• Connection to Flickr
• Side Links
  
• Blogger's Video
• Youtube Embedding
• Imeem Embedding
• Automatic Search by Google
• Lists
• Embedding Forms

Overall, I'm pleased with where the blogspot is standing (although, I wish I could post more). I check it every now and then to add new weird stuff so it's nice that it hasn't turned into a "ghost town" blog like my DeviantArt, Bebo, and WordPress accounts.

Everything ties together well and it gives me great pleasure to look back on the previous year of posts. This experience is just the same as my love of photography and my annoying presence at the dinner table, other events, and vacations of all sorts, taking pictures of everything, dead or alive.

Over the last couple of months, I've noticed that I have been flipping through the plastic pages of my family's photo albums where the cameras ran on film. Each time, I find myself cooing at the baby-selves of my siblings. I can't wait that in the coming years, I'll be laughing at my stupid mistakes and judgments due to my prefrontal dysfunction as a teenager, when I grow older.

To reminsce and reflect are activities that never cease within my mind and continue each moment, sleep or awake.

This year, I want amazing things to happen. For each remarkable instance, I wish to capture it, whether through picture, word, or simply, the memory.

Let's make 2009 a year to remember!

with great eagerness,
-lilxerica

Snip Snap

The world is huge and rather strong;

we all know this, but everything must have a bending, tipping, snapping, breaking point.


When will it happen
and what can the people standing around do to prolong the wait for this major paroxysm?


What measures would you take to save the world from ourselves?



Will it begin with

a touch
a word
a picture
a photo?

Or rather

a poem
a song
a lyric

or a simple stanza?

-lilxerica