This car junk yard has been behind
my parents company for 15 years.
It was only a few days ago that I finally
decided to see what lies within.
There was a gray kitten,(see earlier post)
some broken down vehicles,
and a nice but rotten looking floral sofa.

I was really nervous about hobos living in them
meat on wheels

no teddy bear shaped ones that day

I just ate too much.
Now I have a food baby.

I feel envy towards Daniel Tate.

"hey look, it's hiroki!"

We had a tetra-playdate dinner at an exotic Peruvian diner.
Ellen took copious notes.
Leah wouldn't stop talking about her shots.
Hiroki is now employed as a crepe maker.
I spilled water everywhere.

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm :)

"sweeter yet shall blow its breezes.

on the day that sets us free"

-animal farm

writhing scorpions on skewers, coconut with a straw,
fried octopus on sticks, glazed hawthorn,
sugar blown animal shaped candy, lamb kabobs,
and a variety of questionable meats:

--
I asked:"So ellen, how was school?"
her dad: "Forget school, lets talk about netbooks!"
.
then we had the brilliant idea of making nachos.
"Is this enough chips?"
"um, NO, you can fit soooOo many more on the plate"
.
Then i had some yogurt with peaches and honey.
.
then we made tea.
.
and drank it.

this is pig's blood

-literally.

There was a skinny little gray cat under a broken car in the "junk yard" today.
After 5 minutes of failed attempts to lure him closer for his photograph,
my eyes started itching like crazy.

[5] days.
this isn't it, but close enough.

this is madness..

MADNESS!!!

cute things were meant to be devoured.
hence the saying:
"You are so cute, I just want to eat you up"

I dreampt that someone installed gears on Free Spirits!
I wish she had gears(in reality)
because this way,
we could explore the sylvan environment without killing ourselves.
But I fear I might need to adopt one of her cousins for this..

maybe not with words
maybe not with a look
but with your mind.-C.P.

ps: weownthesky[remixed]

dreamy.

Today I purified DNA with magnetic beads,

inoculated bacteria culture,
came home and watched NOVA scienceNow,
then dragged my telescope onto the balcony and looked at the moon.
It was then that I realized something about all the things i did today.
O__________o

I am embarrassed to put up such a bad quality picture of the lovely moon.
but what can you expect from a picture
taken with a digital camera through a telescope
aimed at something 238,857 miles away?

but look at the right! you can see outlines of craters.
(the image is MUCH clearer on the telescope.)
(so come over if you want to play with it)

---
two of my favorite things in the world:

1. the preserves at sunset.
The way it basks in glowing gold makes me very happy.

2. Free Spirits.
Her name explains it all.

and just because.. :)
and we'll all float on ok!

quote of the day:
"So what are you working on now?"
"Oh I'm just cloning some genes"

[16]days.

"I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my eyes and all is born again"

I couldn't stop smiling after mr. film developer

handed me the envelope enveloping the following(+20 more)
I am pleased ;-)

i lava my SWA

and my lavadies(2)

"A supernova occurs when a giant star,

one much bigger than our own Sun,
collapses and then spectacularly explodes,
releasing in an instant the energy of a hundred billion suns,
burning for a time more brightly than all the stars in its galaxy"
p.41
this is one of the most beautiful things
I have ever heard.

this picture has no relevance to anything.
But I suppose it can illustrate different
planetary orbits.
go to Costa Rica to study primate behavior
in tropical rain forest ecosystems
for 3 weeks?
...
!!okay!!

This is my 400th post! :)

I took a deep breath
and listened to the old bray of my heart;
I am I am I am.

After almost finishing the Matisse painting
(about time, I know) today,
I decided to paint my hand.
After my fun though, I had trouble getting it off(off the rug too)
But luckily, the turpentine rubbed it off pretty good.
Now my hand smells like toxins.

after looking at this picture, I guess it's clean up time.
everything is still where I left it an hour ago.

I looked at the mirror afterwards,
and I thought my eyeball was bleeding.
But it was just red paint.

Today, there was a little boy sitting on the floor of a store.
He was hugging 3-4 stuffed animal tigers.
He rocked around back and forth
and maniacally chanted
"minee! These are all mineee!"
I giggled.

now i'm going to ride my bike
and start my bug collection.

you're a wolf, boy,

get out of this town.

