anyways, i've just been at home still. moving down thursday or friday, not sure.. work starts monday :) i'm excited to get out of the house and back to doing something. hung out with friends most of friday (by friday i mean the part of friday where i was awake, a bit less than half :P).
i've been watching hayao miyazaki films for the past few days, after several people (including tenyia) forcefully demanded that i see them.. so i saw spirited away last monday, ponyo on the cliff by the sea on wednesday, princess mononoke yesterday, and now i'm watching my neighbor totoro. the movies really are good! they make me wonder how i could've missed out on them for so long, and they make me wonder why other movies can't be as good. the visuals, the music, the plot, the characters are all SO GOOD! (i'm not a film critic - i can't be as eloquent as they can be when describing movies... so i'm just going to repeat myself) i'm already trying to learn how to play some of the songs on the piano, like this one (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1ni1sVCgEk). so beautiful and poignant :) no tragedy though!
i got a huge surprise about 30 mins into totoro when the totoro theme started to play.. because when i was like six, i was in this daycare and we learned to dance to the totoro theme lol! my parents recorded it on a videotape and i don't know how to get it onto something more modern or i would show you guys. you'll just have to come to my house. anyways, until now, i was always curious what the song that i danced to was when i was six, but i had no idea where it came from... until it all of a sudden started playing and i had this massive flashback to that dance. pleasant surprise!
my mom made one of my favorite dishes today.. oyster fry! 蚵仔煎 or 煎蠔餅. something like "aw luah" in chaozhou.
it's like oyster fried in eggs like a omelette stir fried, with starch to make it slightly chewy and salty/peppery sauce on it. love it so much. also got to eat some awesome <trac voice>egg tarts</trac voice> (蛋撻) on saturday. that ends my segment on asian food..
besides eating and sleeping and hanging out, i've been working on this database for a non-profit organization for children with special needs, like my brother, who's autistic. i've been helping out there since i was seven, first as a member, then as a helper, and now as a tech person. they needed someone to help them build a database to keep track of everything, like donations, members, program enrollment, etc. running an organization is complicated! i've been working on it on and off since senior year.. to be honest i haven't dedicated much time to it but it's been hard with school and stuff. i feel guilty whenever i know i could've been working on it but did something else. but now it's almost done! i'm just fixing a few minor things, and it should be hopefully mostly done, unless they come to me with more requests for features..
now i'm having a skype call with alex and tia! and it is making my night :) hope you're all having awesome summers and many many more great days!
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