& don't forget
the universe is smiling at you:
(here's a diagram of what I mean^)

Adventures in Joshua Tree

Snailboy and I survived our camping adventure.
The campground was eerily deserted and full of bees.
We roasted meat on a stick and feasted on it.

nate and josh

there were good hiding spots for ryan or jason
(or both)
After the cloud filled sky cleared up,
we popped the corn,
climbed to the top of a giant rock,
laid down and watched billions of stars
dangling in the universe above our heads.

At night, we tried to sleep but the howling wind(and rain)
almost blew our cozy little tent away.
Snailboy was the hero and went out into the darkness
to tie tent strings to surrounding bushes.
Then we huddled together rather paranoid
about the strange sounds outside.there was a fun cave
and a caveman waved to me.

We woke up groggy and the moist towelettes we bought weren't even moist.
Our water supply was low.
Then bees all wanted to feast in his soup,
so they did.

But it was a wonderful adventure,
especially watching giant twinkling balls of plasma and gases
many many light years away.

I found a toad today.

Toady is his real name.

He was sitting in a snake(or gopher) hole
by the creek filled with fish
staring off into space.
Toady and his sitting-in-a-hole lifestyle
bears a striking similarity to the proverb
I blabbed on for 2 minutes about during the AP test
about the frog in the well:

A frog had a limited view of a small patch of sky
from where he sat in at the bottom of a well.
He proudly thought he knew all there was in the world
because he thought the world only consisted of that piece of the sky.
But a bird(or some other creature who probably lived outside of the well)
laughed at this frog for being so ignorant.

So the moral of the story is:
don't think you know everything because
there's much out there you don't know even exists.
So go and find it!

(or you can be like Toady and sit there staring off into space
which can lead to being consumed by a predator with sharp teeth)

grassed boba
a familiar
canine
2
pigmented sights
and haze in Indiana.

i haven't done this in so long!
the 1.5''X8'' 1 subject illumination notebook

was fed some pictures today.
---
[edit]
As I ate my cucumber rolls
and discussed frustration with kiko's master,
my eyes wandered to a middle-aged man
minding his own business and terriyaki bowl,
wearing a slug shirt.
& I felt a rush of excitement.

[um, another edit]
speaking of slugs,
and libraries(okay, although this was not mentioned ONCE..)
i laughed.
esp. at the end..

"denied night's face
have shadowless they?"
- e e

.
i want to cringe
but i want to smile too.
.
i've never updated 3 times in one day.
this must be because of the forced hiatus
enforced by the communist party.

it's
the
magical
mystery
kind.

This is how I spent my last day in China:
Sitting on the front porch devouring a peach
listening to Uncle Big Al's stories, harvesting grapes,
and watching Aunt Alberta fry the most delicious leaves.

garden that goes a thrivin'

corn that goes a roastin'

leaves that goes a whirrlin'

fresh leaves that goes a pickin'

grapes that goes a harvestin'

melon that goes a gnawin'

comb that goes a honeyin'

(dead)bats that goes a flyin'

Once upon a few months ago at Uni's language lab,
our assignment was to practice using Chinese websites and
learn what "resources" there were to help us enrich ourselves.

So instead of looking up Chinese historical stories and practicing reading text,
I looked at the travel guide section and
looked for interesting potential places to visit for the upcoming trip.

Wuzhen caught my eye right away and
luckily, it just so happened to be a stop during the tour guide trip
(fast forward a few months).

The little ancient water village built in 872 AD
still stands today and inhabits townsfolk who do their laundry
in the river and fry fresh(and I mean fresh)rooster hearts outside their doorsteps.

here are some more pictures
at the flickr

My,
life is a-changing;
don't forget to just breathe.
--
I've been neglecting my
good old loyal blog(and using flickr..) so I'm making up for this
by posting my two favorite pictures from the entire trip to China.

Shanghai Nights:
(hehe but no jackie or owen)

how strange it is to be anything at all.

The moon looked so tasty tonight
I just wanted to gobble up
the big yellow natural satellite.

Cherries are red
Your flowers are blue
Today was lovely
And so are you.
(cheezay but I speak the truth)

happy birthday nate.

i just want to scavenge for bark with my antlers
and prepare for winter.